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  1. Re:NASA problem on Mythbusters Accidentally Bust Windows In Nearby Town · · Score: 1

    Didja miss that Post Anonymously box there, troll?

    Where's the fun in AC? Besides, my karma is strong enough to survive the occasional troll hit.

  2. Re:NASA problem on Mythbusters Accidentally Bust Windows In Nearby Town · · Score: -1, Troll

    The school secretary thought he misspelled the order and changed it to grams.

    Proof that women should stay in the home where they belong...

  3. Re:NASA problem on Mythbusters Accidentally Bust Windows In Nearby Town · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wouldn't have been francium - that stuff's got such a short half life

    Because it surrenders to the germanium?

  4. Re:Wrong. on Mythbusters Accidentally Bust Windows In Nearby Town · · Score: 1

    Your 2nd paragraph (while true in and of itself, and otherwise stated "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.") in no way supports your first paragraph's totally wrong assertion.

  5. Re:I can live with it on Why Fear the End of the R-Rated Superhero Movie? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For some reasons parents don't mind violence,

    We are born selfish and violent, lashing out (stomping feet, hitting, biting, scratch, hitting, etc) when we don't get want.

    but show one schlong or some boobies, and that makes the movie off limits.

    OTOH, we don't even start to become sexual beings until the early teen years. (Later, in cultures that aren't so sex-saturated as the US.)

    Pretty screwed up world we live in.

    Well, yes, but not for the reason you think.

  6. Re:awesome bar on Review of GNOME 2.26 and GTK+ 2.16 · · Score: 1

    Then install the "oldbar" addon.

  7. If a man can survive two atomic blatsts... on Japanese Man Certified as Double A-Bomb Victim · · Score: 1

    ... atomic warfare and Nuclear Winter can't be all that much to worry about.

  8. Where in the hell... on Scribbles MacKenzie · · Score: 1

    are this kid's parents, and why aren't they stopping him?

  9. Re:No jury trial for civil offence on Mom Given Parking Ticket For Reviving Son · · Score: 1

    However, note that there are court fees involved, and the cost to file a first level appeal could be $250 or more -- probably more than the amount of the fine.

    Yet more proof that England is a suck-ass place to live...

  10. Why the 2nd Amemdment is a Good Thing on Rural Mexican Villages Dig Moats to Repel Gangsters · · Score: 1

    "We aren't able to confront this sort of thing," Solis said. "We have a few shotguns, some .22 rifles, a few pistols -- nothing compared to what they have."

    When you criminalize having guns, only criminals will have guns.

  11. Re:Hackers. on Botnet Worm Targets DSL Modems and Routers · · Score: 1

    Even when it is bad, it's still pizza.

    Some pizza crust is so bad it's inedible...

  12. Re:And nothing of value was lost. on Universal Remote's Days Are Numbered · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    in Europe (or at least where I live) there are 348576384756876 different, conflicting coding standards

    Proof that Europe sucks and anyone of intelligence should move to the US.

    Anyway... other posters are totally correct in that I (and millions of others) am not going to buy a smartphone, and remote controls are perfectly adapted to manipulating the TV in the dark, while laying down, and not looking at the remote.

  13. Re:so much for change... on Names of Advisors Cleared To Access ACTA Documents · · Score: 4, Funny

    weird how things seem to stay the same

    Nah, it's a zombie movie come to life: Hope and change... hope and change... hope and change... hope and change... hope and change... hope and change... hope and change...

  14. Re:how is that racist? on National Ignition Facility Fires 192-Beam Pulse · · Score: 1

    Do you think the first German, Polish, or Italian immigrants spoke English? Little or none in the first generation. When they first arrived they often formed their own little settlements (or neighborhoods in the larger cities)

    Yes, yes, Little Italy, Chinatown, etc, etc.

    that looked like they had been transplanted from Europe. You could walk down the main street of these places and LITERALLY not hear a lick of English.

    And when WW1 came, the people in German enclaves got very nervous.

    the early history of immigration wasn't any different from immigration today, and your reaction today is nothing new, because back then there were people saying exactly the same things as you are, about the immigrants then. EXACTLY the same "Why don't they act like Americans!" lunacy.

