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  1. Re:But but but... on Apple Cuts Off Linux iPod Users · · Score: 1

    I'm the last person to deny that people are sheep.

    Actually, that was me. You were second to last.

  2. Re:Weird criteria on Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I added a bunch of mp3 files to my girlfriends PC.

    Now I know you're lying.

  3. Re:Oh, it's happening. on Silverlight Released, Linux Version Coming · · Score: 1

    There's already big plans for that site....big plans.

  4. Re:well on Are Relational Databases Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    Is there something else I need it to do, given that I already own a dish washing machine.

    Yes. You need to take your dish washing machine out to dinner occasionally, and buy her flowers. And tell her she looks beautiful.

  5. Re:Oh, it's happening. on Silverlight Released, Linux Version Coming · · Score: 1

    "Can you make the logo fade in and fly around like on www.ultrashitty.com?"

    Just so you know, I am now the proud owner of ultrashitty.com.

  6. Re:IMHO on Voyager Spacecraft Celebrate 30th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    Plus, gave us our first probe views of Uranus...

    I don't think that joke ever gets old.

  7. Re:I've Been Saying This for Years on Anti-Bacterial Soap No Better Than Plain Soap · · Score: 1

    I've been asking myself which is true for a fortnight now, sir.

  8. Re:I've Been Saying This for Years on Anti-Bacterial Soap No Better Than Plain Soap · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've been saying for years that plain soap is good enough...

    I'm glad to see your unwavering vision and fortitude in carrying this message, even in the face of growing adversity, has rewarded you with the sweet taste of vindication. Victory has never been so richly deserved, my friend.

  9. Re:2000 sq feet per small computer? on IBM Saves $250M Running Linux On Mainframes · · Score: 1

    Yea, but tubes sound way better.

  10. Re:Just a quick question? on School District To Parents — Buy Office 2007 · · Score: 1

    Translated to Slashdotese: Eye hope your write.

  11. Re:One source for all life on Humans Evolved From a Single Origin In Africa · · Score: 1

    I think you're spot on, Anonymous Coward!

  12. Re:One source for all life on Humans Evolved From a Single Origin In Africa · · Score: 1

    And you are wrong about the plural form of "virus." It's "viruses."

  13. Re:No! It should be... on Robot Aims To Walk On Water · · Score: 1

    I think it would be 01001000011000010110110001101100011001010110110001 110101011010100110000101101000.

    Bender: Ahhh, what an awful dream. Ones and zeroes everywhere... and I thought I saw a two.
    Fry: Don't worry Bender, there's no such thing as two.
  14. Re:I'm Shocked !!! on CEO Questionably Used Pseudonym to Post Online · · Score: 1

    The telcos have enough budget for bribes. I guess Whole Foods doesn't.

    I don't see how. I walk out of there with some tuna salad and a pack of blueberries and somehow have spent $39.63

  15. Re:Not quite there yet! on John Knoll on CGI, Tron And 25 Years of Change · · Score: 1

    But a man being bitten by a radioactive spider and gaining arachnid abilities sits ok with you, as long as it's accurately portrayed on film?

  16. Re:Bombula on Deathbed Confession Says Aliens Were at Roswell · · Score: 1

    It also doesn't make sense that a civilization advanced enough to cross oceanic distances and fly men to and and back from the moon would have traffic accidents just minutes from the home, yet it happens. And what are you basing your probabilities of aliens resembling (or not) humans on? Do you have a large statistical sampling of alien races for your data? If not, you're just talking out your ass. By the way, the vast and divergent population of Earth creatures is not proof that aliens do not look like us. It's only proof that many Earth creatures don't.

  17. Re:Not yet on Is the CD Becoming Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    And when people who knew better in the sixties said trash, they meant rock and roll, especially The Beatles, since they were the biggest target. Today's noise becomes tomorrow's classics. Compare The Beatles to other music of that era, and it was jarring and loud. Even as early as their first hit single "Please, Please Me." Or that crazy volume pedal stuff on "I Need You" from Help!.

    And, technically, all music that is not played live on acoustic instruments is synthesized. The pickups in an electric guitar, and speakers and electronics in a guitar amp are merely reproducing the sound of the guitar, and coloring and changing it in a very unique way. That's why I bought an Orange AD-30 combo with the Celestion Vintage 30's - because my Fender Hot Rod Deville wasn't synthesizing my guitar sound properly, to my ears.

    Beethoven is a genius now, but wasn't as widely considered so by music experts of his day. But regular people got it. They always do. I'm also aware of the irony of mentioning Beethoven in context of your erroneous assertion that environmentally acquired deafness can somehow be passed on genetically.

  18. Re:Not yet on Is the CD Becoming Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    The Beatles were labeled as trash by people like you in that generation. And everyone was going to go deaf listening to that noise. Even Beethoven was downplayed, ding-donged and frang-frangled by people who knew what music was supposed to sound like.

    Oh, and you did say the next generation will be "born partially deaf." That's different than being born with full hearing and losing it due to environmental causes. If you meant that, you should have said it. Got it?

  19. Re:So its ok for Sony to bail out square...but... on Microsoft Shells Out $50 Million For GTA IV Content · · Score: 1

    ...MS does the same to help Rockstar (who has had financial problems for over a year) they are evil?

    You're the only one who said so. Evilness isn't mentioned or implied in the summary or article, except maybe in the vague way that MS is considered evil by a large number of geeks. (You also forget a "them" in front of "there heads" in your first sentence.)

  20. Re:So much for my business on AT&T Announces Plans to Filter Copyright Content · · Score: 1

    Talk about a choice between Giant Douchebag and Turd Sandwich...

    Give me a Sandwich and a Douchebag, and there is nothing I cannot do.

  21. Re:The Sopranos on The Sopranos Ends With a ... · · Score: 1

    A hot girl that can make you say "What the fuck?" at the end of sex is kinda what you want, no? Same with such a brilliant series. Any other ending would have been kind of obvious (which is maybe what -normal- people like you need?)

  22. Re:And all the cost savings are eaten up by on A School District's Education in Free Software · · Score: 1

    Wait - are you quoting yourself? You don't need to quote your own words. It's pretentious and doesn't make you sound any more important or wise. In fact, your second quote is a tautology, because all you're saying is "you will never know what you refuse to know."

  23. Re:Are you *kidding* me? on Indian Nationalists Forcibly Censor Orkut · · Score: 1

    Very subtle and very amusing. Well done.

  24. Re:Factually inacurate on A Field Trip To the Creation Museum · · Score: 1

    maybe eating only grass is not good for mental health.

    Smoking it, on the other hand....what was I saying?

  25. Re:I'm giving odds... on Sun CEO Says ZFS Will Be 'the File System' for OSX · · Score: 1

    I guess I'm just too dumb to be using a computer. I changed some text in a file, and right-clicked on it in Explorer and didn't see any such menu item for "Previous Version."

    By the way - is your name Nick Burns?