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  1. Re:fascinating! on How Many Bits Does It Take To Kill You? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why not just call it "programming"?

    To avoid 90 hour work weeks and lousy pay.

  2. Re:Encourage use of MS tech by making the SDK free on iPhone App Wins Microsoft-Campus Programming Contest · · Score: 0

    ...it costs 1 Macintosh worth of dollars.

    Inscribed on a 1 Mac bill: In Jobs we trust, everyone else pays cash.

  3. Re:"Committed Suicide?" on EMC Co-Founder Commits Suicide · · Score: 1

    Bill: Ted?
    Ted: What?
    Bill: Don't "Fear the Reaper"!
    [both of them do an air guitar]
    Grim Reaper: I heard that.

  4. Re:More reasonable explanation on Drop in P2P Traffic Attributed To Traffic Shaping · · Score: 1

    You are only as old as you feel.

  5. Re:Safety first? on Dad Builds 700 Pound Cannon for Son's Birthday · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... guys that know what they are doing

    That made me think of Blackadder III, Duel and Duality:

    Blackadder frantically reads instructions during duel with cannons:
    "Congratulations on choosing the Armstrong Whitworth four pounder cannonnette. Please read the instructions carefully and it should give years of trouble free maiming."

  6. Re:not the whole story on Woman Fired For Using Uppercase In Email · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's what I was thinking: Crazy person uses what little power her position has to make life miserable for coworkers. Coworkers complain. Boss decides crazy person is disrupting business.

    I doubt anything she did was over the top enough to make a clear cut firing case, but nasty people with a little power doing many small, annoying things can make for a bad working environment.

  7. Re:External Forces = Pressure on Apple Blames 'External Forces' For Exploding iPhones · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apple has libberously documented each suspected case...

    Spell Different

  8. Re:Bye bye marvel... on Disney Buys Marvel For $4B · · Score: 1

    ...princess disney stories forever more

    Hundreds of millions of young girls with paying parents are bouncing off the walls in anticipation of Marvel branded princess stories. Disney suits drool at the prospective profits. Disney is an expert in the premise: It doesn't have to be good to make steaming buckets of money. Sorry old Marvel demographic, you are being phased out.

  9. Re:just Turing? on Alan Turing Apology Campaign Grows · · Score: 5, Funny

    Og want apology for Thag killing Og's pet mastodon.

  10. Re:Dangerous Thinking on India's First Stealth Fighter To Fly In 4 Months · · Score: 2, Funny

    British vs US spellings

    Let's get ready to roeumble!

  11. Re:Not really news. on Australian Defence Force Builds $1.7m Linux-Based Flight Simulator · · Score: 4, Funny

    And it can make the Kessel run in 12 parsecs.

  12. Re:Sparc and Solaris on Oracle To Sell Sun's Hardware Business To HP? · · Score: 0

    Oracloris, so you are "ready" for those intimate moments.
    Apparently Larry is interested in hardware after all.

  13. Re:One more nail in the coffin.... on Emergency Government Control of the Internet? · · Score: 1

    no US presidents are ex-generals who conquered Washington, D.C. with their troops.

    Community organizers and law professors are even more dangerous!
    Plus, I've seen a picture of President Obama in a toga someplace on the internet.

  14. Re:Happened in Dallas ISD too on Bug Means High School Students' Schedule Errors May Last Days · · Score: 1

    Never mind, you're not a fool, you're a paranoid.

    Well, your personal attacks aside, I'm just calling them as I see them. Check out the more 'conservative' members on the Texas SBOE. You should try addressing issues instead of just shouting people down, unfortunately uninformative posts like your reflect the current approach to public matters of angry people with nothing to say or contribute.

  15. Re:Happened in Dallas ISD too on Bug Means High School Students' Schedule Errors May Last Days · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why is it still happening?

    Because a significant portion (not all) of the population is unwilling to pay for adequate education. Because a significant portion (not all) of parents are disinterested in what their kids do. Because a significant faction in American politics believes there should be no public education at all and so do everything possible to sabotage it, including packing boards of public education.

    The same thing is going on in public universities. I had a history class at UT Austin with 700+ students packed into an auditorium with 600 seats. No questions allowed, as there would be no time to answer them.

  16. Re:This... on US Call-Center Jobs — That Pay $100K a Year · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The point of capitalism is not to lift up the employees.

    You are looking at this through the evil end of the prism. The point of the article is that you can make money *while* lifting up employees, possibly more than if you crush them beneath your booted heal.

  17. Re:TiVo was cool... on TiVo Relaunching As a Patent Troll? · · Score: 1

    ...bad programs for children

    It's long past time for teletubby bye bye.

  18. Re:Obligatory Futurama Reference on Drug Vending Machines · · Score: 4, Funny

    slips 1000$ bill in "Refreshing Crack!" vending machine

    I was about to comment that a rock will only set you back $20, but then I remembered how much a vending machine charged me for a soda recently.

  19. Re:The obvious answer on Time Denies Issuing DMCA Over Obama Joker Image · · Score: 2, Funny

    You should not obsess so much about the president's berries.

  20. Re:Apple's iTMS may beg to differ on US Fed Gov. Says All Music Downloads Are Theft · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's still no reason to falsely accuse someone.

    Agreed, why not just instruct people to point and scream "witch!".
    That would reveal the true intent of this exercise.

  21. Re:erm.... on Using a House's Concrete Foundation To Cool a PC · · Score: 1

    Why are you worried about the metal getting bent more than the rock?

    Because rock beats scissors.

  22. Re:First questions on Neilsen Questionaire on Nielsen Struggles To Track Modern Viewing Habits · · Score: 1

    HeeHaw is not science fiction? They all look like aliens to me.

  23. Re:Missed opportunity on Nielsen Struggles To Track Modern Viewing Habits · · Score: 1

    "don't touch that dial!"

    I wonder what's on the other channel.
    *clunk, clunk, clunk* [adjusts rabbit ears]

    You know, ever since June 12 I Love Lucy has looked really staticy.

  24. Re:Must not be using silicon then... on Intel's Roadmap Includes 4nm Fab in 2022 · · Score: 2, Funny

    or 2.44e-10 cubits [Egyptian]

  25. Re:we need to end drug prohibition on Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession · · Score: 1

    As an added bonus, legal pot will make it easier to rule in on line gaming like CoD5. "Woah... wait... was the grenade L2 or R2? Oooh! Look at the pretty cherry blossoms!"