Comment Re:What a painful summary to read (Score 2, Funny) 145
Those are the kind best though materials of.
Comment Let's park it over there... (Score 1) 336
Perhaps they'll find one really wet wookiee.
Comment Great (Score 1) 262
Here come the Hadals.
Comment Finally (Score 1) 284
Now the next time I'm in Mos Eisley I can take care of that Guido problem.
Comment FTFA (Score 1) 1
"The concept of the invisibility cloak (Not Pictured)..."
That just made my day.
That just made my day.
Comment Re:Well, of course. (Score 1) 337
Everyone knows that's why the Mayan calendar stops there. Windows 8 comes out. The world ends. Apocalypse explained.
Typical Microsoft.
Submission + - Firefighters Watch As House Burns Down (wpsdlocal6.com)
SofaMan writes: Residents of Obion County, TN have to pay a $75 annual fee to a neighbouring town to access a firefighting service. One family didn't pay, so firefighters stood around and watched as their house burnt to the ground. Firefighters only acted when the fire spread to a neighbouring property where the resident had paid the fee. One neighbour was so frustrated with the fire department's inaction that he went to the fire station and assaulted a firefighter. I know many Slashdotters are libertarians or have libertarian sympathies, but is this taking things a bit far?
Comment Re:right to not incriminate yourself? (Score 1) 1155
Were this from the US, here's some wonderful perspective;
"The Lacey Act provides that it is unlawful for any person to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, or purchase any fish or wildlife or plant taken, possessed, transported, or sold in violation of any law, treaty, or regulation of the United States or in violation of any Indian tribal law whether in interstate or foreign commerce..." Damn
Odds are good it wouldn't matter what you did or didn't say. We've elected reasons to find a way around your rights... or at least some hard working folks who... well, spend their time doing something.
Ignore me. I'm a silly little citizen.
"The Lacey Act provides that it is unlawful for any person to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, or purchase any fish or wildlife or plant taken, possessed, transported, or sold in violation of any law, treaty, or regulation of the United States or in violation of any Indian tribal law whether in interstate or foreign commerce..." Damn
Odds are good it wouldn't matter what you did or didn't say. We've elected reasons to find a way around your rights... or at least some hard working folks who... well, spend their time doing something.
Ignore me. I'm a silly little citizen.
Submission + - Segway Company Owner Dies While Driving A Segway 3
necro81 writes: Jimi Heselden, the British multi-millionaire defense contractor and philanthropist, who bought the Segway company last December from inventor Dean Kamen, died yesterday after an accident while riding one of the machines. While using a ruggedized X2 version of the two-wheeled balancing scooter at his estate in North Yorkshire, he apparently drove over the edge of a precipice and into the River Wharfe. He was found later by a passerby and declared dead on the scene.
Comment Memories (Score 5, Insightful) 362
Damn... I feel Old.
Comment Torn (Score 2, Interesting) 578
I'm still torn in regards to Wikileaks. On the one hand, transparency can be a phenomenal thing. On the other, it can't help but bleed interpretation, which in and of itself can lead to misgivings and the perversion of a "truth". Granted, there are concurrently 4 million different truths all bubbling away. Ew, interpretation just reared its ugly head. Does the right hand always want to know what the left is doing? In a perfect world, yes. In this one? I just don't know.
Yep, still torn. I contributed absolutely nothing. Flog me.
Comment Well (Score 2, Insightful) 432
From a purely ethical standpoint, he wasn't very. As for a four year sentence given the nature of the crime, personally I think that's incredibly absurd and yet equally indicative of the judicial system in the US.
Comment Leisure Suit Larry? (Score 1) 112
Oh my God the possibilities are endless.
Comment That Explains It (Score 1) 110
I've been trying to figure out why everything I do online ends up in Mandarin.
And to think I blamed my breakfast fruit of choice.
Comment Every which way (Score 2, Funny) 232
Left turn, Clyde.
