User: butterwise

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On: Has Wikipedia Peaked?

Has anyone asked Wikipedia?

Re:A new name?

On: Mozilla to Develop Mobile Firefox

I prefer FoxBile.

What are the odds...?

On: Fairly Realistic Flying Car Offered for 2009 Delivery

If the average person is 60 times more likely to die in a car crash than plane crash, what are the odds of dying in a flying car crash?

Re:Look the data is already in

On: Researchers Aim To "Read Minds" of PC Users

Vista PC user: I am coming to a sad realization. Allow.

Re:Twin planets

On: Pluto Probe Makes Discoveries at Jupiter

Interesting! I didn't know you could get urine out of Uranus.

It's true. Know something else? If you're American when you go in the bathroom, and American when you come out, what are you when you're in the bathroom? European.

Re:Super-sekr1t unblurring techniques

On: Interpol Unscrambles Doctored Photo In Manhunt

they did imply they wanted to keep the methods secret

Why bother? I sure won't be using that method to mask my identity ever again...

Re:This is the closest to God you can ever get

On: Scientists Deliver 'God' Via A Helmet

Who the f*** decided that sentences on the Internet shall no longer be formatted with two spaces after a period?!

I was unaware that it had been decided...

Re:If we're having a crap proverb thread...

On: Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives

Lest we forget, "What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is." -Dan Quayle

Re:Why is it

On: TV Viewing Linked to Attention Problems

Are you kidding? August was off the charts!

Re:Wow, what a revelation

On: TV Viewing Linked to Attention Problems

Sometimes, though, you just need the services of the electronic babysitter to keep your sanity.

Unless, of course, that electronic babysitter goes berserk and mechanically separates your kids. Happened to a friend of mine.

Re:Ounce of Prevention

On: The US Rural Broadband Crisis

who said drunk drivers aren't good for *anything*

Ummm, I think they did.

Re:Ounce of Prevention

On: The US Rural Broadband Crisis

Ok, now tell us how you really feel about satellite...

Re:Ahem

On: The US Rural Broadband Crisis

Way to go. You have successfully eaten up his bandwidth for the month.

Yawn....

On: OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X Alpha Released!

Wake me up when there is a version available for my iPod.

Re:Encrypt snail-mail?

On: Bush Claims Mail Can Be Opened Without Warrant

Yep; time to knock the dust off the ol' Ovaltine secret decoder ring.

Re:We've already landed there ffs.

On: Pictures of Titan's Lakes

I thought "European probes" were the electronic eyes that automatically flush the commode when yer done...

Re:Drinks all around!

On: Giant Ice Shelf Snaps

Actually, a real good margarita consists of good tequila, fresh lime juice and triple sec - not a mix.

Everybody knows the only cure...

On: Super-Vaccine For Flu In Development

...is more cowbell.

Re:Only the beginning

On: Robots to Crawl Under the City

how long before they start using similar robots to check your prostate? You mean they don't? Guess I better find a new doctor...

Re:I propose a slew of such tags

On: The NSFW HTML Attribute

Don't forget the wwjd tag - What Would Jesus Do?

If only...

On: Appliances Hog More Energy Than High-Tech Gadgets

The upstairs laptop? Less than $1 If only it would keep my beer cold and my underwear clean...

Re:Not a Blimp

On: New Type of Hot Air Blimp

So it's an "Arigid?" I don't get it...

Re:Slashdot got a green light?

On: World's Largest Wind Farm Gets Green Light

They already have.

Re:Is that fast enough for closed timelike curves?

On: Fastest Spinning Black Hole Ever Found

anyone know the details of the math?

Anyone seen John Titor lately?

Re:Nobody wants to see robots in space.

On: NASA Proposes Manned Asteroid Mission

Just because it's not possible to do it currently doesn't mean I'm any less genuine claiming I would.

Okay, so perhaps my response was a little cynical and harsh; all I'm saying is that "claiming" and "doing" are two totally different things: "Easier said than done." If you claim you would go to Mars with no chance to return to Earth, but of course you can't, then I obviously can't prove otherwise. But neither can you prove that you actually would, short of suicide - another trip from which you could not return. Catch 22.