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  1. Re:What's the point? on Gizmodo Blows Whistle On 4G iPhone Loser · · Score: 1

    If the story is accurate, then what's the point of exposing the poor sod's name?

    I think sot would be more appropriate.

    What purpose does that serve? The guy's obviously had a rough week; why pile on and make it worse?

    Although this would make it appropriate.

    So why expose him publicly?

    Sod it is!

  2. Re:What's the point? on NASA Unveils Sweeping New Programs For Next 5 Years · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If we took half the money we spend killing people and instead used it to research space flight, we would be MUCH further along at this point.

    If we took half the money we put into entitlement programs and put it into getting better education, we would be much better off. Instead, we shunt money to people who WON'T do anything with their lives but suck on the gov't teat and spit out kids to get MORE money. Then THEIR kids do the same thing. Welfare reform is a joke. People just move to places when the money dries up. And yes, I KNOW people like this.

  3. Re:The words "four square" conjure up bad memories on Foursquare Turns Down $100M · · Score: 1

    Well, one day while playing an errant ball struck my gonads and caused me some serious injuries. For lack of a better description, it basically broke my penis. I now will never have children, and suffer from hormonal problems.

    It's not like you would have had any kids anyway, so it's no big loss.

  4. Re:Need Basis for Comparison on IE Not Faring Well In the EU Ballot · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering how much of the high IE value is from AOL users. The AOL client still uses IE. If they had switched to Netscape all those years ago, how would the balance of power be tipped now?

  5. Re:Admin permissions on How To Avoid a Botnet Infection? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Funny looking at this post and then seeing your signature

  6. Re:News For Nerds on Health Care Reform · · Score: 1

    Someone in Congress described this as a "VA-like" system. Have you ever dealt with the VA? That's Veterans Administration. I work with a lot of former military, I get to hear horror stories about VA hospitals. Think about that before you start cheering for this.

  7. Re:So on Scientists Demonstrate Mammalian Tissue Regeneration · · Score: 2, Informative

    However, his healing factor results in massive scar tissue causing his appearance to be severely disfigured.

    No scarring with this stuff.

  8. So on Scientists Demonstrate Mammalian Tissue Regeneration · · Score: 4, Funny

    We can all be Wolverine now? Cool!

  9. Flashlights on Toshiba Ends Incandescent Bulb Production After 120 Years · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I love my LED flashlights. I was a fan of Maglights, but the stupid bulbs would break. My five LED flashlights last a lot longer and I have yet to break and LED. Plus they put out more light than incandescent bulbs while using the same amount of battery charge.

  10. No one's thinking long term anymore on US Sits On Supply of Rare, Tech-Crucial Minerals · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For the same reason they aren't drilling for oil off the coasts. You know, if you don't start now, it's going to take even LONGER before production is spun up. And by then, we'll have yet another dumb ass in office and we can't mine this stuff out for whatever reason (NIMBY, clean air, whatever). Even if the company stockpiles it, the material is still an asset and can be used when the Chinese decide to close their borders because of another cultural revolution.

  11. Re:Fuck exceptions for religion on Jobcentre Apologizes For Anti-Jedi Discrimination · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Make no law respecting an establishment of religion, my ass.

    So, where's this Church of the United States you're bitching about?

  12. Re:Who has authority to confirm something as good? on Security Industry Faces Attacks It Can't Stop · · Score: 1

    How about an antivirus program that BLOCKS file writes to the operating system UNLESS that file can be confirmed to be "good"?

    Who has the authority to confirm, say, your shopping list as good? Or, if you're considering only files marked executable, a shell script that your co-worker wrote?

    Reading comprehension FAIL. What idiot types their shopping list and saves it in the Windows system file directory?

  13. So what else is new on Bill To Ban All Salt In Restaurant Cooking · · Score: -1, Troll

    Felix Ortiz, D-Brooklyn. Surprise! A Democrat from Brooklyn wanting more regulations. But wait, this time for food! Next they're banning sugar and caffeine.

  14. Re:Interesting on Study Shows TV Makes Kids Fat, Computers Don't · · Score: 1

    You obviously never met my ex-wife.

  15. Re:The important questions... on California Lake's Arsenic Hints At a Shadow Biosphere · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, I don't know these computers you speak of. Can you put that in a car analogy?

    Don't put unleaded in a diesel.

    Yeah, but where can you even get leaded gas these days?

    Airports. Single engine propeller planes still use leaded gasoline.

  16. I hope on Earliest "Writing" On 60,000-Year-Old Eggshells · · Score: 1

    I hope no one was walking on those eggshells.

  17. Re:Dumb Government Abuse of Power on Officials Sue Couple Who Removed Their Lawn · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I also live in VA and the mandating of lawn mowing is for safety. It's tough seeing a Copperhead or other poisonous snake when you can't see the ground. You didn't have that problem in Maine because there are no poisonous snakes in Maine.

  18. It's a start on NASA Estimates 600 Million Metric Tons of Water Ice At Moon's North Pole · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Now how much water is in the South Pole?

  19. Re:Talk about the ultimate makeout spot! on NASA Astronauts To Open New Space Station Windows · · Score: 1

    At this point, I'll be more than happy to take your wife up there.

  20. Re:A Christian's take on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    So one should be able to form an atheist organization and launch tax-exempt political fundraising and campaigning, in your view?

    Isn't that Scientology?

  21. So on The Upside of the NASA Budget · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the article:

    allowing multiple, smaller launches, which then form into one large spacecraft in orbit

    So NASA's building a version of Voltron?

  22. Re:They did on Why Has No One Made a Great Gaming Phone? · · Score: 1

    Hence the "No one revisited." I think it's a great idea, but no one really listens to me.

  23. They did on Why Has No One Made a Great Gaming Phone? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There was a gaming phone a few years back. It flopped. No one revisited.

  24. Re:How much? on Stargate Props Going Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    Can I get a two-fer and get Amanda Tapping?

  25. Re:To summarize... on China Will Lead World Scientific Research By 2020 · · Score: 1

    No, I got the point, I just have to wonder why you chose that particular example. And yes, they did steal quite a bit of our nuclear secrets. You just don't hear about it.