Why is that modded flamebait? It's probably not as funny as I thought, but I was just making a stupid joke about how the kid went to a lot of effort. I wasn't making light of the real kids who get kidnapped.

Yep. I did it.

The meanness in this thread hurts my feelings. I think that it hurts a lot of other Slashdotter's feelings too, which is why they aren't posting. And that makes me sad. OH LOARDY WHY DOES IT HURT SO BAD????

99 to 1 odds that this is in fact *another* Fox negotiating stunt. A few years back, when Family Guy went off the air, they held a "contest" to find a new animated sitcom. Like a moron I entered with a friend. Our submission wasn't epic or anything, but they quietly sent it back to us. No new animated show came from the contest and then Family Guy came back with American Dad bringing up the rear (Now THAT'S a sitcom title: "Bringing up the Rear". It could be a family friendly spinoff of Assy Mcgee). The whole contest was PHONY. YOU'RE A PHONY, FOX NETWORK! HEY GUYS... THIS NETWORK'S A PHONY! That said, I do a few voices, so let me review some old clips....

Microsoft is finally getting hip to the Pokemon/Magic card phenomenon- only about 12 years late. Features will be sold in randomized booster packs with commons like "Borked Registry", and rares like "Uptime: all day".

Dude, you're posting in Slashdot.

Sometimes when I look at web-based "MMOs", I feel like I'm in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.

No, no NO! We need to take our extra citizens, freeze them with an alcohol-glycol mixture, stack them around the volcano, THEN blow it up with H-Bombs. After that, we can trap their souls and brainwash them with movies to believe anything we want them to. They then get reincarnated, and the whole human race moves in whichever direction we choose. We're geeks, so we can brainwash them with ideas like "space travel is good" and "Knowledge wants to be free", along with some good stuff about geeks being the master race. Hell, this technique worked before, when it was used for Evil...

Actually, "Does it run linux" is more pressing.