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  1. I have an idea on Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming · · Score: 1

    You see, global warming is exacerbated by the inefficient fuel-burning capabilities of robots. So if we have all the robots gather on an island and make them all fart in unison, this should put a big dent in global warming. The rest we can solve by dropping a giant ice cube in the ocean. I can't remember where I heard about this but it sounds foolproof.

  2. Re:Chiropractic treatment worked for me on Trick or Treatment · · Score: 2, Funny

    I agree -- I once had pinkeye. My eye doctor told me that I would have to take eye drops for a couple of weeks before the irritation would go away, and that I might experience irritation again a year or two down the road if I continued using my eyes. Screw that! I contacted a surgeon and had him remove my eyes completely; I haven't had any eye issues since.

  3. Re:Not astonishingly suprising... on Hacked Business Owner Stuck With $52k Phone Bill · · Score: 1

    In similar light I knew a cardiologist a few years back who died of heart failure.

    Aren't most deaths ultimately attributable to "heart failure"?

  4. Re:Newegg Special Price! on Toshiba To Launch First 512GB Solid State Drive · · Score: 1

    Who the hell cares? It's just stupid to lend money without interest; you don't need a holy book to figure that one out.

  5. Re:Hmmm.... on Scientists Find Hole In Earth's Magnetic Field · · Score: 2, Funny

    If global warming is presumably caused by SUVs, what are holes in the magnetic field caused by? Too many cell phones?

    No; it's from an attempt to create a magnetic field that uses twenty percent less magnetism; they create holes that cover 20% of the field. It's known as the Eco-Magnetic field.

  6. Re:So what? on Plethora of New User Space Filesystems For Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    And Macs don't run linux?

    They probably don't if the CEO doesn't want them to.

  7. Re:Not every part of the world is in a city on 100 Years Ago, No Free Broadband Pneumatic Tubes · · Score: 1

    So what? Let the farmers watch their porn at 2400 baud. I don't need their damn vegetables anyway. I'll hunt squirrels for my sustenance!!

  8. four-pin port tyranny on Realtek's Wireless Driver Drives Thoughts of an Apple Netbook · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's true, and thanks to Apple, we are spared the wrath of these genocidal monsters. Four pin firewire has led to the deaths of countless thousands while millions of others slowly starve in the death camps. Thankfully Apple put an end to these Pinochets-in-plastic when they built the new MacBook without the four-pin port. Remember, folks, first they came for the floppy drive, but I did not speak out, because I didn't like floppy disks at all. Then they came for USB 1.1 but I did not speak out because I'm actually fond of faster protocols. Now that they are coming for these Little Eichmanns I can only jump for joy. Apple macht frei!!!

  9. Capitalization? on openSUSE Launches 11.1 · · Score: 1

    When did it become SUSE instead of SuSE? DuDE!!

  10. Re:Fresh Set of GOP Numbers on McCain Campaign Sells Info-Loaded Blackberry PDAs · · Score: 1

    No, not "simply for engaging the candidate in a discussion," but rather, simply for becoming the posterboy and centerpiece of the other candidate's entire campaign. They mentioned Joe the Plumber more times during the last debate than they mentioned "America." Damn right the media investigated him, as well they should have. Sucks for him, but he shouldn't have lied his ass off in the first place.

  11. Re:What's in a name... on Intel Developers Demo USB 3.0 Throughput On Linux · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is 2009 the year of the Flash?

    Indeed. On the desktop!!

  12. you're still right on Nobel Prize Winning Physicist As Energy Secretary · · Score: 1

    He just added that sentence to Wikipedia before posting his comment.

  13. not a "child porn" image on IWF Backs Down On Wiki Censorship · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's get it right; the IWF didn't say the page was porn; they said it was "potential illegal child sexual abuse." Most people seem to have assumed this was because the album cover artwork on the Wikipedia page included an image of a naked girl, but the reality is that IWF only wanted to protect children from the horrors of having to listen to anything released by the Scorpions.

  14. Re:I read her entire email on Student Faces Suspension For Spamming Profs · · Score: 4, Funny

    It was well written, not off topic, and expressed a reasonable concern

    Well then it probably should never be posted to slashdot.

  15. Outlaw Sugar Now! on Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? · · Score: 1

    No one has held up banks or killed people for sugar before. No sir, the major difference is that drugs are extremely addictive. Far more than sugar or fat ever will be.

    Not true. In the Napoleonic Wars, access to sugar was successfully used as a weapon. And thousands of slaves were killed during the rise of the sugar trade, a direct result of our desire to harvest and market this deadly white powder. Why, just a few months ago, 14 workers were killed by a blast of sugar.

    To paraphrase Nancy Reagan: The casual user may think when he licks his lollipop or spoons a dollop of the devil's carbohydrate into his tea in the privacy of his nice condo, listening to his expensive stereo, that he's somehow not bothering anyone. But there is a trail of death and destruction that leads directly to his door. I'm saying that if you're a casual sugar user, you are an accomplice to murder.

  16. Re:shrooms not acid on Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? · · Score: 1

    If they "experienced permanent brain damage," they were taking something other than LSD. Frankly I don't see the rationale for legalizing only "natural" drugs. Where does mescaline fit into your little schema? It's chemically the same substance as the active ingredient in the peyote cactus, whcih would presumably be legal in your system, but it's made in a lab. Is it too "unstable"? And if you would keep cocaine illegal, what about unprocessed coca leaves?

  17. Re:I wouldn't hold my breath on Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? · · Score: 1

    I know of no one who wants drugs who can't find them.

    Sir, I couldn't help but overhear your conversation. Would you help a gentleman find some weed?

  18. Re:I'm Confused Why We Don't See This En Masse on German Gov't Donates 100,000 Images To Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    To be fair, the US government rule that works by government employees are not copyrighted has provided for a lot of free images used on Wikipedia. European governments, for example, are much more restrictive about copyrights.

    Actually, that's just because Europeans are better photographers.

  19. Re:Fortunately or unfortunately on German Gov't Donates 100,000 Images To Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    I don't know about public domain, but certainly the unrestricted use of such images should be permitted under "fair use" provisions of any sane copyright law. Like the image of the American flag raised out of the rubble of the WTC, or the image of the naked Vietnamese girl running to escape the bombing, or the image of the firefighter saving a small child from the wreckage of the Oklahoma Federal building -- these images are all copyrighted but there's no way the copyright holders would be able to prevent their use in an encyclopedia or other work of scholarship or commentary.

  20. Re:L Ron? on Forry Ackerman Dead At 92 · · Score: 3, Funny

    he doesn't even seem like that great of a sci-fi author. i mean, DC-8s? really? that's the best design he could come up with for an intergalactic ship?

    He was going to use DC-10s but he was worried because of the cargo door problem.

  21. missing from the summary on World's Oldest Marijuana Stash Found · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The 789 grams of dried cannabis was buried alongside a light-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian man, likely a shaman of the Gushi culture, near Turpan in northwestern China. The man had a very large smile on his face."

  22. Re:Hmm yeah... on Oil Exploration Leads To Video of a Mysterious Elbowed Squid · · Score: 1

    just use more shirachi

  23. Re:So what? on What The Banned iPhone Ad Should Really Look Like · · Score: 1

    you have to keep your penis in an Apple carrying case?

  24. Re:It's your fault on AIX On the Desktop Is Getting the Boot · · Score: 1

    One things for sure - there was no profit there.

    But there was plenty of ???

  25. OK laugh but on AIX On the Desktop Is Getting the Boot · · Score: 1

    My first thought on seeing A|X was that this article was about sitting back in your chair and putting your Armani Exchange boots on the desktop.