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  1. Just pay alcoholics to breed on Scientist Seeks Investment For "Alcohol Substitute" · · Score: 1

    I don't get hangovers. This is a genetic trait, shared by many serious alcoholics (rather than just opportunist ones like pop-stars), related to the balance between different alcohol-processing metabolic pathways in my body.

    If you are interested in my genes, send me some money and your address, and I can stick a sample in an envelope for you. Group discounts negotiable. If you all accidentally raise sociopaths, or in fact if anything at all happens, I take no responsibility at all.

  2. Re:Godwinned in One Post on MPAA Backs Anti-Piracy Curriculum For Elementary School Students · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the infamous Bellamy Salute.

  3. Re:When is American Thanksgiving? on China's "Singles Day" Is the World's Biggest Online Shopping Blitz · · Score: 1

    I had to google it, not having seen more than half an episode of the show myself.

    I remember hearing about /The Contest/ (S4E11) when it first came to the UK. Making that show was allegedly an interesting challenge - an entire show about giving up maturbation using nothing but euphemisms and presumptions about what would happen next or had just happened. I just grabbed a torrent of it and to be honest, watched it end-to-end. It was funny, laugh-out-loud funny in places, even if low-brow (sue me) and a bit too New-York-Jewish stereotyped (even the two "Costanza"s are way more Jewish than Italian - who did the casting?!??! (and don't mention that annoying English bint who played Marla, she's can't hold her accent even to within about a 200 mile radius)). Of course, perhaps I was finding the formula "fresh", not having really seen much before. Of course, however, that episode is held up as being the best it's ever been, so that says nothing about the typical episode.

    I'm not gonna bother downloading any others.

  4. Re:When is American Thanksgiving? on China's "Singles Day" Is the World's Biggest Online Shopping Blitz · · Score: 1

    Whither should I "get out" such that I can see Seinfeld reruns there?

  5. Re:I believe the article title is incorrect. on Apple Developing Curve Screen iPhones and Improved Sensors · · Score: 1

    Paging Lucy Koh, paging Lucy Koh, time to wield your magical gavel again...

  6. Re:Which company bought this 'new' rule? on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 1

    Some cancers even have better-developed teeth than many the blobs of biomass that get aborted.

  7. Re:Which company bought this 'new' rule? on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 1

    > an innocent child's right to life

    So biology education is as bad in the US as we suspected? I hate to break it to you, but mommies don't carry "children" around in their tummies. At the modal abortion age, the embryo, which isn't even yet termed a foetus, is barely distinguishable from seafood.

  8. Re:Which company bought this 'new' rule? on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 1

    > it's more often about about quality of life.

    Yup, I'm looking to move into a bigger place, and I can confirm that the property prices for flats and houses with fireplaces is higher than for ones without. In fact, the main property portal includes "fireplace" as one of its search criteria, they're so in demand.

  9. Re:TFS couldn't even mention ONE example? on Wikimedia Launches Beta Program To Test Upcoming Features · · Score: 1

    So the accurate phrase isn't "bated breath" then?
    Someone should tell Shakespeare, before he writes anything stupid and wrong like this:

    . Shall I bend low and in a bondman's key,
    . With bated breath and whispering humbleness, Say this;

  10. Re:All your accounts are belong to us. on Feedly Forces Its Users To Create Google+ Profiles · · Score: 1

    What if I comment with something in that circle (whatever that is), and someone in that circle replies with something he wants to be public? Does the outside world just see half of a conversation?

  11. Re:How about just battery fires also? on Tesla Fires and Firestorms: Let's Breathe and Review Some Car Fire Math · · Score: 1

    So it all boils down to whether Tesla drivers are likely to want to light their own farts?

  12. Re:Give me a break. on The NSA Is Looking For a Few Good Geeks · · Score: 1

    They're not cracking 256-bit encryption. They don't need to. They're cracking key exchange.

  13. Re:Because plastic is for pansies on Solid Concepts Manufactures First 3D-Printed Metal Pistol · · Score: 1

    Wrong. That's exactly my point. There are "violent crimes" in the UK that are not "violent crimes" in the US. Please engange brain before replying again.

  14. Re:Because plastic is for pansies on Solid Concepts Manufactures First 3D-Printed Metal Pistol · · Score: 1

    > That's over 2,000 violent crimes per 100,000 citizens as compared to the USs 466 per 100,000

    That's over 2,000 fruits per 100,000 citizens in the UK, but 466 bananas per 100,000 in the US. You're still more bananas - the UK keeps records of way more types of fruit.

  15. Re:Thank you on Taking Google's QUIC For a Test Drive · · Score: 5, Insightful

    > reliable UDP protocol

    You want a reliable *unreliable* datagram protocol protocol?
    Sounds like something guaranteed to fail.

    Everyone tries to reinvent TCP. Almost always they make something significantly worse. This is no exception.

  16. Re:they can ASK him to change it on Canonical Targets Ubuntu Privacy Critic · · Score: 1

    # Just ask the computer:

    $ aptitude why linux
    Unable to find a reason to install linux.

    # fortunately, I already have it installed, and it also says:

    $ aptitude why-not linux
    Unable to find a reason to remove linux.

  17. Re:They can always ask? on Canonical Targets Ubuntu Privacy Critic · · Score: 1

    Just because they haven't said "or we will kneecap you and your children", doesn't mean that their request is a polite one. It is a demand. A legal demand from a legal entity. A legal entity who doesn't have a clue how the internet works: "we request you to remove Ubuntu word from you domain name"

    Is it time for a "ubuntu are cunts" googlebomb?

  18. Re:And the response is... on Canonical Targets Ubuntu Privacy Critic · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hereby release the script at the following link, and the output image it created, into the public domain:

    http://fatphil.org/linux/goatsebuntu.html

    In the words of Crowley, with them you may do what thou wilt.

  19. Re:It followed a few of the plot lines, but ... on Critics Reassess Starship Troopers As a Misunderstood Masterpiece · · Score: 1

    You're not saying mistakes were made, are you?

  20. Re:The Only Good Bug is a Dead Bug. on Critics Reassess Starship Troopers As a Misunderstood Masterpiece · · Score: 2

    Like what "Type O Negative" did for goth music - they simply became what they were parodying.

  21. Re:Even I can't crack these... on Researchers Dare AI Experts To Crack New GOTCHA Password Scheme · · Score: 2

    G/f says it's "clown with a knife", but I think she had a scarred childhood.

  22. Re:Even I can't crack these... on Researchers Dare AI Experts To Crack New GOTCHA Password Scheme · · Score: 1

    Nope, that's a classic "Lesbian Bloodbath" image if there ever was one. Quite how to distinguish it from the other 9 Lesbian Bloodbath images is the tricky thing.

  23. Re:Walled Garden: One brick at a time.... on Google To Block Local Chrome Extensions On Windows Starting In January · · Score: 1

    Nah, my Blackberry keeps running out of juice...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG39jKi0lI

  24. Re:Oh christ... on Edward Snowden Leaks Could Help Paedophiles Escape Police, Says UK Government · · Score: 1

    Curiously, it seems that both pray and prey entered English from an Old-French "preier". However, evidence seems to imply that the French had two words with the same spelling, as the tracks lead back in two separate directions.

  25. Re:Stay behind the line! on Anonymous Clashes With D.C. Police During Million Mask March · · Score: 1

    My US g/f still has tax liability there, even though she left over 15 years ago. She can't earn too much here, or she'll start having to pay double tax.