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  1. Re:So how much does it cost ... on HIV Vaccine Approval For Human Trials · · Score: -1

    My guess, the second batch of volunteers will be those in marriages/committed relationships with HIV+ positive spouses (eg: married to a nurse who got pricked, a spouse who had a bad blood transfusion, victim of rape, etc, etc).

    By 'etc' you mean 'other spouse was slutting about'.

    (And if you think 'slut' implies female, that says more about you than me."

  2. Re:Fuck Apple on Apple Wins Injunction Banning Import of HTC Devices · · Score: 1

    or does Apple have that patented too.

    In this case, Penny Arcade has the prior art.

  3. Re:Meatheads and Tech on NFL: National Football Luddites? · · Score: 1

    Heisenberg? Screw that shit, we only drink Bud Light.

  4. Re:Sounds like FUD on Domestic Surveillance Drones Could Spur Tougher Privacy Laws · · Score: 1

    That depends, do you shit in the woods? :P

    No, no, no, you're supposed to ask him if he is Catholic (or wears a funny hat).

  5. Re:Is it cost, or painkiller paranoia? on The Painkiller That Saves Money But Costs Lives · · Score: 1

    Yeah, watch out in MD. My father is still dealing with shitheads at the state after several years of being on the 'no-no' list. Turns out it's better to send someone three hours away than to prescribe various opioids in medically underserved areas of the state.

  6. Re:"from user's machines" on Canonical To Remove Sun Java From Repositories, Users' Machines · · Score: 1

    How did Steve Wozniak go bad?

    Having sex with Kathy Griffin.

  7. Re:Just ask a Scotsman... on New Study Concludes Math Gender Gap Is Cultural, Not Biological · · Score: 1

    *looks up pictures of kilts to point you to* ... wow, there's kilt porn. I guess I should have expected it.

    just image search hot ladies kilt

    Rule 34.

    Fortunately for my tastes, it works for the 'catholic school girl thing you mentioned'.

  8. Re:Never fear on US Bans Loud Commercials · · Score: 1

    I have one of those dreaded MBAs. One of the ideas taught in Marketing 500 (actually is was either 504 or 540 at my school) is that the importance is to get the brand recognition. Yes, you will alienate some people. But many others won't be able to remember why they remember head-on, except that it comes to mind when they have a headache and are in need of a palliative.

    Name recognition. It's important. You may be old enough to remember the tagline in an ad that was "That's a spicy meatball". Everyone liked the ad. Everyone remembers the tagline. Problem is, nobody remembers what the product was. Oops. Bad ad.

  9. Never fear on US Bans Loud Commercials · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Advertisers view laws, rules, and common decency as damage and will do their best to route around it.

  10. "right to be free from harassment" on Judge Orders Man To Delete Revenge Blog · · Score: 1

    Is that the new zeroeth amendment? Nice fucking pussy pass from a white-knighting judge.

  11. Re:Still readying the artical but... on New Study Concludes Math Gender Gap Is Cultural, Not Biological · · Score: 1

    It goes to great lengths to show that the purported wage gap due to some systemic disenfranchisement is vastly overstated. The only question remaining is just how overstated.

  12. Re:It's working on The Mexican Cartel's Hi-Tech Drug Tunnels · · Score: 1

    Perhaps I needed to clarify things a bit. The testing referred only to 'illegal' drugs. As long as I don't use at work, I am free to drink alcohol. But I may not have signs of marijuana use in my urine, even if I just returned from a trip to Amsterdam.

    As far as unions, I'd like one, but I don't know that it would help. In the three jobs I've been in with a testing requirement, one was a unionized workplace that presumably agreed to these conditions, one was deregulated in the 70's and 80's and there's almost no unions left, and my current workplace if filled with a bunch of anti-union Randroids.

    I'm not particularly ok with it, but my alternative is imprisonment, me being a victim of the modern indentured servant class.

  13. Re:Still readying the artical but... on New Study Concludes Math Gender Gap Is Cultural, Not Biological · · Score: 2

    hahahha! *cough* You could at least link to some nutters blog for a funny citation.

    No nutter's blog, but I do have a report commissioned by the US Department of Labor on the myth of the wage gap.

