Comment Headstone says... (Score 5, Funny) 74
AFK..
Comment Re:ANZAC? (Score 1) 189
Why do I get mod points when the only thing to moderate is zealotry around the release of Ubuntu Funky Fuckwit?
Comment Keep up... (Score 1) 242
It's Taxation 2.0. the public generate the income and the government utilises it for profit.
Comment Re:We do not use the expression IRL, we use AFK. (Score 1) 341
I'll have to get back to you on that...
AFK....
Comment Re:hmm (Score 0, Offtopic) 215
I don't know about "flamebait", but this would make a great "ask Slashdot". Another 1200 comment thread would certainly drive up the ad revenue.
Comment Re:Ethics and cloning (Score 2, Funny) 229
"What would you do? Keep them in a lab? How would you justify that?"
"Pubic safety"
There, fixed that for you. You sick greedy bastard....
Comment Re:This was bound to happen. (Score 4, Funny) 456
Nope. It's not a road.
The Russian Satellite should have been transmitting "starboard, you arsehole", or the robotic Russian equivalent.
Submission + - Satellites collide (space.com)
Geoffrey.landis writes: "We've been launching satellites for fifty years now, and for the first time, two satellites collided.
Tuesday at about noon, an Iridium communications satellite and a defunct Russian satellite collided an altitude of 790 kilometers (491 miles) above northern Siberia, creating a cloud of debris.
The international space station does not appear to be threatened by the debris, they said, but it's not yet clear whether it poses a risk to any other military or civilian satellites."
Comment Nobody... (Score 5, Funny) 410
Ever got fired for workign for IBM...
Comment Re:Questions and suggestion (Score 1) 262
How does that work with, for example, a 19 inch LCD with a built in tv tuner? Or a laptop with a USB TV tuner in it. It's not like anyone can run a truck down the street snooping for television sets.
Comment Re:Ask Canada (Score 1) 262
Is there a court case? or do you just wish there was?
Comment Re:Black Tot Day, 1970 (Score 1) 290
When WILL
Comment Re:Sounds like fun (Score 1) 504
Aaarrrgh.. we be getting new swedish history majors at the next port....
they be all 6'2" males....
aaarrrgh... best be getting me incontinence pads sorted....
Aaarrrhhh...
Comment Re:Use the opportunity properly (Score 1) 504
... and people laughed at you for using Windows. Because the year of linux on the desktop happened while you were banging exchange students on a boat!
Comment Re:Teachers (Score 1) 476
There's also the lock in of years of lesson plans, handouts etc already in office format. It's not going to pretty if you tell them to check all the formatting under OO before they can print it.
