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  1. Re:all five towers upgraded? on T-Mobile To Begin HTC G2 Preorders · · Score: 1

    I bought the G1 because it was the first Android phone... and that came with T-mobile.

    Now there are tons of Android phones, available on all networks. I'll say this, paying for a data plan is useless when you can't get a G3 signal.

    Not only am I switching to Verizon. But I'm breaking my contract to do it.

  2. Re:Out of sight, out of mind on Craigslist Removes Its Controversial Adult Section · · Score: 1

    "Since those ads are no longer easily viewed by the general public, some politicians will now consider it a victory against the evil sex trade."

    No they will not. They know perfectly well that this doesn't change anything. They're doing this because the public is pushing them to "Do something".

  3. Wazza? on New Calculations May Lead To a Test For String Theory · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In other words, string theory may finally have shed its critics' most common complaint: unfalsifiability.

    It's critics? It's CRITICS.

    Holy crap man. After spending a significant chunk of your life working on string theory, wouldn't you want to test it? That's part of the whole "I'm a scientist"!

  4. Re:First? on Brazil Using Smartphones For Planning the Future · · Score: 1

    You guys won't even allow homosexuals to marry, wtf is that for civil liberties...

    Then you don't understand the issue here. The issue is getting "Married" in a church (or whatever your religion has) and being marked down in the government books as a "Union".

    The controversy happens because those who push for Gay Marriage want the government to force religions to marry same sex couples. If they just went for fixing "Unions", it would have happened already.

    On top of that, the pro gay marriage people were dishonest about it. They claim people don't want gays to get married, when they really don't want their religion altered.

    So, on one hand, you have the Statu Quo. On the other, you have people wielding the power of the government to force the way your Religion operates, and then lie about it.

    It is really so shocking that they failed?

  5. Where should I keep my ill-gotten gains? on Apple Exec Stashed $150,000 In Shoe Boxes · · Score: 1

    So...I need a place to keep all this money safe. Yep. Nice and safe. A safe place to keep it hidden. Someplace...safe...

    OH! A shoebox! Brilliant!

  6. Re:as expected on Scott Adams On the Difficulty of Building a 'Green' Home · · Score: 1

    How do you think your government is going to react when the easy energy taxes start to dwindle?

  7. Re:Maybe she grossed much more than $50? on Philly Requiring Bloggers To Pay $300 · · Score: 1

    Because people who pay to put their ad banners on sites, tell the IRS that they put ad banners on sites. And how much it cost.

    Google does that for adwords.

    And since when does making a few buck off of a web banner make you a BUSINESS?

  8. Re:Getting the shaft? on Blagojevich Appears At Chicago Comic Con · · Score: 1

    How in the world do you get from "Being forced to hire someone on the color of their skin" (aka Racial quotas) to "They simply cannot judge people of other races based on the content of their characters"?

    That's a serious pretzel mind at work there.

  9. Re:WTF? on Blagojevich Appears At Chicago Comic Con · · Score: 1

    This as sad as the Democrats whining about only having a super-majority in Congress.

    Chicago is so locked in for Democrats that Republicans don't even bother to show up to vote anymore.

    It also shows why Illinois will have to be destroyed by their budget before they start to fix anything. The complete inability to take responsibility for anything.

  10. Re:He didn't do anything that the rest of them don on Blagojevich Appears At Chicago Comic Con · · Score: 1

    He made Obama look bad.

    If he's selling the seat to the highest bidder, does that mean that's how Obama got it in the first place?

  11. Re:Educational Problems on Union Boycotts LA Times Over Teacher Evaluation Disclosure · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You don't need three advanced degrees (And the debt load that comes with it) to each ANY high school class. Period.

    Home schooling is becoming more and more popular, and one of the reasons is how completely disconnected from reality Public schools are.

  12. Re:It's still illegal in Illinois on Court OKs Covert iPhone Audio Recording · · Score: 1, Troll

    The people who fired Sherrod owned the complete, unedited copy of the tape.

    AND you're being misleading. For everyone who doesn't know about the issue, the "Edit" was to cut the tape. You know, instead of playing the whole thing, you only show the 2 minutes of relevant material.

  13. Re:employers don't really care on Google's CEO Warns Kids Will Have to Change Names to Escape "Cyber Past" · · Score: 1

    Holy crap. I just googled my name, I swear I had NO IDEA this was causing my employment problems.

              ~John Wilkes Booth

  14. Re:Stop F'ing Whining on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 1

    Wow. An illegal alien and you're STILL focusing on the drunk driving?

    Do you really think that someone who is already willing to break the law and enter the US, and break the law to drink and drive, is going to give a damn at all about your breathalyzer toy?

  15. Re:Blowjobs on How Can I Make Testing Software More Stimulating? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Then you have hookers killing themselves from boredom.

    Although... trying to explain away the dead hookers would make debugging a lot more interesting.

  16. Re:Learn Baby Learn on Narco-Blogger Beats Mexico Drug War News Blackout · · Score: 1

    Actually, all you need is for Mexican citizens to have the US version of the 2nd amendment.

    All of a sudden you'll have towns VASTLY outgunning drug cartels, and corrupt police.

    The only reason the drug wars would come to the US is when the average armed citizen wants it to be here.

  17. Re:At what point isn't it a smartphone anymore? on Vodafone Backs Down In Row With Android Users · · Score: 1

    "Vodafone is the world's largest mobile telecommunication network company, based on revenue, and has a market value on the UK FTSE of about £80.2 billion (August 2010), making it Britain's third largest company"

    Seems like they're doing ok to me.

  18. Re:iPhone is slave-pod rubbish anyway on Apple Outs Anti-Jailbreak Update · · Score: 1

    Cry me a river, try being a Kindle advocate.

    Hey, did you know you can backup your Kindle downloads to your computer? YES REALLY. Every fricken time.

    And that's just one of many constant misconceptions.

  19. Re:Limits? Ha! on Lasers Approach Their Ultimate Intensity Limit · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, the broken limit you.

  20. Re:Prosecution? on SMS Trojan Steals From Android Owners · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. The Nigerian police are ever vigilant.

  21. Re:They just need to treat it like it's a privileg on Some LA Coffee Shops Are Taking Wi-Fi Off the Menu · · Score: 1

    Oh, that's easy.

    Have less comfortable chairs. The place I go to I can stay about 2 hours at the max, before I lose all feeling to my legs.

  22. Re:Par for the course on Samsung, Toshiba, Others Accused of LCD Price-Fixing · · Score: 1

    They weren't abusing ANYTHING? Really?

    Wow. I now have a new appreciation of historians. People forget that quickly.

    Here's a SNL clip from that era: http://www.hulu.com/watch/4163/saturday-night-live-ernestine

  23. Re:Slashdaughters, let us avoid... on Genetically Modified Canola Spreads To Wild Plants · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are you kidding? I've got enough fat reserves to last at least a year before I turn to Anarchy.

    You people on those "Eat 5 times a day" diets are screwed though.

  24. Re:Yet another "breakthrough" on Gasoline From Thin Air · · Score: 1

    Instead of having one super-amazing enzyme, why not do it in stages?

    Cows have 4 digestive compartments for a reason. :)

  25. Re:well.. on Steve Furber On Why Kids Are Turned Off To Computing Classes · · Score: -1, Troll

    What is the Public Education? Control. The Public Education system is a bureaucratic-generated dream world built to keep us under control. In order to change a human being into this.