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  1. Re:Memes on Twitter Leaked Obama's Visit To Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    So what your asking is : is it bad that the president of the United States of America is lying to his own country and the whole world to meet Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai ?

    Nope. Not even on the same planet as what I asked.

    so why is this one secret ? The tension is so strong in the middle-east that this visit, that is suppose to be a secret, is very odd if you ask me.

    (squint)

    Did you just answer your own question?

  2. Memes on Twitter Leaked Obama's Visit To Afghanistan · · Score: 5, Funny

    More like TROLOLOLONews, amirite?

    (crickets)

    Ah, the hell with ya.

    Anyway, it wasn't leaked until he was on the ground in Kabul? Is that so bad?

  3. Re:Google has lowered itself to patent proxy wars on German Court Grants Motorola Xbox and Windows 7 Sales Ban · · Score: 1

    You can also always create your own OS.

    You'd certainly save money that way by not needing to create and app store or even publish an API due to zero demand.

  4. Re:We need a Constitutional Amendment on Pakistani Court Rules On Internet Censorship: Unconstitutional · · Score: 2

    We must demand a Constitutional amendment that clearly defines personal privacy and Internet usage as an inalienable right. The days of hoping your representative Democracy will work for you are sadly over.

    You're right. I'll contact my representative to demand he get the amendment process moving and- oh, wait...

  5. Re:US, nobody gives a shit on Stop Being Poor: U.S. Piracy Watch List Hits a New Low With 2012 Report · · Score: 2

    I live in Asia.

    Well that narrows it down.

    Our entertainment is going out with people and socializing.

    Yeah, no one in the USA *ever* does that.

    We like that.

    Well bully for you!

    Live music is better than listening to some stupid pop artists from your cd's.

    http://us14.memecdn.com/Stop-Liking-What-I-Dont-Like_c_115105.jpg

    In your opinion, of course, and there are CDs containing other things than pop music, just FYI. I just found a CD of 60s cartoon music and sound effects. I like to crack up the Speed Racer theme during traffic jams to totally mess with the other commuters.

    Bands at the restaurants and bars occasionally play covers of those over here,

    WOW!!!! o.O The NEVER happens here. Our bands just play scales and basic fingering exercises, or they go off into multihour free form jazz odysseys. Depends on how baked they are.

    but you are a failing country

    Ah, I wondered when the full bore jingobigotry would show up. I made that neologism up, BTW. Feel free to use it. Hmm. Bingotry?

    that is both anti-social and has no understanding of what products are actually worth to pay for.

    Nonsense. We so totally understand what products are actually worth to pay for what we see was worth to understand paying for what products.

    You are fighting a fight that you cannot win.

    Wait, which one you talkin' about?

  6. Re:I wonder... on German Authorities Find Al Qaeda Plans Disguised In Porn · · Score: 1

    I need higher resolution on that tit! Enhance!

    I believe the correct technical term in this context would be "Augment!"

  7. Re:News for nerds? on 1 World Trade Center Becomes the Tallest Building In NYC · · Score: 5, Funny

    I go by highest usable restroom. Any altitude above which I cannot relieve myself in comfort is irrelevant.

  8. Re:Probably strike a coral reef and sink on Australian Billionaire Plans To Build Titanic II · · Score: 1

    Oh, settle down.

    Dude just wants to build a friggin boat.

  9. Re:Go Ballmer! on Australian Billionaire Plans To Build Titanic II · · Score: 1

    New Zealand is a giant iceberg? Cripes, first that thing week with the Javanese being our enemy in WW2 and now this!

    I really need to get out more.

  10. Re:what about slashdot? on Not Just Apple, How Microsoft Sidestepped Billions In State Taxes · · Score: 1

    You want an uglier truth? You give the sociopaths another dollar of taxes, they'll spend two, and laugh at you all the while.

  11. Re:Ummm on Mistreated Foxconn Brazil Workers Threaten Strike · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mentioning Apple gets the page hits.

