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  1. Re:Rubik's Cube on Classic Toys For Christmas? · · Score: 3, Funny
    No. It's mandatory that we get drunk, fight in front of the children and ruin Christmas!

    It's a tradition!

  2. Re:Move the stickers? jeesh! on Classic Toys For Christmas? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Always remember to remove one of the 2-corner (as opposed to 3-corner) pieces and put it in backwards. And the scramble the cube so they don't catch it. Kids love when you do that!

  3. Re:Dad, is that you!? on Classic Toys For Christmas? · · Score: 1

    At least get him the lego technics set so he can build a Rubick's cube solver-bot!

  4. This is what NASA is meant FOR on NASA to Attempt Mach 10 Flight Next Week · · Score: 5, Insightful
    People, people. This is what NASA should be doing. Basic aeronautical research.

    Then some smartass hillbilly with nine-inch sideburns can make use of their research to build a rocketplane and proclaim : "Spaceship 2, Government 0"!

  5. Re:What Type Of Story Is This? on EA Games: The Human Story · · Score: 1

    Amazing.
    You're an idiot. And you brag about it.

  6. WRONG! on How Do You Handle Home Media? · · Score: 1
    Actually, in this posters case it would've been MLB .

    need more focusin.

  7. put it to good use on Beat Spam Using Hashcash · · Score: 1

    Can't we come up with some workable system where the sender has to crank through a few iterations of seti or folding at home to pay for accepting the email? (I seem to recall a suggestion about cross-checking against another sender/server, but don't remember how they prevent cheaters.)

  8. Re:Will it include Binky, the Helpful Paperclip on Microsoft Takes on TiVo · · Score: 1

    No, it'll be drawn from the previous, obsolete paradigm.
    Paperclip:Office :: antenna:DVR
    So it'll be Auntie antenna, a rabbit with rabbit ears.

  9. Re:And there's also.... on Microsoft Takes on TiVo · · Score: 1

    Here's some emberrassingly prominent BSODs for ya!

  10. Re:I knew it.... on Techies Migrate in Search of Work · · Score: 1

    "I told you this whole data processing thing was just a fad!" -- Spencer Tracy

  11. Mon-ster MON-STER hang-er! on Rules Set for $50 Million America's Space Prize · · Score: 1

    So is Burt Rutan the aerospace equivalent of Jessie James or Paul Teutul ?

  12. Who are the REAL customers here?!!! on pcHDTV Card Available, Legal for Now · · Score: 1
    "People won't want to go back on features."

    But some companies are dumb enough to try it:

    Apple's breaking of the iPod

    TiVo "upgrade" removes features

  13. No, IDN RTFA! on Rules Set for $50 Million America's Space Prize · · Score: 1

    Would these rules allow for something like a solar powered Voyager to win?!!! I would expect that the backers would be familiar with Rutan's work. We've already see plans for various forms of continually airbor UAVs for survelliance and communications relay.

  14. errrr... on Teaser Trailer for 'Cars'; Info on 'Polar Express' · · Score: 1
    I thought part of what was setting the choice of stories were still technical concerns. Each new movie allows the animators to develop techniques for handling different things. Toys and Bugs were easy to do in CG. Then furry monsters. Then fish in various ocean environments.

    Just wait, within the same year of the release of "The Increadibles" and "Cars", dreamworks will have "Super Dudes" and "A Automobile's Story ".

    Plus, in our society, kids have a certian fixed palette of things they are interested in - dinosaurs, bugs, toys, cowboys, cars, etc. Pixar's just picking through that set when they're looking for ideas for kids' movies.

  15. Re:I thought Pixar was done with Disney? on Teaser Trailer for 'Cars'; Info on 'Polar Express' · · Score: 1
    I want to see Pixar do "Pixar's Contractual Obligation movie"!

    Pixar does Disney better than Disney does now. I suspect that since idiot asshole (Michael Eisner, we're talking Disney in this case) will be gone by the time Pixar fulfills the current contract that they might re-sign with Disney for distribution, hopefully under a less rapacious agreement.

  16. Re:$265? on Halo 2 Retail Date Broken in Midwest · · Score: 1

    But this one goes to 11, errrr, I mean, I got it first!

  17. Re:You missed the memo from legal on BitTorrent Accounts for 35% of Traffic · · Score: 1

    And spammers and telemarketers are guilty of fractional murder.

  18. Re:Can you be sued for only transferring part? on BitTorrent Accounts for 35% of Traffic · · Score: 1
    Fair use.

    The downloader is violating copyright by assembling the various parts from different parties.

    "Honest your honor, I was using an excerpt in my review"

  19. Re:so little HTTP bandwidth? on BitTorrent Accounts for 35% of Traffic · · Score: 2, Funny

    THe other 65% is Flash .

  20. Re:Uhh, we don't build gulags for "incorrect thoug on China's Superior Technologies · · Score: 1
    Technically correct. But we allow others to.

    Just you wait, the Bush's mandate given to him by his 3% victory, I bet you will see government support for some such "ministry".

  21. I got news for ya... on China's Superior Technologies · · Score: 1
    The whole world is moving to an average as we globalsize. That means freer countries become more represseive an jobs go overseas. The plus side is the repressive countries become a little freer, and plenty of jobs for low-wage countries.

    Ah, well, at least their situation is improving.

  22. Why you pinko commie... on Round-Up Ready Coca Plants · · Score: 1
    "socialized" countries?

    You mean the US doesn't know how to play well with others? Oh, wait...

  23. HOW DARE YOU, SIR! on Round-Up Ready Coca Plants · · Score: 2, Funny
    "As the war on drugs and the spraying of coca plants with herbicides didn't have any success whatsoever other than filling the pockets of organized crime with more money."

    I have you know that Monsanto is comprised of legitimate businessmen!

  24. Ahhh, thank you, you just nailed it down! on Round-Up Ready Coca Plants · · Score: 1
    The war against drugs is a war against Capitalism, errr, FREE ENTERPRISE!!!

    Yer not some sort of dirty Commie, are ya, boy?!!!!


    (Actually, I suspect the actual situation is that it is a confilict between two capitalistic factions that has expanded beyond economics...)

  25. Jurassic blow... on Round-Up Ready Coca Plants · · Score: 3, Funny
    "Nature will find a way."

    Or the drug smugglers.