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  1. Re:There's more to electricity than lighting. on African Villages Glow With Renewable Energy · · Score: 2

    Lanterns need fuel, available only after several hours of traveling and paying up several middlemen and they burn toddlers and risk burning the whole house or village down.

    Wait, wait... They burn toddlers in Kenya for fuel? Man that's harsh :(

  2. Re:Except it happens with real products too on Amazon Fake Products and Fake Reviews · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the internet!

  3. Re:Owner? on Explosive-Laden California Home To Be Destroyed · · Score: 1

    A ruptured gas main doesn't explode. It *does* however, make your pitiful backyard bonfires envious of its 150-foot length.

  4. Re:Democrats loved the Pentagon Papers on Compiling the WikiLeaks Fallout · · Score: 1

    Bull. Being 'honest' doesn't mean you lack tact, it means you don't lie. Tell her you prefer another dress, tell her she's beautiful, tell her you're glad you married her. Politicians should be adept at avoiding the question. Lying just makes you look stupid and destroys credibility when it's discovered.

  5. Re:Wow. on 200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant · · Score: 1

    That's not pretty cool at all. What he admitted to by offering such a compromise was that he had no way of identifying or proving who cheated. It's the same way parents deal with young children, and cops deal with student criminals: "Is there something you'd like to tell us? We know what you did, even though we won't tell you exactly what you did... but we're here to help. Just tell us what you did so we can figure out how to deal with it." Yeah, right.

    So *that* explains why the state never plea bargains when they have evidence against a subject! And here I thought that plea bargains were useful to reduce uncertainty in a case (since you can't always predict the judge/jury's reaction) and reduce the cost to the judicial system. Silly me...

  6. Re:Stand by... on On Several Fronts, US Gov't Prepares To Regulate Online Privacy · · Score: 1

    Hey! That's not what schizophrenic means! You should instead have said "Does the US government appear to have dissociative identity disorder? Oh yes."

    You're just mad because the voices talk to ME!

  7. Re:right to not incriminate yourself? on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: 1

    Uh, no. No, no no. They're not asking, 'Where did you hide the bodies?' They're saying, 'Let us look for bodies in places only you have access to.' Totally different question.

  8. Re:Privacy for 99% of people doesn't exist on Introducing the Invulnerable Evercookie · · Score: 1

    Privacy has a *very* important aspect other than just hiding our little indescretions: It helps ensure the right to free speech.
    It allows people to criticize their community without being ostracized.
    It allows people to criticize their police or government without being imprisioned.
    It allows people to criticize corporations without fear of reprisal.
    If you can be distinctly indentified, you can be prosecuted/sued, regardless of whether or not you broke the law.

  9. Re:hot soup? on The Sun's 'Quiet Period' Explained · · Score: 1

    No soup for you!

  10. Re:The market has spoken on Larry Ellison Rips HP Board a New One · · Score: 1

    'The market' as you call it, is short sighted and lacks vision. It doesn't take into account how this firing can set a precedent for future executive characteristics at HP.

  11. Re:When I started here all there was was ash! on Giant Guatemalan 'Sinkhole' Is Worse Than We Thought · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the third capital http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigua_Guatemala has already fallen down. The fourth capital was supposed to stay up!

  12. Re:Pacific NorthWest? on Pacific Northwest At Risk For Mega-Earthquake · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? You're like the guy who put Tiki masks in the Pacific exhibit at the museum instead of redwood trees and salmon fishing!

  13. Re:Yet another reason... on Pacific Northwest At Risk For Mega-Earthquake · · Score: 1

    Buh? I don't think you know what you're talking about. The trees *are* growing back! Some of them are over 10 feet tall. The issue is that Mt. St. Helens' forests were douglas fir and other conifers. It's only been 30 years and they take a lot longer to grow back than poplars.

  14. Re:Wall Street Steals the Best and the Brightest on Stock Market Sell-Off Might Stem From Trader's Fat Finger · · Score: 1

    ... Think of the children!

  15. Inaccurate picture on Spider-Man Foils Comic Book Thief · · Score: 2, Informative

    The picture attached of the fat man in a poorly-made Spider-Man costume doesn't do justice to the actual costume in the linked article.

  16. Re:Yeah, right. on The 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors · · Score: 1

    Ahem. http://xkcd.com/327/ The only character that *might* be wrong is the ; You've *got* to be looking for the wrong input as well.

  17. Re:And In Unrelated News... on Obama Kicks Off Massive Science Education Effort · · Score: 1

    So you prefer to punish the kids simply because their parents are morons? The purpose of tax credits for households with children is to provide something for the kids. Hopefully a full-time at-home parent, but that appears to be going away quickly. Just because some people abuse the system doesn't mean it isn't effective...

  18. Re:Throttle Position Sensor on Toyotas Suddenly Accelerate; Owners Up In Arms · · Score: 1

    I think you need to write a TPS report on this issue. Don't forget the cover sheet.

  19. Re:Why this is hard for me to believe on BSA Says 41% of Software On Personal Computers Is Pirated · · Score: 1
    Did you even read your comment?

    Practically all PCs sell with windows installed. This does not raise the price of a PC very much. So why risk the lawsuits from the BSA, why fight with all the DRM.

    Putting a new version of windows on an old PC does not usually make sense from a technological perspective. Windows just keeps getting more bloated, and resource intensive.

    You pirate old versions of Windows, if you're going to pirate Windows at all! Maybe you get an old PC without the install disks because you don't need a powerhouse machine. There's no way to get Win98 through Microsoft. You've got to get it second hand or pirated.

  20. Compare classics with knock-offs on What Belongs In a High School Sci-Fi/Fantasy Lit Class? · · Score: 1

    In my favorite English class, we read "Jane Eyre" and an early Harlequinn romance. Our teacher challenged us to explain why one was a classic and the other was smut. It was surprisingly difficult!