    New media is a giant vacuous whore like old media,

  12. Re:I just got back from a deployment to Afghanista on WW2 Vet Sent 300,000 Pirated DVDs To Troops In Iraq, Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    Alright. Thanks!

  13. Re:Whoever is responsible for this article on Analytic Thinking Can Decrease Religious Belief · · Score: 1

    how does zeus fit into this?

    Oh, I'm sure he's in there fucking someone in the form of an animal. Where do you think the Wonder Twins came from.

  14. Re:Whoever is responsible for this article on Analytic Thinking Can Decrease Religious Belief · · Score: 1

    Ooo! Ooo! I know!

    Neither, because hevean is a myth!

    Ah, see you atheisticals can't fool me with your tricks of the questionings and your analyticalisms. Ha!

  15. Re:I just got back from a deployment to Afghanista on WW2 Vet Sent 300,000 Pirated DVDs To Troops In Iraq, Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    If the mpaa is really sticking their noses in to that extent, I think I might like to get in on this then. Any idea where one could send DVDs? I only know couple guys who were in the Army decades ago.

  16. Re:Well that's okay on WW2 Vet Sent 300,000 Pirated DVDs To Troops In Iraq, Afghanistan · · Score: 4, Funny

    JAVAnese? Shit, my understanding of WWII is totally off!

  17. Re:Unfortunately... on Ask Slashdot: Sources For Firmware and Hardware Books? · · Score: 2

    Xilinx actually has excellent and free data sheets and manuals available (as do other vendors) on their site. When I was transitioning from RF to digital years ago, I taught myself how to design with and program FPGAs entirely from Xilinx documentation.

  18. Re:Will they also fix typos in the older books? on Sci-Fi Publisher Tor Ditches DRM For E-Books · · Score: 1

    Reader's Digest Condensed Version

    He bought a Robert Heinlien eBook that had so many errors it made some parts of the book confusing. He would up proofreading it and sending a list of corrections to the publisher.

  19. Re:What about the price? on Sci-Fi Publisher Tor Ditches DRM For E-Books · · Score: 1

    I'm generally seeing much lower prices of the Kindle versions these days, at least on the ones I look at. It's all over the place though. Sometimes it's $1 less, sometimes it's as low as 50% of the printed book.

    Lower is still relative, though. I was looking at an $80 technical book, and the Kindle version was $50 but... seems I can go up to $10 or so for an eBook. More than that and the resistance starts, and at $50 it seems insurmountable despite the fact that with something technical having a search function and many digital bookmarks would be great.

  20. Re:It's about time on Sci-Fi Publisher Tor Ditches DRM For E-Books · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is the beginning of the end of quality writing.

    Awesome! Now is my chance to get published!

  21. Re:Is she? on Is Siri Smarter Than Google? · · Score: 1

    Your advice is a bit like, "Why use google to search for information? Go directly to whatever page you're interested in."

    OMFG IMMA SO SORRYS!

  22. Re:Is she? on Is Siri Smarter Than Google? · · Score: 1

    Data sheets? Just go the the manufacturer's site. If you have a part number only, search on digikey, Newark, mouser or some other parts seller site. They usually have local copies or pointers to the manufacturer's copy.

  23. Pi on Travelling Salesman, Thriller Set In a World Where P=NP · · Score: 1

    Is this the next Pi?

  24. Brown out on Mad Cow Disease Confirmed In California · · Score: 1

    In response, the California state government passed an emergency bill that doubled public employee pensions, authorized another "fifty blagillion miles" of track to the high speed rail they think is going to be built, and outlawed all businesses with more than zero employees. Governor Brown signed the bill and said to the press, "A vision stands on someone else's feet. The light at the end of the tunnel has its world revealed by trees." before passing out and being wheeled away.

  25. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Planetary Resources Confirms Plan To Mine Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Personally, I'd blame the "asteroid hitting the Earth" disaster theme that has been in the popular media over the past decade or so- everything from movies to a Bad Astronomy book to Discovery specials. It's just sort of in people's heads.

    Me, I might send them a resume. I can design their deep space comm system from end to end.