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Comment mimic the act of driving (Score 2) 157

Assuming that mimic the act of driving doesn't mean putting on makeup, shaving or brushing your teeth (no, I didn't RTFA but this is the UK so I think I'm pretty safe in thinking it does not mean brushing your teeth), then doesn't this pretty much defeat the whole idea of having a self driving car? I guess it might still allow the use of a self driving car by someone physically unable to drive for himself, but personally I would rather have a driver who is capable of taking over and driving if the need presents itself than a pretender who acts like they can drive but can't really.

Comment Opus is like Jesus (Score 0) 109

Given that the last strip ended with Opus being put down at the animal "shelter" and Berkley making some very definite statements about this being the end of Opus and how we should all know that he wasn't coming back, it is interesting to see that Opus is back from the dead. Like a religion I guess we are expected to overlook the details.

Good to think that it might be coming back though.

Comment smooth like plastic (Score 0) 38

Really? Is that now the standard that we use to explain things? What does "smooth like plastic" even mean? While "smooth as glass" is a commonly accepted term (in spite of the obvious fact that not all glass is manufactured smooth), I think the idea that all or even most plastic is smooth is a concept that most people will reject. I have a lot of plastic in front of me as I type this. Some is glossy smooth, but the majority (by volume) has textured surfaces that are anything but smooth.

Comment Absolutely (Score 0) 334

The administration is still not sure if Snowden got the N.S.A. files on Obama's birth and those clumsy Hawaiian "documents". (Ask yourself for any good reason that the leader of the country would black out the number on a supposed birth certificate. The only thing that makes sense is he doesn't want it matching thecertificate of anyone else, or coming after someone born in the last minutes of the year. And after the "this is the only certificate there is" nonsense, there was the second, different, birth certificate. Don't even respond about that unless you looked at it on the whitehouse.gov website and saw how obviously (and poorly) it was Photoshopped.) They sure don't want those N.S.A. documents snuck back in the country and would like to have any information to track down the patriot who got them and the files. As far as anyone knows the files are not on Snowden's person but rather hidden where someone like this person can access them if the administration manages to assassinate Snowden.

Comment need for delay befor the images are released (Score 3, Funny) 134

You can bet that, after NASA recently cut out of a live broadcast of the earth from space when 3 UFOs suddenly appeared in the video, that this data will be thoroughly picked through to make sure that there are no more unwelcome photobombs in these pictures.

Comment Re:Excuse to keep using oil (Score 3, Insightful) 249

You have been downgraded to troll for stating the obvious. I've long believed that a new ice age was coming and that global warming was our best bet in avoiding it, but whenever I mention that I'm also marked as a troll by idiots who think that not sharing their point of view is the same as trolling.Or maybe they don't really believe that, but they still abuse moderation to make less apparent any view that disagrees with them, particularly when they are ill equipped to logically debate you.

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