"Government-funded research is always more expensive and less controversial than research from the private sector."

Right. Like those long-range missile programs. What did any of that ever lead to? And that ARPANET stuff? Pretty useless that all turned out to be, huh? And that Manhattan project, that was a real flash in the pan, wasn't it?

It's _watch_dog, Biff. Watch-dog.

It is exceedingly rare for any human being to lose the capacity for all rational thought and yet still maintain the presence of mind to do anything as complex as stabbing someone. People usually do have a rationale for their actions. It may based on on a warped logic or proceed from false presences, but there are reasons just the same.

When 911 you reach, be more polite you will, hmm?

If there were a black market out there anywhere near as lucrative as drugs, they'd already be a major force in it.

I think you're doing it wrong.

Who cares if it's owned by real italians? The modern american pizza is so far removed from it's culinary origins as to be quite foreign to a traditional italian chef. Leave it to folks who perfected it.

(You may now begin your Chicago vs. New York flame war.)

100 thousand tons? A kiloton is only one thousand tons.

The thing about mod points is, when you've got them you struggle to find posts worth modding, yet once they're gone you seem to find gems like this in every story.

Bravo, sir, you've hit the proverbial nail smack on it's proverbial head.

I have a girlfriend. She's super hot and her boobs are really big. You wouldn't know her though, she lives in Canada.

Remember MySpace? 50% of the shittiest, most infuriated aspects of it were due to allowing extensive customization of individual pages.

You don't say?

Perhaps the inherent quality of the product doesn't change, but the value proposition certainly changes significantly with price. As Honda Civic for 20 dollars is a much greater value than a Rolls-Royce phantom for 200 thousand dollars.

Cloud is the stupidest fucking buzzword. It pisses me off more than even the ones before - blog, web 2.0, et. Why the fuck do even technically minded people who should know better start aping this asinine abuse of language? All you have to do is give a new name to a concept older than most IT workers and suddenly its the Hot New Shit that makes everything it touches that much better.

Its a shitty fucking metaphor, too. Clouds are loose, amorphous collections of water droplets. What the hell does that have to do with server-side applications/remote storage? This shit isn't even distributed for the most part - it's housed on a central server somewhere.

Site is not really Goatse!

If you click on it expecting goatse you will be disappointed.