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  1. Professional chess players are so bling... on Chess Grandmaster Used iPhone To Cheat During Tournament · · Score: 5, Funny

    they use iPhones for toilet paper.

  2. You cannot drink coffee in orbit on The International Space Station (Finally) Gets an Espresso Machine · · Score: 2

    Its always 90 minutes or less until bedtime.

  3. "Warm blob" on Mystery "Warm Blob" In the Pacific Ocean Could Be Causing California's Drought · · Score: 4, Funny

    We prefer to called: "Coolness challenged entities"

    You insensitive clod.

  4. Re:Evolution on Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Look at the US. It took less time to bread out intelligence.

    Intelligence is the yeast of our problems.

  5. It will be easier to buy a Tesla in Cuba... on W. Virginia Bans Direct Tesla Sales, With Urging of Car-Dealer Senate President · · Score: 1

    than in a red state.

  6. Carly's platform on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Near Launching Presidential Bid · · Score: 5, Funny

    "My plan for America will build on my spectacularly successful tenure atop Hewlett Packard. Therefore, if selected as president by the board members of the U.S. at A I promise to:

    1. Sell California to China, because the state never produced anything of value.
    2. Merge the supreme court, the FBI, and NASA, because that's the kind of outside the box thinking this country needs.
    3. Focus on our core competence: T-shirt manufacturing. We can out-compete third world countries in this area.
    4. After my policies have led the country to the top of Fortune 500, I'll ride my golden parachute to Mars.

    Thank you!"

  7. Freedom Roofs on France Decrees New Rooftops Must Be Covered In Plants Or Solar Panels · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because the bible tells us the French are a bunch of devil worshiping socialists, our only recourse is mandated "Freedom Roofs", each with eternal flames fed by coal, used electronics, hippies, and any stray French we catch at the borders.

    Better dead than green.

  8. Designed by comittee on Microsoft Has Received 1 Million Pieces of Feedback For Windows 10 · · Score: 2

    of one million.

  9. I bought a Nexus instead of an iPhone on Why Apple Won't Adopt a Wireless Charging Standard · · Score: 1

    for this specific reason. Though it looks like Apple may be able to survive the loss of that particular sale.

    Seriously though, wireless charging, throwing out cables, is one of those "how did we manage before it" kind of conveniences. I unboxed my phone two years ago and it has never once been connected to a cable.

  10. Researchers Nearly Double the Size of Worker Ants on Researchers Nearly Double the Size of Worker Ants · · Score: 4, Funny

    Those are very small researchers. Or very large ants.

  11. What happended Britannia? on UK ISPs Quietly Block Sites That List Pirate Bay Proxies · · Score: 1

    You used to be cool.

  12. I'm convinced on Sewage Bacteria Reveal Cities' Obesity Rates · · Score: 1, Funny

    scientists will get the the bottom of this.

  13. Re:And blocked in court in 3, 2, 1 . . . on As Big As Net Neutrality? FCC Kills State-Imposed Internet Monopolies · · Score: 1

    Federal law supersedes state law. So if the FCC ruling gets blocked (big if), it will require only an executive action. Obama has stated his support for municipal broadband, and demonstrated his capacity for executive action (just like Bush before him.)

  14. All part of the long term plan. on 20-Year-Old Military Weather Satellite Explodes In Orbit · · Score: 0

    If you want to pollute other planets, solar systems, and galaxies with debris, you have to start small by polluting your own orbit.

  15. Well done, sir. on Leonard Nimoy Dies At 83 · · Score: 1

    Thank you for unique legacy.

  16. Re:forget Silicon Valley on Intel Moving Forward With 10nm, Will Switch Away From Silicon For 7nm · · Score: 1

    The prices in my condo development in Indium Gallium Arsenide Valley is going to explode!

    Meanwhile my real estate developments in Arsenic Valley and Mercury Bay still aren't doing well. Not sure why.

  17. Re:We've all been there before on 18 Months On, Grand Theft Auto V's Mount Chiliad Mystery Remains Unsolved · · Score: 1

    There is no cow level.
    There is no spoon.
    The cake is a lie.

    And the cow ran away with the spoon.

  18. T-1000 in button down shirt on The Robots That Will Put Coders Out of Work · · Score: 0

    "Your job has been terminated."

  19. You call that a proxy server? on Australian ISPs To Introduce '3-Strike' Style Anti-piracy Scheme · · Score: 2

    THAT'S a proxy server

  20. Parents just wanted an easy way to on 1950s Toy That Included Actual Uranium Ore Goes On Display At Museum · · Score: 1

    keep little Timmy distracted and quiet. Forever.

  21. Re: To Kill An Egotrip on Elon Musk To Write a Book About Earth Sustainability and Mars Colonization · · Score: 1

    Elon Musk is not an expert, except perhaps at being at the right place/right time. He won the internet lottery:

    internet banking

    and sinks the windfall resources into unprofitable geek hobbies:

    solar panel installation, electric cars, launch systems, or satellites

    Good for him. I share his enthusiasm. But don't confuse lucky celebrities for experts.

  22. Noble origins on The Revolution Wasn't Televised: the Early Days of YouTube · · Score: 1

    "so they called it a dating site...YouTube ran ads on Craigslist...offering women $20 for every video they uploaded. Not a single woman replied."
    I knew Facebook began as an attempt to get entitled jerks laid, but I didn't know Youtube had similar skeezy beginnings.

  23. Every food on US Gov't To Withdraw Food Warnings About Dietary Cholesterol · · Score: 1

    gets 15 minutes of fame and 15 minutes of infamy.

    I'm waiting for science to catch up to the merits of the all cheetos diet.

  24. I don't remember on Homemade RC Millennium Falcon Is the Drone You've Always Dreamed of Flying · · Score: 1

    four massive holes in the middle of the Millennium Falcon. Maybe my memory was wiped by the sequels.

  25. Unsustainable on DOT Warns of Dystopian Future For Transportation · · Score: 1

    Land and resources are finite. We will get nowhere until we abandon the fantasy that everyone is entitled to a car and a house in the suburbs.

    Europe and China have already taken steps to acknowledge this reality.