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  1. Re:Safety Data on Airlines Ordered To Turn Over Passenger Data · · Score: 1

    Let us all QUIET DOWN and see what the fortune database has to say about this...

    "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary security deserve neither liberty nor security."
    --Benjamin Franklin

    That settles it.

  2. Admire it while it lasts.... on "Blue Moon" Appears in Sky Saturday Night · · Score: 2, Funny

    This type of thing happens only once in a blue moon.

  3. Re:huh?! on Celebrity Casting For LOTR · · Score: 1

    That's not fair... I know a few: Mick Jagger, William Shatner, Sonny&Cher, John Mitchell, James Brown, Keith Richards, Richard Nixon, Wherner Von Braun, and Leonard Nimoy.

    Jagger: Rolling Stones guy
    Richards: Rolling Stones guy
    Fred: Flintstones guy
    Shatner: James T. Kirk (Star Trek guy)
    S/C: music people who did stuff
    Mitchell: Attorney General who did stuff
    Brown: singer guy
    Nixon: American president guy
    Von Braun: German rocket guy
    Nimoy: Vulcan guy (he did stuff)

    How'd I do? Pretty impressive, right? Never underestimate the power of _ME_, the all-knowing 14-yr-old!

  4. Re:Truth Elves on SCO Claims Linux Lifted ELF · · Score: 1

    You might wanna watch those Keebler elves, too. They may look delicious, but on the inside....

  5. Re:Semi-serious? on Game with God · · Score: 1

    It's my opinion that science and religion CAN mix well. Without God, nothing can be explained. People talk of the Big Bang, in which a tiny speck of energy caused the creation of the universe. Who created the energy speck, if not a god? In several of the New and Old Testament Books, it is explained that God was always, and will always be, there. Jesus says, "Before Abraham, I am." I think that God supplied the materials for evolution and thought and such. I don't think that He's involved with every little event or emotion, but he facilitated these things. BTW, I'm part of the other 1% :-)

  6. For lack of better subject: Oh, sheeeeeesh! on Microsoft and Lindows Settle Trademark Case · · Score: 2, Insightful

    #1 "Windows" is a stupid thing to trademark, anyway. It's a common word!

    #2 Why would anyone want to name a Linux distro after Windows?

    #3 Who would be stupid enough to take the risk that MS might sue them over a name?

    #4 What kind of a name is "Linspire"?

    #5 Someone should name their Linux distro "Pronghorn," just to aggravate the Microsofties.

  7. Re:Winning a bet... on Steven Hawking Loses Bet On Black Holes? · · Score: 1

    That's right! I won! Pay up, Steve!

  8. THE important difference... on Linux vs. Windows: What's The Difference? · · Score: 1

    Linux is not the same thing as the X windowing system (I hardly ever use X). Furthermore, it depends largely on which window manager you look at. I use the Fluxbox wm most of the time, and it looks nothing like Windows.

    Besides, Microsoft wasn't the first to do a windowing system.

    It seems all Microsoft can pick on is artwork!

  9. Does this mean..... on In These Games, the Points Are All Political · · Score: 1

    First-Person shooters, in which the player controls an elephant with a Bush head and a Kerry face on its posterior? Or a donkey with the faces switched?

  10. Take action.... on Bioterrorism Charges Brought Against Professor · · Score: 2, Insightful

    JUST SO YOU KNOW: I'M JOKING.... I DON'T REALLY WANT THE FOLLOWING TO HAPPEN....

    Do you know what this means?! Ban chemistry and biology from our schools! Ban physics and math! Ban art! Leave only English and American History. There's no harm in speaking English, and American History can instill patriotism in young Americans!

    Oh, yeah: ban PE too; we don't want strong terrorists! ;-)

  11. Mais? on The Aroma of Fine Wine From Your Computer · · Score: 1

    Why does it always have to be "Mais, oui," instead of just "Oui"? Doesn't "mais" mean "but" and "oui" mean "yes"?

  12. Re:Automatically rechargeable? on Tiny Surveillance Aircraft Fly in Tucson · · Score: 1

    shot? (* equals o)

  13. How about... on Tiny Surveillance Aircraft Fly in Tucson · · Score: 1

    Let's see who can make the biggest surveillance aircraft! I haven't seen that before. READY... SET... GO! Start building!

  14. Neptune reuses code. on Code Copying Survey for Developers · · Score: 1

    For a while, I was Neptune, god of the sea; I sank ships and conjured up storms. I reused code all of the time!

  15. Re:Smart Cars to Save Wealthy Drivers... on Smart Cars to Save Stupid Drivers? · · Score: 1

    What about the poor dogs/children/raccoons/small rodents that have the misfortune to stumble into his path?!

    ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzz.... *BUMP* HUH?! WHA??!

  16. Re:NIMH? on Recharge Batteries in 30 Secs · · Score: 1

    Oh, yeah! I read that in sixth grade. THe movie was nothing like it, but it was pretty good.

    By the way, I knew what NiMH is. It just looked weird in all caps.

  17. Re:Finally... on Recharge Batteries in 30 Secs · · Score: 1

    Those are for plugging in reading lamps (or, maybe, for vibrating toilet seats)!

  18. NIMH? on Recharge Batteries in 30 Secs · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is that National Institute of Mental Health (I'm serious; I don't know what it means. (I know it's NOT that!))?

  19. Re:Yeah, but... on Nuclear Fusion Real Soon Now · · Score: 1

    Well, I've got a robot. He doesn't talk; nor does he serve me coffee or Mountain Dew; nor does he do much of anything except follow lines, follow walls, and navigate through hills. I'll probably, however, have him out, solving crimes, busting criminals, doing your job, and such in... Oh, say... five years!

  20. Re:George Mason on George Mason University Speech Accent Archive · · Score: 1

    Who is Jack Bauer, and where did he come from? Why did George Mason switch seats with a nuke? How'd he do that? Why was a nuke sitting there? Did he say, "Please, Mister Nuke, may I sit there?" ;-D

  21. Re:Goodbye... on Say Goodbye to BuyMusic.com · · Score: 1

    It's this website whose purpose is to sell music. You, as the customer, are supposed to buy music (I don't know; maybe it's completely unrelated to buying music).

  22. Re:Fantastic news on Atiyah and Singer to Share the 2004 Abel Prize · · Score: 1

    If it's not too troublesome, why not cut off Monday? I don't have much use for it! It's just one less day I have to wait to get to the weekend.

    Or, they could each share it the first six days equally (1 for 3 days, the other for the other three days). Then, on Sunday, they could give it to ME! :)

  23. Re:Random names? on Firefox Extension Lets You Pick the Name · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, you could append a random 4- or 5- letter code to Fire. It may not always be intelligible, but, eventually, you could get something!

    FireBlah!

  24. Soooo.... on Video-Game Publishers Outsource Development · · Score: 1

    How many US developers are there now? The US seems now just to concentrate on the storyline and the marketing. It seems that they no longer have any technical skills (those all moved to Russia (I suppose I should say, to conform to all of the other posts, "In Soviet Russia, it moves to them!").

  25. When windows goes open source... on Microsoft and EU Talks End · · Score: 1

    Even if it did, who would want to look at that horrid piece of code? You should see some of the Rapid application development code generated by VC++. It has long strings of if conditionals for the event handler. Isn't all of the windows software based on that code?