I believe what you mean to say is: "References, or your argument is unsupported."

Also, a 55 gallon container of fuel would be in the ballpark of about 350-400 lbs. How do you plan on transporting this home?

Reminds me of this Dilbert book I saw the other day, "It's Not Funny If I Have To Explain It".

I'll give you two of those three. GNOME 3 is certainly an interesting concept and different, but I have yet to see it justify itself as an "improvement".

Just the other day I was outside working on my car. Every time I reached for a tool, I had to sit through a brief advertisement and patent notice for the company that made it. This is getting ridiculous, I say.

When the topic was related to Facebook's storage of user information, there was all this talk about the EU's "right to be forgotten" and how Facebook was violating this "right". Apparently this protection doesn't extend to the government.

I've got it! Instead of trying to get Congress to fund "space exploration", we get them to fund "IP infringement notice deliveries to extrasolar nations".

FeO? That stuff is ugly.

May I suggest an amendment?
Prefix the bill with: /*
Postfix the bill with: */

Because it looks prettier that way ... yeah, that's why.

Don't worry, I'm sure somebody from the FAA would be more than willing to testify that you aren't on their list. If I was charged with practicing law without a license, does the bar have to provide me with a full membership list?

I'm no biblical scholar but isn't that what God did?

Define "intercepted". In the modern world of airborne operations, this typically means only that enemy defenses have spotted you along the edge of their airspace and sent a plane to make sure you stay on your side. Kind of like if you saw your neighbor creeping along the opposite side of your fence and letting your dogs out into the yard.

Android 2.0 (Eclair) was released in October 2009. Effectively what the market is saying is that at the end of a two-year contract, your device will be obsolete. Reminds me of all the negative press the computer OEM's got over selling Windows XP machines right before the release of Vista that wouldn't be capable of the upgrade. Except for, you know, all of the outrage.

The issue being raised by the GP above isn't that the comic provides some insight, but rather that it has become sort of a Godwin's law of xkcd that any thread even remotely related to crptography will eventually contain a reference to this comic, regardless of how relevant the true meaning may be to the conversation.

I should probably clarify that it wasn't my intention to imply anything about the relative worthiness of the platforms. More that it's way too early to talk of the two "competing", which is the implication of the summary.