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  1. Well... on Belgian Media Group Demanding Copyright Levy for Internet Access · · Score: 2

    I'd pay a 3.4% tax if granted immunity from copyright infringment suits.

  2. Re:See? See? on Helium Depleted, Herschel Space Telescope Mission Ends · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, ballon helium is impure used helium from MRI machines and other uses.

    Yes, party ballons are filled with medical/industrial waste.

    Have fun inhaling it.

  3. Re:Particular diet. on Grocery Delivery Lowers Carbon Dioxide Emissions Over Individual Trips · · Score: 1

    You might be thinking of Snow White, no particular fruit is specified as the tree of knowledge.

    Easy to get different fairy tales confused.

  4. Re:Twat on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a System Integration Room At VAR? · · Score: 2

    1 room, for a company $100M in 'size' (annual sales? market cap? dunno) not a single $100 million room.

  5. Re:So by that logic... on DMCA Safe Harbor May Not Apply To Old Copyrighted Works · · Score: 1

    Letters of marque did not make *piracy* legal, it made the hijacking of the boats *not piracy*.

    Like civil forfeiture laws today.

  6. Re:Feline overlords on DMCA Safe Harbor May Not Apply To Old Copyrighted Works · · Score: 1

    "In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this."

    Terry Pratchett I believe.

  7. Re:Oh boy. on Microsoft Ad Campaign Puts a Hotspot Inside a Magazine · · Score: 1

    I'm offended by your opinion on such behavior.

  8. Re:If it ain't broke... on Texas Company's Antique Computers Are For Production, Not Display · · Score: 2

    I'm imagining a Smartphone app that can pictures of punchcards, then execute them.

    (In case I'm actually the first person to think of this, I hereby grant any patent interest to the public domain.)

  9. Re:fertiliser on Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cleanup May Take More Than 40 Years · · Score: 1

    Mercury, Lead, etc. metals don't decompose.

  10. Re:list of applicable patents Microsoft is using on ZTE Joins Long List of Android Device-Makers Licensing Microsoft Patents · · Score: 1

    At least we can still look forward to Patents that expire, unlike Copyrights.

  11. Re:What Microsoft told them... on ZTE Joins Long List of Android Device-Makers Licensing Microsoft Patents · · Score: 1

    So the answer is you're just making shit up.

    Welcome to the Internet, it's what we do here.

  12. Re:'Vandalise' on Protesting Animal Testing, Intruders Vandalize Italian Lab · · Score: 1

    I would prefer terms that don't associate criminal/unethical/immoral behavior with an ethnic group, like 'gypped' or 'jewed'.

  13. Re:fertiliser on Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cleanup May Take More Than 40 Years · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Radioactive material has a half life at least. It'll sort itself out over time. but some chemical contamination lasts forever.

    Just because it's known exactly how long it'll last, to the point where the most accurate clocks are based on it. It sounds worse than something with no time limit.

  14. Re:Cheap at half the price! on Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cleanup May Take More Than 40 Years · · Score: 1

    Retirement homes; what are the old of developing cancer in 20 years when you are already 80?

  15. Won't matter who is right... on FAA On Travel Delays: Get Used To It · · Score: 2

    They are just asking for another round of 'throw the bums out!' anti-incumbent voting.

  16. 'Vandalise' on Protesting Animal Testing, Intruders Vandalize Italian Lab · · Score: 0

    Can we stop using that rasict word yet?

  17. Re:You mean... on Utility Box Exposed As Spy Cabinet In the Netherlands · · Score: 4, Insightful

    His usage was perfectly cromulent.

  18. Re:From the article on Weirdest DLC Sponsorship Ever: SimCity, Brought To You By Crest · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, better than urinary catheter ads...

    "Why lose valuable APM struggling to fit a penis you can't even see into the neck of an old mountain dew bottle? Just have your mom insert a Steriflow brand catheter once a week, and never need to take your hands from the controls!"

  19. Re:Worth it? on Trader Pleads Guilty To Illegal Purchase of Nearly $1B In Apple Stock · · Score: 1

    iTunes on the Steam store?

  20. Re:Children don't like their parents music on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way To Preserve a "Digital Inheritance"? · · Score: 1

    I bought vinyl 'Pac Man Fever' at a garage sale for 25 cents then sold it for 50 dollars the next day.

  21. Re:There's already an app for that... on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way To Preserve a "Digital Inheritance"? · · Score: 1

    If most of your family and friends all die at once, your digital assets are the least of the concerns.

  22. Re:Or an economic drain? on Is Bitcoin Mining a Real-World Environmental Problem? · · Score: 1

    My hobby is pouring bleach on other peoples flower beds.

  23. Re:But it IS broke. on Why PC Sales Are Declining · · Score: 1

    I blame Wal*Mart. the profit margins for PC were destroyed.

  24. Re:Reason number one. on Why PC Sales Are Declining · · Score: 1

    So, you're saying prople would rather buy no computer, than one with Linux?

  25. Re:Maybe just adopting Apple's versioning strategy on AMD Says There Will Be No DirectX 12 — Ever · · Score: 1

    You mean XI?