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  1. Great on Seeing the Forest For the Trees · · Score: 1

    So now we've got an AI that can classify Justin Bieber as a girl too!

  2. Re:Ellie K on Florida Fails To Pass Bestiality Law · · Score: 1

    Wait... there are women out there that actually _want_ anal? Damn... why haven't I ever met any of them?

    Personally, I've always been confused that anal and oral are both legally referred to as "sodomy". In the interest of unambiguous communication, shouldn't their be a clear and distinct label for each and every act?

  3. Re:Why do they CARE... on Florida Fails To Pass Bestiality Law · · Score: 1

    I saw the way that cute little lamb was battin' her big brown eyes at me... I tell ya, she was askin' for it!

  4. No surprise here on Florida Fails To Pass Bestiality Law · · Score: 1

    Looks like the congresscritters really screwed the pooch on that one!

  5. Re:Clusters? on Record-Breaking Galaxy Cluster Found · · Score: 1

    You mean like the Andromeda-Milky Way collision? Well, if you are around in 4.5 billion years, it just might cause some problems for you. Yes, it does screw up orbits and fill space with interstellar debris, but the process happens over millions of years. If you haven't got a contingency plan by the time the effect reaches your solar system, you're species is probably screwed anyway.

  6. Re:Seems stupid... on Bill Gates Funds Seawater-Spraying Cloud Machines · · Score: 1

    I've got a better idea -- paint all the asphalt in the world with silver paint, thus increasing the reflectivity of the Earth, and lowering the temperature just as effectively as increased cloud cover would.

  7. Re:I just blew a seal... on Bill Gates Funds Seawater-Spraying Cloud Machines · · Score: 4, Funny

    This Eskimo is having engine problems, so he takes his car into the mechanic to investigate. While it's being worked on, he wonders next door to the ice cream parlor and has a vanilla ice cream cone. When he returns, the mechanic solemnly says to him "It looks like you blew a seal,", to which the Eskimo replies, "No, no, no... I was just eating ice cream!"

  8. Re:ummmmm... on Record-Breaking Galaxy Cluster Found · · Score: 1

    Nahhh... I like "clustercopulation" much better!

  9. Re:More "zero tolerance" idiocy on 3rd-Grader Busted For Jolly Rancher Possession · · Score: 1

    Parents have the CHOICE to not send their kids to the local public district schools The Beaverton School District has stubbornly resisted any attempt to start a charter school in the district. What is the "choice" thing of which you speak?

  10. Re:More "zero tolerance" idiocy on 3rd-Grader Busted For Jolly Rancher Possession · · Score: 1

    Whether or not a teacher doing so should or would remain employed for long is another matter. Last time I checked, the teachers had a lot more powerful union than the students. In fact, the teachers union threatened to sue be for defamation for complaining that my child's teacher wasn't doing her job.

  11. Re:More "zero tolerance" idiocy on 3rd-Grader Busted For Jolly Rancher Possession · · Score: 1

    If you want to attend FREE school The state and county take over $15,000 of my money every year in state income and property taxes to help fund these "free" schools. If the state would just let be keep $10,000 of that, I would be more than happy to use it to pay for a private school, and not burden the state with the cost of paying for my child's public schooling. However, since they take this money from my essentially at gunpoint, I am not currently able to pay for private school.

  12. Clusters? on Record-Breaking Galaxy Cluster Found · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do these clusters sometimes merge together to give birth to entirely new galaxies, and if so, what would that merging process be called?

  13. How is this distance measured? on Record-Breaking Galaxy Cluster Found · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How far apart do your measuring points need to be to accurately triangulate the position of something 9.6 billion light years away?

  14. Hanlon's razor on 3rd-Grader Busted For Jolly Rancher Possession · · Score: 1

    Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

    I find this to be especially true when dealing with School Administrators.

  15. Consistent? on 3rd-Grader Busted For Jolly Rancher Possession · · Score: 1

    Here in Oregon, the school bus driver confiscated my daughter's pencil and threw it away because it was "dangerous", but didn't have any problem with another student threatening my daughter with a nail clipper (well, they are banned on airplanes) right in front of her, and every school is the Beaverton School District apparently sells popcorn to the students as a fund raiser, despite the school nurse insisting to me that popcorn was a choking risk for all students. But they get really upset when you point out the logical inconsistencies of their policies.

  16. Re:The Health Police vs Personal Accountability on 3rd-Grader Busted For Jolly Rancher Possession · · Score: 1

    but THIS COUNTRY IS GETTING NUTTIER AND NUTTIER.

    Simple solution: ban nuts.

    Then add a bunch of meaningless text just to get around the lameness filter.

  17. Re:Reading the article on 3rd-Grader Busted For Jolly Rancher Possession · · Score: 1

    It's even worse than that: you can get suspended if somebody hands you something without you knowing what it is, and you immediately hand it back.

  18. Re:Not My Child You Don't... on 3rd-Grader Busted For Jolly Rancher Possession · · Score: 1

    If you've got the $30,000 to pay a lawyer to take this to court, perhaps a better use of your money would be to send your kid to a private school.

  19. Re:This just in: Hypoglycemic child dies... on 3rd-Grader Busted For Jolly Rancher Possession · · Score: 1

    That's not as absurd as it sounds. I take medication for diabetes, so sometimes I suffer from LOW blood sugar. Guess what a respected doctor at the diabetes expo was handing out to deal with low blood sugar? Smarties. Candy that is now apparently banned at that school!

  20. Re:No. on Will Game Cartridges Make a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    Distributing a game on Blu Ray makes sense if you are only targeting PS3 and XBox 360. Personally, I buy a lot of games, and I don't have anything in my house that will read a Blu Ray disc. Since 32GBytes of flash memory is currently going to run about $85, cartridges that size don't seem like an economically viable proposition.

  21. Re:No. on Will Game Cartridges Make a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    That 20GBytes isn't going to fit on a DVD or a cartridge either. I agree that bandwidth caps suck; FiOS doesn't have one to the best of my knowledge.

  22. Re:It's News, but... on TSA Worker Jailed In Body Scan Rage Incident · · Score: 1

    But while it is easy for me to laugh at your itty-bitty, tiny little pecker online, it is nearly impossible for you to beat me up for doing so online. (Agreed, there is no excuse for responding to ridicule with physical violence.)

  23. Re:No. on Will Game Cartridges Make a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    You can always borrow/lend/trade your entire console. And if you are playing a game for which the download is free but you pay for access to the server (e.g. WoW), then the ability to borrow/lend/trade/sell the game itself is irrelevant. You can always borrow/lend/trade/sell your account on the server, but I don't recommend it.

  24. Re:"Cartridge" is too loaded a word... on Will Game Cartridges Make a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    Sales of physical game titles are already being replaced by sales of prepaid cards for monthly access to game servers. Prepaid iTunes download cards are also available, but I don't think that is enough to keep a music store in business.

  25. Re:And we expect them to behave LATER? on TSA Worker Jailed In Body Scan Rage Incident · · Score: 1

    Sure, they all laugh when I tell 'em how big it is... but then when I actually show them, they usually cry!