* Posts by Winkypop

5642 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

US entertainment lawyer casts doubt on Megaupload case

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Joke

Flight risk

I'd say!

Imagine sitting next to him in economy.

The guy is HUGE

Students busted for hacking computers, changing grades

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FAIL

Not smart, too greedy.

School wheezes and japes:

Rule # 1:

Don't tell anyone!

This often helps with the primary objective:

Don't get caught.

Newt Gingrich wants Moon to be 51st US state

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But what about the Nazi base?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034314/

Oh I get it, they can become US citizens too, like the V2 scientists did in 1945.

Planet-hunting Kepler hits EXOPLANET JACKPOT

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More utter amazement

Just 6 days!

6.

Wow...

Flag-waving Lego Canuck soars to 80,000ft

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Playmobile or it didn't happen

...oh!

iPad users 'risk shoulder pain', say US gov, Microsoft boffins

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iPad users also risk....

....looking like prats.

Mine's the one with the iPhone in the pocket.

Ah, here it is.

Pope praises Twitter and your 'profound' tweets

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"Authentic questions"

Would they be the dogma-controlled, do what you're told, don't ever change anything type of authentic questions or actual real enquiry?

The former I suspect.

Facebook to shove Timeline in EVERYONE'S face soon

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Pirate

My epitaph

Here I lie

Dead in a ditch

Never used Facebook

So get over it, BITCH!

Councils tout £1.2bn for IT whizkid to grab their backend

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Coffee/keyboard

"psychometric testing"

Well they can drop that useless idea for a start.

That's gotta save at least a fiver.

My invoice is in the mail.

'Space Monkey' craze: Texan students 'get high' by choking each other

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What's wrong with the old school methods?

Scotch + Weed + Pink Floyd album

The kids today, eh?

NASA shuts off Voyager 1's central heating

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Happy trails

This is a machine that will live in history, and perhaps long after.

Mars attacks! Morocco pelted with rocks from the Red Planet

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Not that long ago

Some tribe would have revered these rocks as a gift from the gods.

Good thing the human race has moved on since then....oh!

Modeling-clay iPads foisted on unwary Canucks

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Trollface

Refund clay-m?

Maybe it's an ancient Sumerian device.

All you need is a stick.

Australia, US agree to space junk talks

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Alien

Simple solution

Tell the junk to "look over there"!

Then just move the planet while it's not looking...

Fans goad Valve for Half-Life 3 gen

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Mushroom

HL 2.3 - yes please

After that, they can make HL 3 if they want.

New stealthy botnet Trojan holds Facebook users hostage

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The BigYin

High 5 !

McDonald's punters offered sex in exchange for Chicken McNuggets

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Alert

That's awful, just plain awful!

McDonalds, ick!

Zombie Olympics ticket resale site resurrected TODAY

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It could make the javelin more interesting.

And the hammer throw.

Zombie targets!

I'd pay to see THAT!.

Iraq demands return of Saddam Hussein's arse

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Send it back C.O.D

Let them pay the quite considerable postage....

First ever private rocket to space station in launch delay

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Cheese!

Sending cheese to the moon (space) is a bit like sending coals to Newcastle.

Olympics volunteers urged not to blab online

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The Olympics

Is that still going?

Crossley cops two-year suspension

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Trollface

Thanks for the laughs Andy!

Thanks for sharing...

Flog secondhand MP3s at your peril - law guru

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Joke

I played an old fashioned music CD out loud yesterday

I think the guy next door may have over heard it.

Am I screwed?

Is he screwed?

Help.

Hospital gopher fined for prying into ex's family records

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£15 victim surcharge

It's just not worth being a victim these days...

Murdoch slams White House over SOPA in Twitter row

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Devil

How disgusting....democracy at work

How did that happen, Rupe?

Better stamp it out, NOW.

It might catch on.

Mullumbimby’s plan to save the world peters out

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Good article

I loved this line:

"It’s akin to regarding the Royal Family’s attitude to homeopathy as scientific proof."

How to spot logical fallacies needs to be taught at school*

(* they certainly didn't teach me anyway)

Busted Phobos-Grunt in harmless splashdown

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Mushroom

Oh noes!

Isn't that the location where Godzilla sleeps?

Barclays axes 422 UK IT staff

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Devil

Gather together all the CEO's

Put them on a leaky boat.

Send them on a one-way cruise.

Oz skeptic offers prize if Rossi’s E-cat works

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Devil

One word

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

OK, maybe five...

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"wide-eyed, breathless and clueless"

Pro tip: such an introduction is unnecessary for anything printed by the Sydney Morning Herald.

Footie club sacks striker for homophobic tweet

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Amazed!

Who would have thought that rugby players knew how to write?

Stratfor slaps website back online after Anon mega-hack

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"Nobody in any lofty position carries any responsibility."

Except when it comes time to justify their massive salary package to the shareholders..

After that process....well, meh, who cares?

Billions of potentially populated planets in the galaxy

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Devil

Jesus, that's a lot of planets!

No wonder his dad rested on the 7th day....

* and don't give me that "god's days are longer crap....."

Hubble shows images from record-breaking 13.1 billion light-years

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This stuff is FAR!

You might enjoy this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF2HG1PVZok

French court fines Google $65k over search suggestion

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So, are they crooks?

People need to know...

Astronomers map largest ever zone of dark matter

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Thank you Star Ship Science

And all who sail within her!

Facebook VERY SLOWLY rolls out Timeline

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Trollface

Is Facebook compulsory?

No?

OK.

Mars rover seeks perfect suntan spot to survive winter

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Happy

"damage the panels"

Quite possibly, but after 8 years there's no longer any warranty conditions to worry about.

Black hole radiation could provide insight into quantum gravity

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In science we trust

May all their black holes radiate in a predicted and observable manner!

Cupertino lawyers mull 'driPhone' name ban

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FAIL

DriPhone or Dri Phone

Such an expensive difference....

<-- for trademarked fruit logo based company

Boffins demo time-warp cloaking device

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18,600 miles long

Or, 1 used silver DeLorean DMC-12.

Boffins hack evolution, create SUPERSOLDIER ANTS

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But isn't evolution only a theory?

Just kiddin'

Kodak heading to Chapter 11

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Maybe they should try Chapter 11

And see what develops.

Microsoft de-cloaks Windows 8 push-button lifesaver

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One button to delete them all, One button to restore them,

One button to bring them all and in the darkness deplore them.

Apple said to threaten legal action over Steve Jobs doll

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Big Brother

It's a doll

It's made of plastic.

Move along here, there's nothing to see.

Dammit Ramnit! Worm slurps 45,000 Facebook passwords

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Facebook users deserve.....

...oh, I see someone has already started that thread.

[Goes back into FB proof cage....]

At least 10 days till hot Phobos-Grunt chunks rain down

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Mushroom

"20 to 30 pieces with a total weight of less than 200kg"

Ummm, that means that some of these "chunks" may still be, well, quite chunky!

Run away!

Run away!

Lunar mineral turns up in Oz

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Alert

Useless stuff, like:

Iron ore

Petroleum

Gold

Alumina

Nickel

Base metals

Copper

Lead

Zinc

Coal

Diamonds

Salt

Uranium

and now Moon cheese!

Dagenham council: Only language our tenants understand is SMS

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Coming next....

...evictions via Twitter.