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  1. Re:Bah ... on Putting Time Out In Time Out: The Science of Discipline · · Score: 1

    You just have to be creative with your flute and you're golden.

  2. Re:I recently bought a book from Amazon... on Amazon "Suppresses" Book With Too Many Hyphens · · Score: 2

    "I bought this book of poetry in good faith based on recommendations. Has this 'e e cummings' never heard of capital letters? I demand a refund."

  3. Re:Tigger warning! on Amazon "Suppresses" Book With Too Many Hyphens · · Score: 1

    "We did not find 'worraworraworraworraworra' in our dictionary. This word also contains more letters than the target audience can reasonably be expected to comprehend. Please correct and resubmit."

  4. Re:About time Amazon cracked down on this on Amazon "Suppresses" Book With Too Many Hyphens · · Score: 1

    While they're at it, they can censor all the extra notes that Chopin liked to torture pianists with. 57 notes in a 3/4 bar is just too many. The man's a menace.

  5. Re:Dear Australia on Australia Moves Toward New Restrictions On Technology Export and Publication · · Score: 1

    Especially as it is supposed to be "innocent *unless* proven guilty"...

  6. Re:currency on Amazon UK Glitch Sells Thousands of Products For a Penny · · Score: 2

    To avoid paying VAT on it.

  7. Re:Why does this need a sequel? on Blade Runner 2 Script Done, Harrison Ford Says "the Best Ever" · · Score: 2

    Or, and I'm only saying this as a possibility - I still think Deckard was human - Deckard isn't the real Deckard. The real one is dead. The best blade runner is dead, with Holden being merely "good" (Deckard's own description) and Gaff being, well, whatever Gaff is. And they need the best, this situation being "the worst one yet" (Bryant's words); they need "the old blade runner".

    So they make Deckard and implant him with the original's memories. For all intents and purposes, he *is* Deckard, with all his abilities, foibles, etc.. The ultimate triumph of Tyrell's art: not quite a clone, but a means of effectively living forever, or resurrecting the dead. Perhaps Tyrell wanted immortality and the Tyrell we see isn't the real one.

    As such, Deckard has to be treated the same and bullied "back" into work, even though they know it isn't the real one.

  8. Re:It's rotten barley water on No More Foamy Beer, Thanks To Magnets · · Score: 1

    Or, as Stephen Fry described it, "cheese is the celebration of milk gone off big time stylee"

  9. Re:Good. on IsoHunt Unofficially Resurrects the Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    Hail Hydra

  10. Re:It's the production line on Study Explains Why Women Miscarry More Males During Tough Times · · Score: 1

    As can lagomorphs.

  11. Re:JPEG2000 replaced JPEG on Bellard Creates New Image Format To Replace JPEG · · Score: 1

    If you have to support old IE then use XDomainRequest. If you have to support *really* old IE then only JSONP can help unless you use a proxy on your site.

  12. Re:Better Link on Geminid Meteor Shower This Weekend · · Score: 2

    Lie in a lawn chair with your head towards Gemini. General direction to look is anywhere but the radiant.

  13. Re:When/Where on Geminid Meteor Shower This Weekend · · Score: 1

    The best pace to look is with your back to Gemini, looking at the rest of the sky.

  14. Re:Everyone? on Should IT Professionals Be Exempt From Overtime Regulations? · · Score: 1

    There's no union in UK either. I've never been paid overtime so I don't do it. I don't give a fuck if there's a deadline, I'm not working for free.

  15. Re:General applicability on Want To Work For a Cool Tech Company? Hone Your Social Skills · · Score: 1

    Oh and you also need to know *everything* remotely technical so we don't have to employ more than one of you nerds. That's right, not only do you have to spend every hour of your life learning all the skills required for the job description, you should also have documented proof of you working insane hours, learning the new technologies we won't ever use (but that shows *passion*, right?) and yet still be a party animal seven days a week or you won't be considered a team player or a good cultural fit.

  16. Quite. God help you if you have a job involving children as you will never get another one thanks to the Enhanced CRB which lists all arrests, whether you were guilty or not. Irrespective of what the alleged crime was and notwithstanding the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act should you only have been even cautioned for nicking sweets when you were a teenager, the ECRB fucks you for life.

  17. Re:Training set... on New Analysis Pushes Back Possible Origin For Antikythera Mechanism · · Score: 3, Informative

    The etymology of "renaissance" answers your last snark.

  18. OS issue on Some Early Nexus 6 Units Returned Over Startup Bug · · Score: 1

    It's also reported that the affected units are running Android 4.4.4 instead of the expected Lollipop. I'm sure that has nothing to do with it either...

  19. Re:Swedish Puppets on Swedish Court Refuses To Revoke Julian Assange's Arrest Warrant · · Score: 1

    Nothing has stopped the prosecutor from travelling to UK to question him, something that has been requested for *years*. Yet the prosecutor could travel to Prague to question a suspected murderer. But then, that guy wasn't famous. Funny, that.

  20. Re:So... wait until you get home...? on UK Hotel Adds Hefty Charge For Bad Reviews Online · · Score: 2

    The card details have been taken so a charge could be applied anywhen. However, as you can't arbitrarily charge a card, they put this clause into the terms to "justify" a possible charge in the future. The trouble is it's bollocks and illegal.

  21. Re:TV detection vans on Former Police Officer Indicted For Teaching How To Pass a Polygraph Test · · Score: 1

    That's what is laughable. There is no analogue TV signal over UHF in UK any more. Some regions haven't had it for a decade, yet they still peddle the bullshit.

    Even if there was sufficient signal leakage (and that got curtailed by EU emissions legislation) from CRT to detect it from the street all there was was a probability as it wasn't directional enough to pinpoint in a terrace which house was retransmitting since before the 70s. Now the use of CRT is miniscule, rendering that irrelevant, as well as even more stringent regulation to reduce emissions in the 90s.

  22. Re:Need a machine to tell you this? on Machine Learning Used To Predict Military Suicides · · Score: 1

    Verbal assaults? Oh no, Cpl Wilson yelled at me and called me names. True, I shat in his kit bag for seven days running, but he's clearly suicidal for raising his voice. Plus he hurt my feelings so he's a sociopath as well. Best lock him up before he hurts someone.

    Fucking pussies.

  23. Re:Not as simple as teaching how to ... on Former Police Officer Indicted For Teaching How To Pass a Polygraph Test · · Score: 1

    That's like the TV detector vans (still) used to try and enforce payment of the licence in UK. They never existed. There was one shown, but that's all it was. A van. An empty van. An empty van with "TV Detector Van" written on it.

  24. Re:Arbitration Clause option on Overbilled Customer Sues Time Warner Cable For False Advertising · · Score: 1

    I don't know about contract law in US, but that would be illegal in UK.

  25. Re:yeah ... Are You Kidding? on Is Public Debate of Trade Agreements Against the Public Interest? · · Score: 1

    Which one?