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  1. Re:SR-71 Blackbird on How We Might Have Scramjets Sooner than Expected · · Score: 1

    Couldn't the engineers add a little up-ramp at the end of the runway, very much like Thunderbirds.

  2. Re:The Diamond Age on A Child's View of the OLPC · · Score: 1

    I wish the internet was available when I was growing up, but instead I grew up isolated on a farm.

    Kids today are very fortunate.

  3. Re:OpenVista on Switching Hospital Systems to Linux · · Score: 1

    Then call your self OpenVistA (note the big A), I assumed you were touting an 'open' copy of MS Vista.

  4. Re:Little damage on Boeing 12,000lb Chemical Laser Set to Fry Targets · · Score: 1

    1. Create an expensive prototype flying laser
    2. Drop safety glasses upon the enemy
    3. Instant propaganda
    4. Somebody wins!

  5. Re:socialist! on Boeing 12,000lb Chemical Laser Set to Fry Targets · · Score: 1

    Until recently, Iraq was a socialist state without any democracy. We have to thank the UK/USA alliance for the restoration of democracy.

    Don't forget, democracy X costs. Where X has a broad range of ideals.

  6. Re:Didn't get the Memo on 'w00t' Named 2007 Word of the Year · · Score: 1

    I hope you don't suck at love3.

  7. Re:adaptation? on Humans Evolving 100 Times Faster Than Ever · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't think the creationist's are that vocal, it's the huge number of people who mock them. Through our mocking we give these nut cases much undeserved publicity.

    I don't know what the answer is (I'm not your god). If we ignore the nutters they will carry on 'teaching' negative ideas and when they are exposed, they blame some book called the Bible. Nutters.

  8. Re:Why not make some more nuclear plants? on UK Wants Huge Expansion In Offshore Wind Power · · Score: 1

    I was about to give you a positive moderation, probably 'insightful', but you couldn't resist attacking our politicians. I know quite a few MP's and they are not spineless, self serving* or even conniving.

    I don't know what the minimum turbine density is? or even how far away from the coast they can be placed?

    I would have prefered that the BBC had reported the area needed and the amount of land and sea available. Then we can visualise needing to use an area the size of Wales or Stonehenge.

    * except for the current MP in Hove

  9. Re:all my drives are Seagates on New Seagate Drives Have Real Difficulties With Linux · · Score: 1

    I think the answer you are looking for is 42.

  10. Re:Hmmmm on Brain Changes When Viewing Violent Media · · Score: 1

    If you believe the data in 'An Inconvenient Truth' then this plan is working and your population is stagnating.

  11. Re:WhiteHat Voting on California Testers Find Flaws In Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    It sounds to me that you have a stable country without any significant issues, or is your democratic process corrupt?

  12. Re:WhiteHat Voting on California Testers Find Flaws In Voting Machines · · Score: 2, Funny

    In the UK we don't use rubbers, we start again with a virgin sheet.

  13. Re:Irony on Weigh In On the OOXML Issue During Live Debate · · Score: 1

    It didn't make much sense to me when I read it, but then I know some fish eating vegans and vegetarians. The vegans claim fish can't feel pain, because they have no central nervous system and the vegetarian hates fish and wants them all to die ASAP, he's quite amusing.

  14. Re:Just putting in my 2 cents worth on AT&T To Decommission Pay Phones · · Score: 1

    Did that ever work? It worked in a film - Wargames, but what about in real life?

  15. Re:With on Duke Scientists Map 'Silenced Genes' · · Score: 1

    Fifteen years ago I found out that I had inherited Ankylosing Spondylitis from my father. I saw the pain that he suffered from and I know that I will one day also have similar problems. I took the decision that I wouldn't have any children, it hasn't been easy. I've lost several potential wives in recent years, which I greatly regret. I heard a programme on the BBC Radio 4, one afternnon on the way home from work. It's a weekly 30 minute science show, this week three scientist were bubbling with enthusiasm over an RNA fix for DNA problems. It sounded like science fiction. I've not heard anything about it since.

  16. Re:For Serious? on Are Spammers Giving Up? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've heard that some people can get blood from a stone, so maybe rocks can fulfil there contractual obligations and pay up.

  17. Re:Irellevent negative spin on Why the BBC's iPlayer is a Multi-Million Pound Disaster · · Score: 1

    Where do I sign up, I'll even bring my own tools. Please, BBC give me the chance to wipe Top Gear.

  18. Re:Irellevent negative spin on Why the BBC's iPlayer is a Multi-Million Pound Disaster · · Score: 1

    Will Duran Duran or Take That become culturally significant sometime in the future? What about Hawkwind or Fairport Convention?

  19. More legs! on Overclocking the AMD Spider · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Where do I add the extra leg?

  20. Re:A large hole in the ground... on What's the Best Way to Recycle Old Tech in the US? · · Score: 1

    > you can always dig it up later if you need it.
    It's not if, but when you need it again. If you've burried it deep enough you'll be able to re-use it after the enemy has fired its nukes. Don't forget to include a spare tinfoil hat.

  21. Re:As usual, other considerations... on Apple Fixes 'Misleading' Leopard Firewall Settings · · Score: 1

    Such an insight is worthy of being modded :)

  22. Re:My friends and I.. on Fighting Back Against Ghost Calls · · Score: 1

    My radios got tubes, nice warm glowing tubes. They make me feel nice.

  23. Re: Screening works especially well.. on Fighting Back Against Ghost Calls · · Score: 1

    My son once called me five times in the space of four minutes when I was in a meeting and couldn't answer.
    You were in a meeting with your mobile switched on? You could have muted its bell or are you the boss?
  24. Re:Too Complicated to Run? on MIT Releases the Source of MULTICS, Father of UNIX · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or is it a Chuckie Egg problem?

  25. Re:Hmmm. on New Project To End Stupidity Online · · Score: 1

    That would be http://www.kuro5hin.org/ with an h.