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  1. Re:Other criterion on Pocket PC vs. Palm Showdown · · Score: 1
    It's so strange how people can misread things, Jesus...

    Excuse me, I couldn't help noticing, but...are you talking to Jesus?

  2. Re:Duh on Genetic Research In The Heart of Amish Country · · Score: 1

    Be careful out among the English, Ishmael.

  3. Re:Pineapple! on Possible Breakthroughs in Cancer and AIDS Research · · Score: 1

    On a side note, Steve Case, beloved founder of AOL, is a majority shareholder in America's largest producer of pineapples.

  4. Re:I for one... on Guitarists, your Days are Numbered · · Score: 1

    You misspelled "Frank Zappa".

  5. Re:Days are numbered? on Guitarists, your Days are Numbered · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yngwie Malmsteen is a pretty mechanical guitarist, so I'd think he'd be easy to emulate - just teach it to play E harmonic minor scales in 32nd notes at 160 bpm. If the thing can play like Howlin' Wolf or David Gilmour or Frank Zappa, then I'll be impressed.

  6. Re:But... on 38,000-year-old Human Footprints in Mexico · · Score: 3, Informative

    Parent poster misspoke. The Bible implies the age of the Earth is about 6000 years, and our friend James Ussher worked it out that the Earth was created the evening before October 23, 4004 B.C. So stop blaspheming, you filthy heathen, lest I strike you down in the name of our peace-preaching Lord.

  7. Re:hardwood on The Grinch Who Patented Christmas · · Score: 1

    Sure. Christmas trees have balls, so why can't they get erections?

  8. Re:A new record for Slashdot? on CNN Interviews with Harlan Ellison, Bruce Sterling · · Score: 1

    Holiday? Are you talking about July 4th? Do you think the entire world celebrates the anniversary of America gaining independence from England?

  9. Re:address lookup? on Google Releases API for Google Maps · · Score: 1

    Grab the zipcodes database from the CivicSpace Labs project and look up lat/lon against user-supplied zipcodes.

  10. Re:Dup Fusion on France to Be Site of World's First Nuclear Fusion · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does't work that way. /. stories are a fissionable material; that's why you seem them more than once.

  11. Re:Is it just me, or couldn't posts about Dev thin on Eclipse 3.1 Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    He meant it was written on java...lots of java. That's how they release those milestone builds on time.

  12. Re:This is so last week's news on SUSE Linux 9.3 FTP Version Released · · Score: 2

    Here's one with the DVD, the 5 CDs and a modified DVD of only 32-bit stuff.

  13. Re:Some of us... on Tetherless Wireless · · Score: 1

    And some of us would be happy with 400-700 kbps pipe in our ass. Oh, did I say that out loud?

  14. Re:The Fundamental Problem on Orlando Cancels Free WiFi Project · · Score: 1
    As someone once said, "If you build it, they will come."

    You're wrong. No one ever said that.

  15. Re:Sorry AOL on AOL Hopes to Change Image With Services · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Like Nokia. They started out making rubber boots and toilet paper.

  16. Re:Sorry AOL on AOL Hopes to Change Image With Services · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, this is just a typical AOL "Me too!" response.

  17. Re:Hmm on Apple Sued Over iTunes UI · · Score: 1

    The patent was filed in 1996. RTFPF.

  18. Re:Be agressive. on After College, What Type of Jobs Should One Seek? · · Score: 1

    Conversely, it could also show you have a very low estimate of your own worth, as a person and an employee.

  19. Re:Suggestions on Agile Web Development with Ruby on Rails · · Score: 1
    I've worked with Plone since almost their outset, and have gone from being an evangelist to a detractor.

    Can you enlighten us as to why you are now a detractor? I like Plone and I wonder what would turn you off to it.

  20. Re:Such hypocrisy. on Tor Named One of the Year's Best Products · · Score: 1

    Dude probably also thinks Gandhi is a Native American.

  21. Re:How about... on Tor Named One of the Year's Best Products · · Score: 1
    ...the current popular political party (currently the Dems in the USA).

    Either you've never been to the USA, or you spelled 'Republicans' wrong. Democrats are vilified and hated here (for good reasons - they're almost as bad as Republicans, only they act all wishy-washy about it).

  22. Re:why the new series sucks on 7-Year Old Prequel Fan On ANH · · Score: 1

    C. S. Lewis leaned towards starting with The Magician's Nephew, though he was less inclined towards violence (as you seem to be) if someone were to choose another order. On a side note, Clive Staples Lewis died on 1963-11-22, the same day the American president John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot. Perhaps JFK had recently read The Magician's Nephew without having read the five preceding books?

  23. Re:"Filling station"? on Firefox Deer Park Alpha Available · · Score: 1

    No, they're two-letter capitals only. The other way is how grandma writes it.

  24. Re:Translating now... hold on.... on Stanford Accelerator Uncovers Archimedes' Text · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's probably more like:

    Dear diary...I am SOOOOOOO embarrassed!!!!! OMG!!! I was like bathing today and like came up with this bitchin' idea about buoyancy and TOTALLY forgot I was like in the public bath, you know? And so I jumped up with my dork all hanging out and ran down the streets yelling like a total moron. OMG, diary O - M - F - G!!!!!!
  25. Re:Yeah, but will it play oggs? on Apple Quietly Releases iTunes 4.8 · · Score: 1

    Well, I was really speaking to your claim about iPod not being able to support Ogg Vorbis due to the floating-point issue, not how well some hacker shoved Linux onto an iPod to play Ogg Vorbis files. (Which contradicts your own assertion that the iPod cannot support Ogg.) And, really though - using a hobbiest's hacked-up iPod as an example of why Apple's hypothetical support of Ogg Vorbis hypothetically sucks, what with Apple's paid engineers and extensive testing, is kinda specious, dontcha think? The Linux iPod is just a bad implementation. I'm sure if these players can support Ogg Vorbis, Apple's engineering wizards can make iPod support it, too.