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  1. Re:Neat on Urine Passes NASA Taste Test · · Score: 1

    stupid br tag! The above comment was meant be funny.
    Here's a repost (I know it's dead, but let me beat my own dead horse thankyouverymuch):

    Urine Passes NASA Taste Test
    Taste NASA Pass Urine Test
    Urine Test Passes NASA Taste
    NASA Urine Passes Taste Test
    NASA Tastes Passed Urine Test

    stealing from what I read on some column about this urine dispenser: Like Heidi Klum always says "One day urine, the next day urout."

    ..oh shut up.

  2. Re:Neat on Urine Passes NASA Taste Test · · Score: 1

    Urine Passes NASA Taste Test Taste NASA Pass Urine Test Urine Test Passes NASA Taste NASA Urine Passes Taste Test NASA Tastes Passed Urine Test stealing from what I read on some column about this urine dispenser: Like Heidi Klum always says "One day urine, the next day urout."

  3. Re:Only for the rich... on Beating the College Bubble · · Score: 1

    I call bullshit on that argument. I have plenty of friends who work 10-12 hour days for ridiculously low pay doing jobs like construction and maintenance. You can't accuse them of not working hard enough, yet society places far more worth on other jobs, so they receive low wages.

    CEOs and other executives can only have their ridiculous salaries because they make their money off the backs of other people. The wage gap between worker and executive has been increasing steadily in America since the end of WWII.

    ...aand where do these gigathingamajig corporations get the money to pay these CEOs ridiculous salaries? Take PepsiCo. for instance, their execs get paid handsomely because the millions of you keep plunking your dollars and cents into their vending machines, everyday.
    And if they then decide to pay John Compton a ridiculous 8 million bucks, it's well within their rights. If the wage gap increases, why don't the union stop the workers until the gap decreases? Why won't the factory workers stop working until they get 6-figs salary? Oh yea, because they are willing to work at the current price.

    Yeah, I'm sure that holds water. Society are the people who are earning peanuts to earn these executives their money. If executives were willing to pay their workers reasonable wages and not accept gigantic salaries, this wouldn't be an issue, but as it is now, corporations for the most part underpay their regular workers.

    If society as a whole do not agree that the companies are giving their execs ridiculous salaries, then society should (must?) stop giving the companies money. If A doesn't like B giving C alot of money, A then needs to stop giving B money. Grow your own potato so you can make your own Lay's.

    And bitching about government inefficiency doesn't hold water in most cases. Medicare is more efficient than private insurance, it just isn't very well funded. Honestly, I think military expenses are, for the most part, a huge waste of money outside of actual defense (instead of offensives in other countries), but I'll take the bad of blowing money on stupid conflicts for the ability to allow healthcare for people who wouldn't otherwise be able to afford it.

    I agree on the war moneypit. But of the insurance and medicare crap, I have lived in a (democratic) country where healthcare is provided or heavily subsidized by the government. It is planned into the spending for every fiscal year. Insurance companies (like the ungrateful AIG) are allowed by the US Gov to run loose with money from people while the Govt itself can directly inject money into healthcare providers (hospitals, clinics) in the form of salaries, medicines, etc.

  4. Re:Only for the rich... on Beating the College Bubble · · Score: 1

    Where do you live? In the United Federation of Planets or something? Over here, on Planet Earth, most rich people are rich because they are greedy, cunning and ruthless. Yes, that is the reason. Being smart and working hard will, 99 times out of a hundred, NOT make you wealthy. On the other hand, you can be fairly simple, and lazy and yet still be very rich. It just takes greed, cunning and ruthlessness.

    to add to what you said, it's not the greed, cunning, or ruthlessness that make you rich. It's the drive, the motivation that those behavior, the greed, cunning, and ruthlessness generate. But motivation does not solely come from those negative traits, they also come from life experiences (eg. poor childhood) and other goals (to prove oneself, etc)

    Like it or not, the rich still owe a lot to the society they live in.

    The rich get rich by exchanging goods and/or manpower/labor with members of society(ies) AT an equilibrium price. If I sell you a bottle of lemonade at $2 bucks, you paid for it at a price we agree on. If I get rich by selling the society 10 million bottles of lemonade, do I owe society anything?
    Same goes for the workers at my lemonade factory. I pay them to work at a price they agree to work for me for.

  5. Re:first post! on Secondlight, Microsoft's New Surface Prototype · · Score: 1

    rtfa and things became clear.. Thanks Bill! (say hi to Melinda for me, will ya?)

  6. first post! on Secondlight, Microsoft's New Surface Prototype · · Score: 0

    so how is it any different from the Surface? anybody can put a paper with different stuff on top of a lit up table.

  7. Re:To Boldly Go on Mars Lander Faces Slow Death · · Score: 1

    No, but they do have Holden.

    but does it blend?

  8. Re:NASA on Mars Lander Faces Slow Death · · Score: 1

    stopped being

    go bondi!
    In continuing the Diminishing Quote Pattern, or as we in the business like to call "DQ Pattern", I hereby invoke my rights to DQ the parent comment. All eventual and inevitable negative mod shall be accepted by yours truly without further complaint.

