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  1. Re:Nothing really beats... on Christmas Shopping For Your Nephew · · Score: 1

    Seems like I can count on your full backing. Meanwhile, it seems the moderators are mauling him already. If he has any sense he'll drop out right away.

  2. Re:Frankly... on How Much is Your Right to Vote Worth? · · Score: 1

    Are they? You can drive a gold-plated hummer and have a huge plasma TV, but if it's all on credit then you aren't really wealthy.

  3. Re:Frankly... on How Much is Your Right to Vote Worth? · · Score: 1

    They were felons BECAUSE they were revolutionaries. Please don't equate them with the common thieves and vandals
    Well said. That sort ended up in Australia.
  4. Re:Frankly... on How Much is Your Right to Vote Worth? · · Score: 1

    maybe it's time to find decision makers who aren't forced to respond to the whims of an uneducated, shortsighted, easily influenced population
    So, have decided yet which country you want to emigrate to?
  5. Re:Frankly... on How Much is Your Right to Vote Worth? · · Score: 1

    Some people have a habit of not complaining - the British used to be that way before they turned into a bunch of effete lazy chavs. As for Russia, grumbling in front of foriegners wouldn't exactly have been encouraged during the Soviet era. I'd take what they said with a large pinch of salt.

  6. Re:Out of creative juice.. become an IP vulture. on Rowling Sues Harry Potter Lexicon · · Score: 1

    Government takes money from the Rich? Mod parent funny.

  7. Re:Money shot. on Christmas Shopping For Your Nephew · · Score: 1

    If you look at the related videos, you'll see that someone did indeed film his jizz.

  8. Re:Nothing really beats... on Christmas Shopping For Your Nephew · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, props to you for spotting that he was working a flanker.

  9. Re:Link to Bletchley Park on Colossus Cracks Again · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not all of us are fortunate neough to be able to travel to London.
    Not a problem, it's in Milton Keynes.
  10. Re:Frankly... on How Much is Your Right to Vote Worth? · · Score: 1

    You're really telling me that people who had to work ten hours a day down a coal mine and still barely had enough to live on not to mention half the kids dying before they reach the age of 5 are as happy as people who work in safe office jobs and go home to warm comfortable houses? Pull the other one.

  11. Re:Out of creative juice.. become an IP vulture. on Rowling Sues Harry Potter Lexicon · · Score: 1
    First three words of the linked post:

    She's a billionaire
    The amount is irrelevant; if it's fair use it's fair use, and if it isn't, it isn't. So why did you even mention how rich she is?

    Don't bother answering - it's because you're a jealous little gobshite and boo-fucking-hoo, it's not fair.
  12. Re:Out of creative juice.. become an IP vulture. on Rowling Sues Harry Potter Lexicon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, I am saying she is so rich that why does she even care if someone makes a few $100 because of her.
    That sounds more like yes.
  13. Re:Out of creative juice.. become an IP vulture. on Rowling Sues Harry Potter Lexicon · · Score: 1

    Are you saying it's OK to steal from the rich but not from the poor? That sounds like the politics of envy to me.

  14. Re:Umm? on Meshnet Digital Armor To Protect Tanks · · Score: 1

    Is any trickery necessary?

  15. Re:It'll never work on MIT Reinvents Transportation With Foldable, Stackable Car · · Score: 1

    But then surely from driving to pick people up, it would spend more time and distance on the road
    Between pickups and dropoffs, the driver could RTFA. I'd recommend it, especially the bit where it mentions parking. You'd, ermm he'd, not have to read very far to find it.
  16. Re:what's the big deal? on Microsoft's Treatment of Google Defectors · · Score: 1

    While it protects the employee, it also restricts him. It makes it harder for him to leave. Imagine he sees a better post, but they can't wait for him to serve his notice. One person gains - his current owner^H employer. Two lose - him, and the company that wanted him.

  17. Re:Microsoft is simply bland.. on Microsoft's Treatment of Google Defectors · · Score: 1

    So you assume they were offering you a job, when they just wanted an interview.
    Steve, you really should read what he wrote. Throwing chairs at a strawman, have you sunk so low?
  18. Re:what's the big deal? on Microsoft's Treatment of Google Defectors · · Score: 1

    With the ease of taking business customer information with you, there's no point doing the theatricals other than to make some minimum-wage rentacop feel important; if anything was worth pinching, the employee already did it. Yesterday.
    I have, sir, taken the liberty of correcting your fine missive.
  19. Re:New Hash Algorithm Submission #1 on NIST Opens Competition for a New Hash Algorithm · · Score: 1

    I actually believe GVMT Roll
    Never heard of him, what did he say?
  20. Re:Very promising. on Robot-Run Warehouse Speeds Deliveries · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't really mind being one of the experts while freeing up a large portion of the population to do whatever they want.
    For most of them, what they want to do would be sitting on their fat shellsuit-clad arses while getting even fatter, punctuated with spawning more feckless parasites like themselves. For a significant minority, it would involve stealing your things and attacking you and your family. I'm not sure that's progress.
  21. Re:It'll never work on MIT Reinvents Transportation With Foldable, Stackable Car · · Score: 2, Insightful

    OK. How about you have this kind of shared car but - here's the clever bit - it comes with a driver, supplied as part of the service. You get in, the driver takes you exactly where you want to go, you pay for the time or maybe distance, then the deal's done. No need to worry about parking. The car (with its driver) is free to go off and take someone else where he wants to go.

  22. It'll never work on MIT Reinvents Transportation With Foldable, Stackable Car · · Score: 4, Funny

    I had an idea for these things like a car but bigger, with maybe 20 or even 40 seats. The plan is that they'd circulate around or maybe go backwards and forwards between two points. You get on, pay some money, and then get off when it's close to where you're going.

  23. Re:No Child's Behind Left on Open-Source Early Literacy Materials Gaining Some Attention · · Score: 1

    This is true. By some estimates, perhaps almost as much as around 50% of the population is below average intelligence. Imagine that!

  24. Re:Yes, hooray for the resurrection of a racist de on Miyamoto Says He's Solved Co-op Issue In Mario Galaxy · · Score: 1

    Just wait a while, he'll change sides.

  25. Re:12 Angry men on Cross-Selling Online Scams and Security Issues · · Score: 1

    There are parts of the US that are dry, but it doesn't mean the whole country is a beer-free zone.
    It's not far off ... have you ever tried Bud Light?