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  1. Re:Time to move... on Massive Martian Glaciers Found · · Score: 1

    as well as a lack of gold sellers/spammers/scammers.

    I'd send them off first, along with the marketing executives and telephone sanitisers.

  2. Re:And your grounds for this conclusion are...? on Massive Martian Glaciers Found · · Score: 2, Funny

    He's probably been reading the history of Australia.

  3. Re:switfboat on Discuss the US Presidential Election · · Score: 1

    You bitch slapped him with an invisible hand!

    Nice one! [inaudible golf clap].

  4. Re:purpose? on Inventor Open Sources "TV-B-Gone," and Why · · Score: 1

    I always thought the idea was:
    1) Turn the TV/music up so loud that people give up trying to talk to each other.
    2) Without their mouths being used for otehr purposes, people drink more.
    3) ...
    4) Profit!!!

  5. Re:Best packaging innovation ever on Amazon Launches "Frustration-Free Packaging" · · Score: 1

    I don't think you realize how cheap those blister packs are, or the economy of scale in packaging everything a given manufacturer makes in the same kind of packaging

    Perhaps Amazon are big enough that it's worth providing an alternative. Computer components often come in different retail and OEM packs, for example.

  6. Re:Dutch are stingy on How To Make Money With Free Software · · Score: 1

    That's incorrect. I've met several who could speak perfectly good English.

    Dutchmen, that is.

  7. Re:Forgive me on Fraud Threat Halts Knuth's Hexadecimal-Dollar Checks · · Score: 3, Funny

    Would it help if the word "pennies" were used

    Bringing base 240 in will just confuse the issue.

  8. Re:Enough with the google bashing on Google Book Search Settlement Receiving Criticism · · Score: 1

    Pontiac's motto used to be "we build excitement" when in fact what they actually built was cars

    I think they were pretty close (one substitution, one deletion) to the truth.

  9. Anyone else on Setbacks Cast Doubt On NASA's Ares Project · · Score: 1

    Anyone else thought it said NASA Arse Project?

  10. Re:Or you could join the online petition against i on Every Email In UK To Be Monitored · · Score: 1

    But don't put your real name and address, just to be on the safe side.

  11. Re:I wish the US Supreme Court was that smart. on UK Court Rejects Encryption Key Disclosure Defense · · Score: 1

    Then don't litter.

  12. Re:It's just the opposite for me on Do Software Versions Really Matter? · · Score: 2, Informative

    why didn't they make their own jargon for binary multipliers

    They did, but you sound like you've got a cold when you say them.

  13. Re:Absolutely on Do Software Versions Really Matter? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Some software is good - but ours is beta.

  14. Re:We don't want you (maybe) on Landing IT Work Overseas · · Score: 1

    Speaking as a resident of a country where many Americans come to work in IT: if you are coming here with no intention of learning the language

    Americans go there and they can't speak the language ... let me guess ... is it Britain?

  15. Re:Maybe the media is what he wants. on Palin E-mail Hacker Indicted · · Score: 1

    it should do the bare minimum that it possibly can while still meeting the needs of the people

    Which needs? Security? Law and order? Education? Healthcare (yes, some countries do)? Food & shelter?

  16. Re:Government Incompetence? on British MoD Stunned By Massive Data Loss · · Score: 1

    It was the Inland Revenue. No service. Then it merged with HM Customs and Excise. Everybody thought excise was a silly word so they took the chance to drop it.

  17. Re:alsjkhaok jasdpaiosdj asdasiodjas on British MoD Stunned By Massive Data Loss · · Score: 2, Funny

    Larry Wall wouldn't.

  18. Re:Keyhole career. on UK Government Says More Spying Needed · · Score: 1

    They should keep an eye on the MOD, it might stop them losing stuff.

  19. Re:Maybe the media is what he wants. on Palin E-mail Hacker Indicted · · Score: 1

    Parent literally says that he wants to give the government enough power to do what it needs to do. Any more is by definition too much power, and any less, too little. Where's the problem here?

    One, it's circular. Two, the devil is in the detailed definition of "what it needs to do".

  20. Re:Maybe the media is what he wants. on Palin E-mail Hacker Indicted · · Score: 2, Funny

    [Correct method of showing quotations needed]

  21. Re:Maybe the media is what he wants. on Palin E-mail Hacker Indicted · · Score: 2

    Or young. When did BMW last make engines with caburettors?

  22. Can't hit anything at all on K-9 Sniper Team · · Score: 1

    100 yards? I bet he can't hit anything at all. Because he hasn't got any fingers to pull the trigger with. Because he's a bloody dog, for crying out load!

    And because that thing he's using isn't a rifle, it's a scope.

  23. Re:Oblig. Hippy on What To Do Right As a New Programmer? · · Score: 1

    It's related to a numkl.

  24. Re:-456 degrees? on LHC Offline Until April 2009 (Or Longer) · · Score: 2, Funny

    How about that 'a ton' of liquid helium, is that like.... a lot, or was it exactly 2,000 pounds?

    A ton is exactly 2240 lbs. Otherwise it wouldn't be a round number of hundredweights (or stones) and that would just be silly.

    Unless it's a metric ton, which is spelt "tonne", and is exactly 2204 and a bit lbs. Simple, no?

    Being scientists, the quantity in this instance was probably more or less a shedload.

  25. Re:Pussies on Defusing the Threat of Disgruntled IT Workers · · Score: 1

    I was fired by one for "cultural reasons" I'm a US Citizen.

    Preposterous! You bloody colonials don't have any culture.