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  1. Re:OK, I took a shot at it, on Google vs. Bing — a Quasi-Empirical Study · · Score: 3, Informative

    Perhaps there's no existing webpage that answers this brutally obvious question. Here, Google and Bing. Crawl this:

    How to change the water filter on a Frigidaire Professional Series:

      - Push the button labelled "eject" on the old water filter
      - Remove the old water filter
      - Insert the new water filter

  2. Re:Citizen on Florida Man Sues WikiLeaks For Scaring Him · · Score: 1

    You must be new here (America).

  3. Re:Already exploded. on Doctor Marries Doctor's Daughter, TARDIS Explodes · · Score: 5, Funny

    The universe didn't explode, it's been "replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable."

    Welcome to Level 2.

  4. Oh yeah France? Censor this: on The French Government Can Now Censor the Internet · · Score: 1

    You authoritarian frog-*******, ****-eating, ***-kissing morceaux de *****.

    Oh damn. It works.

  5. Re:It's easy, actually on Bible.com Investor Sues Company For Lack Of Profit · · Score: 1

    All you need to make a camel pass through a needle's eye is to grind it very finely.

    OR save yourself the mess on the floor and just use a larger needle.

  6. Re:No respawn? on Jeep Wrangler Call of Duty Black Ops Edition · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure there's respawn. You just have to convert to Hinduism or Buddhism.

    Unfortunately, you drop all items, and your experience level is reset.

  7. 80s cyberpunk novel: on Japan's Latest Rockstar Is a 3D Hologram · · Score: 1

    William Gibson's Idoru.

  8. Re:Cutting Corners on NASA Reveals Hundred Year Starship Program · · Score: 1

    It's right in the summary:

    Worden said 'Larry [Page] asked me a couple weeks ago how much it would cost to send people one way to Mars...

  9. Re:Wrong! on Chinese High-Speed Train Sets New World Record · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but that's because the French transit employees (like all true French workers) are on strike 2 hours out of 3.

  10. One possible reason: on Left-Handed Gamers Getting Left Behind? · · Score: 1

    The left part of the screen is obscured by the enormous chip on his shoulder.

  11. Re:About Canada on CTRC Orders Big ISPs To Provide Matching Speeds For Resellers · · Score: 1

    I doubt they conspire but they just like things as they are.

    The things are the way that they are because the regulatory body (CRTC) is primarily run by executives from our major telecommunications corporations. The only thing that makes this not a conspiracy, is that it's not done in secret.

  12. Re:so... on Prosecutor Loses Case For Citing Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    I hear you rape goats. Without any proof of incorrectness, I don't think people should disregard this.

    That must be an awful sound to wake up to in the morning.

  13. Re:where is that Æ again? on Wired Youths In China & Japan Forget Character Forms · · Score: 4, Funny

    Correction: it was terminated by American Quakers who thought that the "a" and "e" were not leaving enough room for the Holy Spirit.

  14. Re:Kenmore Connect on The Future of Tech Support · · Score: 1

    I assume that on the other end of the line they have a protocol droid that speaks washer & dryer.

  15. He had the layout all wrong. on Inmates Escape As Guard Plays Plants Vs. Zombies · · Score: 1

    If the guard had bothered to block the exit with his giant nuts right from the start, he would've bought himself more time to react.

  16. Re:solid state on Servers Ahoy — Startup To Build Floating Data Centers · · Score: 1

    ...and no, we don't want to see your 3.5" floppy.

  17. The Shitty Beatles rise again. on Volkswagen Creates Sewage-Powered Beetle · · Score: 1

    As mentioned on Wayne's World. "Apparently, it's not just a clever name, they really do suck."

  18. Re:Auto-car. on Building the Zero-Fatality Car · · Score: 2, Informative

    A police officer gave us the national statistics back when I took drivers ed. The elderly cause the most accidents. Women are more likely to be in accidents than men. However, males under 25 are much more likely to be in accidents resulting in serious damage, injury or fatality.

    Another consideration: if you have been in enough accidents to group the co-responsible under the category "all the people," maybe it's not the "young" who are the problem in your case.

  19. Re:Bad summary on Churchill Accused of Sealing UFO Files, Fearing Public Panic · · Score: 1

    Actually, it should say:

    "Newly released secret files show that the grandson's father's brother's cousin's former roommate of one of Winston Churchill's personal bodyguards once claimed that Churchill ordered a cover-up of an alleged encounter between a UFO and a RAF bomber"

  20. Re:Or you could worry about making a fun game on How Will Contemporary War Games Affect Veterans? · · Score: 1

    Google both phrases in quotes, and you'll have a pretty similar hit count for both.

    It's a variance in translation, and the implied meaning is the same. Potayto Potahto.

  21. Re:Or you could worry about making a fun game on How Will Contemporary War Games Affect Veterans? · · Score: 1

    "War is an extension of politics" (Clausewitz), so if you make a game about any actual war, it has a political subtext by default. You can make a subtle undertone, or totally balanced, or overt propaganda, but message is inseparable from war games. It's not something that needs to be "inserted."

  22. Re:The real story is the custody battle on Stieg Larsson Is First Author To Sell 1M E-Books · · Score: 1

    The gossipy rumour is that his common-law wife has a nearly-finished manuscript for the fourth book in the series, but is refusing to release it until she is satisfied with the division of revenue from the first three titles.

  23. Re:Not to worry! on Heat Ray Gun Fails Final Test; Nixed From War · · Score: 1

    I'm sure these things will start showing up in U.S. police departments soon enough.

    ...and in grocery stores next to the Jiffy Pop.

  24. Re:Analog special effects are cool, but... on Behind the Special Effects of Inception · · Score: 1

    One of the subtexts of the film was to blur the distinction between dream and reality. As soon as you see a moment of poor CGI editing or phony-looking physics, you kill the suspension of disbelief in these sequences. To his credit, the director kept some very long cuts of these fight sequences -- which were a welcome reprieve from the in vogue quick cut sequences that confuse the action and make shoddy editing easy to pull off. Long cuts are big windows in which even good CGI can show its flaws.

  25. Re:Dark matter? on Buckyballs Detected In Space · · Score: 1

    Isn't it possible that there is one hell of a crapload of normal matter out there that we just can't see? That it isn't some mysterious force that we have to give a spooky name to?

    If anyone is thinking of mentioning midi-chlorians, please beat yourself senseless and save us the time and effort.