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Snails Edge Out ADSL

Posted by timothy on from the little-tiny-station-wagons dept.

Anonymous writes "Dear Sirs, Following our experiment last year, and after long preparations, we have successfully proved that certain gastropods called African giant snails can be faster then ADSL and ... pigeons. The system we have used, called SNAP (SNAil-based data transfer Protocol), uses biological carriers (snails), and, for the first time, taking advantages of the unique merits of the wheel for data transfer. More details can be found here."

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  1. THAN, for the love of... THAN! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dear Editors:

    Faster THAN. Faster THAN. Faster THAN.

    Same as:

    Smarter THAN. Better THAN. Other THAN. Fatter THAN. Uglier THAN. Costs more THAN. Performs better THAN. More difficult THAN. Takes more effort THAN. Tastes better THAN. Prints more clearly THAN. More structured THAN. More anonymous THAN. More cowardly THAN. More falsely THAN.

    Basic idea:

    THAN - used in comparison statements.
    THEN - used to demonstrate cause-and-effect