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  1. Re:This is interesting... on Internet Hunting · · Score: 1

    Why do you think that animals need to be terribly different from humans?
    Why should a cat feel different while playfully kicking stuff around than a human?

  2. Re:sometimes low tech is best on NY Times Endorses Open-Source Election Software · · Score: 1

    A) Ballots get "switched" on the way to the counting place.
    Why whould you move them away from the voting place?

    B) Ballots are put into the wrong piles for who the person voted for.
    C) Ballots are "miscounted".

    Not easy to pull off when several people are watching and the piles get counted for the second time.

    D) Ballots are "lost".
    Drop contents of a sealed box on an empty table in a sparesly furnitured room, while several people are watching. Arrange the ballots into neat piles. Short of stuffing some up your sleeves, there are not many possibilities to hide ballots.

    E) Ballots are erased and re-inked.
    Under the eyes of supporters of The Other Guy[TM]?

    F) Your system forgot the write-in ballots which require someone to read anothers handwriting
    Strangely enough, humans haver read other humans hamdwriting for a few thousand years. If several people can't agree what name is written on the ballot, just don't count it. Btw, how do Diebold machines handle write in candidates?

  3. this review is over 2 months old on Review: U-571 · · Score: 1

    ...as you can see here:
    http://groups.google.de/groups?q=naval+U-57 1&hl=de &lr=&selm=20020305113829.03924.00001407%40mb-ck.ne ws.cs.com&rnum=3

  4. Re:If this is what it takes ... on Genetically-Engineered Super-Athletes? · · Score: 1

    "... to make gene therapy cheap and safe, then let's not worry too much!"

    It does not need to be cheap. Plenty of sponsors there.
    It does not need to be save. Plenty of athlets there.

  5. and the african Africans? on Genetically-Engineered Super-Athletes? · · Score: 1

    AFAIK there was no such breeding in Kenya, for example, yet a lot of runners come from there.

  6. try openlaw.org on Public Comment Period In MS/DOJ Battle · · Score: 1

    "Openlaw is an experiment in crafting legal argument in an open forum"

  7. Re:Hooray for Germany! on German Parliament Considers Linux · · Score: 1

    Wrong!
    It was never forbidden to sing, print or recite the first two verses.
    It was just a kind of consensus that it would be more acceptable to use the third verse for offical events. Short after WWII the German people (notabene in the west of G.) knew quite well the difference between "Unity and Justice and Freedom" and their opposits.

  8. Does it matter what we believe? on Global Warming: Do You Believe? · · Score: 1

    Global warming is not a subject of polls or democratic decicions. By the way, i've got the impression that this discussion shows a weak spot in human brains: We don't look at the facts and choose an opinion (wihich includes to change it when new facts arise), but we choose an opinion and see only the facts we want to see.

  9. Re:Question of convenience on Australian Consumer Body May Attack DVD Zoning. · · Score: 1

    I don't agree with that one. In Germany for example, you usally get US movies without bonus material and even that long after they are for sale in America. And belive it or not, there are people in Europe and America who would like to buy, say, japanese movies. Go to your local DVD shop and try!

  10. History was:At least I got a good Sig on MSNBC Accused of Rigging OS Poll · · Score: 1

    It is commonly believed in Germany that this quote is from W. Churchill.
    Indeed it is from Joseph Goebbels (Nazi Propaganda Minister) who claimed it was from Churchill.
    --

  11. Re:random thoughts on Io Has Geysers, Lakes And Snow · · Score: 1

    To answer your question:
    I think it is pronouced like "YO"

  12. Heise has it covered on I Love You "Virus" Hates Everyone · · Score: 1

    http://www.heise.de Site is in German, You may want to use this little fish

  13. slashdotted? on Help Beta Test The New Slashdot Server · · Score: 1

    I can't get the page. Looks like slashdot is slashdotted.

  14. Bribery Ratings on Confirmed: U.S. Spies On European Corporations · · Score: 1

    Have a look at www.transparency.org and tell me if the US or most european nations have a bigger problem with bribery! BTW.: Think that the NSA discovers a new technology at Airbus Inc. Whom will they give the tecnology to? MDD? Boeing? anybody else? To the biggest/strongest/weakest/friendliest Megaconcern?

  15. Re:What is Querstrich? on Language Translation Domain Name Claims · · Score: 1

    "Querstrich" would be "-" (not the mathematical operator, which would be called "minus"