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  1. Re:Prison sentences are misleading on CIA Secretly Reclassifying Documents · · Score: 1
  2. Re:What other War Footage .. on CIA Secretly Reclassifying Documents · · Score: 1

    Google video has some horrible clips

    and http://nowthatsfuckedup.com/ has some grisly stuff.

  3. Re:Route around that censorship. on CIA Secretly Reclassifying Documents · · Score: 1

    The riot act doesn't have to be read out any more, afaik.

    And, if anyone is interested (and iirc), in the UK a riot is "12 or more people acting together with a violent common cause" and it carries a 10 year stretch at Her Majesty's Pleasure.

    Though usually they just charge you with Affray because the "common cause" bit carries a higher burdern of proof.

  4. Head of sales is a liar on RadioShack CEO Resigns · · Score: 2, Funny

    who'd have thunk it?

  5. Re:GNOME rocks (no offence to KDE) on A Look at GNOME 2.14 · · Score: 1

    binary packaegs not available
    ccache no use - the ports system wipes the old code

    Anyway that point is moot, the code takes along time to compile because gcc is a poor compiler.

    > If you don't want buttons, X and toolkits you could just stick with a CLI interface- nobody is forcing you to use GTK or Qt.

    Application writers make poor choices.

    I have an entire OS with a GUI with no buttons and no toolkits. Sadly, it is also without Firewire and some other stuff I need.

    As I said, buttons suck.

  6. Re:GNOME rocks (no offence to KDE) on A Look at GNOME 2.14 · · Score: 1

    lol, I disagree with almost *everything* you say =)

    buttons suck

  7. Re:GNOME rocks (no offence to KDE) on A Look at GNOME 2.14 · · Score: 1

    I happen to know I am in good company.

  8. Re:Hugger? on An IP Environmentalism for Culture and Knowledge? · · Score: 1

    Just wait for "intellectual property correctness gone mad!"

  9. Re:GNOME rocks (no offence to KDE) on A Look at GNOME 2.14 · · Score: 1

    Indeed.

    They are lauded as success stories (particularly KDE). To me, all they do is highlight the failure of Linux/BSD.

    Watching QT compile so that one user app can have a few crappy 3d buttons is not fun.

    And I'll have the fun of watching it all again when the ports tree bumps it up by 0.0.0.0.1 of a version

  10. Re:GNOME rocks (no offence to KDE) on A Look at GNOME 2.14 · · Score: 0, Troll

    see, I was right

    they suck, very hard

  11. Re:GNOME rocks (no offence to KDE) on A Look at GNOME 2.14 · · Score: -1, Troll

    > USB sticks, iPods, DVD burners, all kinds of multimedia, SFTP/DAV/SMB/etc integration, openoffice, and many more

    None of this should be the job of the Window Manager

    Gnome and KDE suck

  12. Re:Running a vintage AGP card? on Other Uses for an AGP Slot? · · Score: 1

    Not only but also :

    Music
    Fashion
    Cinema
    Computer Games
    TV

  13. Re:Here's what I predict is going to happen on Greenland Glaciers Melting Much Faster · · Score: 1

    that's true

    Wikipedia isn't my source of info in such matters, just a convenient place to link to, though I did read it first to see if it concurred with my opinion/bias.

    The Luddite movement started here in my home town, Nottingham, so I have some personal attachment to the subject. I also have the modern industrial world's first factory near by in Matlock

    http://www.andrewspages.dial.pipex.com/matlock/mil ls.htm

    As to what the /. world thinks of me, it is meaningless.

  14. Re:As an American Muslim I completely agree... on Rumsfeld Requests 24-hour Propaganda Machine · · Score: 1

    You should go find out what troll and flamebait mean.

  15. Re:In other news... on Beware the iPod 'slurping' Employee · · Score: 1

    > Treat your employees well and they won't feel the need to screw you.

    Unless, of course, they were hired to screw you.
    Or decided to screw you before they arrived.

    Animal Rights activists do plenty of infiltration, indeed, it is one of the preferred methods of action.

    http://www.animal-lib.org.au/more_interviews/deros e/

    I'm glad it was just the iPod that get's the bad rep. Those white headphones are such a giveaway and by extension, smokescreen.

  16. Re:As an American Muslim I completely agree... on Rumsfeld Requests 24-hour Propaganda Machine · · Score: 1

    How are you on this whole cartoon thing ?

    Killing people about a drawing isn't exactly winning hearts and minds of people like me, who consider themselves tolerant and liberal.

    I suspect that it is as likely that Western agitators are stirring up unrest as much as Muslim extremists.

    I had always considered historic Islam a peaceful system, respecting science and education but that seems to have been subverted.

    http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7591BA01-A2 DB-4269-93A2-CB1D73295B22.htm

    "No more than 10,000 books were translated into Arabic over the entire millennium"

    The Taliban's disdain for culture and women turns my stomach and if such powers took hold in my country I think I would be prepared to take up arms to defence our freedoms.

    Keeping respect for such people and maintaining my tolerance is becoming increasingly difficult.

    I'm not trying to troll you or be flamebait but open a dialog with someone with somethign to contribute.

  17. Re:Why is this Important? on Greenland Glaciers Melting Much Faster · · Score: 1

    How about undersea cooling ?

  18. Re:Here's what I predict is going to happen on Greenland Glaciers Melting Much Faster · · Score: 1

    Luddites were not anti-technology but anti-starvation.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

    Perhaps you meant neo-luddite.

  19. Re:NAO on Greenland Glaciers Melting Much Faster · · Score: 0, Troll

    How to the coastlines get set loose ?

    Do they float or something ?

  20. Re:Look before you leap on Code Profiling on AMD Systems? · · Score: 0, Troll

    I know the facts mate,.

    Did you notice the GNU/Linux part ?

    August 1991
    ``Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. "

    If it wasn't for GCC and the GNU GPL, chances are there would be no Linux today, just a Minix clone.

    Linux set the industry back 20 years, but hey, we'll cope.

  21. Re:Accelerated Graphics Port on Other Uses for an AGP Slot? · · Score: 1

    my favourite bit was :

    As far as system buses are concerned then, AGP would definitely appear to be the highway to the future, especially given all the graphics-intensive 2D, 3D, and video applications that we run on our PCs today.

    to be fair :

    Copyright © 1998 Matrox Graphics Inc. All rights reserved.

  22. Look before you leap on Code Profiling on AMD Systems? · · Score: 1

    Your platform doesn't have the tools you want.

    U L

  23. Accelerated Graphics Port on Other Uses for an AGP Slot? · · Score: 3, Informative
  24. Re:So... on DARPA's 'Social Puppet' · · Score: 1

    funny, I don't remember saying any of those things.

    Commercial pilot. wtg. so the fuck what. You're just a pressurised bus driver.

  25. Re:From an x-soldier on DARPA's 'Social Puppet' · · Score: 1


    As an active AR "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe."

    http://www.realca.co.uk/latest_violence.htm

    so fuck right off, your ignorance will keep you warm.