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  1. What's "left"? on Left 4 Dead 2 Approved In Australia After Edits · · Score: 1

    the game no longer contains depictions of decapitation, dismemberment, wound detail or piles of dead bodies lying about the environment.

    Clicking "next" on the character creation screen now proceeds directly to the closing credits.

    What happened Australia? You used to be so cool. AC/DC, The Road Warrior. Just because you have a lot of red rock doesn't mean you have to turn into Utah.

  2. Congratulations, winners. on "Father of Fiber Optics" Wins Nobel Prize · · Score: 1

    Well done, and thank you.

  3. Re:Not defective by design on Apple Wants Patents For Crippling Cellphones · · Score: 1

    $18M

    Where can I get me some 'o these "Megadollars"?

  4. Re:Crippling phones? on Apple Wants Patents For Crippling Cellphones · · Score: 1

    There's a patent app for that.

  5. Great news. on Artificial Heart Recipient Has No Pulse · · Score: 1

    Another victory in the fight against noise pollution.

  6. Get off parent's lawn. on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 1

    Stop trying to I don't like things the way they are now compared to the way they used to be."

  7. Re:Automated Response (From the USSR, not me) on Soviets Built a Doomsday Machine; It's Still Alive · · Score: 1

    I warned you we were falling behind in the Doomsday Perimeter race.

  8. Follow the money on How To Make Science Popular Again? · · Score: 1

    launching promising initiatives, ranging from the Year of Science to the World Science Festival to ScienceDebate.

    Such initiatives are not necessary to lure throngs of students into currently lucrative fields. One does not see a "Year of the Advertising Executive" or "World Investment Banker Festival."

    This is a simple matter of education and compensation priorities.

  9. Double standard on Apple Announces iTunes 9, "LPs," Video Camera For the iPod Nano · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why is Apple's PR effluence tagged as "announcement" while the equivalent from Redmond is tagged slashvertisement/astroturfing?
    No, I'm not new here, I'm just dense.

  10. Re:Gigantic Building Projects on Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch Worries Researchers · · Score: 0

    -- Because once you collect it, you gotta transport it somewhere else.

    Not if you use the collected plastic to make new plastic collecting boats. Just bring along some extra crew to man the exponentially growing fleet of plastic plastic-eating barges, problem solved in no time.

  11. Let the viewers at home vote for their favorite... on Poor Design Choices In the Star Wars Universe · · Score: 0

    "...a huge exposed shaft in your Death Star throne room..."

    a) "What the Emperor does in his throne room is his own business."
    b) "Leave with poopy pants, he who does not expose shaft while using throne room." - Yoda.

  12. Re:The Intelligent Design connection on Average Gamer Is 35, Fat and Bummed · · Score: 0

    I'm not saying that proponents of intelligent design and those around them are incapable of doing serious scientific research.

    Then permit me to say it for you.

  13. 2MA on Amazon Confirms EC2/S3 Not PCI Level 1 Compliant · · Score: 0

    Too many acronyms.

  14. First 100 customers... on First MS Retail Stores Will be In Scottsdale, AZ and Mission Viejo, CA · · Score: 0

    get a free iPo- ...Zune, or a gift certificate to Macy- ...Sears or Cinnabo- ...Dairy Queen.

  15. Re:Because of overcrowding on Why Don't MMOs Allow Easier Transportation? · · Score: 0

    Queue. "Area full? I'll wait over here doing this other thing. When a space becomes available, transport me instantly to the action."

  16. Windows 7 limited to three appplications.* on Windows 7 Starter Edition — 3 Apps Only · · Score: 2, Funny

    *Limit applies to non-Microsoft(TM) applications only. Please purchase and run all the MS stuff you desire.
    Void where prohibited by European Union.

  17. Enemy combatants. on Microsoft Executive Tapped For Top DHS Cyber Post · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anticipate all persons attempting to enter the U.S. to be screened for explosives, hazardous chemical agents, firearms, radioactive materials, and open source software.

  18. Bullocks. on UK Government Ads Link Games With "Early Death" · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been playing video games all my life and I'm as healt

  19. Don't take sides. on The Pirate Bay Is Making a "Spectrial" of It · · Score: 0

    Neither party in this affair deserves approbation.

  20. Re:And now... on Pirate Bay Operators Stand Trial On Monday · · Score: 0

    Would you please step onto the plank--er...box. Now raise your right hook--er...hand, and repeat after me.

  21. I suspect Fuchs on US Nuclear Weapons Lab Loses 67 Computers · · Score: 0

    Security at Los Alamos is likely no less stringent or competent that any research institute, public or private. Incidents like these are more conspicuous because of the nature of the work done there. The balance between security and freedom to communicate ideas has always been a challenge when conducting research in sensitive areas. This has been a challenge at Los Alamos from the start, dating back to the Manhattan project.

    You can't do research in a bubble.

  22. DMCA on AT&T, Comcast To Join RIAA Team · · Score: 0

    With the democrats in control, can we get the DMCA looked at?

  23. Re:Subject on $6 Billion Proposal For High-Speed Internet Grants · · Score: 1, Funny

    Telcos: "May we see your six billion dollar bill?"
    Obama: Ah-ah, you see with your eyes, not with your hands."
    FCC stooge: (whispering) "I think we can trust the telcos, Mr. President."
    The president hesitates, then gives the bill the telcos.
    Obama: "Now give it back."
    Telcos: "Give what back?"

  24. Re:WTF is up with IBM? on Layoffs at Microsoft, Intel, and IBM · · Score: 0

    I believe the OP was vilifying foreign workers based outside the United States.

    For vilification of immigrant workers within the U.S. please use the "search all threads" feature at the top of the forum. Include the keywords "scapegoat" and "theytukmahjob".

  25. Re:First Lesson in writing a Review on The Zen of SOA · · Score: 0
    I've always been a fan of somnambulant orange anteaters, but I never knew they were Buddhist.

    Learning all the time...