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  1. Re:Nuh-uh! on Venus's Surface May Be 1 Billion Years Old · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So, what you're saying is, God's an asshole. I get it now. And you worship him why?

  2. Re:Good luck on Google and the CIA? · · Score: 1

    Nobody works for the NSA, they work for the Department Of Defense. I should know, my old college roommate got a job at the Department Of Defense when he graduated. :)

  3. Re:Law of probablilty on More Voting Shenanigans in Florida · · Score: 1

    That's because dead men don't tell tales.

  4. Re:Nice Try on More Voting Shenanigans in Florida · · Score: 1

    If one party is consistently listed above the other, and the touchscreen calibration is off, this could easily happen. The "fix" they're talking about the poll workers doing is probably a touchscreen calibration.

  5. Re:What I'd like in a CD on EMI Exec Says 'The Music CD is Dead' · · Score: 1

    CDDB uses the song lengths to identify the CD. But yeah, they could use CDDB, but they'd have to give them money.

  6. Re:As if we have the right. on North Korea Returns To The Table · · Score: 1

    You're right. It *is* BS. Using nukes at the end of WWII spared a couple of *million* lives at the expense of a few hundred thousand. It was nowhere close to being an even trade.

  7. Re:More Reasons to Hate Us on North Korea Returns To The Table · · Score: 1

    It was illegal after the first gulf war for American companies to do business with Iraq. I'm sure some still did, but it was still a federal crime. And the UN Food for Oil program was *designed* for corruption. Iraq *had* to sell oil at less than market price. To "prevent corruption". Right. Guess how they decided who to sell to, Sherlock?

  8. Re:More Reasons to Hate Us on North Korea Returns To The Table · · Score: 1

    You know a lot of the new sanctions are to stop money laundering and to keep the higher-ups from traveling, right?

  9. Re:China's Trump Card on North Korea Returns To The Table · · Score: 1

    It'd take 20 years and a horrendous drain on the South Korean economy before they get to that state. It's been 15 years since Germany reunited, and they're still having problems, and NK is a hell of a lot more of a basket case than East Germany was. Do you think China would mind South Korea devoting its resources to fixing North Korea instead of to manufacturing exports? Hell, it'll take 'em a decade just to rebuild Seoul after North Korea collapses.

  10. What I'd like in a CD on EMI Exec Says 'The Music CD is Dead' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If the CD had the following included:

    A URL to go to for downloading high quality music videos.

    A unique number for each title that lets you see which music videos are currently released for that title. As videos are released, this list grows.

    A number unique to that CD that lets you download each of the videos on that list once. If they want, they can watermark the videos and shut out that CD number if they find any copies floating around.

  11. Re:racism on Google Under Fire Over Racist Blogs · · Score: 1

    Or maybe we can all become a uniform shade of gray.

  12. Re:Costa Rica on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1

    Well, to be fair, it doesn't take much to piss off Muslims. Hell, just a cartoon'll do it.

  13. Re:Sounds like my dream... on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1

    I've always wondered why they haven't made a Bond flick about the Canary Islands.

  14. Re:Not a paradox at all on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1

    As long as you're a Christian that didn't used to be Muslim, you mean. Or one who wanted to build a new temple or church.

  15. Re:The Netherlands on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1

    Mexicans are high-tech knowledge workers???

  16. Re:How 'bout just a black hole on The Internet Black Hole That Is North Korea · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The problem with socialism is socialism. The problem with capitalism is capitalists.

  17. Re:Flame on! on Charles Darwin Online · · Score: 1

    The human spine hasn't fully adapted to walking upright. The human brain hasn't fully adapted to rational thought.

    Too bad the fundies are breeding faster than everyone else. Rational thought is not a survival characteristic.

  18. Re:You should think harder about it on Human Species May Split In Two · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but the babe married to the ugly rich guy will get knocked up by the hot pool cleaner.

  19. Re:Innovation on Crunching the Numbers on a Hydrogen Economy · · Score: 1

    OK, how about this: I don't want to live naked on a savannah somewhere living on grubs and berries until I get too old to run away from hyenas. Which, in my case, would be, uh, about 8 years ago.

  20. Re:When the money dries up... on A Lot of Money for Playing Games · · Score: 1

    Actually, all you have to do to save money is not get laid. Which isn't too hard for most of the people here.

  21. Re:We saw it coming?? on The Future of ReiserFS · · Score: 2, Informative

    The big change came during the Civil War. Before the war started, the Federal government employed about 80,000 civilians. Of those, 50,000 worked for the Post Office.

  22. Re:Creative: prepare to pay the lawyers on New Copy Protection to Make Playing DVDs on a PC Difficult · · Score: 1

    Not if he spent it on blank CDs.

  23. Re:Fearmongering is not the way to do this. on Mass Extinctions from Global Warming? · · Score: 1

    Actually, we *should* be in an ice age, based on the cycles of orbital perturbations. Thing is, though, the global warming thing has been going on a bit longer than the last century. The invention of agriculture modified climate. Scientific American had an article about it a year or two ago.

  24. Re:Bring back the Gorn, dammit! on Star Trek XI - What We Know · · Score: 1

    In the short story "The Arena" that the episode was based on, the alien race was destroyed, but in the ST episode Kirk asked that they not be destroyed.

  25. Re:Well duh on The Daily Show as Substantive as Broadcast News · · Score: 1

    Condit was never labeled as a Republican. He was labeled as a Representative.