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  1. Re:Wait on Must a CD Cost $15.99? · · Score: 1

    Naaah, you only need to bribe him out of jail BEFORE the gig

  2. Landmines? on 2007 Sees Wireless Spending Outstrip Landlines · · Score: 2, Funny

    I bought a job lot just after the first Gulf War, haven't spent a penny on them in years...

  3. Re:i was just arguing with some guy on Recent Human Evolution May Have Been Driven By Self-Selection · · Score: 1

    Exactly, how can you learn survival and spear making tips from granddad if he's dead in the snow?

  4. Please confirm on Stallman Attacked by Ninjas · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please tell me that wasn't all that he was wearing

  5. Re:Now we can visit grammar sites on School Boards Rule, Internet No Longer Dangerous · · Score: 5, Funny

    The problem, with that, is, you hear William Shatner's voice, in your head...

  6. Re:It's a Trap! on Creative Commons Filmmaking Remixes Modern Cinema · · Score: 1

    It's Springtime for Hitler all over again!

  7. Re:OT: IBM AD BREAKING PAGE LAYOUT! on Bush Reveals New Space Policy · · Score: 1

    Same here

  8. Major? on Why Sony Needs a 'Major Nelson' · · Score: 1

    I thought it was Admiral?

  9. EE Lightning on The US Navy Says Goodbye to the Tomcat · · Score: 1

    Not as quick as the much older EE Lightning though, but a much more capable aircraft

  10. How about the British Library? on Comparison of Internet Book Databases? · · Score: 1

    http://www.bl.uk/

    Always found it very good

  11. what the next Soviet Russia joke should be on The Surprising Truth About Ugly Websites · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, websites make you ugly?

  12. Round Bottoms on Indestructible Super Mug To Save Humanity · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From TFA "It's rounded (at the bottom)"

    That'll sit nicely on a desk...

  13. UK Plane Spotters in Greece on Police Restrict Public Photography · · Score: 4, Informative

    Whilst I don't condone the boring nature of what they were doing, I thought this might interest people outside the UK or with medium term memory loss.

    Plane-spotters 'ignored warnings'

    "They were held in prison for almost six weeks, before being released on bail and allowed to return to Britain."

  14. Re:So let me get this straight....... on Texas Politician Wants Violent Games Tax · · Score: 3, Funny

    CK Strayhorn
    Star Locke
    Kinky Friedman
    Rick Perry

    Rick Perry needs to change his name, it's just not good enough

  15. Re:On the Subject of Baseball on Who Owns Baseball Statistics? · · Score: 4, Funny

    The new national sport will be soccer soon until the soccer players become overpaid, whiny, wimps too.

    Welcome to England

  16. Re:Sounds good to me on EU Proposes Online Music System · · Score: 1

    I believe that to be a Good Thing...from 25 monopolists to 25 companies, each having a pretty small market share.

    Until they all merge and up their cut

  17. Keith Richards must be turning in his grave on Guitarists, your Days are Numbered · · Score: 2, Funny

    What do you mean he's not dead? Have you seen him lately?

  18. Never! on Seeing Around Corners With Dual Photography · · Score: 4, Funny
    make sure to watch the 60MB video at the bottom

    I find it highly unlikely that many will manage that :0

  19. The real hero was of course on Apollo 13 Engineers to be Honored · · Score: 5, Funny

    An inanimate carbon rod

  20. Re:Nope, you are wrong. on British Government Considers Tax on Computers · · Score: 4, Informative

    tosh! Have a look at:
    http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1995/Ukpga_19 95004 5_en_4.htm

    Gas Act 1995

    22.--(1) Where a public gas transporter has reasonable cause to suspect--

    (a) that gas conveyed by him is escaping, or may escape, in any premises; or

    (b) that gas so conveyed which has escaped has entered, or may enter, any premises,
    any officer authorised by the transporter may, on production of some duly authenticated document showing his authority, enter the premises

  21. Re:Blown-Air Hand Driers: enough juice for... on Mobile Users Plug-in Anywhere They Can · · Score: 1

    ...customer trips over the power cord of another customer's laptop

    Simple! Use wireless power :)

  22. Nature versus nurture on Animal Cloning Comes to Hollywood · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just because the cloned animal has exactly the same genes, doesn't mean that it will exhibit the same behaviour.

    The dog that played Benji might have had an ideal temperament for filming, but it's clone, brought up slightly differently might be a right little ankle biter.

  23. Re:It wouldn't stop the romans... on ICANN Plans to Charge Fees to .net Domain Owners · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Indoor plumbing
    The electric light
    The telephone
    The jetliner
    The internal combustion engine

    Yes, well, obviously those, but apart from that, what else have the Romans done for us?

  24. Spam tactics on SCO Sells First Linux Licenses in UK · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Ask enough people for money for majic beans and eventually someone will bite.

    Just some corporate arse covering

  25. Re:No thanks. on Microgenerators Coming Soon to Electronics Near You · · Score: 1

    I'd rather burn American coal than buy Arab oil.

    From Grandparent post INCREASE our dependency on fossil fuels

    The post I replied to doesn't make the distinction between the two, either way the power is coming from a non-renewable source. Though the mini gas turbine is likely to be more efficent.