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  1. Re:I'd be fine with this, as long as... on SABAM Wants Truckers To Pay For Listening To Radio · · Score: 1

    We all watched the long death of SCO, I have a a feelin the RIAA has a lot more money than SCO did, and will take proportionality longer to die.

  2. Re:OMFG? on Internet Abbreviations Added To Oxford Dictionary · · Score: 1

    BBQ.

  3. Re:Slow! on Firefox 4 Released! · · Score: 1

    Just because they came preinstalled on your computer, doesn't mean they were free.

  4. Re:How to restore the older tabs look: on Firefox 4 Released! · · Score: 2

    Tools->Options->advanced->disable tabs

    Thats what I have a task bar for.

  5. Re:And the winner is... on US Gov't Sides Against Microsoft In i4i Patent Case · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as a need, only wants. Sometimes in order to satisfy a want there are dependence that you may refer to as a need, but at the core it is always a want.

  6. Re:Trademarking a general term is stupid! on Apple Sues Amazon.com Over App Store Trademark · · Score: 1

    How about Groc Store?

    could be a place to sell complex code???

  7. Re: Sorry, but no on Motorola's Sholes Bootloader Unlocked · · Score: 1

    It's easy to avoid DRM when you run an OS that doesn't have any content worth protecting.

  8. Re:Why don't they go to Tachi Station? on Legacy From the 1800s Leaves Tokyo In the Dark · · Score: 1

    I was going to but my uncle said I had to clean the new droids to have them ready by morning. Something about wasting time with friends later???

  9. Re:Credit card fees on Visa To Offer Person-To-Person Payments · · Score: 2

    Perhaps someday you will learn about supply and demand, and how the price of a good or service is only very loosely tied to the cost to create/perform that good or service.

    If you don't like the fees, don't pay for the service.

  10. Re:Drizzle? on Drizzle Hits General Availability · · Score: 2

    In a world of googling, tweeting, and blogging, do snazzy names really matter any more?

  11. Re:And... on Anonymous Leaks Internal Bank of America Emails · · Score: 1

    And yet the government supports the same thing with Homeopathic remedies today. For the same reason. There is value in peoples Peace of Mind even if there is no distinct difference between the snake oil and placebo.

  12. Re:I will be closing my BOA account.... on Anonymous Leaks Internal Bank of America Emails · · Score: 1

    but the cash in mattress bubble is going to be popped here very soon by the inflation pin.

  13. Re:And... on Anonymous Leaks Internal Bank of America Emails · · Score: 1

    except when you have government guarantees to buy bad loans then why bother making sure they can pay it back. Just broker the deal then pass it on.

    There is no way for a business plan of, "lets loan money to people that can't afford to pay it back" can ever get anywhere in a free market.

  14. Re:And... on Anonymous Leaks Internal Bank of America Emails · · Score: 1

    One mans "Blame the Victim" is another mans "personal responsibility"

  15. Re:Violated Wheaton's Law, chose to be a dick on Gamer Banned From Dragon Age II Over Forum Post · · Score: 1

    Except it was a product, it was a license. A revokable license. I'm pretty sure this is an exact example of why the GPL and copyleft is so important.

  16. Re:Violated Wheaton's Law, chose to be a dick on Gamer Banned From Dragon Age II Over Forum Post · · Score: 1

    If you don't wish to associate with dicks, you avoid them right?

    Well, EA decided they didn't want to associate with this dick anymore.

  17. Re:Violated Wheaton's Law, chose to be a dick on Gamer Banned From Dragon Age II Over Forum Post · · Score: 1

    My father just use to say, "Why don't you wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which gets full first."

  18. Re:Who gets to take the coding quiz? on Can For-Profit Tech Colleges Be Trusted? · · Score: 1

    After ~1000 resume's the website is done and the job posting is receded.

  19. Re:Hahaha on Episode I 3D Release Date Announced · · Score: 2

    good plan, who we shooting second?

  20. Re:From personal experience on The Decline and Fall of System Administration · · Score: 1

    Hmm, 15-20 minutes times 150-200 people is a lot more than an hour figuring out what the root problem is. Especially when in 3 weeks you're doing the same thing over again.

  21. Re:About time on Nautilus-X: the Space Station With Rockets · · Score: 2

    And the arms race can move on to IPBMs.

  22. Re:How will they compete? on Malaysia Releases Genetically Modified Mosquitoes · · Score: 1

    They supplied them with a red Ferrari.

    There FTFY

  23. Re:All you need to know, from TFA on Italian Scientists Demonstrate Cold Fusion? · · Score: 0

    I'll believe that when Duke Nukem Forever has a release date. IE never...

  24. Re:What really concerns me on Mars Journal Issue Inspires Hundreds of One-Way Trip Volunteers · · Score: 1

    Not just consent, but active, persistent, struggle to conceive.

  25. Re:What really concerns me on Mars Journal Issue Inspires Hundreds of One-Way Trip Volunteers · · Score: 0

    Actually they did have a choice in the matter. There are plenty of infertile people who's reproduction decides against cumming into being. There are an equal number that go on and fertilize an egg. The choice was made by you at a primitive level.

    (sorry for the pun)