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  1. Re:Seems pretty obvious on Online Forum Leads To Hostile Workplace Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Yes, but if your employer is aware of the situation but does nothing to rectify it, then your employer is also at fault. In fact one could argue that you would no longer be at fault because by doing nothing your employer is implicitly condoning your behavior.

  2. Re:People just don't understand Linux on Linux On Netbooks — a Complicated Story · · Score: 1

    at least get the GIMP to the point of real feature parody

    I think the word you're looking for here is 'parity'. It's already a parody, that's pretty much the problem.

  3. Re:Dear Constituent (a letter from your government on US House Limits Constituent Emails · · Score: 1

    Jesse Helms used to do that too.

  4. Re:Again please... on Appeals Court Rules US Can Block Mad Cow Testing · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm missing something, but if the test for mad cow doesn't actually detect it, what's the point of even having the test in the first place?

  5. Re:Bad precedent... on MySpace Suicide Charges Threaten Free Speech · · Score: 1

    What you propose is no better than what she did

    Exactly. If what she did is not against the law, then neither is this solution.

  6. Re:Lets call it a "do over"` on A Battlestar Galactica Prequel Series on the Way · · Score: 1

    A "daggit" is a dog. While the robotic version looked more like a little bear, the only live "daggit" seen in the show was clearly an ordinary dog.

  7. Re:awww jeez, not this $#!^ again on TSA Limits Lithium Batteries on Airplanes · · Score: 1

    Those people might be rare, but they're not *that* rare. While I personally wouldn't shoot someone, I see enough examples in the news of people who do reach for a gun over distinctly minor disputes that I know it's a nontrivial risk. A couple of examples right off the top of my head; A woman who opened fire in a dispute with her husband over the setting on the thermostat, and a man who shot his mail-carrier because the mail was late.

  8. Re:It was planned. on Creationists Violating Copyright · · Score: 1

    Stupid theists... Everyone knows there's no such thing as a *nice* chianti.

  9. Nitpick on Viacom Puts the Daily Show Archive Online · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hasn't the Daily Show been on tv for more than eight years? Or do they just consider the Craig Kilborn years to be a completely different show?

  10. Re:"back charges" on Industry Insider Blasts Comcast · · Score: 1

    That's all well and good in theory, but the reality of the situation for many apartment dwellers such as myself is that if you can't get line-of-sight from your patio, then you just can't get a dish.

    The rule does not apply to common areas that are owned by a landlord, a community association, or jointly by condominium or cooperative owners where the antenna user does not have an exclusive use area. Such common areas may include the roof or exterior wall of a multiple dwelling unit.

  11. Re:This is new how? on White House Derails Attempts to End Illegal Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you could stand to take your own advice. I wasn't arguing that he *should* be impeached, I was merely pointing out that determination of guilt for any theoretical crimes doesn't happen until after impeachment.

  12. Re:This is new how? on White House Derails Attempts to End Illegal Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    Might want to crack a civics textbook... Impeachment happens *before* any trial can take place.

  13. Re:Hooray! on FCC Says No to Mobile Phones on Airplane · · Score: 1

    The big difference between talking to someone next to you and talking on the phone is that the phone conversation goes something like this:

    "Hey, it's me. It's ME. MEEEEEEE!!. What's up? I said what's up. I said, what? WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU! ARE YOU STILL THERE? HELLO? HELLOOOOOOO? Huh, guess the call dropped." (redials)...

  14. Re:What are they avoiding (besides paying taxes)? on Halliburton Moving HQ To Dubai · · Score: 1

    In fact it was almost exactly one year ago. I seem to recall that company in question having a CEO by the name of "Ted". And in all fairness, the administration was actually in favor of that deal.

  15. Re:Think of the children! on Teens Prosecuted For Racy Photos · · Score: 2, Insightful
  16. Re:Scary on Scientology Critic Arrested After 6 Years · · Score: 1

    Calling Scientology a religion is a lot like calling Dunkin' Donuts a restaurant.

  17. Re:Worrying... on FBI Arrests Neteller Execs · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because internet gambling makes the baby Jesus cry.

    Seriously, that's all I got...

  18. Re:I'm all for it! on New Stargate Series In the Works · · Score: 1

    I think we can all agree that a prequel would be pretty lame.

    "So how do we get this thing to work? Any ideas? Oh well, maybe next week."

  19. Re:Will they be able to make things better? on Democrats Take House, Senate Undecided · · Score: 3, Informative
  20. Re:sensors on The Best of Macworld SF 2006 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You'd have to collect them periodically anyway to replace/recharge the batteries. And you'd have to collect them more frequently if the batteries also had to power a transmitter.

  21. Re:Caltech pranks on Great Hacks and Pranks Of Our Time · · Score: 1
    a tradition in which seniors would go off campus and booby-trap their rooms, while underclassmen tried to break in.

    Wasn't that an episode of MacGyver?

  22. Re:Godsend Jimmy on Scotty To Be 'Beamed Up' · · Score: 1

    Koenig (not that they're very little ;))

    On the contrary, Walter Koenig is a tiny, tiny man.

  23. Re:Excellent. on Automated Pool System Saves Swimmer · · Score: 1

    could quite possibly ring [q]uite a few false positives..

    Um, so what? A false positive in this case is nothing more than a page to a lifeguard who assesses the situation. Unless it's producing so many false positives that the guards are ignoring the pages, I'd say a few false positives are a good thing. After all, a false positive situation could quickly escalate into a real positive.

  24. Re:I also.. on Extra Daylight Savings May Confuse the Gadgets · · Score: 3, Funny

    My friends, common sense and traditional time-tested dexterity prove that left-handedness is simply wrong. Writing with your right hand is natural law--WRITE MEANS RIGHT! Righteous people know the difference between right and left!

    According to the Encylopedia Britannica (1944), "The percentage of left-handedness . . . is much higher among inmates of institutions for the feeble minded and the psychopathic." Yet these "biological errors" are campaigning for special recognition as a legitimate minority to force you to accept their immoral behavior. Worse yet, the schools are encouraging deviant-handed diversity and facilitating the use of sinful southpaw scissors!

    The Bible says, "A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left" (Ecclesiastes 10:2), and "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into the EVERLASTING FIRE" (Matthew 25:41).

    "Theories relative to handedness vary in their treatment of it as an acquired or a native trait," says the Britannica. Many experts believe that left-handedness is learned and can be corrected. With repentance and reparative therapies, sinners caught in the lecherous leftist lifestyle can be converted and cured. Yes, right righteousness and healthy handedness is possible! Many ex-southpaws have become normal, happy right-writers. Some have even held hands, gotten married, and had children!

    But the militant leftist lobby says they were "born that way." They cite evidence that it's genetic, morally neutral, and normal! Well, that doesn't mean we have to teach children that it's OK to respect people who are different! Any nonjudgmental mention of left-handedness is "promotion" of wrong behavior, encouraging vulnerable young children to experiment with alternative handedness!

    Since right-thinking people believe that wrong-handedness is immoral, we will force the schools to teach only OUR beliefs to YOUR children!

    AGREE WITH US OR BURN IN HELL!

    -M. Dennis Moore

  25. Re:Huh? on Another New Serenity Trailer · · Score: 1

    Ah, I love guys like you... "I have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about, but I'm not going to let that stop me from vomiting up an opinion anyway."