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  1. Re:I'm Not! on Verizon Changes FiOS AUP, -1, Offtopic · · Score: 1

    I think I'll be the first one to stay ON TOPIC!!!

    Stay on topic, Red Five, stay on topic. Almost there...

  2. Re:Restraint Of Free Speech on Verizon Changes FiOS AUP, -1, Offtopic · · Score: 1

    It can't, but unfortunately you do not have a constitutional right to use Comcast's equipment to post what you want against their will--even if you're willing to pay for it. Your constitutional right to free speech is a right not to be censored by government edict. And that's it. Who in the world modded this "Insightful"?

    And oh, yeah: When was the last time you had a really, REALLY good bagel?

  3. Wrong! on Should You Be Paid For Being On Call? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Most of the time, a fire fighter is off-duty but on call,

    100 percent of wrong. Firefighters are not off-duty when they are on-call. They are on-duty. When they go off-duty, they are no longer on call. Firefighters are typically on-duty for a 24-hour shift for two or three days a week. On their off days, they are not on call. Thus, most of the time, a firefighter is NOT on call.

  4. Re:Sarcastic question, answered honestly on Online "Guilds" Mirror Real Life Gangs · · Score: 1

    Better obligatory: http://xkcd.com/451/. Although Sociology still comes out looking much better than Literary Criticism.

  5. It occurs to me... on Online "Guilds" Mirror Real Life Gangs · · Score: 1

    ...that the same parallels can be drawn between gangs and college fraternities. But of course, it's only proper do to it with gamers' guilds, 'cause games are the evulz.

  6. Re:HOW??? on Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Fake Chips To US Navy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's how. All government procurement has special programs for buying from small business, and in fact are required to spend a certain percentage at small businesses. Congress mandates it, 'cause it makes good press with the voters.

  7. Re:Why the rockets? on Jetman Attempts Intercontinental Flight · · Score: 1

    It's a different kind of flying altogether!

  8. Re:Ooooh... Intercontinental on Jetman Attempts Intercontinental Flight · · Score: 1

    I mean, I could drive down to Mexico and make an "intercontinental" jump of 1 foot... But labeling it as such is just stupid.

    Actually, you'd need to drive down to Panama, but the principle does still hold.

  9. Re:A Year and a Day? on Prison Terms For Spammer Ralsky, Scientology DoS Attacker · · Score: 1

    Not really. While the judge pretty much has to hand down at least a year and a day as a prison sentence in case of a felony, he could've declared part of it or all of it suspended, depending on the exact crime, and the laws of the of that particular state.

  10. Re:A Year and a Day? on Prison Terms For Spammer Ralsky, Scientology DoS Attacker · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's part of the US's Common Law background. A prison sentence for a felony is longer than one year; it's one of the things that distinguishes a felony from a misdemeanor.

  11. Re:Dmitriy Guzner: on Prison Terms For Spammer Ralsky, Scientology DoS Attacker · · Score: 1

    How do you use kind words and cupcakes to zombify and enslave the weak? Though I can see why you don't want to fight religions that can do that.

  12. Re:Blame Northrop? on New Virginia IT Systems Lack Network Backup · · Score: 1

    "Thank you for your suggestion that we spend more money. We'll certainly take it under consideration."

    --Later:

    "File this somewhere where I'll be sure to never see it again, won't you, Miss Haversham?"

  13. Re:Blame Northrop? on New Virginia IT Systems Lack Network Backup · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Welcome to the world of government low-bid contracts. The specification didn't call for backups, so you don't get backups, because that would've made the bid higher.

  14. Where's the kaboom? on LHC Has First Collisions After Years of Waiting · · Score: 2, Funny

    There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!

  15. Re:It's all quite simply, really. on Writing For Video Game Genres · · Score: 1

    So why wasn't there ever a Dirty Pair video game? Well, aside from Project Eden which apparently a) sucked and b) was never released outside Japan, probably because of a).

  16. Re:Good thing it's covering writing... on Writing For Video Game Genres · · Score: 1

    I know a handful of guys I work with that would have done a much better job for say $50-100 which on a $50 book is nothing at all.

    Well, that depends on how many copies of the book you sell, now doesn't it?

  17. Re:At least they don't pollute the city directly on Berkeley Engineers Have Some Bad News About Air Cars · · Score: 1

    Whoop-dee-do. The average driver doesn't drive much inside chemical plants or refineries. It's a bust.

  18. Re:No need, on Has Sci-Fi Run Out of Steam? · · Score: 1

    Nonsense! The world will be saved...BY STEAM!

  19. And so we say farewell... on NIMF To Close Its Doors · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...to the Rats of NIMF.

  20. Re:RealClimate has a big reply on this on Climatic Research Unit Hacked, Files Leaked · · Score: 1

    Stupid HTML markup. I meant to say Disinterested /= Uninterested.

  21. Re:RealClimate has a big reply on this on Climatic Research Unit Hacked, Files Leaked · · Score: 1

    Whatever your views on AGW, if you live on this planet you are not disinterested in this issue.

    A disinterested view of the problem may be our only hope. Disinterested Uninterested.

  22. Re:Linux Peace Prize? on Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize? · · Score: 1

    any kind of piece prize.

    Obviously, the Nobel Piece Prize should go to David Letterman, who has certainly been working overtime to get a piece.

  23. I'd say he's done at least as much for world peace on Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize? · · Score: 1

    As President Obama.

  24. What's the one instruction? on Building a 32-Bit, One-Instruction Computer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why, DWIW (Do What I Want), of course.

  25. Re:WTF? on Secret UK Plan To Appoint "Pirate Finder General" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Gendo Ikari? No, wait, it was David Xanatos. On second thought, it was Light Yagami. Then again, it might have been Ozymandius. There's always the possibility that it was Hari Seldon. And, of course, *everything* is a Nemesis plot. But when you get right down to it, the Count of Monte Cristo did it first.