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  1. Re:Sounds familiar. on Mom Arrested After Son Makes Dry Ice "Bombs" · · Score: 1

    I guess as soon as the flight attendant showed up it counted as a group? Hope she yelled at herself too.

  2. Re:never gonna work on Porn Industry Ready To Drop Flash · · Score: 1

    No, you'd have to get all workplaces to block google images first.

  3. Lawyers always know best! on Geologists Might Be Charged For Not Predicting Quake · · Score: 1

    Good to see the chief prosecuter's extensive geological research has established earthquake prediction to such a finely tuned science that not acting on it is tantamount to murder.

    Next up, doctors will be arrested for not predicting your cancer.

  4. Re:Thats more porn... on Over a Third of the Internet Is Pornographic · · Score: 1

    It is really in your face.

  5. Re:The danger of solar power on Solar-Powered Ultralight To Try 24-Hour Flight · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, at night it will run on moonlight so the drain will be split evenly between the moon and the sun.

  6. Re:Didn't he get an iPod? on The Star Wars Kid Is Back · · Score: 1

    I plan on waiting outside his retirement home decades from now and giving him an atomic-wedgie.

  7. Re:At first I wondered if it was real... on Steak-Scented Billboard Entices Drivers · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please be serious, this is a meaty subject.

  8. Re:Time to change your OS to OSX or BSD on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 1

    This is (one reason) why so many software apps are being developed for web browsers. You get around many of the OS issues. You usually have to still deal with the OS on the app server but that is a single machine vs many clients.

  9. Re:One question on OH Senate Passes Bill Banning Human-Animal Hybrids · · Score: 1

    I don't know about that but I do know that a lot of furries are gonna be pissed.

  10. Re:If they don't want to be recorded they are hidi on Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Isn't the response of the law-and-order types to privacy complaints "If you haven't done anything wrong you have nothing to worry about"? So if the police have nothing to hide they have nothing to complain about. In fact they could be helped in case someone makes a false claim against them.

    The only real motivation they have is that they want to hide their actions. They are public employees and the public has a right to watch them.

  11. Re:News? on Rumor of Betelgeuse's Death Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    It better not go. Orion is my favorite constellation and I don't want it getting mucked up.

  12. Re:Backups on 10 Tips For Boosting Network Performance · · Score: 1

    I use it for my mailbox.

  13. Thanks for telling me now on Cutting Umbilical Cord Early Eliminates Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    It is safe to assume that this news has arrived too late for anyone reading this.

    Mom owes me some stem cells!!!

  14. Re:I infected a computer with a virus on Scientist Infects Self With Computer Virus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Most keyboards are infected with muffin crumbs.

  15. Re:ignore them and show it anyway on Decency Group Says "$#*!" Is Indecent · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I learned long ago that any organization with the word "Parent" in the title has little to do with 99.999% of parents. They will however account for 99% of the complaint form letters sent to the FCC.

  16. That explains it on Jupiter Is Missing a Belt · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Now I know why Jupiter's pants keep falling down.

  17. Re:Typical GW on Games Workshop Sues Warhammer Online Fansite · · Score: 1

    Easy solution, don't buy their products. Let them wither on the vine. There are lots of other games you can play.

  18. Re:Obvious solution on Recession Cuts Operation That Uses Hair To Clean Up Oil · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't want it mutating into a giant killer toupee.

  19. Re:Why? on Church Turns To Facebook To Find Priests · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what supporting South American right-wing dictatorships has to do with the numbers of people saying they are Catholic, that doesn't explain the growth of the church in Africa nor the survival of Catholism in Communist Poland. US support of Chile didn't increase the number of Protestants. I was thinking mainly of the system of Catholic hospitals, schools, and relief institutions. They are certainly more organized and work on a bigger scale than most other groups (Mother Theresa's order in India comes to mind). Some funding is semi-local but a significant amount comes from overseas contributions and the general pool since most of the areas needing aid need money in the first place. If it isn't "so simple" then what is it? People are currently being forced to attend mass?

    The growth of the Catholic church at the start was greatly aided by the fact that they were one of the few groups providing help to the poorest Romans. The Catholic faith was started by force in the New World however just as Native Americans were forced to observe Protestant faiths.

  20. Re:Obvious missing section on The Laidoff Ninja · · Score: 1

    They also left out the part about stealing epic loots during raids. Damn those ninjas!

  21. Re:Just allow priests to marry already. on Church Turns To Facebook To Find Priests · · Score: 1

    As long as they equate the clergy with the vows of monkhood (celibacy) they will constantly handicap themselves. There is no need for it and no strong defense for it. Maybe a crisis that brings the church low will force its hand but even the child molestation crisis doesn't seem to be enough.

  22. Re:Why? on Church Turns To Facebook To Find Priests · · Score: 1

    One reason religious groups do so well in very poor countries is that they are one of the few groups actually helping the poor. Their governments may not be able or willing to help so these groups fill that vacuum. Once people become more prosperous and their physical needs are already met all that is left are the people who are religious by nature which is a much smaller number.

  23. The trots=sales on Paper Manufacturer Launches "Print More" Campaign · · Score: 1

    If this doesn't work they can always try their other idea to sell paper, "Poop more!"

  24. Re:No problem on Digital Photocopiers Loaded With Secrets · · Score: 2, Funny

    It was your butt? That explains why one image filled the whole copier hard drive.

  25. Re:The end of homebrew on The Apple Two · · Score: 1

    That may have been the Integer BASIC manual. By the time our folks got an Apple II+ it was an Applesoft BASIC manual and it included the memory map.

    Fun stuff like specific memory calls (-62454 anyone?) were tipped off by folks like Beagle Bros.