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  1. Haa haa! on RIAA Hearing Next Week Will Be Televised · · Score: 2, Funny

    Justice on dowels.

  2. Re:They made fools out of themselves. on Internet Not Really Dangerous For Kids After All · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Only if they're underaged. Then they'll be right.

  3. Re:Holy shit, it's a proto-Firefly! on Reaction Engines To Fly Reusable Spaceplane · · Score: 1

    Uhm... they made this 15 years ago. It was called the Venturestar. They had all the bugs worked out. It was cheap.

  4. Re:Here's a funny joke on Stand-Up Comic Makes Science Funny · · Score: 1

    Wait, is this another "You're The Man Now, Dog" joke?

  5. Re:Here's a funny joke on Stand-Up Comic Makes Science Funny · · Score: 2, Funny

    Punchline: Yo mamma's fat.

  6. Re:Really that big deal? on Obama Recommends Delay In Digital TV Switch · · Score: 1

    I love you.

  7. Re:sue Amtrak and JetBlue on Amtrak Photo Contestant Arrested By Amtrak Police · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of a story a year or two ago, where a man was arrested for knowing the law better than police officers.

    Man Arrested For Being Right

    It really doesn't pay to argue with cops who are wrong.

  8. Re:Crazy Indians? on Indian GPS Cartographers Charged As Terrorists · · Score: 2

    My Dad has been saying that for decades. Where's it from?

  9. Re:ok lets talk turkey on US Corps Want $1B From Gov't For Battery Factory · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I find it much easier to buy a 10 lb chicken from the farm down the road, where I can go and pick out the little sprinter that I want to cook up. I swear, all that running and fresh air makes them so TASTY!

    Your turkeys don't get to run? Well, what do they do all day?

  10. Re:More enforcement would help on CAN-SPAM Act Turns 5 Today — What Went Wrong? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wooo! Cuba has the best wakeboarding!

  11. Re:Evidence does not get recorded on What the Papers Don't Say About Vaccines · · Score: 1

    Ditto here, except replace "Cold Urticaria" with "Juvenile Non-Rheumatoid Idiopathic Arthritis" which so far has resisted any and all treatments. The doctor called it 'growing pains' for six months while he slowly lost the ability to walk, or even stand, and when the coincidence with the MMR jab was mentioned, it was dismissed outright... of course. He's now basically on chemo drugs, and suffering all THOSE side effects.

    But at least he doesn't have the measels!

  12. It's Called "Mob Mentality" on Censorship By Glut · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Basically, you do what you think others want you to do. This... this is not news.

    However, it's good to see it being properly analyzed. I'll need at least an hour to think about this.

  13. Re:Because we have cars? on iPhones, FStream and the Death of Satellite Radio · · Score: 1

    Sirius car radio: $50 as a present.

    New car stereo: $200 and up, plus having to have a different digital music player for each group: Just me, me and my wife, and the whole family.

  14. Re:Taxpayers shouldn't be bailing out any of these on Should Taxpayers Back Cars Only the Rich Can Afford? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What do you think this is, a capitalist free-market nation? America is a socialist country, otherwise it wouldn't be redistributing fantastic gobs of wealth like this, to the truly needy car companies.

  15. Re:Wrong idea on Annual Video Game Report Card Is Positive, For Once · · Score: 1

    But to provide anecdotal evidence that kids are more violent because they pay non-violent games or less violent games is pretty ridiculous.

    I agree. When someone does that, I'll let you know.

  16. Because we have cars? on iPhones, FStream and the Death of Satellite Radio · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Where I live, we don't even get radio station reception at my house, so this is a good way to get lots of music, and national radio broadcasts, in my car, whenever I want. Or I can change the stations depending who's in the car with me. Somehow, this seems a lot less of a hassle than getting an iPhone just to hear some tunes.

  17. Re:Even worse... on Microsoft Researchers Study "Cyberchondria" · · Score: 1

    You can't post here! This is bat country.

  18. Re:It Has A Medical Counterpart, Too on Microsoft Researchers Study "Cyberchondria" · · Score: 1

    I have gone to the hospital, but they best they can tell me is "inconclusive". I might have it, I might not, and unless I spend something like 72 hours hooked up to an EEG and deprived of sleep, they won't be able to tell for sure, and even if they get a positive hit, the medication sounds worse than the condition.

    I just want to be taken seriously by the people who have made it their life's mission to make sick people feel better. *grumble* Still, these are the same doctors who said for six months that my son had "growing pains", before FINALLY giving him a blood test and finding out "Oh, hey, your son has a rare idiopathic form of juvenile arthritis, and he'll be on medication and physiotherapy for the next four years. If only we had caught it sooner."

  19. It Has A Medical Counterpart, Too on Microsoft Researchers Study "Cyberchondria" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because doctors know that people can often search for stuff like this on the internet, many medical professionals will IMMEDIATE ignore any and all such comments or queries. I've come to three doctors now with information I found in medical journals and on the internet which match my symptoms (migraines, blackouts, audio and visual hallucinations, seizures, fugue states... basically, every facet of certain kinds of epilepsy). All three doctors have told me, in various ways, that since I found this information myself, it's clearly NOT what I have.

    I continue to have blackouts and seizures, and continue to go untreated, because unless I have a seizure in my doctor's office, he'll just assume I'm trying to get medication out of him.

    I call it "Smug Superioritis".

  20. Re:Too bad.. on Stephen Hawking Going To Canada · · Score: 5, Funny

    Our plan is to give him free health care and poutine, and see which one wins.

  21. Re:Terror from the deep! on Oil Exploration Leads To Video of a Mysterious Elbowed Squid · · Score: 1

    "Terror From The Deep" was a lame name, but dang if that game wasn't fun! It was missing giant tentacle monsters, though...

  22. Re:Wrong idea on Annual Video Game Report Card Is Positive, For Once · · Score: 1

    Will do! :) -- The smiley of approval!

  23. Re:Wrong idea on Annual Video Game Report Card Is Positive, For Once · · Score: 1

    See? Even an Anonymous Coward figured it out.

  24. Re:Wrong idea on Annual Video Game Report Card Is Positive, For Once · · Score: 1

    Uhm... I was agreeing with you. The "shut up and graze your pasta" thing was meant to be a joke, made in good humor. Holy over-reacting, Batman!

    And in your response, you CONTINUE to agree with me, while making it sound like you're DIS-agreeing with me. I don't really understand where you're going with this.

  25. Re:Wrong idea on Annual Video Game Report Card Is Positive, For Once · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Shut up and graze your spaghetti.

    I'm a parent of three, and I'm pretty opinionated on this matter. My nephews are only allowed to watch non-violent shows and play non-violent games (they're both complete Pokemon addicts), and both of them are on MUTLIPLE medications for violence and agression. My oldest has been playing Killer Instinct and Kingdom of Loathing and Carmageddon since he was four, and he's about as non-violent as a kid can be (his teacher likes to tell me about his 'Champion Manners' in class, because they have a Manners rating system).

    Video games are a FACTOR that determine psychological development, just like humidity is a factor in a car accident... in both cases, the DRIVERS make the biggest impact (note: drivers = parents).