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It's already happened, specifically in the Republican primary elections:

Short version: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByJAC-sfXwumZzI2bVlON2VTMnFyYVZZSnpDYnNyQQ/edit?pli=1
Long Version: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByJAC-sfXwumdkE4d0Y2eWtURTZ2eDM5RmlLc3ZhQQ/edit?pli=1

From Google Nasdaq FB

18.98 +0.02 (0.11%)
Sep 7 - Close
Range 18.78 - 19.42
52 week 17.55 - 45.00
Open 19.10
Vol / Avg. 36.37M/51.68M
Mkt cap 40.66B
P/E 105.96

So down to well under 1/2 of the IPO opening price - if was Gomez Addams I'd be breaking out the champagne!

After the train wreck? :-D

From Google Nasdaq FB

18.98 +0.02 (0.11%)
Sep 7 - Close
Range 18.78 - 19.42
52 week 17.55 - 45.00
Open 19.10
Vol / Avg. 36.37M/51.68M
Mkt cap 40.66B
P/E 105.96

So down to well under 1/2 of the IPO opening price - if was Gomez Addams I'd be breaking out the champagne!

In Canada all contractors that I am aware of (maybe 80 people) are incorporated. 1 man corporations. In Germany and Switzerland I know a couple of dozen people who do the same, also incorporated.

I am sure many people can post here, confirming their own experience.

Spain used to be a police state under Franco, and I believe the guardia civil is still quite feared there, but even then I've never heard of them entering the home of a disabled army veteran and shooting him for no reason, and getting away with it.

I don't even know what case you're talking about, and I searched and could not find it. As for Spain: http://www.google.com/search?q=spain%20police%20brutality

Italy is notorious for its endemic corruption, but as far as I know, not to the extent that people fear the police. No doubt lots of police there have been bribed by the mafia, but even they don't shoot, taze, mace or kick citizens for no reason, and if they do, they will be investigated, unlike in the US, where police very often get away with police brutality.

Justice?: "Eleven years after Italian police savagely beat scores of protesters at the Genoa G8 meeting in 2001, leaving one British activist in a coma, an Italian court has upheld the convictions of senior officers for their roles in the raid.

The decision by Italy's cassation court, after an initial trial and an appeal, draws a definitive line underneath the violence, which Amnesty International described as the most serious suspension of democratic rights in a western country since the second world war.

The final sentences have been watered down by the statute of limitations and the accused will not be jailed, but a number of top-ranking officers now face five-year suspensions from duty."

By the way, your corruption perception index seems to be about corruption in general, and not specifically police brutality.

You're right, but it was the best I could come up with to get a listing, and I think this kind of thing goes hand in hand.

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=carpool&c=apps

I guess I'm going to my local Walmart and picking up a Nexus 7 now. Walmart, of all places!

Or just buy it directly from Google. https://play.google.com/store/devices

The more protection the better!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hhnjdplhmcnkiecampfdgfjilccfpfoe?hl=en

Also FYI, I typoed the URL for Google's ad preferences. Here is the correct URL: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/ -- I left off the "s" at the end of "preferences". Mea culpa.

It's already starting to bother me. I'm seeing these advertisements here on Slashdot too. After I've searched for something on Google, the related advertisements start to come up EVERYWHERE on the internet. Seriously, they come after you. If you search for specific flights you start to see ads for that everyone. It'll haunt you and there's nothing you can do.

Not true: you can change your Google Ad Preferences or opt-out.

Similarly, you can use the NAI's opt-out page to opt-out of Google and other ad network tracking.

There's plenty of browser plugins that work to block ads entirely (such as AdBlock) and ones that ensure that the "opt-out" cookies stay in existence even if you clear your other cookies.

All the other browsers than Safari and IE are in bed with advertisers because both Firefox and Opera get revenue directly from Google.

The default search box in those browsers comes configured to use Google, yes. They do get income from ad revenue stemming from searches from the box. You're not forced to use that search box, nor are you forced to use the default settings -- you can add other search providers (like DuckDuckGo, ixquick, etc.) -- Firefox, for one, doesn't have ad agreements with anyone other than Google.

So for the love of god Apache Project, stop taking bribes from Google and doing evil things like this!

Is there evidence that the Apache project is "taking bribes from Google"?

My understanding from the article is that an individual contributed a patch to the the Apache httpd.conf source code and does not reflect the official viewpoint of the Apache Foundation, nor that the patch has been approved for inclusion. Naturally, I welcome any corrections.

