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  1. My braid on New Wheel of Time Book — Chapter One Online, Released Oct 27 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm tugging it.

  2. Re:Democratic? on The "Copyright Black Hole" Swallowing Our Culture · · Score: 0, Troll

    There's only one choice: A and B are both "Priveleged White Fatcat Oligarchy Party".

  3. Quotation Marks on New Hitchhiker's Guide Book "Not Very Funny" · · Score: 1

    They're in the wrong places in the summary. (As of this comment.)

  4. Soft Drink Ingredients on Suitable Naming Conventions For Workstations? · · Score: 1

    With one or two exceptions the Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo uses these.

  5. Re:I ran out of names for my workstation on Suitable Naming Conventions For Workstations? · · Score: 1

    What about versine and friends?

  6. Da Vinci on Genetic Mutation Enables Less Sleep · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe ol' Leonardo had this. I hear tell of him sleeping only in short bursts so he could have more time to do awesome shit.

  7. Re:Surprised? on $18M Contract For Transparency Website Released — But Blacked Out · · Score: 1

    You're thinking of direct democracy. It's a misconception that a representative democracy and a republic are mutually incompatible.

  8. People still watch TV? on Shaw Cable Again Blocks Firewire On Canadian Set-Top Boxes · · Score: 0, Redundant

    When is it going to go away?

  9. What crime makes them criminals? on The Outing of Pranknet · · Score: 0

    The worst I can think of would be harassment, mischief, and maybe some kind of impersonation. Do you seriously think they'll go to jail for any of that? The people who destroyed thousands of dollars' worth of property were the braindead idiots who were targeted by the calls, not the members of PrankNet. They trashed hotel rooms and so forth of their own accord, no one made them do anything.

  10. Re:Free Energy, woo! on Printable Batteries Should Arrive Next Year · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Even if this were plausible, you'd be ignoring the energy it takes to run the photocopier.

  11. Re:I don't get it... on Apple's Schiller Responds To iPhone Dictionary App Fiasco · · Score: 2, Informative

    Technically, a dictionary lists the definitions of words. It assumes you already know how to spell them.

  12. Band-aid solution on School System Considers Jamming Students' Phones · · Score: 1

    If kids were involved and interested in their own education with good curricula and competent teachers, they would be to busy learning to text their BFF Jill.

  13. Stick to physics, Hawking. on Hawking Says Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution · · Score: 1

    Social Science is not a science.

  14. Re:LaTeX on HTML Tags For Academic Printing? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Most distributions of LaTeX come with some way to compile it and export to PDF, which is both portable and readable.

  15. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Canada Considering Online Voting In Elections · · Score: 1

    They're spooky.

  16. Re:Now... on Liberal Party of Canada Comes Out In Support of Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    They may be a slight hassle, but it's the only way to get rid of Harper (coalition hijinx not withstanding).

  17. Socialise it on Bill Ready To Ban ISP Caps In the US · · Score: 1

    The Telcos will continue to screw their customers as hard and long as they can. They're all more or less the same, so you can't really improve your situation by changing service providers. As the Internet becomes more and more a necessary utility for the average citizen (consider how many government services are now on the Internet), it becomes the government's responsibility to ensure everyone can have a good, fast, un-capped and un-throttled Internet connection that is within the financial reach of even those below the poverty line. Internet at public libraries just doesn't cut it anymore. Wait, nevermind. I forgot, you Americans can't stand to pay any taxes at all.

  18. Re:Blimps maybe? on Analysis Says Planes Might Be Greener Than Trains · · Score: 1

    *checks watch* ZEPPELIN!

  19. Re: "Now What?" on You've Dropped Your Landline — Now What? · · Score: 1

    Drop your cell too. One less bill, no irritating interruptions, harder for the Feds to violate your privacy. Just leave the copper alone.

  20. Use... on Keeping a PC Personal At School? · · Score: 1

    Tinfoil Hat Linux. If no one but you can see what's on your screen, no one will want to use your laptop.

  21. Re:Dear Bruce... on Let's Rename Swine Flu As "Colbert Flu" · · Score: 1

    That will reinforce the fundamentalist/extremist tendency to declare anything that causes loss of life "God's divine retribution, come to cleanse the world of heathens", or whatever.

  22. Re:What's the Klingon phrase for... on Klingons Cut From Final Star Trek XI Movie · · Score: 1
  23. Re:What's the Klingon phrase for... on Klingons Cut From Final Star Trek XI Movie · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's totally ungrammatical. It is "yIn tItlhap". Leave the Klingon to people who know what they're talking about.

  24. Re:We should not let this happen. on Archive Team Is Busy Saving Geocities · · Score: 1

    Someone didn't read the article.

  25. Typo on Amazon Culls "Offensive" Books From Search System · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Typo in summary: "there" should be "their".