Comment Re:This is a classic libel case (Score 0, Redundant) 303
This is Britain. All they have to do is say 'she said these bad-but-true things with the intention of hurting our reputation' and they win. That's all there is to it.
Submission + - Google looks to cut funds to illegal sites (telegraph.co.uk)
rbrandis writes: Google is in discussions with payment companies including Visa, Mastercard and PayPal to put illegal download websites out of existence by cutting off their funding. If Google goes ahead with the radical move, it would not mark the first time that illegal websites have been diminished or driven out of business by having a block put on their source of cash.
Submission + - Patent trolls claim patent laws protect small inventors, but do they? (telegraph.co.uk) 2
whoever57 writes: Patent trolls like to claim that patent laws provide a way that small inventors can create products and benefit financially from their invention. One such inventor faces selling his house, despite inventing a product that has sold tens of millions worldwide.
Comment Re:EOW scam (Score 1) 150
Evidently the Earth is a Cylon.
Eh, I've seen worse plot twists.
Comment Re:Huh? (Score 2) 816
I wonder how telling it is that I notice George is carrying the RED one.
Comment Re:lawsuit time? (Score 4, Insightful) 770
Because being reasonable EVER works in this situation?
Comment Re:Leave Google Alone! (Score 1) 303
I admit that I am, however, worried about how this comment got more insightful votes than funny...
Comment Re:General Consensus: "Uh boy... here we go..." (Score 1) 303
Did you miss the part where the NSA has monitoring equipment on every major backbone in the United States?
You MUST be new here.
Comment Re:Leave Google Alone! (Score 2) 303
Second.
Comment Re:Leave Google Alone! (Score 5, Insightful) 303
You are one hundred percent right. Google is a corporation, and corporations are people, my friend.
Comment Re:Neighbors (Score 1) 340
Just because it does not make sense to you does not make it untrue. This is likely only one or two people deciding to dump there, and they may not have had the flash of insight of 'we can make a few bucks instead of just throwing out the shit we don't want'.
Frankly considering what they're tossing out it sounds like it may be someone renovating a home, in which case they're probably not going to care about what they could sell for scrap, just not wanting to be bothered to take it to the dump and deal with the fees.
Iran's News Agency Picks Up Onion Story 118
J053 writes "FARS, the Iranian news agency, ran a story about a Gallup poll which showed that 'the overwhelming majority of rural white Americans said they would rather vote for Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than U.S. president Barack Obama.' '"I like him better," said West Virginia resident Dale Swiderski, who, along with 77 percent of rural Caucasian voters, confirmed he would much rather go to a baseball game or have a beer with Ahmadinejad.' Only problem was, it was a story from The Onion. Not only that, they took credit for it! The Onion responded by stating that 'Fars is a subsidiary and has been our Middle Eastern bureau since the mid 1980s.'"
Comment Grow the hell up. (Score 1, Insightful) 149
It's not pr0n. It's pornography. Or porn, if you must.
The fuck, are you guys all still fourteen years old, sitting there snickering over how clever you are because you switched around a couple letters and now nobody will realize what you're REALLY talking about? Jesus.
Comment Re:Brave New World (Score 2) 1365
Fifty Shades of Gray.
The debate starts and ends RIGHT FUCKING THERE.
Comment Re:House plus site, services, foundation, etc. (Score 1) 203
Five hundred square feet? Are you mad? Do you have any idea how LITTLE space 500 square feet is? That's a large studio apartment. There's room for a family of four, sure... room for their beds and NOTHING else.
