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  1. Re:In other words: Oxfam just got own3d! on Starbucks Responds In Kind To Oxfam YouTube Video · · Score: 1

    For an emergency? There would be no wait at all. The medical system is set up that emergency is taken care of at the highest priority.

    I was in last year because i badly sprained my ankle. I was there less than 30 minutes at night before getting x-rays, checked, and sent home. I had a return visit the next day because the pain was terrible the next day and i probably was there for only about 1 hour (it was busier that day) for another set of x-rays and to get prescriptions for some pain killers + crutches.

    From what i understand, my injury would have been somewhere in the $800 range across the border. I left the hospital with no bills.

  2. Re:In other words: Oxfam just got own3d! on Starbucks Responds In Kind To Oxfam YouTube Video · · Score: 1

    What if you can't pay? In Canada, we do not live with the fear of going bankrupt due to medical illness. That is what makes it better. Regardless of your station in life, you have access to necessary medical treatment.

  3. Re:In other words: Oxfam just got own3d! on Starbucks Responds In Kind To Oxfam YouTube Video · · Score: 1

    In Canada, i believe that would cost about $50 for the ambulance ride.

  4. Re:Mutual legal assistance on Flying To the US? Pay In Cash · · Score: 1

    Hey, that's my email address you insensitive infidel!

  5. Go ask google on RIAA Goes for the Max Against AllofMP3 · · Score: 1

    I asked Google and it said 10 trillion rubles is 379.859832 billion U.S. dollars.

  6. Re:Wrong conclusion... on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray AACS DRM Cracked · · Score: 1
    A better one would be, "Do you rent a car and then keep it?"

    That's a terrible analogy to copying a movie. In the case above, the car rental company does not receive their car back. In the copying movie case, the movie company receives their movie back to continue using it for their benefit.

    If you want to use a car rental analogy, it would be "Do you rent a car and then build a copy?"
  7. Re:Send your money down the toilet on Send a Name to Mars for Christmas · · Score: 1

    It will have exactly the same effect once we start sending our trash and sewage to other planets.

  8. For every installation of linux... on Penguins Disappearing From Southern Hemisphere · · Score: 1

    ... god kills a penguin. Please save the penguins!

  9. Re:The moral of the story.... on Small Businesses Worry About MS Anti-Phishing · · Score: 1

    If you're a small business and place Firefox/Opera buttons on your site, you are distracting your customer base from the purpose of visiting your site (buying products and services)

  10. Slashdot's weather forecast on Wii Weather Channel Up, Browser Coming · · Score: 4, Funny
    Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
    Does that mean its going to be foggy?
  11. We must all use the internet freedom disk on Give an Internet Freedom Disk · · Score: 5, Funny

    If we don't support freedom, the terrorists have already won!

  12. Laws of Apostrophe usage on Microsoft Formally Releases Robotics Software · · Score: 3, Insightful

    1) A writer uses an apostrophe to indicate the subject's ownership of a noun (ex. Ed's computer)

    2) If the subject ends with an 's', the apostrophe is placed after the s (ex. Gates' laws of robotics)

    3) A writer should follow rules 1 and 2

  13. Re:Ultrawideband on Ultrawideband Soon To Be Legal In Europe · · Score: 1

    Infiniband + 1?

  14. Re:Ultrawideband on Ultrawideband Soon To Be Legal In Europe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Take a page from the street fighter 2 series:

    UltraWideBand Turbo
    Super UltraWideBand
    Super UltraWideBand Turbo

    And once we run out of names....

    UltraWideBand 2.0! (increment and repeat)

  15. Re:Yeah but... on Open Source Car on the Horizon · · Score: 2, Funny

    I do every day. Its called 'rush hour'.

  16. (-1) Did not actually read posting on No Fix for Word Next 'Patch Tuesday' · · Score: 1
    Allow me to re-block quote what I was replying to:
    Their solution certainly said that we aren't to open any MS Word documents.
    The response was to indicate that Microsoft did not in fact say "do not open any MS word document". I'm not saying the bug is not bad/annoying/reason to switch to Linux, but saying that the grandparent didn't read the advisory and was spreading the usual misinformation that just happens to sound good to most people here.

    Why do you all have to be pricks without thinking first?
    Go read the parent and grandparent, think about the context, and get back to us on that.
  17. (-1) Did not actually read advisory on No Fix for Word Next 'Patch Tuesday' · · Score: 1
    Their solution certainly said that we aren't to open any MS Word documents.

    Before talking about the solution, why not go read the advisory first?

    From TFAdvistory:

    Do not open or save Word files that you receive from un-trusted sources or that you receive unexpectedly from trusted sources.

    Let me translate for you: Do not open random word documents downloaded from unknown sources because they could be infected. If somebody sends you an email with a document you weren't expecting or without any context (ie subject: You should really read this!), you should confirm that it was really sent by that person and not a false email.

    Its like somebody sending you an exe file. Never open unless you were expecting it.

  18. Re:BS on Anti-Spyware Law Snags Anti-Spyware Vendor · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually, the difference is the lawyers bill you for the suit, the soap and water to clean it, and the time.

  19. Re:Thailand? on Seeing the Earth Almost Live · · Score: 1

    I read somewhere that the service keeps their bmp files for a period of 30 days (why, it was the summary! Imagine that.), and jpeg files for longer. I also seem to remember something about the sun usually rising at least once per 30 days in most places in the world (usually more frequently).

  20. Re:Imagine.. on IEEE Sets Sights on 100G Ethernet · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In Soviet Russia, beowolf cluster imagines you!

  21. Re:Tailgating on Detecting Tailgaters With Lasers · · Score: 1

    If the TV is small, wouldn't the drivers have to get close to see what you are trying to show them?

  22. Re:If we don't pay on Taxing Virtual Gaming Assets · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your character will be transferred from your originating game to the federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison game for a 6 month subscription. Unfortunately, the conjugal visit expansion will not be available anytime soon.

  23. Re:This is idiotic on Vista Designed to Make Malware Easy · · Score: 2, Informative

    Microsoft provides it here (without support) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841290

  24. Re:Mozilla? on Democracy Player is 0.9.2 and Growing Up Fast · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't you trust democracy? If not, the terrorists have already won.

    Democracy is approved by 4 out of 5 major countries!

  25. Re:Let's see... on Gates Foundation To Spend All Its Assets · · Score: 1

    He eats corn chips? Evil!!!!!