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  1. Re:What is it with tacking things onto bills? on Online Gambling Not Banned Yet · · Score: 4, Informative

    Line-item was passed during the Clinton Administration. Some Congressmen objected, and SCOTUS eventually ruled that it was unconstitutional.

    Much as I may like the concept of a line-item veto, as the Constitution currently stands, the SCOTUS ruling was correct IMHO (disclaimer - IANAL).

  2. Other obvious response on What Gartner Is Telling Your Boss · · Score: 1

    Windows Vista?

  3. Re:Arrogance. on Is Microsoft Using RIAA Legal Tactics? · · Score: 1

    Actually, this sounds more SCO-like than RIAA like.

    "He did something. Therefore he must have used our Valuable Intellecutal Property(tm)".

  4. Re:Don't Lose Sight of Our Goal! on Space Elevator vs Wildlife · · Score: 1

    That one's the exception, where it doesn't end in "... IN SPACE!!!"

    It's "Snakes on a Space Elevator".

    "I've had it with the M-Fing snakes on this M-Fing Elevator!"

  5. Re:I think the all time classic is........ on 10 Terrible Portrayals of Technology in Film · · Score: 1

    no hes definately rite.

  6. Re:Save New Scientist! on Thrust from Microwaves - The Relativity Drive · · Score: 1

    Well, travelling at the speed of light is about as close as you can get :-)

  7. Re:Step up on Spaceballs Animated Series in Production · · Score: 1

    I'd agree with you except for two things (three actually) - Time Warner in my area has the following on digital only:

    1. Sleuth (can you say Homicide: Life on the Street?)
    2. SiTV (OK, pretty useless, but they run Dark Angel every weeknight)
    3. BBC America (How else am I going to get my Monty Python fix?)

  8. Re:Poor Mel Brooks The Producers LOST MONEY on Spaceballs Animated Series in Production · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Go rent the 1968 original version -- which was not an adaptation of a stage play, but was written specifically for the screen.

  9. Re:KEWL! on Spaceballs Animated Series in Production · · Score: 1

    I know you're being serious, but GP was referring to the post-teasers from "History of the World, Part 1", which included "Hitler on Ice" and "Jews in Space".

  10. Re:*smug grin* on California Sues Automakers for Global Warming · · Score: 1

    AMC is Chrysler (as is Mercedes-Benz). Just ask Dr. Z!

  11. Re:Bah! Vinyl will never replace on Analog Revival Means Vinyl Will Outlive CD · · Score: 5, Funny

    had a sony turntable.

    You fool! Now you'll get rootkits on your LPs!!!

  12. Root Password to the US Constitution on Gonzales Wants ISP Data Retention To Curb Child Porn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Child Porn"

  13. Re:Abandoned? on New Tolkien Story To be Published · · Score: 1

    Read "Unfinished Tales". There's a lot more there than was published in the Silmarillion.

  14. Re:Bene Packard on HP Spying More Elaborate Than Reported · · Score: 1

    No, that would be the "Hewlett Haderach"

  15. Re:Science Friday Inteview on The Physics of Superheroes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In addition, Dr. Kakalios is quite friendly to people who email him about the book. I had a question about one of his equations, and emailed him about it, and he sent me a very nice reply.

  16. Re:Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex on The Physics of Superheroes · · Score: 1

    Mod +1 unintended double-entendre.

    It would be a tricky thing to pull off

  17. Re:Best captain on The 40th Anniversary of Star Trek · · Score: 3, Funny

    Excellent tactical ability (Picard maneuver),

    I didn't realize that pulling down one's uniform jacket when standing up was an indicator of tactical ability!

  18. Re:No he's not on U.S. Arrests Online Gambling Company Chairman · · Score: 1

    Nobody from France is allowed to criticize this arrest. Cf Yahoo.

  19. Re:Our laws, your country... on U.S. Arrests Online Gambling Company Chairman · · Score: 1

    I've been on pleasure cruises to Mexico, where people buy Cuban cigars. There is always a major announcement the night before docking back in the US that it is illegal to bring those cigars onto US soil, so smoke 'em now.

  20. Re:More junk to monitor on Space Tourism, Now and to Come · · Score: 1

    Sort of like William Gibson's "Red Star, Winter Orbit".

  21. Re:Obligatory Adams quote on Canadian Copyright Group Seeks To License the Net · · Score: 1

    Or, to paraphrase Clarke in Imperial Earth... The President should be dragged kicking and screaming into office.

  22. Why no link to the site? on FreeDOS 1.0 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    The submitter didn't even bother putting a link to freedos.org into the submission!

  23. Re:Storm meet teacup on Debian Kicks Jörg Schilling · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Because most of the thousands of OSS cd tools are merely front-ends to cdrecord.

  24. Been There, Done That, Got the TShirt on Steve Irwin Dead · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was doing a presentation for my daughter's fifth grade class on "What's inside a computer?"

    Halfway through, one of the kids asked a question: "Do you know you're bleeding?" I'd sliced myself on the case.

  25. Re:Disposable Razor IS bad on HP Launches Ink Patent Violation Manhunt · · Score: 1

    Most (older) laser printers specifically said not to plug them into a UPS. I know that when we bought an LJIII years and years ago, the manuals mentioned that.