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  1. Re:Dell = Faulty, by definition on Dell Selling Faulty PCs · · Score: 1

    Yes, we did at one time too. "Did" being the operative word. Even the technical support (especially the technical support) was faulty.

  2. Re:Smith Chart on Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? · · Score: 1

    What is this "corporate/government" distinction you speak of?

  3. Dell = Faulty, by definition on Dell Selling Faulty PCs · · Score: 1

    Haven't you ever owned one?

  4. Re:Islam needs to go on Pakistan To Scour Google, Yahoo For Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    Disagree!

    Islam != the sexually repressed extremist wahabist nutjobs that get excited about this sort of thing. You can't judge all Muslims by Osama Bin Laden.

    Christianity != the fundamentalist or literalist sexually repressed extremist baptist nutjobs that get excited about irrational things. You can't judge all Christians by Timothy McVeigh or Hitler.

    P.S. I have both Muslim and Christian co-workers and while I find the idea of their having an imaginary friend somewhat quirky, I like them just fine, ThankYouVeryMuch, so F^^k off.

  5. As long as they don't name it "Skynet" on Petaflops? DARPA Seeks Quintillion-Flop Computers · · Score: 1

    I think we're OK. Maybe.

  6. Re:Norton Healthcare on Best Places To Work In IT 2010 · · Score: 1

    I think having a relationship with almost any female provides plenty of training for that already.

  7. Re:What now? on Best Places To Work In IT 2010 · · Score: 1

    They were referring to the socioeconomic difference.

  8. But if we're going to decode someone... on Ozzy Osbourne To Be Genetically Decoded · · Score: 1

    shouldn't we start with a working copy?

  9. But was it an udderly mooooving experience? on Man Claims He Was Seduced By Cow · · Score: 1

    And did he milk it for all it was worth? Or was the cow gay, an it was all just bullshit? And did he develop mad cow later?

  10. So, the free market is better than anything else? on Quant AI Picks Stocks Better Than Humans · · Score: 1

    Well then, Somalia waits for you. Go on. No pesky immigration laws. Just get there and start living the dream! *Laugh* as you think of the socialist hellholes like Canada, the USA and Sweden that you left behind.

  11. So, if the floating oil is considered salvage... on Cloth Successfully Separates Oil From Gulf Water · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Then theoretically, any enterprising shrimp boat captain with this filter and a floating storage tank could sop up the stuff and sell it at spot price to a competitor of BP (Insert evil grin here).

  12. Re:Not only self-buttering toast on North Korea Develops Anti-Aging "Super Drink" · · Score: 1

    My *GOD* man. An anti-Murphian field could wipe out the last few millennium of human history, and possibly the human race. Such a thing must never be developed! All hail Murphy! All hale (Oh crap, there goes my key*)&&[]

  13. Ban animal-human hybrids? on OH Senate Passes Bill Banning Human-Animal Hybrids · · Score: 1

    In a pig's eye!

  14. Re:Laws against science-fiction are stupid. on OH Senate Passes Bill Banning Human-Animal Hybrids · · Score: 5, Funny

    That just makes me hopping mad!

  15. Re:The steady slide to Police State continues on Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Take away American Idol, fast food and cheap antidepressants and other entertainment psychoactives and you'll see an uprising. We're a prozac and adderal nation now. How tolerant would we be of this nonsense if that didn't exist?

  16. Guys, that "nuke it from orbit" remark was a joke. on BP Says "Top Kill" Operation Has Failed · · Score: 2, Funny

    Really. It was just a joke! Guys, OK? Guys? Guys! Hey. Hey! HEY! Whaddya doing with that missile? GUYS!!!!

  17. Re:How do you get a kid to play football? on How To Get a Game-Obsessed Teenager Into Coding? · · Score: 1

    He keeps returning null. Now what do I do?

  18. Re:How do you get a kid to play football? on How To Get a Game-Obsessed Teenager Into Coding? · · Score: 1

    Well, it worked for me.

  19. Re:I am for any Keanu Free version... on Neuromancer Movie In Your Future? · · Score: 1

    True, Keanu might not have the range to play a disembodied computer voice. Ahhh-nold, perhaps?

  20. I am for any Keanu Free version... on Neuromancer Movie In Your Future? · · Score: 1

    Unless of course, he plays the voice of the AI, which would be an entertaining twist.

  21. Re:Let the naming ceremony beging on Airship Inflated To Create Monster "Stratellite" · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You mean... it would float on Uranus?

  22. Re:Top kill on BP's Final "Top Kill" Procedure For Gulf Oil Spill · · Score: 1

    Well, it *would* be the only way to be sure....

  23. Tell me again... on BP's Final "Top Kill" Procedure For Gulf Oil Spill · · Score: 1

    Why we don't put a containment chamber around the wellhead before we start drilling?

  24. Warning! Unpopular opinion follows! on Are Googlers Too Smart For Their Own Good? · · Score: 1

    I agree. It's pretty bad.

    A programming language should make common operations simple, and other operations possible.

    Any implementation of copying files that doesn't follow the form, "CopyFile (source, destination)" is probably a de facto fail.

    Worse, if it can be abstracted into code like this, and isn't, it only indicates naivety on the part of the developers as to the mechanics of human behavior, and more likely than not, the kind of arrogant, lazy, slacker mentality that's worthy only of contempt.

  25. Re:What... on Synthetic Genome Drives Bacterial Cell · · Score: 1

    Humans create microbial park which goes horribly wrong, causing untold havoc as artificial E. Coli stalks innocent humans in the jungles of Mexico causing uncontrollable diarrhea.
    No, wait...