  14. Re:Still readying the artical but... on New Study Concludes Math Gender Gap Is Cultural, Not Biological · · Score: 1

    [Citation desperately needed]

    Enjoy

  15. Re:Just ask a Scotsman... on New Study Concludes Math Gender Gap Is Cultural, Not Biological · · Score: 1

    I want a kilt, but I'm a girl, and it will just come off as "catholic school girl" rather than ... like a kilt

    TPIUWP

  16. Re:What is with the UK and all this surveillance a on UK Police Test 'Temporarily Blinding' LASER · · Score: 1

    ....average throat-cutting, convoy robbing, wife-whuppin', goat-fucking Taliban Mujahedin* in the Iraq or the Afghanistan. Yay for Democracy, Freedom and other Western Values.

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    * This image of the Taliban is based on post-Soviet era Western media portrayal. Before that the Mujahedin were brave, just, honest and peace-loving farmers who were badly abused by the Bloody KGB and only kept goats for the milk and the meat**.

    ** This image of the brave, just, honest and peace-loving Mujahedin is in reality Western propaganda while the image of the "average throat-cutting, convoy robbing, wife-whuppin', goat-fucking Taliban Mujahedin" is the truth ... honest.

    Yeah, but back in the day, they were our average throat-cutting, convoy robbing, wife-whuppin', goat-fucking Taliban Mujahedin.

  17. Re:This would be funnier if it weren't so sad on North Korea Threatens South Korea Over Christmas Lights · · Score: 1

    ... over in a week or two with the modern S. Korea army aided by the U.S. quickly recovering from the initial bombardment and then demolishing the N. Korean army.

    N.Korea is a nuclear power with a nutcase in control of The Button. The US won't go NEAR that one.

    It would be like trying to push the positive poles of two magnets together. Especially if Newt Gingrich gets to live at 1600 Pa. Ave.

  18. Re:Easy Solution on North Korea Threatens South Korea Over Christmas Lights · · Score: 1

    Let's be honest: nobody celebrates Kwanzaa.

  19. Re:When the North Korean People on North Korea Threatens South Korea Over Christmas Lights · · Score: 1

    Liberating NK would be like on an episode of Cops where the chick who got her ass beat changes her mind after Barney Fife shows up to arrest the boyfriend. No good ending for anyone.

  20. Re:Assault Shovels should be regulated! on The Mexican Cartel's Hi-Tech Drug Tunnels · · Score: 1

    They can have my assault shovel when they pry it from my cold, dead hands (and then presumably dig my grave with it).

  21. Re:You'd think... on The Mexican Cartel's Hi-Tech Drug Tunnels · · Score: 1

    You can overdose on water, too. Should water be illegal?

    Yes.

  22. Re:It's working on The Mexican Cartel's Hi-Tech Drug Tunnels · · Score: 1

    Imagine you have a bunch of Wahhabis from Sausi Arabia who are SO conservative they can't stand normal Wahhabis. They found their own country so they can be even more intolerant. That's America in a nutshell.

    Don't forget those of us brought here in chains who interbred with the locals (and eventually the Puritans).

    Quite a bunch of neuroses all packed into one. AND we've got more nukes than anyone else.

    Sleep tight.

  23. Re:It's working on The Mexican Cartel's Hi-Tech Drug Tunnels · · Score: 1

    The UK has a massive problem with alcohol related violence yet alcohol is legal.

    Spoken like a true yank. A bit of lager-fueled fisticuffs on a Friday night does not constitute a massive problem.

    You couldn't even point to the UK on a map.

    Bullshit. It's over in the corner with a hand pointing at it saying "here there be dragons".

  24. Re:It's working on The Mexican Cartel's Hi-Tech Drug Tunnels · · Score: 1

    Those same politicians also claim to love states' rights, yet refuse to let them act in this instance.

  25. Re:It's working on The Mexican Cartel's Hi-Tech Drug Tunnels · · Score: 1

    It's also flat out incorrect. I am and have been subject to drug testing for employment for a number of years. In all of those jobs, I was (and am) subject to dismissal if signs of use are found, regardless of whether I used said substances at work or at home, and regardless of whether the substances were legal in the jurisdiction where I would have used them.