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  1. No, it definitely isn't.

  2. Re:Simple on Can You Copyright a Joke? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Greater amounts.

  3. Re:Simple on Can You Copyright a Joke? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    What about Sand People?

  4. Re:Simple on Can You Copyright a Joke? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Much point, dammit.

  5. Re:Simple on Can You Copyright a Joke? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Since the first sentence was so blatantly wrong I didn't see much going any further.

  6. Re:Simple on Can You Copyright a Joke? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Similarly, you can't Copyright a word, or a string of words.

    Really? Not even a string of about 75,000 words? Printed on bits of dead tree, for example?

  7. Re:Just Remember: on Region-Locked Content Drives UK Users To Try a VPN (itproportal.com) · · Score: 1

    And you're licking every other butthole that butthole has licked. Or something.

  8. Re:How long until there are only trailers? on Our Obsession With Trailers Is Making Movies Worse (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm wondering if the culprit isn't the short att

    Ugh, TL:DR pls.

  9. Re:In case you wondered... on Access Codes For United Cockpit Doors Accidentally Posted Online (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    They might as well install a simple button instead of a keypad, it wouldn't make a difference.

    Unless the pilots are incapacitated and there's a terrorist onboard! Are you trying to get us all killed?!

    What if they put a call out for a doctor to treat the pilots and the online doctor onboard is a terrorist... wait, forget I said that, it's copyrighted and you can't have it because it's my screenplay now.

  10. Vietnamese government, not "Vietnam government" on Hackers Aligned With Vietnam Government Are Attacking Foreign Companies (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Hackers Aligned With Vietnam Government

    You wouldn't say "China government" or "France government." The word is "Vietnamese."

    You also wouldn't capitalise "Aligned" or "With" if you were writing like a normal person... down with title case!

  11. a hot air balloon ride.

    Is that a euphemism? It's so hard to keep up with the lingo...

  12. There is no standard definition of the term, and if there was, Wikipedia would not be the definitive source for it. In fact, the Wikipedia page says this:

    The word usually refers to visible light

    In physics, the term light sometimes refers to electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength, whether visible or not

  13. Is there any idea why Lightspeed == Radio speed ?

    Yes, it's because radio is light.

  14. Some needs to be severely reprimanded for this.

    ...eh? ;)

  15. The article is woefully short on details. What, exactly, do the senders of a message do, in this case?

    And what is a "quantum channel"?

  16. Re:They should either ban digital or get over it on Going After Netflix, Cannes Bans Streaming-Only Movies From Competition Slots (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    It is all mostly filmed in digital these days.

    You mean it's all digitalled in digital.

  17. Re:Whoa on Star Trek Bridge Crew Gets IBM Watson-Powered Voice Commands (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    We can already do that comma and it works perfectly full stop post comment open porn folder

  18. Cable One has been raising its data transmission prices quickly, and it's making cable giants very, very nervous. If people begin noticing that there's no competition

    I'm probably being hopelessly naive here, but if the likes of Comcast are so scared of what Cable One doing when there is no competition, then maybe they should, I dunno... compete?

  19. You will want to watch this video.

    Why are you waving your hand around like that?

  20. To get those tiny plastic pillars to produce color, or at least appear to

    If it appears to produce colour, then it's producing colour. That's what colour is...

  21. Too late to save fuel on The Intelligent Intersection Could Banish Traffic Lights Forever (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Because cars don't sit idling at the lights, Fayazi calculated it would also deliver a 19 percent fuel saving.

    Except that by the time this comes anywhere close to being plausible, cars won't be running on petrol any more.

  22. Re:This ad brought to you by.... on Spotify Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files In Its Early Days: Report (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    I went to school with a girl called Pandora. Never let me see her box, though...

  23. Re:Feels Bad Man on Pepe the Frog Is Dead (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Writes witty reply.

  24. This isn't "surrendering control" on Pepe the Frog Is Dead (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The creator of Pepe the Frog has symbolically killed off the cartoon frog, effectively surrendering control of the character to the far right.

    Err, no, that's not how copyright works.

  25. Yes really. When people misuse a word often enough, it stops being a misuse.

    https://www.merriam-webster.co...