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  1. Re:The UN recognises the delegate from Texas.... on Against Online Surveillance? You Must Be 'For' Child Porn, Says Legislator · · Score: 1

    ...that they somehow reserved the right to secede

    I would love to see how how that worked out for them. If they want to succeed, I say we should just let them. Within a decade, I suspect that they would be asking for re-admission to the union.

    We already know how it worked out.

  2. Re:Republicans for Big Government on Congress Warns NASA About Shortchanging SLS/Orion For Commercial Crew · · Score: 1

    I've got a feeling government contractors like Lockheed martin have given generous "campaign contributions" to every Republican politician pushing for government spacecraft construction, with government sized profit margins for their chosen defense contractors.

    Your answer lies in the data. Somewhere.

  3. Re:Next up : Toilet scanners on Sony Outlets Control Electricity Through Authentication · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately 100 men with hunting rifles are no match for 10 men with automatic rifles and rocket launchers.

    They are if you pick the right battlefield. Don't underestimate the ability of rednecks to hit stuff with a 30-06. (Kinda like hitting womprats in a T-16).

  4. Re:sign on Best Practice: Travel Light To China · · Score: 2

    I can tell you that Chinese did not require my fingerprints and were very polite to me. Guess who was exactly the opposite?

    Oh, for shit's sake, America was rude to you?! Is everyone from your home country a little pantywaist, or is your dipshittery unique?

    I like the implications later on:

    I also don't care about watching Tibet videos on YouTube when visiting China, I don't watch them at home either.

    IOW, 'fuck Tibet, but Americans were rude to me, so let me start my Intarweb jihad against them.'

    Boy, talk about first world problems.

  5. Re:Pot calling kettle. on Best Practice: Travel Light To China · · Score: 1

    Also, isn't there some correlation between cooking on aluminum and Alzheimer's disease?

    Long story short: people with Alzheimer's tend to have higher concentrations of Al in their CSF, but it is unknown and unlikely that this is causal rather than coincidental. There is also the issue that science is unsure how ingested (or inhaled) Al would migrate to the cerebrospinal (sp?) fluid.

  6. Re:Pot calling kettle. on Best Practice: Travel Light To China · · Score: 1

    Nobody does espionage like the Chinese, and you know it.

    Israel. Ok, maybe they do it differently, but they are at least as effective.

  7. Re:Apple stock is a bubble on Apple Launches New Legal Attack On Samsung · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you can prove your faith in your assertion by showing us the put contracts you have on AAPL. What? Money not where your mouth is? STFU.

  8. Re:Apple is anticompetitive at its core. on Apple Launches New Legal Attack On Samsung · · Score: 1

    You can't kill open source. Not without wholesale censorship at least.

    You can kill OSS business models though.

    You cannot kill that which is already dead.

  9. Re:Cheaper iPad 2 on What the iPad 3 Looks Like · · Score: 2

    Wouldn't it be hard to make exact change with an irrational coin?

    Just my sqrt(2) cents.

    I suppose you could use it to buy some pi.

  10. Re:It's inevitable on Australian Govt Holding Secretive Anti-Piracy Talks · · Score: 1

    Better rape the hyena's sister and mother while you're at it.

    Just to make sure.

  11. Re:Good luck with all that, you idiots ... on Australian Govt Holding Secretive Anti-Piracy Talks · · Score: 4, Funny

    one wonders what the US govt actually spends its money on if it can't even get those right.

    Guns. Big ones, little ones. Ones carried by men, ones carried by trucks. Gun on ships and guns on planes.

  12. Re:Jeans on Reddit: No More Suggestive Content Featuring Minors · · Score: 1

    Wasn't the "nothing gets between me and my Calvins" chick a bit younger than 18 in Blue Lagoon?

  13. Re:then again, there's Beats by Dr Dre on Pink Floyd Engineer Alan Parsons Rips Audiophiles, YouTube and Jonas Brothers · · Score: 1

    You've never listened to MC Hawking?

  14. Re:I agree on his point about the room. on Pink Floyd Engineer Alan Parsons Rips Audiophiles, YouTube and Jonas Brothers · · Score: 3, Funny

    Great, now I expect crappy contractors to excuse their lousy builds with the statement "we did it for the acoustics".

  15. Re:So? on Pasadena Police Encrypt, Deny Access To Police Radio · · Score: 2

    I was not aware that dog raping was such a problem in England. Of course, I just feed mine a steady diet of roofies anyway.

  16. whither bonch? on 4G Phones Are Really Fast — At Draining Batteries · · Score: 0

    33 comments posted and still no snarky comment from bonch? I are disappoint.

  17. Winter break? on Delayed Outrage Over A Censored Site; What's a Better Way To Spread News? · · Score: 1

    Umm, the reason people may not have noticed and made a big deal about it is that the outage appears to have occurred during winter break.

    (Apologies if this is redundant. I tried to look for an existing thread on the issue to no avail.)

  18. Re:What if... on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 1

    I'm so happy that I'm not a man living in the US.

    I haven't found an English speaking country that's any better (or that lacks an extradition treaty). Nowhere in Europe for that matter.

  19. Re:How "silly" is it, though? on Fracture Putty Can Heal a Broken Bone In Days · · Score: 5, Funny

    It appears to be some combination of the word "news" and the word "paper". I'm confuzzled however, what is "paper"?

    It's what we used before the three shells.

  20. Re:Staffing Error Doomed American Tech News Site on Programming Error Doomed Russian Mars Probe · · Score: 1

    Then the summary should indicate this. Something along the lines of: "there are conflicting reports coming out regarding the cause of the Russian Mars probe failure..."

  21. Re:What is it with Mars and probes? on Programming Error Doomed Russian Mars Probe · · Score: 1

    It's HARD.
    I mean, we have pretty much mapped every spot on the planet, yet airplanes still crash.

    NP hard, or....

  22. Re:Sounds like a editor failure to me on Programming Error Doomed Russian Mars Probe · · Score: 1

    Those. Responsible have been sacked. Lamas!!!!

    Unfortunately, the way slashdot runs, tomorrow they'll have to sack those responsible for sacking those who were responsible.

  23. Re:How is "chip failure" a "programming error"? on Programming Error Doomed Russian Mars Probe · · Score: 1

    Stop dissing Steam, it is the power source of the future. :)

    Also, get off my lawn.

    Besides, how would I be able to download new copies of Portal and HL2 without it?

  24. Re:Thanks, Honeywell! on Honeywell Vs Nest: When the Establishment Sues Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    I had no idea these Nest Thermostats existed, but they look awesome. Now that I know about them I can go out and buy one and enjoy an increased quality of life. Thanks, Honeywell, for bringing them to my attention!

    Honeywell should get Barbara Streisand to sing the jingle for their Nest commercials.

  25. Re:Get a Nest on Honeywell Vs Nest: When the Establishment Sues Silicon Valley · · Score: 2

    You just compared a learning thermostat to a programmable thermostat. That leads me to this question:

    Nest $249
    Oranges $1.29/pound

    So who is more expensive?

    Apples! Everyone knows Macs are more expensive.

    Next time ask me a hard one.