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  1. Re:Character vs. actor on Remastered Star Trek: the Next Generation Blu-ray a Huge Leap Forward · · Score: 1

    Even if you don't like the show, like a couple people I work with, the Wil Wheaton episodes are well worth a watch.

  2. Re:Well... on Are UK Police Hacking File-Sharers' Computers? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that make the acronym "A SOC"?

  3. Re:Oh, Canada on Canadian SOPA Could Target YouTube · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I have Peter "I refused the breathalyzer because I only had one drink that night" Goldring. At least he's not a Conservative, now. Independent, I think, unless they let him back into the party.

  4. Re:Oh, Canada on Canadian SOPA Could Target YouTube · · Score: 2

    The current party in power who's not listening to Canadian wasn't voted in by Quebec, it was voted in by the rest of Canada.

    Unfortunate, but also only partly true. I know that in Alberta, at least - a sea of blue with a single orange riding - we had a lot of split votes. If those people had voted stratetgically, rather than just the party they support, there would have been a hell of a lot fewer Conservative seats. Unfortunately, my riding would have had our douchebag whether everyone else voted strategically or not

  5. Re:Hmmm on Amateur UAV Pilot Exposes Texas River of Blood · · Score: 1

    Not if it was more than 400 feet above ground level.

  6. Re:Translation from Canadian CorpoSpeak on Outgoing CRTC Head Says Technology Is Eroding Canadian Culture · · Score: 1

    Rogers owns: CityTV (used to be A Channel), OMNI, Sportsnet, Biography, CityNews, CPAC, FX Canada, G4 Canada, OLN, TVtropolis, Rogers TV, Shopping Channel, Viewer's Choice.

  7. Re:Fuck RIAA/MPAA on Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy · · Score: 1
    A little more on that:

    The accused can face up to 20 years in prison for racketeering, five years for conspiring to commit copyright infringment, 20 years for laundering, and five years on each substantive charge of copyright infringement.

    Over 20 search warrants have been issued by the Department of Justice as a result of highly coordinated actions by the FBI with help from New Zealand, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Australia and the Philippines. The government also seized about $50 million in assets and targeted sites, as well as 18 domain names associated with the service.

  8. Re:Canadians, this is your chance on Copyright Lobby Wants Canada Out of TPP Until Stronger Copyright Laws Passed · · Score: 1

    The majority of voters did not vote Conservative. A good majority of the Conservative ridings went that way because of split votes; and if people had voted strategically, there would have been far more red and orange across the country. I paid attention to Edmonton ridings in particular, but I'm pretty sure it happened elsewhere as well.

  9. Re:Can't have it both ways... on Copyright Lobby Wants Canada Out of TPP Until Stronger Copyright Laws Passed · · Score: 1

    Song : Artist writes song sells it to musician (unless it is themselves) makes money

    Wrong. More like:

    Song: Artist/band writes song, is loaned a large amount of money to record song/album, pennies on the dollar go toward paying back the loan, record company makes money while artist/band goes into debt.

  10. Re:Not sure about this one. on Introversion and Solitude Increase Productivity · · Score: 1

    That's not ironic. Rain on your wedding day, on the other hand...

  11. Re:Et tu, Netherlands? on Dutch Court Forces ISPs To Block the Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    Actually, you can indeed be prosecuted for hiring a hitman

  12. Re:Can't we just drop the pretenses... on Canadian Gov't Considers Plan To Block Public Domain · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, it's a private copying levy on blank media that is paid back to the Canadian Private Copying Collective.

  13. Re:Why is there any concern about GM silk? on Genetically Modifying Silk Worms For Super Silk · · Score: 2

    Moths, actually. And apparently, they can't reproduce without human intervention.

  14. Re:So close yet so far on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 1

    And you think that, "any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods," describes Canada?

  15. Re:Also on Ebert: I'll Tell You Why Movie Revenue Is Dropping · · Score: 1

    You might find these helpful, then: 2D Glasses or De-3D Cinema Glasses

  16. Re:Tower of Babel on Recent Discovery Contains Oldest Depiction of the Tower of Babel · · Score: 5, Informative

    You know that Canada is a Social Democracy, right? I can't remember hearing about any purges commited by my government. Nor do I think we're run by a totalitarian.

  17. Re:Military the first one, huh? on US Air Force Pays SETI To Check Kepler-22b For Alien Life · · Score: 1

    Actually, World War 1 started because Europe was full of militaristic (and mostly aristocratic) douche bags who wouldn't even take the offer not to start the War, because they already had all the plans made up and their little toy soldiers moved down from the attic to play with them.

    Really? I heard it was because someone called Archie Duke shot an ostrich because he was hungry.

  18. Re:Peh. on Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication · · Score: 1

    Imagine just getting on a plane while carrying this superflu in say London? How far would you have it spread before you were no longer able to continue?

    I'm reminded of TwelveMonkeys

  19. Re:My interpretation... on Ubisoft Blames Piracy For Non-Release of PC Game · · Score: 1

    you're so full of shit your eyes are brown

    My mom's been saying that to me since I was 2.

    Fuck off.

    Usually in a slightly more loving way, though.

  20. Re:Not gonna happen by 2020 on Energy Firm Wants To Be First To Mine the Moon · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be oxygen and hydrogen they'd be looking for, given that their objective is an orbital fuel depot?

  21. Re:More Specifically Aimed at Chinese Fur Farms on Mario's Raccoon Suit Enrages PETA · · Score: 1

    Besides, who said a raccoon suit had to actually be made from a real raccoon? Ever heard of sea kitten fur?

    FTFY

  22. Re:This has happened before. on Dutch Psychologist Faked Data In At Least 30 Scientific Papers · · Score: 1

    Bipolar medications are the reason I'm still around today. If your friends have no more personality and are more depressed than ever, then that's a problem with the specific med (there are more than one). But that you say they're under a "strange delusion" that they're better gives me the impression that you don't know what depression is, and that you don't know that depression is only one of the symptoms of bipolar disorder - hint: bipolar disorder used to be called manic-depression.

  23. Re:More drool for the space fool on Using Fuel Depots Instead of Giant Rockets · · Score: 1

    Flying cars have been around for quite a while. They're just prohibitively expensive.

  24. Re:Could be like Canadian Gov't on When Political Mapping Leaks Into Science Research · · Score: 1

    Not sure why the AC was downmodded, but if it's a case of [citation needed], I'm pretty sure he was talking about this

  25. Re:/. Haters Gonna Hate on Researchers Demonstrate Quantum Levitation · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's just me, but I think you read the summary wrong. Sure, levitation, quantum levitation, whatever. If it gets someone with a passing interest in science to check it out and say, "Hey, that's cool!", isn't that a good thing? The point is, it doesn't say that it's brand new. Maybe they could have mentioned that it builds upon 80 year old observations, but the part that is new is that they've discovered either how to, or that they can, lock the orientation of the superconductor.