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Of course it crashed.. (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Of course it crashed.. (Score:5, Funny)
In other news the Windows Vista car was slow off the line, but the car looked good and the driver was heard screaming "accept" as the car lurched forward and stopped every time he used the accelerator.
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Re:Of course it crashed.. (Score:5, Funny)
One horrible joke deserves another!
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The Blue Car of Death (Score:5, Funny)
Well, you have to admit... (Score:3)
Visual data? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Visual data? (Score:5, Informative)
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No... (Score:3, Funny)
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Putting your product, name or cause on a racecar is exactly why you don't see a "Windows" racecar.
Every time that car had a mishap, lots of jokes would be forthcoming.
The idea behind putting your name on a racecar is that if the car wins, then that win
is somehow transferred to the product. "If whoever can put a good, winning car out there must have a super product." Back in the days when tobacco companies sponsored racecars, it was supposed to mak
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Race car sponsorship is not that easy. It's all about product visibility. I'm a big F1 fan but I have a had time remembering who sponsors who. But I can tell you who the sponsors are, just from repeated exposure. For instance Mclaren just had a 1/2 at Monaco who sponsors Mclaren? But I can tell you who sponsored Lotus in the late 70s and williams in the mid 90s, JPS and Sega respectively.
The Indy 500 is a huge media event, nobody is going to make a big dea
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The reason was obvious (Score:5, Funny)
The penguin couldn't see over the dashboard.
Oblig pengion joke (Score:5, Funny)
It's a hot day, and not being an African penguin [wikipedia.org] doesn't like the heat and decides to get an ice cream cone to cool off.
Of course, hot as it is it drips all over her chest. An hour later she goes to check on her car.
"Looks like you blew a seal," the machanic says.
"Oh, no," laughs the penguin, "That's just ice cream."
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I blame Windows (Score:5, Funny)
Let a bot moderate this one (Score:5, Funny)
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to paraphrase John Glen (Score:5, Funny)
now we know how Bill Gates feels
A driver problem, for sure (Score:5, Funny)
Yep (Score:4, Funny)
ouch (Score:5, Funny)
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Not "Will Turner's Locker"... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not "Will Turner's Locker"... (Score:5, Funny)
Perhaps not, but lots of teenage girls would gladly give up their booty to him.
-l
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Calm down (Score:4, Funny)
Who's panicking? (Score:5, Funny)
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Yeah but (Score:5, Funny)
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Drinking (Score:5, Funny)
Aswathama hathaha (kunjarah) (Score:4, Funny)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yudhishtira#Drona.27
I guess 2007... (Score:5, Funny)
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Of course it crashed... (Score:3, Funny)
Not Ready (Score:4, Funny)
RTFM (Score:5, Funny)
I don't get it (Score:5, Funny)
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Dear Driver (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Good Publicity (Score:5, Insightful)
There was a slashdot story about it, so you have no reason to complain HERE about not knowing about it.
Actually, there almost wasn't a story here; out of about twenty or twenty-five submissions that I saw cross the firehose on various days, only one was not written by a complete fucking idiot.
Some had the URL only in the submitter's name. Some had no links; some of those had the URL in the text, and some didn't. Most of the rest had stupid pithy comments about linux. Some of them had people whining about how it hadn't appeared on the front page yet.
This is the standard state of affairs. It turns out that slashdot isn't actually a more intelligent group than any other bunch of people who like computers and have web access; probably 90-95% of the story submissions suffer from the same problems. There would be a lot more stories on the slashdot front page if the majority of people who submit them weren't dumbfucks. The sad thing is that a lot of the submitted stories are quite interesting, but a leet-speaking myspacecase would do a better job with the submission. At least kids know how to make links in HTML.
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Re:Good Publicity (Score:5, Insightful)
Sadly, yes. I have been spending quite some time in the firehose myself, and it is pretty terrible. IMHO, the firehose needs some additional options besides just a thumbs up/thumbs down.
This submission should be on the front page.
This submission is terrible but the subject should be posted on the front page.
The subject is terrible.
The linked-to article is obviously stupid/hoax/idiotic, but merits some discussion anyway.
This submission is on the same subject as (identify another submission)
This way, the editors could see, "Hey, this block of 20 submissions were all identified by firehosers as being of the same subject, and the subject is considered important, I'll look at a few of the submissions and cobble together something."
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Not NASCAR (Score:5, Funny)
OMFG! IT'S 1999 AGAIN!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_One [wikipedia.org]
I had picked the term off the indy500 web site and assumed the Indy class was a subset for F1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indy_Racing_League [wikipedia.org]