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  1. Re:In other news on Video Quality Matters Less If You Enjoy the Show · · Score: 1

    "Quantity has a quality all of its own." -Lenin

  2. Re:So serious on Can Twitter and Facebook Deal With Their Dead? · · Score: 1

    My wife and I were talking about how we call each other so much, and then I mentioned the story I heard where some people are starting to place their deceased loved one’s phone in the coffin at burial time with it on waiting to take a call. We quickly decided that this was creepy. I mean, can you imagine making that call to your dead loved-one’s phone, hearing it ringing, knowing it’s ringing beside their remains, six feet under? Anyhow, we quickly discussed the message you would leave like, if you had time to do a new voicemail message: “Hi, this is Lee. I can’t come to the phone right now cuz I’m dead. Leave a message if you want, but I’ll never call you back. After all, I’m dead.” Or, “Hi, you’ve reached the voicemail of Lee, the late, meaning, I’m gone, I’m dead. Why are you calling me? Didn’t you hear?” Or, “This is me, Lee, I’m dead, and if you only got one ring before getting to voicemail then that means the battery on this thing’s dead too beep!”

  3. Re:Great. :( on Steve Jobs To Keynote WWDC iPhone Announcement · · Score: 1

    As Jobs said in a 2007 interview: "so far, software coupled with its hardware runs better than software decoupled from the hardware that runs it." He said this sitting next to Gates ... they were coupled....

  4. Re:Man. on Hundred-Ton Dome To Collect Oil Spill · · Score: 1

    "Condom an entire industry...."

    There, fixed it for ya....

  5. Re:Better than ours? on Mayan Plumbing Found In Ancient City · · Score: 1

    But more women are religious than men. Any guy who gets some knows faking faith gets you laid. Atheists ARE virgins, thus, fewer of you. My god, this is all making sense now....

  6. Re:How good of them. on We're Staying In China, Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I sense a disturbance in the godwin....

  7. Re:What's with the nationalism on CES, Reporter Breaks "Unbreakable" Mobile Phone · · Score: -1, Troll

    And if the guy was a redneck from the south (i.e., the U.S.), he would have responded like the wwe fans in that south park episode....

    "He broke he's phone!"

    [rooster then crows]

  8. Re:Should this be surprising? on Half of All Data Centers Understaffed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    IT will forever baffle the top brass in most companies. Your dollar-men didn't get their via tech, but by handling the blood of the place -- the money. Engineers -- or those with that inclination and aptitude -- stay in the lower echelons. Those at the top are the game players, politically savvy -- honestly, cold. I think most engineer-types dolefully lack the ability to play the political games needed to rise to a CO position in a company. Is it any wonder that CIOs are the least positions to ever make CEO?

    All of this being said: a data center is technology, and technology is a mystery. To top it off, it's not getting any easier to understand. "Cloud computing? What's that?" Says the old CO who still uses an AOL account ... that he hasn't logged into in years....

    Bottomline: spending money on tech is always something the big brass knows they have to do, but do so begrudgingly....

  9. Re:We'll save the justice system first.... on The LHC, Black Holes, and the Law · · Score: 1

    Interviewer: "Can you destroy the earth?"

    The Tick: "Geez I hope not! That's where I keep all my stuff!!!"

  10. Re:Debian GNU/kFreeBSD on Happy Birthday, Linus · · Score: 1

    A caveman built a wheel. This other caveman had been trying to build it first, but, alas, didn't. So, now, we have a wheel. It's not just that there's no need to build yet another wheel, it's that, philosophically, wheel is built....

  11. use of current cultural context.... on HDD Manufacturers Moving To 4096-Byte Sectors · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This may not be a smooth transition, because some OSes do not align partitions on 4K boundaries.

    "One life ends; another begins"

  12. Re:Change vs Destruction on Anti-Technology Themes in James Cameron's Avatar · · Score: 1

    "Sometimes, I think that we've advanced, but then I look at where we are...."

  13. Re:Details... on Vista's Security Rendered Completely Useless · · Score: 1

    Sorta sounds like the government's anthrax case....

  14. Re:Obviously.. on Verizon Denies DSL Because of Subscriber's Name · · Score: 1

    All you need to do is use a portable fucking steel saw....

  15. "Where they burn books... on Nancy Pelosi vs. the Internet · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    ...soon they will burn men."

  16. Re:Why don't the ISPs do something? on Top Botnets Control Some 1 Million Hijacked Computers · · Score: 1

    Because there's no music involved. If you really want your computer analyzed, even brought before people and talked about indepth, then put music files on it. It's especially helpful if you are an unprivileged child and/or handicapped....

  17. Re:AOL is so cute... on AOL Jumps Into the Ring with Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google · · Score: 1

    My favorite part is the period in time when they got "AOL" pasted across some major motion pictures. It was bad enough when every piece of mail or box you opened resulted in an AOL floppy disk....

    Did I have a point?

  18. Re:panzer tank ??? on The DIY Tank · · Score: 1

    Joran River (River River), Potomac River (River River).

    It happens when 2 languages bump into each other....

    Oh, and don't forget the best one of all: Dumb Blonde....

  19. Re:That's outrageous on Administration Claimed Immunity To 4th Amendment · · Score: 1

    Yep. At some point liberals and conservatives meet. I am entirely conservative over the 2nd amendment (which you left out). I do believe it is the one that says I can carry a fire arm. So, let's follow the logic here: the government tells me I have no 4th amendment, right? K, come and take my 4th amendment. It'll give me a chance to practice my 2nd amendment....

  20. Re:god damn it on Daily Caffeine Protects Your Brain · · Score: 1

    70 natural foods help prevent one form of cancer, and cause another.

    The difference between a medication and a toxin is the dosage.

    "On a long enough timeline, the survival rate of everyone is zero." -Tyler Durden

  21. Re:Losing my faith in politics on The Man Who Guards Clinton's Wikipedia Entry · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'll one-up ya. Read about the political mudslinging between Octavian (Augustus) and Mark Antony during their campaign to succeed the assassinated Caesar, circa 27 BC. Back then, however, the mudslinging got a bit more personal, to the point of bloodshed and lots of it....

    Bashing one's opponent with truths, exaggerations and falsehoods has been the stuff of democracries, republics and political processes since the beginning....

  22. I maintain pedro's page.... on The Man Who Guards Clinton's Wikipedia Entry · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I maintain Pedro's page. The attacks there can be vicious too....

  23. Re:Genetic link? on Study Shows Males Commonly Mistake Sexual Intent · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've always wondered why my line, "are you ovulating?" never worked like I thought it would....

  24. Re:wrong on Study Shows Males Commonly Mistake Sexual Intent · · Score: 1

    Lloyd Christmas: "I met a girl today. She actually spoke to me."

    Harry Dunne: "Get out!"

    --Dumb and Dumber

  25. Re:Credibility??? on Scientology's Credibility Questioned Over Video Channel · · Score: 2, Funny

    Most notably, claims have been leveled...."

    What's the best build/spec for a claim? Is that frost or fire?