  9. Re:Sigh. Only 6 more days of this BS on Streaming Election Night Broadcast TV? · · Score: 1

    In times like these, we must dig deep down into our hearts and ponder on this one ultimate question:

    "What Would Ralph Nader Do?"

  10. Re:They won't care either on Researcher Warns of "Digital Dark Age" · · Score: 1

    Thus enter the cloud computing technology and/or virtualization?

    To take your idea further, with interconnectivity rise faster and bigger, in the future we might see ALL apps, games, pr0n, etc. hosted in giant clusters.

    Some of you might say it's overdependence on connectivity, but I think this is all natural just as we come to expect electricity to work continuously, or road bridges not to break.

  11. Re:Rollerblades + zero friction.... right! on Magnetic Levitating Trains Get Go-Ahead In Japan · · Score: 1

    the maglev train line IS in the works in the United States.

    It will connect two busiest business hubs that matter, Disneyland and Las Vegas for a low low price of $45M.

  12. Re:Reputation on Mathematicians Deconstruct US News College Rankings · · Score: 1

    in other words:
    and it proves that graduating from a well-known college and become the President of a superpower country is not to say that you are a smart, logical person with integrity.

  13. Re:Asteroid? Why not meteor? on Small Asteroid On Collision Course With Earth · · Score: 1

    oids eors and ites are just rocks. But when Meteora hits, it became quad-platinum! see what I did there?

  14. Re:Hmm... on Debating "Deletionism" At Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    I don't know how the moderating system in wikipedia works, but.. Would it be better and could it be possible to implement a moderating/deletion system in wikipedia similar to "operators" in IRC? say the top 100 supermods can nominate about 1000 members to become mods. To nominate a member to become mod must require approval from at least 5 of the current mods. same goes for nominating mods to a supermod status. how about it?

  15. Re:this is nothing more than cyber bullying on Graduate Student Defends Right To Own Chicago2016.com · · Score: 1

    is it because when she squats she covers a large domain?

  16. Re:Unbelievable on Next Generation SSDs Delayed Due To Vista · · Score: 1

    actually there are several steps to make vista run faster, and allegedly may even correct the way applications access SSDs.

    I have to admit, this guy really knows his stuff..
    ..you're welcome.

  17. Re:Shut down before it could damage itself? on Mars Lander's Robot Arm Shuts Down To Save Itself · · Score: 1

    .. and this is news because? for a jigabillion dollar project, I would expect the programmers to write these self-preservation rules into the robot.

    The operators from earth must have not calculate thoroughly the order they gave.

  18. Re:And before you ask... on ASUS Motherboard Ships With Embedded Linux · · Score: 1

    ..but does it blend?

  19. Re:yuupp... on PC World Editor Returns, CEO Demoted · · Score: 1

    because I wouldn't want to Phil his Harry McCracken.. maybe you, but I don't swing that way..

  20. Re:Who needs Arnold? on New "Terminator" Trilogy Planned · · Score: 5, Funny

    [Spoiler alert]
    Episode 4: Total Recall
    After modifying part of skynet, John Connor managed to recall all robots back to HQ where he short-circuited their Sony power unit until they swell and explode. Towards the end the program managed to install itself on a retrotype animal robot.. something called the AIBO

    Episode 5: Kindergarten Cop
    Turns out before the Terminator was sent back in time to help young John, the old John sent another robot called the Eraser to assist toddler John in finding little Miles Bennett Dyson. The SkynetAIBO was also sent back in time and ate all of John's erasers, including the one that smells really nice. SkynetAIBO returns home sick from eating too much erasers.

    Episode 6: The Last Action Hero
    The future world is now finally at peace. Robots are again used as servants and slaves without soul. John refused to lead the nation of United States and settled to govern the state of CA-90210.
    One day he suffers from major headache when a hotel chain heiress Barcelona Hotlin begged him to get her off her impending imprisonment due to excessive velocity transport without authorization clearance. He agreed to pardon her in exchange with sexual favor, which the SkynetAIBO secretly taped and sold all over the Interweb. SkynetAIBO becomes rich and builds a new ROBOTIC EMPIRE. (pitch to the next series of trilogy)

    [/spoiler]

  21. Re:I'd like to say... on Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt · · Score: 3, Funny

    okay man, do NOT ever Australia.. okay? Something bad will happen if you Australia!!!

  22. Re:That told them! on U.S. Puts 12 Nations On Watch For Piracy · · Score: 1

    TPB has got alot work to do and a loooong way to go. Don't give up though! We're behind you.

  23. Re:Hard luck on The Solar Oxygen Crisis · · Score: 1

    But I thought you can safely get to Sun from Java?

  24. Re:Next headline... on Cancer Fighting Drug Found in Dirt · · Score: 1

    Eat dirt, you sick sick man!

  25. Re:Gee. on New Sony DVDs Not Working In Some Players · · Score: 1

    Sony DRM pissing customers off. What do you seem so surprised about?