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  1. Re:Wait... hold on on Will Pretty PCs Make Vista More Attractive? · · Score: 1

    Well, it's better than the other type of slash...

  2. Re:No. on Will Pretty PCs Make Vista More Attractive? · · Score: 1

    And this is why you can't just pile analogies on a discussion. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes.

  3. Re:half a life is better than almost nothing? on OSCON - the Wrap-Up · · Score: 1

    What...the...hell...

  4. Re:Your Signature on What Actually Happened to TechTV? · · Score: 1

    What does LWATCDR stand for?

  5. Re:Can it deal with the canonical problem? on Text-Mining Technique Intelligently Learns Topics · · Score: 1

    Time flies don't like an arrow, fruit does not fly like a banana.

  6. Re:Well, of course on Tech Replaces Diamonds As Girl's Best Friend · · Score: 1

    This is why you should only buy artificial diamonds--which actually look better than the real stuff.

  7. Re:Predator had it more apt... on How to Become Invisible · · Score: 1

    I believe you are thinking about mirrors.

  8. I stand corrected. on An Early Look at Freespire Linux · · Score: 1

    -n/t-

  9. Re:Translate Sign Language on Full Body Dance Dance Revolution · · Score: 1

    Blue. I have no clue what color the sky is for "personal responsibility" people though.

  10. Re:The Truth Will Come Out on Ruling to Make Reporters Act Like Drug Dealers? · · Score: 1

    Then why can they understand "no" when combined with other words like "games"?

  11. Re:This is why... on Stephen Colbert Wikipedia Prank Backfires · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a good April Fool's Joke.

  12. My problem with Linspire on An Early Look at Freespire Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    is that it uses root accounts by default. That's pretty much asking for trouble.

  13. Re:More Bubbly on An Early Look at Freespire Linux · · Score: 1

    Just use Gentoo with pekwm the way I do.

  14. Somebody Else's Problem field on How to Become Invisible · · Score: 1

    Just paint the mountain pink and convince them it's not their problem.

  15. Re:The Truth Will Come Out on Ruling to Make Reporters Act Like Drug Dealers? · · Score: 4, Funny

    The "no law" part.

  16. Re:true invisibility is impossible on How to Become Invisible · · Score: 1

    Or you make it split the light going for your eyes so that one copy of it goes to your eyes and the other to the other side of you.

  17. Re:Canada does it better (again.) on Voting Isn't Easy, Even if Cheating Is · · Score: 1
    Instant Run Off because its a mathematically better
    Barely. Really, what you want is a Condorcet method.
  18. Re:Don't answer with "use paper ballots"! on Voting Isn't Easy, Even if Cheating Is · · Score: 1

    I believe the word "ballot-stuffing" comes to mind. Unless you want to frisk every single voter for slips of paper...

  19. Re:More importantly on One Laptop Per Child Gets 4 Million Laptop Order · · Score: 1

    Nice post. Nice sig, as well, except that it should be 'pax' and not 'pacem' because 'esse' never uses accusatives.

  20. Re:ITM effects. on OpenGL Spec Now Controlled by Khronos Group · · Score: 1

    China as a nation has always been extremely self-centered.

  21. Is this what the G-Man used to on Halving Half Lives · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    hold Gordon Freeman between HL1 and HL2?

  22. Re:Nice interview. on Sam & Max, Back From the Dead · · Score: 1
    I love my first-person shooters like Battlefield 2 and Battlefront II;
    There's something funny about the names of those games.
  23. Re:The aliens are coming... on Valve Opens The Portal · · Score: 1

    No, it's a P. T. Barnum joke.

  24. Effect as verb on OpenGL Spec Now Controlled by Khronos Group · · Score: 3, Insightful

    can also mean to bring into existence.

  25. Re:Today? on More Worst Videogame Ads · · Score: 1

    "Penis. Apply directly to my vagina."