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  1. Re:I don't know what the fuss is... on Lego To Produce Three Box Sets Featuring Female Scientists · · Score: 2

    There...are...four....minifigs!

  2. Re:Already got something better... on A Bike Taillight that Goes Beyond Mere Taillighting (Video) · · Score: 1

    Feh. I'll take you down with tow cables fired from my Bagger 288.

    SFW: Rule 34 in action.

  3. Re:Meters? on New Mars Crater Spotted In Before-and-After Pictures · · Score: 1

    No no no, it's a typo for "meteors," and "Phillip J" at Yahoo says the mean of meteors is about the size of a grain of sand, so grain of sand x 50. Pretty small. I think.

  4. Re:Who the heck on US Officials Cut Estimate of Recoverable Monterey Shale Oil By 96% · · Score: 1

    Maybe the submitter just displays complex/rippled grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

  5. Re:words on The 69 Words GM Employees Can Never Say · · Score: 1

    Cobain actually varied the spelling of his name off and on to mess with people, "Curt" is found in some autographs.

  6. Re:WOW on James Cameron and Eric Schmidt's SOI Grieve Loss of Nereus ROV · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Mike Cameron, brother to James, is a super-smart aerospace engineer. He came up with a way to film at 12,600 feet underwater, and JPL wants to use the technology to explore one of the moons of Jupiter."

    Oh great, haven't they read the memo about attempting no landings there? Now those aliens are going to get all monolith on our asses.

  7. Re:Royal drone on Meet Canada's Goosebuster Drone · · Score: 1

    "swan-upping
    The annual practice of catching the swans on the River Thames and marking them to indicate their ownership."

    Thought that was perhaps akin to cow tipping at first...

  8. Re:What happened to HAARP being essential? on Air Force Prepares to Dismantle HAARP · · Score: 1

    Having Ted back, that would be awesome. "The Internet isn't a truck, it's a series of
    BRAIIIIINNNNNNSSSSSS!"

  9. Re:Wow, Republicans are stupid on Air Force Prepares to Dismantle HAARP · · Score: 1

    Well, a person from Alaska controlled my mind for a while back in 2008, not that I was swayed over to her cause. But it was definitely on my mind for months at a stretch. "You've got to be kidding. From a helicopter?"

  10. Re:Ozzy on Elderly Mice Perk Up With Transfused Blood · · Score: 1

    Ozzy's longevity you can chalk up to his Neanderthal lineage.

  11. Re:Wow - talk about missing the point. on How Concrete Contributed To the Downfall of the Roman Empire · · Score: 1

    As for why the Empire subsequently declined, here's a handy list: 210 Reasons for the decline of the Roman Empire. No concrete in there, the Republic being brought to an end by overzealous monument building would be covered by "Hubris" though, I suppose.

  12. Re:Palm Zire, iPod Photo, Stereo Stuff on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 1

    I've been using the same 16GB iPod Nano for 4 years now. There are aspects of the UI I'd change perhaps but it just refuses to quit.

  13. Re:Amana Radar Range on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 1

    I prefer the original Radar Ranges. Why, you could cook a whole turkey with those buggers! Sometimes inadvertently, too.

  14. Re:The good ol' days on It's Time To Plug the Loopholes In Pipeline Regulation · · Score: 1

    Actually it's a warts-and-all trip down memory lane: Early California Oil: A Photographic History, 1865-1940. Lots of warts to put it mildly, dumping the tanker is just one that sticks out in my mind. Oil companies used to overdrill fields as a matter of course, another memorable photo is of a couple of cottages separated by only 20 feet or so, with a derrick in between them.

  15. The good ol' days on It's Time To Plug the Loopholes In Pipeline Regulation · · Score: 1

    An incident in the book Early California Oil comes to mind here: after a sale of an oil tanker truck the two parties realized they weren't sure what to do with the contents of the truck - the buyer had no use for the oil. The seller thus simply emptied all the oil onto the street! The Wilmington oil field is also the poster child for oil extraction causing massive ground subsidence. Regulations were more than a bit lax back when. Occasionally people in SOCAL have to deal with this legacy - there was an explosion in a store in the 80s caused by a gas leak from a shoddy drilling operation, for instance. But generally things run relatively smoothly.

  16. Re:Preaching to the choir? on An SSD for Your Current Computer May Save the Cost of a New One (Video) · · Score: 1

    You have uncastrated male sheep in your computer? That must have taken some doing. Or is it a big ass computer with lots of room inside like those old Crays?

  17. Re:Bayonet Lug on Apple Patent Could Herald Interchangeable iPhone Camera Lenses · · Score: 1

    Bring on the grenades with rounded corners.

    "Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Holy Jesus! What is that? What the fuck is that? WHAT IS THAT, PRIVATE PYLE?
    Private Gomer Pyle: Sir, an Android smartphone, sir!
    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: An Android smartphone?
    Private Gomer Pyle: Sir, yes, sir!
    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: How did it get here?
    Private Gomer Pyle: Sir, I took it from the mess hall, sir!"

  18. AVOID THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AT ALL COSTS! on Geologists Warned of Washington State Mudslides For Decades · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's hell on Earth here! Raining at the moment! When it stops it'll go back to our 9 straight months of greyness! No jobs! Unless hack sacking weed smoking hippies who make careers out of pan handling count! Furious volcanoes! Floods! People being chased by landslides! Don't move here! It sucks! Stay where you are! It's mostly just more pavement! Plus you can't pump your own gas! And you get a holy reaming on your property taxes! Here be dragons! And rabid beavers!

  19. How about some mashups? on Algorithm Composes Music By Text Analyzing the World's Best Novels · · Score: 2

    "Tinkerbell! Do you carry the fire?"

  20. Re:Hah on Lego Robot Solves Rubik's Cube Puzzle In 3.253 Seconds · · Score: 1

    "Different places"? For example, in another part of the room?

  21. Re:And the US could turn Russia into vapor on Russian State TV Anchor: Russia Could Turn US To "Radioactive Ash" · · Score: 1

    Obama doesn't have to retaliate, there are plenty of Western allies that would do it. not to mention Sub Commanders that would probably go Rouge.

    In Soviet USSA defective officers wear makeup.

  22. Re:Fuck beta and the horse it rode in on! on Vikings' Secret Code Cracked · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Eat me, I'm Danish."

  23. Re:Fuck beta on Dried Meat "Resurrects" Lost Species of Whale · · Score: 1

    It's funny, I don't read this site on a regular basis exactly but opened this one random article which might be of interest to me given the subject, and I'm half way through the comments and not one is about anything except Dice's horrible Extreme Makeover.

    I imagine plenty of you guys are attempting to submit articles on their travesty, good luck with the good cause. Keep up the royal crapflood in the comments if that doesn't happen. That new design is barf exemplified, agreed.

  24. Re:Man, they know better than you... on Dried Meat "Resurrects" Lost Species of Whale · · Score: 1

    Scarperiod. Breaking information for geeks. Things which are of major concern.

  25. Re:Yo dawg we heard you were an attention whore on Kim Dotcom Just Launched His New Music Service With His Own Album · · Score: 1

    Tune tune tune with the Autotune!