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  1. Re:Don't bother with the Russian food jokes. on Space Station Crew Forced to Cut Calories · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's called pricing. The money that gets you top quality beef in Russia gets you American fast food crap over here.

  2. Only 2 astronauts on Space Station Crew Forced to Cut Calories · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is the team usually this small or have most of them buggered off for Christmas?

  3. Let the market decide on Private Spaceflight Law Passes Senate · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Government regulation is un-American and inefficient. Let the market decide. Those companies whose flights don't end in smoking craters will get more business.

    Er, on a serious note, isn't pollution of space a fairly important issue as well? Left alone, companies will just dump their crap up there, and in 20 years time every launch will run the risk of being hit by orbiting junk

  4. Stupid mods, who marked this troll? on Universal Free Dictionary · · Score: 1

    Khoisan languages use click as part of pronounciation

  5. Universal dictionary? on Universal Free Dictionary · · Score: 1

    How's this going to work with language specific words and concepts like schaudenfraude?

  6. Christ, liberals are going to go apeshit on OpenOffice.org In Swahili · · Score: 3, Funny

    Expect long lectures about how Western intellectual imperialism is destroying the nascent African software development industry

  7. Scouse translation coming on OpenOffice.org In Swahili · · Score: 1

    Given the typical Liverpudlian disdain for actually paying for things, does anyone know if there's a plan to translate OSS into Scouse?

  8. Re:from the can-they-get-to-university-of-phoenix- on PA Sues Online 'University' For Spamming · · Score: 1

    Some of them are like the OU, some aren't. We have a law demanding accreditation for any body describing itself as a university, whereas the US has a laissez faire approach

  9. Cat with an MBA on PA Sues Online 'University' For Spamming · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's see, cats:
    Expect everyone else to do the hard work
    Fuck things up and cause damage through boredom
    Demand the best of everything without being willing to work for it
    Boss people around
    Fly into fits of rage
    Have short attention spans
    Spend 21 hours a day resting

    Is there any reason a cat shouldn't have an MBA?

  10. What happens when you don't force accreditation on PA Sues Online 'University' For Spamming · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'll take Britain's godless socialised education every day over educational free market capitalism. Employers shouldn't have to waste time determining whether a university is real or not. This is just as disruptive as the fear of litigation that prevents people giving bad references

  11. This is disgusting on the squatter's part on Apple Threatens iTunes.co.uk Owner · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's almost as bad as a computer company naming themselves after a famous record label.

  12. This'll be a fairly big file on 1-Click Blooper Playback for Original Trilogy DVD · · Score: 2, Funny

    I mean, Jar Jar's in a lot of scenes

  13. h4xx0red by teh M1ddL3 k1ngd0m! on Going, Going, Gone: IBM Sells PC Group To Lenovo · · Score: 1

    Call me a paranoid tinfoil fetishist, but is no one else concerned about the fact that one of the leading brands of business laptop is going to be manufactured by a company in a dictatorship with a long history of industrial espionage and IP theft?

  14. I wonder if they'll start marketing computers on Going, Going, Gone: IBM Sells PC Group To Lenovo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    With the Dragon chip

  15. Hey Santa, don't drink and fly on A Strange Streak Imaged in Australia · · Score: 1

    See? How difficult was that?

  16. Re:"Chimpanzees Shed New Light..." on Chimpanzees Shed New Light on Hand Preference · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's an outrageous comparison. Chimpanzees are capable of using simple tools and learning from their mistakes.

  17. It's a preference, and is condemned in the Bible on Chimpanzees Shed New Light on Hand Preference · · Score: 5, Funny

    To suggest that left handedness is genetic is a socialist lie. It is condemned in the Bible, like being crippled and eating shellfish. Everyone knows that left handedness is a choice, a sinful lifestyle promoted by Satanic liberals. Even the scientific term, sinister, reveals it's Luciferian origin. Concerned parents must act now to stop children being taught to be left handed in schools, and to stop the media being overrun by positive depictions of left handedness. Would you want your child to be fondled by a left handed pedophile coming home from a sickening Sinster Pride march?

    Order a copy of "What Liberals Don't Want You to Know about the Left Handed Agenda", by Salvation Publications, for only $99.99. Comes with guaranteed promise of Heaven and a free shotgun.

  18. Re:Evolution wants to be anthropomorphised? on Chimpanzees Shed New Light on Hand Preference · · Score: 2, Informative

    True. However, in most countries they don't approach 45% of the population.

  19. Evolution wants to be anthropomorphised? on Chimpanzees Shed New Light on Hand Preference · · Score: 3, Funny

    Since when has evolution* purposely chosen to do anything

    *In case there are any Americans reading, so as not to offend I'll include the standard disclaimer that evolution is just a theory and it's equally likely we were created out of mud 6000 years ago and fossils are the result of God's sense of humour.

  20. But Windows has a lower TCO and better performance on Linux Server Sales to Reach $9.1 Billion by 2008 · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's what the adverts on Slashdot say, anyway

  21. Wisecracking black sidekick on Doom Movie Update · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know who's playing the wisecracking black sidekick?

  22. My city already has these on Self-Adapting Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    They detect if you're late for an appointment or hurrying to reach somewhere and then change to block your path

  23. Place your bets now on Doom Movie Update · · Score: 4, Funny

    Which of these forthcoming game adaptations is going to be the worst:
    Doom
    Duke Nukem
    Dungeons and Dragons 2
    Vampire:The Masquerade

  24. How do you win the prize? on NASA Hoping To Create Super X-Prizes · · Score: 1

    Does it go to whoever goes most over budget?

  25. Re:What a waste... on Make Your Own Cluster Balloon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes. The Pentagon has to plan for all eventualities, including invasion by an army of angry clowns