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  1. Or it exploded when the hydrazine-powered thrusters fired.

    In which case it landed over a wider than anticipated area.

  2. Re:There is evidence that... on ESA Lander's Signal Cut Out Just Before It Was Supposed To Land on Mars (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Jees man, a few phones burned up, from the way you people go on you'd think they were selling people live grenades.

  3. There's a good reason for that.

    That they've attempted it it a shit load more times?

  4. under control of an autopilot transforming the joystick inputs into a restricted space of movements.

    Lots of things, practically everything almost these days has fly-by-wire. Or are you saying you don't fly an f-16 or boeing 737 or whatever? Because they all do that.

  5. He's a Space Nutter, to him a deadly radioactive vacuum is infinitely more hospitable than the surface of this planet. He probably also thinks Mars has abundant water and asteroids have centers made of chemically pure platinum...

    And I bet you think the earth is going to last forever and all it's resources are infinite.

  6. Re:The guy must have no life.. on Spanish Police Arrest Their First Ever eBook Pirate (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Says the person wasting their own life commenting on a fucking forum for dweebs!

    Says the person commenting on the very same forum?!

  7. Re:testing...for.. on DNA Testing For Jobs May Be On Its Way, Warns Gartner (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we're checking for the second coming.

  8. Re:testing...for.. on DNA Testing For Jobs May Be On Its Way, Warns Gartner (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Testing for jobs? WHAT JOBS?

    Steve Jobs

  9. Re:I.e. EAT SHIT AND DIE - RAPPER! on Ecuador Acknowledges Limiting Julian Assange's Web Access (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I wasn't aware he was accused of rapping on pre teens, isn't that more of a kanye west thing?

  10. What the hell does the Symbionese Liberation Army have to do with this?

    Everything, they have a huge stake in Omni Consumer Products.

  11. Re:We get vacation?? on Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Exact opposite here. For a general 9-5 if you turn up more than 10-15mins early it's suspicious and everyone is ready to rush out the door at 5 sharp.

  12. Re:Welp, back to pirating on More Unblocking Companies Give Up Their Fight Against Netflix (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Because theft is the taking without permission of an object (or certain types of data), denying the original owner it's use. That is the key distinction. In pirating content no one is denied anything. There's the argument of the lost sale but that doesn't really hold up. If it somehow worked that if when, I downloaded a film I had to find someone with a copy and it removed it from whoever I downloaded it from then I would say it's theft but it doesn't work like that. I'm not trying to say piracy is ok or anything, just it's not theft. If I could replicate any object in your house, and you let me despite not having the right to, and I indulged in that, would you say I'd stolen? That's the other distinction, this stuff has been offered, just not by the people who technically own it so if anything it's closer to handling stolen goods(copies of goods anyway).

  13. It's worse than that, they smoked while driving SUV's! Probably with kids in the back too, if you can imagine such horror.

  14. Wait no, venetian is venice. Ignore that bit.

  15. Just hope you don't pick up any Venerian Diseases then.

    Also it's Venetian.

  16. Re:Welp, back to pirating on More Unblocking Companies Give Up Their Fight Against Netflix (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree you've taken something, I don't agree, in this context, that's theft.

  17. Re:Fuck that! on London Insists on English Requirement For Private Hire Drivers (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    JohnnyCab v1.0

  18. Re:Welp, back to pirating on More Unblocking Companies Give Up Their Fight Against Netflix (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    No, theft is taking an object from someone without permission. This is copying a file without permission. Similar but distinct. You steal a dvd yeah but these aren't dvds.

  19. Re:Fuck that! on London Insists on English Requirement For Private Hire Drivers (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    My post was sarcastic. People working with a public should be able to speak the lingo passably. They require binmen in dover to have a french gcse...but that might not be true, I read it somewhere.

  20. Re:Welp, back to pirating on More Unblocking Companies Give Up Their Fight Against Netflix (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    After jumping through three hoops you can connect it literally. Look you can call it rape if you want but it's still copyright infringement which is different to theft as evidenced by them coming up with a whole new term for it.

  21. Fuck that! on London Insists on English Requirement For Private Hire Drivers (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    We don't need to communicate with our customers, their app already told us where they want to go AND the way, so pay up and shut up.

    Uber spokesperson

  22. Re:Facebook is not Twitter on No One Wants To Buy Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So does twitter not advertise or something? I only ever see tweets in isolation as screen grabs or whatever but I do wonder what their actual product is. Google and facebook, their product is you basically but not twitter?

  23. Re:Welp, back to pirating on More Unblocking Companies Give Up Their Fight Against Netflix (techspot.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yup, because you're entitled to someone else's work.

    Typical thief.

    Thief - Someone who makes a copy of something that someone won't sell to them.

    Is that how you're defining it now. Piracy has never, ever been thievery, at least since you stopped needing a boat and an eye patch anyway.

    Plenty of people went to netflix from the piratebay because it had all the content they wanted for one price. Was easy, convenient and fair. Yet with every step they erode that deal, one could say it's getting worse all the time. It might be ok in America where you have all the good content but try look out side where they charge more and give less. Australia gets a particularly raw deal as I understand it.

  24. Re:Hope you enjoy being broke on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What an entitled baby you are. Performers don't want people like you at their concerts anyway.

    They do want you to pay for the tickets though, and buy the dvd because apparently being funny only works once.

  25. Re:Simple explanation on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Or someone will upload the video to youtube or bittorent... where others will watch the show and guess what? Fewer ticket sales.

    Why, because they've seen a clip of it at phone quality and thought, wow, this guy isn't funny, glad I didn't waste my money on that shit?