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  1. Re:But does it work? on Court Orders Breathalyzer Code Opened, Reveals Mess · · Score: 1

    Depends on your point of view I suppose. Is losing your license for a year worth it to avoid a DUI?

    uh, the answer is absolutely yes.

  2. Re:Um, that'd be *free* beer on Copyright Infringement of Books · · Score: 1

    i like funyuns and gerald's game ;(

  3. Re:Interesting on 220-mph Solar-Powered Train Proposed In Arizona · · Score: 2, Funny

    Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.

  4. Re:it's a crime on French Assembly Adopts 3-Strikes Bill · · Score: 1

    maybe you shouldn't have committed the violent felony in the first place. and after two strikes, it'd probably be a good idea not to do anything stupid, like stealing cars.

  5. Re:Better off not working for them... on In France, Fired For Writing To MP Against 3 Strikes · · Score: 1

    What if the U.S. violate someone elses human rights, and no american cares about it?

    then they probably deserved it ;)

  6. Re:"Literally" on Would You Pay For YouTube Videos? · · Score: 1

    i hate to rain on your grammar nazi parade but:

    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally

    Main Entry:
            literally
    Pronunciation:
            \li-t-r-l, li-tr-l, li-tr-l\
    Function:
            adverb
    Date:
            1533

    1 : in a literal sense or manner : actually (took the remark literally) (was literally insane)
    2 : in effect : virtually (will literally turn the world upside down to combat cruelty or injustice -- Norman Cousins)

    usage Since some people take sense 2 to be the opposite of sense 1, it has been frequently criticized as a misuse. Instead, the use is pure hyperbole intended to gain emphasis, but it often appears in contexts where no additional emphasis is necessary.

  7. Re:GameFly compared to Blockbuster on Gamefly Complains of Poor Treatment From USPS · · Score: 1, Interesting

    here's a novel idea: return your rentals on time.

    i have never in my life had to pay a late fee on a movie or game rental.

  8. Re:Evolution on Pirate Bay Court Loss Won't Stop the Flow of Files · · Score: 1

    i dunno what napster you used, but mine definitely showed the bitrates in the search results.. 128 was probably the most common that i recall but 160/192 were also quite well represented.. i know i certainly never downloaded anything from napster that was less than 128kbps.. as for the range of content available, i never had any trouble finding what i was looking for and i liked some obscure stuff in those days.

  9. needs a camera on it. on Flying Micro-Robot Takes Off · · Score: 1, Interesting

    i'm sure i wasn't alone in thinking this thing needs a tiny camera stuck on it for uhhh.. certain purposes.

  10. Re:No such thing as unlimited on Time Warner To Offer Unlimited Bandwidth For $150 · · Score: 1

    i've been using 6mbit/s steady for the past 5 days, where do i fit in?

  11. breaking the internet on Could the Internet Be Taken Down In 30 Minutes? · · Score: 2, Funny

    i have it on good authority, that if you type google into google, you can actually break the internet.

  12. Re:Outstanding. on North Korea Launches "Communication Satellite" Rocket · · Score: 2, Funny

    you're forgetting all the good the UN has done. like when they UN-nazied the world -- forever.

  13. Re:Removed? on Wolverine Film Leaked a Month Before Release · · Score: 1

    I make chainmail gloves. They'd stop some of the slicing but the cat's claws will go through the rings, into your skin, and unless the gloves are very tight, the cat will then drag the gloves far enough you'll still have lots of cuts, just shorter than they would have been.

    double bag it.

  14. It was choice. on Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In · · Score: 1

    I was playing around in this system last night, throwing commands at it, no idea where it is or what it does. So I finally figure it out: it's a bank. And it's choice, I mean...and the next day, I read the paper, and read about how some ATM in Bumfuck, Iceland spits 700 Krona into the middle of the street. That was me.

  15. Re:Legal Requirements on Data Preservation and How Ancient Egypt Got It Right · · Score: 2, Funny

    a problem easily solved by soylent green.

  16. Re:Most likely insignificant on Are Long URLs Wasting Bandwidth? · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Hmm on All Five Smartphones Survive Pwn2Own Contest · · Score: 1

    next time you need to pay a bill, just give them some kudos from peers instead of cash and see how that goes over.

  18. Re:Huh? Duh? on Strip-Search Case Tests Limits of 4th Amendment · · Score: 1

    It doesn't apply if you're student -- courts have ruled that schools are acting as guardian ad litem for all students under its care and therefore have most of the rights generally reserved for parents, allowing them to take actions generally prohibited by agents of the state.

    funnily enough, parents dont have the right to sexually assault their children either.

  19. Re:digital world on Piracy Case Could Change Canadian Web Landscape · · Score: 1

    Basically they'd have to just not publish their songs ever. Or perform them ever.

    hey for most of the stuff they put out, that's not such a bad idea.

  20. Re:Can somebody explain what it's all about? on Piracy Case Could Change Canadian Web Landscape · · Score: 1

    ILLEGAL

    i'm going to break something if you spell it wrong again.

  21. Re:Who cares? on It's Not the 15th Birthday of Linux · · Score: 1

    also, it's not always possible to know with certainty on what day you conceived; however, the baby coming out of your snu is always a pretty good indicator of birth.

  22. Re:they probably are owed it on Microsoft Asks For a Refund From Laid-Off Workers [updated] · · Score: 2, Funny

    Generally you do have an obligation to return someone else's property that accidentally came into your possession. You'd be guilty of theft if you knowingly kept it despite knowing that it came into your possession by accident

    i will refer you to the finders keepers losers weepers rule which obviously states that this is not true.

  23. Re:wtf on IBM Files Patent For Bullet-Dodging Bionic Armor · · Score: 1

    uh probably not.

    kennedy was shot from ~200 ft away with a bullet that traveled around 2000 fps. that puts the travel time of the bullet at around 1/10th of a second.

    even if this system could detect the bullet the instant it was fired and then somehow compute it's exact trajectory in that same instant and then figure out how the target must move to avoid it, do you really think it would be physically possible for a person to move fast enough to dodge not one but multiple shots in that kind of time frame?

    even if the technology for this system works flawlessly, it would only be useful for the most long-range shots people can make, ie pretty much useless.

  24. Re:Are you in Europe? Do you need an adapter? on Universal Power Adapter Struggling For Support · · Score: 1

    duh. you simply have to replace the factory installed cathermin tube with one that has an inindium complex of +7.

  25. Re:Why so expensive? on $10 Laptop Downgraded By Reality; Now Fancy Storage Device · · Score: 3, Informative

    voila != voilà

    voila is a conjugated form of the french verb voiler. (in the indicatif passé simple if you were interested)
    voilà is, in english, an interjection and the intended meaning of the gp.