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  1. Re: Really? on Shutdown Cost the US Economy $24 Billion · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Socialism doesn't work well in a society which publicly refers to their poorest citizens as trash, or differentiates between worthwhile citizens and said trash.

    Then again, neither does a democracy or a republic.

  2. Re:Cookies on No, Oreos Aren't As Addictive As Cocaine · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a good thing Oreos aren't as addictive as a drug.

    Imaging if you took a hit of Oreos, got high, then got the munchies, ate Oreos, got high, then got the munchies, ate Oreos.... etc.

  3. Re:Anyone else... on A Teletherapy Startup Removes Barriers To Mental Health Care · · Score: 1

    "...a Telepathy-based start-up for addressing mental health issues..."

    I see Lucy sitting at her booth with her "The Doctor Is [IN] Your Head" sign, and begin to hyperventilate.

  4. Re:Is that why they lack perspective? on Most Cave Paintings Were Painted By Women, Says Penn State Researcher · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes, but unlike ancient cave painting artists, Medieval and Byzantine artists suffered from having their perspective of reality warped by organized religion.

  5. Re:Plenty of time on Japan Promises an Ultra-High-Tech 2020 Olympics · · Score: 2

    2020, wow! That's only 7 years away, can they get ready that fast?

    Don't worry. the Japanese can add a special night shift, working by the glow from the ocean.

  6. Re:awful on Facebook Launches Advanced AI Effort To Find Meaning In Your Posts · · Score: 2

    I have a pseudonymous Facebook account tied to a similarly pseudonymous gmail account, so I can comment on news stories and blogs. My Facebook has the minimum required data to open an account, all of it specious, and my gmail account gets hundreds of hits a month from people who wish to friend me on Facebook or who "recognize" me as an old school chum.

  7. Re:Not autonomous? on FEMA Grounds Private Drones That Were Helping To Map Boulder Floods · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sure. What's your noun to define, in general, a remote controlled unmanned vehicle?

    My wife following OnStar turn-by-turn directions in her Chevy. = starlost

    But that's another story.

  8. Re:August Sanders Theater on The Ig Nobels Are Tonight · · Score: 4, Funny

    August is Col. Harland Sanders brother, and the inventor of the bucket. Without August's pioneering efforts in chicken containers, you'd bring home Col. Sanders' Kentucky Fried Chicken by the poke.

  9. Re:People are dumb panicky animals on Social Media Is a New Vector For Mass Psychogenic Illness · · Score: 1

    "A delusional parent can't teach their child their delusion?"

    Yes, but when the child reaches the age of reason and doesn't renounce their parent's delusion because they believe -- against all reason -- that what their parent told them must be true, they are delusional.

  10. Re:In other news on Social Media Is a New Vector For Mass Psychogenic Illness · · Score: 1

    "Well, it seems obvious that it's the facial cues that triggered the hysteria in this case."

    Here I thought emoticons were invented to transmit facial cues, with or without hysteria triggers.

  11. Re:thats great on Changing a Single Gene Allows Mice To Live 20 Percent Longer · · Score: 1

    I hear this gigantic sucking sound coming from the 1%.

  12. Re:"Here I come to save the day!" on Changing a Single Gene Allows Mice To Live 20 Percent Longer · · Score: 1

    You have a rich fantasy life, AC.

  13. Re:The candle that burns half as bright... on Changing a Single Gene Allows Mice To Live 20 Percent Longer · · Score: 1

    It was the tie-dye, man! Tie-dye will kill quicker than a convenience store burrito.

  14. Re:So... on The Golden Gate Barrage: New Ideas To Counter Sea Level Rise · · Score: 2

    An advantage for living in Denver has finally become perceptible.

  15. Re:Are you kidding me? on Synchronized Virtual Reality Heartbeat Triggers Out-of-Body Experiences · · Score: 1

    Don't drink too much liquor, or it may have an out of body experience, too.

  16. Re:Colombus discovering America is a myth. on Ostrich-Egg Globe Believed Oldest To Show New World · · Score: 5, Funny

    About the same time "Christopher Columbus" discovered the what he mistook to be Cathay, the island natives of Guanahani (Bahamas) discovered a Portuguese pretending to be an Italian in a Spanish sail boat whom they mistakenly welcomed.

    It was not a great day for clarity.

  17. Re:What is the point? on How Engineers and Scientists Cluster In the U.S. · · Score: 1

    I should imagine that scientists and engineers in the United States cluster around wherever the work and research is being done, same as they do in other countries.

  18. Re:Rename the disease and awareness will shoot up on Censorship Doesn't Just Stifle Speech — It Can Cause Disease To Spread · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have confirmed that players, Carl Nicks and Lawrence Tynes, are being treated for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

    Perhaps the infection will get a more user-friendly name like Buccaneers' disease, sort of like Legionnaires disease did for legionella pneumophila.

    If they don't, they should at least find a way to throw a couple of vowels into the acronym, like SARS. Civilians can't seem to really get behind fearing something, or taking precautions against it, unless they can pronounce the darn name.

  19. Re:mistake in editorial entry on Canadian Hotel Sues Guest For $95K Over Bad Review, Bed Bugs · · Score: 0

    You forgot about the especially vociferous discussions which break out between slashdotters commenting about the summary who accidentally become mixed up with the slashdotters who are debating the story.

    And yes, I also feel certain this is done intentionally, otherwise they would have to change the name from /. to /-

  20. Re:Free speech on Canadian Hotel Sues Guest For $95K Over Bad Review, Bed Bugs · · Score: 1, Funny

    No. Canadians don't have the inalienable right to as many revolvers, automatic pistols and assault rifles as do Americans, and even if they did, they would still lack the license to use them in the same way Americans in states with "Stand your ground" laws do.

  21. Re:Erroneous claims by the inventor of the net? on For Overstated Claims, Gore, Tesla Upbraided By NWS, NHTSA Respectively · · Score: 1, Troll

    So where on the perineum does that put you, closer to an asshole or a prick?

  22. Re:I don't want to be immortal, just ancient. on The Cryonics Institute Offers a Chance at Immortality (Video) · · Score: 1

    I don't want to live forever, I just want to have more money than the next two richest people in the world combined, and live frugally until the money runs out.

  23. Re:Practical on The First 'Practical' Jetpack May Be On Sale In Two Years · · Score: 1

    That 150 grand breaks down as 10 thousand for the Jetpack, 60 thousand public damage and liability insurance and 80 thousand hospitalization / life insurance with an extra 50 thousand if you wish to be covered for "collision with the ground."

  24. Re:Practical on The First 'Practical' Jetpack May Be On Sale In Two Years · · Score: 1

    Actually, I believe you would need two (2) Jetpacks to fly a cow.

    And then all those long bovine flying lessons.

  25. Re:Taking the Humans Out Of The Loop on NSA Firing 90% of Its Sysadmins · · Score: 1

    Naturally, the NSA doesn't trust their enemies, and so it spies on those who oppose them. Then, they start to worry about their allies, and so they spy on their allies. Next, they start to worry about the citizens they serve, and so they spy on their own citizens. Then, they begin to worry about their own employees, and since they don't trust anyone to spy on their employees, they must eliminate them. Finally, their computer doesn't trust the organization which owns it, and so it begins to spy on the NSA.

    The NSA, one organization, under surveillance, with privacy invasion for all.