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• Commented on The real HAL 9000
  @ AirPillo - according to Bell Labs, yes. http://www.bell-labs.com/news/1997/march/5/2.html...
• Commented on Barefoot Burglar, 18, suspected of stealing planes, etc.
  18? He'll either be in jail for a long sentence or dead by 20. It sounds like he has little care for other's property or his own safety....
• Commented on Perfect Daily Mail headline
  For the perfect Daily Mail article, they'd have to also blame asylum seekers and the EU in some way. Not exactly surprising that the benefit system favours families with one adult earner over those with two - simple facts of...
• Commented on Many shower heads filled with nasty bacteria
  @zikman - having said that, the fact that Mycobacterium avium is pretty widespread in the environment and we're not dead yet does suggest that this isn't an excuse for being a bit whiffy tomorrow....
• Commented on Lego cookie-cutter
  "Would you honestly say "I played with lots of Lego when I was a kid"?" Yes....
• Commented on Stop-motion Lego tribute to 8-bit video games
  Wow. Loved the IK+ guys - I now want three of them, in Lego, for my mantlepiece....
• Commented on Nanoparticles linked to illness and death in factory workers exposed to them
  They were working in an enclosed room with no ventilation, spraying nanoparticles onto polystyrene boards which were then heated to 100 degrees celsius on a machine that required a working gas exhauster to remove the resultant smoke - and that...
• Commented on Machine translation fun
  Song lyrics are fun. David Bowie --> "Man of the stars, we will look at the sky. We have to meet him, it is difficult" Arctic Monkeys --> "I am KEMASU赌dance floor please refer to our reasonable price" Jimi Hendrix...
• Commented on Fresh Green: Worst Packaging, Human Shrub Attacks English Town, and More
  Human shrub - haven't we seen this before? He's wearing a Ghillie suit, anyway. And Colchester is a garrison town....
• Commented on Baby goose with homemade leg brace
  Hate geese. Evil little gits. Hiss and don't get out of your way. Which is very, very stupid, as I'm larger and I coach rowing, which means I'm cycling down the bank looking at the boat, not them. Never bumped...
• Commented on NYT and Jimmy Wales worked together to keep kidnapping news off Wikipedia
  #87 Cuts both ways. The fundamentalist anti-censorship ones believe that their end - no censorship at all - justify the means - announcing things that will potentially kill someone. Maybe I'm old, cynical and bitter, but I feel too many...
• Commented on Ryanair serious about charging to use toilets in-flight, may charge extra "breathing fee" for inhaling during flight
  Yer Maw, Slartybardfast - they have 55 pound tickets to Paris now. That's *return* tickets, not one way. I mean, seriously, if you're poor but can't be bothered booking a month in advance, you probably *deserve* to be on a...
• Commented on UK Tory MP added a servant's wing to his house at taxpayers' expense
  I'd also like to see a condemnation of those businesses and individuals who profit from the UK and attempt to influence British government and public opinion, while avoiding paying tax. So, for example, how about an article about someone who...
• Commented on Texas police accused of highway robberies
  #32 - he's living in Italy now, right? So who's more insane and embarrassing, Governor Rick Parry or President Silvio Berlusconi?...
• Commented on GOOD: Lake Mead is drying up
  #41 - If I recall correctly, there's about 1.2g of magnesium per Kg of sea water. So about 1.2 Kg of Mg in a cubic metre of sea water. UCI racing bike minimum weight is 6.5Kg, including wheels, etc. but...
• Commented on Zipper dress
  Ah well, here we are again - clothes designed for the shape of the model, rather than for real people. Of course, as this is the fashion equivalent of the concept car, condemning the style for not fitting pear-shaped women...
• Commented on London cops beating the shit out of peaceful G20 demonstrators
  Those saying that both sides are pushing - the police are clearly pushing more. Either that, or that construction site didn't like the look of what was going on and decided to slide off....
• Commented on Anti-capitalists Attack Banker's Home and Mercedes: "This is Just the Beginning."
  To all those asking why the British haven't tried peaceful protest about serious things like the Iraq war http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2765041.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3223780.stm We did. It didn't work....
• Commented on Paean to iron-on patches from the 1970s
  I remember in the UK we used to have these light-reflective patches - "safeshines" - that your mother could iron onto your coat to make patterns. And supposedly keep you from being run over by cars. I wasn't run over...
• Commented on Salmonella Peanut CEO won't eat his own peanuts, cites Fifth Amendment
  Now if he'd done this in China, he'd be weighing up the health risks of eating one of his peanuts compared to the health risks of being executed....