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  1. Re:Seems easy on Stay Off the Grid, Win $10,000 · · Score: 1

    "Wild camping" is not permitted, it's considered a form of squatting (which is also not allowed).

    You're just not trying hard enough to stay hidden ;)

  2. Re:Seems easy on Stay Off the Grid, Win $10,000 · · Score: 1

    Heck, if you've got any survival training (I do), forget the campgrounds. You can easily carry tent, gear and a month's supply of food for one person and completely disappear.

  3. Re:The important part of the article on Routine DNA Tests For Newborns Mean Looming Privacy Problems · · Score: 1

    Private corporations can't put you in jail

    No, it's more profitable to just run the jail. Also, I think some of the recipients of MPAA/RIAA attention might disagree with you on some of the subtleties of your point.

  4. Re:The important part of the article on Routine DNA Tests For Newborns Mean Looming Privacy Problems · · Score: 1

    And the Government will have your complete medical record on file. How long do you think it will be before they start using it for other purposes

    Well, given the inherent inefficiencies, probably not as fast as private corporations have been doing it.

  5. Re:The mythbusters need to test this! on Why the First Cowboy To Draw Always Gets Shot · · Score: 1

    Methinks someone just wants to see Jamie get shot on tv.

    Don't we all?

  6. Re:Oblig. on Why the First Cowboy To Draw Always Gets Shot · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Hans' hot first"

    AKA "How I Learned To Enjoy Wookiee Lovin'"

  7. Re:I could have told you that. on Studies Reveal Why Kids Get Bullied and Rejected · · Score: 1

    Interesting. I spent my last two years of school at a private Catholic school. In terms of fellow students being nasty/bullies/hostile, it was like going from the Mayberry county lockup to a Supermax prison.

    Mind you, it was also a move from one country to another, and this school had some peculiarities that definitively enabled a lot of this, but still...

  8. Re:Don't forget to... on "Tube Map" Created For the Milky Way · · Score: 4, Funny

    What is the galactic equivalent of Mornington Crescent?

    Even on that scale, I think it's still Detroit.

  9. Re:Well now... on A Look Into the Chinese Hacker Underworld · · Score: 1

    Forget that. Who knew they had 'for-profit' hackers in a communist country? THE MIND BOGGLES!

  10. Re:Free? on How Many SUSE Subscriptions Can You Get For $240M? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Oh yeah, a shitty update on outdated humour. That'll help.

  11. Re:Wise words on "Calvin and Hobbes" Creator Bill Watterson Looks Back With No Regrets · · Score: 1

    Garfield was ever good?

    When you're 10 years old and you've just discovered the first couple of collections, yeah, it's great. Fast-forward a couple years, with that fat orange ass literally stuck to everything, not so much.

    Disclaimer: YMMV. I love lasagna and hate getting out of bed.

  12. Re:unpossible on Students Failing Because of Poor Grammar · · Score: 1

    Well, I can't really attest to whether the Scouts are nationalistic or anti-freethinking, but homophobic is right on the money.

  13. Re:Why type? on Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS In 24 Hours · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Does anyone still type in HTML or CSS anymore? Don't you just bring up a WSYWIG designer and just publish your page?

    I mean, Please! This is the 21st century wtf are we still typing for christ-sakes?!


    This is why.

  14. Re:Well, now we'll restart the F-22 on Russian Stealth Fighter Makes Its First Flight · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Except for the fact that Russia is going to be selling these fighters to many other countries.

    Which is still fine. Buying a bunch of mig descendants is one thing. Learning how to operate them properly and maintain them is another.

  15. Re:The Don't Buy It - iPass on iPad Is a "Huge Step Backward" · · Score: 1

    s unreadable outside the house...

    If there's one piece of FUD about the i/pod/touch/pad I really hate, it's this one. I can't comment on the kindle or e-ink, but I've spent plenty of sunny days outside over the last 18 months happily reading on my ipod touch screen. I can only imagine the ipad, with its much bigger display, is going to be a breeze to read in the sunlight.

  16. Re:What is the point? on Apple's "iPad" Out In the Open · · Score: 2, Funny

    I want to put the mp3 on my iPhone so I can listen to it later, maybe in the car on the way home. But I can't. My iPhone is paired to my Mac at home, and if I want to put an MP3 on while I am at work, iTunes insists on erasing the device first. (It doesn't do this for some data, like contacts, which sync at home & work with no problem.)

    Have him email it to you. Or FTP it somewhere. There's plenty of ways to get things on your iphone/touch without syncing.

  17. Re:Sad news on Obama Choosing NOT To Go To the Moon · · Score: 1

    Haven't done either. Just refuting your point that the US has ever been truly isolationist in its entire history.

    I'd love to see your sources for "condemned for intervening in WW2". That ought to be fun.

  18. Re:Sad news on Obama Choosing NOT To Go To the Moon · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, they were so isolationist, they provided supplies and munitions to the brits during that time, as well as squeezing Japan on oil exports in order to provoke an attack.

  19. Re:Sad news on Obama Choosing NOT To Go To the Moon · · Score: 1

    Because the last time the US withdrew from the World it worked out so well for mankind.....

    When the fuck was that?

  20. Re:Spending freeze on Obama Choosing NOT To Go To the Moon · · Score: -1, Troll

    All right! The overrated mod! Too wussy to go for troll or flamebait, eh?

  21. Spending freeze on Obama Choosing NOT To Go To the Moon · · Score: 0

    Killing arabs: We got money for that. Everything else: not important.

    Someone explain to me again how he's a socialist?

  22. Re:Oh Apple, let the Apps through already! on Google Gets Its iPhone Voice · · Score: 1

    You don't get out much, do you? All I see on the streets are iPhones and Blackberries.

  23. Re:Who signs the checks? on Getting Company Owners To Follow Their Own Rules? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Parent wins the thread. Hack their laptops, and script the fuckers the back themselves up. Sheesh.

  24. Re:"Nuclear" Winter on Humans Nearly Went Extinct 1.2M Years Ago · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't expect them to use the term 'catastrophic clamactic event' in a flowing sentence.

    Quite right. Such terms should be reserved for events like the 1912 San Francisco Shellfish Riots.

  25. Re:How to get management to listen on Rockstar Employees Badly Overworked, Say Wives · · Score: 1

    There are other ways of dealing with the situation that don't involve unions.

    When you find that magic bullet, please let us know. Meanwhile, corporations with their hands stuffed comfortably up politician's rectums, they've managed to convince everyone that unions are bad, mkay? Fucking ridiculous.