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  1. yes! on $5 Per Month Fee Proposed For Legal Music P2P · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is outstanding. Pay the $5, dissolve the RIAA, wait a month, and drop the fee.

  2. Re:Microsoft is simply bland.. on Microsoft's Treatment of Google Defectors · · Score: 1

    That's net lines. Think about all that legacy code. They probably have whole teams working on removing DOS code.

  3. Re:Grab some hot boiled peanuts!!! on Watching a Space Shot? · · Score: 1

    You expecting another explosion?

    I would skip the boat. They keep the offshore waters pretty well cleared of boat traffic during a launch.

  4. ha! on ESR Says Linux Followers Should Compromise · · Score: 1

    To Eric, I say, "Flac you!"

  5. 23,000 human hours??? on The Creative Power of Second Life · · Score: 1

    That's like a few WoWseconds. OMG!

  6. Re:Lowest! on How Interesting is Your IP Address? · · Score: 1

    Bah: Your IP address has scored: 0. This is ranked #19673 of the 19671 IP's spotted so far.

  7. Re:global warming on Tropical Storm Zeta Forms in Atlantic · · Score: 1

    Only the CFCs have leveled off since the early 90s. Learn to read, please.

  8. Where's the Serenity subwoofer? on Death Star Subwoofer · · Score: 1


    A deathstar subwoofer would have been cool in '77.

  9. Re:Flame on... on Mad as Hell, Switching to Mac · · Score: 1

    I could say that spellbound does work on firefox 1.0.4.

  10. Re:When you read what this guy says... on ALA President Not Fond of Bloggers · · Score: 1

    Personally, I hear Stewie.

  11. you would think... on Earth Fires Destabilize Virtual Governments · · Score: 1

    ...they would just give the support staff +100 sv fire Red Glowing Robes:

    MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM NO DROP
    Slot: CHEST
    AC: 60
    STR: +20 STA: +5 WIS: +5 INT: +30 HP: +100 MANA: +100
    SV FIRE: +100 SV DISEASE: +100 SV COLD: +100 SV MAGIC: +100 SV POISON: +100
    Effect: Flowing Thought X (Worn)
    WT: 2.0 Size: MEDIUM
    Class: NEC WIZ MAG ENC
    Race: HUM ERU HIE DEF GNM IKS

  12. parachute on Merger (or Acquisition) Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    It might work out. Really. Two hundred is still a small company.

    But, if it doesn't make sure you have a big, fat golden parachute waiting to make the landing softer.

  13. nice ink, grandpa on Body Adornments and a Career? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Imagine for a moment that you are wearing a leisure suit and a mullet.

    Now imagine that they are permanent.

    That being said, if you are good and have a good manager, then it won't matter. However, you may have to leave an otherwise satifactory job because of other's stupidity.

  14. Re:For Some Reason... on SCO Claims Linux Sales After Suit Irrelevant · · Score: 1

    Except that his name is Lazlo Hollyfeld.

    http://us.imdb.com/Title?0089886

  15. bradley not lamaze on Advice for a Dad-To-Be? · · Score: 1

    Lamaze is a euphemism for robot training. Take a Bradley course, or at least read "Husband Coached Childbirth." Learn everything you can about childbirth. There is no way you can make informed consent during labor if you are trying to take in new information while your wife is in pain.

    I have three and we did the last one at home. Home is double-plus good. Hospitals cause many of the common complications, like unnecessary C-sections. Hospitals want you to do thing their way, even if that is the wrong way. If your wife has a strong desire to walk around during labor, take off the monitor and walk with her. Don't let the nurses tell you that hospital procedure requires that she be strapped down.

    Get a lactation consultant in early if there are problems. Find one recommended by La Leche League. Breast feeding is so much easier for everybody, Mom included, but it's not easy for some babies to get the hang of it.

    Other posts said it better but your life will change in ways that you cannot imagine. Good luck.

  16. What's next? on Mixing the Unmixable · · Score: 1

    Ice-9?

  17. Re:thank the GOP for this mess on The Worst Coders In Washington · · Score: 1

    Saddam Hussein, a supporter of al-Qaeda and a bona fide terrorist himself.

    Your opinions are highly colored by your sources of unreliable information.

    Who told you that Hussein was a supporter of al-Qaeda?

    Why would someone tell you that a secular military dictator under buzzing US aircraft would align himself with a radical religious army that the US is itching to spank?

  18. Re:I'm going to sue on Speed Of Light Broken With Off Shelf Components · · Score: 2, Funny

    > That explains why I've been getting sunburned lately.

    Not only were you sunburned, but it appear *before* you went out in the sun.

  19. Re:Doc, it hurts when I do this on Simulator Sickness Cures? · · Score: 1

    > Well, then don't do that!

    $120 please. Next patient.

  20. left leaning on What's on Your Summer 2002 Reading List? · · Score: 1

    Blinded by the Right - David Brock
    The Best Democracy Money Can Buy -- ???

  21. open everquest on From Coder to Game Designer? · · Score: 1

    It's obvious, isn't it?

    Start with the open Quake engine, hook in a little TCP interface to download "scenery" during startup, and code up a server engine to keep track of the objects.

    Oh, wait. There's no money here. Pop up ads during battle unless you pay.

  22. Re:What's the big deal about Nethack? on Nethack 3.4.0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    It teaches you vi!

    "See, boss, I'm learning editor commands."

  23. Re:The true identity of the authors... on News Media Scammed by 'Free Energy' Hoax · · Score: 1


    Turns out that this scam is actually by the editors of Social Texts who have been waiting all this time to get their own back on Alan Sokol.

    I like this idea. I can't help thinking jasker is an acronym:

    Join Alan Solok: Keep Exposing Rubbish
    Just Another Scam Keeping Everyone Ridiculed
    Jokes About Scientific Knowledge Earn Reward

  24. Are there any open source MSExchange clients? on Quoting in Emails? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nope. At least, none that I could find.

  25. i'm sorry on Lord of the Rings Theatrical Trailer · · Score: 1

    O-Sauron bin Laden

    I ring my own neck.