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  1. He's up for re-election in November... on A Congressman Who Can Code Assembly · · Score: 1

    in a very red red red district. Please contribute to his campaign if you'd like to stick around. His opponent was a nasty, bigoted loser, Jim Oberweis.

  2. Re:Google for Vicki Phillips on Yahoo! Switches Search Engines · · Score: 1

    Easy -- Jane Fonda.

  3. Re:The real loser in all of this... on Excite@Home & Comcast/AT&T Reach Agreement · · Score: 1

    Sure @home is the loser here. But which individual people are the losers? I assume that the top employees (and perhaps the lower ones too) got sweet lay-off packages from Excite, what with them giving away money left and right.

    Aren't Excite's shareholders the biggest losers for rejecting AT&T's offer? They seem to have basically demanded that their stocks go from about $.50 to $.05.

  4. Re:South Park, and issues with IT on This is IT? · · Score: 1

    (Doubt you'd ever see one pulling up to a McD window.)

    That's a point in IT's favor, right?

  5. Re:Potential energy source? on Giant Black Hole Found · · Score: 1

    That's really the problem with most available holes, isn't it?

  6. Re:And you HAVE to buy it. on Onstar Navigation System to Deliver In-Car Spam · · Score: 1

    Exactly what is the problem that you have with me owning a "luxury" pickup?

    Oh nothing at all! Let me guess, you talk incessantly on a phome while driving too?

  7. Re:Great troll on Excite Could Go Dark On Friday · · Score: 1

    uh...hello...I worked at AT&T broadband and they are called CSRs. Cust Service Reps.

  8. easy. on Douglas Adams' Last Book · · Score: 1

    This is not that difficult. Publish the book as "Salmon of Doubt: an unfinished work by the late Douglas Adams". That way, everybody knows that it is unfinished and can think of it as such. Take it for what it is worth.

    If readers are not capable of considering unfinished notes as what they are, then their opinions should not sully Adams' reputation.

  9. Re:And you HAVE to buy it. on Onstar Navigation System to Deliver In-Car Spam · · Score: 1

    If you buy an SUV, you deserved to be spammed while driving.

  10. Re:An engine -fell off- the plane??? on Another Plane Down in New York · · Score: 2, Funny

    now, for 3 or 4 birds at the same time, or a big bird, it's another story)

    ...or Big Bird! We already know Bert's involved...

  11. Re:This doesn't look like your shade of lipstick on Adult Sites Pay $30 Mln To Settle Fraud Charges · · Score: 1

    No joke. Who in their right mind would give their credit card number to a porn site for a "free" service??? At some point, it ceases to be fraud and becomes a tax on stupidity (apologies to Dennis Miller).

  12. Re:Sentient AI readers? on Writers Who Will Stand the Test of Time? · · Score: 1

    Mentifex, do you agree to some extent with Alan Kurzweil's conception of the singlarity?

  13. Re:Sentient AI readers? on Writers Who Will Stand the Test of Time? · · Score: 1

    You sound familiar, Mentifex. You used to be on TableTalk, didn't you.

  14. Re:Immanuel Kant on Writers Who Will Stand the Test of Time? · · Score: 1

    Although Wittgenstein had a compelling personality, I personally don't think that he was profound or that he broke much new ground.

    I find that his early scientific-materialist work in the "Tractatus" is a footnote to Hume.

    And I find his later relativistic work in the "Investigations" to be elaboration on Rousseau.

    My guess? Clare Graves.