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  1. Re:eh, so what on U.S. Broadband Access Falling Behind · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And yet you fail to see the forest for the trees.

  2. Re:And here comes the outsourcing..... on Laser Surgery Goes Online · · Score: 1

    Get a clue, and maybe try reading other posts first (thousand and one bad jokes about lag). In addition, people want doctors they can actually meet and talk to... it's one of the reasons why HMOs are so loathed.

  3. Re:French Legal Code on Mac OS X on x86 Videos Get Apple's Attention · · Score: 1

    Until recently Sweden was rather lenient.

  4. Re:Non-sequitur on Sun's Linux Killer Examined · · Score: 1

    Ignoring that non-sequitur and logic don;t belong together...

    I think the basic idea is that if you can't even be bothered to make the installation process manageable what kind of mess is the rest of it in?

  5. Re:Attracting new users, competing with Python? on Perl 6 Now by Scott Walters · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's a false perception. 5.6 was leaps and bounds above 5.0.5, and 5.8 is a quite a stride past 5.6.
    Not everyone buys into 1, 2, 3, 95, 98, 2000 type
    numbering schemes :-P There was even a proposal that
    perl 6 should be the last major number and the versioning should approach 2pi

  6. Re:CPAN on Perl 6 Now by Scott Walters · · Score: 1

    You sir, do not deserve to have a similar last name to The Damian

  7. Re:Journalists Garble The Facts As Usual on Warming Up Mars With Greenhouse Gases · · Score: 1

    The second link is to a copy of what's linked from the original wikipedia article but is offline. It would help to actually read some of the content referenced there.

    Yes, of course you did. That's the point. To those not reasoning or particularly informed on an issue or the technical background it seems reasonable. It's not unlike astroturfing. Read some of the afore-mentioned, or other critiques of their reports by other academics.

    I said "wild, unfounded or simply off the beaten-path". I do lean towards the former,
    but I did not say it.

  8. Re:reality on A World of Warcraft World · · Score: 1

    Because they produced something of value that could be shared. Who the hell wants to watch you play with digital dragons and faeries? On the other hand, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Shakespeare and Twain *created* things which speak to the human condition.

  9. Re:Real money - right... on A World of Warcraft World · · Score: 1

    Well for one things soda(soah-duh)is not pronounced anything like solder(saw-dur). Secondly, not everyone says soda

  10. Re:Journalists Garble The Facts As Usual on Warming Up Mars With Greenhouse Gases · · Score: 1

    Because once you have tenure there is little they can do to you. Short of academic fraud you can make all sorts of wild, unfounded, or simply off-the-beaten path claims you like.

    As for CATO your own,, has an entry. One of the external links of interest is available but is available here.

  11. Re:Journalists Garble The Facts As Usual on Warming Up Mars With Greenhouse Gases · · Score: 1

    CATO is not a reliable source.

  12. Re:Um, how come on Linux For Supervillains · · Score: 0, Troll

    How is the death of a newsman relevant? Unless of
    course it's Ruper Murdoch. It's not. Heck, I was
    watching TV when it was announced and was rather put-off by the damn documentary they launch into. It seemed rather self-serving and disingenious to have something "already ready already".

  13. Re:nyeh on Server Based Slots of the Future · · Score: 1

    Nope, it breaks the alliteration.
    Besides it's hyperbole, not an exhaustive list.

  14. Re:nyeh on Server Based Slots of the Future · · Score: 1

    Close only counts in horseshoes and hangrenades.

  15. Re:How Earth-Scale Engineering Can Save the Planet on Siberian Permafrost Melting · · Score: 1

    Right, of course, because the current way is the only way.

  16. Re:"Global" "Warming"? on Siberian Permafrost Melting · · Score: 1

    You mean neo-con.

  17. Re:How Earth-Scale Engineering Can Save the Planet on Siberian Permafrost Melting · · Score: 1

    No it's not. Your sense of fair play is bogus, the west fuct things up. OTOH we cannot let the rest of the planet develop in the same manner: better and appropriate technology transfer needs to take place.

    Kyoto is a bad idea for being a mirage and attempting to be too moderate. It's also a bad idea for creating bogus markets and promoting bad forest policy.

  18. Re:Wish they explained it better on Siberian Permafrost Melting · · Score: 1

    Wtf are you talking about? It's not their job to define simple words for you. A simple consultion of dict would inform you "partially carbonized vegetable tissue formed by partial decomposition in
    water of various plants (as mosses of the genus Sphagnum)". Imagine that, forzen material doesn't decay but warm decaying carbon-based plant-matter gives off carbon-based wastes...

  19. Re:Correlation? on Siberian Permafrost Melting · · Score: 1

    Not friggin' likely. The magentic field polarity is known to oscillate. Your "theory" is too simple, and if there were any correlation between this and natural glaciation cycles someone surely would have picked up on it.

  20. Re:no money on FedEx Cracks Down on Box Furniture, Citing DMCA · · Score: 1

    This old old news. They guy is a freegan and originally had left-over boxes from some legitimate use.

  21. What about... on Extra Daylight Savings May Confuse the Gadgets · · Score: 1

    the real meat of the bill? Oh wait, there is none.
    See http://www.energybulletin.net/7473.html, http://uspirg.org/ and others.

  22. Re:Podcast? on Yahoo! Launches Audio Search Beta · · Score: 1

    It's right there in the freaking "Try this" box.

  23. Re:Very clever wording on Equal Time For Creationism · · Score: 1

    A recent Popular Science article was about this very point.

  24. Re:My favorite quote... on Canada and Denmark using Google as Battleground · · Score: 1

    110.

  25. Re:My favorite quote... on Canada and Denmark using Google as Battleground · · Score: 1

    They're roughly the same size though soccer is a tad
    larger (esp. width) although it depends on which
    soccer field standard you apply. Then again, if you
    allow for the 100yd Canadian football field...