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  1. Re:IRS needs to go on IRS Can Read Your Email Without Warrant · · Score: 1

    Well, that would certainly fix the overabundance of lawyers in society.

  2. Re:International Smuggling on Ocean Robots Upgraded After Logging 300,000 Miles · · Score: 1

    Or candy. It could be a big sea-piñata, and we could break it open on a reef someplace.

  3. Best friends? on The ATF Wants To Know Who Your Friends Are · · Score: 3, Funny

    Jim Beam, Philip Morris, and the brothers Smith and Wesson, of course.

  4. Re:More succinctly on Massive Data Leak Reveals How the Ultra Rich Hide Their Wealth · · Score: 1

    >> Ownership is not a productive act. Labor is productive.

    Have you ever tried to plow a field with your bare hands?

    Labor plus no capital is the lowest form of productivity. There are many places a hoe/plow/tractor can come from, but someone ends up owning these tools.

  5. Re:Collateralized vs Non-Collateralized Loans on Let Them Eat Teslas · · Score: 2

    I'm happy to pay taxes to educate children and young adults in basic skills such as writing and mathematics.

    I don't want to send my tax dollars to for profit "colleges" to pay for worthless education and mind-candy degrees.

  6. Re:Sigh on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Explain That Humans Didn't Ride Dinosaurs? · · Score: 1

    Ponies?

  7. Re:Some Thoughts on Ask Slashdot: Enterprise Bitcoin Mining For Go-Green Initiatives? · · Score: 1

    >> If everyone came up with a half crazy/half ingenious idea

    The company already owns the machines, let them also pocket the incremental electricity costs and pocket the bitcoins yourself. It's embezzlement for the modern age.

  8. Re:So how does it work? on World's Most Powerful Private Supercomputer Will Hunt Oil and Gas · · Score: 1

    >> Imagine solving a wave equation (acoustic, elastic, or worse) over a 3D grid many kilometers on a side with grid spacing on the order of meters. Imagine you're doing it with a strong high-order finite-difference code. Calculate for tens of thousands of timesteps. Now repeat that entire thing thousands of times for a given full survey.

    I put on my robe and wizard hat.

  9. Re:Vial infections on Most UK GPs Have Prescribed Placebos · · Score: 1

    Clearly they mean "vile" infections.

  10. Re:GoPro sucks on GoPro Issues DMCA Takedown Over Negative Review · · Score: 4, Funny

    4. GoPro traveled back in time to save Hitler from temporal assassins.

  11. Re:Should be collected by the feds on Internet Sales Tax Vote This Week In US Senate · · Score: 1

    >> Making merchants deal with 50 different tax codes is
    onerous.

    It would be a shame if our tax code were to become overly complex and onerous.

  12. Re:Longevity. on Voyager 1 Officially Exits Our Solar System · · Score: 0

    I think Norris is a big pu....sedgfsewtrgawedrtvAQ 45gy135454 yh dgv

  13. Re:Longevity. on Voyager 1 Officially Exits Our Solar System · · Score: 2

    Little known facts about Voyager:

    • Carl Segan formed Voyager purely out of his own mental energy
    • The gold record carried by Voyager was designed and recorded by John Denver while on the set of the Muppet Show
    • Jimmy Carter hurled Voyager off Earth with his own bare hands
  14. Re:Wait, what? on Why Earth Hour Is a Waste of Time and Energy · · Score: 1

    I thought Earth Hour was about reducing time pollution.

  15. Re:It might be true but on How Beer Gave Us Civilization · · Score: 1

    Its also a great way to store grain.

    Beer is liquid bread, lovely, lovely bread.

  16. Re:Dumbest story title, ever? on Smartest Light Bulbs Ever, Dumbest Idea Ever? · · Score: 1

    I don't see that much power savings between LED and CFL for a large increment in cost. Is there something else I'm missing, or is it just about the life of the bulb?

  17. Re:Cue the apologists on Obama Administration To Allow All Spy Agencies To Scour Americans' Finances · · Score: 1

    If you vote for the lesser of two evils, you'll surely get it.

  18. Re:Vote with your wallet on EA Offering Free Game to Users After SimCity Launch Problems · · Score: 1

    Plus, give it a nice review.

  19. So how do I check? on ISP Trying Free (But Limited) Home Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    So how do I check how much bandwidth I used last month?

  20. Re:Battletoads? on Groupon Still Losing Money, CEO Is Fired And Leaks Final Email · · Score: 2

    The Russians apparently.

  21. Re:Seperation of classes on Plans Unveiled For Full Scale Replica of the Titanic · · Score: 1

    >> hardly seems like it would be a popular concept in modern day

    In most of the world today, you can travel in various "classes" of accommodation.

  22. Re:Umm, yeah on Mosquitoes Beginning To Ignore DEET Repellent · · Score: 1

    Well the rest of us can smell it just fine; how about toning things down a notch there, Tony Bennett?

  23. Craigslist on Ask Slashdot: Starting From Scratch After a Burglary? · · Score: 4, Funny

    >> What would you do if you had to replace ALL of your technology in your house at once?

    Go on Craigslist and buy all your old crap back for ten cents on the dollar.

  24. Re:American Wage Slaves are an Even Better Value on US CEO Says French Workers Have Three-Hour Work Day · · Score: 2

    We don't sleep. We're all at our second jobs.

  25. Re:WTF is up with the flag? on Update — Sensors Do Not Pick Up North Korean Radioactivity · · Score: 2

    Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

    Hell no, and it's not over now!