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  1. Re:Give control to Canada on An Argument For Leaving DNS Control In US Hands · · Score: 1

    Yes....well.....hmmmmm......as Canadian Human Rights Commission investigator Dean Seacy said: "Freedom of speech is an American concept, so I don't give it any value. It's not my job to give value to an American concept."

  2. Re:Mac clone companies on Mac Clone Maker Psystar Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Mac clone companies will never make it. Macs are over priced, but people pay that premium because they want an Apple product.

    You must have missed the clone companies in the 1990s.......they were eating Apple's lunch.

  3. Re:Just watch some porn on Best Way To Build A DIY UAV? · · Score: 0, Troll

    When you're an accomplished vaginaut such as yours truly here, you learn these things.

    You're saying you've boldly gone "where no man has gone before"? Hmmmmm....going to share some photos, young jedi?

  4. Re:UAV? Or...? on Best Way To Build A DIY UAV? · · Score: 1

    How about attaching the cruise missile to the UAV?

  5. Airport food sucks on Survey Finds Airport Wi-Fi More Important Than Food · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In almost all western counties.........but check out Changi in Singapore. A GREAT airport. You don't get ripped off the food is fantastic!

    http://www.changiairport.com/changi/en/index.html

  6. Re:No mobility in blue-collar jobs on The Case For Working With Your Hands · · Score: 1

    But it's a whole lot nicer to travel most of the year and do my work from a laptop on some of the most glorious beaches in the world than it is to be trapped in a podunk town all but 1-4 weeks a year.

    So what do your wife and kids think about that?

  7. Re:There's the question of IQ on The Case For Working With Your Hands · · Score: 1

    They make happy meals now. There is still work for that segment of our population.

    That is being outsourced also.

    The job of taking orders at the drive-through could soon be outsourced.

    Jack in the Box Inc. has been testing a program in some Charlotte-area restaurants that outsources order-taking to a call center elsewhere.

    Company spokeswoman Kathleen Anthony said the technology is intended to improve speed, accuracy and service. The San Diego-based restaurant chain hopes the process will free up on-site employees to process orders, accept payment and address other needs.

    Anthony said the orders are routed to a Texas call center operated by Bronco Communications, and she said some orders may be routed outside the country.

    http://www.wsoctv.com/news/18562683/detail.html

  8. There's the question of IQ on The Case For Working With Your Hands · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No one want to discuss the fact that "average intelligence" means that half the people are at and below average intelligence. The idea that everyone must graduate from high school and go on to college is the root of the problem.

    A simple example......it used to be you could stop at a gas station and a couple of guys would come out, fill up your car, check your oil/water and clean your windshield. They didn't need a BA in business. What are these guys supposed to do now?

  9. Re:GPS on Microsoft Blocks Messenger In Five Embargoed Countries · · Score: 1

    .....but knowing American geography skills, you'd end up liberating the arctic.

    The American Army Air Force was able to find Berlin, Dresden, Frankfurt, Cologne and Hamburg with very little problem. Would you really like to go for Round 2? Looking for so free some urban renewal?

  10. They want to play hardball? on RIAA MediaSentry, Dead In US, Is Alive In Australia · · Score: 1

    Find out the names and addresses of the management of MediaSentry and.......

  11. QUICK!!!! on Hard Drive With Clinton-Era Data Missing From Nat'l Archives · · Score: 5, Funny

    Somebody check Sandy Berger's underwear!!!

  12. Craigslist *does* ban on Craigslist Fires Back Over Adult Services Accusations · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Ads for firearms.

  13. Re:Grab your guns!!! on Database of All UK Children Launched · · Score: 1

    Well....if you had any balls, you could turn London into Baghdad instead of waiting for the US to liberate you.

    Oh well, so much for the Churchillian spirit of "we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender".....

  14. Grab your guns!!! on Database of All UK Children Launched · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The Revolution is at hand!!!..........Oh wait a sec......you're British. You don't have any.

    Nevermind.

  15. And this a surprise? on Remote Kill Flags Surface In Kindle · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So I think I'll stick to paper, thank you very much.

  16. Oh well on Intel Receives Record Fine By the EU · · Score: 1

    I imagine the price of Intel cpus and motherboards will be increasing in the EU very soon.

  17. Re:Haven't these people learned? on German Gov To Ban Paintballing After Shooting · · Score: 1

    Being armed wouldn't have done any of them the slightest bit of good. They were outnumbered, out gunned, and up against a modern fighting force.

    Like the insurgents in Iraq?

  18. Re:buy it from North Korea or Iran on NASA Running Low On Fuel For Space Exploration · · Score: 1

    But in all seriousness, this seems like something that would be, at the least, a tolerable use for spending some of Obama's billions on.

    Obama's billions?? He now has his own Royal Treasury??

  19. Facebook might be in for a surprise! on The In-House Decency Patrol At Facebook · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait till they find pictures of their mothers on my page!

  20. Too much Mission Impossible? on Al-Qaeda Used Basic Codes, Calling Cards, Hotmail · · Score: 4, Insightful

    On TV, intelligence agencies can break any code before the commercial break. In real life, it's a little bit different.

  21. Re:You have no idea how bad it is... on Pirate Party Banned From Social Networking Site · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do YOU know why your neighbor is coughing? DO YOU???

    Pubic hair caught in her throat?

  22. Root'em all!!! on Should the US Go Offensive In Cyberwarfare? · · Score: 1

    Let Linus sort'em out!!!

  23. Re:No more parades? on Predator C Avenger Makes First Flights · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Gandhi threw the British out of India using active, aggressive, non-violent resistance.

    I wonder how long Gandhi would have lasted using "active, aggressive, non-violent resistance" against Stalin or Mao.

  24. Re:If the US won't break up microsoft... on Microsoft's Price Fixing Penalty, 9M Euros · · Score: 1

    I just wish the EU would take a harder line on Microsoft. Microsoft is not a European company,they are a monopoly extorting cash from EU citizens. Can you imagine if Ford was the only car maker in Europe. We would just not put up with it. I don't see why we should allow MS to import their products at all. At the very least we should impose very high import tariffs.

    The EU should go after Microsoft.......right after it goes after Gazprom.....you know, the Russian oil company that extorts cash from Europeans? Now that would take some real balls.

    Be sure and let us know how that turns out next winter.

  25. Re:Laugh it up Mein Herr on Microsoft's Price Fixing Penalty, 9M Euros · · Score: 1

    But they *can* charge the retailers a higher price which in the end will be passed on to the consumers.