Best explanation ever!

Hope you don't mind me copying it (though difficult to accredit it properly)

https://plus.google.com/u/0/106639317314065291577/posts/ZLNdUUCvMnm

Google has not built a data center in Sao Paulo, Brazil. They use third-party facilities there.

I also found these:

http://www.google.com/about/jobs/locations/bogota/ops-support/data-center/
http://www.google.com/about/jobs/locations/buenos-aires/ops-support/data-center/
http://www.google.com/about/jobs/locations/lima/ops-support/data-center/

I don't why these misleading URLs exist. Maybe future Data Centers?

If you click on "Latin America (4)" you find only one entry: "Santiago (4)".

Google has not built a data center in Sao Paulo, Brazil. They use third-party facilities there.

I also found these:

http://www.google.com/about/jobs/locations/bogota/ops-support/data-center/
http://www.google.com/about/jobs/locations/buenos-aires/ops-support/data-center/
http://www.google.com/about/jobs/locations/lima/ops-support/data-center/

I don't why these misleading URLs exist. Maybe future Data Centers?

If you click on "Latin America (4)" you find only one entry: "Santiago (4)".

Google has not built a data center in Sao Paulo, Brazil. They use third-party facilities there.

I also found these:

http://www.google.com/about/jobs/locations/bogota/ops-support/data-center/
http://www.google.com/about/jobs/locations/buenos-aires/ops-support/data-center/
http://www.google.com/about/jobs/locations/lima/ops-support/data-center/

I don't why these misleading URLs exist. Maybe future Data Centers?

If you click on "Latin America (4)" you find only one entry: "Santiago (4)".

how the hell else am I going to find anything at all negative about a guy with that much money? I sure as hell ain't gonna see it on Fox News. Yeah, the gaff is from Fox, but good luck ever seeing it covered again, let alone story after story about it.

Some rockets are launched this way. The Delta IV is built on a launch pad and the entire building rolls out of the way for launch.

The old Titan IV was similar.

Also during Apollo there was a temporary access structure that was as big as the rocket called the Mobile Service Structure that was moved around with the crawlers.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.savethelut.org/photos/Apollo%252011%2520LUT%2520and%2520SS.jpg&imgrefurl=http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LUT_Group/links/LUT_Photo_Scans_001010527570/&h=2391&w=3021&sz=1203&tbnid=nFgUFKgMOtkbmM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=114&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dapollo%2Bservice%2Bstructure%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=apollo+service+structure&usg=__gD1s6DxMp1cFJnWTpJ8ajQ9Kk1o=&docid=T1q00Ujf8pRAwM&sa=X&ei=BIZKUPaFBIL-9QSiwIHADA&ved=0CC4Q9QEwAw&dur=437

Ahhh the ever classic and ever useless "Works for me!" and it gets modded insightful, surprise. Well I have an old G3 running OSX and an AMD 6 core that runs Win 7, both "work for me!" so all operating systems must be perfect huh?

The sad part is Linux could be fixed easily, but not as long as Torvalds and his gang of old schoolers are at the helm. Fire Torvalds, lock down a solid API and ABI where breakage is not allowed for...lets say 7 years, that gives you a nice middle ground between OSX's 5 and Windows 10, get rid of X-Server for....frankly anything because its fine for enterprise but a client/server model on a single user desktop is just retarded, and lock down all system required code, DEs, sound, wireless, for a period of 6 years so that devs can't just keep cranking foo+1 without fixing foo, basically bring some stability and a set timetable to Linux. Oh and don't bring up LTS because as we've seen with Ubuntu LTS is a code word for "won't port shit" which simply the fact that you have to port fricking programs to make them work is a failwhale right there.

But hell if you won't listen to me how about one of the RH devs that has plenty of not nice things to say about the Linux desktop, or how about fixing this list of major Linux problems which if I were to put the original list up here and let you compare them you'd see about half of these are 3+ year old bugs...gentleman that is not acceptable.

If anyone wants Linux to give us a "third way" its me, MSFT gouging on licenses costs me around 40% of each sale and makes me keep prices higher than I'd like to cover the licenses. Hell I'd be happy to pay $25 a pop for Linux licenses to a desktop OS that actually worked and continued to work for a decade like Windows, but it just doesn't exist. You update and things break, they break because Torvalds and Co. treat the entire guts of Linux as their personal pet project. Well it ain't 1992 anymore Linus, time for you to quit screwing shit up because you feel like it. You have people depending on Linux now, its not supposed to be your hobby toy, time to grow up.

