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  1. Re:Imagine the trauma your kids will suffer... on A Full-Time 2-Way Video Link To Grandparents? · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's something about the concept of "passing away live" that confuses me...

  2. Re:Huh on New Olympics Scoring: No More Perfect 10.0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Gosh, why does Slashdot always have to rub it in my face."

    Well, since you've no girlfriend to rub it in your face, it's better than nothing...

  3. Re:You mean... on Oyster Card Hack To Be Released, In Good Time · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...and as the EX-mayor of London, why would he care?

  4. Re:Big Brother? on Japan Imposes "Fine On Fat" · · Score: 1

    Now to be known in Japan as "Nicely Proportioned Brother".

  5. Re:Jumping the gun a bit.... on UK Can Now Hold People Without Charge For 42 Days · · Score: 3, Funny

    You asked: "What do your lords use for guidance over there?"

    The answer is "whether or not they had a jolly good lunch at the club."

  6. Re:Atheists, Come Out! on Richard Dawkins to Appear on Doctor Who · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No. I was indoctrinated with religion at an early age. I used reason and intellect to reject it.

    The vast majority of "The religious" are that way by choice, not anything else.

    I do not respect the religious. I do respect fellow humans.

  7. Re:May be the best decision he ever made. on Did Amazon Induce Vista's Premature Birth? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hmmmm. Maybe he thinks investors are a sub-class, derived from sheep? You know, kind of:

    class Investor: public Sheep {.......

    sort of thing?

  8. Re:When will people learn? on Sun Refuses LGPL for OpenOffice; Novell forks · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes it is.... Is this the five minute argument or the full course of ten?

  9. Re:When will people learn? on Sun Refuses LGPL for OpenOffice; Novell forks · · Score: 1

    Yes it is.

  10. Re:Glad I don't do my IT work in France on French Parliament Chooses Ubuntu · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Glad I don't do my IT work in France"

    So are the French.

  11. Re:Applied to museums? on Flickr Search Hack Powered by Mouse-Made Doodles · · Score: 1

    I tried it and it returned a load of old Pollocks.

  12. Huh? on Jobs Unfazed by Zune · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're much better off to take one of your earbuds out and put it in her ear.

    Why not just keep both earbuds where they are, enjoy the music, and still stick it in her ear? Or am I misunderstanding something here...?

  13. Re:obligatory on Chemical Leak on ISS · · Score: 1

    In space no one can hear you flush.

  14. Re:It's called Hofstadter's law! on How can a Developer Estimate Times? · · Score: 1

    You can say that again.

  15. Re:CmdrTaco on First Impressions Count in Website Design · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't you mean his "Letter's too Slishdot"?

  16. Re:Liberals on ZNet interviews Richard Stallman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Marxism should be capitalised? Nationalised, surely...?

  17. Only en-US so far... on Firefox 1.5 RC2 Available · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The update, at the time of posting, is only available for en-US builds so far. Now I know that that's all that matters, but if you're running RC1 non-en-US then the update might be a little time away yet.

    Perchance that's why it's not been publicised yet, and further perchance that's what the poster or editors might have noticed? Sorry, dreaming there for a moment...

  18. Don't be so effing arrogant. on Lawmakers Support U.S. Control Of The Internet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, let's apply the US logic:

    - Television standards should be controlled by the Scottish Parliament.
    - Postage regulations are controlled by the British parliament.
    - Ballooning is controlled by the French (even in the US!)
    - ...and so on.

    Stop being so fucking paranoid about the Internet. So DARPA funded it years ago. Big fricking deal. We've moved on since then. Get over it and deal with it.

  19. Re:Bad quote. on Star Trek's Scotty Dies at 85 · · Score: 1

    Dammit what a fine man! When so many in "showbiz" act all precious and snooty, it's good to see someone who realised that he was in a privileged position and enjoyed it just a much as we all did.

    RIP Scotty.

  20. Re:Not just Americans on Bush Signs Law Targeting P2P Pirates · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If the US Law did apply to them, that would be a step forward. The problem is that the US detains them but does NOT apply US Law to them, nor any other recognisable form of Law.

  21. Re:Great on WiMax Hits 100 mph on Rails to Brighton · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's the attitude that let's the UK's shoddy train system continue the way it is - the British belief that it's unreasonable to design something that meets an entirely predictable and regular peak.

  22. Here's a thought... on Google Moves Into Drink Market · · Score: 1

    If you drink too much of this stuff does it give you gSpots?

  23. Re:In other news, pot calls kettle black on 'Economist' Calls For Open WiFi Specs · · Score: 3, Interesting
    You are factually correct but very unfair. I quote from The Economist:


    Why is it anonymous? Many hands write The Economist, but it speaks with a collective voice. Leaders are discussed, often disputed, each week in meetings that are open to all members of the editorial staff. Journalists often co-operate on articles. And some articles are heavily edited. The main reason for anonymity, however, is a belief that what is written is more important than who writes it. As Geoffrey Crowther, editor from 1938 to 1956, put it, anonymity keeps the editor "not the master but the servant of something far greater than himself. You can call that ancestor-worship if you wish, but it gives to the paper an astonishing momentum of thought and principle."

  24. Re:I'm sure the **AA will LOVE this to become US l on First BitTorrent Arrest in Hong Kong · · Score: 2, Informative

    Jose Padilla. US citizen. Born in Brooklyn. Detained in the US. No charge. No trial. Indefinite.

    What fascinates me most is not that a govenment flouts their own constitution so blatantly - What's much more interesting is the state of denial so many of that country's citizens are in.

  25. Re:I'm sure the **AA will LOVE this to become US l on First BitTorrent Arrest in Hong Kong · · Score: 1

    Just like the good ole US of A - where you can get locked up *indefinitely* without being charged. Makes the Chinese look like a bunch of friggin liberals.