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  1. Re:State Secrets? on The Gradual Public Awareness of the Might of Algorithms · · Score: 1

    absolutely, and on that note; bomb, president, kill, uranium, bush, allah.

  2. Re:They SHOULD... on Will China Beat the United States Back to the Moon? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If the US did either of those, they would hurt themselves more, china's economy works by selling crap they made in a big factory, it doesn't mater what values their currency is or what currency they use, they can still sell shit really cheap. The us on the other hand, makes money through venture capital, services, brand names, all kinds of shit that relys on a nice stable successful economy, they whole US system relys on the dollar being a safe currency.

    The ideas you suggest are terrible anyway, the trade between china and the US is immense, most us companies rely on it, if the US government just said they would not payback their debt, the Chinese would retaliate against US companies and destroy the US economy pretty much instantly. If the US used hyper inflation to pay off the debt, they would destroy their economy themselves.

    Of course the US and Chinese economy would both go down together, as would most of the world economy, but the US has further to fall, and in it's post industrial state, would have a big problem getting back up, china would fall back too, but wouldn't have far to go to get back to where they were and the US would have lost it's advantage.

  3. No one likes the RIAA on RIAA Targets New Colleges, Still Avoids Harvard · · Score: 4, Funny

    If The RIAA were an ice cream flavor, they'd be pralines and dick.

  4. Re:Heh on The Pirate Bay Files Suit Against Big Media · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now less and less people go to starbucks and starbucks likes it not. Now more and more people go to starbucks and they are making more money than ever before and starbucks likes it not.

    Fixed it for ya.
  5. Re:Heh on The Pirate Bay Files Suit Against Big Media · · Score: 1

    except for pickup trucks.

  6. Re:Heh on The Pirate Bay Files Suit Against Big Media · · Score: 5, Insightful

    of course not, pirating music and movies costs multinationals money, molesting a child costs them nothing, it's obvious what is more evil.

  7. Re:In the words of a famous 'german'.. on Germany Says Copying of DVDs, CDs Is Verboten · · Score: -1, Troll

    what the fuck do the Danish have to do with anything, ever? No one cares about the Danish.

  8. Re:"Yeah, those suspicious e-lectronics". on MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport · · Score: 1

    what are you smoking? If you detonate wirelessly, you still need some electronics attached to the explosives. The explosives don't just spontaneously explode because you flashed an LED at it.

  9. Re:"Yeah, those suspicious e-lectronics" on MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport · · Score: 4, Informative

    The article specifically states that she ignored questions about the shirt and putty then walked away. And newspapers specifically stated that Jean Charles de Menezes was wearing a bulky jacket with wires sticking out and jumped over the ticket barriers.
  10. Re:It's not my definition. on Google Unveils Flash Ads · · Score: 1

    I think it was the application of the slogan meant to them which was the important part, they defined pestering users with crap and totally selling them out to advertisers as evil, and so they kept their pages free of intrusive ads and orientated to what was best for users not advertisers.

  11. Re:Great commenter on TFA page!!! on Cory Doctorow's Fiction About An Evil Google · · Score: 1

    Isn't he a character from Daria?

  12. Re:Cruel Britannia on Does the UK iPhone Plan Add Up? · · Score: 1

    It's true we really do have a problem with binge drinking, and that problem is that it's too expensive.

  13. Re:at least... on Don't Take Notes In the Bookstore · · Score: 0, Troll

    a bolt gun works better, there's enough babies in the world already.

  14. Re:Augmentation of senses on Headband Gives Wearer "Sixth-Sense" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why do nerds insist on constantly trying to reinvent the wheel? IR shoes are a rubbish substitute for a cane. They would only indicate the presence of an obstacle, they wouldn't have any information about it, concrete block would seem the same as a piece of cardboard, you would have to make a detour for every bit of litter. And you wouldn't know what was on the other side of an obstacle, a curb could have a nice wide pavement on the other side, or there could be a brick wall, or a ditch, but you wouldn't know until you put your foot over it. Also, a came tells you what the ground is like, if it is a loose surface, or if there is a huge mud puddle in front of you, IR shoes could never tell you that stuff as easily as a cane could.

  15. Re:(this joke will appear a thousand times) on Your Chance to be an Astronaut · · Score: 4, Funny

    The days of launching chimps into space are long over.

  16. Re:One problem on Virtually Non-Stick Gum Created · · Score: 1

    There's always blue tack.

  17. Re:Core idea of homeopathy ought to be sound on Science vs. Homeopathy · · Score: 1

    Complete bollocks. Homoeopathy is based entirely on the fact that the symptoms of taking undiluted cinchona bark in healthy individuals are similar to the symptoms of malaria, which it was used to treat. Samuel Hahnemann concluded from this single coincidence, that all medicines must produce the symptoms of the disease in healthy people, but he then decided that he would super dilute it, because obviously exacerbating the symptoms was counter productive. He then pulled a whole load of crap out of his ass about vital forces and miasims and other make-believe bullshit.

    Basically if Hahnemann hadn't over filled his crack pipe on his trip to the malaria hospital, we would have been spared all this bullshit.

  18. Re:some pictures on Electric Motorcycle Inventor Crashes at Wired Conference · · Score: 1, Insightful

    same slut, different name.

  19. Re:Worthless article on Paper Trails Don't Ensure Accurate E-Voting Totals · · Score: 2, Informative

    If voting made a difference, they wouldn't let you do it.

  20. Re:California Bar Investigations on eBay Seller Sues Autodesk for $10 Million · · Score: 1

    Well, he can claim that they defrauded him when he bought the licence, as they made him belive it was a transferable licence, and now are saying it isn't so they defrauded him when he first bought it.

  21. Re:Priceless on Microsoft Sued by a Beijing Student Over 'Privacy Violation' · · Score: 1

    also, at least one of the puppies was really ugly.

  22. Re:The Faster We Go, The Rounder We Get on Kilogram Reference Losing Weight · · Score: 1

    It's stubborn Americans, secretly sabotaging it, this way they have a new excuse to sticking to their crazy old fashioned system.

  23. Re:The metre must be shrinking then... on Kilogram Reference Losing Weight · · Score: 1

    It was supposed to be, but the French were to impatient to measure it properly, and fucked it up. This combined with other fuck ups is why the kilogram is a block of metal in France. It was supposed to the mass of a litre of water under standard conditions, but it all went tits up.

  24. Re:Seriously, how stupid do you have to be... on TV Torrents — When Piracy Is Easier Than Purchase · · Score: 1

    I think you are misunderstanding the concept of reputation here. Reputation is based on past performance, so Steve Jobs has his successes with the Mac, the iMac, the iPod, and iTunes here. Thus getting him to distribute your video content would be a sensible course of action.

    Bush on the other hand, after 9/11 has the achievements of snorting a lot of coke, being an alcoholic, lying, fucking things up and getting bailed out by rich friends or daddy, dodging the draft, lying, desertion during time of war, cheating an election, lying, and responding to the 9/11 attacks by reading a book about goats for half an hour. One thing he was well known for not doing was catching terrorist, and protecting America, with a total of 0 terrorist caught,and 2,974 Americans dead, his reputation could not have been much worse.

    Based on his reputation at that point, letting him have free reign to fight a crazy war against terrorist would be a bad course of action considering his reputation, the best course of action would probably have been to shoot him straight away before he fucked up even more.

  25. Re:Self serving on Google's $30,000,000 Lunar X PRIZE · · Score: 1

    green cheese? ha, don't you know anything about the moon? It's made of Emmental, you can even see the holes from Earth.