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  1. Re:Twice? on Indestructible Super Mug To Save Humanity · · Score: 1

    I thought the same thing, it will only work once. I assumed "Indestructible" meant always and not once. That would have made a very dull first edition Superman comic.

  2. 10 iPods? on iTunes Music Store hits Billionth Download · · Score: 1

    Is the idea to make a ring of iPods around your waist? How very Luke Skywalker-ish!

  3. Perfect to get around DRM on Quantum Computer Works Better Shut Off · · Score: 1

    Wow this would be a perfect way to get around DRM issues. Music and video you can watch without watching it, so technically you didn't break the law.

  4. Communication is not grammar on Literacy Limps Into the Kill Zone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Fine, if "u want 2 rite" like that I'm sure your friends will know what you mean. Try that when you need to apply for a job and see how far you get.

      Just because you don't care how people older than you speak doesn't mean you'll never interact with them. You don't have to have to be an English Professor but at least know how to spell!

      It's about communication not grammar.

  5. Is Google moving to Canada? on US Lawmakers to Keep Google Out of China? · · Score: 1

    So that means no countries that have the death penalty, make laws against gay marriage, euthanasia, marijuana, DRM etc.? If so I guess that's Canada!

  6. Land on Uranus on Should We Land on the Moon's Poles or Equator? · · Score: 1

    Forget the Moon or even Mars, I think we should land on Uranus! I bet people would pay to see that, you could make millions.

      Can you imagine being the first man on Uranus? Sure it's a gas giant, I say even better that Uranus is all gas. I wonder what momentus words would be spoken? Imagine being asked what it was like to walk on Uranus!

  7. First *African* slave on Remains of First African Slaves Found · · Score: 1

    The remains may or may not have been a slave, just because a person is a slave doesn't mean they were a black person from the continent of Africa. Not all black persons of African heritage were slaves, anyone can be a slave.

      A black African in the New World doesn't automatically mean they were a slave, maybe the person was great inventor or an adventurer and sailed over on a boat he made. Maybe he was one of the first few people to reach the New World (Vikings in ~1000AD). Maybe there were hundreds like him and not recorded in history.

      Not all people from Africa are black either, Arab people in the Northern part and (since the 1650's) Dutch in Southern end of Africa.

  8. Re:This gives me an idea... on Poor Spelling Beats Google's China Filter · · Score: 1

    I'm allergic to shellfish, so prawns wouldn't do because if I ate them I'd sweat, my heart would race, my chest would feel tight and....heyyyy! ;)

  9. Use a feather... on Google Working on Desktop Linux · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...to knock me down.

      Everyone was expecting this.

  10. Point Of No Return on Scientific Brain Linked to Autism · · Score: 1

    I've always wondered if not socializing when you were younger, would you be able to later in life. Like abused children who were locked away and never learned to speak, once you pass the point of no return your brain isn't able to do it.

  11. Re:wireless Email, I'm so confused! on RIM - The Whole Story · · Score: 1

    I'm going to patent the process of bringing food to your mouth when you eat something. I can't patent food or eating, just the in between movement part.

  12. Too many, voids a rebate. Tax not considered. on Best Buy Working Towards Ending Mail-in Rebates · · Score: 2, Informative

    Many of the rebates I've seen even have written on them that the company can refuse to send you a rebate if too many people send in rebates, they keep the money! There are many other conditions too.

      If you're buying a product and the clerk said too many people are in the line, I'm not giving you the 10% discount because there are too many people asking for it. I know what I'd do. RIP clerk.

      Also you have to consider taxes, the rebate you think you are getting is after taxes. You pay $100 for a product with a $50 rebate, the rebate you send in is *after* you purchase the item at $100. The item at $100 + 5% tax = $5 in tax, but if the rebate (like the ads imply, "$50 rebate!") took off $50 first it would be $50 + 5% = $2.50. Your $50 "rebate" is not only $47.50, minus the cost of the envelope and stamp to mail it and also your time and effort.

  13. Re:It's Not Enough on Best Buy Working Towards Ending Mail-in Rebates · · Score: 1

    Who is your Nero?

  14. Neutrino Detector at the South Pole? on Evidence for String Theory? · · Score: -1, Redundant

    When did they build a Neutrino Detector at the South Pole? More junk is being built there all the time. Why not the North Pole region of Canada, the US or Russia?

  15. Re: Normal for my employer on Training - A Company or a Worker's Responsibility? · · Score: 1

    Funny you should say that.
      One of the guards said to me, "We're like mushrooms, kept in the dark and fed bullshit."

  16. Normal for my employer on Training - A Company or a Worker's Responsibility? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm lucky if they tell me what day it is.

  17. Mirror? on Homemade Digital Cameras · · Score: 0

    Slashed and dugg :(

  18. Re:Pennies are not copper anymore on Earth's Copper Supply Inadequate For Development? · · Score: 1

    "One of my insider mining newsletters that I subscribe to "

    You need to get out more.

  19. Butt Keyboard on Keyboards Are Disgusting · · Score: 1

    The logical conclusion is to make a keyboard that you use your butt to type with.

  20. It's just a tool, it can't think! on What Should People Understand About Computers? · · Score: 1

    It's a tool for doing something.

      A hammer is used to pound nails into wood. If the hammer hits your thumb it's your fault, the hammer can't think, it didn't do it because you looked at it funny (well maybe in this example it could have!).

      A computer system is an information tool. If you lose your data it's your fault, the computer system can't think, it didn't do it because you looked at it funny.

      A tool will only do what the person using it makes it do.

  21. Hmmm spying on own citizens on China Declares War on Internet Pornography · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Cracking down of pornography, wiretapping its own citizens' communications without a warrant.

      Wait a minute! Where have I heard the same thing recently?

  22. Re:Monsanto seeds in Canada on GM Crops Create Herbicide-resistant "Superweed" · · Score: 1

    Yes but isn't that chilling?

      You find some seeds on the road, and they are a hardy variety. You being a farmer needing all the help you can get use this new breed. How was he supposed to know it was a copyrighted organism? If Monsanto seed is flying off trucks onto the road, whose fault is that?

      It's like writing an amazing novel and throwing it in the back of your truck, it blows out onto the road and someone publishes it. If it was nuclear waste I'm sure it would have been a problem. If it is so valuable, shouldn't the owner be more careful?

      It's pretty sad when you are afraid to grow a plant because it may have come from some lab and somehow got into your garden.

      It's like the DMCA for plants.

  23. Monsanto seeds in Canada on GM Crops Create Herbicide-resistant "Superweed" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm no bongo playing, bandana wearing hippy with dreadlocks but Genetically Modified (GM) seeds have caused at least one incredibly unjustified lawsuits here in Canada.

        A farmer's field had some Monsanto seed mixed in with the farmer's regular seed (probably from a nearby field, seed in manure fertilizer...whatever). He was sued by Monsanto (I think they have a new name), and they won. I forget the details but I think it was similar to copyright infringement or pirating, because they owned the organism that someohow got into his field.

      How they could tell which plants were their's among the millions of others, is creepy.

  24. Re:Who made that name up? on New Uranus Moons and Rings Discovered · · Score: 1

    Greek God of the sky? So you look up into the sky and all you see is his ....

  25. Re:Wait, WTF??!?!?!? on Little Red Book Draws Government Attention · · Score: 1