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  1. Re:Dumb. Very, very dumb. on United Makes Plans to Drop 'Baggage Neutrality' · · Score: 1

    I always wait until last before exiting the plane. Who wants to be pushed or shoved to save a few minutes, if you're not pushing late for a very specific deadline? I also don't circle the parking lot looking for the exact closest parking space.

  2. Re:How could the EU shut down a Canadian company? on Provider of Free Public Domain Music Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    Um.. it's a 51 year old song... did the artist die right after making it? You said Canadian copyright lasts 50 years after the artist's death, so... doesn't it sound like the song was likely still under copyright?

  3. Re:typo on Evolution and the 'Wisdom of Crowds' · · Score: 1

    Or else many people are identifying with more than one group... such as agnostics who nevertheless identify themselves as Christian, or Christo-Wiccans.

  4. Re:This is gonna go viral. on IBM Patents Checking a Box · · Score: 1

    Not if you're sticking with the cadence of "Dick in a Box".

  5. Re:You gotta be kidding. on OpenOffice.org 3.0 Wants to Compete with Outlook · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There was exactly zero vitriol in the parent posts, and, as well, they explained precisely what makes OpenOffice unsatisfactory for their needs. In spite of all this you're complaining, behaving like they whipped your pet software. Why's that?

  6. Re:In Soviet Russia on The Russian Mafia Doesn't Like Spam Either · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, mafia kills YOU. Oh wait.

  7. Re:Bawstan Habah? on The Evolution of Language · · Score: 1

    My wife is a Worcester girl. She found her Rs again shortly after moving to North Dakota. In the meantime, we had determined that, by and large, the Rs have been going to Texas.

  8. Re:Labels Wising Up? on Yahoo Exec Says "Enough DRM" · · Score: 1

    "I'm absolutely sick of all the people who say 'he did not die' and claim that means they didn't murder him." Ok, but seriously. You're not listening to us. It's all well and good to call this copying wrong and condemn it. But a duck is a duck is a duck, and what's going on is not stealing. It's something else that's bad. So stop calling it stealing, and start calling it what it is. Your desire to express repugnance does not make it into stealing. Nor rape. Nor battery. Nor malfeasance. Nor larceny. Nor parking violation.

  9. Re:So we're all scumbags .. on Purpose of Appendix Believed Found · · Score: 1

    It means that human cells are far larger than bacterial cells. Think whale vs. ant.

  10. This is gonna go viral. on IBM Patents Checking a Box · · Score: 1

    To all the lawyers out there
    with patents to press,
    it's easy to do.

    Just follow these steps:

    1: Put a check in a box
    2: Patent checking that box
    3: ????

    And that's the way you profit!

  11. Re:Laptop? on '30 Year Laptop Battery' is Unscientific Myth · · Score: 1

    You can't go by the simple quantity. WHERE the pollution is released and what concentrations it ends up in are important. A one hundred gram leak dispersed into the atmosphere is better than one gram directly into your bloodstream, for instance.