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  1. Re:It sounds nice... on Zero Gravity Flights for the Rest of Us · · Score: 2, Insightful
    ...idea of throwing oneself out of a perfectly good airplane

    To this same comment, my skydive instructor replied, "If there was such thing as a perfectly good airplane, the parachute would never have been invented."

  2. Re:*Ahem* on Zero Gravity Flights for the Rest of Us · · Score: 1

    Have you ever been skydiving? Its nothing like any ride at an amusement park.

  3. Re:v6 could help solve some net problems on IPv6 is Here · · Score: 1

    One of the points is that we're getting away from static IPs. Ipv6 addresses will be autoconfigured using router prefixes and your MAC address.

  4. Re:What is poetry? on Spam as Poetry · · Score: 2, Interesting

    John Lennon did that too, just look at "I am the Walrus".

    As he once said...
    "We've learned over the years that if we wanted we could write anything that just felt good or sounded good and it didn't necessarily have to have any particular meaning to us. As odd as it seemed to us, reviewers would take it upon themselves to interject their own meanings on our lyrics. Sometimes we sit and read other people's interpretations of our lyrics and think, 'Hey, that's pretty good.' If we liked it, we would keep our mouths shut and just accept the credit as if it was what we meant all along. "

  5. Re:I hate beer snobs on Keeping Your Keg Cool Sans Ice · · Score: 1

    He's right, just read this article. Lagers are brewed cold and meant to be drank cold. Ales and stouts are brewed warmer and are generally drank warmer (not warm, but basement temperature).

  6. Re:Why? on Sony Develops 25 GB Paper Disc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Big Mac, McBLT, a Quarter Pounder with some cheese Fliet O' Fish, a hamburger, a cheeseburger, a Happy Meal McNuggets, tasty golden french fries, regular and larger size A salad, chef or garden or a chicken salad oriental Big McBreakfast, Egg McMuffin, Hot Hotcakes and sausage Maybe Biscuits, Bacon, Egg and Cheese and sausage, danish hashbrowns too and for Dessert, hot apple pies, and sundaes, three varieties a soft serve cone, three kinds of shakes, and chocolatey chip cookies and to drink a Coca Cola, Diet Coke, and orange drink a sprite, a coffee, decaf too, a low fat milk also and orange juice I love McDonald's "Good Times, Great Taste" and I get this all in one place!

  7. Re:Timing it right could be tricky on Stoplights to Mete Out Punishment? · · Score: 3, Informative
  8. Re:Old growth lumber on Chainsaw-wielding Robotic Submarine · · Score: 1

    What's new is the chainsaw wielding submarine, not that the logs are preserved under water. The logs on the bottom of the Great Lakes were already cut down, but sank while floating them across.

  9. Re:Reward...? on Author signs MyDoom virus · · Score: 1

    The median IQ is 100, making 50% of the population less than 100.

  10. Re:Maybe TV People Will Earn Realistic Pay on Will TiVo Destroy Ad-Supported TV? · · Score: 1

    You honestly can't get much better than "The Joy of Painting"

  11. Re:Nope on Will TiVo Destroy Ad-Supported TV? · · Score: 1

    Honestly, who calls collect that much anymore anyway?

  12. Re:Not so fast... on McDonald's Denies Deal With iTunes · · Score: 1
    After a couple of years of that you will see Linux become a first tier OS instead of a novelty OS.

    I think that IBM may disagree with you here as they are a HUGE backer of Linux and provide it on many of their high end servers . At over $80 billion revenue yearly, they must be doing something right.

  13. Re:One word: Bigzoo. on Will A Price War Run VoIP Out of Business? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What also makes it irrelevant is how tons of people are dropping their land lines and using only cell phones, and not just young people either.

  14. Re:Let's Get This Out of the Way... on Three More Solar Flares · · Score: 0

    yes.... these flares have the energy of how many volkswagen beetles?

  15. Re:Short life on More on Talking Shopping Carts · · Score: 1

    Except when you're on the green line in boston and the train stops every 15 seconds... "Doors open on the right...", yes I was told 15 seconds ago.

  16. Re:Middle East on The End of the Oil Age · · Score: 1

    Not to mention, no one will care what happens there anyway once theres no more oil.

  17. new? on Land Bridge Migration · · Score: 1

    Didn't we learn about this in elementary school?

  18. Re:Keypresses on Recommendations for RPN Calculators? · · Score: 1

    Kind of like typing on the command line instead of using a GUI.

  19. Re:Why? on The Oldest Mouse Contest · · Score: 1

    Ahhh, but if the rich never die and the poor do, wouldn't that be similar to survival of the fittest? Eventually everyone would be rich!

  20. Re:Oh, please. on The Oldest Mouse Contest · · Score: 1

    what about pets? do you not get emotionally attached to your pet dog when you're 5 years old, then it dies. Then you get another one when your 12, that one eventually dies. Why don't people stop getting new pets after the old ones die? I think relationships with people would be the same thing, but on a larger scale.

  21. Zut Alors! on EU Parliament Approves Software Patents · · Score: 5, Funny

    J'ai oubliez tout mon francais!

  22. Re:Yahoo Yellow Pages on Google Adds Location Targeted Searching · · Score: 1

    Because "Tom and Chuck's Super Cool Garage Band" may have a webpage but not a yellow page listing.

  23. Re:skip prison... on UK Makes Spamming a Fineable Offense · · Score: 1

    I bet he could also offer fantastically low interest rates on his anal real estate.

  24. Re:This is a good start on UK Makes Spamming a Fineable Offense · · Score: 1
    I wonder what the US will do besides say "spam is bad...don't do it"
    1. Most likely start charging people to block it.
  25. Re:Canada-Runs! on Canada Immune From RIAA? · · Score: 1

    What are you comparing it to, O'douls?