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  1. Re:Wow can you imagine on Space Elevator Gets FAA Clearance · · Score: 0

    No, the elevator companies coudn't afford the RIAA fees.

  2. Re:Let the Saturn V go, slashdot. Let her go. on NASA Plan to Return to the Moon · · Score: 0

    Hmm, whilst what you say is true, and commendable, I believe that the spirit of what the "Saturn Fanboys (no offence- me too)" are saying is that the SV was built simply to do what it was built to do, and did do it, 100%(!)- unlike the SST, which was a committee compromise, which worked, but was not elegant in the same way ( engineers- you know what I am trying to say, I hope :|) as the Saturn/Apollo ....

  3. Re:MOD PARENT UP on NASA Plan to Return to the Moon · · Score: 0

    :) Insight ~ it's still alive, mods..

  4. Re:Free Market versus Black Market: Nanny State on Dissecting U.S. Violent Game Bills · · Score: 0

    I'd rather see people having sex on tv than eating ;> especially the closeups of bloated bastards stuffing their fat faces with the latest junk food gimmick.. eww

  5. OT but.. on BBC Opens TV Archive to Remixers · · Score: 0
    The word "peanalise" gives rise to unsavory images.

    Perhaps it should be circumscribed?

    oo- now I am at it..

  6. Re:Do they have a strategy behind this? on Google Hires Vint Cerf · · Score: 0
    Any of you can think of any examples? Were Microsoft's products really innovative in any way? Ever?

    McBoss: "We have a Screen of Death. Your mission is to come up with a suitable HUE for it."

  7. Re:ADA? on FEMA Demands Use of IE To File Online Katrina Claims · · Score: 0
    And MicroSoft being responsible for the levee breakage I suppose (har har).

    Well, I think I saw Ballmer hit one with a chair- it was on CNN..right in the background..

  8. Re:I don't get it? on Mini Satellites Could Revolutionize Space Industry · · Score: 0

    Mega sticks or Giga sticks?

  9. Re:Contingency For Ethernet on Uneducated IT Managers, and How to Deal? · · Score: 0

    Frisbeenet. Why walk?

  10. Re:Why SpaceShip[One|Two|Three] will not reach orb on SpaceShipThree to be Orbital Spacecraft · · Score: 0

    You forget that SS3 won't have the high drag factor caused by hauling a huge bureaucracy around.

  11. Re:Just don't have the robot bat fly into my house on Robot Bat With Echolocation · · Score: -1

    Ozzie Osbourne's lunch?

  12. Re:Great to see something new. on Europe to Join Russia Building Next Space Shuttle · · Score: 0

    This post isn't it, then- it's a cut and paste from an eariler thread about replacing the shuttle- I can't be bothered to look it up, if others can't be bothered to think up new submissions... :>

  13. Re:They were doing something right back then. on Your Homework is Play Video Games · · Score: 0

    Breathe, dammit!!

  14. Re:NASA needs a shake-up on Panel Challenges NASA Over Shuttle Safety · · Score: 0

    Who won?

  15. Re:New tank design? on Panel Challenges NASA Over Shuttle Safety · · Score: 0

    Why not put the insulation on the inside of the tank? Worked for Saturn.

  16. Re:Can anybody... on Reintroduce Megafauna to North America? · · Score: 2, Funny
    provide some information on how this may affect existing species? I would have thought that they might lose some of their ability to handle the effects of megafauna..

    The existing species haven't lost their ability to handle firearms, so megafauna have no chance.

  17. Score another for Arthur C Clarke! on Watch Like Device for At-Risk Patients · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Sounds like the CORA (?) device from Fountains of Paradise.

  18. Re:"Extend the Patriot Act" on U.S. House Votes to Extend Patriot Act · · Score: 0
    "Owing to the current state of Emergency, Godwin's Law has been temporarily suspended.

    Do you want to know more?"

    /. Department of Information. /.

  19. Re:Amateur Radio vs. Internet on FCC Proposes Abolishing Morse Code Requirement · · Score: 0
    Because it's not radio. It's the Internet.

    Why have cars when there are vans? sheesh..

  20. Re:Culture is for Bacteria. on AI Allowed to Create Their Own Culture · · Score: 1, Funny

    And I know a lot of people whose switches are dimmer than normal..

  21. Re:One difference on What is Mainframe Culture? · · Score: 0

    BOXEN!! :) ah!

  22. Re:Cats on What is Mainframe Culture? · · Score: 0
    Windows admins hate cats.

    Unix admins love cats

    Mainframe admins eat cats. -possibly.

  23. Re:That's bullshit on Win2000 Still Performs on 8-year-old Hardware · · Score: 0
    Arg! No! Must...resist..!!

    WHY DID you have such a crappy machine!?!?!.....*ergh*....sorry.. :

  24. Re:Outstanding on Longhorn to Require Monitor-Based DRM · · Score: 0

    It could be the 'killer app' for Longwait...er Longhorn. Emphasis on 'killer'..

  25. Re:zero on Alex, The Brainy Parrot Who Knows About Zero · · Score: 0

    That parrot knows as much as my boss, who knows just about zero!