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  1. Re:Shit. on Trojan-Infected Computer Linked To 2008 Spanair Crash · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Two words: Blowout. Preventer.

  2. Re:How did this garbage get posted? on Russian Scholar Warns Of US Climate Change Weapon · · Score: 1

    A Slashdot article? Think big: If you can yell about it for more than five minutes without going hoarse, Fox News will give you your own show.

  3. Story = Excuse... on How the Internet Is Changing Language · · Score: 1

    ...to post one of my favorite quotes:

    The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that the English language is as pure as a crib-house whore. It not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary. -- James Nicoll

  4. Re:Bullshit on How the Internet Is Changing Language · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wow,the word of God sure does change a lot. If I didn't know any better, I'd think that people wrote it and rewrote it to suit their own agendas.

  5. Re:Except it wasn't that clear on How the Internet Is Changing Language · · Score: 1

    So basically, the Bible is designed for people who can swallow any shit that's fed to them.

  6. Re:Hypocrisy Isn't Free on Controversy Arises Over Taliban Option In Medal of Honor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Which is funny, since Gitmo was the result of assuming that we COULD do everything both sides do.

  7. Re:Well, that explains things. on US Students Struggle With Understanding of the 'Equal' Sign · · Score: 1

    Why not? Secant ye shall find, after all.

  8. Re:And yet Hollywood... on Video Quality Matters Less If You Enjoy the Show · · Score: 4, Insightful

    At that point it's too late to fix the story (and you'd probably just add another comedy sidekick anyway you hack), so you approve a higher effects budget and call in a favor at Lucasfilm.

    Or, in a few notable cases, you OWN Lucasfilm.

  9. Re:Wow let me run out and buy some solar panels on Portugal Gives Itself a Clean-Energy Makeover · · Score: 1

    As opposed to paying at least $200/month for a car note, not to mention maintenance and upkeep? Yes.
    And hey, guess what -- you get to keep the car for the whole day! So if you aren't an idiot (like, say, some /. commenters), you can make a lot of trips on that day! It's like fucking magic.

  10. Re:Debt on Portugal Gives Itself a Clean-Energy Makeover · · Score: 1

    What could Gore, or anyone, have possibly fucked up more than that?

    My God man, weren't you listening to him? The marginal rate on the incomes of those earning 250K or more would have been marginally higher! MARGINALLY HIGHER!!!!

  11. Re:Wow let me run out and buy some solar panels on Portugal Gives Itself a Clean-Energy Makeover · · Score: 1

    Finally, the idea that public transport is big in Europe is a myth.

    I wish you'd told me this before my trip to France last year. It would have saved me all of those two-block walks to the Metro Stations when I was in Paris, as well as the TGV trip down to Montpellier. I mean, I could have been using a CAR instead! Thanks, citizen.

  12. Re:Wow let me run out and buy some solar panels on Portugal Gives Itself a Clean-Energy Makeover · · Score: 1

    Additionally, if you are limited to what you can carry home from the store you are unable to take advantage of sales to stock up on non-perishable goods and thus further save money.

    If only someone would come up with a place where people who did not own cars or were far away from theirs could rent them on those one or two times a month that people really needed them. Yeah, that would be AWESOME!

  13. Re:Would you care to point out who? on Obama Wants Allies To Go After WikiLeaks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm pretty sure he was referring to *cough*cough* higher-ups in the previous administration. Violations of the Geneva Convention are war crimes a priori.

  14. Re:How does on Obama Wants Allies To Go After WikiLeaks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    After eight years of being shit upon, yes, being pissed on is "better".

    It is, however, still piss.

  15. Re:A sad day for America on Ted Stevens and Sean O'Keefe In Plane Crash · · Score: 1

    I'm not sad because these particular guys died. I'm sad because my first thought when I heard that some former lawmakers and corporate executives died is, "Good, probably served them right."

    My first thought was a wishlist of other douchebags I would have like to have seen on that plane. So, at least you are a better person than I.

  16. Re:Very simple on How Star Trek Artists Imagined the iPad... 23 Years Later · · Score: 1

    "How can you make it go today?"

  17. Re:Very simple on How Star Trek Artists Imagined the iPad... 23 Years Later · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whereas Microsoft Courier is exactly what the PADD would have been had the Pakleds designed it.

  18. Re:Only true if you ignore the externalities on Just One Out of 16 Hybrids Pays Back In Gas Savings · · Score: 1

    The ultimate cost-benefit analysis will be affected on whether the chainsaw is gas or electric.

  19. Re:That's how the market is supposed to work. on Just One Out of 16 Hybrids Pays Back In Gas Savings · · Score: 1

    True, It is patently obvious that no one ever bought a Hummer to express their personal values through a choice of vehicle.

    They did so because of the untreated erectile dysfunction in their extremely small penises.

  20. Re:Hydrogen or hot-air on The Second Age of Airships · · Score: 1

    (See signature.)

  21. Cape Rear on Superman Comic Saves Family Home From Foreclosure · · Score: 1

    This should help Supes with all of that bad press he's been getting.

  22. Re:Summary is Wrong on WikiLeaks 'a Clear and Present Danger,' Says WaPo · · Score: 1

    And, to add insult to injury, Marc Theissen is one of the guys who should actually be in goddam jail. Next to the vampires he worked for.

  23. Re:What about Afghanistan on Obama Sets End of Iraq Combat For August 31st · · Score: 1

    So, we're pulling our armed forces out of Iraq, just to send them to Afghanistan.

    Wel,l be fair — the reason we didn't send a lot more troops to Afghanistan when they were really needed was that Bush and Cheney needed those troops to secure the Iraqi's oil^H^H^H freedoms...

  24. Re:Don't on How Should a Non-Techie Learn Programming? · · Score: 1

    What a ridiculous jaded viewpoint from someone whose lifeforce has cleraly been crushed by his career history.

    BFF!

  25. Re:What's wrong with it? on What's Wrong With the American University System · · Score: 1

    Yes, it was but the principal behind it is not.

    Intellectual superiority is slightly easier to sell when you know the difference between "principal" and "principle". Unless Ayn Rand was the name of the school administrator who raped you.