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  1. Ben Browder on Ben Browder Joining Stargate SG-1 Cast · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Never heard of him.

  2. Re:Homework? on Honda Updates ASIMO · · Score: 0
    Homework? Bah! I'm waiting for the firmware hack that lets me send it to assassinate my enimies.

    You want to ass your enema?

  3. Re:Don't buy it on TV On Cellphones Ever Closer · · Score: 0

    There's probably no major corporations who haven't had at least one defense related contract.

  4. Re:How is this different from the magnetic strip on Driver's Licenses with Digital Watermarks · · Score: 0

    Maryland has had that for a couple of years.

  5. Re:Ken and I were roomates on Adieu to Ken Jennings · · Score: 0
    I brought her back to my and Ken's room and Ken had already went to bed but the two of us ate some food, fooled around a little, and went to sleep.

    Let me get this straight. You fooled around with Ken?

  6. Re:FedEx? on Adieu to Ken Jennings · · Score: 0

    My theory is that he wanted off the show so he could collect his winnings. He's been off work for weeks or months now and probably on unpaid leave. He also doesn't collect his winnings from the show until he leaves. I think he could see this going on forever and he desparately needed the money so he threw it on purpose. Also do you think maybe his church was pressuring him for their cut?

  7. New Mexico on Outsourcing To Rural America · · Score: 0
    Rural Sourcing's president, has set up two facilities in Arkansas, has another center coming on line in New Mexico in January, and is in talks to open yet another facility in North Carolina.

    YeeHaw! I'm going back home to New Mexico.

  8. Spud Guns were great on Classic Toys For Christmas? · · Score: 0
    The spud gun was a gun where you stick the end of the barrel into a potato to load it with a small bit of material, cock it by pulling back a spring loaded device and then fire it by pulling a trigger to release the spring. I remember the original spud guns using a spring loaded firing design but the current models appear to use air pressure to push out the potato. Also, many of the new ones are now called a potato gun.

    The original spud guns were mostly popular back in the 60s but have always been around since but rarely seen. I have occasionally seen them advertised since then in catalogs.

    The original models were pretty cheaply made and I remember mine falling apart. Also, my parents weren't too happy when they found potato pieces all over the porches, sidewalks and yard.

    I did a quick search on google and found many sites that sell them by either the name spud gun or potato gun. There's also countless sites on making your own. Here's a site that sells one: http://grandpasgeneral.com/k-pgun.html

  9. Re:POP3 access on Gmail Adds POP3 To Email Accounts · · Score: 0

    I've been begging just for a gmail invite.

  10. Re:MCE2005 vs. SageTV vs. MythTV? on Microsoft Takes on TiVo · · Score: 0

    Two words about SageTV: Microsoft Windows. Nuff said.

  11. Re:With the current administration... on USAF Studies Teleportation · · Score: 0

    Just off the top of my head... 1. Banning government funds for stem cell research because it kills cells that will be thrown out anyway. 2. Wanting a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Do we want to write a clause into the constitional to specify discrimination against a minority group? 3. Generally wearing his religion on his sleeve after spending half his life as as alcoholic and drug addict.

  12. Re:With the current administration... on USAF Studies Teleportation · · Score: 0

    After that rant, we're supposed to buy a computer from you?

  13. The biggest problem with C# is on Java 1.5 vs C# · · Score: 0

    it's Microsoft.

  14. Re:Paperclip response on Dear Microsoft Windows ... · · Score: 0

    One more equally hateful letter style: [_] Linux geek forced to use Windows at work

  15. Re:What, no VB? on Mono: A Developer's Handbook · · Score: 0
    If Mono doesn't support Visual Basic .NET, I'm not interested.

    According to this article the next release of mono in March will implement a native Visual Basic (VB.Net) compiler and Windows Forms (WinForms)...whatever that is. http://www.vnunet.com/news/1158239

  16. Re:oh no! on IBM Sets Supercomputer Speed Record · · Score: -1
    Is beawulf the sister of beowulf?

    Actually, it's the Aunt Bea of Linux clusters.

  17. Re:I'll tell you why on IT (And Other) Salaries On The Rise In The U.S. · · Score: 0
    Are you kidding? He got the recipes from Nixon.

    Actually it was LBJ that wrote the cookbook.

  18. opt-out almost never works anyway on Spam Opt-out Link Triggers Malicious Code Attack · · Score: 0
    Scarily the E-mail actually complies with the CAN-SPAM act as it only requires spammers to put an opt-out link in their mailings.

    I've been getting spam for years that have an opt-out option. The only problem is that it almost never works. It's usually a bad link or it may just display a screen that says you've been removed but I believe it's a dummy screen to make you think you've been removed.

  19. Re:"Upgrade"? on Windows Upgrade, FAA Error Cause LAX Shutdown · · Score: -1, Troll

    Most geeks know this is a Downgrade. An upgrade would have been to Linux.

  20. Fox News on Sky Captain and the Films of Tomorrow · · Score: 1, Funny
    "Foxnews.com has an interview with the stars of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

    Why is the media branch of the White House doing movie interviews now?

  21. Re:Oh, the irony! on Cringely: MS To Hurt Linux Via USB Enhancements · · Score: 0
    Killing babies is LESS IMPORTANT than the fucking economy!?!?

    I believe in a woman's freedom of choice and I think this issue is important but currently less important than US soldiers and innocent Iraqies dying every day and hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work with no relief in sight to either issue.

    The point was that too many people focus on one issue which in their mind is the only important issue in this election. It's obvious what your focus point is.

  22. Re:Best reason to vote Bush out on Cringely: MS To Hurt Linux Via USB Enhancements · · Score: 1
    no matter who's elected, the debt load will increase unless there's enough growth to cover them.

    The only obvious solution is to re-elect Bill Clinton. He would know what to do.

  23. Re:Best reason to vote Bush out on Cringely: MS To Hurt Linux Via USB Enhancements · · Score: 1
    I'm pro-gun and pro-life. From a European perspective this looks like a really odd combination.

    You're right about that, but it's the typical religious right mentality of which our current, non-elected, President prescribes to. Whether he's pro-gun or not, he's acting like he is just to get the NRA support. His primary goal is to just get re-elected by saying whatever it takes to any group with a powerful lobby just to get their support....don't get me started....

  24. Re:Best reason to vote Bush out on Cringely: MS To Hurt Linux Via USB Enhancements · · Score: 1
    So I'm voting Libertarian, and hoping Bush will lose just to drive the Republican party back to it's original small government principals which I agreed with.

    So, you're voting Libertarian but hoping the Democratic candidate will win? Why not vote for the Democrat and make your vote actually count?

  25. Re:Oh, the irony! on Cringely: MS To Hurt Linux Via USB Enhancements · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I'm voting against Kerry because I disagree with him on both of those things.

    It's clueless anonymous cowards like yourself that Bush is counting on to get re-elected, people that have kneejerk reactions to one issue that bugs them such as gun control or abortions, while being unable to understand that there's far more important issues at stake in our country, such as the economy or A WAR GOING ON. WAKEUP!

    I would like to vote against Bush just because of the stem cell issue but luckily, I've found about a thousand other reasons also.