It was actually Earvin "Magic" Johnson who was declared HIV positive. And yes, he has remained AIDS free. While I personally find this miraculous to the point of incredulity, I'm willing to believe he has a good combination of genetics, a fantastic health regimen, and lots of money for experimental drugs to stave off full-blown AIDS. For the record, there are recorded cases of people who live with the HIV virus and never show symptoms without taking ANY special medication.

HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus, has been traced back to simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which has been traced back to feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), which has been traced back to bovine immunodeficiency virus (BIV). Some web hits.

If I understand things correctly, retroviruses tend, over time, to evolve to be less than fatal to the host. That's just basic selection pressure -- if a virus kills its host, it's lost its home; meanwhile, the selection pressure on host is to not be killed by the infection. At the extreme, quickly lethal diseases tend to burn themselves out, thereby self-limiting, much as seen with the Ebola virus, for which breakouts flare up, then ebb again as infected people die too quickly for the disease to spread. FIV tends not to be fatal to large cats, much as BIV tends not to be fatal to cows, water buffalo, and their ilk. I think SIV has similarly evolved to a more stable and less fatal plateau. There are already reported cases of people who test positive for HIV infection but who remain asymptomatic, even individuals without access to the broad array of medical treatments that Magic Johnson can avail himself of. At least one genetic mechanism has been identified that confers a resistance to certain types of HIV infection; it's possible that Magic Johnson has this particular mutation, or perhaps some other genetic quirk that helps his body keep HIV from running rampant.

Cheers,

eHow articles are written by people who are paid $1 to talk out of their ass. Probably the same people who wrote so many Yahoo Answers earlier but are now getting paid to do it.
Cure: Search Filter extension for Chrome.

For those of us who don't know mph, here's some conversions to km/h:

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+85+mph+in+kph (etc)

100mph =~ 160.934km/h (by definition)
95mph =~ 152.9
90mph =~ 144.8km/h
85mph = ~136.8km/h (motorways in Italy, among other countries, have speed limits of 130km/h)
80mph =~ 128.7km/h
75mph =~ 128.7km/h
74.5mph =~ 120km/h (this is the motorway speed limit in Ireland)
70mph =~ 112.65 km/h (this is the motorway speed limit in the UK)

no we don't.

Recipes aren't copyrightable. Any recipe you can find is "free as in freedom".

If you want to see basically all the current graphical data available on sea ice in Arctis, you want Arctic sea ice graphs. Take a look!

restricting trade with China, even though they are throwing so much pollution into the sky we can detect it in California

Why does everyone blame China? Care to look in your own backyard?

There is natural variability but proxy studies of long term sea ice show it's been at least around 8,000 years since sea ice has been this low and more likely over 100,000 years during the last interglacial.

The Sun has been through three 11 year cycles since the first satellite went up in 1979 and there's not much correlation between it and sea ice in the record. Volcanoes would normally have a cooling effect and I'm not aware that there has been a significant increase in volcanic activity anyway.

The sea ice trends have been steadily downwards during the satellite era especially during the past 6 years as shown by the graphs on this page.

You're forgetting Toronto. And if you use a non-americo-centric definition of western hemisphere you're also forgetting Dublin and maybe London.

I was basing the comment on Google's published list of data center locations, which does not include Toronto, Dublin, or London.

To put that in perspective, light in a vacuum travels around 20 nm in 67 attoseconds, so the width of the pulse is about the same as the width of the smallest virus or about 1/350th the 7um diameter of a human blood cell.

For those that don't know, Sharp recently built their tenth-generation glass substrate and LCD factory in Sakai, Japan. This is, bar-none, the most advanced, efficient, and green LCD manufacturing facility in the world. To further lower costs, their main suppliers moved their factories just next door to the Sakai plant.

When Sharp first made this plant, it seemed like Japan would come to dominate the LCD industry, again. Sharp had deals with all the major LCD players to manufacture parts for them to use in their own brands. Notably, SONY was a huge investor in the Sakai facility. The Sakai plant was going to produce the best LCD TV components, and SONY has a long history of using top-of-the-line components in their products.

Sharp has fallen on hard times because of two primary issues:
1. The economy, stupid
2. The inexplicable and dramatic rise of the yen

When Sharp first made the facility, it made it big, and it expected big demand. BOOM! global economic meltdown. That seriously hurt Sharp, but at least they still had their deals with other companies to buy their industry-best components. Well, a consequence of the meltdown, quantitative easing, uncertainty, etc, is that the Japanese yen has skyrocketed in value.

