* Posts by Sam

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Japanese to launch paper plane from ISS

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Marvellous

Marvellous idea...it's just that now I'm going to have the Quo's "paper plane" playing in my head all day..

The Denim, ta.

Bobby Fischer checkmated at 64

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as a certain person may say;

GAME.

Sparks fly over electric shock dealing Dell laptop

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It ain't the voltage..

..it's the current that gets you! 80 Milliamps stops the human heart (officially), so what are these things chucking out?

Surgeons to turn to Wii to sharpen their scalpel skills?

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Python

"Anaesthetic" .....CLANG!!

the surgeons gown, thank you

Online gamer murders rival clan member

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Guns don't kill people

..bullets do!

The Kevlar, thanks.

US boffins create darkest material ever

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carcinogenic?

So, if you sat in a room painted with this stuff and it WAS injurious to your health, you could expect to hear a voice close to your ear saying; DARK IN HERE, ISN'T IT?

The cloak and scythe, thanks.

Japanese whalers lash protesters to mast

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Anyone got any Veras?

Whale meat again, don't know how, don't know when...

Military Airstrike scientific research sounds good to me...if they can't adapt, lose 'em!

I read somewhere they are fucked anyway, gene pool size..

Terrifying farm mechanoid plan for Japan

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Been done (sort of)

Didn't a certain Ms. Ripley drive one of these things (called a powerloader?) in Aliens?

Alcohol enema bloke wins 2007 Darwin Award

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And finally..

"Here's mud in your eye!"

The brown overcoat, thanks.

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@AC

You bastard, you just spoiled my "packet of crisps" joke... :-)

Scarlett Johansson to play Courtney Love?

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The old moose

Is no slouch to acting, wasn't she in "Man on the Moon"? Or is she too fucked up for public appearance now?

MP accuses BBC chief of illegally championing Microsoft

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Harking back..

"Pugh? Who? He talks spew, the public are diddled, and fucked!"

The Trumpton Police riot gear, thanks...

Polish teen derails tram after hacking train network

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Question

Has anyone heard any comments from the twelve injured victims yet?

I wonder if they will be saying "he's only a kid", etc...

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after that photo..

If someone I cared about was on one of those trams, injured or not, I'd be looking for the little turd right now........

Canucks kill second attempt at 'iPod tax'

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@Red Bren

A Sealer goes into a pub with a baby seal under his arm and says "I'll have a JD on the rocks, and a Canadian club for me mate."

The sealskin, thanks...

DARPA whirly-wing jet gyrocraft hits noise snags

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Rotodyne

I built the Airfix model of the Rotodyne when I was a kid...I liked the idea of it.

YouTube biker clocked at 189mph

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@Tim Spence

If you actually read my observations, they were all about the riding style and the riders consideration, anticipation, skill, and care....

Beep.

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My 2P

As an ex-biker...other than the fact he broke the speed limit (when IMHO it was safe to do so), his anticipation, consideration, and control when in traffic were better than a lot of 4 wheel wankers I've seen, and a few fellow bikers.

They could use that as an instruction video, it was exemplary.

If you've never ridden a bike, your replies to this post are meaningless, so please fuck off at the sound of the tone.

Beep.

Super Soaker inventor touts solid state heat-2-leccy

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If this is viable..

..The world needs it now, whatever your stance.

Bloke finds missus working in brothel

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@ paul, dennis and ac

"Oedipus? Call your Mother...."

Government piles filesharing pressure on UK ISPs

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Re AC

"as I already VPN through Sweden to bypass my ISPs ridiculous traffic shaping "

Where can one read up on this method?

Union threatens Shell with legal action

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Shell doesn't recognise the union?

They will...biggest in the country, biggest membership across multiple professions, best lawyers. Shells suits (see what I did there?) are going to be hurt.

Brit violinist does a Radiohead

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Joke

Service unavailable

Overload, or hacked by the RIAA?

Academics kick off nuclear power war of words

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And sixthly

They haven't even mentioned pebble reactors.

Mmm, shiny thing..

Hundreds of US fighter aces reassigned as drone pilots

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So is the kill button..

..a combination of Ctrl Alt(titude) Delete?

The Biggles helmet and leather jacket, thanks.

Pope tells astronomers to pack up their telescopes

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Dramatic chord

"No-one expects the...oh bugger, the lens cap's still on...I'll go out and come in again..."

