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  1. Re:When you buy a new PC... on Man Sues Gateway Because He Can't Read EULA · · Score: 1

    Even verbal contracts can be made, I believe.
    If you go into a bar and order a beer that's exactly what you're doing.
  2. Goof around. on Microsoft Slaps Its Most Valuable Professional · · Score: 1

    Take the job, but don't do it very well. I mean, do it less well than you would have done anyway.

  3. Tube tax on Internet Tax Imminent? · · Score: 1

    Am I missing something or is everyone else? TFA looks like it's taxing the internet itself, not things bought over the intarnets.

  4. Re:Pay or Die! on Russia Claims IP Rights In Manufacture of AK-47 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've never handled Russian weaponry - but I have fiddled with their cameras, and if that's anything to go by it's just their normal manufacturing tolerances.

  5. Fiiiiiiiix bayonets! on Russia Claims IP Rights In Manufacture of AK-47 · · Score: 1

    I say. That's not a British rifle, you frightful bounder. If you want to put the wind up the bally fuzzy-wuzzies, This is what you need.

  6. Re:Polonium patent? on Russia Claims IP Rights In Manufacture of AK-47 · · Score: 1

    How about "Murdering people with polonium using a computer"?

  7. Re:Easily Explained on The Drive For Altruism Is Hardwired · · Score: 1

    Ne he isn't. You don't understand what evolution means. It doesn't necessarily mean the world gets "nicer".

  8. Re:What did you expect? on Jobs and Gates Chat Amicably · · Score: 1

    Gates isn't really chair anymore
    Just as well, because I wouldn't trust him as far as I^H Ballmer could throw him.
  9. Re:It's a good thing, then... on MySpace Gets False Positive In Sex Offender Search · · Score: 1

    Maybe someone needs to be..oh I don't know..tried before a judge and their peers before being branded guilty of a crime? I just thinking off the wall here...
    Sounds good in theory, but I can't see it working in practice. Anyway, in this case somebody was duly convicted - it just happened to be someone else.
  10. Re:It's all marketing... on iPod Casualties Offer New-In-Box Bargains · · Score: 1

    I am confused by your units. What's that in elephants/double-decker buses/libraries of congress?

  11. Re:Permanent home? on How the Pentagon Got Its Shape · · Score: 1

    In a real war, where the winning side is the side that lose the most people
    Ummm, run that by me again?

    WWI central powers lost 4 million+, the 'winners' lost 5 million+. WWII the axis lost 8 million+, the 'winners' lost 12 million
    And you think they won because of those numbers, not despite them? Silly me, I must have misheard what Patton said.
  12. Re:Very impressive. on Driving on Starch · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ethanol's oxygen content is less than a sugar's, hence it contains more energy per unit mass - the more a fuel's oxidised to start with, the less you can gain by oxidising it further. But since (as you correctly suggest) yeast can't violate the laws of thermodynamics, I'd guess without looking it up that the balance probably comes from the ratio of input sugar to output alcohol.

  13. Re:from the article on Driving on Starch · · Score: 1

    Cellulose as a fuel? These guys seem to have it solved.

  14. Re:Subject matter on Free Ads Can Be Really Expensive · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wouldn't. Perhaps somebody who just graduated in a related field and who wants to get hired might.

  15. 30 years on Star Wars is 30 Years Old · · Score: 3, Funny

    30 years - how many parsecs is that?

  16. Re:Flame Bait (Bring it on!) on Holocaust Dropped From Some UK Schools · · Score: 1

    But if a muslim asks that a historically factual event be removed because they "don't believe" it ever happens, we comply! Where's the ACLU on that?
    On the wrong side of the Atlantic, old boy.
  17. Re:well on British Traffic Wardens Issued CCTV Head Cameras · · Score: 1

    Also when a blind amateur radio operator has large antennas in his yard for 15 years and his neighbors decide they don't like it, he's comitting "anti-social behavio[u]r".
    I don't usndertand what the issue is, they sound like a load of NIMBYs. He probably needs planing permission for it, and if he has it then there's nothing they can do. If he hasn't he may have to take it down, but there might be some law that if it's been up for a certain time the permission is deemed granted. But IANAL.
  18. Re:The government received only 34% of the vote on British Traffic Wardens Issued CCTV Head Cameras · · Score: 1

    If the opposition only got 20% then yes, I would.

  19. Re:well on British Traffic Wardens Issued CCTV Head Cameras · · Score: 1

    Because "wrong parking" isn't violent and doesn't hurt anyone
    I'd say that parking accross the entrance to my drive so I can't get my car out hurts me. I'd say parking so close to a pedestrian crossing that a kid can't see the driver and the driver can't see the kid could well hurt both of them.

    But then maybe I'm not a retard who assumes that just because I can't see the reason for a rule, there isn't one.
  20. Re:well on British Traffic Wardens Issued CCTV Head Cameras · · Score: 1

    Where's the "sex with a mare" option?

  21. Re:well on British Traffic Wardens Issued CCTV Head Cameras · · Score: 1

    "Blinkin' 'eck" would be more his style, and no mistake. Er, guvnor.

  22. Re:So the market sure is promoting innovation on The Man Who Owns the Internet · · Score: 1

    By a reasonable price, you mean the price that you decide? Because it seems the companies buying them consider them reasonable, or presumably they'd decide not to.

  23. Re:Would be nice, wouldn't it? on Microsoft Cracking Down On Indian Retailers · · Score: 1

    No they aren't, and no matter how much you wish or think otherwise, IP is used as a blanket term to cover all of them.

  24. Re:WiFi is microwaves on How Bad Can Wi-fi Be? · · Score: 1

    A resonant cavity with a door and hopefully a cutout when the door is open.

  25. Re:I dealt with this situation last week. on What Can 4-yr-olds Understand About Science? · · Score: 1

    Now explain to me how pigs' bladders can be used to prevent earthquakes.