I studied abroad in Japan from 2007-2008. At that time, I got about 121 yen per USD. Now the rate is half that. That means Made in Japan is 50% more expensive in the US (and most everywhere else) than it was, before. This is what is killing Sharp. This is what is killing all Japanese manufacturers. Modern Japan developed as an export economy, and with the yen as strong as it is, it is struggling to export. Many of their industries are diversified; for example, Honda has the ability to manufacture the same Honda Civic in Japan or the US, then ship it to whichever country it wants to sell it in depending on the exchange rates. Sharp has put all its eggs in the Made in Japan basket (not a bad decision at the time; I would certainly prefer a Made in Japan TV for a small premium, and I know others would, too), and now that basket is way too expensive to compete.

Unless the yen weakens, Sharp will fail. If they fail, somebody is going to take over the Sakai factory, because it is just too new, too advanced, and too efficient to let disappear.

Wow... for 10% of the price you could have bought one of these

I understand boycotting the arrogant Google assholes, but what has Toyota done to you?

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I'm a professional asshole

I was going to mod you up, then I tried the link... "Page Not Found The page you requested could not be found."

Then I googled it and guess what was the first hit? That missing page.

Then I noticed that all of the links on the first page of results were rougly identical... except one: a Forbes article that included:

(Author's note: Apparently, some folks are upset that I didn't explicitly state that this original story appeared on a satirical site - though I clearly linked to it in the piece. The point of my piece was to point out that it couldn't possibly be true - not to "debunk" a satire. It was meant to remind folks not to simply share without reading - also in the original story - and not to merely rely on a headline or a sentence in an email for your news. Those of you who stop by the blog regularly get that and I appreciate it. I'm not going to change the original piece but I am going to clarify this in big red letters at the top so that the rest of you can sleep a little better.)

So it looks like Snopes needs to add this one.

The part you lost me at was here-

"
"There's no particular reason why any one of those functions could only be carried out on a centralized system. I can envision a distributed protocol with many different servers, or 'nodes,' run by different hosting companies, and each 'node' can be used to store many accounts
"

*I* can envision a distributed protocol with many different servers, or 'nodes', run by *the users themselves*, and each 'node' can be used to store many accounts...

Note that I've recently filed an FCC Form 2000F complaint about Google's anti-network-neutrality bahavior as they are entering the fixed broadband ISP market here in Kansas City, Kansas. It's something of a quixotic war about the right for all end users of fixed broadband connections protecting their FCC-10-201(p13) rights to create successful content, applications, services, and devices on the general purpose technology of the (IPv6) internet. You can read the 57 post, 14 author (out of 23 members) thread in the discussion forum of the Kansas Unix and Linux Users Association here-

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/kulua-l/LxsOtdglNM0

2: The system was rigged from the ground up to give lots of coins to people hopping on first

You mean just like stocks in any startup?

4: The lack of open source clients.

All of the ones I know of are open source.

The "official" one for desktops can be found here: https://github.com/bitcoin

A Java implementation used by the most popular mobile client is here: http://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/

The rest of your points were opinions - I just wanted to point out the verifiable falsehoods.

he is being held on terrorism charges not related to TPB

No, he's not being held on any kind of terrorism charges, nor do your links say that either. It says he's being held by the Cambodian interior ministry's "counter terrorism department", for whatever reason. Sweden is however seeking Svartholm for questioning on additional charges related to hacking into tax records, which is a case that's been developing for a few months, with several other arrests.

Peter Sunde, a TPB founder, seems to think that it is related to the fact that Svartholm's company used to host WikiLeaks.

Well, that would apparently be wrong. And a stupid gues as well. Why would they go after him now for his company formerly hosting them? Especially since they're currently hosted by the Swedish ISP Bahnhof?

The 400 million SEK it for a period of 2 years.

From the press release

"The Agreement covers the period 2012-2013. The Swedish support for the two-year –period will amount to SEK 400 million (approx. 40 million euros or 57 million US dollars)."

Just slightly more than the 180 million SEK they gave in 2011.

Except homeopathy isn't cheap. Six bucks and upwards for a small bottle.

Cost of a bottle of mint solution? Bulk purchased through the NHS? Probably under a buck.

