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  1. Re:Bananas vs Grapes on 'Why Banana Skins Are Slippery' Wins IgNobel · · Score: 2

    Why, I haven't had five bees in my pocket since nineteen-diggety-two, when the Kaiser stole the twenty. You could get 40 rods to the hogshead back then.

  2. Re:Everyone loses on Scotland Votes No To Independence · · Score: 0

    So it's a done deal, then? It's no wonder the UK is in the state it's in, with your epidemic of naivete.

  3. Re:Bananas vs Grapes on 'Why Banana Skins Are Slippery' Wins IgNobel · · Score: 1

    It's more because the grape is full of slippery fluid when is squishes. Not too many people are skinny enough to actually roll on a grape. Maybe Kelly Ripa.

  4. Re:lets pump the brakes here and analyze. on Australian Police Arrest 15, Charge 2, For Alleged Islamic State Beheading Plot · · Score: 4, Informative

    Then again the United States basically ignored Palestine when it pulled israel from its magical sky god book and transported displaced Jews into it after WWII.

    Not only is this incorrect, but you topped it off with a bigoted assault on religion. "Palestine" was administered by the UK, not the USA, and American Jews voluntarily moved to it mostly after the 1948 independence. At the time of independence, it had nearly indefensible borders after suffering additional partitions beyond what the UK had promised. See "Transjordan" had already been partitioned for settlement by Palestinian Arabs. The West Bank, Gaza strip, and some other small areas were snipped off after WWII. Israel mostly lived with what they were given until they were attacked, repeatedly, by the Arabs who hated them. Regardless, even if you don't think Israel should have occupied any territory gained in 1948 or 1967, you can't blame it on the USA.

  5. Re:An Insightful Quote on Australian Police Arrest 15, Charge 2, For Alleged Islamic State Beheading Plot · · Score: 2

    Beards... seriously? If that were such an issue, The Duck Dynasty guys would have warrants out on them.

  6. Re:More importantly on Is the Tesla Model 3 Actually Going To Cost $50,000? · · Score: 1

    No tires? No suspension? No wheel bearings? No steering box?

  7. Re:Who to believe? on Is the Tesla Model 3 Actually Going To Cost $50,000? · · Score: 1

    or Bob
    or OS/2 1.0
    or Kin
    or Zune (especially the brown one)

  8. Re:Still pretty affordable on Is the Tesla Model 3 Actually Going To Cost $50,000? · · Score: 0

    Then you would be pretty thick.

  9. Re: Still pretty affordable on Is the Tesla Model 3 Actually Going To Cost $50,000? · · Score: 0

    We don't live in a dystopian straw-man that only exists in the mind of the socialist; therefore, we must abandon all resistance to government control of the economy.

  10. Re:Anti-math and anti-science ... on ISIS Bans Math and Social Studies For Children · · Score: 1

    slashdot's overwhelming conservative majority

    Needed a sarcasm tag there.

  11. Re:Anti-math and anti-science ... on ISIS Bans Math and Social Studies For Children · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem with your oversimplification is that the holy book of Christianity encourages pacifism, while the holy book of Islam encourages the subjugation of unbelievers.

  12. Re:they will defeat themselves on ISIS Bans Math and Social Studies For Children · · Score: 1

    Seems like they would never be able to use ballistic weapons, because even though they have long used computers to calculate trajectory, you still need to supply information that requires more than total ignorance of mathematics. It helps to be able to use sanity checks so you don't kill your own troops, as well. Hey, maybe we should "accidentally" let them have some hacked weapons...

  13. Re:and also should be worth mentioning on Commander Keen: Keen Dreams Source Code Released · · Score: 1

    OMF 2097 was great. It ran really fast, and had interesting upgrades for the robots. The network play over modem, like most games of the era, was sketchy, but we tried it just for yucks.

  14. Re:Parallax. on Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos · · Score: 0, Troll

    So instead of a crusty old veteran "maverick" and a cheerleader of debatable intelligence, we got a miserly career politician with impossibly white teeth (polished by repeatedly putting his foot in his mouth, no doubt) and a community organizer who demanded 10 years of tax returns from his opponent but deemed producing his own birth certificate a challenge.

    Sounds like a WIN

  15. Re:Antibiotics and Viruses on Artificial Spleen Removes Ebola, HIV Viruses and Toxins From Blood Using Magnets · · Score: 2

    They call E. coli a virus later in the article...

  16. Re:Dont cancel by phone on Comcast Allegedly Asking Customers to Stop Using Tor · · Score: 1

    This. You have to return the equipment anyway. And the service center can do all the paperwork-- so why bother with the phone? It doesn't even take that long, unless you decide to show up at lunchtime or something.

  17. Re:intel atom systems keep 32 bit systems around on Chrome For Mac Drops 32-bit Build · · Score: 1

    In 1994, we already had 64-bit CPUs in the server and professional workstation spaces, and the benefits were clear.

    Going past 64-bit CPUs, the advantages are not so obvious, and much of the effort is being expended on changing the game to quantum computing.

  18. Re:So-to-speak legal on Comcast Allegedly Asking Customers to Stop Using Tor · · Score: 2

    Thanks for derailing the discussion, Captain Straw Man.

  19. Re:This may be the way to escape from Comcast on Comcast Allegedly Asking Customers to Stop Using Tor · · Score: 2

    It's wrong if it turns out the modem THEY own is defective.

    Not if you vandalize it as in this example.

  20. Re:"Gave" on U.S. Threatened Massive Fine To Force Yahoo To Release Data · · Score: 0

    Can't be. Barack Obama promised us hope, change, and a transparent government.

  21. Re:Not all contributions / sacrifice are equivalen on Publishers Gave Away 123 Million Books During World War Two · · Score: 1

    I plan on thanking my garbage man for his service next Thursday.

  22. Re:Not just Reno on If Tesla Can Run Its Gigafactory On 100% Renewables, Why Can't Others? · · Score: 1

    No, that's pretty much ass-backward. I want to have cheap energy NOW while researching green energy so that it can take over TOMORROW when it is actually a viable source of energy.

  23. Re:Not just Reno on If Tesla Can Run Its Gigafactory On 100% Renewables, Why Can't Others? · · Score: -1, Troll

    A few idiots belching smoke out of their trucks aren't going to have a great impact.

    The enviro-fascists who want to enact change through government fiat are going to enrich the elite at the expense of the rest of us.

  24. Re: well done mods. on German Court: Google Must Stop Ignoring Customer E-mails · · Score: 1

    Not smart, since the IDE has been unsupported for years.

  25. Re:Most Compelling Reason to Doubt "Consensus" on The Exoplanets That Never Were · · Score: 1

    ANNNNNND of course you're modded Flamebait.

    I guess you hit a nerve.