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  1. Re:Yes Let's shut down the internet on Google Earth and "Collateral Damage" · · Score: 5, Informative

    This works great in the Netherlands. Here's our Ministry of Defense and this is the air force headquarters. If you can't see it on Google Maps, you can't bomb it. </sarcasm>

    There's more of this nonsense, but these two are close to home for me.

  2. Re:Developmental Flaw? on Two-headed Reptile Fossil Found in China · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's probably called a flaw because the development of the extra head isn't determined by the creature's genes. It's a trait that can't be passed to its offspring, so it has no part in evolution.

  3. Re:Don't do what china does on Judge Says U.S. Money Violates Rights of the Blind · · Score: 1

    Since most stores have dropped the 1 and 2 cent coins here in Holland I sure end up with a lot less red coins. I used to drop the red ones into a mug on my desk at the end of each day. These days I tend just to leave them in my wallet. I never get more than two.

  4. Re:Zzzz on Intel Releases 4004 Microprocessor Schematics · · Score: 1

    "Belgium"? I think you've been reading the wrong edition of the Guide...

  5. Re:Major Vs Minor on Scientists Create Air Guitar T-shirt · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Jokes? on PS3 Lines Already Forming In America · · Score: 1

    I've recently discovered that replying to misguided attempts at humor with "I hope you're not joking, because that wasn't funny at all" really annoys would be jokers.

  7. Re:Legal blunder? on Decoy Files on P2P Sites Become Ad Vehicles · · Score: 1

    I didn't have to go to court for it, but I once downloaded ten versions of a Madonna song off of Kazaa because I was told that every version of it on Kazaa was actually Madonna throwing a tantrum about illegal downloading. I must be terribly unlucky, because each version was that craptastic song. I thought the yelling might not start straight away, so I listened to all of them for about a minute. I gave up after ten. Does anyone still have that version?

  8. Re:Coal to oil on Crunching the Numbers on a Hydrogen Economy · · Score: 1

    What conspiracy? Are you implying that soylent fuel is people?!

  9. Re:What about Iceland? on Crunching the Numbers on a Hydrogen Economy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So now there is a single mention of Iceland; it doesn't mean anything to me. Please elaborate. How far along is Iceland in converting to a hydrogen economy? Seriously, I'd like to know?

  10. Re:OMG! BAN TV! on TV Really Might Cause Autism · · Score: 1

    Are you saying you're fully weaned off the glass-teat?

  11. Re:Hang on... on Traveler Detained for Anti-TSA Message · · Score: 1

    No! Things aren't always black and white. Our rights end where our middles begin.

  12. Re:Can't wait for video analysis on Advertising Screen Tailors Ads to Audience · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Bald and fat people usually care that they are bald or fat or both. So they might be interested in doing something about it. As someone without fashion sense I can tell you that clothing ads do nothing for me. Clothing in ads looks no better to me than what I'm already wearing.

  13. Pry it off on War Declared on Caps Lock Key · · Score: 1

    Just pry it off already! It takes about a second (or a bit longer if you can't find anything to pry with) and doesn't require all the world to join you in your goal. I've been removing Caps Lock and "windows" keys for years. Some of my friends and co-workers are doing the same.

  14. Re:What the fuck is this? on High Tech Tour de France · · Score: 5, Informative

    This was one of the first days of the Tour, I think. It ended, as the first week's stages usually do, in a mass sprint. The sprinters ride upwards of 60 km/h at the finish. His arm actually caught on an oversized, cardboard hand that one of the sponsors distributed. That was one nasty paper cut.
    Hushovd did recover though; he won the final stage in Paris.

  15. Re:Murray? on Talking Mirror, Pirate Skull Security System · · Score: 1

    Stop tormenting me!

  16. Re:Google logo archive... on The Man Behind Google Artwork · · Score: 1

    Really? Why?

  17. Re:Ugh. Why can't they just post the damn numbers on DefectiveByDesign Supporters to Call on RIAA Execs · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I can't recall my nick on here"

    It's "Kaitiff".

  18. Re:The Many New Possible Fronts on The Un-Google - The Search Competition · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Google is 8th when you google Search Engines. They are a has been...."

    It should be perfectly clear from your own post: noone uses the term "search engine" anymore, it's called a Google these days. Just like Xerox and Kleenex. I just googled "Google" and Google still dominates the first ten pages of results. Stanford is on page 4, Slashdot on page 8. I didn't feel the need to page on until I found Yahoo or MSN in there.

  19. Re:When the Jones have them... on Social Consequences and Effects of RFID Implants? · · Score: 1

    Of course the SS creeps you out! They're fucking nazi's!
    Oh wait, you probably didn't mean Schutzstaffel. Not immediately clear in a post that starts with a reference to Nazi Germany.

  20. Re:The hack we really need is on Guitar Hero Hacks · · Score: 1

    That timing is way off. It looks like it'll play like one of those "musical" greeting cards that only have "long note" and "short note", thus rendering any song like crap.

  21. Re:Thank you Jesus on Self-Parking Cars Coming To U.S. · · Score: 1

    Yeah, offtopic I guess. It's just the first thing I think of when I see someone use " to mean feet.

  22. Re:Thank you Jesus on Self-Parking Cars Coming To U.S. · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    David St. Hubbins: I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem may have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.

  23. Re:Not just Wikipedia vs Britannica on Britannica Attacks - Nature Returns Fire · · Score: 1

    If it really was H2G2 vs. Encyclopedia Galactica all over again, it would have been an edition of Encyclopedia Brittanica from a thousand years in the future.

  24. Re:Why not both? on Who Really Won the Super Bowl? · · Score: 1

    A few years ago there was an online research project into humour. CNN has a story about the results here.

    Many European countries, such as France, Denmark and Belgium, displayed a penchant for off-beat surreal humour, while Americans and Canadians preferred jokes where there was a strong sense of superiority -- either because a character looks stupid or is made to look stupid by someone else.

    From your url I'm guessing you're Danish. From his explanation of what makes teh funny KFG is probably from North America.

    I would tend to agree with you on what constitues humour.

  25. Re:obligatory on Robots Ride Camels in Kuwait · · Score: 0

    Hmm, the first thing that I thought when I read the headline was "in Korea, only old people ride camels."