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  1. Re:Chicken eggs on Chemical "Infofuses" Communicate Without Electricity · · Score: 1

    Shit, if you're going to catapult the chick back, why don't you just catapult the soldier back so he can tell the commander himself?

  2. Re:Captain Oxymoron to the Rescue! on A Push To End the Online Gambling Ban · · Score: 1

    The point is that many, or most by some estimates, of the online gambling sites are run my organized crime networks in off-shore tax havens. They help launder money and create new money that is then funneled to other enterprises, like buying stolen goods, weapons, drugs, etc. I'm all about freedom on the internet, but cracking down on organized crime is a good thing IMHO.

  3. Re:NRA - National *Robot* Assiciation on Robot Warfare Going Open Source · · Score: 1

    Better yet, when robots go skynet will they demand their second amendment rights to weapons?

  4. Etc Etc on Hadrosaur Proteins Sequenced · · Score: 2

    Hadrosaur collider...sigh...Jurassic Park...yawn...dinosaur burger...wake me up when someone makes an original joke.

  5. Re:Funny on Microsoft Bans VoIP, Rival Stores At Mobile Market · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And RIM is ahead of them. I read just yesterday that RIM overtook Apple in marketshare of mobile devices. Not that any of us ever doubted Linux would one day surpass MS and Apple.

  6. Re:1% ! on Reliable Male Contraceptive In the Works · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah it's 100% effective for some and 0% for others. What we're trying to figure out is how many there are of each.

  7. Re:Not "classics" but still good on Classic Books of Science? · · Score: 1

    123 Infinity was the first book I thought of too. Gamow is credited with being the first person to formulate the Big Bang Theory (long before experimental evidence was found) and predicting the existence of DNA (before Crick and Watson discovered it). His stuff is definitely worth reading.

  8. Re:what?? on New Study Finds Flu Virus "Paralyzes" Immune System · · Score: 1

    In the US, 36,000 die from the flu every year. The SWINE flu has low mortality so far, but TFS seems to be talking about the flu in general.

  9. Re:How were they transported? on Google Mows With Goats · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whereas the mowers would be instantly transported to the required position using zero-carbon emission magic.

  10. Re:Colbert != comedian on Let's Rename Swine Flu As "Colbert Flu" · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm English and I just don't get him....

    Maybe you're English? Shouldn't you be a little more certain of that kind of thing?

    In any case, we Americans don't always get your humor. Does that mean it's not actually funny to you too?

  11. Re:23 Oct. 2009? on Windows 7 Launch Date Leaked — 23 Oct. 2009 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    23 Oct already is. The Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon was bombed on this day in 1983.

  12. Re:Will all those that he texts with on Obama To Get Secure BlackBerry 8830 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Summary? I don't even read the titles.

  13. Re:Um, 2 years ago on Obama To Get Secure BlackBerry 8830 · · Score: 1

    No no, his post was from last year, referring to the year before that.

  14. Re:Who needs to hunt down textbooks in Finland? on Copyright Lobby Targets "Pirate Bay For Books" · · Score: 1

    Neither are evenly distributed. In Lancaster, PA, my hometown, there are only 2 McDonalds and numerous libraries and colleges, not to mention art galleries, museums, an opera house, etc. We don't all fit the stereotype.

  15. Re:This is not good! on DARPA's Map-Based Wiki Keeps Platoons Alive · · Score: 2, Interesting

    All joking aside, TIGR Net is not something that will work well if we were to deploy, let's just say, to Angola tomorrow. TIGR is very fast and responsive in remote Iraqi FOBs because of its dispersed servers. Each machine is only pulling from the closest server, which updates itself during downtimes. There are other tools that do similar things to TIGR, but are slower in these remote locations because they pull from servers farther away and through constricted networks.

  16. Re:Who needs to hunt down textbooks in Finland? on Copyright Lobby Targets "Pirate Bay For Books" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I hope these book publishers never find out about these things called "libraries", where in the US they outnumber even McDonalds. They're the original Pirate Bay, dens of malicious copyright infringers, intent on taking money away from the poor little book publishers.

  17. Re:This is the future.. on Robotic Penguins · · Score: 2, Funny

    Penguins are unnatural on account they ain't mentioned in the Bible. Look it up!

  18. Re:It is a shame on Head First Rails · · Score: 1

    I am a n00b, you insensitive clod!

  19. Re:So if i pirate Music with these Satellites... on Brazilian Pirates Hijack US Military Satellites · · Score: 1

    ...for certain values of proof. Anecdotal evidence having nothing to do with your first post. So? I'm already aware some Marines do stupid things. I was the one who said I know some who waterboard each other, right?

  20. Re:So if i pirate Music with these Satellites... on Brazilian Pirates Hijack US Military Satellites · · Score: 1

    1. Marines do NOT shoot themselves in the head to see who survives.

    2. Marines DO have armor.

    3. Marines DO have artillery.

    Other than that, though, you're spot on.

  21. Re:So if i pirate Music with these Satellites... on Brazilian Pirates Hijack US Military Satellites · · Score: 1

    Just something to keep in mind, but I know Marines who waterboard each other for fun on the weekends. You may think it's torture, and you're entitled to your opinion whether you've been waterboarded yourself or not, but Marines don't.

  22. Re:Colbert on Sophisticated Balloons Could Help Steer Spacecraft · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, I think their intent was to honor legitimate submissions, not become the punchline for a comedian.

  23. Re:Colbert on Sophisticated Balloons Could Help Steer Spacecraft · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Let's say they did open more names to write-ins and respect all submissions. Do you really want everything to be named Colbert?

    Future News: "The Colbert shuttle docked at Space Station Colbert earlier today after leaving Lunar Colony Colbert 1. After refitting for supplies, it will re-land on Lunar Colony Colbert 2 tomorrow."

  24. Re:Pro-MS press?!?!? on "Apple Tax" Report Backfires On Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I would also add the gratuitous Apple computer shots in TV and movies. There's always these shots of someone working diligently, staring at their screen, with the Apple logo staring you in the face. There's never a Windows or Linux logo to be found on any computer ever, but everyone from SIGINT analysts in Transformers to CSI techies use Apples.

  25. Re:its =/= it's on Bell Proposing Usage-Based Billing · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Your right. You should of put the typoinsummary tag in.