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  1. Re:It figures! on Social Networks Force Barilla Chairman To Apologize For His Anti-gay Remarks · · Score: 1

    Several Barilla's competitors expressed support for LGBT equality. Buitoni, an Italian food group owned by Nestle, was probably the first one to post a photo on their company Facebook page with the caption 'At Casa Buitoni, there is room for everyone.' Buitoni US division also posted a photo on their facebook page as explained on http://www.inquisitr.com/970331/barilla-pasta-boycott-addressed-by-competitors-buitoni-bertolli/

  2. Misleading news on Google Italy Execs Convicted Over YouTube Bullying Video · · Score: 5, Informative

    The video was NOT removed as soon as it was brought to Google's attention.
    According to the prosecutors the video remained online for two months even though web users had already asked for it to be taken down.

    It is also worth mentioning that Google execs will not serve jail time because in Italy sentences of less than three years are commuted for people without criminal records.

  3. Re:This is what linguists have been waiting for on Monkeys With Syntax · · Score: 1

    The funny thing is that I can't really be defined as an American liberal. Mine was intended to be a joke, without any of the political malignancies you and others found in it. To put it blunty: the guy, no matter his political views and decisions, couldn't deliver a proper speech and was frequently involuntarily funny ("Is Our Children Learning?").
    I could have joked about the syntax of 13-years-olds online which may turn out to be much less complex than that of any other primates, but I'm not sure it would have been equally funny, especially considering that teenagers are not world leaders addressing respectable audiences...

  4. Re:This is what linguists have been waiting for on Monkeys With Syntax · · Score: 1

    No, I'm sick and tired of the extended partisan hatred: Dems against Nixon, Reagan and W, Republicans against the Clintons (although it all seems to have shifted towards BHO).

    The partisan vituperation against most sitting presidents in the past 40 years is also really frickin' old.

    Believe it or not, I wasn't expressing a political judgement on the former US President. More simply, one on Bush the public orator whose frequent mistakes were, frankly, rather embarrassing.

  5. Re:This is what linguists have been waiting for on Monkeys With Syntax · · Score: 1

    The war is over, you won, W is gone. Now GIVE IT A FUCKING REST ALREADY!!!!

    A little nervous, eh?
    There was no war... As to the war against idiots, well, I like to quote De Gaulle on this: "Vaste programme, en effet."

  6. Re:This is what linguists have been waiting for on Monkeys With Syntax · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ... a chance to really look at a real proto-syntax, because all human languages have a very strongly developed syntax.

    I must assume that you have never heard Dubya speaking.

  7. Re:Kindle killer? on Barnes & Noble's Nook, Reviewed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Personally I'm not so sure that it is the belated international availability which dwarfs the iconic status of the Kindle. The iPhone too was only available for the US market for a long while. Certainly, the unavailability of a product doesn't help its popularity, but many other factors (not all imputable to Amazon itself), contribute to the somewhat limited extent to which people around the world have reacted to the "revolution" which Amazon was hoping to bring with its device.

  8. Clipperz.com on Best Tool For Remembering Passwords? · · Score: 1

    I use clipperz, a free and anonymous online password manager which comes in an offline version too. It is based on open standards, proven encryption technologies, and has no vendor lock-in, and full anonymity.

    http://www.clipperz.com/

    I like the philosophy behind it and the people who have developed it.

    If you use it, please consider a donation =)

  9. Re:Orwell himself gives a solution on Jeff Bezos Offers Apology For Erasing 1984 · · Score: 0

    And there never was any erasing. I checked the archives of the newspapers I read with my Kindle: there NEVER was any erasing of any book. And there never was a reduction of the chocolate ration.

  10. Re:Stupid people will still be stupid on Microsoft Agrees To EU Browser Ballot Screen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Easy solution: let's rename Firefox. I suggest Porn.

  11. This is a Unix system! I know this system! on Navigate the Linux Kernel Like Google Maps · · Score: 0

    Obligatory.

  12. Is there a CMS that doesn't suck? on Dreamweaver Is Dying; Long Live Drupal! · · Score: 0

    Can anybody suggest a good, simple, and reliable CMS with a sane clean interface for those with simple needs? Something like CushyCMS, but which allows users to add new pages/content? Thanks!

  13. The Right Man for the Job on Apple's Life After Steve Jobs · · Score: 0
  14. Re:kidding, kidding on NASA Offering $2 Million Prize for Lunar Lander · · Score: 0

    No. That they have already.

  15. Re:Italian Police Stickers... on Geek and Gadgets Set Cross-US Speed Record · · Score: 0

    Italian Police? I'm not surprised at all.
    Look what they drive =)

  16. Let me get this straight on Format Standards Committee "Grinds To a Halt" · · Score: 0

    When you say chairman, you mean Ballmer, right?

  17. Obligatory on Copier Auto-Translates Japanese to English · · Score: 0, Redundant

    All your base are belong to us

  18. What about time travels? on Congress Considers Forcing Travel Registration · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who sees a problem with this kind of travels?

  19. Say it with certificates on Send a Name to Mars for Christmas · · Score: 0

    One of these days, Alice, bang. Zoom. Straight to the moon.

  20. I am using it... on Using Cellphones to Track Your Kids · · Score: 3, Insightful

    to track YOUR kids!

  21. Does it mean... on First Cellphone Use On Airplane Given OK · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... that I can play Snake on a plane now?

  22. Re:Liberal and progressive Christians... on Wal-Mart Asked to Drop Christian Video Game · · Score: 0

    Hey! It was meant to be a joke.
    Note to self: use smileys next time.

  23. Liberal and progressive Christians... on Wal-Mart Asked to Drop Christian Video Game · · Score: 0, Troll

    They are the Antichrist! They can never win.

  24. Re:What's a "progressive Christian"? on Wal-Mart Asked to Drop Christian Video Game · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it like a critical fairy tale believer? Kinda, but probably closer to a secure Windows.
  25. I may be blind... on Texas Lawmaker Wants To Let the Blind Hunt · · Score: 2, Informative

    ... but I don't see the logic of it.