There must be something wrong with this new radar thing sir, the screen is full of blips over the Pacific.

  One of the problems with Facebook is that most of your friends are people you already know and in many cases, people you haven't seen in years. There is a huge void which is trying to meet new people.

  The other problem is the youth. I was a teen in the late '80s and if my parents knew what I was really doing when I was 15-18 they would have thrown me out of the house. Teens today want no part of a social network of parents, aunts, uncles and good grief, Grandparents!?

This was the one.

Apprenticeship is dead. How dare someone with a degree and a few certs look for a job.

  In many rental situations, if you rent an apartment , electric cars aren't an option.

  Did anyone else notice that in order to save gas money with this car, you need to be rich to buy it.

  Alright, who remembers the story behind the guru meditation error.

  Facebook allows you to communicate with almost anyone you have ever known, for free. Yeah screw them, they suck. This article is all over the web and it is worthless and meaningless.

Bold faced lie. 2000? Not a chance.

Mod this one up for Humor.

  Did anyone ever figure out if cheating the blind herb salesman caused you to loose the game in the end?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_IV:_Quest_of_the_Avatar

  One would think critical power networks would be close systems.

I can try to make this point brief and direct.

  Fearlessness? callous children?

  The reason why the United States' version of a Capitalist Democracy is hurting is because when there is profit or savings involved nationalism goes out the window. Plain and simple. Apply it to every bottom line situation.

    Mars is dead because it's magnetic field stopped after it's cores cooled. When a planet has no magnetic field, charged particles from the sun bombard the planet stripping the atmosphere. Mars' surface gets nasty amounts of radiation from the sun. If we could find a way to heat the cores again we could grow anything we wanted on the surface in 20 million years or so.

Slashdot is a great engineering community?

I thought this was the only Information Technology Comedy sight on the internet.

  You could make an argument that all human behavior can be traced to genetics. In fact my father is typing this same reply at another forum over at AARP.COM. He can't spell either.

  year 2600 dictionary: Capitalism --- [kap-i-tl-iz-uhm] -noun. An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately owned by Walmart.