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  1. Why not make a Voltron Movie? on Voltron Coming To The Big Screen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sure, ruin Star Wars, Dukes of Hazzard, Transformers, and millions of other memories from my childhood days. Why not ruin Voltron.

    While you're at it, go back in time and kick my dog, slash my bike tires, and burn down my fort.

  2. Re:It will all be over soon on Wal-Mart Turns Over DVD Rentals to Netflix · · Score: 1

    Like how ebooks eliminated the need for printed books. I'm looking across the street at the demolishion teams at Barnes & Nobel and Borders right now.

  3. unusual behavior on Before You Fire the Company Geek · · Score: 4, Funny

    'exhibited unusual behavior in the workplace prior to carrying out their activities.'

    Refering to management?

  4. Re:In other news... on Revenge of the Sith TV Spots Revealed · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    John Ratzenberger!?!

    Holy crap! He's my favorite voice actor of all time! Hamm, P.T. Flea, Abominable Snowman, the Underminer! And now the Pope!

    Congrats, my man!

  5. ET on SETI Predicts We'll Find ETs by 2020 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've seen it at least 10 times since it's first release. I'm starting to get sick of Elliot's whinning.

  6. "Zeppelin Flies Again" on Zeppelin Flies Again · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Dude, Zep's playing again?

    Where can I get tickets?

  7. If you're going to get married... on Diamonds - Are They Really Worth the Cost? · · Score: 1

    Buy the frickin diamond. I bought my wife one, even back when I was making about 12K/year. If you're worried about resale value, you shouldn't be getting married in the first place. Cough up a buck ya cheap bastard.

  8. Re:Oh well, has to happen at some point... on Circuit City Phases Out VHS · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? Myself and a small band of old school had been searching for years for a copy of this movie on VHS. Finally one guy bought a copy from some obscure website. Then the other day I was at the store and saw a 2-disc collector's edition BAD TASTE DVD!

    Yes, the old movies are coming to DVD, just wait and see.

  9. A whole new world for robotics on Transforming a Laptop into a Robot · · Score: 1

    Sure, Aibo the robot dog is cute, but can he fetch you a beer?

    Great the first robot of the trailer park scene!

    Can it turn the talkin picture box to NASCAR?

  10. Re:12 Monkies on The Wired Top Twenty Sci-Fi Movies · · Score: 1

    "As a matter of fact, things seem to go the exact same way that they had before."

    I've always interpreted the movie as they were never able to change the past. Every event that the characters did when sent "back" ended up in the "present" - the voice mail recordings, photos of graffiti, etc.

    The movie comes full circle when young Cole sees himself being killed(his dreams) at the airport in the last scene. A self-fulfilling prophecy, of sorts. Excellent movie, in my opinion.

  11. Re:Trent Reznor said it better on The Case for the Empire · · Score: 1

    Not being a dick, just technical. Broken was actually an EP.

  12. Building your own Falcon on Quickies from a Galaxy Far Far Away · · Score: 2, Funny

    Kinda reminds me of something I read before.

    Man, I love the Onion.

  13. Re:Huh? on Spider-Man, Star Wars and the Power of Myth · · Score: 2

    That might be backwards.

    As a kid I could sit through an entire novel. My attention span is shot as an adult. After the MTV-raped teen age, I can't get even 1/2-way through a comic book now.

  14. Huh? on Spider-Man, Star Wars and the Power of Myth · · Score: 3, Informative

    "more accessible to kids"

    Isn't it rated PG-13 vs. Star Wars' PG ratings?

  15. Re:Does anyone else find it interesting... on Attack of the Clones Cut in UK · · Score: 1

    "television standards are much looser and allow for more innovative and interesting programs to be shown"

    What? Like Red Green?

    That's not a slam - I love that show.

  16. DANG PA!!! on Science a Mystery to U.S. Citizens · · Score: 1

    And here I thoughts my ol' smell-hound "Skeet" was dumb. Turns out it's us people who's dumber than a box of rocks.

    I'm a-gonna go and sell my trailer and quit livin' this high life.

    SKEET! I'M A-MOVIN' IN WITH YOU!

  17. Re:Obligatory Simpsons on Camera Flashes Kill Nanotubes · · Score: 1

    "Die, bad robots, DIE!"

  18. And according to the beer commercial... on Black Is The New Beige · · Score: 1

    silver is the new black.

    I guess I have to go back to kindergarten.

  19. I heared... on Next Windows to Have New Filesystem · · Score: 1

    Theyre bringing Coolio into the mix and calling it PHAT32.

  20. Great Idea on Japanese Video Chain Cashes in on Mobile Internet · · Score: 1

    I'm going to start bar coding my customers.

  21. Re:Yeha, right on The Challenges of Making a Multiplayer Game · · Score: 1

    How about:

    "Hello World."

    That's in english, damn I love that language.

  22. Do I like my job? on Do You Like Your Job? · · Score: 1

    Let me tell you about my month:

    First off, let me tell you I work for a chain of flooring retailers, who don't know anything about anything except the difference between plush and saxony carpet. I started as an accountant using an all-paper system, then was appointed "MIS"-(whatever title they have for me this week), which included network admin for 5 seperate LANs (NT - yeah, I know), and some development to make up for what our shrinkwrapped software can't do. These people are salemen. Do they know management? No. Do they know the internals of a business(accounting, etc)? No. Do they even know how to use a computer? No.

    As I said before I've spent the past few years building applications which the package we bought cannot accomplish. Last month I ran an update of this package. All my applications died. They completely changed the database(run on Btrieve, no less).

    The last month I have been blitzing through my code, modifying all my sql strings, allowing for NULL's - which weren't in the database before, etc. I finally had almost everything re-built.

    Monday, to my delight, I was visited by the owner who said he was going to ship all of my app's to our software vendor and see how much it would cost for them to re-build them all.

    And to top it all off, yesterday I got a call from within a managers' meeting asking if an app that I had built to export certain reports to (*.txt) text files, could be rebuilt so they could export them to ascii text files.

    These people are the people who are in charge, ladies and gentlemen. They provide me with a paycheck. I rely on them to keep their business open so I can feed my family. Instead of me hating my job, I really should be hating myself for relying on these people. Who should I be blaming, my boss for being incompetent, or myself for allowing him to be my boss?

    Who are you blaming?

  23. See, it says sprocket, not socket. on History of Video Games · · Score: 1

    Are those plumbers at this show...?

  24. Re:Abbott and Costello on New Years Marathons · · Score: 1

    I'm doing one this year.

  25. Dude on IBM To Leave The Desktop? · · Score: 1

    I'm getting a dell.