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  1. Crunchy? on Possible 25 Million Year Old Frog Found · · Score: 2, Funny

    The big question is, is it a crunchy frog, or might it just be some sort of mock frog?

  2. Re:Returns on EU May Force iTunes Store To Accept Returns · · Score: 1

    It wont work in Europe just like free refills doesn't work in Europe because everybody just buys a "small" and refill it.


    They're doing it wrong even then. If refills are free, they should just skip the first cup and simply order a refill (And can someone please tell me what show from the mid to late 80s that joke was from? For years, I thought it was from the original Police Squad. But I just recently watched that entire series, all six episodes, and the refill joke didn't come up.)

  3. Re:WTF? on Walmart Rejects Firefox and Safari · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Linux - Debian (sid) with FF (aka Iceweasel). I'm also being told that I need to downgrade to 2K or XP.

    Fuck you up the ass with a splintery flagpole Wal-Mart! This is yet one more reason I will never be one of your customers either online or in person. Oh wait. You guys don't want customers; you only want consumers.

  4. Re:But, can the BSA actually do anything? on Microsoft to Get Tough on License Dodgers · · Score: 1

    So most business will tell them to go fuck themselves on the grounds that they're not coming inside without a search warrant, which, again, they can't get without directly involving the police who often have better things to do.

    Which conveniently would give businesses at least a day or two to clean up their act, assuming they need to.
    It would also give them a day or two to beat the BSA guys to the punch and file a complaint with the FBI concerning a group of thugs running an extortion racket.

  5. Re:So true on Microsoft to Get Tough on License Dodgers · · Score: 1

    And after reading through this amusing little sub thread, I'm now going to have to go have a piece of week-old leftover cake from my birthday.

  6. Re:Com'on now on Canadian Phone Company Selling Porn · · Score: 1

    They came out with those a while ago, I think they're called 'girlfriends'. I can't seem to find any, though, so I suspect it might've just been a joke.
    Nah. It wasn't a joke. That idea simply got nixed due to an excessive amount of fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
  7. But It Was Out of Print on At Least 25 Million Americans Pirate Movies · · Score: 1

    If MGM or whoever owns the rights to it would rerelease it at a sane price, I would have bought 1984 instead of downloading it. After watching it, I decided that it was okay, but it wasn't as good as I had hoped it would be (though whatsername...Jessica I think, looked pretty hot in her nude scene).

    I definitely would not have been happy about this had I shelled out the $100 or more that the resellers on Amazon are asking for this title. This is certainly one that could use one more remake, and hopefully be a little more true to the book.

  8. Re:Google even offers this. on The Death of Domain Parking? · · Score: 1

    So Google is encouraging these scum? How evil.

  9. Re:Marketdroid speak on Microsoft Answers Vista DRM Critics' Claims · · Score: 1

    Thankfully, I was wrong. The song that got stuck in my head was ultimately Creepy Doll, which happens to be under a Creative Commons license (Attribution/Shara-Alike/Non-Commercial).

  10. Re:Marketdroid speak on Microsoft Answers Vista DRM Critics' Claims · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm not familiar with Lost. Is that one of those reality shows or something?

  11. Re:Marketdroid speak on Microsoft Answers Vista DRM Critics' Claims · · Score: 3, Funny

    And don't forget that Bahhh is an interjection. It sets itself apart from a sentence by an exclamation point, or a comma when the feeling's not as strong.

    Well, I know now what song is going to be stuck in my head for the next few hours...

  12. Re:So? on The Failing Right of Laptop Privacy · · Score: 1
    So keep your sensitive personal data on a server at home, where the protections against warrantless search and seizure are more clearly defined, and take with you on your laptop only what you need.


    Or alternatively, keep your important stuff stored on a CompactFlash (or SmartMedia) card or whatever, and have that card "installed" in your digital camera.

  13. Re:Secret of Immortality on Nobel Prize Winners Live Longer · · Score: 1

    To quote (I think it was Steven Wright)...

    I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

  14. Re:obviously on Nobel Prize Winners Live Longer · · Score: 4, Funny

    So much for better living through chemistry.