Microsoft readies Hal 9000

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take a stress pill..

"Steve? Put down the chair, Steve..."

Oz crematorium menaced by exploding dog

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I imagine

..that all that was left was a smouldering dog-end.

The tartan body warmer thanks, time for walkies.

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I suppose

..if it had become as hot as a star, it would have been really Sirius.

Burma hits satellite TV where it hurts

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@David Cornes

Good point, fuck 'em. ;-)

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silly buggers

How are they going to block the BBC World service? Confiscate all the radios?

Junk food ads target net

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Firefox part 2

...and Noscript.

No McAdverts.

Car crash driver blames pterodactyl

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@ Tom

No, it was years ago, a Horizon Programme..called "nova" on the wrong side of the pond?

Anyway, the skies may be full of them..

http://www.pteroworks.com/index.htm

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Hang on a tick..

I seem to recall a remote control pterodactyl glider model thingy on TV a long while ago, and I do believe it was in America...is it still flying?

Maybe he DID see one...??

Antarctic base staff in drunken Xmas punch-up

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Because

Someone asked for Ice in their drink and was told there wasn't any left..

The Fiennes parka, thanks.

Amazon claims amazing Christmas

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Glad I steered clear

Last year I ordered tons...I had a bad feeling when I found out they were using TNT now, so I didn't order anything this time around.

Neither will a few other people by next Xmas if they carry on performing like that.

How to copyright Michelangelo

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so..

More hi-res art turning up on the pirate bay, then?

Who's going to be taken to court for having a 400 year old image on their hard drive?? I can't wait to hear the judicial arguments...

Stop the planet, I want to get off.

US switches off the incandescent lightbulb

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Errmmm...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't LEDs less efficient than CFLs?

I also seem to recall that high pressure mercury lighting won the efficiency battle hands down.

As to saving the Earth..that's where the mercury came from in the first place, or do hippies think we import it from off-planet??

Graphene breakthrough threatens silicon's chip glory

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Boffin

Hole flow

...is the opposite direction to electron flow, if I remember correctly.

Virgin Media network collapses nationwide

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North??

East London out as well. Can't even lie well, can they?

Dutch gov blows open standards raspberry at Microsoft

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open source police

Does that mean when they raid a local government office they'll have little penguins on their cap badges?

I'm off for a schmoke and a pancake.

New Jersey scraps death penalty

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@Treacle

Totally valid arguments Treacle, the certainty of detection is rising, however...

There is also the degree of viciousness.

What about the scrotes in Wales who beat up a young man for his phone and then dragged him into the sea to die? I'd pull the trigger/lever myself.

And if the deterrent causing the murder rate to drop only lasts 30 days, then you execute at least every 30 days, simple.

Plus they don't breed...Darwin in action.

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The plain truth

Say what you like, but the executed never re-offend. Or become a cult model. Or pollute the gene pool any more. Or cost money in accommodation and food once they are dead. Or get to spout off on TV documentaries about how they are hard, because they ain't there no more..

Americans can swear at toilets, judge rules

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so..

I can walk up to a bog and say "you're full of shit!", then..

Dell parks itself in PC superstores across Europe

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HAHAHHHAAA!

"..Dell vice president and EMEA general manager Mark Ormerod.."

For how long?

PC World parent awaits FTSE 100 relegation

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About right

We had a lot of grief (including phone being put down,etc) when we tried to return a faulty CPU cooler because it was knackered in the first year of purchase, they couldn't or wouldn't get their heads round it that we were entitled to our money back..

So, if anyone's reading this in the Romford branch, please fuck off and die.

Frenchman calculates 13th root of 200-digit number

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But..

Can he "fart in your general direction"?

Stripogram copper walks on offensive weapon rap

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Just enquiring

Do the WPC strippergrams batons have batteries in?

The black kevlar, thanks...

90mph police chief cops 42-day ban

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Validity

The posters who on the whole seem to be anti law and order or anti copper (despite the fact that he put his hands up), may find their credibility is enhanced by actually using correct spelling and grammar.

Posting ill thought out bollocks just makes the case for the other side better, and you? You look like dick brains.

Your choice.

NASA pondering electro-hypersonic jet boosters

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Plumbing the depths

Wasn't the Caterpillar Drive on Red Oktober a form of MHD?

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