User: grappler

Re:This ought to really catch on with Americans

On: Fiddler on the RUF

Unfortunately while it makes sense, yuppies won't touch it. An SUV made for rails is an SUV that's not "made to go off the beaten trail". Therefore, it's not any great show of excess when you get one and proceed to keep it on city streets. If it's not a show of excess, what's the point?

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Re:This ought to really catch on with Republicans

On: Fiddler on the RUF

I don't know where they got that $18000 figure. I was looking for a car recently and I was thinking "low gas mileage". The insight was several thousand dollars out of what I could put up, being a poor college student. I _wanted_ that car :-( I went for the Civic though, which was still about 40mpg.

But then, I'm not really a hard core democrat. Actually I'd feel pretty good about republicans if they would just run the religious right out of their party on a rail.

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Revolutionary!

On: Linux TV

Truely we live in a bold new age of incredible technology...

Re:There's proof...and your right

On: DoubleClick Banner Ad Patent Busted

It was "choose your own adventure". I sometimes read those books using left hand fingers as placeholders, and several bookmarks when the "stack" got too deep. I didn't know it then, but that was probably my first depth-first search algorithm...

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shrewd advertising

On: Disney Animation Adopts Python

And of course this has a plug for python books right in the middle of the text of the article...

Re:a temporary solution at best

On: Biotech Insects to be Released Into the Wild

In the timeless words of Ian Malcolm, "Life will find a way"

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Re:Bring it on

On: Biotech Insects to be Released Into the Wild

(Unless you say we *aren't* part of nature, at which point you forfit the arguement that we can't shape the world as we desire)

Rather than bother to take a side, I'll just ask what makes you so sure that this statement is sound reasoning.

Recall Hume's law regarding morality: "You cannot derive an 'ought' from an 'is'"

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Re:how obvious

On: Biotech Insects to be Released Into the Wild

I liked Skinner's mention of "Chinese Needlesnakes". For some reason, that was just really funny.

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Re:I read an excerpt...

On: The Hacker Ethic

Sociology, eh?

(sorry, couldn't resist)

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far more problematic

On: The Hacker Ethic

What is much more problematic than the 'criminal' interpretation of hacker, is the stigma of the word "hack".

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Re:Armchair computer science abounds on /.

On: Clockless Computing?

d00d, 5145hd0t 15 4LL 480uT 4rMCh41r c0mPuT3r 5c13nC3!!!

Seriously, if you read lower than 4, you're going to get hammered with it.

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Re:16 bit version of gimp

On: Linux in 3D

Are there video cards that display 16 bits/channel?

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Re:Wonderful

On: IBM's Upcoming Linux Ad Campaign

Between putting a "Linux" billboard in Times Square and calling it "open source", I would not like to be the one to bring this news to one Richard Stallman.

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Re:Link to the online IBM ad

On: IBM's Upcoming Linux Ad Campaign

Holy shit! A billion dollars in R&D, and they're making it their reference platform for development. Me like :-)

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Re:Yes! BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....

On: Samsung Introduces 24-Inch LCD

I've always really liked xJack. Nothing flashy in the effects department, but a great idea. Just leave it on at work and coworkers are bound to notice at some point that your computer is slowly going insane.

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Re:What you can use it for...

On: Code for Running GPS Satellites Stolen

Yeah but it wouldn't take much knowledge to screw things up so that it gives false data. No need to be 'precise'.

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Re:Rich?

On: NASA Shuts Down X-33, X-34 Programs

well, the estate tax affects the ass-sitters you describe.

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Re:Bill Gates was born with a million dollars.

On: NASA Shuts Down X-33, X-34 Programs

yeah, I read it wrong the firt time around too. But he used a double negative.

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Re:Whoa.

On: NASA Shuts Down X-33, X-34 Programs

absolutely anybody in bed with the religious right

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of course bush would be pushing that

On: NASA Shuts Down X-33, X-34 Programs

Reading the comments in that tax article about meritocracy and mobility, it becomes painfully obvious why a person like George W Bush would want to abolish the estate tax. In fact, I doubt a better example has ever lived on this planet.

(The Bushes, incidentally, are a wealthy, well-connected family with roots in the english monarchy many generations back. Their 'status' predates the formation of the USA.)

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Re:ISS expenses

On: Pluto Mission Apparently Cancelled

that bible thumping twit can... uh, go write his cartoon.

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Re:My complaint about Broadband

On: The State of Broadband

not fair, I just did that a few hours ago

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Re:Why It's Stalling

On: The State of Broadband

I have to say that's a well-executed troll,
from the slightly absurd premise to the misspelled "Doll".
It's just that it was a little too boring
-not inflammatory enough to start anyone roaring.

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Re:What you need to know about RMS

On: Slashback: Stallman, Again, Wanderungen

I've been found out! It seemed like a good idea, but perhaps it would work better on a less net-savvy crowd. This trolling business is harder than I thought.

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Re:ISS expenses

On: Pluto Mission Apparently Cancelled

Excellent word (Visigothism). I had to look the damn thing up, having never seen it before in my life.

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