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Isn't that just the beauty of slashdot, someone starts a pissing contest and we end up quoting Joyce.

Christian Cook
thinctanc.co.uk

This concept has been bandied about for use as a 'sonic weapon.' Here and here have some details.

The bowel movement is not the main 'thrust' of the argument for weaponry use however as a high percentage of soldiers soil themselves in combat anyway.

Christian Cook
thinctanc.co.uk

Now we need a stone one, a gold one and a meat one.

cue 'back to stone tablets' joke.

As for the meat one, cue biotech jokes, sexual jokes and Fifth Element quotes.

So where's the thread?

Thread's dead, baby.

Christian Cook

Sig still gratuitous, so be warned: thinctanc

I cannot recall actually accusing you of anything, so I'll assume you have something to hide that you feel guilty about. ;)

I was merely posting a facetious remark to the previous comment.

However, I consider myself respectfully taken issue with.

I would challenge you to step outside, but there's probably a 10,000 miles between us and it's currently raining here.

Christian Cook.
The following link is my sig and is not relevant to this post, so you are under no obligation to even read it. In fact, it does border on gratuitous to an obscene level. www.thinctanc.co.uk

Goodbye Karma, we hardly knew you.

The apostrophe crack I liked, it was funny, but I must respectively take issue with your accusation.

Gratuitous? Perhaps I could see your point if my submission was littered with links to my own website -- which is completely unrelated to the submission -- then I might agree with you. As it is, though, I merely linked to my pops' site because it is, at least somewhat, related to the submission and gives a bit of background as to why he would have run across a link such as this.

Furthermore, last time I checked (i.e. just before I clicked submit - "Check those URLs!), my dad wasn't charging for his photos. Although if you were so inclined I'm sure he'd gladly make an exception and accept a monetary donation.

;)

You mean you aren't interested in buying the photos of the moon taken by the father of the Slashdotter who posted the link about the telescope that was one of many built by the guy who discovered Pluto?

Christian Cook

www.thinctanc.co.uk

As this article shows, it isn't just a question of virus writers targeting largest market share.

Yes, if everyone switched then there would be far more non-Windows viruses (Or virii, if you want, nip that linguistic flame-war in the bud right now), but that isn't to say that the alternatives are only more secure due to the lack of targeting.

Christian Cook
www.thinctanc.co.uk

The issue here is about creativity, not technical progression of manual tasks. The issue here is that people are taking something they want without replenishing the creative source in order to enable them to make more of the same in the future... or should that be make more that is different. If we want more of the same, we always have Pop Idol.

Does this mean I am waving the banner for the RIAA? Not at all, but the analogy of manual labour replacing human beings on automated tasks in this instance is flawed.

We're talking about taking the creativity out of the hands of the corporate leeches and into the hands of some system that fairly pays creatives to stay creative without blanket taxing humanity.

As for the answer, I admit I do not have one to hand, but I'm sure many other people here have one ;)

Christian Cook
www.thinctanc.co.uk