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  1. Re:All the Crap on Pirate Party Gaining Strength In Germany · · Score: 2

    Maybe they will be able to make a valuable contribution to the situation in the seas off the horn of Africa.

  2. Not Amused on Why Verizon Doesn't Want You To Buy an iPhone · · Score: 0

    Tim Cook is not amused.

  3. Finally on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 Benchmarked · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally I can play minecraft the way it was meant to be played!

  4. Re:Confirmation on Nokia Sues HTC, RIM and Viewsonic · · Score: 2

    Are you trolling, or just stupid?

    Maybe both.

  5. Confirmation on Nokia Sues HTC, RIM and Viewsonic · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not Apple? I see this as good evidence that Nokia is completely controlled by Microsoft.
    I don't know what has gone on behind the scenes to get Microsoft and Apple to luv each other, but it seems like there is no rational reason for Nokia to leave Apple out of the fun except that they have been commanded to do so by Microsoft.
    So Apple & Microsoft, what is your plan for the post-Android world you are trying to create?

  6. Re:When, oh, when ... on Ask Slashdot: Which Comic Books To Start My 3-Year-Old With? · · Score: 1

    The angry Germans are out in force today!

  7. Re:When, oh, when ... on Ask Slashdot: Which Comic Books To Start My 3-Year-Old With? · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... will US Americans finally get it that superhero comics =! comics ... but only a tiny, tiny subgenre of comics.

    -
    My english is better than most other people's german, so please point out mistakes politely. Thank you.

    On the other hand, your C isn't so good.

  8. Re:Read to him? on Ask Slashdot: Which Comic Books To Start My 3-Year-Old With? · · Score: 1

    At 3 years old he should be able to read himself - why do you need to read to him?

    I started reading to my daughter before she turned one year old. It helped her fall to sleep. To start with, since she wasn't actually listening, I read her whatever I happened to be reading. I wonder sometimes if that was a mistake, and she spent nights awake in her bed, listening for the hellish howling of a gigantic hound on the moors...

    Hound of the Baskervilles, eh?
    Well, having a daughter while you were still in 9th grade must have been pretty tough.

  9. Re:Read to him? on Ask Slashdot: Which Comic Books To Start My 3-Year-Old With? · · Score: 2

    At 3 years old he should be able to read himself - why do you need to read to him?

    Oh, saaaay, that gives me an idea: Have him read Slashdot! He'll grow up with the benefit of thinking he knows everything without wasting his life doing things like asking questions and learning or asking questions about a topic he doesn't understand. You won't even have to worry about teen pregnancy!

    Hmm... "son"... "teen pregnancy"... "son"... "teen pregnancy"...
    I see what you mean about slashdot readers who fail to learn about topics they don't understand.

  10. Re:Was it wearing a hoodie? on Astronomers See Another Star Torn Apart By a Black Hole · · Score: 0

    Wait does the hoodie play a part here or not? Is this just a lame attempt at current-events-race-related humor?

  11. Hmm. on Ask Slashdot: Which Comic Books To Start My 3-Year-Old With? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My 3 yr old son is really into superheros (especially Spider-man)

    Well then how about Spider Man?

  12. Re:oh great on One of Two Hotly Debated Avian Flu Papers Finally Published · · Score: 2

    Solution: don't share saliva with a ferret.

  13. Re:Death on One of Two Hotly Debated Avian Flu Papers Finally Published · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The key insight escaped you: It won't be a mistake.

  14. Re:Typical on 1 World Trade Center Becomes the Tallest Building In NYC · · Score: 1, Funny

    They were terrorists.

  15. Re:Blatant corruption as usual on Congress Asks Patent Office To Consider Secret Patents · · Score: 3, Funny

    So in other words, it's impossible.

  16. Re:If USA cannot compete without artificial limits on Congress Asks Patent Office To Consider Secret Patents · · Score: 5, Funny

    I always have fun time going out with friends and my girlfriend and we do so pretty much every night. USA is a country of artificial limits and non-social people.

    Look, you are not going to get any sympathy around here if you keep going on about nonsense like a "girlfriend" and a "fun time".
    We are not going to let you trick us into weirdo "socializing". We prefer to live our lives within reasonable, although perhaps somewhat artificial, self-imposed restraints.

  17. Sickening! on Congress Asks Patent Office To Consider Secret Patents · · Score: 2

    All this beating around the bush just makes me sick.

    We just need to start declaring war on any country which hosts terrorist corporations, by which I mean specifically foreign corporations that seek to undermine the American way of life by doing "end runs" around American inventors and by "seizing marketshare" from the rightful American owners of said market share.

  18. Re:Obama ate a dog. on Google Releases FCC Report On Street View Probe · · Score: 2

    It is common to omit the article when speaking of a a place of origin in German, thus the accusation that Kennedy called himself a jelly doughnut because he did not omit the article.

    However, it is true that the Germans listening understood very well what he meant and appreciated what he said.

  19. Re:Obama ate a dog. on Google Releases FCC Report On Street View Probe · · Score: 1

    A Berliner is not a sausage. It's a type of "pfannkuchen", kind of like a jelly doughnut.
    http://amoiltedesco.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/berliner-pfannkuchen.jpg

  20. Re:Managers' Fault on Google Releases FCC Report On Street View Probe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What are the managers doing if they aren't managing the engineers? We might have to stay late writing code, but are they staying late reading documents and getting up to speed on what everyone is doing? Isn't that their job? I'm still in school so please correct me if I'm wrong.

    Of course it's their job. And they probably did it.
    However, when the Federal Government comes sniffing around it's very convenient to forget that you read the document.

  21. Re:Obama ate a dog. on Google Releases FCC Report On Street View Probe · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It also happens when you're a little busy. Buy a hot dog but get distracted for a moment. Now it's cooled off but isn't cold. Hot dog -> dog -> cold dog

    No, that middle stage between 'hot dog' and 'cold dog' is 'wiener'.
    So in your scenario, we would have to say that Obama ate a wiener.

    Now that may or may not be true; but if true, he probably doesn't want it getting around.

  22. Re:It's thee olde Facebook on Face Recognition Maps History Via Art · · Score: 1

    Not being sure what you were implying, I image searched for "prussian chicks".
    Now you and I may have different tastes, and I can't say that the uniforms were all that bad, but the moustaches and rifles are kind of off-putting in my opinion.

  23. Re:question on RIM's Future Hangs On Developer Support For 'New BlackBerry' · · Score: 2, Funny

    What does "real time kernel" mean?

    It means that the OS can make guarantees about the time of response to events (usually external inputs).
    This is very important for things like antilock brake control systems, not so much for consumer electronics.

    In this case, however, it's helpful because we can be assured that Blackberry OS Version 10 will tank within a guaranteed limited time.

  24. Just Imagine... on Face Recognition Maps History Via Art · · Score: 4, Funny

    Think of the possibilities...
    If I could know for sure that the eldest daughter of the 1st Earl of Huntshire was a good friend of the young wife of the wealthy merchant heir James Strickthorpe, well... it would completely change my life.

  25. Re:No... on Kindle Fire Grabs Over Half of the U.S. Android Tablet Market · · Score: 1

    Because PDFs are formatted to be printed on paper.
    It is possible to read PDFs on a tablet, but either you have to scroll around or everything is small. If the tablet were the same size as the paper, then things would be easier to read.