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  1. Re:First, make a good video game on Religion in Video Games · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A video game based on the Bible would be more violent than GTA and have to be rated M++ for all the sex.

  2. Re:Not 2017, but by 2023... on Alternative 2009 Copyright Expirations · · Score: 1

    The voters need to completely re-shape the political atmosphere of America, perhaps removing the 2 party system entirely (5 political parties, anyone?), or at least reforming the political parties so that Special Interests have much less of a say on future laws and bills.

    You are modded insightful only because the choices don't include "Yeah, and chocolate should fall from the skies."

  3. Re:NO, guy, try reading, it's bad idea, citations? on Legislator Wants Cancer Warnings For Cell Phones · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The evidence is inconclusive at this point, but there are a number of studies that do seem to show that I am the Queen of England."

  4. Re:Buying boxes on DirecTV Sued By Washington State · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My mother-in-law, a DirecTV customer, died a year or so ago. My wife had such a hard time trying to terminate the account that she swears she will never do business with them and will do her best to discourage any of her friends from signing up with them.

    DirecTV bought bad word of mouth for decades when all they had to do was to say that they were sorry for her loss, the account is cancelled, and here is your confirmation number. Have a nice day.

  5. Redneck humbug! on Facebook Campaign Decides UK Christmas Music Charts · · Score: 1

    I still say they should have voted for the greatest Christmas song of all time:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandma_Got_Run_Over_by_a_Reindeer

  6. You need the right book on Grigory Perelman and the Poincare Conjecture · · Score: 3, Funny

    See, it pays to buy books with extra large margins.

  7. Two questions from ignorance on A Requiem For Saab · · Score: 3, Insightful

    1. Who owned SAAB before?
    2. If it is such a good brand, why don't those previous owners buy it back?

  8. Re:Unfortunate on Alien Screenwriter Dan O'Bannon, Dead At 63 · · Score: 1

    I saw the trailer and thought "Dances With Wolves" ...IN SPACE!

  9. Re:MORE FUNDS?! on Obama Backs New Launcher and Bigger NASA Budget · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hey man, how ya been? I haven't seen you since we were standing together at the rally protesting the huge deficit spending of the Bush administration.

  10. Berlusconi already in control - of Slashdot? on After Berlusconi Attack, Italy Considers Web Censorship · · Score: 1

    I mean, look at the facts. If this had been an incident in France, we would have two dozen posts with surrender jokes already. But here we have an Italian story and not one submarine screen door, bottom of the ocean, five reverse gears, pulling the pins and throwing them back reference. Someone has to be preventing this.

  11. Double blinded sex on Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unfortunately (well, maybe fortunately) all parties in this hack are anonymous. Otherwise, the new groom could rig up an automatic bed bouncing machine and become a sexual legend of Web 3.0.

  12. Flaming lips on fire off the shoulder of Orion on $300 Sci-Fi YouTube Video Lands $30m Movie Deal · · Score: 1

    I was going to say that I was waiting for Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, the movie, but according to Wikipedia, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshimi_Battles_the_Pink_Robots) there is a Broadway musical in development. So the movie will not be far behind.

    And the plot outline looks pretty interesting.

  13. Re:Too bad the US can't comprehend this concept on Microsoft Fined In India For Using "Money Power" Against Pirates · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Loser pays" also gives large corporations carte blanche to screw individuals.

  14. Re:How the MPAA thinks: on Hollywood Sets $10 Billion Box Office Record · · Score: 1

    Hollywood has never turned a profit.

  15. Copier on The DIY Book Scanner · · Score: 1

    I thought about doing this several years ago to archive a huge stack of old lab notebooks, then we bought some Ricoh copiers that were also scanners with a platen large enough to scan two pages at once. I was able to turn a 300 page notebook into pdfs in about a half hour.

