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  1. Re:Factors Are Likeability, Trustworthiness and Ag on Political Affiliation Can Be Differentiated By Appearance · · Score: 1

    from the whole quote you only identified this?

  2. Re:Factors Are Likeability, Trustworthiness and Ag on Political Affiliation Can Be Differentiated By Appearance · · Score: 1

    Hmm, from Wikipeida on the UK Lib Dem site:

    "They support multilateral foreign policy; they opposed British participation in the War in Iraq and supported the withdrawal of troops from the country, and are the most pro-European Union of the three main parties in the UK. The party has strong environmentalist values - favouring renewable energy and commitments to deeper cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Since their foundation, Lib Dems have advocated electoral reform to use proportional representation, replacing the House of Lords with an elected chamber, and cutting government departments."

    sure sounds like republicans to me.

  3. Re:Oh Apple, let the Apps through already! on Google Gets Its iPhone Voice · · Score: 1

    You must be wrong, during my commute to work all I see is blackberries.

    Of course I drive to work alone and have two blackberries.

  4. Re:Is it just D&D ? on Prison Bans D&D For Mimicking Gang Structure · · Score: 1

    "It's pitch black. You're likely to be raped by a grue."

  5. Re:What A Flawed Premise... on Prison Bans D&D For Mimicking Gang Structure · · Score: 1

    Except D&D has precise and unambiguous rule books to make sure fights and arguments never happen.

  6. Re:Not sure in USA but in Spain... on The Apple Paradox, Closed Culture & Free-Thinking Fans · · Score: 1

    I know, I own 3 macs (MBP and 2 minis)

  7. Re:Mandelbulb porn sighted! on NZ School Goes Open Source Amid Microsoft Mandate · · Score: 1

    "They're mostly full of robots."

    I think that's what the parent poster was talking about. Schools are doing that.

  8. Re:Not sure in USA but in Spain... on The Apple Paradox, Closed Culture & Free-Thinking Fans · · Score: -1, Troll

    I wonder around the streets dressed up like a police officer, although I am not one. People keep asking me to help them with civil related duties and I have to tell them, "Just because I'm dressed this way doesn't mean I'm a police officer."

    Moral of the story, You may not be a smug asshole, but you're wearing a smog asshole's uniform.

  9. Re:The rise of ignorance... on Colliding Particles Can Make Black Holes After All · · Score: 1

    It's the whole doomsday thing that everyone's afraid of. Look how many people were caught up in the Global Warming scam.

  10. Re:Four YEARS? on Claims of Himalayan Glacier Disaster Melt Away · · Score: 1

    We can argue about it later but lets save the earth first!! Give me $300M and I'll do what I can to find a solution.

  11. Re:Wasted opportunity on Space Station Astronauts Gain Internet Access · · Score: 1

    You've been verbed!!

  12. Re:Great... on Space Station Astronauts Gain Internet Access · · Score: 3, Funny

    SPACE POST!!!

  13. Re:Wasted opportunity on Space Station Astronauts Gain Internet Access · · Score: 1

    It's past tense:

    One small twat for a man. One giant twat for man kind.

  14. Re:Space, the final frontier on Space Station Astronauts Gain Internet Access · · Score: 1

    How much is that in 2009 minutes though?

  15. Re:what about the other 10% on New Brain Scans Can Spot PTSD · · Score: 2, Funny

    the other 10% are just faking it for the VA benefits.

  16. Re:yeah, but why humanoid robots in the first plac on Why the Uncanny Valley Doesn't Really Matter · · Score: 1

    Actuation only represents a tool or machine not a robot. A robot has to be able to read it's environment and make a decision based on it. A hammer is not a robot, nether is an electric drill. A toaster may be the closest thing to a robot you can get from a very basic mechanical setup.

  17. Re:yeah, but why humanoid robots in the first plac on Why the Uncanny Valley Doesn't Really Matter · · Score: 1

    No, not completely exposed, but it does have to be able to make a decision on which way to go based on the state of it's environment and not just by a mechanical device.

    As soon as there's a washing machine that you just put clothes into and walk away and it decides what kind/color and automatically sets the temp and adds the soap and washes then checks to make sure it is all clean before letting you know I wont call a washing machine a robot.

  18. Re:Bad, bad news on Supreme Court Rolls Back Corporate Campaign Spending Limits · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    My rights come from the end of my shotgun. Go ahead and try to take my property.

  19. I can replace? on Researchers Pooh-Pooh Algae-Based Biofuel · · Score: 1

    now I can replace my bio-diesel processing plant in my garage with a bunch of algae eating researchers?

  20. Re:One other reason, Algae is more valuable! on Researchers Pooh-Pooh Algae-Based Biofuel · · Score: 1

    volume.

  21. Re:yeah, but why humanoid robots in the first plac on Why the Uncanny Valley Doesn't Really Matter · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Most of those are just Machines. Robots should have a bit of autonomousness about them.

  22. Re:Hope and Change, baby! on Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA Again In Tenenbaum · · Score: 1

    I'm going to assume they were trying to drain more money from the public in an attempt to pretend they are doing something good although in 25-50 years it'd be bankrupt but unable to be touched and start draining from the general fund in order to stay alive. Kinda like SS.

  23. Re:Hope and Change, baby! on Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA Again In Tenenbaum · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "A Bill" is the problem here, why not break it up into smaller more manageable parts that people can understand where the money both comes from and goes to.

    Maybe even some smaller regulation changes like the problems selling insurance across state lines and such. Would go a long way to help.

  24. Re:Wouldn't have anything to do with OUTSOURCING? on Brain Drain, Admin Failures Threaten the FCC's Role · · Score: 1

    1) Better life decisions
    2) More productive product
    3) Older and saved more
    4) Just plain lucky and won lottery
    5) slightly less lucky but did well in investments
    6) curbs bad habbits (drinking, smoking)
    7) limits partying to a reasonable level for their income

    should I go on?

  25. Re:Wouldn't have anything to do with OUTSOURCING? on Brain Drain, Admin Failures Threaten the FCC's Role · · Score: 1

    Sorry to cut and paste, but to answer the bonus question:

    "What their worth IS what the market will bare."

    I grantee that if nobody could afford to buy a house that the prices would go down.