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  1. Re:Back in the good ol days on India's New Rupee Symbol Won't Show On Computers · · Score: 1

    Not to forget all those dodgy DOS batch file menus with all that alt-244 style coding (can't remember if 244 is valid and to lazy too google)

  2. Re:The Bilestoad, Apple II, 1980s on Has Any Creative Work Failed Because of Piracy? · · Score: 1

    The markets, 'pirates', and modern distribution channels have changed much since then. In 1982 it was just a given in the 'scene' that stuff was copied( the way it had always been done).

  3. Re:their claims are unprovable != prove they're wo on Has Any Creative Work Failed Because of Piracy? · · Score: 1

    Was Schrodinger wearing a hat?

  4. Re:Missing the point... on Has Any Creative Work Failed Because of Piracy? · · Score: 1

    If the main point of the work is solely profit and its creator believes that the effects of piracy would make it not financially viable then there is a chance that it might be worthless.

  5. Re:...or worse on Inside the Fake PC Recycling Market · · Score: 1

    I drive a Nissan Micra and it gets fuel economy that is practically identical to that of a Prius

  6. Re:Anonymous Coward on Inside the Fake PC Recycling Market · · Score: 1

    I have been following the path the world is taking and I am very sure that even if the US isn't to blame for all of the world's ills that it is fashionable to say so and will get you laid in some soy-burger stores.

  7. Re:Alternatives? on Inside the Fake PC Recycling Market · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just imagine the fun and games when plastic eating bacteria escapes containment and multiplies

  8. Re:NaturalNews talks a lot about this stuff on Avoiding GM Foods? Monsanto Says You're Overly Fussy · · Score: 1

    Do vaccinations confer future generations immunity/resistance to the diseases immunised against? Does natural selection confer this immunity/resistance? I have always felt that nature tends to get most things right and that many of our efforts are little understood even by the advocates/practitioners of these efforts.

  9. Re:GM on Avoiding GM Foods? Monsanto Says You're Overly Fussy · · Score: 1

    And I suspect a lot more starving people will be saved by the better yields that GM crops provide than will ever be harmed by any side-effects.

    For your perusal. there are many studies that debunk the GMO higher yield claims. the above is just one that makes some mention of it in passing.

  10. Re:GM on Avoiding GM Foods? Monsanto Says You're Overly Fussy · · Score: 1

    Here's the rub: We've been genetically engineering food since the dawn of society.

    I can remember reading some of Plato's musings on crossing moths with potatoes and jellyfish with corn

  11. Re:All I remember is on AU Band Men At Work Owes Royalties On 'Kookaburra' · · Score: 1

    just out of interest what part of AU did you go to school in? our version was magpies and not sparrows. I didn't see your post till I posted mine above and now I feel redundant.

  12. and when i was in primary school it was on AU Band Men At Work Owes Royalties On 'Kookaburra' · · Score: 1

    kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
    screwing all the magpies he can see
    stop kookaburra
    stop
    that ones got vd

  13. Re:I can use my fingers on 'Robofish' Schools the Rest · · Score: 1

    I have a fish that follows the turtle. It hangs onto his tail and gets towed. he's a smart un

  14. Re:Series of tubes... on YouTube Hit By HTML Injection Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    I have alerted John Travolta and Tom cruise expect this lack to be remedied shortly

  15. Re:Why humanoid? on NASA Tests Hardware, Software On Armadillo Rocket · · Score: 0, Troll

    Part of that technology base is an invention called "The Wheel".

    Has this been patented yet?

  16. Re:Gotta love john carmack on NASA Tests Hardware, Software On Armadillo Rocket · · Score: 1

    I recently downloaded Rocket Manual for Amateurs(1960) and it's a classic. It contains some basic rocket science aimed at model rocket enthusiasts and for anyone interested at a layman level it's a must read.

  17. Re:Luddite on Obama Awards Nearly $2 Billion For Solar Power · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Still thinking about it? or have you come to a decision?

  18. Re:$20,000 per home? on Obama Awards Nearly $2 Billion For Solar Power · · Score: 1

    I am really starting to think that a large percentage of my fellow humans are just insane.

    You obviously haven't been thinking about it for very long

  19. Re:$20,000 per home? on Obama Awards Nearly $2 Billion For Solar Power · · Score: 1

    Are you being disingenuous? That would be $20,000 per annum per home if the plant operated for only one year. If it ran for only 20 years then that would mean $1,000 per annum per home. I am sure that most homes would pay $1000+ per year for power so that makes it look a little more economically feasible. This is of course a back of the envelope type calculation so please feel free to hate my mathematically challenged, liberal tree-hugging ways. BTW it's pitch black(I could say as 'black as the gulf' but that would be in poor taste) here at the moment and this post is being sent via a solar powered completely off the grid PC. I have absolutely no problems at all with solar power as I see it working for me every day of my life as it has been for the last seven or so years.

  20. Re:Can somebody say on Obama Awards Nearly $2 Billion For Solar Power · · Score: 1

    And, this is what Libertarians can't figure out about Keynesian economics. In bad economic times, it's pointless giving tax cuts to the wealthy big corporations because they usually choose to sit on their money (buying up gold for instance) and wait for things to get better (because they can afford to). The working and middle class take this money and spend it immediately.

    Here in Australia we did some bailing out but also one of the government's ideas was to give a large one off bonus to those on welfare. I can't remember the exact figure but I think it was about $1800. They also worked on the theory that that money would be spent immediately and would recycle into the economy. It seems to have worked 'so far'. We may still yet go down the tubes. I certainly hope not.

  21. Re:Can somebody say on Obama Awards Nearly $2 Billion For Solar Power · · Score: 1

    you dog step to a goose ma

  22. Re:A house built on sand cannot stand. on IE9 Flaunts Hardware-Accelerated Canvas · · Score: 1

    On principle I would not give MS my CC number when reporting a bug. Has anyone actually spoken to some of the morons that work there? Some of their employees are good but some I wouldn't trust to package my cheeseburger.

  23. Re:A house built on sand cannot stand. on IE9 Flaunts Hardware-Accelerated Canvas · · Score: 1

    Thanks for that Steve

  24. Re:dB attenuation? on Android vs. iPhone 4 Signal Strength Bars Comparison · · Score: 2, Funny

    is she single?

  25. Re:Yay for common sense on Zoho Don't Need No Stinking Ph.D. Programmers · · Score: 1

    I am shaking in my thongs