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  1. Re:Does this surprise anybody? on Immaturity Level Rising in Adults · · Score: 1

    And yet still we're trotting merrily down the same path...

  2. Re:Bulwer-Lytton on Computer Analyst Wins Best Worst Writing Contest · · Score: 1

    You have no chance to parboil make your chips.

  3. Re:Sounds like advertisement to me on Fiber Optics Bring the Sun Indoors · · Score: 1

    I don't understand how some of these morons can't look at the storyboard once a day and remember what they've seen at a later date.

    Probably because most people can't see into the future.

  4. Re:Heh.. very aptly named on The Seven Laws of Identity · · Score: 1

    Yeah, gotta love that the only broken link is to the Microsoft site.

  5. Re:"Financial engineers??" on Calculating the True Worth of Software · · Score: 1

    Financial engineering is to economics what software engineering is to computer science - use of engineering/mathematical principles to analyse and exploit a given system.

  6. Re:Sex performance on Power Armor For the Elderly · · Score: 1

    I can live with that. (At least, I have thus far.)

  7. Re:Yes on BBC Opens TV Listings For Remix · · Score: 1

    I'd've been more impressed with this troll if it was correct...

    ("Worker bees...", "Even drones...")

  8. Re:Remix on BBC Opens TV Listings For Remix · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Yeah, dude, I just, like, totally remixed my PHP scripts."

  9. Re:Terrorism on Spam Haters Given Right of Reply · · Score: 1

    Simple answer: it isn't.

    Who says terrorist acts have to support an unpopular view?

  10. Terrorism on Spam Haters Given Right of Reply · · Score: 2, Insightful

    wait what? "Terrorism" in which no one is physically hurt and no property is damaged? Wouldn't that just be "protesting?"

    Threat of force is as valid a form of terrorism as force itself (which is actually secondary - the point of the violence is to induce fear).

    The point of terrorism is the use of terror, not necessarily violence, to achieve your aims. The clue's in the word.

  11. Re:Contempt for Law on TSA Violated Privacy Act · · Score: 1

    As for not paying out. the fact of the matter is that many insurance agents go out of their way to find reasons to NOT pay anything out at all, and, failing that, to minimuze the amount paid out.

    To be fair, that's why insurance companies hire agents in the first place, and ultimately it's a positive means of curbing fraud.

    That said, some of the criteria for withholding cover are overly stringent. As an example, if a building catches fire, and even a single cigarette butt is found anywhere on the premises, many insurance companies will refuse a claim.

  12. Re:Countering countermeasure countermeasures on Spam Haters Given Right of Reply · · Score: 1

    If the reply part of this works anything like it's supposed to, the money will run out of spamming and spammers will retreat to pushing pills in street corners or whatever (I suppose cutting your hair and getting a real job is out of the question)

    I love that you have a mental picture of spammers as crack dealers, when most of them look just like the rest of us (although I use term "us" loosely, since I do look like a crack dealer).

    And yet, compared to spamming, "narcotic retail" is almost a legitimate profession...

  13. Re:bullshit! on Spam Haters Given Right of Reply · · Score: 1

    Vigellanteism [sic] is okay if you can get away with it and noone is physically hurt and no property damaged.

    I've heard the same argument for terrorism...

  14. Re:Sex performance on Power Armor For the Elderly · · Score: 1

    ... but it'll handle the woman's needs quite nicely, just ask any lesbian.

    Who says it's just lesbians who use vibrators? I know plenty of single girls (and a couple of guys) who love them...