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  1. Re:That's not piracy, that's *Marketing* on Band Leaks Own Album, Blames Pirates · · Score: 0

    Yep. If he puts himself out there as being their agent, whether he intends that or not, then according to the law of agency he is their agent. Anything he does in respect of that agency is then the band's responsibility.

  2. Legal Tender on eBay Australia Delays PayPal Change Indefinitely · · Score: 0

    I don't see how eBay is going to get around letting the vendor accept cash. That phrase 'legal tender' shirley still means something in law.

  3. Consumers brought it on themselves on Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids · · Score: 0

    Seat belts are lighter than airbags, 2 speakers are lighter than 17, manual cloth seats are lighter than electric heated leather ones, vinyl is probably lighter than carpet, manual steering is lighter than power steering, manual transmission is lighter than automatic, one camshaft is lighter than two.

    On the other hand, mp3 players are lighter than radios or CD players, the electronic speedometer is lighter than a cable speedo, plastic bumpers are usually lighter than steel ones, aluminium heads and blocks are lighter than iron ones.

  4. Yan Ken Pon on Paper Stronger Than Cast Iron · · Score: 0

    So, paper beats scissors, now?

  5. Re:Utterly Un-Australian on Australian Comedy Group Prods APEC Security · · Score: 0

    The only crime committed here is to make the ... Police and their political masters look like idiots.


    Which is the worst crime there is, going by sentencing. In 1982, Ray Mickelberg got 20 years for it.
  6. Re:Any real danger to politicians in Australia? on Australian Comedy Group Prods APEC Security · · Score: 0

    There was the Sydney Hilton bombing of 1975 (?) which wasn't a political assassination, but easily could have been if the timing had been better.

  7. Dimensionally challenged on Spirit and Opportunity Are Back Online · · Score: 0

    "Both rovers are now generating around 300 watt hours from their panels."

    Does that even make sense? The watt-hour is a unit of energy, not of power.

  8. Re:And passed over for an Academy Award... on John Knoll on CGI, Tron And 25 Years of Change · · Score: 0

    Conversely, all the CGI in the The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy TV series wasn't CGI at all, and it won a BAFTA award for visual effects.

  9. Re:How would they tax ... on NC Man Fined For Using Vegetable Oil As Fuel · · Score: 0

    Ultimately, all cars run on solar power :)

  10. Re:The Pharmaceutical Industry on Brazil Voids Merck Patent On AIDS Drug · · Score: 0

    "The American Military almost single-handedly worked on strategies to tackle the problem of malaria and the development of the antibiotic pencillin, was conceived as having a strategic advantage during WWII when the very first batch of it was used to treat soldiers with STD's and almost instantly restored them to full battle readiness."

    So the British Alexander Fleming and the Australian Howard Florey had nothing to do with it? You learn something new every day.

  11. East, to Alaska! We're goin' east, the Russians on on The World's Longest Tunnel · · Score: 0

    Psst: Bogie-exchange is a solved problem. The different loading gauges aren't though, as others have already said.

  12. Re:Below the ICE sounds good but... on The World's Longest Tunnel · · Score: 0

    You know about the Seikan Tunnel linking Honshu and Hokkaido, right on the Rim of Fire? It's still there, last I checked :-)

  13. Give 'em curry on Astronaut Has 'Wasabi Spill' in Space · · Score: 0

    Curry, eh? That's what I'd call a Getaway Special.

  14. Mine is pretty lame on What's the Coolest Thing You've Ever Built? · · Score: 0

    But I made a two-tone doorbell from a Dick Smith kit when I was 12.

  15. typo on Huge Storms Converge on Jupiter · · Score: 0

    "Previous encounters in 2002 and 2004 were anti-climatic." He means anti-climactic. 'Climatic' means having to do with climate. Which this event is, so it's anything but anti-climatic.

  16. Re:Didn't you hear? It's GLOBAL WARMING on ESA to Send Spacecraft to Venus · · Score: 0

    I had that feeling too. I got flashbacks of Wallace and Gromit.

  17. Re:Not from Thailand on Scientists Discover World's Smallest Fish · · Score: 0

    That's just the 'wooden leg named Smith' error.

  18. Re:Mission not necessarily over on NASA Stardust Returns to Earth · · Score: 0
    Tablizer wrote:

    "Spying on nude beach babes" probably won't qualify. Any other ideas?


    Close: Spying on and sending postcards to his girlfriend, Mars Rover Opportunity.
  19. Galileo Galileo can you do the fandango? on Galileo Sends Its First Signals · · Score: 0

    Can't they think of an original name? I thought Galileo died in Jupiter!

  20. Re:I just came back from Northern New York on Alternative Energy Confusion · · Score: 0

    Sounds like he was talking about Daylight Saving.

    I wonder if the NO TO TURBINES people are against the turbines that exist in fossil-fuel, hydro and nuclear power plants too.

  21. Re:Pro is the opposite of con... on Podcasting Officially a Word · · Score: 0

    The definition is too restrictive. I can download podcasts to my desktop machine too. Does that mean they're not podcasts but ordinary old audio files?

  22. Like a tiger? on New Mammal Species Found in Borneo · · Score: 0

    "The group is planning to capture the new species in a live trap so it can be properly studied and described."

    A live trap ... like a tiger, for instance?

  23. G R A V I T Y on World's Tallest Building Causing Earthquakes? · · Score: 0

    "of which some would be transferred to the earth's upper crust"

    I would have thought all of the load would be transferred to the Earth's upper crust. Otherwise some of the building is defying gravity.

  24. Something new afoot? on Earliest Bird Had Feet Like Dinosaur · · Score: 0

    Is it news? Archaeopteryx had teeth, a sternum and a tail like those of dinosaurs too. That doesn't mean it isn't a bird.

  25. Re:phishy... phishy... on Image Handling Flaw Puts Windows At Risk · · Score: 0

    How about the first step: Create Hole.