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  1. Re:Wow on EU Demands Canada Gut Its Copyright and Patent Laws · · Score: 1

    We already gave it to the US; to give it to the EU we'd have to take it back from the US, and there's no way in hell we're going to risk that, on the off chance that the EU doesn't want it...

    Seriously, do you want to be stuck with it?

  2. Re:Our new overlords (a different meme) on EU Demands Canada Gut Its Copyright and Patent Laws · · Score: 1

    I'm not your guy, buddy!

  3. Re:Surprised on First Collisions At the LHC · · Score: 1

    Does this mean it's time for cake?

  4. Re:Pretty weak constitution on Drunk History Presents Nikola Tesla *NSFW* · · Score: 1

    Actually they do match.

    A "fifth" is actually 1/5gal, or "one fifth of a gallon". This is 25.6oz of fluid, which is why in Canada we call it a "26'er"
    Google translates this to 757.082357 ml.
    Further, I'm not sure where you get your pints, but a 355ml bottle of beer isn't enough to fill a proper pint glass.
    A pint is 16oz, 450ml, just shy of 2/3 of a fifth. A standard bottle of beer is 12oz. If you're only getting 250ml when you step up to the bar, I would hope you head back there now and get your change.

  5. Re:Poor choice of verb. on Best Buy Offers Bogus "3D Sync" Service · · Score: 1

    That's called advertising. Every company does it.

    "Our product doesn't contain arsenic! It's Space Age technology(tm)! Now with electrolytes!

    Whoa, wait a minute there... you're trying to trick us, there aren't any plants in space.
    We need to keep those electrolytes for our plants down here on earth; they crave them, don'tya know?

  6. Re:It's Just A Table on The $8,500 Gaming Table You Want · · Score: 1

    In my gaming group, almost all of us have laptops, and .PDF copies of the books we own.
    We all (save one) prefer the books and character sheets on paper over PDF and digital character sheets.

  7. Re:Eh on Mafia Boss Betrayed By Facebook · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but tweeting your crimes is definitely worth -50 points.

    Those wouldn't happen to be Don kill points, would they?

  8. Re:So when do I get my replicator? on Scientists "Print" Human Vein With 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    Be careful, or you might get a machine that always gives you a drink that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. Share and enjoy!

    Don't hate on drinks that are almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. With one, you can do even the most infinitely improbably things, like visit Earth.

  9. Re:Next step, the amusement park! on Details Emerge On Futurama's "Rebirth" (and Return) · · Score: 1

    ahh, screw the whole thing.

    No, screw the hole thing

  10. Re:The Cause of the Extra Gamma Radiation is... on Gamma Ray Mystery Reestablished By Fermi Telescope · · Score: 1

    9. Something even worse

    Daleks
    Nasty creatures, they are...

  11. Re:its because the olympics are over on The LHC Is Back Online · · Score: 1

    The refs were all American NHL refs.

    They were also highly biased towards knocking Canada out before the US had to play us in the gold-medal game.
    This is further evidenced by the amount of penalties called against the Canadian teams (mens and womens, in any of our games, not just vs. the US) in comparison to the lack of penalties called against the other teams (often times for more serious offences).

  12. Re:Finally something new added to the old stuff! on BlackBerry Bold Tops Radiation Ranking · · Score: 1

    You must have ran out of energy before telling them to get off your lawn..... I'll do it for you.

    GET OFF HIS LAWN!

    And you're doing it while standing on his lawn, how nice.
    Lucky for you, he's resting, and will never know of the lawn-abuse you've inflicted upon him.

  13. Re:Take that china on Copernicium Confirmed As Element 112 · · Score: 1

    Oh wait. No, there's no continent called Eurasia

    Of course there's not; if there were, we would be at war with them. We're at war with Oceania, though. We've always been at war with Oceania.

  14. Re:Bye bye Wii on 2010 — the Year AACS and HDMI Kill Off HD Component Video · · Score: 1

    Many stations broadcast digital TV free-to-air. Many even broadcast digital HDTV (720p) signals.

    That "old antenna-coax" screw-on attachment is still useful if you bought a TV with an ATSC digital decoder built in, which will take the signal received from an HD-compatible antenna (you can buy them for around CDN$25, or build one for a dollar or two) and convert it to a picture for you.

    You don't need cable to watch sports and get local news and weather (and some children's shows).

  15. Re:Err... on How To Play HD Video On a Netbook · · Score: 1

    My TV is running at 1920x1080 over a standard analog VGA cable.
    42" Bravia + nVidia 9800GTS

    I think you and your friends all need to change your TVs. Perhaps you're using TVs that only support 1080i (native res 720p)?

  16. Re:More realistic? on Civilization V Announced For This Fall · · Score: 1

    (Quoted from Wikipedia to save the time of figuring out how to expess it clearly myself).

    Simple.
    With a hex-map, when you cast Fireball, you can approximate the range.
    With an iso-map, you end up with Firecube.

  17. Re:Brings back memories... on Civilization V Announced For This Fall · · Score: 1

    But... What was your wife-to-be doing for dinner? ;)

    His best man?
    No, wait, that would be who she was doing for dinner.

  18. Re:cable boxes on Sony Announces First 3D Blu-ray Disc Players · · Score: 1

    For crying out loud, this is the century of the fruit bat! Why can't we have a single remote control for channel surfing.

    You can
    You don't even need one as good as that though, you can buy Universal Remotes at most dollar-stores and convenience stores nowadays.

  19. Re:Now why does it reminds me of OCP corp? on Armed Robot Drones To Join UK Police Force · · Score: 1

    And don't forget visuals! That's what these "ultra-powerful disorienting strobe lighting apparatus" are seemingly for...

    Battling Seizure Robots, Go!

  20. Re:Timeline on Armed Robot Drones To Join UK Police Force · · Score: 1

    No he didn't
    I voted for Kodos.

  21. Re:Rubber bungs on Armed Robot Drones To Join UK Police Force · · Score: 1

    Where I came from we have no bunghole
    There is but one bunghole, and it is good

  22. Re:DOOMED I say... DOOMED! on Verizon Blocking 4chan · · Score: 1

    This is Accounting, sir. You inquired about Agent Richard Gill?
    Yes.
    Our records indicate he's deceased.
    I'm what?

  23. Re:to all the nuclear proponents on Tritium Leak At Vermont Nuclear Plant Grows · · Score: 1

    But who needs real information if there is you got fear?

    And who needs grammar when you've got teh intarwebs[sic]?
    Perhaps your argument would carry more weight if you actually called the isotope by its real name, tritium, instead of some made-up metal that you decided to call it. Of course, it's not like you could have known its real name; it's only mentioned a few hundred times in this discussion, let alone TFA and TFS.

  24. Re:Yea, Right after pigs fly out of my.... on DARPA Aims for Synthetic Life With a Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    flying pigs small enough to come out of my butt?

    It's monkeys, you insensitive clod!

    Party on

  25. Re:Marketing angle on New Most Precise Clock Based On Aluminum Ion · · Score: 1

    Add the fact that only 1 single atom of aluminium is needed per clock ...

    +/- a few electrons...