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  1. how about "miserable failure"? on Google Maps Graduates · · Score: 1
    If you localize this popular googlebomb, the first result is...
    Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
    hmm, gotta agree with that one. I'd love my evil twin to be thrown out of power, and they failed at it miserably.

    NORML and the Cato Institute are also in the Top 10, btw...

  2. Yet another gaping hole... on Mysterious Stars Surround Andromeda's Black Hole · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...in the so-called "Theory" of Gravity. (what, did you think I was going to say goatse?)

    When will those fancy-pants university astrologers accept the truth of Intelligent Falling. It's in all the news, so it must be true.

  3. Re:Why jail? on Fired AOL Engineer gets 15 Months · · Score: 1

    How's that for a deterrent?

    They tried that method in England a few hundred years ago. The result was that theft continued apace, but victims & witnesses were usually murdered instead of let go. Same punishment, less chance of getting caught.

  4. Re:Gap Fillers on Discovery's Dangling Gapfiller Removed by Hand · · Score: 1
    ceramic impregnated cloth material

    Impregnated? IMPREGNATED??? Oh my Goodness! NASA is cutting up pregnant women to use as heat shielding! Those evil abortionists will burn in Hell for this!

    I know our sainted President will stop them as soon as He finds out.
  5. Re:Before you freak out... on Mac OS X Intel Kernel Uses DRM · · Score: 1

    those calculations are not required to see that it is not 80-90%

    Umm... according to YOUR facts, Apple earns $2924M from hardware (Macs, iPods, periphs) and $586M from software (OS, Apps, iTMS).

    2924 / (2924+586) = 83.30%

    Alternately, if we skip iMusic to focus on Mac sales:

    1565 / (1565+345) = 81.94%

    Also, dunno about OSX, but the margins on Macs & iPods are definitely better than the margins on iTMS.

    Whatever way you look, Apple is a hardware company.

  6. AHA!!! on Help Solve the Mystery of the Pioneer Anomaly · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Anamoly? Of course they'll try to hand-wave it away as a minor nothing. No, it's yet another clear proof that their so-called theory of heliocentricity is WRONG.

    Pioneer flies along that path because its Designer chose Intelligently to do so. Case closed.

  7. Re:Prove What, Again? on SCO Denied Motion To Change IBM Case Again · · Score: 1
    Bah. Why stick to the facts when they can use the Fleischer Method?
    "I think the burden is on those people who think [IBM] didn't have [57000 lines of infringing code] to tell the world where they are."
    If illogic was good enough for Jebus, it's good enough for me.
  8. Re:You are expendable pawns. on Pentagon Creating A Database Of Students · · Score: 1

    Apologies, my punctuation was insufficient. Yes, lots of officers faced danger leading a front line unit (for example, the captain of an attack boat). What I was trying to say is that rich kids selectively occupied safer-than-average positions, such as journalist, or flight instructor, or defending against the dreaded mexican air force.

  9. Re:You say that, but.... on DoubleClick Warns Against Ad-Blocking Browsers · · Score: 1
  10. Re:You are expendable pawns. on Pentagon Creating A Database Of Students · · Score: 1, Troll

    What nonsense. Rich kids *used* to join during the Vietnam era, mostly in nice safe officer slots when the alternative was risk being drafted.

    How many "rising star" US politicians under age 50 have military backgrounds? None come to mind immediately. Out of the likely 2008 contenders, only McCain served.

  11. Re:Priorities on Lawmaker Revs Up Fair-Use Crusade · · Score: 1

    Just like your original post, your latest reply is ungrammatical, difficult to parse, and antagonistic. Perhaps you should notice that you are the ONLY person in the thread who thinks that your original post refers to universal broadband. You were simultaneously unclear and obnoxious; you deserved the troll mod.

    FWIW, what does "and the summary AND makes reference" mean?

  12. Re:Mods On CRACK on Lawmaker Revs Up Fair-Use Crusade · · Score: 1

    It's a troll because you did NOT ask about spending on universal broadband. You threw some sort of generic complaint that government should ignore whatever until the problem of universal healthcare is solved. Go read what you wrote.

