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  1. Re:What is your source? on Statistical Accuracy of Internet Weather Forecasts · · Score: 1

    Uhh... clearly, since the NWS collects data whether or not they are allowed to release it to the public, Rick Santorum's presence had nothing to do with it. Accuweather needs NWS data, so it's in their best interest that that data be accurate. Your anti-Santorum troll is useless and misinformed.

  2. Re:Movie deal on Breakdown Forces New Look At Mars Mission Sexuality · · Score: 1

    From Ice Pirates: "just pretend it happened."

  3. Re:Avian Flu on Indonesia Stops Sharing Avian Virus Samples · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? The American way is to build a highway through it!

  4. Re:Avian Flu on Indonesia Stops Sharing Avian Virus Samples · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm still waiting for the earth to freeze from that global cooling they were talking about in the 60s and 70s. Looks like my efforts to pump as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as possible is staving off the next ice age! Now please excuse me, I'm going to drive my Hummer to the end of the driveway to get my mail.

  5. Re:A Solution on Indonesia Stops Sharing Avian Virus Samples · · Score: 1

    Well, duh. A rebellion is a war of attrition. It's not like anyone expected Americans to get on boats, burn London, and take the King prisoner. And the War of 1812, while stupid, pretty much freed up the shipping lanes.

  6. Re:Quantum mystery on Quantum Computer To Launch Next Week · · Score: 1

    Hell no. I can't even call my IDE disks "master" and "slave" anymore without being arrested by the LAPD.

  7. Re:An ounce of prevention on Study Show Link Between IT Sabotage, Work Behavior · · Score: 1

    Do you mean the stapler guy or Peter and his "Superman III" scheme? Peter stopped showing up for work and the stapler guy wasn't even on the payroll! That's a pretty big sign!

  8. New career on Woman Wins Right to Criticize Surgeon on Website · · Score: 1

    The website contains before and after photographs of 33-year-old Georgette Gilbert, who said the surgery left her with one eyebrow higher than the other and a surprised look permanently affixed to her face.
    I hear she's now getting work as a Joan Rivers look-a-like.
  9. Re:not so tough on Panasonic ToughBook Testing Facility Tour · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sorry, but that's ridiculous. Thinkpads have nice hard disk protection, but drop an open one on the floor and the screen and hinge are DEAD.

  10. Re:Methods of torture on Panasonic ToughBook Testing Facility Tour · · Score: 2, Funny

    No good. Notebooks don't have testicles.

  11. Re:Watch it though.... on Panasonic ToughBook Testing Facility Tour · · Score: 1

    They won't stop you getting on the plane. They'll run it through the X-ray scanners and swab it for trace explosives before passing you through the security checkpoint just like they when I carried-on a SuperDLT.

  12. How to REALLY test a notebook on Panasonic ToughBook Testing Facility Tour · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't see a curious four-year-old being employed in any of their tests. I'd like to see how one of these stands up to crayons and peanut butter sandwiches.

  13. Re:Aerogel on Low Earth Orbit Junk Yard Nearly Full · · Score: 1

    I'm just wondering: where do the waves of needle snakes and gorillas come in?

  14. Re:Heh on Low Earth Orbit Junk Yard Nearly Full · · Score: 4, Funny

    I anticipate that there will be a huge demand for brave space pilots to obliterate this menace. Therefore, I have already begun training on an advanced debris-elimination trainer software using the latest vector graphics technology. I realize that space is not two dimensional and the "hyperspace" technology has not yet been developed, but I will be prepared in advance once our brilliant scientists make space junk elimination possible. In addition, I will have a head start on blasting those flying saucers that will be piloted by our vile Chinese nemeses.

  15. Re:Not Really New on Parking Attendant 2.0 · · Score: 0

    Only months after suffering a horrible terrorist attack, the Spaniards elected a leftist terrorist appeaser who immediately pulled all Spanish troops out of Afghanistan AND Iraq. Europeans are cowards, trolls, and will have to pull the huge planks out of their eyes before pointing at the speck in a Yankee's.

  16. Re:Better now than later.. on Parking Attendant 2.0 · · Score: 1

    I can back you up based simply on the fact that I have a $1 LED light that plugs into my laptop's USB port. Windows doesn't see it, because it has absolutely no brains in it. It just sucks power off the port.

  17. Re:Self-Parking cars on Parking Attendant 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Er... there's a self-parking Lexus available in the USA as well.

  18. Re:Quote from Bush on NASA May Have to Buy Trips to Space · · Score: 1

    HAHA LOL no...

    The STS program began during the Nixon administration, and Eisenhower signed NASA into existence (note the metaphor of an eagle landing on the moon on the back of the Eisenhower dollar coin).

  19. Re:All we need now on Scientology Critic Arrested After 6 Years · · Score: 1

    That's wrong. No child wonders about a god or gods unless the parents indoctrinate them into a cult in the first place.
    Wishful thinking, Karl Marx.
  20. Re:How is that NOT free speech? on Scientology Critic Arrested After 6 Years · · Score: 1

    "Very space opera," from what I hear!

  21. Re:Scientology isn't a Religion on Scientology Critic Arrested After 6 Years · · Score: 2, Informative

    Think about it, christianity says you must to X, Y and Z to get into heaven.
    Actually, no. Just "X", which is John 14:6.
  22. Re:Scientology isn't a Religion on Scientology Critic Arrested After 6 Years · · Score: 1

    I know you're joking, but I just wanted to make sure that "Scientology is based on science" is a meta-joke and you don't really believe it is.

  23. Re:Call me crazy... on Google to Blur Sensitive India Sites · · Score: 1

    Wasn't the annihilation of the native americans a terrorist act or not?
    No, but the actions of certain military officers could have constituted genocide.
  24. Re:3 was the last worthwhile version. on Netscape 9 to Undo Netscape 8 Mistakes? · · Score: 1

    Any browsers since 2000 should be able to render CSS well enough to use Slashdot. If you want to use a 1990s browser, then you'll see a 1990s page with default fonts, no color... just like old times. The point with CSS is that it should gracefully degrade on a browser with no CSS support because the formatting is now separate from the markup. No broken pages because you used the BACKGROUND attribute in a way that IE 4.0 doesn't like.

  25. Re:The Mail Nazi! on Lycos Deletes Emails and Says 'Too Bad!' · · Score: 1

    It doesn't justify mindless hyperbole.