The world will not be a better place when everyone and their dog can download and print their own guns.

I'll tell ya this much - the day that dogs can download and print their own guns is the day we're gonna find out if all that "man's best friend" stuff is for real.

"Fetch the stick boy, fetch the stick!"
"No. *ka-click* You fetch the damn stick."

The Author of the GPL code did not put a gnu to your head and forced you to choose their code.

FTFY

The poll found that 54% of Americans believe the TSA is doing a good or excellent job, and that 57% have a good or excellent opinion of the agency.

To ensure the poll contained a representative and informed sample group, it was conducted at airport security checkpoints. This also allowed for an additional efficiency and cost-saving measure - using the actual TSA employees as the pollsters. And to ensure answers were unbiased, participants were assured that under no circumstance would a negative response result in an "enhanced screening session" with Bubba, the large grinning man over there wearing the rubber gloves and holding a tube of KY Jelly.

The craft only caught on fire after it crashed, not during the test firing itself, and the explosion was due to the fire reaching the fuel tanks.

Sounds like we simply need to remove the fuel tanks to avoid this problem in the future.

Can I call that my own work and publish it?

Sure, why not - and you can call your book "The Sword of Shannara"

Physical laws only apply in TFA, titles exist in a parallel universe where physics does not have strict laws and the only thing that matters is clicks.

But as we know from basic Slashdot theory, the title and TFA are entangled at the point of publication - the so-called "quantum firehose phenomenon". Just look at the number of people who, from examining the title alone, are able to determine the article's content in sufficient detail to completely refute it without having read a single word. This is, of course, the real-world equivalent of Gallagher's Watermelon, which as we all know is based on the classic deiknymi (the ancient Greek term for "dessert") or gedankenexperiment (German, literally "seed spitting contest") in which a watermelon is put inside a box with a Geiger counter, a vial of Roundup, and a small sample of radiactive material, the contents of which become irrelevant once you hit them repeatedly with a sledgehammer. It doesn't really have much to do with science, but it's quite a lot of fun.

Where is Crocodile Dundee when you need him?

Wrong country, mate. In NZ ya get Kiwi Dundee, Mick's second cousin twice removed on his mum's side. Never made it as big in the movies, being rather a bit shorter than Mick and with a nose that's not exactly photogenic, if you know what I mean. Apparently got a touch of acrophobia as well - keep hearing he won't fly.

2 is degenerate.

That's rather harsh, isn't it? My understanding was that 2's relationship with the goat was entirely consensual, and at worst should be deemed indecent. (Particularly the time when 2 and the goat were in front of town hall on the 4th of July with that 128 ounce jar of mayonnaise, and ... ah, but I digress.) Heck, this story talks about groups of as many as five primes getting their groove on together, but nobody's calling them degenerate. Sheesh, have a little fling with a caprid and suddenly everyone's on your case.

Have you tried Slashdot 3D?

I did, but I think something's a bit off with the technology - sometimes reading the comments triggered headaches and occasionally a bit of nausea. Oh, and I could swear I kept seeing the same story twice - possibly a focus issue causing double vision?

Bible movies anyone?

Maybe a return to ninja movies, like in the 80s.

Ninja bible movies.

Pharoh (Noriyuki Morita) sends his soldiers to enslave a village of Israeli peasants. The peasants flee their rice fields, lamenting 'Oy gevalt, Pharoh-san' as the soldiers burn their bamboo huts to the ground. Moses (Chow Yun-Fat) appears over the crest of a nearby hill, and quickly assesses the situation. Drawing his sword he proceeds to defend the villagers, taking down soldier after soldier, until he is betrayed and rendered unconscious by a blow from behind by Judas (Michelle Yeoh, but wearing a fake beard).

Moses is captured and bound, then dragged before Pharoh, whereup Moses challenges him to single combat. Not sure who'll win in the screenplay version, but I picture fights with the combatants effortlessly skimming atop the rice-filled Nile River, bounding from fig tree to fig tree, with the climax of the fight on top of a pyramid.

I know that you believe you understand what you think you wrote, but I'm not sure you realize that what you wrote is not what you meant.

Inconceivable!

ah well shit, it sounds dangerous. we all need to give up and go back to living like the amish.

Good lord, man - don't you know how radiocative the Amish are? Wham! Wham! [1]





[1] I have no idea what George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley have to do with radiation, but all the cool posters seem keep mentioning them, so I'll just play along.

Please, enlighten the world, what in your estimation constitutes a 'reasonable amount'?

People in the same income group as myself should pay less. People in other income groups should pay more. As far as I can tell, this is an almost universal definition of 'reasonable' when it comes to taxes, regardless of income level or tax rate.

Do you know how much you pay today if you earn more than 500Kin Connecticut today?

Given that the median household income for CT in 2009 was $67K, I'm betting there's a whole lot of people in that state who would love a chance to find out what a $500K income looks like, despite the ruinous taxation rates you claim. ("Hi honey, got good news and bad news. I quit my $67K job for one that pays $500K, but roman_mir says that means I'll barely bring home $250K after taxes." Spouse: "Okay, so what's the bad news?")

"You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it."

Hah, that's just what they want you to believe.

So, exactly how is BHO "head and shoulders above GWB"?

I think the GP was engaging in a bit of hyperbole - while BHO is taller than GWB, the difference is more comparable to a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. (Homer voice: "Mmmmmm...PB&J...")

Abe Lincoln vs James Madison - now that's head and shoulders. (Zombie voice: "Mmmmmmm...head and shoulders...")