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  1. Re:RIP on Colbert Wins Space Station Name Contest · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I say we get an early start and begin naming our spacecraft and space stations in the fashion of Iain M. Bank's Culture. Gravitas? We don't need no stinking gravitas.

  2. Re:why light? on Addicting Mice To Light · · Score: 1

    Oops, sorry, didn't mean to make "Rat Pr0n FTW" even less funny.

    Don't worry. The only way you could make "Rat Pr0n FTW" less funny is if you punched me in the face while I was reading it.

  3. Re:idea is redundant on Spiraling Skyscraper Farms For a Future Manhattan · · Score: 1

    So Soilent Green is Chinese people?

  4. Re:Older fathers have more autistic children on Court Rules Autism Not Caused By Childhood Vaccine · · Score: 0

    Remember, correlation is not causation. There is very likely a strong genetic basis for autism. As such, the fathers of autistic children could well have some slight autistic traits that delay their social development. These late bloomers would be marrying and then having children at a later period in their lives.

    I'm not saying that the above is fact, but that if this vaccine brouhaha can teach us anything it's to draw our conclusions with care.

  5. Re:Birds thrown into engine on The Tech Behind Preventing Airplane Bird Strikes · · Score: 2, Funny

    With a special attachment, the engine also makes julienne fries!

  6. Re:Oh Real clouds on Major Study Concludes That Cloud Seeding Is Effective · · Score: 2, Funny

    Only if your seed is pure.

  7. Re:Doesn't need to be a spaceship on The Science and Physics of Back To the Future · · Score: 1

    If you're at the point where more than one person doesn't get your post, then perhaps it's time to rephrase what they're supposedly not understanding. It's called "discussion".

  8. Re:Lower-wattage bulbs on Censorship By Glut · · Score: 1

    Give the parent post another read. He didn't state that Fox News is watched by a segment of the population that doesn't watch TV. He said that Fox News is watched by a segment of the population that seeks out programming that reinforces their own world view.

  9. Re:Could be good Idea on Left 4 Dead Demo Includes Linux Steam Client Libraries · · Score: 1

    There is no platform for distributing comercial games available for Linux so far.

    Au contraire.

  10. Re:Name on Fedora 10 Released · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Wasn't anyone on the Fedora team thinking of the prissy Englishmen?

  11. Re:Missing spider on Spider Missing After Trip To Space Station · · Score: 1

    Moving on to another file system is just a natural part of the healing process.

  12. Re:Zachary Quinto on First Trek Film Footage Unveiled · · Score: 1

    the most perfect? are you more surer or is he maybe even more perfectererer?

    He just gets increasingly perfect. Any more perfect and he'll have to be kept in a hyperbolic chamber.

  13. Re:Bake on a stove? on How Regulations Hamper Chemical Hobbyists · · Score: 1

    There are recipes for various breads where you put the dough in a canister, place the canister in a pot with some water on it and allow it to cook on the range. The bread, of course, is really moist and the process is mostly suited to sweet dessert breads.

  14. Re:The Wikipedia on Michael Crichton... on Michael Crichton Dead At 66 · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that have been a short, private battle?

  15. Re:ohnoitsroland!! on Optical Fiber With a Silicon Core · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't see how unfair it is that Roland Piquepaille should receive compensation for what effectively is online research. It's at least as fair as Slashdot, a for-profit company, getting loads of free online research from article submitters.

    How do you lose out by his $80 an article?

  16. Re:Average salary? on Fedora 9 Would Cost $10.8B To Build From Scratch · · Score: 1

    But then who's going to refill my coffee?

  17. Re:magic trains on Magnetic Levitating Trains Get Go-Ahead In Japan · · Score: 1

    You were able to take out 3 letters from Magnetic but you got Levitating right...?

    It was a net loss.

  18. Re:Vigilante Justice ala Slashdot Anyone? on Handling Caller ID Spoofing? · · Score: 1

    What exactly are we going to do? Rickroll them into submission?

  19. Re:Hrmmm.. I dont like this. on Jack Thompson Disbarred · · Score: 1

    That some kind of Eastern thing?

  20. Re:I believe it. on Plane Simple Truth · · Score: 1

    So tell me; how many polar bears did I kill?

    Depends...were you smoking polar bear ribs?

  21. Re:What a historic year 1998 was.... on Google Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    That logo really held the web page together, didn't it?

  22. Re:Google will lose all of it's Mojo on Has Google Lost Its Mojo? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, since the machines are incapable of generating their own mojo, we'll all be enslaved in a virtual reality as our mojo is harvested from us.

  23. Hard earned money... on Literacy Bridge Founder Answers Your Questions · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Given that everyone here has time to read Slashdot, is our money really all that hard earned?

  24. Re:Save the Franchise? on LucasArts Embargoes "Clone Wars" Reviews · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, I could have put up with Jar-Jar, but the midichlorians were the true knife in the back.

    You're just bitter because your blood tested low for midichlorians. The truth hurts -- you'll never be a Jedi.

  25. Re:first! on McCain Campaign Offers Rewards For Turn-Key Comments · · Score: 5, Funny

    first?

    I hope for McCain's sake this isn't an example of the ready-made rhetoric. It lacks conviction. Also, it should really have McCain's name in the snippet.

    Try something like the following:

    McCain first!

    See? Much better.