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  1. Re:The D Team -Starring Dolph Lundgren, I'm thinki on Ukrainian Attack Dolphins Are On the Loose · · Score: 1

    Actually, Its would think it more likely they would be known as the C-Team!

    In 1972 a crack dolphin commando unit was sent to Sea World by a military court for a crime they didn't commit.

    These mammals promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underwater.
    Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as dolphins of fortune.

    If you have a problem - if no one else can help - and if you can find them - maybe you can hire... The D-Team.

  2. This would have been first post. on CERN Announcing New LHC Results July 4th · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...but it doesn't carry any weight anymore.

  3. Explosive Decompression on What Happens If You Get Sucked Out of a Plane? · · Score: 1

    Explosive decompression accidents are rare, but when they do happen, they are very very nasty.

    I refer you to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin

  4. Re:yeah.. right.. on New Dr. Who Episode Leaked · · Score: 1

    Its not per TV. Its per household (though technically if its a household shared by non-family members then each TV is an area which is private (ie bedrooms) are required to be licensed. In practical though, having one license per household keeps you off the list of properties to be visited by the detector vans.

  5. Re:Linux community already donates on Gates Pledges $750M to Vaccinate Children · · Score: 0, Troll

    typical....you make a fair point and some pre-pubescent mod without an idea of whats important in the world mods me troll! ha. Gotta love slashdot

  6. Re:Linux community already donates on Gates Pledges $750M to Vaccinate Children · · Score: 1, Troll

    tell that the the kids dying of malaria in sub-saharan africa. im sure a free operating system would get them all giddy with excitement.

    Not.

  7. First Data Recieved via Cassini! on Huygens Probe Lands on Titan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Straight from the JPL:

    01000001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01100010 01100001 01110011 01100101 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100010 01100101 01101100 01101111 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110101 01110011 00100001

  8. Re:accidents on A Pizza Box for Your Laptop · · Score: 1

    unlike you it seems......we all realised its a satirical!

  9. Re:How's this for a "rest of the story"? on Setting up a High-Tech Language School? · · Score: 1

    Keep going with the chemistry. A chemistry degree could be your step into journalism as a science correspondant etc....and once your foot is in the door, the world is your oyster.

    And besides, its proof you can do something academic and relatively abstract....not like some shitty history of art degree thats about as much use as a kick in the balls.

  10. Re:Last night was no parade on Steam Registration Servers Overloaded · · Score: 1

    Such a disclaimer would not superside well-established consumer protection law in the UK.

  11. Re:Excellent teamwork on Chinese Team Heading for Coldest Spot on Earth · · Score: 1

    radioisotopic generators? hmmm, but i guess antarctica is supposed to be free of those.

  12. Re:About writing.. on Building a Linux XBOX Cluster · · Score: 1

    real geeks prefer ssh!

  13. Re:Not for reeeallly secret stuff on Shootout: 'rm -Rf /' vs. 'Format C:' · · Score: 1

    [cough] Sarcasm perhaps?

  14. Re:Sentence can be lengthened, sort of on Siblings Guilty of Spam Felony, Partner Acquitted · · Score: 1

    Well, i know its a bit offtopic, but in the UK - if someone appeals a sentence, then they can find themselves with a MUCH harsher sentence if the appeals court thinks the original sentence was unduly lenient. Kinda funny methinks. I guess it puts people of wasting the courts time.

  15. Re:tell the entire story of our evolution over tim on The Eye: Evolution versus Creationism · · Score: 1

    Damn, now i wished i had chosen the red pill...it would all have been so much easier.

    (picks up his leather jacket, shades and uzi on my way out)

  16. Re:Someone explain to me how this is news on Bush Website Blocked Outside N. America · · Score: 1

    And who says america deserves to be the "respected leader of community of nations"? Especially when it is seems (under its current pseudo-fascist neoconservative regime - im not a hater of americans) that unilaterism is the only way to feed the ego's of Bush's puppeteers. It seems that political masturbation is your game, so rather than waste my time further responding, ill leave you to metaphorically soil yourself.

    Yours awake and not blinkered by fear,

    Dave

  17. Re:Someone explain to me how this is news on Bush Website Blocked Outside N. America · · Score: 1

    popularity.....wrong
    leftist.....true
    point of your post.....unclear

    me....getting back to work.

  18. Re:Someone explain to me how this is news on Bush Website Blocked Outside N. America · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "George W. Bush is President of the United States, not President of the Rest of the World"

    The annoying thing is that he thinks and behaves as if he were.

  19. Re:Last time I checked... on Sinclair And Clones Computer Show · · Score: 1

    Actually, he was referring to the gameboy, not the gameboy advance. ;-)

  20. Re:Another dupe, timothy? on Colorado Researchers Crack Internet Chess Club · · Score: 1

    all you pawns are belong to us.

    Forgive me father, for i have sinned ;-)

  21. Re:Gratuitous Linkage on Caffeinated Beer Becomes a Reality · · Score: 1

    With lambics and wheatbeer's - the flavours you mention come from the yeast strain used (or bacteria/yeast in the case of the lambics). Other beers such as "chocolate" ales, the flavour derives from the choice of darkened barley.

    Since A-B brew from RICE (because its a cheaper source of carbohydrates) then cant get their flavourings from the grain, and with so little to work with, even fancy yeast strains are not going to be able to do much with their rice beer.

  22. Re:"Orbit in 10 years" on Space Tourism is Off and Running · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe he was actually referring to orbit. You dont think that the company is going to stand still and just offer outer-atmospheric hops for the next decade do you?

  23. Re:New taste to acquire on Caffeinated Beer Becomes a Reality · · Score: 1

    Sweet beer with fecking Ginseng? Man, and i was pissed off previously given that cheapskate A-B make their "beer" from RICE........

    Alas, now they are making a brew that will keep you awake when you are totally pissed. Nice. Your world will be spinning and you wont be able to get to sleep. Sounds like a nightmare to me

    And isnt ginseng supposed to be some sort of aphrodisiac? Man, the combination of a 12-pack worth of beer goggles and ginseng.........oh the humanity.

  24. Re:The Same Reason I bought an XBOX on Microsoft To Sell Win XP Starter Edition In Russia · · Score: 1

    There is nothing stopping you brewing your own beer (in fact i do) or growing your own tobacco (in fact i dont).......and the government doesnt stop you doing these things. Most of us want convienience - and as long as the cost of obtaining is relatively low - the vast majority of people will buy (and thus pay the taxes).

  25. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. on Will Google Launch A Browser? · · Score: 1

    Yes he didn't! ;-)