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  1. So you're saying you can't say "fuck you" to an unreasonable request without a lawyer?

    My response: Fuck you.

  2. Re:Numbers are less sensational on Asian Giant Hornets Kill 42 People In China, Injure Over 1,500 · · Score: 1

    Given how many people and cars there are in China I'm not keen on those odds.

  3. Re:The Blame Game on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    Whenever bank robbers kill a hostage all negotiations cease and SWAT goes in and kills the robbers without prejudice. Perhaps the same should happen here.

  4. Re:stevie wonder, ray charles on MuseScore Aims Make 50,000 New Braille Scores Available To Blind Musicians · · Score: 1

    Jeff Healey.

  5. Re:stevie wonder, ray charles on MuseScore Aims Make 50,000 New Braille Scores Available To Blind Musicians · · Score: 1

    Andrea Bocelli

  6. Re:Pfffft on Arrest Made In Webcam Highjacking Extortion Case · · Score: 1

    He isn't a retard. He's claiming to be autistic. Big difference.

  7. Re:Could have been worse than Ctrl + Alt + Del on Bill Gates Acknowledges Ctrl+Alt+Del Was a Mistake · · Score: 1

    Thanks to university where I had to switch between terminals using US keyboard layout and PCs using UK I learned pretty quickly that @ and " switched places. \ was a pain, but not as bad as ~ or `.

    My current laptop has US keyboard set because it has US keycaps (and Cyrillic for some reason) but every other device in the house with a keyboard (8 and counting) is UK. Doesn't bother me at all.

  8. Re:Officer dickhead is a dickhead. on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    "I was specifically told not to, because it takes time to disengage and can impede traffic if you have it on when the signal turns to green"
    Fuck that noise. They can wait. Those behind you don't have priority over you unless they are emergency vehicles.

  9. Re:Officer dickhead is a dickhead. on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    Yes, because that is the "Highway Code" method. Also, it is the method you use if you don't want to fail your test; whenever you are stationary, apply handbrake and slip into neutral.

  10. Re:Officer dickhead is a dickhead. on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    What you call a hill in the Netherlands everybody else calls a speed bump.
    If your handbrake can't hold your car on a slope then your rear brakes are in dire need of a competent mechanic. The only time I've had to double pedal is when my rear brakes needed fixing and I was hill starting.

  11. Re:jerk on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    If the pedestrian is allowed to be there (i.e. not a restricted highway like a motorway), then they have right of way. Just like any other mode of transport. No exceptions.

  12. Re:Not the grue! on Boot To Zork · · Score: 1

    Would that be when you have no background processes running?

  13. Re:Embrace, Extend, Extinguish? on Google Dropping Netscape Plugin API Support In Chrome/Blink · · Score: 1

    Chrome uses Blink nowadays, unless you're on iOS

  14. Re:"everything's just fine" on Hulu "Kicking Back Into Action" Says CEO, Adding New Content · · Score: 1

    In case anyone is wondering, "MI-5" == "Spooks". Guess they changed the name in case people thought it another shit reality show about ghosts.

  15. "Explicit mechanism" on Secret Court Upholds Phone Data Collection · · Score: 1

    How explicit was it that a challenge could be issued? If a company receives a notice with "CONFIDENTIAL" and "OBEY" splattered all over it from the "comply or we fuck you up" secret overlords of Room 101, are they really going to look that closely at the boilerplate section printed in 6pt text and containing "there is an avenue of challenge to this, but we wouldn't advise you even think about it"?

    And how does "no one has objected (because if they did, we'd hit them in their bottom line), therefore it is legal" even compute?

  16. Re:This will get the lawyer sanctioned on Doubleclick Cofounder Responds to Patent Troll by Filing Extortion Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    As a response, Arkell v. Pressdram springs to mind...

  17. Re:Nothing to worry about, get back to work serfs! on London Tube Cleaners Don't Want Fingerprint Clock-in · · Score: 1

    An alternative is that the staff are being treated the same way as the cleaning products they use, i.e. they are the same as inventory and are just as important to the company as a box of Jeyes Fluid. Even cattle get better treatment.

  18. Re:Fine, take them at their word. on Tooth Cavities May Protect Against Cancer · · Score: 1

    If you pay for it, most definitely. It has been my experience that NHS dentists aren't nearly as good.

  19. Re:How does this hurt England? on Two Birmingham Men Are Arrested By UK's New Intellectual Property Crime Unit · · Score: 1

    They didn't pay VAT or import duties (which doesn't really apply since the products weren't real), costing the economy a miniscule amount and you're all "grr, thieving bastards" whereas you're fine with the *billions* Vodaphone costs the economy by not paying tax?

  20. Re:Interactions between 4D and 3D on Study: Our 3D Universe Could Have Originated From a 4D Black Hole · · Score: 1

    That sounds like the Steady State theory to me.

  21. Re:Uhhh... what did he just say to us? on Study: Our 3D Universe Could Have Originated From a 4D Black Hole · · Score: 1

    Couldn't that be thought of as evaporation?

  22. Re:So long, Apple on Apple Unveils iPhone 5C, iPhone 5S · · Score: 1

    If it doesn't come with a radio capable of receiving LTE from Vodaphone there'll be a lot of annoyed consumers.

  23. Re:Chelsea? on Device Security: How Border Searches Are Really Used · · Score: 2

    *Her* name (and gender) is whatever the fuck *she* wants to call *herself* and be referred to as. That some "official" document says otherwise is irrelevant.

  24. Re: Silicon Noun on Silicon Beach Startups Spawn From the Ashes of MySpace · · Score: 2

    Brighton, UK has had that nickname for over a decade. The M4 corridor has been known as Silicon Fen for even longer. Just sayin'.

  25. Re: Invisible text in the first amendment on Indiana Man Gets 8 Months For Teaching How To Beat Polygraph Tests · · Score: 1

    You *can* yell "fire" in a crowded theatre. The first amendment does not discriminate about what speech is free and what isn't. It is all free. However, whilst exercising your right to do so, you recklessly endanger others, which is what you get charged with. Nothing to do with the first.

    Same with cancer curing water. Sure, you can say it, that's your right, but don't be surprised if you get arrested for fraud.