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  1. Re:There is no such thing as cheating on 200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant · · Score: 1

    Wow. Just... wow. Don't get out much and encounter that "humor" thing, do you?

  2. Re:Wrong problem on Making Airport Scanners Less Objectionable · · Score: 1

    Well, that's why they made it a living document. It's also written just as it should be: as describing the limits of government. All the other rights are assumed. The whole "self-evident" thing from the Declaration of Independence. People's ignorance of that isn't the document's fault. Check out the EU constitution if your really want to see a clusterfuck of a document.

  3. Wow on Making Airport Scanners Less Objectionable · · Score: 1

    Just when I don't think I can never read a dumber story on a Monday morning, along comes this. And people wonder why I hide from the news over the weekends.

    Any one do the obvious "can't they just distort my junk to look bigger" joke yet?

  4. Re:America is suppose to be a free country on Making Airport Scanners Less Objectionable · · Score: 1

    I'm always amazed when there's another attempt at a plane when malls and theaters and restaurants sit undefended. The filthy, useless scumbags do seem to have raging boner for hitting planes.

  5. Pfft on US May Disable All Car Phones, Says Trans. Secretary · · Score: 1

    Never going to happen.

    Any further arguing over the issue is lunacy.

  6. Re:Billboards on US May Disable All Car Phones, Says Trans. Secretary · · Score: 1

    No! Shit, when you commute you learn to like billboards. They're the only things that change once in a while.

  7. Re:Remember that name. on US May Disable All Car Phones, Says Trans. Secretary · · Score: 1

    Wait... her friends are giving her dad a hummer? Yeah, that could be distracting.

  8. Re:Good. Hope this keeps up on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    I'm going to keep voting for Tea Party candidates

    Yeah, well, good luck with that.

  9. Re:Just stop already on Sciencey Heroes For Young Children? · · Score: 1

    Don't be an idiot.

    Aw. :-( You wound me, sir.

    Kids got through a phase where they look for an external hero.

    Best time to teach them, then.

    It's normal.

    Bullshit. It's cultural.

  10. Major Tom on An Astronaut's View of Space Station Tech · · Score: 1

    ISS: Oops.
    Houston: You we don't like that word, ISS.
    ISS: Sorry.
    Houston: What happened?
    ISS: Accidentally fired a de-orbit burn.
    Houston: How'd that happen?
    ISS: Went to enter a course correction, and opened my fart app instead.
    Houston: D'oh!

  11. Re:There is no such thing as cheating on 200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant · · Score: 1

    The real world, whatever your career will be, relies on the same behavior that is punished in school that they call "cheating."

    That's what I told my wife, but she tossed me out anyway! Oh! Ding dong!

  12. Cheating can be fun on 200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant · · Score: 1

    I had math classes were we could have calculators but not a page of equations/identities. I developed a private code to store, say, a list of trig identities in a format only I could read. Thank you HP-41 and your alphanumeric storage. :) There were no worries because I never had a teacher who knew how to recall stuff like that from the calculator to check, and the HP-41 was relatively new.

  13. Just stop already on Sciencey Heroes For Young Children? · · Score: 1

    Stop looking for larger than life heroes. Be your own hero to those around you.

  14. *sigh* on TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    The video have left some questioning why better procedures for children aren't in place.

    BECAUSE THEY DON'T CARE! None of them do. They have no reason to. Even if the filth gets voted out, they'll just go to some cushy position their friends in the politiclass have waiting for them. They. Don't. Give. A. Gnat's. Fart.

    Geez Louise, people is there any thinking adult left who is surprised by the epic failstorms that appear on a daily basis now?

  15. Re:Go green! on UK Minister Backs 'Two-Speed' Internet · · Score: 1

    A what's a who now?

  16. Go green! on UK Minister Backs 'Two-Speed' Internet · · Score: 3, Funny

    How about a ten speed internet so you can downshift for steep hills?

  17. Re:Not everyone is 20 on Is the Number Up For the Residential Phone Book? · · Score: 1

    Some find it easier to open a book than to get a computer up.

    A lot of things are harder to get up as you age.

  18. Express on Is the Number Up For the Residential Phone Book? · · Score: 1

    Mine go from the porch directly to the recycle bin.

  19. Re:Not everyone is 20 on Is the Number Up For the Residential Phone Book? · · Score: 1

    Yeah! In a blackout, how would I ever get the number for 911?

  20. Re:Choo choo! on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    I suppose. I had shorter hops in mind, like L.A. to San Francisco or Vegas.

  21. Re:is this what you're worried about? on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    Not so sure. All the examples I have seen are some of the least erotic images ever produced.

    It's like trying to get aroused over a topographical map.

    Er... not to insult all you topography fans out there.

  22. Re:Good. Hope this keeps up on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    Power is never taken away gradually.

    Sure it is. Ours was.

    Something could start at a city or county level and spread. Even if most people latch on without understanding anything (*cough*TeaParty*cough*), who cares as long as it happens.

    Something like First Contact, Free Energy(Cheap Nuclear Fusion, Antimatter, whatever), or the gates of hell suddenly opening up would probably do it.

    Ooh! I vote for that last one! Well, OK, cheap energy would be OK, too.

  23. Re:Good. Hope this keeps up on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    I dunno. The backlash on this seems to be a bit higher than normal. We'll see if it lasts to reach the critical point, whatever that is.

  24. Choo choo! on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    Is the passenger train industry moving to capitalize on this at all?

    Suddenly those bullet train proposals here in California don't seem all that bad. Well, other than the fact we can't build any public works anymore without it costing $1 billion per foot.

  25. Re:save the humans! on Scientists Propose One-Way Trips To Mars · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I sympathize. It also shows incredible naivety to think we can "fix all out problems at home first!"

    Well, I guess we'll be going into space somewhere around the year 400 billion A.D.