  16. Re:Oink! Oink! on House Outlaws Obama's NASA Intervention · · Score: 1

    I recall a story that the ill-fated solid booster rockets could have and should have been built in one piece near the launch site, but they were farmed out to Hatch's home state of Utah for political reasons. Transportation from there meant that they had to be built in segments joined with O-rings.

    Is my memory correct?

  17. Re:10% improvement isn't that much on Lotus Teases With a Fuel-Agnostic Two-Stroke Engine · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You are assuming that ethanol is a green fuel. I'm not so sure about corn-based ethanol. Future technology may change that, but I am uneasy using a subsidized food crop to make fuel for cars.

  18. Re:Modern-Day Galileo on The Science Credibility Bubble · · Score: 4, Insightful

    “Certain results of observational cosmology cast critical doubt on the foundations of standard cosmology but leave most cosmologists untroubled. Alternative cosmological models that differ from the Big Bang have been published and defended by heterodox scientists; however, most cosmologists do not heed these. This may be because standard theory is correct and all other ideas and criticisms are incorrect, but it is also to a great extent due to sociological phenomena such as the ‘snowball effect’ or ‘groupthink’. We might wonder whether cosmology, the study of the Universe as a whole, is a science like other branches of physics or just a dominant ideology.”

    —Martin Lopez-Corredoira, astrophysicist.

    That is so retarded it needs to wear a helmet. The way to get ahead in science, if you want to really make your mark, is to kill the darling theories of your elders in a hail of factual bullets. Scientists are like sharks and lame hypotheses are blood in the water.

  19. You are hereby notified on Monkeys With Syntax · · Score: 4, Funny

    The monkeys' lawyers just served papers on the researchers for copyright violations and the making of unauthorized reproductions of the primates' intellectual property. Spokesape Lance Link said "The researchers have submitted my clients' calls to several funding agencies. This is clearly intent to distribute my clients' intellectual properties, and we will therefore be seeking compensatory and punitive damages of one billion bananas for each call infringed upon."

  20. Big deal on Sharp Rise In Jailing of Online Journalists; Iran May Just Kill Them · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    There is a crusty conservative faction in Iran that would like to punish lots of things with the death penalty - blogging against the man, looking askance at the man, sticking out the tongue at the man without a permit, and parking meter violations. This is nothing new.

    They actually have a lot in common with certain conservative religious groups here in the US. Bob forbid those retards ever get their hands on the levers of power. We'd have bloggers on death row within the year.

  21. Re:Review just in. on Apple Buys Lala Music Streaming, But Why? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    WTF? Bad Fark - get out!

  22. Review just in. on Apple Buys Lala Music Streaming, But Why? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No 4G. Less space than limewire. Lame.

    Graduate school, vengeful ghosts, high explosives. If Fark were about chemistry, it would look like this:
    Cadaverine (new window)

  23. Re:Is Kirk hinting to us? on Ambassador Claims ACTA Secrecy Necessary · · Score: 3, Funny

    If we were smart as a whole, we'd be voting libertarians into government

    If I weren't a Scotsman, I wouldn't think that was about the funniest thing I've read today.

  24. Re:Internet killed the Video star on The Noisy and Prolonged Death of Journalism · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Videos were a good promotion outlet for music, but the Internet effectively killed music videos on television.

    As I recall, MTV killed the music video by transitioning its programming over to game shows and reality shows until eventually you could not turn on the channel and see a music video for hours. This change was made way before the Internet got big enough tubes to flow a music video to your house.

  25. Re:Not the Death of Journalism ... on The Noisy and Prolonged Death of Journalism · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's kinda like a turkey in the rain. It gets hit on the head by a drop of water and looks up. As it looks up water drops run down its nasal passages. It continues this strange curiosity til it drowns.

    As someone who worked on farms where they raised turkeys I had never noticed large heaps of dead turkey carcasses when it rained. But perhaps this happens with wild turkeys which would make survival in the wild a short experience. So I looked it up.

    Of course this anecdote is hilariously false.

    Benjamin Franklin would like a word with the original poster.