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  1. Re:While I congratulate the designers... on Smallest Manned Electric Plane Flies · · Score: 1

    For a Cessna 172...

    Excellent point. I was surprised by the specs for a new 172 with a payload rating of 450 to 725 pounds depending on the range you need. If you actually try to fill all 4 seats or carry luggage there is not much spare capacity for anything else.

  2. Re:This is painfully obvious. on Researchers Say Happiness Costs $75K · · Score: 1

    I would add the number of people you accept to care for can go up with increased income. When I passed an amount I felt secure with I accepted increased responsibility for helping parents and siblings. That extra load seems to be a wash emotionally: there is some extra worry balanced by increased happiness at being able to help.

  3. Past Due! on Pirate Bay Down; Police Raids Across Europe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Now that governments across the globe are mobilizing armed men to eliminate file sharers, the world will be a perfect place. Certainly there is nothing worse than file sharing going on if this is their priority.

  4. Just ring the bell... on Ryanair's CEO Suggests Eliminating Co-Pilots · · Score: 0

    "If the pilot has an emergency, he rings the bell, he calls her in..."

    O'Leary is wearing a big bag of crazy on his shoulders, but some of his ideas are so over the top it would be entertaining to allow those practices and let the market decide on their wisdom. It should make for some exciting news reports as well.

  5. Re:Flickery Display using S-Video under Intel i945 on Ubuntu 10.10 Beta Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Use "i915.modeset=0"

    Ubuntu! Bringing Linux to grandma's desktop today!

  6. Re:Sounds like extortion on New Copyright Lawsuits Go After Porn On Bittorrent · · Score: 5, Funny

    Trannies From Hell

    Reminds me of my 94 Ford Mustang that would intermittently fall out of gear on the highway.

  7. Re:maybe spamming is a ...... on Spammers Attack Apple's Ping Social Network · · Score: 2, Insightful

    AC1 Wrote: "...hard steel of a bullet."
    AC2 Wrote: "...soft lead of a bullet."

    With FMJ you can both be right, but wouldn't you prefer the more satisfying hands on approach of an aluminum baseball bat? It has that personal touch that says: "I care."

  8. Re:Breaking news! on Flash On Android Is 'Shockingly Bad' · · Score: 1

    Or as Julia Sawalha says in a fake Australian accent on Time Please Gentlemen: It's fucking shocking!
    People in Australia don't really say that, do they?

  9. Re:Privacy on UN Telecom Chief Urges Blackberry Data Sharing · · Score: 1

    Isn't an individual's right to privacy inalienable and shouldn't the UN therefore support it?

    Why would you think that? The UN is a select club of governments doing the bidding of those governments. Individuals and their rights have little to do with it apart from some posturing.

  10. Re:The only thing i hate worse... on AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do · · Score: 1

    ...refuses to wear shirts and jackets with prominent logos.

    I'm with you on that. Some mainstream clothing brands with decent products I will pass by only because they have a big goofy patch or embroidered logo. I vaguely remember popular logos being a consideration when I was a kid, but as an adult it would be an embarrassment. The one exception I put up with now is Levi jeans.

  11. Re:That's why on AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do · · Score: 1

    ...I'll figure it out its purpose someday.

    It is connected to an identical light on Steve Jobs, like the glowing android necklaces in Star Trek "I, Mudd". It allows remote fanbois to get immediate instructions for dealing with criticism of Apple: beep, beep, beeeeeeep... Steve Jobs coordinate!

  12. Re:But what created the law of gravity? on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    ...belief in an invisible sky wizard

    Who is invisible? I can't see whom?
    [sky entity puts on robe and wizard's hat]
    Dude! That's not god!

  13. Re:It was inevitable on Snoop Dogg Joins the War On Cybercrime · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...some brand of adult disposable undergarments.

    Poop Dog?

  14. Re:It's always refreshing on Armed Man Takes Hostages At Discovery Channel HQ · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I did not see anyplace in the article or the manifesto that states James Lee was an atheist. Besides, there is a difference between crazy person does something violent and crazy person does something violent in the name of religion (shooting doctors who perform abortion or bombing medical clinics). In this case, the person acted based on flawed environmental views, not because he was an atheist. In the case of shooting doctors, the shooter explicitly claims Christianity as justification for murder.

  15. Re:brown vodka on Whisky Made From Diabetics' Urine · · Score: 1

    From your post title I thought you would describe something brewed with feces, aka chunky style.

  16. Re:attention to the polarised on Bill Gates Enrolls His Kids In Khan Academy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "He's an overflowing cup filled with the very cream of human goodness. In all the time I've known him he's never done anything immoral." - Hanover Fiste

  17. Re:Does that make sense ? on 'Retro Programming' Teaches Using 1980s Machines · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...exposed to the status quo in Java or C# and their heads will explode.

    Or at least cause their head veins to pulse as shown in this computer lab photo.

  18. Re:unruskie(%s) yields on UVB-76 Broadcasts New Voice Message · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe the Russians are just fucking with everyone's mind for laughs. They know people are speculating, and perhaps they got the urge to feed the "I want to believe" crowd some raw meat. I would not be surprised if there is a hidden joke that will be revealed in a decade or so just so they can say "gotcha!".

  19. Re:What does it play when acceleratng uncontrollab on Toyota Adds External Speakers To Warn Pedestrians · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...while an elderly man panics

    Hey! Some of us Prius drivers are trying to score Death Race points, and this proposal will really impact our scores :-(

  20. Re:Almost there.... on Los Angeles Unveils $578 Million Public School · · Score: 1

    Open sitting areas could be a problem in some locations. Any children sitting outside in Austin today would likely burst into flames.

  21. Administrative Offices on Los Angeles Unveils $578 Million Public School · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I bet such a luxury compound has some swanky digs for the guys at the top. They don't say much about that understandably. But heck, nothing is too good for the administrators.

  22. Re:Have some respect! on The Doctor's Every Journey · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the name of the late Senator Ted Stevens...

    Hmmm... you know, I've never seen Ted Stevens and Davros in the same place at the same time. Coincidence, or something more sinister?

  23. Re:Holy crap! on China's Nine-Day Traffic Jam Tops 62 Miles · · Score: 1

    I remember the evacuation traffic from Houston during hurricane Ike. Many people got stuck in traffic so bad that after traveling only 10-20 miles in 12 hours many people turned around and just rode the hurricane out.

  24. Re:Left out the best part on Iran Unveils Its First UAV Bomber · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is Iran intentionally angling for Fox attention? Why?

    I hear Ahmadinejad has the hots for Rupert Murdoch.

  25. Blago and Entertainment on Blagojevich Appears At Chicago Comic Con · · Score: 1

    If Blagojevich wants to entertain, I say he and Tom DeLay should be dropped on a deserted island to fight to the death in a televised event. The survivor would get a comfy pillow in his jail cell and a coupon for a free McDonald's happy meal. Get your popcorn and get ready to rumble!