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  1. I do believe on Digg Backs Down On DiggBar · · Score: 5, Funny
  2. Re:"Clean Coal" on Energy Secretary Chu Endorses "Clean Coal" · · Score: 1

    Oh, I don't know. I bet it would make a pretty handy, maintenance free water heater. If I lived far enough north, I'd put it under the house.

  3. How 'bout on NYC Wants Ideas For "Taxi Technology 2.0" · · Score: 1

    a translator, and maybe a shower?

  4. Re:There's more to coal than just burning it on Energy Secretary Chu Endorses "Clean Coal" · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's more to solar than photovoltaic. In fact, that form will be a niche market for a long time.

    The bird thing is pure BS. Besides the turbines can be placed far offshore.

  5. Re:"Clean Coal" on Energy Secretary Chu Endorses "Clean Coal" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    (Score:0, Troll)

    The president of North American Coal has mod points today. Fine, let's put you downstream from the mine, and then you can tell me how "clean" your coal is.

  6. Re:I'll believe it when I see it.. on Energy Secretary Chu Endorses "Clean Coal" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's NO way this administration would ever actually do anything to support coal.

    Nonsense. They follow the money, just like any other. What is there that's convinced you otherwise?

  7. There's more to coal than just burning it on Energy Secretary Chu Endorses "Clean Coal" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Will "clean coal" provide health care for the miners? Will it eliminate those nasty, dangerous sludge ponds that occasionally break through their retaining walls? For some reason I doubt it.

  8. "Clean Coal" on Energy Secretary Chu Endorses "Clean Coal" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oxymoron of the century.

  9. If you're an IT guy on Online Storage For Lawyers? · · Score: 1

    Then you should know how dumb it would be to put any sensitive info online. The floppies are more secure.

  10. Re:fucking spics on Mexican Government To Document Cell Phone Use · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Spics are Puerto Ricans. Somos frijoleros guey!

  11. Ay, ay, ay, on Mexican Government To Document Cell Phone Use · · Score: 1

    no me gusta!

  12. Re:So? on Mexican Government To Document Cell Phone Use · · Score: 1

    We got computers now.

  13. Lots of transient workers on Mexican Government To Document Cell Phone Use · · Score: 5, Informative

    here where I live. I just pay them a hundred pesos to buy a chip for me. He'll be leaving town in a few months, and I got my phone. Repeat as needed. With a legitimate name and my phone is stolen, lots of luck defending yourself against false accusations here. Luckily the old system of "justice" is still in place. Una mordidita para las polis y ya.

  14. Conversely on Using Net Proxies Will Lead To Harsher Sentences · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anybody who goes about screaming, "HEY! Look at me! I'm doing something you don't like!" on the net, with a camera broadcasting your face, name ,and address, will receive a letter of commendation and a gold star from the president.

  15. Re:levitation on Flying Micro-Robot Takes Off · · Score: 1

    Is a glider flying when it's being pulled behind a powered craft?

    Is the powered craft flying when it's being pulled behind the engine? Got any more award winning questions?

  16. Re:Bit obvious on Twitter Gets Slammed By the StalkDaily XSS Worm · · Score: 1

    ...worms or viruses or any code of a destructive nature.

    Is it a good worm, or a bad worm? Only bad worms are destructive

  17. Re:Sad reality on Closing Time At Microsoft's Campus Pub · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good Mormons know the 10 commandments, one of which is "Though shalt not Judge...".

    Which one is that? Were you privy to the entire set?

  18. I hope he has a contract on Closing Time At Microsoft's Campus Pub · · Score: 1

    ...to beat them over the head with to get his investment back. And in reference to the other post, they could always move the unemployment office into its place.

  19. Re:How about other democracies? on The Net — Democratic Panacea Or Autocratic Tool? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...how do you explain the psychopaths who currently wield power...

    Because when we were children our parents would beat us if they caught us playing with ourselves..

  20. Re:How about other democracies? on The Net — Democratic Panacea Or Autocratic Tool? · · Score: 1

    "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill

  21. So what happens on "Tweenbots" Test NYC Pedestrian-Robot Relations · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...if you put a squeegee and a tin can in its claw?

  22. Re:2% were lost... on Finnish Court Dismisses E-Voting Result · · Score: 4, Funny

    Depends how well they were "calibrated"...

  23. Re:Russia? on The Net — Democratic Panacea Or Autocratic Tool? · · Score: 1

    Is this similar to the Wall Street bigwigs that are or were in the president's cabinet, and all the way up to VP, or lobbying congressional committees with lavish gifts? Autocracy is not confined within anybody's borders.

  24. Re:Calibrate Per Use? on Voting Machines and 'Calibration Drift' · · Score: 1

    I don't know if a pencil will work on a touch screen.

  25. In other words on Sharing Lives As Stories On the Web · · Score: 0

    More creative data mining. No thanks.