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  1. Redneck excuse on Space Station's 'Cubesat Cannon' Has Gone Rogue · · Score: 1

    I was just cleaning it and it went off. I didn't know it was loaded.

  2. That's where .... on Mushroom-Like Deep Sea Organism May Be New Branch of Life · · Score: 3, Funny

    .... the Australians dumped their dirty diapers

  3. The stoners ... on Dirty Diapers Used To Grow Mushrooms · · Score: 1

    ... will just skip the mushrooms and smoke the diapers.

  4. Re:English usage on Dirty Diapers Used To Grow Mushrooms · · Score: 1

    Judging by the quality of our school system, I'd say its the ankle-biters.

  5. Civet Poop on Scientists Sequence Coffee Genome, Ponder Genetic Modification · · Score: 1

    Engineer that in and you'll have a hit.

  6. Re:Distance discrepency on Newly Discovered Asteroid To Pass Within Geostationary Orbit Sunday · · Score: 1

    I think the above/below here refers to the declination of the asteroid's trajectory, not its altitude.

  7. what we want and should do is scuttle.

    What do you mean 'we' paleface?

    These are weapons that we sold^H^H^H^Hgave to the Iraqi army. Which they promptly dropped and ran when they saw the the Islamists coming. Or they switched sides and drove their tank over.

  8. Because I'm certain that ISIS wouldn't do anything as gruesome as chop off a finger to fool a biometric reader.

  9. Baby steps on UCLA, CIsco & More Launch Consortium To Replace TCP/IP · · Score: 2

    First, IPv6. If you can handle simple things like that, then we'll let you play with the important stuff.

    Oh yeah. Flying cars too.

  10. Re:So, where is ... on Combating Recent, Ugly Incidents of Misogyny In Gamer Culture · · Score: 1

    and some major discrepancies in power between men and women.

    All of the social inequities and power differences of the past aside, men and women do think differently*. Women don't like confrontation whereas men live for it. Even if its good old boy poking and tough talk between friends, that's a guy thing. Women are more likely to shun or ostracize a misbehaving member of their group (or society). But that doesn't work for men. No guy who hasn't had his testicles repossessed (sorry for that image) would dare play any kind of 'behind the back' trash talking game. So a guy that makes a rude remark (or does something else) and gets away with it at the time has 'won'. Subsequent punishment some time after the fact is, in guy's minds, acknowledgement of success.

    Guys are like dogs. When you catch them doing something wrong, you've got to smack them with a rolled up newspaper right on the spot. Or it doesn't register as punishment for the bad behavior.

    *Demonstrated recently by fMRIs.

  11. So, where is ... on Combating Recent, Ugly Incidents of Misogyny In Gamer Culture · · Score: 1

    ... the code of chivalry? So there are a few asshats who make things tough for women. Where are the guys who should be calling them out on this bad behavior?

    Yeah, its an old and outdated concept. But its practically instinctive male behavior. Stepping up and confronting a threat to prove your machismo. Not necessarily violently, but I'd expect at least a few guys to step up and tell the dickheads to shut the f* up.

  12. Re:nude selfies copyrighted? on After Celebrity Photo Leaks, 4chan Introduces DMCA Policy · · Score: 1

    You own the copyrights on content you create, by the very act of creating it.

    So the problem this will solve is answering all the subsequent posts of 'source?' or 'Who's that?' following an unidentified shot of some hottie going up on /b/.

  13. I was ... on New Usage-Based Insurance Software Can Track Drivers Using Smartphones · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... pulled over leaving the airport for having previously been doing 600 MPH.

  14. Re:It's a very small problem on Hitachi Developing Reactor That Burns Nuclear Waste · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nuclear waste is only a problem if you have an agenda to make it one. Scream about the evils of reprocessing and the long life stuff piles up, eventually making nuclear power uneconomical. Perhaps that's what some people had in mind from the beginning.

  15. Re:Great on Welcome To Laniakea, Our New Cosmic Home · · Score: 2

    Just through the door marked 'Beware of the Leopard'.

  16. Re:Where did the linked to article go? on Mysterious, Phony Cell Towers Found Throughout US · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're not trying to open this link on a phone near a military base, are you?

  17. Hey Chris on Interview: Ask Christopher "moot" Poole About 4chan and Social Media · · Score: 1

    When are you going to lift my ban?

  18. Fart App on Apple Reveals the Most Common Reasons That It Rejects Apps · · Score: 1

    I figured once this made it in, it was pretty much 'anything goes'.

  19. Will this .... on New Nigerian ID Card Includes Prepay MasterCard Wallet · · Score: 1

    ... push other prepaid cards out of the market?

    I can see one problem: If it is known that you carry a combo ID/cash card (because the law requires it) other cash cards may no longer be accepted. And those other cash cards might have been anonymous.

  20. Re:300 Miles context on New Computer Model Predicts Impact of Yellowstone Volcano Eruption · · Score: 1

    Can we have that in football fields please?

  21. Re:Solution on Reported iCloud Hack Leaks Hundreds of Private Celebrity Photos · · Score: 3, Informative

    And how odd is it that your b.f. needs to answer one 'important' text message just as the blow job commences?

  22. Re:UNCENSORED high-speed internet on Grand Ayatollah Says High Speed Internet Is "Against Moral Standards" · · Score: 1

    Thus I conclude that internet porn is just fine, so long as it's consumed slowly, scanline by scanline. He clearly wants you to enjoy the anticipation.

    Or he wants his wives to think that stopping suddenly in the middle of having sex* is normal behavior.

    *It's called 'buffering' honey. I saw it on the Internet.

  23. Re:Sue police department, this is routine procedur on Deputy Who Fatally Struck Cyclist While Answering Email Will Face No Charges · · Score: 2

    Therefore I think it may be correct that the police department that established the dangerous policy is held responsible.

    This.

    Sadly, the courts have eliminated all expectations of judgement in the performance of police duties. So we should expect officers to comply with the letter of department procedures rather than applying common sense. And if an error occurs, it is the result of flawed policy rather than an individual's responsibility.

  24. Re:cycling facts on Deputy Who Fatally Struck Cyclist While Answering Email Will Face No Charges · · Score: 1

    Cyclists came first and were the impetus for modern roads

    I think that would be the horse (or ox) and wagon. Not many bicycles in ancient Rome.

    The advent of the automobile was heralded as a major environmental improvement in many cities as it eliminated the problems of horse shit and dead horse carcasss.

  25. Re:cultural knowledge irrevocably lost on The Passenger Pigeon: A Century of Extinction · · Score: 1

    overhunting

    Not so much of a problem anymore. People don't often hunt for sustenance anymore. Mostly for sport.

    habitat loss

    I don't know how similar passenger pigeons are to their modern relatives. But it would seem that they could easily adapt to urban life, given enough cars and statues to shit on. The problem here would be, which species would survive the competition for the good habitat? This could end up being another spotted owl vs barred owl story. Where the stronger species drives the weaker one into the worst habitat, like old growth forests.