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  1. Re:Charges... on Sci-Fi Author Peter Watts Beaten, Charged During Border Crossing · · Score: 1

    However I don't expect a waitress to spit in somebody's food, for a computer technician to hide kiddie porn on a drive whilst 'fixing' it, or a policeman to abuse and torture civilians by tasers or in this case pepper spray and fists.

    Phillip.

    Yet, it happens.

  2. Re:Charges... on Sci-Fi Author Peter Watts Beaten, Charged During Border Crossing · · Score: 1

    35 Profit

  3. Re:It's so quick on Lotus Teases With a Fuel-Agnostic Two-Stroke Engine · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    not using a car analogy is like walking

  4. Re:Important to remember: on Iran Slows Internet Access Before Student Protests · · Score: 2, Insightful

    After all, when you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

  5. Re:Important to remember: on Iran Slows Internet Access Before Student Protests · · Score: 1

    A well-timed "Tch!" and a rustle of the morning paper generally suffices for me.

  6. Re:Important to remember: on Iran Slows Internet Access Before Student Protests · · Score: 1

    but at least it's civil.

  7. Don't worry on What Drugs Do Astronauts Take? · · Score: 2, Funny

    If there's one thing I can do, man, is fly when I'm stoned

  8. Re:Ignorance in the comments from the Superintende on SETI@home Project Responds To School Firing · · Score: 1

    17x16 is likely a multiswitch, according to Google

  9. Re:Ignorance in the comments from the Superintende on SETI@home Project Responds To School Firing · · Score: 1

    7*9 was the Borg on Star Trek

  10. Re:Aren't we missing the point? on SETI@home Project Responds To School Firing · · Score: 1

    .

    Yes, I know, and you want a pony. But we're better than that, aren't we? We have to be.

    Maybe we should start by teaching a bit of history, starting with the Reformation and the Rennaisence.

    How is history better than a pony?

  11. Re:Bad Summary on Calling Video Professor a Scam · · Score: 1

    For a small fee, I can help you avoid being billed for crud.

  12. Re:Bad Summary on Calling Video Professor a Scam · · Score: 2, Funny

    For a small fee, I can help you avoid scam information overload. Think of the peace of mind, increase in your productivity and lung capacity, just by following the advice I can provide you.

  13. Re:Bad Summary,Christmas sale, free shipping on Calling Video Professor a Scam · · Score: 5, Insightful

    uh, parent is unintentionally NOT OFFTOPIC this time

  14. Re:Some numbers... I think it might work! on The World's First Osmotic Power Plant · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, well, if the theory is sound, then I don't see the problem with a large government/private sector cross over project in the New Orleans area.

  15. Wow on The World's First Osmotic Power Plant · · Score: 1

    First he wins Dancing With the Stars, now he's going to power a whole country!?!? Is there no end to this guy's abilities?

  16. Re:This doesn't prove ants can count on Ants That Can Count · · Score: 1

    some do, some don't

  17. Re:This doesn't prove ants can count on Ants That Can Count · · Score: 1

    Can't beat a drum analogy

  18. Re:Technically... on Is That Sushi Hazardous To Your Health? · · Score: 1

    how do you NOT know?

  19. Dark energy? on Dark Energy, Life Searches Make Strange Bedfellows · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wake me up when they start talking about plaid energy.

  20. Re:Math cannot exist before wind. on Tracking the World's Great Unsolved Math Mysteries · · Score: 1

    hot cookie crumbles over Natalie Portman.

  21. Re:Fire fighter survival.... on Bomb-Proof Wallpaper Developed · · Score: 1

    Firefighters only die once, no matter where they are. Except if they are Cat Firefighters, I guess.

  22. Re:Oops on Bomb-Proof Wallpaper Developed · · Score: 1

    Using a wrecking ball wrapped in the stuff.

  23. If on Bomb-Proof Wallpaper Developed · · Score: 1

    If it keeps wrecking balls out, then, it can probably keep wrecking balls in. Hmmmmm

  24. Re:1 + 1 = 3 on Tracking the World's Great Unsolved Math Mysteries · · Score: 1

    or normal uses of "+" and "="

  25. Re:Math cannot exist before wind. on Tracking the World's Great Unsolved Math Mysteries · · Score: 1

    could you imagine a beowulf cluster of threads where everyone tries to continue the joke? ...Profit!