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  1. Re:What? on No Winner In NASA's Moon-Dirt Digging Competition · · Score: 1

    If NASA controlled the press, their failure rate would be a lot lower too.

  2. Re:How do you handle guests and extensions? on Landline Holders Increasingly Older, More Affluent · · Score: 5, Funny

    yes, you just ask your wife for a 3-way. Preferably when you've had a little too much wine, are watching a porno, she's looking at some other guy, commenting on the babysitters's ass, etc. Make it seem like it's her idea, and for her benefit As far as guests go, it's best to start off with her (or him) just doing oral, so it's not threatening.

  3. Re:Reinventing the wheel? on France Launches Anti-Spam Platform · · Score: 1

    I didn't realize this would turn into a referendum on walmart. I guess it's a good thing I didn't mention the RIAA.

    Anyhow, a couple years ago, a walmart opened just outside of Chicago (Evergreen Park). 25,000 people applied for 325 jobs. I repeat: this was Chicago, not East Bumfuck.

  4. Re:Reinventing the wheel? on France Launches Anti-Spam Platform · · Score: 1

    European countries are smaller which changes the dynamic a lot. When the EU starts usurping power, you may change your mind. Personally, I trust profit as a motive more than the altruism of someone who wants to be (re)elected. If I dislike Walmart, I can shop elsewhere. If I dislike the war in Iraq, I can't stop paying taxes.

  5. Re:Reinventing the wheel? on France Launches Anti-Spam Platform · · Score: 1

    There are even more people that distrust the government.

  6. Re:Age of the universe. on Ancient Star Found, Estimated at 13.2 Billion Years Old · · Score: 1

    if it's offtopic, why not moderate it down "offtopic"?

  7. Re:Powered by goatse! on What Business Software Runs Your Office? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Goatse!

    Our office used to use goatse, but we ended up losing data. Personally, I lost my lunch.

  8. Re:What, why? on After 9 Years, Bugzilla Moves Up to 3.0 · · Score: 1

    Debian is a bunch of jackasses. Remember firefox/ice weasel?

  9. dumb on Does Wikipedia Suck on Science Stories? · · Score: 4, Funny

    if thy want dumbed down science stories, I suggest they check out this site.

  10. 'prompting Jobs to pull an iPhone out of his front on Answers From Steve Jobs at Apple's Shareholder Meeting · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If he pulled it out of his front pocket (Jobs wears jeans), perhaps it's not prone to scratching or easily breakable. Maybe they learned something.

  11. Re:Google copy on Users Being Migrated To New Version of Hotmail · · Score: 1

    I wish google would take you to the next message when you delete a message. I've never used a real email application that didn't work that way. I don't want to go back to the fucking, I want to read the next message.

  12. Re:what about gwt? on Sun Debuts JavaFX As Alternative To AJAX · · Score: 1

    You probably could. I seem to recall a tetris game made for the wii/opera web browser, using the canvas api. GWT and javascript let you have arrays, monitor keydown events, have timers, etc. Opera, FF, and Safari support the canvas api for drawing (like flash). Or the graphics could be done with positioned html elements. Flash still wins out for audio/video.

  13. what about gwt? on Sun Debuts JavaFX As Alternative To AJAX · · Score: 1

    The google web toolkit (which google doesn't even use, but whatever) already lets you program in java, which is converted to javascript. This makes it a whole lot simpler (and accessible) than requiring javascript, java, and flash. Even if you think it's a dumb idea or impractical, it's worth browsing the svn repository to see how it's accomplished.

  14. Re:How is this news? on Migrate a MySQL Database Preserving Special Characters · · Score: 1

    I use postgres. Things like views, foreign keys, check constraints, stored procedures, and functions make life a lot easier. When I was using mysql (4.x), I had to fake that stuff in user code, which was twice the work and not nearly as clean (or reliable). mysql 5 has some of that stuff now, but they're still a decade behind.

  15. Re:Presidential debates on CNN To Release Debates Under Creative Commons · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think it's a stretch to call any of them presidential.

  16. Re:humanity vs capitalism on Brazil Voids Merck Patent On AIDS Drug · · Score: 1

    The USSR had good military/space programs (based on germans, like ours). But at the cost of everything else. Like being able to go to the store and buy food.

  17. Re:Blocking Youtube? on Brazil Voids Merck Patent On AIDS Drug · · Score: 1

    last month, I caught a burglar breaking into my apartment. I didn't ask him if he was going to steal my TV so he could feed his family or if he was doing it for profit. I did unload 2 shell's worth of birdshot into him. My only regret is that he didn't bleed to death before the police tracked him down.

    Youtube schmootube. How does this affect my rights online?

  18. Re:Good for Brazil on Brazil Voids Merck Patent On AIDS Drug · · Score: 1

    would you be happier if the drug hadn't been developed in the first place? Maybe Brazil should just use one of those AIDS drugs that communism invented. (ie, sticking infected people in a prison and denying there is an AIDS problem).

  19. Re:The easy way out. on Brazil Voids Merck Patent On AIDS Drug · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If they didn't spend all day having buttsex with each other maybe they wouldn't be so poor. Or have AIDS.

  20. Re:humanity vs capitalism on Brazil Voids Merck Patent On AIDS Drug · · Score: 1

    Please provide a list of drugs developed in non-capitalist countries in the last 10 years.

    If it's a short list, it's because you're wrong or everyone with any knowledge leaves for a capitalist country.

  21. Re:humanity vs capitalism on Brazil Voids Merck Patent On AIDS Drug · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why should a drug company spend money developing drugs for the third world? By voiding drug patents and buying cheap knockoffs, they killed the goose that laid the anti-parasitic egg.

  22. Re:India on IBM to Lay Off Half of Global Services Division · · Score: 1

    The Mexican government and police are incredibly corrupt. Rather than reform themselves, it's easier for them to encourage lower class people to move to the US. If they weren't protesting in the US, they'd be protesting in Mexico. NAFTA is irrelevant.

  23. What's interesting on Google Shareholder Proposal to Resist Censorship · · Score: 1

    is not the shareholder proposal. Every reasonably known company has 3-10 per year. However, most board of directors provide a rationale for why they suggest voting against it. Why doesn't google's board provide a reason to vote against it? Maybe it's because insiders control the votes via their special super-powers stock. Or maybe it's because they can't rationalize it.

  24. Re:Blurred residences on Google Maps in Lexington, on How Google Earth Images Are Made · · Score: 1

    That's weird. Yahoo maps shows it as well, but at a lesser zoom level. That makes me wonder about california. Do they blur out barbara streisand's house? Anybody know her address? :)

  25. Re:Sold off. Brilliant! on Google's Stomach Pangs - Adjusting to DoubleClick · · Score: 3, Informative

    companies often sell off products after a merger/acquisistion to keep the FTC happy.