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  1. Re:ohnoitsroland on A New Way To Make Water, And Fuel Cells · · Score: 1

    Instructions: Add contents of sachet to 8 pints of water. Stir. Makes 1 gallon.

  2. Re:False Positives on Database Finds Fugitive After 35 Years · · Score: 2, Informative

    Dude, fingered means arrested.
    No it doesn't, it means to put suspicion on someone. Like, to point the finger. Getting lifted, nabbed or collared means arrested.
  3. Re:Murder = OK? Are you kidding? on Database Finds Fugitive After 35 Years · · Score: 1

    The thing is, not only is he implying murder is okay, he is making the punishment an arbitrary decision based on age. Where is the cut off point?
    A little bit younger than General Pinochet was when he visited that dear Mrs Thatcher. Or so it would appear.
  4. Re:12 Angry men on Cross-Selling Online Scams and Security Issues · · Score: 1

    while the UK doesn't have "opt out" organ donation at the moment, people are pressing for it to be introduced.
    And they have been for over 20 years, but that's not the same as it actually being the law. Not even close. And even if one or more countries in the EU do have such a law, it's stupid to generalis that to them all - laughably stupid and incredibly ignorant to boot.
  5. Re:What a psycho. on The New School of Videographers · · Score: 1

    A kit Nikon D70? I have the same camera, and last time I took pictures with it, guess what, I DIDN'T send them to Osama.
    Not that you know of... it secretly connects via an open wifi AP when you walk, I mean park, within range.

    P.S. Canon are better.
  6. Re:Our government finally does something right on Database Finds Fugitive After 35 Years · · Score: 1

    She hasn't killed anyone else. At least not that we know of yet.

  7. Re:Of course... on Database Finds Fugitive After 35 Years · · Score: 1

    What is the harm that is done to society when someone escapes ?
    You mean apart from any new crimes they commit while at large, right? And we'll just forget the dilution of the deterrent effect of punishment.
  8. 12 Angry men on Cross-Selling Online Scams and Security Issues · · Score: 4, Insightful
    From the linked article:

    As an aside, organ donors in Europe have to opt-out to NOT become an organ donor
    Not so much angry as ill informed. That's certainly not the case in the UK or Italy which, last time I checked, are part of Europe. I doubt the authors could point to either on a map.
  9. Re:matching ids on Database Finds Fugitive After 35 Years · · Score: 1

    P.S. Why is /. using the wheelbarrow symbol for database?
    Because a database isn't like a dump truck?
  10. Re:Republican answer on Call for a Presidential Debate on Science · · Score: 1

    I guess whoever modded that Troll doesn't realize what turning water into wine would entail.
    My guess would be: concentrated grape juice, yeast, warmth, and two or three weeks.
  11. Re:Ironic curiosity on '55 Science Paper Retracted to Thwart Creationists · · Score: 1

    Whether you mean it or not, the way you write words like "direction" and "drive" implies some sort of guidance, purpose or intention.

  12. Ronnie Hazlehurst's funeral on Wikipedia Begets Veropedia · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they played the funeral march with a slight variation - repeating the last phrase louder, and raised by a jaunty (major 5th?) interval?

  13. Re:One Cow per Child Project (OCPC) on OLPC Experiments With Cow-Powered Laptops · · Score: 1

    My grandparents donate a Flock of Ducks or Chicks from every grandchild in our family at Christmas.
    Waaaagh! I wanted a train set.

    Signed,

    One of your cousins.
  14. Re:Ironic curiosity on '55 Science Paper Retracted to Thwart Creationists · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure who was driving and directing the evolution of languages. Perhaps the illuminati sat down and thought "Hey, wouldn't it totally rock to change all the Ps to Fs?!?!

  15. Re:Lead on Crime Reduction Linked To Lead-Free Gasoline · · Score: 1

    ... and that's why I don't drink anything that comes out of a tap - except the type where you bend a handle, rather than twisting one, to turn it on.

    W.C. Fields had several other good reasons for avoiding dihydrogen monoxide.

  16. Re:They will sell on Very High Tech - Elevator Garages in an NYC Hi-Rise · · Score: 1

    Or, you know, get some sort of trolley.

  17. Re:Let me be the first to SHOUT on Cellphone Use On Planes Coming Soon? · · Score: 1

    A phone converts sound into electrickery and similar whatnots, transmits that and then it's all reversed at the other end by the magic of science or something like that. There's a stupid cow in my office who apparently hasn't realized this, and she's not the only one.

    So get her on board and it makes no difference if you're at the front of the plane, back of the plane, or sitting on the tailplane - you'd still not be able to hear yourself think.

  18. Re:You left out the most important one: on Star Wars Television Series Moving Forward · · Score: 1

    If he edits later, does that mean he shoots first? /ducks for cover

  19. Re:An election is NOT a "Wisdom Of Crowds" situati on Evolution and the 'Wisdom of Crowds' · · Score: 1

    An election has no such feedback.
    It does - it's called the next election. I'll concede that it's not immediate or even timely feedback, though.
  20. Ulla, you insensitive clod!!! on Evolution and the 'Wisdom of Crowds' · · Score: 1

    A world can not be said to be "fit" or "unfit" because it is not in competition with other worlds.
    I'm sure that, in the last years of the nineteenth century, no-one would have thought otherwise.
  21. pie eaters on 'Bionic' Nerve To Repair Damaged Limbs and Organs · · Score: 1

    extracting stem cells from fat tissue
    Manchester's the perfect location - they'll never run out of maraw material.
  22. Re:It is called open communication on Swearing at Work is Bleeping Good For You · · Score: 1

    Or TV-channels with "-BLEEP- you, you BLEEEEP piece of BLEEEEEP" which is exactly as offensive as it'd have been without the bleeps.
    It's also ten times as annoying, and no doubt causes the kids to be extra curious about what words the man really said, thus being self defeating too.
  23. Re:Good for you? on Swearing at Work is Bleeping Good For You · · Score: 4, Funny

    No. Like most things these days, it's all self service apart from the paperwork.

  24. Re:Good for you? on Swearing at Work is Bleeping Good For You · · Score: 5, Funny

    Next they will be saying that Porn is good for productivity
    I work at a sperm bank, you insensitive clod!!!!
  25. Re:Uhhh, well, that's about 6 buckets of retarded on Cisco Offices Raided, Execs Arrested In Brazil · · Score: 1

    MIG Chief Executive Steve Allen to comment in the Australian newspaper The Age: "What we need is to slow down the M6"
    I can just picture the ads on daytime telly:

    Retired and need some extra cash? If you have your own vehicle (ideally an Austin Allegro, Rover 600 or similar) you can earn £££££££s driving slowly up and down while listening to radio 3. Sign up today and get a flat cap & string gloves free. To make a bundle while you trundle, just call MIG plc!

    ** Ask about our caravan bonus **