Stop giving silly names like "coilgun" Birkeland's venerable Electromagnetic Gun. (patent (1902) (A fanciful tale, worth reading))

https://plus.google.com/u/0/114476892281222708332/posts/246srfbqg6G

This article is 100% pure wishful thinking. I mean

So, I obliged, and showed him a few things. He commented on Windows 7, so I opened up my virtual machine of OS/X

I don't know what the fuck OS/X is, but if he meant OS X, how is that even legal? AFAIK Apple only permits running their OS in a VM on their hardware.
So he fooled some technically illiterate person into believing he could run Mac OS X on any hardware without trouble. But what does it have to do with Samsung?

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/08/30/1634234/side-effect-of-the-apple-v-samsung-trial-increased-sales-for-samsung

It has nothing to do with people wanting to "stick it to companies they don't like" and everything to do with Apple saying that Samsung's devices are as good as Apple devices and people listening and wondering why should they pay so much more for something of the same value.

No, it doesn't. If that is as always units shipped vs units sold, it might be based on retailers realizing there would be no sales ban, it has nothing to do with bad PR, most people outside Slashdot just don't give a fsck.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/114476892281222708332/posts/246srfbqg6G

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/08/30/1634234/side-effect-of-the-apple-v-samsung-trial-increased-sales-for-samsung

It has nothing to do with people wanting to "stick it to companies they don't like" and everything to do with Apple saying that Samsung's devices are as good as Apple devices and people listening and wondering why should they pay so much more for something of the same value.

You do well to question that number, because it's batshit insane bullshit.

Given the projectile dimensions stated (5.6mm x 16mm) and muzzle velocity (100m/s), it's 16J or a bit less, as that doesn't account for the conical ogive, which reduces the mass. This is on the weak side of 22 BB caps.

I didn't watch the video -- is it possible 500J was the input power?

Your question needs some editing, I think. But it sounds like you want to know if i386 mode on new processors can use the new registers? The answer to that is no.

The only sort of "mixing of modes" (sort of) is x32, which has the cpu set to x64 mode, but only 32-bit pointers are used. This can be useful in some workloads where more than 4GB of address space is not needed, and the smaller and sometimes faster program footprint is beneficial. https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/

Civilization IV "sucks" About 113,000 Results
Civilization 5 "sucks" About 3,160,000 results

I abstained from purchasing V, so I can't say from firsthand knowledge... but I followed and participated in numerous threads on civfanatics.com; had many conversations with long-time modders, and fans of CIV4 ... and watched countless threads on civfanatics devolve into haters vs defenders. The most amusing part being that the defenders would always claim that "this is how it always is when a new CIV is released ... people hate it" --- except in Civ5's case the hate didn't lessen or go away.

A couple searches on Amazon indicates that Civ4 has still sold better than Civ5. It'd be interesting to know the full numbers (from all sources), but its hardly in 2KGames best interest to release that - if in fact Civ4 has sold that much better than the 5th iteration.

This was one of my favorite (in-depth) articles about Civ5:

What Went Wrong with Civ5? (by Sulla)
------ And the discussion of Sulla's analysis on CivFanatics :: "The Bad Sequel": Sullla's Analysis of Civ5

Civilization IV "sucks" About 113,000 Results
Civilization 5 "sucks" About 3,160,000 results

I abstained from purchasing V, so I can't say from firsthand knowledge... but I followed and participated in numerous threads on civfanatics.com; had many conversations with long-time modders, and fans of CIV4 ... and watched countless threads on civfanatics devolve into haters vs defenders. The most amusing part being that the defenders would always claim that "this is how it always is when a new CIV is released ... people hate it" --- except in Civ5's case the hate didn't lessen or go away.

A couple searches on Amazon indicates that Civ4 has still sold better than Civ5. It'd be interesting to know the full numbers (from all sources), but its hardly in 2KGames best interest to release that - if in fact Civ4 has sold that much better than the 5th iteration.

This was one of my favorite (in-depth) articles about Civ5:

What Went Wrong with Civ5? (by Sulla)
------ And the discussion of Sulla's analysis on CivFanatics :: "The Bad Sequel": Sullla's Analysis of Civ5

The deflationary argument is simple, neat and wrong. But you don't have to believe me. Read what economists at the Minneapolis Fed found when they studied it.

Are deation and depression empirically linked? No, concludes a broad historical study of ination and real output growth rates. Deation and depression do seem to have been linked during the 1930s. But in the rest of the data for 17 countries and more than 100 years, there is virtually no evidence of such a link.

> manhole cover moving about about 0.1c

A manhole cover has a mass over 50kg. Traveling at 0.1C, it's kinetic energy would be over 2x10^18 joules, which is about half a gigaton TNT equivalent.