    Except that immigration was halted twice, to allow the country to "digest" them. Pages 43 and 44 are interesting.

    Some interesting links:
    http://books.google.com/books?id=LNKKI23R1vEC&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&dq=americanization+of+jewish+neighborhoods&source=bl&ots=yMSYGJNa0X&sig=AOrJzznx_uimr0twbt7U3JipV7o&hl=en&ei=FWS6Sc-aGpjAtgfIpLXiDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPA44,M1

    http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/lion_and_the_unicorn/v027/27.3krasner.html

    http://books.google.com/books?id=u2SZ5avlZ24C&pg=RA1-PA101&lpg=RA1-PA101&dq=americanization+of+italian+neighborhoods&source=bl&ots=2oByFMsS5i&sig=dQYXWsviFUiZCrV0Z7OXj9CDO6E&hl=en&ei=AWa6Sf-PG-CbtwfdyLnkDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result

  15. Re:Games are not our priority on French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubuntu · · Score: 2, Informative

    ... and finding and downloading installable games are easier for Ubuntu IMHO. want a tetris clone, fire up Aptitude and .. oh there is one click on it and install presto.

    Except that it requires the root password, and lusers aren't given root.

  16. Re:Games are not our priority on French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    how much better can ... solitaire be?

    PySol has a very handy auto-drop feature, which takes the drudgery out of the game.

  17. Re:how is that racist? on National Ignition Facility Fires 192-Beam Pulse · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seriously, calling the US a "nation of immigrants" is not something those evil multiculturalists just made up, its a freakin' fact. Wave after wave of immigrants from almost every continent at one time or another during the first century and beyond, at a rate that often exceeded the natural population increase in the main population.

    The difference in that the previous waves of immigrants tended to Anglicize their names, give their children "English" names, speak English in the home if possible, etc, to assimilate their children as quickly as possible.

    Now it seems the opposite is happening.

    ISTM that if your country-of-origin is bad enough that you want to pick up everything and leave, and that America is good enough that it's the place where you want to drop yourself in, that you'd want to leave as much of the past behind, and embrace American culture. Otherwise, stay in your CoO because you obviously think it's better than America.

  18. Johnny Cash and on Marijuana Pepsi Jackson · · Score: 1

    the boy named Sue.

  19. Re:Who are locals? on How To Keep a Web Site Local? · · Score: 1

    What would RMS say?

    Royal Mail Ships don't say much, if anything, at all.

  20. Re:how is that racist? on National Ignition Facility Fires 192-Beam Pulse · · Score: 2, Interesting

    since when are you a racist simply because you criticize another culture?

    When multiculturalists are in position (namely, academia) to influence society.

    Of course, anyone with at least half a functioning brain can see that it won't work ("The Diversity Theorem: Groups of people from anywhere in the world, mixed together in any numbers and proportions whatsoever, will eventually settle down as a harmonious society, appreciating--nay, celebrating!--their differences... which will of course soon disappear entirely."), thus leading to Balkanization.

  21. Being 25 years older... on Spinal Tap Announces 25th Anniversary Tour · · Score: 1

    will be perfect, since they'll also have the Old Rocker look, too.

  22. Wallet pouches aren't that big... on Wal-Mart Shopper Finds Human Teeth In Wallet · · Score: 1

    ... and they're flat, designed for cards, photos, etc.

    But teeth are 3D, and adult teeth aren't that small. How in the heck did ten teeth fit into such a pouch?

  23. Re:Isn't it stupid to... on The Best Way Through the Great Firewall of China · · Score: 1

    Isn't it stupid to assume that the PRC don't know all of the ways the G(F)WoC can be pierced?

    Of course not.

    1. No one knows all knowledge about any complex entity, and
    2. bureaucracies know even less about complex entities.
  24. Isn't it stupid to... on The Best Way Through the Great Firewall of China · · Score: 1

    ... give the PRC better information on how people piercer the GWoC?

  25. Re:FUCK ARTISTS on French President Busted For Copyright Violation · · Score: 1

    You can't hate someone withing loving him, and you can't love someone without hating him now and then.

    So all those people who hate W and orgasmed when he left office really love him? That's just wrong.