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  1. Re:Will there be listed in phone books as well. on Cell Numbers To Be Added To 411 · · Score: 1

    You can call up the phone company and tell them how many phonebooks you want or don't want. Just be sure to do it a month or so before the new books are due to come out.

  2. Re:What's even better... on Cell Numbers To Be Added To 411 · · Score: 1

    Jeez, what do they call it, Stalkervision?

  3. Re:Remembering back... on Screenshot History of Windows · · Score: 1
    "The real milestone was Windows 3.0."

    Was that the first one with Solitaire? 'Cause that was the real milestone.

  4. Re:win95..... on Screenshot History of Windows · · Score: 1
    Unfortunately it was a shift to the MS Office document paradigm.

    Seriously, they don't design Office to run on Windows, they design Windows to support Office.

  5. Re:windoze schmidoze on Screenshot History of Windows · · Score: 1

    From what I've seen the Hyundai hardware wasn't particularly better or worse than its contemporaries.

  6. Re:Ask the Iraqi's on Updates on War in Iraq · · Score: 1
    "The air support that the US promised to provide was pulled completely."

    You like that one? We call it Bay of Pigs 2.0!

  7. Re:Jailing file traders on Texas Rep Wants To Jail File Traders · · Score: 1

    A double pun! You should have gotten more funny mods on this than I did.

  8. Re:I've got an idea....... on Dell Offers Curbside Computer Recycling · · Score: 1
    "Most monitors are also usually repairable with a few dollars in parts, with the schematics it's usually something that can be quickly fixed."

    You must have a lot better access to monitor schematics than most of us. Care to hook me up with one for a Compaq 470A?

  9. Re:I wonder if they've solved... on Chi Mei Announces 20" Active Matrix OLED Display · · Score: 2, Funny

    You aren't supposed to be watching blue movies anyway :-)

  10. Jailing file traders on Texas Rep Wants To Jail File Traders · · Score: 5, Funny

    But if we jail people with files, won't they just cut through the bars and escape?

  11. Re:Nice Idea! on Texas Rep Wants To Jail File Traders · · Score: 2, Funny
    "Oh! What a great idea!
    The more you steal the less you are punished."

    Yeah, but only if you're a CEO.

  12. Re:Freedom requires vigilance on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 1
    "I support the values of the Founders of America,..."

    So does that mean we're going to steal all the good parts of Iraq and herd the natives onto reservations on the worthless parts? Oh well, at least this time we know to check for underground petroleum deposits before we give any of the otherwise useless land to the natives.

  13. Re:Fucking liberals eat french fries, dolt. on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 1
    The way I heard it it was a restaurant somewhere along the coast of North Carolina and Representative Walter B. Jones, Jr. (R-NC) pushed for it to instituted in the House cafeteria or wherever it was.

    Nobody wants to quit making money selling them, they just want to quit crediting the source (Yes, I know the source was really Belgium, not France, but that's where WWI U.S. soldiers learned about them.)

  14. Re:Whose war is it anyway? on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 2, Interesting

    To my way of thinking the interesting thing about the people on that list isn't their religion or ethnicity so much as it is how few of them have actual combat experience, as in know what it's like to get shot at and wonder if you're going home in a body bag.

  15. Re:"Bush's War" at ends with "The War On Terror" on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 1

    They can only be next if we don't leave and I was answering someone talking about our being able to leave the minute the threat of Iraq is gone. I'm thinking it'll be more like one minute plus a couple of generations.

  16. Re:"Bush's War" at ends with "The War On Terror" on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 1
    "The minute the threat of Iraq is gone (threat to Kuwait/Saudi Arabia), the US can leave..."

    At which point Iran will be in there in a heartbeat.

  17. Re:Different vendors's products under stress: on The Era Of Satellite News Gathering · · Score: 1
    Fox is using Powerbooks 'cause Geraldo is planning to win the war singlehandedly by uploading a virus to the mothership.

    You have to admit it makes about as much sense as his plan to be the one to shoot Bin Laden.

  18. Re:The originals had some nasty display problems on R.I.P. Original iMac: 1998-2003 · · Score: 1

    My only Apple experience is somebody gave me a IIe but no software and I'm using the monitor as a television (pretty good picture). Know where I can get an Abit BX6 schematic? Or a schematic for any x86 mobo from the past few years?

  19. Re:CGI to the rescue? on Spider-Man Has Back Problems · · Score: 1

    Daredevil has a son? Did they use anything from the original comic besides the name?

  20. Re:Great point . But they also added a stupid love on Spider-Man Has Back Problems · · Score: 1

    In the original (early to mid 60s) Spiderman comics there was a continuing subplot about his relationship with Mary Jane whatshername (typical teenage angst aggravated by having to put on the costume and go save the world instead of making time with her), so it's only unfaithful if the course of "true love" does run smooth.

  21. Re:Please say it ain't so!! on Spider-Man Has Back Problems · · Score: 1
    'my biggest question was "Where did he get the costume? Costumes R Us?" '

    Martha Kent is supporting herself in her widowhood with a little work from home thing she started years ago.

  22. Re:Doesn't he do yoga and eat vegetarian? on Spider-Man Has Back Problems · · Score: 1
    "That's what he deserves for perpetuating a movie actually entitled 'Seabiscuit'"

    Yes, any movie about practically the most famous race horse of all time should definitely have some other title, like say, "Beetlebaum".

    When you don't recognize a reference, go ask a grownup before giving us the benefit of your "thinking".

  23. Re:My tech story. on Family Tech Support · · Score: 1
    "He doesn't believe me, and spends the next 3 months..."

    "He also will read something somewhere, or pick up some bit of information and now it's WRITTEN IN STONE for him..."

    Apparently my father was retroactively reincarnated as your father. Tell him hello for me.

  24. Re:The originals had some nasty display problems on R.I.P. Original iMac: 1998-2003 · · Score: 1

    So how often has google or anybody else helped you to find any x86 platform service manuals or other documentation designed for someone who knows which end of a soldering iron not to hold? If more often than never, where and for which piece of hardware?

  25. Re:RIP iMac on R.I.P. Original iMac: 1998-2003 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It would appear that mod points are now being assigned to one particular age group at a time and this week seems to be the 12 year olds' turn.