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  1. Re:Conflicted on Actual Costs for the Space Station · · Score: 1
    we end up with a space station of somewhat limited utility

    It is the equivalent of having a conservatory tacked onto the back of your house tho', isn't it? ;->

    Looks nice, you can show it to your friends, and sit in it looking at the sun, moon and stars through the many windows.

  2. Re:"How long do think it would take for the US on Actual Costs for the Space Station · · Score: 1
    ...while we bribe the Canadians with real beer

    Well, there goes another $Bn350 in buying beer from the UK...

  3. Re:If a tree falls in the woods... on Finnish Taxi Drivers Must Pay Music Royalties · · Score: 1
    If a taxi driver plays the radio, and noone from the RIAA is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Hmmm

    .....If a taxi driver plays the radio, and noone from the RIAA is around to hear it, does it make any money?

  4. Re:Bjork on Finnish Taxi Drivers Must Pay Music Royalties · · Score: 1
    ..Bjork is an elf. She lives inside of a magical tree deep within the enchanted wood of Lothlorien, which is not part of any nation or kingship and cannot be accessed by mortal, mundane means (unless you are honest and pure of heart).

    So sod off, Finnish RIAA Clones (and those of all nationalities, also other IP tax ripoff curmugeons), you can't force your way in here!!

  5. Re:DONT CLICK ON LINK IN ABOVE POST!!!! on How To Get Hired As An Open Source Developer · · Score: 1

    OO! Who got a knockback from a (not)holiday romance then?

  6. Re:spony? on Investigating Chronic Wasting Disease · · Score: 1

    The 'J' was missing. Should be 'sponjy'...wait..doesn't that have a 'U' in it?

  7. Re:Interested but skeptical on British To Release UFO Files · · Score: 1

    Land of the free (as in Beer), perhaps.

  8. Re:Duplicate story on When Personalization Runs Amuck · · Score: 1
    The editors aren't reading their own output again

    Just wallowing in it..

  9. Re:Matrix on When Personalization Runs Amuck · · Score: 1

    You did take the blue pill..

  10. Re:Interested but skeptical on British To Release UFO Files · · Score: 1
    ..massive archives of British intelligence

    Four words joined by a common thread of irony..;>

  11. Re:Exposure to vacuum on NASA Considers Abandoning ISS · · Score: 1

    Don't forget severe sunburn. The naked sun in space would be a killer.

  12. Re:Kinda says something about the US attitude... on Slashback: Panama, Leeches, Comeuppance · · Score: 1

    An assault rifle is one that you can use as a club when it's empty?

  13. Re:That's why I hate automatic routing on Hospital Brought Down by Networking Glitch · · Score: 1

    Don't use Spanning Tree unless your routers still use Valve (Vacuum Tube) Technology. It's fine until it breaks, and then it can be a twat to make it settle down again. retire it .

  14. Re:How to Fix Your Users Attitude.. on Securing Your Internal Network from Windows? · · Score: 2, Funny
    1. Write a program that causes their machines to randomly reboot every 30-120 minutes

    Er, they have Win XP already..

  15. Re:Wide loads on Building Your Own Hobbit Hole · · Score: 1

    "Sorry, I'm not going out this year, I'm saving up to have a new room delivered..."

  16. Re:Sauron had the right idea on Building Your Own Hobbit Hole · · Score: 1

    Or strike the Mormons, and impress the fearful neighbours.

  17. Re:This sure makes me want to be a Sony consumer on Sony Adds New Copyright Method to CDs in 2003 · · Score: 1

    Oddly enuff, the only Sony discs I have bought in a long time have been blank CDRs.......hmm!?!?

  18. Re:12 bits on Bringing Back the PDP8 · · Score: 1
    Maybe someone would enlighten the rest of us on why a certain bit size is better than another, and why we currently use 8/16/32/64, instead of 12/24/48/96

    So as we kin count on the toes of one foot, duh-huh.

  19. Re:That's gotta be it on Spider Web Covers Field · · Score: 1

    Giant Spider Conference Pavillion. To discuss forthcoming attack on Hollywood for decades of anti-spider B Movies. Guest speaker Stan Lee.

  20. Re:wow on Spider Web Covers Field · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a job for a young Sting and his faithful Tantic Sex Blade..

  21. Re:Opera! on BBC says "Avoid Explorer" · · Score: 1
    And although you can't really remove Explorer from windows...

    IERADICATOR - Die FOUL IE!!!

  22. Re:DOS RIP really December 31, 2005 on MS-DOS 1981-2002 RIP · · Score: 1
    You guys deally have to wait for Windows ME to die before you can proclaim DOS dead.

    ME was never really alive. Just some horrible, creeping pseudo-life, straight out of HP Lovecraft....*ik!*

  23. Re:Damned if you do on RIAA, MPAA Instigate U.S. Naval Academy Raid · · Score: 1
    In the long run, this cost the Cartel so much good-will that it will take freaking million$ in bribes^Wcampaign contributions to repair the damage

    Up goes the cost of CDs again, then.

  24. Re:Forest Fire? on LANL Warning About Radioactive Trees · · Score: 2, Funny

    Surely not. The Atomic Tree (TM) is a safe and cost effective replacement for smelly and dangerous Wood Fires (TM). Forest fires would be phased out gradually as more and more Nuclear Forests are commissioned.

  25. Re:I can see it now... on LANL Warning About Radioactive Trees · · Score: 1

    That'll keep those damn bears from shttn in the woods....