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  1. Re:Remember the vast innovation in the baroque per on Why IP Laws Are Blocking Innovation · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wish I hadn't blown all my mod points to increase the visibility of a couple titty jokes. You should have got one.

    Even the jokes need their patrons.

  2. Re:What do you mean? on Vatican Bans IOS Confession App · · Score: 1

    Since when did anyone confess by a burning bush? God spoke to Moses through the bush, never did Moses confess His sins through said bush.

    I don't understand why Catholics think they have to confess to a person anyways. Forgiveness comes from God, through the blood of Jesus, and only He can dish out forgiveness of sin. Therefore, logic dictates that you should dictate your sins directly to God / Jesus.

    Sure, but the priest is there in persona Christi, essentially there to provide a human, interactable representative. Kinda like how judges are representatives on behalf of Justice. And I'm just gonna leave that analogy right there.

    More clearly: In theory, you're confessing your sins direct, with an authority figure there to confirm that your sins are forgiven (pending any necessary remedial action), therefore providing comfortable certainty. Perhaps similar to how the church, as I recall, essentially teaches that jesus has no "hands but yours", and is therefore, I suppose, working through all of us. (You can take that as you will.) In this case, he's availing himself of an opportunity to work through a priest.

  3. Re:webOS devices that won't sell on HP Unveils WebOS Tablet, Plans WebOS Computer · · Score: 1

    This is the same comment I leave to Android fanboys.

    Real artists ship.

    Show me product and a release date, not a flashy and useless bit of info about some product that might come out soon.

    So HP should send out Léo Apotheker in a tasteful turtleneck and announce that the product is shipping in 3, 2, 1...

  4. Re:Bloggers on Verizon iPhone Also Haunted By the Death Grip · · Score: 1

    Does that mean death grips are non-denominational?

  5. Re:More than they can chew on MPAA Threatens To Disconnect Google From Internet · · Score: 2

    The questions is, who is secretly in possession of the Greater Wall of Lawyers (of +3 Litigation)?

  6. Re:But, but... on JAXA To Use Fishing Nets To Scoop Up Space Junk · · Score: 1

    And sweet Jesus, don't even get me started on the marsupials!

    It's pouches all the way around!

  7. Re:Don't make me laugh! on MPAA Threatens To Disconnect Google From Internet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's like a chihuahua barking at a tiger.

    It doesn't accomplish much, but boy can that yipping drive you crazy!

  8. Re:But, but... on JAXA To Use Fishing Nets To Scoop Up Space Junk · · Score: 2

    Don' t worry, there's enough to go around. It's turtles all the way down, after all!

  9. Re:Here's a clue for Microsoft on Ballmer Turns To Geeks For Salvation · · Score: 1

    But they've at least partially addressed that, haven't they? The "security essentials" aren't perfect, but it seems to be a step in the right direction.

  10. "Unixen?" on UnXis Group To Acquire SCO · · Score: 1

    On Dasher, on Prancer, on Comet and Unixen? Or more like Boxen, maybe?

    In all seriousness, Unixes is what I hear most often, with no regard given to its correctness. I think Unices sounds best, though it kinda comes off sounding like an acronymized UN agency. Your mileage may vary.

  11. Re:Safeway on Algorithm Contest Aims To Predict Health Problems · · Score: 1

    Should he proba the whole thing?

  12. Re:Oh Yeah... on Big Brother Friends Facebook · · Score: 1

    Ahhh. There's no way you can prevent government power from being abused by those with money. It's impossible. The solution is to stop expanding government power, not to expand it even further in some attempt to stop such abuses.

    But even with smaller/more limited government power, what's to stop those with money from abusing the power the government does have?

  13. Re:Stock Price on Shareholders Push Hard For Apple Succession Plan · · Score: 1

    Ah, semicolons. An elegant weapon, for a more... civilized age.

  14. Re:Won't replace dogs on Israeli Company Trains Security Mice · · Score: 1

    All dogs have similar sense of smell.

    As I understand it, bloodhounds and similar dogs have a far better sense of smell than the usual dog.

    Beagles too. Apparently, they're used for detecting food and the like by customs officials (and can distinguish between restricted and non-restricted smells).

    Just for fun: Beagle Brigade.

  15. Re:Why tagged YRO? on Researchers Lift Fingerprints From Clothing · · Score: 1

    Maybe they're going to clog the pipes with censored cloth?

  16. Re:Mixed Units... on Behind-The-Scenes Superbowl Tech · · Score: 1

    8 million feet = somewhere between 4-8 million people.

    In terms of height or intestinal length?

  17. Re:Misquoted on Apple eBook Rules Changing For Sellers · · Score: 1

    This deal is getting worse all the time...

  18. Re:I'm Confused on Egyptians Turn To Tor To Organize Dissent Online · · Score: 1

    I always figured that there was more porn than shit on the internet. And any intersection of the two is beyond my desired operating parameters. But since we're here:

    2Pigeons1Packet

  19. Re:I'm Confused on Egyptians Turn To Tor To Organize Dissent Online · · Score: 2

    I really hope that pigeon's only dropping packets on my desk!

  20. Re:Vote of no-confidence? on The Microsoft High-Profile Exodus Continues · · Score: 1

    That's deck chairs to you, Sir!

  21. Re:Mayeb Not a Bad Thing? on The Microsoft High-Profile Exodus Continues · · Score: 1

    I think we need to take a closer look at the upholstery before we write off the chairs completely.

  22. Re:Why is heading red? on US Dept. of Justice, ICE Still Seizing Domains · · Score: 1

    I suspect it may be the latter, as I've seen it myself even before the redesign.

  23. Re:Tracer Tee on World's Worst Hacker? · · Score: 1

    I've heard that so often, but I've never understood: why?

    Perhaps because you'll meet more idiots than enemies in life?

    Furthermore, I'll bet that a good chunk of the malice is also incompetent malice. There's more angry fools than angry geniuses out there, or so I suspect.

  24. Re:Yup on Egypt Goes Dark As Last ISP Pulls Plug · · Score: 1, Funny

    77% Discount Viagra, if my inbox is any indication.

  25. Re:Markus' Email to Chris Russo on PlentyofFish Hacked, Founder Emails Hacker's Mom · · Score: 1

    Why 'argintina', I wonder?