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  1. Re:Rainbows! on Ask Slashdot: Any Smart Phones Made Under Worker-Friendly Conditions? · · Score: 1

    So wipe the smile off your face

    Um, no.

  2. Re:Woe Be The Day Cash Becomes Illegal on Sweden Moving Towards Cashless Economy · · Score: 2

    real gold or fools gold?

    There's little difference given a sufficient population of fools. ;-)

  3. Re:I've been "cashless" for ~5 years on Sweden Moving Towards Cashless Economy · · Score: 1

    Huh. The automated car washes in my area all take credit cards. Or I go to the hand wash if the car is due for a good detailing.

    My whole life goes through a single card that gives me points. I get a few hundred dollars a year in free stuff from amazon.

  4. What about WOW gold? on Sweden Moving Towards Cashless Economy · · Score: 2

    Bills and coins represent only 3 percent of Sweden's economy, compared to an average of 9 percent in the eurozone and 7 percent in the U.S

    Sooo... it's more like *everybody* is moving toward a cashless economy, and Sweden is just closest? Um, yay, I guess? Maybe?

    From the title I thought they were moving toward the Star Trek utopia with no money at all, and the economy is based on, um, well, I guess that's in one of the tech manuals somewhere.

  5. Re:Woe Be The Day Cash Becomes Illegal on Sweden Moving Towards Cashless Economy · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's why I always carry around a few small gold nuggets in case I need to pick up a bag of rice or a horse or something.

  6. Rainbows! on Ask Slashdot: Any Smart Phones Made Under Worker-Friendly Conditions? · · Score: 1

    My phone was built by well compensated earth ponies in Manechuria. The batteries were charged by unicorns and are everlasting. The phones delivered to localm stores by pegasusususes in gluten-free, dolphin-free, carbon-free, fat-free, Beiber-free packaging. I am therefore morally superior to you all. BOW TO ME!

  7. On this week's episode on Peoples' Immune Systems Can Now Be Duplicated In Mice · · Score: 1

    Dr. House, your patient's mouse had a louse, but don't grouse. It died when Dr. Kraus scanned at 100 gauss. We should douse the patient's blouse with anti-louse, though. Hey, I hear Strauss.

  8. Re:Not tolerable for the average person on Ask Slashdot: Do You Find Self Tracking Useful Like Stephen Wolfram Does? · · Score: 1

    So much for pithiness.

  9. Re:Shit on Google Cools Data Center With Bathroom Water · · Score: 1

    I once had some folks on an environmental site convinced I insulated my house with specially treated meat.

  10. Re:Shit on Google Cools Data Center With Bathroom Water · · Score: 1

    FWIW, *I* had it figured out with the first description of stereo drain systems. :-)

    Next you can have the drains circle the house before heading to the mains. Surround sound. Get it? Ha!

  11. Re:Genius. on Campaign Urges People To Send MPAA and RIAA Copied Currency · · Score: 1

    I couldn't use it as currency and all it did is hurt my ass.

    Here ya go!

    http://www.geekalerts.com/money-toilet-paper/

    I hope this helps.

  12. Re:Not tolerable for the average person on Ask Slashdot: Do You Find Self Tracking Useful Like Stephen Wolfram Does? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But I enjoy my play time. A moment enjoyed is never a moment wasted.

  13. Oh, settle down. I agree with you. I was just tossing out the local whipping boy for the sake of brevity.

  14. Re:You don't say on George "geohot" Hotz Arrested In Texas For Posession of Marijuana · · Score: 4, Funny

    Um, I don't think there's any actual law against anecdotal evidence, per se.

  15. Re:Fuck this law on George "geohot" Hotz Arrested In Texas For Posession of Marijuana · · Score: 2

    Phew! All of it?! Well, OK...

  16. Re:Solution on George "geohot" Hotz Arrested In Texas For Posession of Marijuana · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why not? Sounds like a decent road trip, actually.

  17. Re:Smart people can be dumb on George "geohot" Hotz Arrested In Texas For Posession of Marijuana · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No! It's a conspiracy! It's Steve Jobs giving orders from beyond the grave. The 50 gazillion iPads collectively (like Communists!) form an etheric resonator network cloud designed to give meta-Steve control over the mind of anyone he chooses! In Mass Effect 3, if an iPad is placed near the XBox, you get a fourth rainbow-colored option at the end that converts the Reapers into giant Newtons! It's true! I *heard* about it! Now he's making candidate Rick Sanitarium vow to wipe out porn on the Internet.

  18. Re:Plan B. on Stolen iPad's Reported Location Not Enough To Warrant Search, Say Dutch Police · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's why this is so sad. A geek site? People supposed to be generally good at math? Yet you see just as many bullshit statistics thrown around here as on Fox News comment sections.

  19. Re:Ask a Microsoft or Apple question here... on Have Online Comment Sections Become Specious? · · Score: 1

    Or the dyslexic geek who got an SO instead of an OS.

    Just now made that up. :-)

  20. Re:Console version on Diablo 3 To Be Released On May 15th · · Score: 1

    You never know. I actually enjoyed Torchlight more on the XBox than on the PC.

  21. Re:So PvP delay and a new skill and rune systems on Diablo 3 To Be Released On May 15th · · Score: 4, Funny

    playing on a table is way more immersive than on a computer

    I find a chair much more comfortable, though.

  22. Re:So PvP delay and a new skill and rune systems on Diablo 3 To Be Released On May 15th · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't worry. At the end of the campaign, God appears and tells you everything you just did was for naught anyway, and then kills every lifeform above level 1.

  23. Re:Just a thought on Beta Version of AIDE Enables Application Building On Android · · Score: 5, Funny

    But... but... social media!

  24. Re:Ask a Microsoft or Apple question here... on Have Online Comment Sections Become Specious? · · Score: 1

    Eh... apostate is more fun, and might involve fatwas. Mmmm... fatwas...

  25. Re:Just a thought... on Lawsuit Claims NASA Specialist Was Fired Over Intelligent Design Belief · · Score: 1

    And would it cost $5?