Comment: She wants TSA screeners to have more training. (Score 1) 811
Hell, it'd be nice if TSA screeners had some training.
Comment: Was told, not consulted. (Score 5, Funny) 307
Pretty much how we all got Timeline.
Comment: Re:*Stomps foot* (Score 5, Insightful) 268
Apes contend that they evolved from humans.
Comment: No, it's BRILLIANT! (Score 1) 516
We'll make the sanctions virtual, too. We can put the UN in charge of them.
Comment: Re:Watching too much TV (Score 1) 232
You left out the part about how the current administration has obviously misplaced all the valuable aliens and alien artifacts that have been collected over the past several decades. (I don't recall whether Bush denied *he* had any, so they must have been accounted for during the previous administration.)
Comment: Re:Non-networked HURD? (Score 1) 429
Well, my imaginary HURD system has never been compromised, so there!
Comment: Unpatched, un-firewalled Windows is bulletproof (Score 1) 429
I mean, of course, once it has a critical mass of viruses, botnets, etc., that cripple its networking and other I/O vectors.
Comment: Re:April 1st? (Score 1) 190
I'm not drinking 6-month-old milk. I don't care where it came from.
Comment: Re:Words, Not Communication (Score 1) 225
Parrots learn words but not language. Associating words with rewards through Pavlovian training is not communication. Clearly spoken gibberish is still gibberish.
There's no better proof of that than the interwebs.
Comment: Re:tag based system (Score 1) 380
Yes, you can use them in combination.
You CAN be injured by a turtle, struck by lightening and suffer traumatic brain injury and a hernia. On a plane. On an experimental plane. On the runway.
This would engender a number of codes and would be indicative of very, very bad karma. Or perhaps God really does have a sense of humor.
I would not like them on a plane. I will not eat them on a train.
I do not want them in my house. I can not feed them to a mouse.
I do not like Green Eggs and Ham. I do not like them Sam-I am.