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  1. Re:Gah on Police In Britain Arrest Man For Bomb-Threat Joke On Twitter · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just be sure not to send a note to all the Catholic MPs beforehand. No good deed goes unpunished.

  2. Re:Living in fear on Police In Britain Arrest Man For Bomb-Threat Joke On Twitter · · Score: 1

    Ask the fully armed and dangerously paranoid chaps who will be at your door shortly. Be polite.

  3. Re:Irony on CRIA Faces $60 Billion Lawsuit · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sorry to break the bad news to you.

    If you have the queen on your money you are British... Sorry to break the bad news to you.

    The same way that if you have a pyramid on your money you are Egyptian?

  4. Re:CO2 is not pollution. on Where the Global Warming Data Is · · Score: 1
    I'm sure if we replaced all the oxygen in your immediate vicinity with nitrogen, you would find it a very hazardous environment.

    The amended statement is perfectly correct. Is nitrogen now a pollutant?

  5. Re:Prediction on Obama Looks Down Under For Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    I really doubt the US counterpart has anything to learn from him or his plans

    Like, for instance, what not to do?

    Like, for instance, the post you replied to said?

  6. Re:Unfiltered, I hope. on Obama Looks Down Under For Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    Of course they should. You don't look to other countries' solutions *just* for the things they do well. Learn from the mistakes of others and all that.

  7. Re:hmmm on Observing Evolution Over 40,000 Generations · · Score: 1

    >

    My biggest issue is that, to my knowledge, there has never been a documented observance of life coming from non-life.

    So, your biggest issue with a concept that explains how orgnaisms adapt to their environment is that no one saw life start? Dude, abiogenesis has nothing to do with evolution.

  8. Re:Patent trolls on Wi-Fi Patent Victory Earns CSIRO $200 Million · · Score: 1

    I take it you are not apposed to foreigners jumping border to get health care, education and welfare.

  9. Re:Patent trolls on Wi-Fi Patent Victory Earns CSIRO $200 Million · · Score: 1

    The location doesn't matter. If the taxpayer paid for it, I think the taxpayer should be able to use it.

    Er, what?

    Are you suggesting that, as a taxpayer in one country, I should have access to and use products and services paid for by another country?

    What the fuck are you smoking, because it sure as hell needs to be made illegal.

  10. Re:But can it . .. on UK Court Order Served Over Twitter, To Anonymous User Posing As Another · · Score: 1

    Sure. It makes a lovely splat.

  11. Re:Thats about it for me on UK Court Order Served Over Twitter, To Anonymous User Posing As Another · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've watched facebook degenerate into an oozing fest of self indulgence and crappy quizzes about peoples aura/star sign/some other mystic crap or how good they are in bed, and too many of my friends now use it to grandly announce every mundane detail of their life to the world as if they're some sort of celebrity and we're all supposed to be deeply concerned about them cutting their pinky finger or enraptured by their new haircut, etc etc.

    A great many people think that their lives are far more important and eventful than those of others, without making the mental leap to realise that other people think the same about their own.

  12. Re:Cue the deluge of people... on UK Court Order Served Over Twitter, To Anonymous User Posing As Another · · Score: 1

    Sound's like a plan to get more subscribers to me.

  13. Re:PR on Scientists Decry "Horrifying" UK Border Test Plan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Firstly, nationality is not the same as skin colour.

    Nationality is not the same as DNA either.

  14. Re:The problem on Scientists Decry "Horrifying" UK Border Test Plan · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are generational requirements for entry on long-term visas into the UK. As an Australian whose grandmother was born in the UK, I can get an ancestry visa, which would give me the right to live in the UK for 5 years. My mother could get permanent right-of-abode. My children will only be able to get holiday visas.

  15. Re:Good on Sony To Encase Half the Star Wars: Galaxies Servers In Carbonite · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You sure? Many of the Sony fanboys I've met seem to have had puberty delayed, if their high-pitched whining is anything to go by.

  16. Re:Holy shit? on Heart Monitors In Middle School Gym Class? · · Score: 1

    ...there is a condition where when a person is stressed the heart's electrical system goes out of whack, throws a charge when it shouldn't and basically the heart just quivers instead of beating. Now since this doesn't show up unless under stress (like say...when in PE) it can be hard to catch

    Such a thing is very unlikely to be caught by an off-the-shelf heart rate monitor, monitored by an unqualified PE teacher.

    , especially if you don't have someone previously diagnosed with it, as from what I have been told it tends to run in families.

    I just can't prevent myself from adding "But not for very long"

  17. Re:Twitter etc... on Darwin's Voyage Done Over, Live · · Score: 1

    Potential audience size?

  18. Re:I gotta get a piece of this. on Darwin's Voyage Done Over, Live · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe we could get a grant to recreate the Mayflower and the Titanic in one go. Stuff a ship full of fundementalists and sink it in the Atlantic.

  19. Re:Jack Thompson is right: it's NOT spam. on Jack Thompson Spams Utah Senate, May Face Legal Action · · Score: 1

    No. SPAM is a product that masqurades as food. Perhaps you mean spam. Note the lowercase.

  20. Re:cry wolf on Scientist Forced To Remove Earthquake Prediction · · Score: 2, Funny

    it took them 40 years to find a place nice enough to be worth invading instead.

    Worth invading? They spent 40 years wandering around in the desert and finally picked the one spot in the whole middle east that doesn't have any oil.

  21. Re:grasp of technical matters fail on Startup Threatened Into Settling Over Hyperlinking · · Score: 1

    They do, however, strive on their reputation of being proficient. Having their fuckups dissemimated widely across the net is not in their best interests.

  22. Re:One way to get more registered voters on Iowa Seeks To Remove Electoral College · · Score: 1

    Those ones are twice as smart...

  23. Re:Where does it stop? on Australian Judge Rules Simpsons Cartoon Rip-off Is Child Porn · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough, the very people in power at the moment were the ones who were loudly yelling about how the previous government was anti-free speech, pro-censorship and arch-conservative. What a difference a year in power makes...

  24. Re:Simpsons Movie on Australian Judge Rules Simpsons Cartoon Rip-off Is Child Porn · · Score: 1

    If I draw a picture of a gun, can I be charged with illegally possessing a firearm?

    Perhaps soon. http://www.topix.com/forum/city/queen-creek-az/TACAE2T9GVR61BU7C

  25. Re:Criminal intent? on Studios Sue Oz ISP Over Allowing Piracy · · Score: 1

    Is there a greater oxymoron in the english language than Windows Genuine Advantage?

    Microsoft Works.