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  1. Re:What's really wrong with dumping a rabbit? on Easter Humor · · Score: 1

    What's *wrong* with getting an animal, deciding that you don't like it, and having it put down? It isn't on "humanitarian" grounds, as jamie's pointing out, since a humanitarian specificaly values *human* welfare.

    humane adj. 1. Characterized by kindness, mercy, or compassion: a humane judge.

    "But it's *wrong* to keep a rabbit and then let it die!" *Why*, I ask?

    Needless suffering and/or a waste of a perfectly good rabbit.

  2. Re:Cats are edible on Easter Humor · · Score: 1

    Cats protect our food storage from mice.

  3. My guess on New Terminator 3 Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    > So why did Arnold have to die in the Second film

    He was too heavily damaged for repair, and with its objective completed it was assumed to be too great a risk to stay around. Cyberdyne was able to design the T-1000 because it had the T-800 parts from the first movie.

    > if they can just keep shipping cyborgs back to past?

    Apparently, rebels prevented any time travel that would mess up the continuity.

  4. Re:It's already been done on Run Your Car on Grease · · Score: 1
    and nitrogen fertilizer onto his fields.
    According to Appel, waste goes in one end and comes out the other as three products, all valuable and environmentally benign: high-quality oil, clean-burning gas, and purified minerals that can be used as fuels, fertilizers, or specialty chemicals for manufacturing. - http://www.discover.com/may_03/gthere.html?article =featoil.html

    If it has to be nitrogen, use manure.
  5. Re:Windmills in the ducts on Energy From Vibrations · · Score: 1

    I suggest you read this.

  6. Cooler RND on VIA C3 Random Number Generator Reviewed · · Score: 1
  7. Only two? [n/t] on Space Elevator Company Fission · · Score: 0

    nt.

  8. Re:What about speed? on MiniDV As A Backup Medium · · Score: 1

    How about just a quarterly scandisk?

  9. Re:New Media Doesn't Last on Saving Digital History · · Score: 1

    Maybe future archeologists will use plastic food wrappers to translate books and RFCs so they can fire up a copy of Babelfish. ;)

  10. Re:eBay? on The Search for Secret Shuttle Parts · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Easy answer is culture. on Why Does Manga Succeed Where American Comics Fail? · · Score: 1

    "Get a fix", where fix is an amount or dose of something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic.

  12. Re:beyond the jokes on Produce Organs...From Printer · · Score: 1

    Sounds like this.

  13. Re:Karma whoring... on SAUNAAB · · Score: 1

    I forgot North and South were part of the American continents' names..

  14. Re:Karma whoring... on SAUNAAB · · Score: 1

    Like everyone from Europe is called a European? What if he didn't mean Canadians?

  15. Re:Um... on E ~ mc^2 · · Score: 1

    Yes, but: combustion 1. The process of burning. burn 2. Physics. To cause to undergo nuclear fission or fusion.

  16. Re:excuse me? on Microsoft Next Generation Shell · · Score: 1

    But he was on topic with regards to its parent, Which is what it's about.

  17. Re:Um... on E ~ mc^2 · · Score: 1

    The sun does burn. It consumes and destroys with fire things that come close to it.

  18. Freethinker vs Atheist on The 20th Anniversary of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Freethinkers are skeptics whereas Atheists are unbelievers.

  19. Re:I can see it now... on Listen to Webpages While Driving · · Score: 1

    Think of that with a windshield HUD..

  20. "Ent" on Tolkien and the Beowulf Saga · · Score: 1

    In Dutch, "ent" means graft.

  21. Re:formula for likelihood of life on SETI@Home Revisits Its 100 Best Signals · · Score: 1

    You can't sue bugs either.

  22. I knew that.. on Digital Domesday Rescued By Emulation · · Score: 1

    I think the succes of emulators like Snes9X overshadowed the software meaning.

    Maconlinux.org could use a refresher too.

  23. WINE Is Not An Emulator on Digital Domesday Rescued By Emulation · · Score: 1

    As it only translates software calls and doesn't emulate hardware.

  24. Re:the tattoo on Palm OS Powered Tattooing Robot Debuts in Vienna · · Score: 1

    That was like this commercial.

  25. Re:Yawn on "Longhorn" Alpha Preview · · Score: 1

    Microsoft likes Vim though. :)