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  1. Re:Enough Already on Star Wars, the Lost Interviews · · Score: 1

    Ray Harryhausen's effects were good for their time too. Or so my Granpa told me.

  2. Re:Damn! on Airships to Patrol Venezuela's Skies · · Score: 1

    In that case you would be pleased to know that with the exception of the government TV channel, all other TV and radio stations in Caracas
    So that's a no - you can't demonstrate that opposition to Chavez is tolerated.

    Granted, Chavez is doing his damnest to shut them up
    And you admit he does suppress opposition viewpoints.
  3. Re:Damn! on Airships to Patrol Venezuela's Skies · · Score: 1

    No doubt you'll post a link to the Venezeulan equivalent of Michael Moore as proof that difference of opinion is tolerated there, thus proving that Venezuelan democracy is no more broken than the USA's version. [tumblewwed rolls accross the shot while a distant bell chimes in the wind]

  4. Re:how "rights" work on Airships to Patrol Venezuela's Skies · · Score: 1

    The Constitution does NOT grant any individual rights to people, zero.

    We are BORN with them.
    Really? So serfs in feudal Europe had the right to liberty? Perhaps you think they weren't as smart as you are, or they'd have exercised that right? What about a child sold into slavery to cover the parents' debts as still happens in many countries today? Silly them for not exercising their intrinsic God-given liberty! Taken to extremes, animals are born - so why don't they have rights just by virtue of being alive?

    The constitution doesn't grant rights - it tells or instructs or requests other people to do so. If those people - the ones in power - choose not to do what it says, you don't have any rights regardless of what some code of conduct says.
  5. Microsoft/Samsung Ink Patent Deal on Microsoft/Samsung Ink Patent Deal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft/Samsung Ink Patent Deal
    They're conniving to make us pay licensing fees for "a solution or suspension of some or other pigment that [800 pages snipped for brevity] dries leaving a visible mark on paper or some similar or different substance"?

    I call shenanigans, it was invented years ago. There is, quite literally, prior art!
  6. Re:Only thing to understand... on Learning More About Linux? · · Score: 1

    Everything in it shows up as (wait for it..) files
    On what do you base that conclusion - that the expanding tree hierarchy looks a bit like windows explorer?
  7. Crikey on SCO Chairman Fights to Ban Open Wireless Networks · · Score: 1

    because we have an Internet out of control.
    We should be thankful it's just the one, and that it hasn't spread to all the chatnets and userwebs yet. If it gets in the tubes, who knows where it will end.
  8. Re:MySQL vs Firebird on MySQL Stored Procedure Programming · · Score: 1

    the same Ahbrams tank that was too heavy to go across half the bridges in Europe?
    Easily solved.

    1) Crew get out, except the thinnest one
    2) He drives it over the bridge
    3) ....
    4) Remainming crew walk across bridge one at a time & get back in tank
  9. Re:Take a deep breath. on When Tax Day Comes to Azeroth · · Score: 1

    In the US, due to the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) rules, you owe tax on the difference between what you paid and what it's worth at the time you bought them, even though you haven't sold the stock yet.
    I read above some comments basically saying you're taxed on your profits i.e. the delta and I thought they were wrong - I remembered reading some story like yours before.


    So basically you got taxed on income you could have made, but in fact didn't? I'm not a great fan of stock options, but that's harsh.

  10. Re:Best idea EVER on When the Alarm Clock Runs and Hides · · Score: 1

    it only activated the burst-into-flames feature if there was nothing left to absorb and dissipate the heat from the burner
    It ought to have some kind of sensor to cope with that anyway, timer or not. Let me add that if it has a pot, it's not what I would call a coffee maker. This is the kind of coffee maker I meant.
  11. Absolute cad! on UK Man Convicted For Wi-Fi Piggybacking · · Score: 0

    How does one figure out if the AP is for public use
    I say my good man, just because the story's set in England doesn't mean one has^H^H you have to talk all hoiteley-toiteley.

    Still, "dishonestly obtaining an electronic communications service" sounds like the act of a dreadful bounder, what? It simply isn't cricket, old boy.
  12. Re:Optical illusion? on A Symmetrical Cosmic Red Square · · Score: 1

    I am an astrophysicist and yes, we do check - ever since the infamous discovery of the slightly-smudgy-fingerprint cluster. The debacle surrounding the OMG-it's-shaped-like-a-giant-beetle nebula didn't do the profession's reputation much good either.

  13. Re:shock on When the Alarm Clock Runs and Hides · · Score: 5, Funny

    You have to diffuse the bomb to stop the alarm.
    My eyesight's already pretty soft-focus when I wake up.
  14. Gyuk gyuk gyuk canyatellworritisyet? on New Australian Laws To Censor Terror DVDs · · Score: 1

    Do they tie you down
    Only if you're a kangaroo ,sport!
  15. Re:Best idea EVER on When the Alarm Clock Runs and Hides · · Score: 1

    If I really need to get up - important appointment, to catch a plane etc - I set multiple alarms getting further away at intervals. Last line of defence is the TV in the lounge.

    The gadget in TFA is neat, but what I'd really like is a coffee-maker with a timer.

  16. Re:So, after an earthquake in Greece... on Nanotech and Wireless Guard Against Earthquakes · · Score: 1

    People will have houses of strange bulging shapes
    I'm Antoni Gaudi, you insensitive clod!!!!
  17. Re:Not sure this is such a great idea on Nanotech and Wireless Guard Against Earthquakes · · Score: 1
    My first though was what if it's a bit slow to set? Your house collapses on you, and then the rubble solidifies making it even harder for the rescuers to dig you out.


    I totally support parents comments about low-tech.

  18. Re:reverse split? on SCO Stock In Danger of Delisting, Again · · Score: 1

    But they'd still fail the $1.00 price requirement. Badabadatish!

  19. Re:boosting share price on SCO Stock In Danger of Delisting, Again · · Score: 1

    Suppose the shares were at one cent. At that point, people could start buying, since it would be impossible for the price to fall further
    Darn! I knew I should have kept that South Sea Company stock.
  20. Re:UI limitations on Can Web Apps Ever Truly Replace Desktop Apps? · · Score: 1

    One issue not mentioned yet is the UI limitations of working in a browser.
    Wasn't that the problem Java was supposed to solve? Didn't happen, did it?
  21. Re:The trouble with Platinum on The Platinum Age of CRPGs · · Score: 1

    you must think you're really witty
    Keep trying, you're half-way there!
  22. Re:this is stupid on Building Brainlike Computers · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm just saying that the human brain is a thing made by god
    In atheist Russia, God is made by the human brain!!!!
  23. A silly answer and a sensible one on SCO Stock In Danger of Delisting, Again · · Score: 1
  24. Re:New CEO on SCO Stock In Danger of Delisting, Again · · Score: 5, Funny

    Remember, companies don't have to be profitable anymore, they just need enough investors to pay the bills.
    Wow, slashdot's slow today - a post from 1997 just arrived.
  25. Re:The trouble with Platinum on The Platinum Age of CRPGs · · Score: 1

    Is it for people who don't get metric?