  15. Re:Fight.. on Canada May Lose Copyright Fair-Use Rights · · Score: 1

    You sure that wouldn't be 53? I thought the Islands (formerly the Virgin Islands until Chuck Norris visited them) would be 52.

  16. Re:You're unoriginal. on Did Producer Timbaland Steal From the Demoscene? · · Score: 1

    And don't forget that great classic by Eddie Murphy: Boogie In Your Butt.

    I would also add The Shakespeare Rap by Open Season to this list. At least, I found that one memorable.

  17. Re:Don't you mr jones? on Yahoo Mail Forcing Ads Through Adblock? · · Score: 1
    Advertising is garbage for the brain and causes therapy. It is responsible for over consumption, driving consumerism and the general unhappyness of the masses.


    Doesn't this family know any songs that aren't commercials?

  18. Re:Gmail on Yahoo Mail Forcing Ads Through Adblock? · · Score: 1

    If you access your GMail account via an actual email client (like Evolution, for example), you don't see any ads at all.

  19. Re:What Do Other Sources Say? on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 1
    Jesus states that he will return like a thief in the night and also states that no one knows when he will return.


    He also told his followers that many of them would not experience death before his return. I highly doubt that there are any people on this planet who are around 2000 years old.

  20. Re:I laughed on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 1
    And yet he's out-evolving you. By having 7 children his genes are going to push yours out of the population.


    According to the mythology he claims is truth, we all descended from the same couple. If that's the case, then we all share the same genes anyway. So it doesn't really matter.
  21. Re:What Do Other Sources Say? on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 1

    Had I not simply wanted to give just a few examples, I would have also included the FSM in the list, as well as C'thulu, the Great Green Arkleseizure (y'know, the coming of the Great White Handkerchief?), and this portrayal of "The End of the World".

    Now, to book my reservation to the Floating Island of Mandango.

  22. What Do Other Sources Say? on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn't in the DVD.


    But what do other opposing sources say?

    The Koran?
    Hindu beliefs?
    Various Native (North and South) American legends?
    Buddhist Teachings?

    If you are going to provide one opposing viewpoint, you better be ready to provide many others as well.

  23. Re:R2D2 on Harrison Ford Turned Down Han Solo Role · · Score: 1
    R2D2 is supposed to bleep and bloop, not tell people to bite his shiny metal ass.


    I always wondered what Artoo said when he and Threepio were hiding from the troopers in Mos Eisley...

    C3P0: I don't know what this is all about, but I'm sure it must be your fault.
    R2D2: Bleep-bloop-Badeep!!! (Bite my shiny metal ass!)
    C3P0: You watch your language!

    I wonder if Echuta is Protocol Droid for Bite my shiny metal ass as well?

    And finally, speaking of that Mos Eisley scene; when the troopers found the door was locked, shouldn't that have been a clue that perhaps the droids they were looking for just might very well be hiding there?

  24. Re:The Real Problem: Harrison Ford or George Lucas on Harrison Ford Turned Down Han Solo Role · · Score: 5, Insightful
    he doesn't know that Luke has a sister before Yoda tells him.


    Are you are referring to that little exchange between Obi-Wan's ghost and Yoda in ESB right after Luke left Dagobah?

    Ben: That boy is our last hope.
    Yoda: No. There is another.

    I figure that a way to reconcile that with Ben's knowledge from ROTS would be to assume that Ben knew about Leia, but for one reason or another, he simply didn't feel that she would be up to the task of becoming a Jedi and overthrowing Vader and the Emperor.

    Now, how about when the Obi-Wan ghost appeared to Luke on Hoth and told him to go to Dagobah though?

    Ben: You will go to the Dagobah system. There you will learn from Yoda, the Jedi Master who instructed me.

    I think that was a rather big oversight on the part of Lucas, considering the Jedi Master who instructed Ben was Qui-Gonn, not Yoda. That one might be a little more difficult to explain away.

  25. One Billion Years, Or??? on Astronomer Discovers the Most Distant Stars Ever Observed From Earth · · Score: 1
    That means the cluster as it appeared to them two months ago was the way it looked one billion years ago.


    Shouldn't that be the way it looked one billion years and two months ago?