  13. Re:Complex new software program on FBI Conducts Feasibility Study on Project Sentinel · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let's hope MS Access gets the bid, because I'm pretty sure the #2 contender is evil giant robots. And trust me, that would be a very bad thing, especially for those of us with a few DNA replication errors.

  14. The parent post is crap. on Inside the Xbox 360 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ARRRLovin has never even seen a single page of detailed chip ANALYSIS generated by HANNIBAL at ARSTECHNICA. It's nice to see the ancient art of "trolling" still being practiced.........but not really.

    (IOW, RTFA)

  15. Re:is poisoning our language unAmerican? on Is Cheap Broadband UnAmerican? · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're obviously a dirty terrorist-loving traitor. Why don't you take your so-called wireless communism and go back to Iran with all of your freedom-hating pals?

  16. the missing footage from Closer on Revenge of the Sith Officially Rated PG-13 · · Score: 2

    she did film nude scenes for Closer, just upon the final cut was it edited out

    Sigh. I only heard about this after the fact. I would have gladly founded an online bounty fund payable to any film editor's assistant or second-best boy willing to smuggle a copy out to the public. But it's all under strict lock and key in Mike Nichols' bedroom closet now.

    We're talking full frontal Portman pole dancing. Beats the hell out of Paris Hilton or Pamela Lee any day.

  17. Re:beer bongs on CSU Chico Identities Compromised · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is this an accessory for smoking or a new way to consume potent potables

    Dude, you must be using WAY too much of the other kind of bong if you couldn't even do a simple google (and for a few seconds more, the image search).

    And just to make sure this isn't Offtopic, here's some Chico info

  18. Re:Base 10 on date +%s Turning 1111111111 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh crap, an article about a pattern of all ones in a DECIMAL number? That's just too dumb for words. I am humbled.

  19. ObPedantic on date +%s Turning 1111111111 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, the Prince song is about the base 10 digit rollover, when 1999 ends and 2000 begins. So in the proper binary analogy, 10000000000 will be when party's over oops out of time, so we should party like its 1111111111.

    I hereby lay claim to at least 00000100 of fdrake76's geek points, preferably in the form of Funny or Informative.

  20. Re:Bugs in Wikimedia projects on Google Goes to Answers.com · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Analogy time, boys and girls. on MGM v. Grokster: Here's Why P2P is Valuable · · Score: 1

    I say a gun isn't a weapon until fired at a living thing. When fired at paper, it's a tool

    Not a very useful tool, though. There is little or no intrinsic value in using a gun to poke holes in paper, except for the sporting. A gun is PRINCIPALLY a weapon, and even its secondary uses are non-utilitarian.

    Whereas a knife (bayonet, butterfly, etc, excluded) is PRINCIPALLY a tool, where the purpose of the knife is to modify some other object in a useful way.

    I agree with the original poster, comparing P2P to knives is a MUCH better analogy than comparing P2P to guns.

  22. Re:Foxhunting by another name on Irish 'Running Man' WarWalking Competition · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bah, fox hunting is such a wussy pseudo-sport. I think a competition that features two governors wrestling to the death in an iron cage is MUCH more exciting.

  23. Re:Biblical Marriages on Gator CPO at the Department of Homeland Security · · Score: 1

    Stupid dork. STDs are by far LESS prevalent among lesbians than among standard heteros.

    Lots of gay men are promiscuous. The parent poster wasn't talking about them, so STFU.

  24. Re:Nooooo on Broadcast Flag in Trouble · · Score: 1

    You don't need to STOP social security, or even decrease it. Just rein in the INCREASES a little and you're all set. A 1% cut in the CoL adjustment, as recommended by most economists a decade ago, would protect the system almost indefinitely.

    But the last time that was proposed in Congress, it got voted down in a landslide of pandering.

  25. Re:What are the negatives? on GPS-Enabled Criminals In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    suppose the felon is *not* violating any rules, but his ex is a secretary for the PD, and tracks his every move

    Answer: She gets fired as soon as she's caught misusing confidential government resources. Also, he could file a restraining order against her.

    Clerks abusing their access to information is nothing new. Rules already exist to cover this.