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  1. Re:Meaning of words on Italian Parliament To Mistakenly Legalize MP3 P2P · · Score: 1

    Ya know? A simple "No" would have worked as an answer to my rhetorical question...

  2. Re:Meaning of words on Italian Parliament To Mistakenly Legalize MP3 P2P · · Score: 1

    Besides, you would still have to argue that listening to the latest Crappy McPop artist is educational or scientific in use.
    I have a large variety of MP3 files to better understand the file format for possible future creation of my own codec... Does that work for ya?
  3. Re:Never mind the physics on Physicist Calculates Trajectory of Tiger At SF Zoo · · Score: 4, Funny
    Exactly, the only math I would do if I saw a tiger attacking is:
    1. The distance from me to the tiger
    2. The distance from me to my car
    3. The distance from me and some guy I can beat in my race between me and my car
  4. Re:Just wondering on Microsoft Launches IT Superhero Comic · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're not quite correct: He wouldn't have a cape; he'd have a skintight light-blue costume, and he'd have multicolored butterfly wings.
    I KNEW IT! It's the Monarch! Isn't it?!
  5. Re:LAN may of turn 30 on LAN Turns 30, May Not See 40? · · Score: 1

    Twice. Twice you used the contraction for IT IS instead of the possessive ITS. Twice. Seriously, it's like getting an icepick in each eye. Is it THAT hard to tell the difference between a contraction and a possessive?
    No it's not. I just like pissing off grammar Nazis. It's, its, their, there, and they're are some of the easiest ways...
  6. Re:in other new on Pope Denounces Some Biotech as Affront to 'Human Dignity' · · Score: 1

    It's disappointing to me to see so many people quickly dismiss the Pope as just some nutjob church guy.
    I will grant you that, but his words have a powerful affect on the nutjob church guys. He's seen by some as God's mortal mouth piece, so to have a story about him chiming in on such a hot button issues is going to create a war of MS/APPLE epic size. Both is morality and science especially with this group.
  7. LAN may of turn 30 on LAN Turns 30, May Not See 40? · · Score: 1

    but COAX shakes it's copper at you and tells you to keep your computer turned on and stay off it's lawn.

  8. in other new on Pope Denounces Some Biotech as Affront to 'Human Dignity' · · Score: 1

    Some leader of a church said genetic research is wrong? This is non-news flamebate

    And I know I just bit...

  9. Re:What in the hell? on China Vows to Stop the Rain · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I know it's off topic, but... my reaction was to check if it was me or the site. I mean, who would put changes in without the users knowledge? It's not too bad, still scared the buddy Christ right out of me.

  10. Re:orly on The Truth About New Jet Pack Hype · · Score: 1

    Wind resistance? Oh come on! This is rocket science! It isn't exactly rocket science here...

    Wait...

  11. Re:Google will not let us down. on Spectrum Auction Could Be A Game of Chicken · · Score: 1

    Deaf pony? Oh... The poor dear can't hear...?

  12. Re:Seems normal. on Vint Cerf on Why TCP/IP Was So Long in Coming · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess this moderator thinks that 'troll' means "I didn't understand a word you just said".
    No no no! Didn't you get the memo? For the time being Moderators are to use Overrated, Flamebate, and Troll until the new options of -1 Unpopular, -1 Shut-up, and -1 I-just-don't-like-you are rolled out. It's just a workaround, so be patient.
  13. Paraphrase Futurama on Magistrate Suggests Fining RIAA Lawyers · · Score: 1

    As my mama always said. 'If you want a lawyer hurled into the Sun. You have to do it yourself!'

  14. Re:Engineer and Terrorist are slightly similar. on Engineers Have a Terrorist Mindset? · · Score: 1

    "IT Mindset: "Why did this start ticking? I'll just reboot it, maybe it will stop..."
    Only if it was running Windows.
    If you where running anything else... It probably wouldn't start ticking for an unknown reason...
  15. Re:Engineer and Terrorist are slightly similar. on Engineers Have a Terrorist Mindset? · · Score: 1

    'some people in the world are not Muslims and everyone should be' then the most direct situation involves blowing people up.
    Let's see... Problem: Everyone Alive is not Muslim
    Proposed solutions?
    1. Convert everyone in the world
    2. Kill Them All
    Well, I think we know which is the more direct one! But, is it really the BEST solution?
  16. Re:Engineer and Terrorist are slightly similar. on Engineers Have a Terrorist Mindset? · · Score: 1

    Liberal Arts Mindset: "If they make me clean out the fry vats again, I'm gonna burn this fucking place down..."
    Really? I would have thought ticking made a LA think the fries are still cooking...
  17. Re:Engineer and Terrorist are slightly similar. on Engineers Have a Terrorist Mindset? · · Score: 2, Funny

    IT Mindset: "Why did this start ticking? I'll just reboot it, maybe it will stop..."

  18. Re:I hope it comes back soon on Programming As Art — 13 Amazing Code Demos · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I maintain that the code itself is art.
    Part of what I do is code review. I've seen some very elegant code and I've seen some very bad hack jobs that just get the job done....If it's not up to par I send it back to be rewritten.
    In that statement you've likened me to an art critic... I'll just haul off and pop a few in my skull, making the world a better place for all.
  19. Re:What a crock on U2's Manager Calls For Mandatory Disconnects For Music Downloaders · · Score: 1

    Wait! Why stop there?
    Guns don't kill people, the person squeezing the trigger do

    ISPs don't download music, their users do. You start holding ISPs at fault, so is Jack Daniels for drunk driving...
  20. I hope it comes back soon on Programming As Art — 13 Amazing Code Demos · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because this seems more like Art for geeks.

    Also, kind of funny. We're asked to download 'em so our processors have something to chew on and we make their server choke...

  21. read that too fast on 2007 Mod of the Year Winners · · Score: 1

    "The 2007 Mod of the Year Awards players choice winners have been announced, crapping on a great year in gaming"

    I'm sorry, I take all video games awards with a grain of salt now since the spike VGAs and gamecock... Some games get better with mods... others, not so much... I just know I don't want to be the one sorting the gems from the crap.

  22. If it's too good to be true on Music Labels say No Deal with Qtrax · · Score: 1

    As much as we'd love to see an uprising like this for "free" music or more directly fan supported. Sadly, this reminds me of hearing about early days of low key p2p software that's loaded with so much spyware that while you get "free" games/music/software you're losing all personal data.

    Remember kids, in the English language, things can be spelled the same and mean different things. Track might mean music or may mean follow

  23. Looks like a what? on World's Most Powerful Rail Gun Delivered to US Navy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    more like a long, belt-fed airport screening device
    Oh great! Like I wasn't freaked enough by the TSA! Now they might really have a rail gun next to them instead? Screw it! I'm taking a bus...
  24. Go Aquabats! on Geologists Claim Earth May Be Softer Around The Middle Than Previously Thought · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is a chipmunk
    At the center of the earth
    And in his big oven
    He bakes his own desserts
    He warms the ocean
    And from that, life springs forth
    Little organisms building trash around the clock

    Compost heaps
    Or melting pots
    For Farmer John's
    Smoked Sausage stocks

    Worms make the dirt
    And the dirt makes the earth
    And all of the roots have a place to sleep now
    All the chanuks have squash to eat now
    Worms make the dirt
    And the dirt makes the earth
    And people hold hands and feel terrific
    Food comes from dirt
    It's scientific

  25. Handy Latian on Internet Group Declares War on Scientology · · Score: 1

    Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione

    They asked me to take the "test" and I said "No thank you Meat Puppet! I'm not interested in a cult started by a sci-fi writer..." and kept walking.