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  1. Re:Where's the FEC to regulate when needed? on iPad Getting a Subscription Infrastructure? · · Score: 1

    I would say one of the other biggest differences is that in Canada you can't deduct mortgage interest. Something I wish we would change in the US

    However, profits from the sale of our principle residences do not count as capital gains.

  2. Re:Glory hound on Super Principia Mathematica · · Score: 1

    Actually, he's getting blown in that picture; however, it's by the local vicar.

  3. Re:Why on Meet the Virginia-Built 110MPG X-Prize Car · · Score: 1

    Unless your function is to carry a lot of stuff.

  4. Re:Funny name on Turning Your Home Wiring Into a Giant Antenna · · Score: 1

    And don't forget "SNUPI versus the Red Baron".

  5. Re:Le Daily News - 9/15/2060 on Construction of French Fusion Reactor Underway · · Score: 2, Funny

    One can only hope!

  6. Re:Evil stuff on High Fructose Corn Syrup To Get a Makeover · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, the candidates could do what politicians do best: lie through their teeth. Then eliminate the tariffs as would be appropriate for a country seeking to participate in the GLOBAL ECONOMY .

  7. Re:Cool story bro on High Fructose Corn Syrup To Get a Makeover · · Score: 1

    So you're not looking for repeat business, eh?

  8. Re:Impossible? on Left-Handed Gamers Getting Left Behind? · · Score: 1

    What dumb ass decided that the enter key should be on the right?

    Trye swapping the shift lock and enter keys.

  9. Re:Atheist on The Advent of Religious Search Engines · · Score: 1

    One goldfish in an aquarium to another: Oh yeah! if there's no god, then who changes our water every month?

  10. Re:Hooray for freedom on HDCP Master Key Revealed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    '... whereas legal marijuana doesn't directly effect any large legitimate financial group negatively.'

    Well, not legitimate, but organised crime is heavily dependent financially on drugs being illegal, so they would probably try and finance resistance to legalisation.
    Also, police like having drugs be illegal as it helps prop up their power structure.

  11. Re:Where have I heard this before? on Pentagon Aims To Buy Up Book · · Score: 1

    Sure, and a Florida pastor was recently trying to make a start in doing the same to the Koran.

  12. Re:What? on Family To Receive $1.5M+ In Vaccine-Autism Award · · Score: 1

    The one with the greater experience in successfully removing appendices without complications.

  13. It's obvious on Best Way To Archive Emails For Later Searching? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Alphabetically!

  14. Re:Still waiting for.. on The State of Household Robots · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, they got a good start on the folding part (at least for towels).

  15. Re:A Pyrrhic Victory on Simon Singh Talks With Wired About His Libel Battle · · Score: 1

    Any system that depends on the goodwill of an authority is not a good system.

    (Now, if only I could come up with a foolproof solution!)

  16. Re:Physicist speaking on New Calculations May Lead To a Test For String Theory · · Score: 1

    Since I have a physicist here :^)

    Since string theory cannot be distinguished from , e.g., QM (i.e., string theory is untestable), does that not also imply that QM cannot be distinguished from string theory (i.e., QM is untestable)? So why is QM given precedence?

  17. Re:Silly on Flash On Android Is 'Shockingly Bad' · · Score: 1

    Because it hurts more.

  18. Re:LOLWUT? on Newspapers Cut Wikileaks Out of Shield Law · · Score: 1

    Note that the plurality of mods are "Interesting", not "Informative".

  19. Re:Running out? on Why the World Is Running Out of Helium · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hydrogen and helium are light enough so that they will fairly easily escape from the earth.

  20. Why? on Why the World Is Running Out of Helium · · Score: 1

    Because it's a finite resource! (Sheesh!)

  21. Re:Shockingly unsubtle on Julian Assange Faces Rape Investigation In Sweden — Updated · · Score: 1

    'The secret services could vanish this Julian idiot any time they wanted...'

    Julian isn't important; it is Wikileaks which must be discredited.

  22. Re:Just because it's patented... on Apple Patents Remotely Disabling Jailbroken Phones · · Score: 1

    ... remotely disabling electronic devices when 'unauthorized usage' is detected.'

    Given that the only reasonable determiner of 'unauthorized' is the owner of said device, I should say that it's legal.

  23. Re:So. on Employees Would Steal Data When Leaving a Job · · Score: 1

    They'll be stuck with a heap of trouble because they were morons and fired everyone. You'll be at your next job as a contractor finishing the product for them at twice the pay. Woo hoo! win-win!

    At least that is what I commonly see with these 'let's fire the development team' events at companies that end up staying in business.

  24. Re:Great move, Pirate Party. on Wikileaks Now Hosted By the Swedish Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    'Why do you think even Hitler didn't invade Sweden?'

    Because he didn't have to; Sweden was quite happy to allow German troops to enter so as to attack Norway.

  25. Re:uhh on Controversy Arises Over Taliban Option In Medal of Honor · · Score: 1

    'I suspect the Vietnam also has similarly untouchable episoddes[sic].'

    My Lai Massacre?