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  1. Old news on Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man · · Score: 5, Informative

    Bill Joy wrote an essay about this very subject back in April 2000......and he's a much better writer.

    http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html

  2. Re:Microsoft copying Apple? on The Hidden Costs of Microsoft's Free Office Online · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh well then......Fuck Microsoft and Go Apple! :^)

  3. Re:Fuck 'Em, And Their Law on UK Police Raid Party After Seeing "All-Night" Tag On Facebook · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm suspicious! This law was passed before George Bush was president?!?!? How could that be??? Sounds *very* fishy to me!

  4. Microsoft copying Apple? on The Hidden Costs of Microsoft's Free Office Online · · Score: 1, Funny

    Maybe Microsoft has decided to become a hardware company like Apple claims it is. I wonder if the servers will be made in the same Chinese factories that make Macs.

  5. Butbutbut on Australia Considering P2P 'Three Strikes' Law · · Score: 1

    I thought everything was going to change with John Howard out and Rudd in. Kinda like Obama (PBUH)........so what happened?

  6. Re:The UK does not have free speech. on British Men Jailed For Online Hate Crimes · · Score: 2, Funny

    You wear an earpiece and I'll tell you what to say. We'll go all Sash Baron Cohen in Detroit. Then you can get a first-hand taste of exactly what saying things other people don't want to hear can lead to.

    This is where your 2nd Amendment rights kick in.

  7. Re:The law is on London's side on UK's National Portrait Gallery Threatens To Sue Wikipedia User · · Score: 2, Informative

    The paintings may be in the public domain, but the photographs are copyright to the photographer.

    So good luck to the dipshit user who uploaded them.

    Doesn't that depend on whether or not the photos were made "work for hire"? Does the concept of "work for hire" exist in UK copyright law?

    http://nylawline.typepad.com/photolawyer/work_for_hire/

  8. Ah yes on DOJ Report On NSA Wiretaps Finally Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation.....based in Saudi Arabia, tied to Al-Qaeda and banned by the United Nations Security Council Committee 1267.

    http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/

  9. OPE on Sperm Travels Faster Toward Attractive Females · · Score: 1

    "I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women uh... women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh... I do not avoid women, Mandrake.........But I... I do deny them my essence." - General Jack D. Ripper

  10. Free? How wonderful! on Free Wi-Fi For the Residents of Venice, Italy · · Score: 0, Troll

    1. it shows Americans that you can get something for free, much to their utter dismay, given the tenets of their society;

    Free? How wonderful! So the workers installing and maintaining the equipment will all donate their time! And all the equipment will be given to Venice for free also! And in the future, all the equipment needing replacement due to age or damage will also be free! And the Chinese and other Asian manufacturers will send all this equipment to Venice for free! They must really love Italy!

    It must be heaven there where Economics 101 doesn't apply, everything is free and no one has to pay for anything.

  11. GoBe Productive! on SoftMaker Office 2008 vs. OpenOffice.org 3.1 · · Score: 1

    Still rocks!

  12. Re:Rawshooter on Exchange Rates Spell High Prices for Windows 7 In the EU · · Score: 1

    So when did Rawshooter last get updated? Oh right. It was killed off way back in 2006. And it was just a converter, not an editor. Slightly different from Photoshop, wouldn't you think?

    "Duh" is right.

  13. Who needs chicken feathers??? on Chicken Feathers May Hold Key To Hydrogen Storage · · Score: 1

    When we've got Atomic Rooster!!!!!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrVmBRqEp3s

  14. Re:You people are screwed. on Tennesee Man Charged In "Virtual Pornography" Case · · Score: 1

    Ehm, *Cough* We're talking about TENNESSEE here *Cough*

    If he had pasted the heads of his cousins on some nude women it would have been ok.

  15. Re:Interesting...and so's this! on Tennesee Man Charged In "Virtual Pornography" Case · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hey everyone, I just heard the sad news on talk radio today. Michael Jackson, the talented pop star, was found dead in his Santa Monica hospital this afternoon.

    It's the best news Gov Mark Sanford could have.

  16. So if he takes the head of Goofy on Tennesee Man Charged In "Virtual Pornography" Case · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pastes it on the nude body of Nancy Pelosi.......

    Wait a sec. I don't think I should go any further with this.......

  17. Re:"Deliberate untruth"? on Apple's Obsession With Secrecy Grows Stronger · · Score: 1

    I mean, look at all the celebrities who are hospitalized for "exhaustion."

    I'd rather not if Jobs is going flash us while getting out of his car a la Britney Spears......

  18. "Deliberate untruth"? on Apple's Obsession With Secrecy Grows Stronger · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In plain English, that's called a lie.

  19. As George Harrison once said on UK Government Announces Broadband Tax · · Score: 1

    If you drive a car, I'll tax the street,
    If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat.
    If you get too cold I'll tax the heat,
    If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.

    Now my advice for those who die
    Declare the pennies on your eyes
    'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
    And you're working
    for no one but me.

  20. OOOPS!!!! Isn't there a problem? on Jet Stream Kites Could Power New York City · · Score: 1

    With the news that the winds are dying down?

    http://www.livescience.com/environment/etc/090610-winds-are-dying-down-study-suggests.html

    Oh well....I guess they could always fly them over Washington, DC.

  21. We've seen this before...... on Broke Counties Turn Failing Roads To Gravel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And it didn't turn out too pretty. Read Bryan Ward-Perkins' "The Fall Of Rome and The End Of Civilization"......

    http://www.amazon.com/Fall-Rome-End-Civilization/dp/0192807285

  22. Re:Don't breakout the champagne yet on 9th Circuit Says Feds' Security Checks At JPL Go Too Far · · Score: 3, Informative

    "From 1992 to 2003, the lowest percentage of overturned appeals was 68 percent. The highest was a telling 95 percent. The average percentage of Ninth Circuit Court decisions overturned by the Supreme Court during this time was 73.5 percent as compared to an average of 61 percent by the all the other circuit courts of appeal combined."

    http://crapo.senate.gov/issues/crime_law_judiciary/ninth_circuit.cfm

  23. Don't breakout the champagne yet on 9th Circuit Says Feds' Security Checks At JPL Go Too Far · · Score: 1

    As I recall, the 9th Circuit has more of its decisions overturned than any other court.

  24. Question on Solution For College's Bad Network Policy? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Are you required to run Windows? If not, don't.

  25. A one word answer on Hospital Turns Away Ambulances When Computers Go Down · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "But even leaving that aside - why do problems with paperwork make it necessary to turn away patients?"

    Lawyers.