By comparison, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated had a yield of 50 megatons.

Moral of the story: never underestimate the venerable C (when compared to human scale objects and measurements).

It's worrisome that nobody seems to be thinking seriously about the privacy side of the equation.
This is so far off from reality, it's actually insulting. It's insulting to the plethora of papers out there, to the researchers and engineers working to safeguard privacy in networked cars, those researchers identifying new forms of privacy and coming up with protocols and systems to safeguard those.

In this day and age, ignorance which is solved with the first Google query that pops in your head is no longer an excuse, it's an insult.
Just frakkin' Google it.

Well, that doesn't apply to appropriations.

So, basically, the business of the United States government can continue on.

But it might be hard to pass new laws (creating new messes).

Some people like that.

Dammit, VIRTUALIZATION.

When the hell is Mozilla going to put that in the default en_US dictionary already?

I dunno (that word "dunno" is in the dictionary), having to add words to the dictionary is a double edged sword: On the one hand, I have to resort to a google search with define: [word] to check the spelling before adding a word. On the other hand it artificially inflates my vocabulary ego.

You can tell a lot about a person from their personal dictionary (in your profile directory as persdict.dat). Here's a random sampling from mine:

offline, Ouya, uncorrectably, favorable, strategize, captcha, aggregator, greebles, overridable, Zaphod, fairytales, reimplementations, unpublishing, vortices, public's, transducing, Occam, something's, Youtube, Higgs, loathesome, Transducing, melee, QoS, deduplication, everything's, malware, Centauri, programmatically, automata, reductio, unpatched, apps, Davlik, chronologic, emissive, phishing, Online, contacter, interoperate, patentability, unaffordability, Kinect, discoverability, transdimensional, Orbiter, comedically, indie, stateful, Assange, Ubuntu's, infringers, Compize, templating, aggregators, modders, unsubscribe, C'thulhu, virtualization, cyber, hacktivist, Endorphins, Eldritch, Terabyte, transduced, versioning, exaflop, Hitchhiker's, programming's, Transcoding, burrito, melatonin, Occam's, draggable, rebranding, Caffeinated, Comcast, platformer, miscommunications, destructors, immersive, begets, Modders, caffeinated, dirigible's, explodability, terraforming, Desynchronisation, noninfringing, netizens, all-nighter, microtransaction, transduce, microtransactions, unaffordable, Encephelon, eldritch, Moore's, defacto, endorphin, serivce, Netflix, prococol, Slashdot, Schooler's, vertices, rebranded, dystopian, Theora, leapt, reimplement, signedness, droids, millennia, gameplay, virtualized, exascale, incentivized, duopolies, conflagrate, Beeblebrox, strategizing, Cyberneticists, hitchhiker's, Icarus, debacle, desynchronization, absurdum, Wikipedia, loosers, cyberneticist, machinima, shaders, endorphins, ISP, rebrand, searchable, offline, Virgon, Vertices, Wasabi, Collider, Zombified, voxel, vortices, vertices, renderable, teleport, voxels, creational, Centauri, octupled, programmatically, Modder, admin, immediately, Schrödinger, dreamt, everything's, spelunking, mancubus, modding, Mobius, griefers, modders, Octree's, scriptable, Wolfensein's, Automasanti, versioning, thermite, teleporter, minification, platformer, sexualize, Tourette's, infringers, Automata, theremins, unobtainium, Encephelon, deconstruct, Reznor, modder, Machinima, Renderable, verifiably, online, octree, Torvalds, Octrees, teleportation, programatically, Virtualized, platformers, antumbra, Szechuan, gameplay, antihydrogen, Rijndael, tessellator, Nonillion, teleporters, plugins, tetromino, Cyberneticist

I must say, this is the first time I've heard of Belgium used as proof that there is a god. Actually, a quick google of god belgium shows that if there is a god, then god isn't too fond of Belgium.

That things is completely ridiculous.

If you have to build a custom case because your cooler is a giant turbine, you might as well go with immersion as so many others have in the past.

A computer is just a computer. It doesnt become a apple pc or a windows pc until you load the operating system on it. You can load OS or windows 7 on the exact same pc.

You can load OS X on the PC in question if either either 1) the PC is sold by Apple Inc. ("PC" here meaning just "personal computer", so, in that sense, Apple sells them) or 2) you've made a Hackintosh out of it.

I.e., to use OS X you must by an Apple machine or do some hacks.