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  1. Re:picking the sex is more evil on Fertility Clinic Bows To Pressure, Nixes Eye- and Hair-Color Screening · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, they should make it easy to do at the embryo stage so we don't get people leaving live babies to die in the dumpster.

  2. Re:I'm so sick of the American Congress on Climate Change Bill Includes IP Protections · · Score: 1

    but it some of those attachments are GOOD

    If they actually are good they can survive on their own merit. If they need to be a rider to get through, then by definition they aren't good enough to pass into law.

  3. Re:You are wrong. on The "Hidden" Cost Of Privacy · · Score: 1

    That is a government health care problem, not a privacy problem.

  4. Re:Unintended consequences on Broke Counties Turn Failing Roads To Gravel · · Score: 1

    Well, you know, this would never have happened if we had just kept the government out of the business of building and maintaining roads. If the roads had been owned by a private profit-making enterprise, then when the revenues from the road fare could no longer support their maintenance, they would have just been sold off at auction or something.

    Welcome to America Connected road services. To use our roads you must first get an account at America Connected Roads and sign up for one of the following plans:

    Basic (walking and non-motorized transport only, license for 1 person) $220 + $36/month
    Light (Vehicles below 2270 pounds or vehicles from America Connected partners below 4590 pounds, license for 1 vehicle) - $850 + $170/month
    Family (license for multiple vehicles for less than 9 people totaling less than 3940 pounds or multiple vehicles from America Connected partners totaling less than 11660 pounds) - $1940 + $490/month
    Trucker (license for 2 persons (3 persons if inside a vehicle from an America Connected partner), 1 vehicle, no weight limit) - $2250 + $490/month

    You must also agree to our license agreement:

    In exchange for a one-time fee and a fee per month, America Connected grants, depending on the specific plan, either one or more licensees (hereinafter "you") the right to use America Connected roads on any vehicle that satisfies the conditions, or the right for anyone to use America Connected roads on a licensed vehicle, or one or more licensees the right to use America Connected Roads on a vehicle that is licensed under the same agreement. You agree that the roads belong to America Connected and that America Connected may at any time discontinue any license agreement without refunding the initial fee or the unused portion of a fee for a month partially spent. You also agree that America Connected has the right to seize any vehicles, licensed or unlicensed, for any duration, for the purpose of improving safety on its roads, and also has the right to impose fines on anyone using its roads for the same purpose.

  5. Re:Flying Car Argument on Broke Counties Turn Failing Roads To Gravel · · Score: 1

    Deer 1: Look at the new flying cars those Americans created, now we can't get run over anymore!

    Deer 2: I know, and there aren't any more stupid roads to cross!

    Deer 1: Wait, I think I heard something.

    Deer 2: What?

    Deer 3: Look up!

    Deer 2: What? [splat]

    Deer 1: Crap, I forgot those people can barely avoid accidents on the ground, much less in the air where you can't see the lanes and they're at 500 kilometers per hour.

    Deer 3: Wait, how do you know all this about their cars?

    Deer 1: Um... the horse union?

  6. Re:almost 100%? on Better Tools For Disabled Geeks? · · Score: 1

    Nearly 130% of people will have difficult with basic arithmetic. And over 1% of people breath oxygen on a regular basis.

    And 200% of people make a spelling error in each comment.

  7. Re:Microsoft is doing what it's best at - Marketin on Does Bing Have Google Running Scared? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The word "best" does not mean "good", in this context it means "everything else [Microsoft does] is even worse"

  8. Re:Google and Firefox on YouTube, HTML5, and Comparing H.264 With Theora · · Score: 3, Informative

    Stop misquoting the motto! It's "don't be evil", not "do no evil". Google is just saying that they don't intend to screw over their own customers, not that they intend to become the moral custodian of justice for the entire world.

  9. Hmm, tough choice on Iran Moves To End "Facebook Revolution" · · Score: 5, Funny

    On one hand, we have the freedom and lives of millions of people. On the other hand we can help bring Twitter down. Tough choice...

  10. It was done with GIMPS on 47th Mersenne Prime Confirmed · · Score: 1

    I say the entire number was photoshopped.

  11. Re:Twitpocalypse? on Twitter "Twitpocalypse" Snags Mac, iPhone Apps · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just wait for the Twitargeddon. And then the Twapture. Hold on a sec, let me open up my trusty thesaurus. Twitastrophe. Twinihilation. Holotwaust. Twataclysm. Twitimation. End of the tworld. Don't let Elmer Fudd find out about this cause that would be a great big Twagedy!

  12. Re:Even if there are attacks on Blimps Monitor Crowds At Sporting Events · · Score: 1

    How the first round started has no relevance to the problems we are facing right now. It's like saying quarantining people is a bad idea because the first round of swine flu came from pigs, not people.

  13. Can we have the value? on 47th Mersenne Prime Confirmed · · Score: 1

    My calculator doesn't show it, anyone have the value of the prime?

  14. Re:Even if there are attacks on Blimps Monitor Crowds At Sporting Events · · Score: 0, Troll

    We want to catch them before they even become terrorists, by doing things like not sending troops to shoot up their homeland.

  15. Re:Bang! Pop. Crash. on Blimps Monitor Crowds At Sporting Events · · Score: 1

    If you poke a hole in anything but a hot-air balloon (which runs out of fuel eventually anyway, poking it will just make it run out faster), it will eventually leak out and fall to the ground.

  16. Why is this in the summary? on Dell Makes $3 Million From Twitter Sales · · Score: 1

    and employs proprietary software to track sales from users clicking through from Twitter links

    Seems like its only purpose is to invoke an anti-Dell sentiment by linking them to evil proprietary software.

  17. Re:hmm if it did blow on A Supervolcano Beneath Mt. St. Helens? · · Score: 1
    I think you mean:

    The force could be enough to take out 173 libraries of congress, regardless of what news was being digested by the CEO at the time.

  18. Re:Wait a second... on World Copyright Summit and the Lies of the Copyright Industry · · Score: 1

    I think he's talking about the aspect of it lasting forever, having no limitations, etc.

  19. Re:Eh, maybe. on Open Source Car — 20 Year Lease, Free Fuel For Life · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There are lots of "family" cars. This is a single-person oriented car.

  20. Re:700 pounds -- goodbye safety standards! on Open Source Car — 20 Year Lease, Free Fuel For Life · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And what if you need to go a long distance without carrying anything, like the majority of people that have long commutes to work?

  21. I read the subject line as... on Lucky Thirteen On the ISS · · Score: 3, Funny

    Lucky 13 using IIS

  22. Re:Need Another Seven Astronauts on Lucky Thirteen On the ISS · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're right, Europe except Switzerland is a country. Now that they surrounded Switzerland, they should just invade it so the map looks neater.

  23. Re:I belong to that pocket of math instructors... on Wolfram Alpha Rekindles Campus Math Tool Debate · · Score: 1

    It's a good way of teaching people how to minimize errors (eg. using originally given values as much as possible)

  24. Re:Sweet, let's try it out! on Wolfram Alpha Rekindles Campus Math Tool Debate · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, at least it knows what the world's population per capita is!

  25. Re:I don't see how this matters on Wolfram Alpha Rekindles Campus Math Tool Debate · · Score: 1

    Sage?