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  1. Watch out Nevada on Colorado Sued By Neighboring States Over Legal Pot · · Score: 1

    If this argument has any legs, then states bordering Nevada can begin to stop and detain women on their way to work in legal brothels, citing the Mann Act.

  2. Re:Two separate models on Linking Drought and Climate Change: Difficult To Do · · Score: 1

    Ah, we found the middleman.

  3. Two separate models on Linking Drought and Climate Change: Difficult To Do · · Score: 1

    If only the heat flow in the earth-ocean-atmosphere system was as easy to follow as the cash flow in the Koch-denialists-politicians system.

  4. Re:EFF Says: on 9th Circuit Will Revisit "Innocence of Muslims" Takedown Order · · Score: 2

    When an actor plays a role in a film they sign a release allowing use of their image in that film, but the argument here is that the contract was misleading as to the nature of the film and thus invalid, making the user of her image copyright infringement.

    This is a dangerous precedent for Hollywood. Suppose I am a character actor in a major motion picture and my parts mostly end up the floor in the first release of the print. I could now go to court to stop the distribution on copyright grounds because I was mislead as to the extent of my screen time? Any one of the cast could hold the whole movie hostage under this ruling.

  5. Re:Sounds like they should ban the cabbies on French Cabbies Say They'll Block Paris Roads On Monday Over Uber · · Score: 1

    Try to imagine yourself in Boston. Limited number of cabs by statute. They are often dirty and unsafe. The drivers run the gamut from mediocre to crap. The credit card machines are always "broken".

  6. Re:What the old farts did... on Spanish Media Group Wants Gov't Help To Keep Google News In Spain · · Score: 1

    n...e...v...e...r...g...o...i...n... God damn it!

  7. Re:Imagine that! on Spanish Media Group Wants Gov't Help To Keep Google News In Spain · · Score: 1

    a lot of people across Europe are not fond of Google's obvious disregard of them as unimportant enough to not even be negotiated with.

    In general, most European nations have a tradition that these things are negotiated on. US/UK tradition is in direct conflict with this, and is more of posturing and ultimatums.

    Bullshit. European tradition is to have a monarch dictate policy. US tradition is to argue everything out because we got rid of our King, so we had to vote on policy.

  8. Re:HAHA! on Spanish Media Group Wants Gov't Help To Keep Google News In Spain · · Score: 1

    What's Spanish for 'Alta Vista'?

  9. I have read the script. Spoilers at your own risk on Blade Runner 2 Script Done, Harrison Ford Says "the Best Ever" · · Score: 1

    It turns out that Philip K. Dick is the replicant.

  10. Re:The article mentions on "Fat-Burning Pill" Inches Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    Permanent? Ouch. "If erection lasts for more than 4 hours..."

    Do not Google "necrotic penis"

  11. Re:Magic Pill - Self Discipline on "Fat-Burning Pill" Inches Closer To Reality · · Score: 2

    In Star Trek women aren't uniformly attractive; it's simply that the ones who aren't attractive don't get promoted into the "important" ranks who get all the screen-time. Does it still seem so far-fetched?

    No, they just get beamed out on a transporter with the biofilter set to "hotness".

  12. Re:Google needs to share on Google News To Shut Down In Spain On December 16th · · Score: 1

    Where is my -10 Idiocy choice?

  13. Fool's paradise on Economist: US Congress Should Hack Digital Millennium Copyright Act · · Score: 1

    "Least of all should they have to seek permission from the manufacturer or the government."

    Has the author seen the incoming Congress?

  14. Footnotes, that's why on Overly Familiar Sci-Fi · · Score: 1

    If you write about a society to far in the future and want to show all the changes probable by then, your work will consist mostly of footnotes and explanations and definitions. Not a great way to tell a story.

  15. Why is this still on the way? on Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Ends Hibernation To Start Mission · · Score: 3, Funny

    When Pluto got demoted, I thought they were supposed to send a self-destruct signal to the probe.

  16. Re:Hackers Are Pampered on In North Korea, Hackers Are a Handpicked, Pampered Elite · · Score: 1

    Hungry people revolt. Starving people do as they are told.

  17. Re:Can Iowa handle a circus that large? on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Considering US Presidential Run · · Score: 1

    Sure they are. He was not natural born.

  18. Re:Can Iowa handle a circus that large? on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Considering US Presidential Run · · Score: 1

    He is not "natural born". He was born in another country.

  19. Re:Can Iowa handle a circus that large? on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Considering US Presidential Run · · Score: 2

    Too bad Cruz is not eligible.

  20. So is anyone else bothered by this on A Toolbox That Helps Keep You From Losing Tools (Video) · · Score: 1

    So I have been noticing that people, especially when interviewed, have developed this bad habit of beginning every statement with an unnecessary 'so'. So this is really starting to annoy me. So lately everytime I listen to a podcast or watch a video that word jars me like a electrical shock. So I know it's coming, and I pray that the speaker will recognize that it is a problem. So but they don't. So will this ever go away?

  21. Random sample from one paper on Profanity-Laced Academic Paper Exposes Scam Journal · · Score: 1

    "The University of Siegen in Germany working in the research and development of an autonomous unmanned ground vehicle (DORIS) project as in figure 1. As it is still a work-in-progress, a problem has been identified in the de- signing and implement a speed control system for DORIS_1 and DORIS_2 where a mechanical transmission and Hydro- static transmission used. An electro hydraulic servo system developed for DORIS_3 [1]." They do not waste monies on grammar the editing.

  22. Re:So it was a documentary on Russia May Be Planning National Space Station To Replace ISS · · Score: 1

    The quote was from Iron Sky, but I do recall that Soyuz capsules did at one time carry small arms in case they landed near angry bears.

  23. So it was a documentary on Russia May Be Planning National Space Station To Replace ISS · · Score: 1

    Everyone who doesn't have an armed space station, raise your hand.

  24. Government jackboots on Court Shuts Down Alleged $120M Tech Support Scam · · Score: 1

    I cannot wait until the Republican Congress gets the government out of the way and lets small businesses get on with their work.

  25. Jetson!!! on Magic Tricks Created Using Artificial Intelligence For the First Time · · Score: 1

    Why am I picturing Uniblab saying "Pick a card. Any card."