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  1. Re:Yes, we canadians have a sence of humor... on Canadian Ex-Minister Calls For Serious ET Study · · Score: 1

    I think Mr. Hellyer is being serious. I'm not sure if I should be scared that my Death Ray is incomplete, or sorry for this poor man's mental condition. He was a good Minister of Defense, way back when.

  2. Re:Sigh why was he modded informative on CCTV Network Tracks Getaway Car · · Score: 1
    The same goes in Canada. If you are pulled over for speeding, the officer will find no further evidence of speeding in your trunk.

  3. Re:How about Safehouse? on How Long to Crack an 'Encrypted' HD? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not how long it takes to crack, it's how long it takes to make a copy. Then cracking can be at your lesuire.

  4. Re:Uh, not news? on Gene Found In Black Death Survivors Stops HIV · · Score: 1

    Dude, if everyone in the Russian prison has a pennicillin immune TB infection, and a prisoner is released into the general population as a carrier, you will be concerned. As the PBS show stated, people in New York have been diagnosed with that strain of T.B., and have died from it because it is almost untreatable.

    http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=site%3Acdc.gov +russian+prison+population+penicillin+resistant+&b tnG=Search&meta=

  5. Re:Uh, not news? on Gene Found In Black Death Survivors Stops HIV · · Score: 1

    Yea, I thought this wasn't big news too. I saw it on PBS as well, a show about the mutations that modern day things like pennicillin cause in respriratory diseases in Russian prisons.

  6. Re:I feel humbled on The World's Smallest Car · · Score: 5, Funny
    Try changing the tire, super man. ;)

  7. Re:Makes me laugh. on Sweden's File Sharing Debate Becomes Mass Brawl · · Score: 1
    Be careful with that joke. It's a delicate antique.

  8. Re:Trade deals on End of the Road for U.S. BlackBerry Users ? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Take it from someone who's lost their job to US companies several times under NAFTA - do everything you can to fight 'free' trade agreements with the US. If they do sign them, it's always in their favour. If they lose a trade dispute, they'll ignore the judge or panel anyhow. Believe me, any IP trade deal with the US can only hurt Uruguay.

  9. Re:Also Stargate SG1 & Atlantis! on Battlestar Galactica Season 2 Premiere · · Score: 1
    Also for the Canadian audience - notice at the end of every episode, there's a 'Paid for using the Canadian and B.C. Film Tax Credit'? So, you paid for it - why can't you watch it? *grumble* *grumble*

    I feel perfectly justified and guiltless by downloading it.

  10. Re:Venus on New Movies of Whirlwinds on Mars · · Score: 1
    If we wanted to, every problem you describe is a challenge that someone will find an anwser to. Just because it is hard does not mean it can't be done.

    To illustrate this problem, let's review a little history. When the Russians first decided to go to Venus, they built a test facility to test the Venus surface conditions of acidity, heat and pressure. Then they built a probe; the toughest strongest probe they could, and put it in the test chamber under what the probe would experience on Venus.

    The left the probe in the chamber for an hour, and opened the chamber. There was nothing left of the probe. Complete vapourization.

    The longest a probe has ever survived on the surface of Venus was about 20 minutes. Does this show you the magnitide of how difficult the problem of a human presence on Venus is? I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm just saying I wouldn't want to be the one constructing this extreme habitat.

  11. Re:Pragmatism on Stewart Brand on 'Environmental Heresies' · · Score: 2, Interesting
    And since 'Roundup-ready' crops cross pollinate with legacy crops, those legacy crops become property of Montaso. The farmer who's family have been developing these crops for generations must then pay Montaso's licensing fees for crops which he has been cultivating himself for generations.

    "Montaso vs Schessmier" has already locked this into Canadian law by the Supreme Court of Canada, and since US law shares precedent with Canadian law, it's the law there too.

    This is the point Anon above was trying to make.

  12. Re:50 Cent with the Northern Touch on Best Buy Has Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills · · Score: 1
    They are still made. Since the 1920's. Most banks can get them, but some still refuse.

    I too, collect them, but I have to go to a coin dealer to get them.

  13. Re:Sounds like... on Proposed Canadian Laws to Nix P2P Music Sharing · · Score: 1

    Well . . .considering the Junos are only presentd to Canadian artists . . .my guess would be: Yes!

  14. Re:Worked for me on Was the New Dr. Who Leaked on Purpose? · · Score: 1

    I don't know about south of the 49th, but the CBC will air it in April for Canadians. You might be able to get it via satellite.

  15. Re:What about homework? on World's First Physics Processing Unit · · Score: 1
    It might do your homework, but it won't show it's work. Especially if the nextgen version is quantum based.

  16. Re:Where are the Cherubs? on Image Causes Exploitable Overflow in Microsoft Products · · Score: 2, Funny
    The images wouldn't only affect your computer, but your brain as well.

    So instead of Cherubs, they have Tub Girl.

    Did I really just write that? :P

  17. Re:So..... on Cloning License for Dolly's Doc · · Score: 5, Funny
    So who got the first one?

    Some guy who looks just like him.

  18. Re:My memory Usage on Where Have All The Cycles Gone? · · Score: 1
    Still running a Pentium-75 I see. ;-)

  19. Re:Smittenedkitten is dead?!? on The 83-Year-Old Dead File Swapper · · Score: 1
    Go stand in the corner, ALL of you!

  20. Re:Gertrude Walton has been up to a lot of things on The 83-Year-Old Dead File Swapper · · Score: 2, Funny
    Sorry, I think you meant "And in Wisconsin"

  21. Re:Proxy? on Taking My Freedom With Me to China? · · Score: 1
    the general rule of thumb in China is that foreigners are not handled very roughly.

    This is a myth. A few years ago a Canadian lady was accused in China of smuggling drugs. Before her family or the Canadian Consulate even knew she had been charged, she had been executed.

    The Chinese Government dropped it there, but later, there was enough evidence found by the consulate to assume she may have been framed by the real smuggler.

  22. Re:R.E.S.P.E.C.T. on Taking My Freedom With Me to China? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Hitler did kill 20 million Soviets. Not to mention Poles, Dutch, Ukranians . . . so that's kind of a bad analogy.

    More like asking advice on how to smuggle Whiskey into Saudia Arabia.

  23. Re:Ideas for automotive pranks on Lexus Computers Infected Via Bluetooth · · Score: 1
    You are evil! Can I play?

    - When the driver activates the A/C, roll down the windows instead.
    - Scroll fake (read: *bad* - "IBM \/ 25 1/2") stock quotes over the internal DVD screens.
    - At random intervals, from a dead stop, refuse the transmission permission to leave 1st gear.

  24. Re:Warming ? on A Countdown To Global Catastrophe? · · Score: 1
    I live in Northern Canada. Average daytime highs should be around -20C this time of year. Yesterday, we got freezing rain, today it's +4C overnight, and +10C daytime high predicted. That's a 30C above normal temperature.

    We don't get the 3m snowfalls anymore. If we get 3m all year, it's a good year. No wonder there's been a drought here for the last 5 years.

    To anyone who owns an SUV: Fuck you.

  25. Re:Health Issues on Monitor Basics - LCD vs. CRT · · Score: 1

    Yes, the refesh was set to 75- 90 hz. Anything other than 60 -72. Res from 800X600 to 1280X1024. I tried all the combinations. No matter what, CRT's have a flicker to them, even if we can't percieve it. I even tried incandecent lighting, and indirect sunlight. Nothing really helped. Believe me, the LCD made a huge difference.