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  1. Re:Look on the bright side of... on Bye Bye Bananas — the Return of Panama Disease · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Right,. Because that totally explains everything.

  2. Re:can't work even if they wanted it to on RIM In Trouble For Not Violating Privacy · · Score: 1

    Except these are Indians, so they wouldn't be able to make it work.

  3. Re:Yawn ... on Dell Shows Off Its Eee PC Rival · · Score: 1

    Size, or rather lack of it, you grade A1 numbskull.

  4. Re:Keyboard, good and bad on Dell Shows Off Its Eee PC Rival · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... and AZERTY is French, so it can just fuck off.

  5. Re:A crack-high moment. on Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point' · · Score: 1

    Most of Microsoft's innovation isn't particularly evolutionary, though -- it's either static or devolutionary
    Microsoft created the Welsh assembly and Scottish parliament?

    Actually, that would explain a lot.
  6. Re:Beards on What Makes a Programming Language Successful? · · Score: 1

    I don't know them personally, but I think you're being a bit harsh on them. Well, apart from Stroustrup.

  7. I'm the Duke of Wellington, you insensitive clod! on Frog Resembles X-Men's Wolverine · · Score: 1

    You don't just send in the military for frogs.
    Depends which kind of frogs. There's one kind that are timid, slimy, disorganised creatures with little capacity for organised aggression, and then there's the ones that are a bit like toads.
  8. Re:I want my beer! on Unofficial Homebrew Channel For the Wii · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've drunk Miller, and I'm pretty certain it's the other wii^H way round.

  9. Re:Japanese not creative? on Shigeru Miyamoto, The Walt Disney of Our Time · · Score: 1

    They copied the Pearl Harbor attack from the British, who gave Johnny Eyetie a good kick up the arse at Taranto.

  10. Re:There is no problem - really. on Senate Committee Votes To Fingerprint Lenders · · Score: 1

    Get your facts right. King George the third was German.

  11. Re:It's a bit small! on Sailing Robots To Attempt Atlantic Crossing · · Score: 1

    This boat is only 3.65 meters long - that's a mere twelve feet
    In America they have bigger canoes - and that's just the width!
  12. Re:When in Rome... on Google's Street View Meets Resistance In France · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'd expect them to follow French laws when doing business in France.
    Why? The French certainly don't bother.
  13. Two Worlds on London Lawyers Demand £600 For One Game · · Score: 1

    Is the name by any chance related to certain wars that they lost? Refer them to Arkell v Pressdram.

  14. Re:why sare? on Folders vs. Tags For Shared Email Accounts? · · Score: 1

    In that case it seems to me that email is the wrong solution anyway.

  15. Re:Reasonable doubt? on Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    He can just rollback his testimony and then keep his mouth shut at the appeal.

  16. Re:I say! on $1/Gallon "Green Gasoline" In Sight · · Score: 1

    Purists might suggest that chemically transforming a substance into a different substance is stretching the definition of dissolving just a teeny weeny bit.

    By your logic, gasoline dissolves in water. All you have to do is burn it into carbon dioxide and water first.

  17. Ignorant colonial oik on Negroponte Says Windows 'Runs Well' On XO Laptop · · Score: 1

    I detest it when people use the words "towards" and "anyways"... they don't exist.
    Sir, here is my fist. Kindly run towards it, as you are not worth the effort required to punch some sense into you.
  18. ob on Apple Buys a Chip Company for $278M · · Score: 1

    McCain or Bird's Eye?

    (Readers left of the pond may substitute Lays and Herr's, otherwise you won't have a clue what I'm on about).

  19. Re:I say! on $1/Gallon "Green Gasoline" In Sight · · Score: 1

    Every plastic I've ever seen dissolves in petroleum.
    Thanks for the heads-up, you just saved me from wasting seven and a half quid on one of these.
  20. Re:Yes, and yes. on Hardy Heron Making Linux Ready for the Masses? · · Score: 1

    So now it's fixen?

    I'm glad, because if it was broken and bricked it'd be bric-a-brac.

  21. Re:RIGHT? on Europe Rejects Plan To Criminalize File-Sharing · · Score: 1

    What about German or Chinese? If I ran a shop selling speicialty goods from those countries, and my customers were wholly or mainly expats from those countries, why can't I write my sign in German or Chinese?

  22. Re:RIGHT? on Europe Rejects Plan To Criminalize File-Sharing · · Score: 1

    They caused a lot of casualties to the Germans. Mostly from syphilis.

  23. Re:Dawkins may may a renowned evolutionary biologi on Richard Dawkins to Appear on Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    The problem with this analogy is that I have never heard of any reliable witnesses who say they have seen a unicorn.
    I'vee nseen one - are you calling me a liar?
  24. Re:Dawkins may may a renowned evolutionary biologi on Richard Dawkins to Appear on Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    You are making an implicit assumption that all religions have an equal amount of (or lack of) supporting evidence.
    Seems reasonable to me.

    What about people who believe that there is more supporting evidence
    Well what about them? And while we're at it, what about people who believe that the earth is flat, that pi equals three or that raping a virgin cures you of AIDS?

    Believing it doesn't make it so. If that was an attempt at sophistry or some other intellectual sleight of hand, then don't give up the day job.
  25. Re:Nonsense. on Richard Dawkins to Appear on Doctor Who · · Score: 2, Insightful

    More to the point isn't it ironic that Dawkins is appearing on a show that has been portraying the Doctor as a Messiah figure for the past three series?
    It might be if the series claimed to be a documentary.

    However it is fiction, the writers know that, admit that, and everyone watching who is within a decade of voting age also knows that.

    If, sir, you are not by some chance an imbecile then it is surely and purely through lack off effort, and not for want of natural talent. Now be off with you!