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  1. Beard on Ask Richard Stallman Anything · · Score: 3, Funny

    Are you married to the beard? It makes you easy to pigeon hole as a cross between Karl Marx and John Brown (read: an intolerant revolutionary).

    No: appearance shouldn't affect the message. Yes: it, in fact, does.

  2. Sequels Suck on Thousands of Natural Gas Leaks Found In Boston · · Score: 4, Funny

    Big Dig 2: The Explosioning!

  3. Re:Oops, somebody noticed on That Was Fast: Leahy Drops Warrantless E-mail Surveillance Bill · · Score: 1

    This is further proof positive that we need a third party. Both Democrats and Republicans want increasing control over us.

    Problem is, even if there were a slightly viable national 3rd party, it would be another 20 years before they could control any sub/committee - where the real power lies.

  4. Car analogy on Meg Whitman Says HP Was Defrauded By Autonomy; HP Stock Plunges · · Score: 1

    This is equivalent paying over Blue Book value for a stolen car that is not only on fire, but is also involved in a high-speed chase with the police during the purchase.

  5. Re:Infection method? on New Linux Rootkit Emerges · · Score: 1

    How come neither of the links actually describe how this malware infects the machine in the first place? I'd say that's quite an important piece of information completely missing.

    It's something new in the Defense of The Dark Arts: Security Thru Obscurity!

  6. Next up: MIRVs on Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense Shield Actually Works · · Score: 1

    Ain't religion great?

  7. Don't look know on One Musician's Demand From Pandora: Mandatory Analytics · · Score: 1

    but you just described Capitolism.

  8. Hunters = Golfers on Activists' Drone Shot Out of the Sky For Fourth Time · · Score: 1

    Neither activity conducted by amatuers ever occurs without alcohol. Or haven't you noticed the banners at liquour stores welcoming hunters every year? Hell, Bud Light is offering their cans in Safety Vest Orange this year (Dios Mio).

    At least on the 19th hole, the kill radius of a five iron is rather limited.

  9. Re:Just in time on GIF Becomes Word of the Year 2012 · · Score: 1

    Who even uses GIF anymore?

    4chan



    ...or so I'm told.

  10. Terrifying on Dutch Cold Case Murder Solved After 8000 People Gave Their DNA · · Score: 1

    Anyone who thinks any police force would dump / not test the samples of the 8,999 innocent men are fools. Make no mistake; this won't be the only stone-cold whodunnit that 'miraculously' gets solved in this burg. Every case will be rapidly moved along to airtight frame-up all thanks to CSI: Eyedropper.

  11. Sorry on A Free Internet, If You Can Keep It · · Score: 1

    If you are not in her Congressional District, I would suggest sending your Congress-person a request to get behind her proposal...

    My state's congress creatures are so pro-corporate and police state as to make Eugene McCarthy now look like a centrist.

  12. Re:No Class Action on Amazon Payment Adds "No Class Action" Language To Terms of Service · · Score: 1

    Congresss needs to step in and clarify. Either just git rid of the class action (and replace it with what?)

    Stone-faced, hard-hearted Federal prosecutors with as much power as the FBI, dedicated soley to the arresting, trying, convicting, and imprisoning (in Gen Pop, PMITA prison) the actual executives that are responsible for lying to and robbing from US citizens.

  13. Thomas P M Barnett on House Subcommittee Holds Hearing On TSA's "Scanner Shuffle" · · Score: 1

    TSA = Thousands, Standing Around

    Still not sure if he meant pointless security theater, crowded choke-points making target-rich environments, or both.

  14. It is damn near on campus on High Security Animal Disease Lab Faces Uncertain Future · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This nearly literal pork-barrel facility (which is already built, BTW) is about a quarter mile up the street of the main campus of Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. It is however, within eyesight of the a) football stadium, b) basketball coliseum, and c) student recreational center. Bonus: just to the west of all of that is the only hospital in the city. Not that animal diseases *ever* jump to humans...

    This was all mainly due to one of the worst US Senators in the modern age: Pat Roberts. His other claim to fame was putting off the investigations of the Iraq invasion lies until after the elections to 'take politics out of it'. After the election, he then claimed there was no point in investigating the lies as the past is the past, spilt milk, etc. Scumbag.

  15. Bullet dodged on US Air Force Scraps ERP Project After $1 Billion Spent · · Score: 2

    Whew, that was close! Can you even imagine if that +$1 billion had fallen into the hands of poor people? (Shudder)

  16. Electronic Voting on Salt Lake City Police To Wear Camera Glasses · · Score: 1

    This isn't much different that Electronic Voting: he who controls the database (files), controls the outcome (case). If this goes through, we will have to change the SLC area code to 404.

  17. Keystone XL on Tapping Shale Reserves, US Would Become World's Top Oil Producer By 2017 · · Score: 1

    Refineries are generally built to process oil from a particular field, or a particular class of fields. You can't ship tar sands off to a light sweet crude refinery and expect to actually be able to refine them.

    Yet that is *exactly* what is happening with the construction of the Keystone XL; Canadian tar, piped to Houston refineries.

    "Construction of this pipeline will lower gas prices for the US consumer!"

    Sorry; I meant the refined products will mostly end up aboard the supertankers sitting next door to the refineries so oil companies make more money selling it on the international market instead.

    Funny how that last bit never gets talked about...

  18. Airlift on Secession Petitions Flood White House Website · · Score: 1

    If Texas secedes, I can see the need for an Austin Airlift, mainly to help keep it weird.

  19. Are they sure? on Discovery of Early Human Tools Hint at Earlier Start · · Score: 1

    Could be Cow Tools.



    ...just sayin'

  20. dot, dot, dot on Motorcycle App Helps You Ride Faster, Turn Sharper, Brake Harder · · Score: 1

    ...Crash Faster (freeing up the road for non-adrenaline addicts that aren't emotional twelve-year olds)

  21. Doc Martin on Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System · · Score: 1

    He knew better; just keep the records on post cards in sleeve jackets.

    The other 'funny' thing about Doc Martin to this USian: no patient ever breaks down in tears, wailing "I can't afford this!!" Sigh.

  22. encounters and unplanned collaborations on Pixar Names Main Studio Building For Steve Jobs · · Score: 1, Informative

    "... encounters and unplanned collaborations..."

    Such as getting accosted, abused, and instantly sacked in a hallway by a sociopathic boss.

  23. Dotcom has no drones; the US does - along with an itchy 'we ARE the law' trigger finger. As just about the entirety of the continent north of Johannesburg is now a US free fire zone, any African government would have quickly given in to US demands as Gabon just did.

  24. Third Parties on Voting Machine Problem Reports Already Rolling In · · Score: 1

    If the third parties were smart, *this* would become the focus of their long marches: an army of volunteers to man the poles and count the ballots. I think red and blue folks would both be a little more at ease with folks other than the dominant party-opposite literally having their hands on the election. It would increase the visibility of the third parties a hundred-fold, make them seem far less crackpot, and would lead to more and more voters seriously looking at their stances on the leading issues.

  25. The finer, whiter point on Barack Obama Retains US Presidency · · Score: 1

    They voted *against* Obama, period. Saying he was a Muslim and not an American citizen was just their 'modern' way of shouting "Nig*er!"

    The only hope the US has is that the old-school, lily white race quickly shuffles off their demographic mortal coil - and that the grandkids once and for all reject unvarnished racism.