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  1. Re:Encryption on Ask About the Iraqi LUG · · Score: 1, Troll
    But if you look at the situation we were in, it is understandable why we looked to work with Saddam. The Iranian revolution changed the dynamic of the region.

    and why, praytell, was there a revolution in iran and a new anti-us regime? perhaps because the united states orchestrated the overthrow of mossadegh - the democratically elected leader of iran - and replaced him with the shah, a brutal dictator and u.s. puppet.

    note to us administratoin: stop making beds if you don't want to lie down in them.

  2. Re:Encryption on Ask About the Iraqi LUG · · Score: 1
    before things went all crazy Sadam was our puppet.

    what do you mean "before"? when hussein was gassing kurds, he was our pal. when he was committing war crimes against the iraqis he was on our side.

  3. Re:Wow! on Ask About the Iraqi LUG · · Score: 4, Informative
    One has to ask, would this have been allowed under Saddam Hussain?

    well, according to the linux users journal, it sounds like it was. the article is here - you could have found it easily by reading the article.

    additionally, it should be noticed that saudi arabia - a country that has consistently been in the top three worst regimes as far as human rights violations are concerned - has a lug as well.

  4. Re:And if... on Joel Rants About Resumes · · Score: 4, Funny
    ..you find yourself even *thinking* of using the word "proactive" - just give up now.

    don't forget:

    • team, player
    • self-start
    • people person
    • detail-oriented
    • grovelling "yes man"
  5. Re:Patents help. on All Encompassing Patents · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Sure, one bad patent, OK. But overall, we must admit, that patents generally are a good thing.

    the problem isn't patents but what can be patented. you can patent, say, a rocket ship design but the core concept of setting fire to fuel to create force shouldn't be patentable.

    maybe i should just patent f=ma and retire rich...

  6. Re:Thanks from NASA on Mars Rover Opportunity Lands Safely · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Congrats on conquering the death planet :). Two for two. Nice job NASA/JPL!

    mars isn't the "death planet" - that moniker is reserved for venus:

    • surface temperature of 480c
    • surface pressure of 96x earth's
    • clouds of sulfuric acid

    now that's a death planet... and yet the soviets managed to drop a lander on it successfully way back in 1982 and even sent back some pictures

  7. Re:Sacrilege! on Macintosh 2004 Case Mod · · Score: 1
    And I suppose you think that running Unix on a Mac is sacrilege too?

    no way! unix on the mac is the ultimate in fanatical os-isms: unix on risc.

  8. Re:is it invasion? on Stores Use Discount Cards To Notify Of Recall · · Score: 4, Informative
    I'd be pissed at the situation, but this is something that'd save my life.

    i'd be pissed that the supermarket didn't bother to do some basic research on the whole bse thang.

    it's all in the fda faq on bse. especially these gems:

    all the organs in which infectious prions occur were removed at slaughter and did not enter the food supply. Muscle meat is not a source of infectious prions....None of this material left the control of the companies and entered commercial distribution.

    you know how many cases of bse have been identified in humans? 155. worldwide. you know how many of those were in the united states? one. and you know how that woman got vcjd (human bse)? by eating organ meat... in britain.

    we'd save more lives if the ama decided to call everyone on their membership list to tell them not to drive.

    can you believe that me, the raging vegan, is saying this? what's this world coming to...

  9. Re:It all depends... on Are 64-bit Binaries Slower than 32-bit Binaries? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    art tatum? shouldn't you be dead or something?

  10. Re:It all depends... on Are 64-bit Binaries Slower than 32-bit Binaries? · · Score: 4, Funny
    it's that they tend to snag in the system bus and take longer to travel than the smoother 0's.

    this reminds of "back in the day" when we ran a token ring network. when end users would complain about net outage we'd simply tell them that the token got stuck or, worse yet lost. fortunately, we have a backup token on floppy back in the systems room. it's an fddi token, mind you, so it's a bit bigger but if you don't kink the cabling it should work fine for now.

  11. Re:Benchmarks on Are 64-bit Binaries Slower than 32-bit Binaries? · · Score: 5, Funny
    There are 3 types lies. Lies. Damned Lies. ...and benchmarks.

    i've got some specint stats that show that damned lies are up to 30% faster.

  12. Re:Near as I could figure... on Is Your Silver-based Thermal Paste Really Silver? · · Score: 1
    To some people everything that is crunchy and brown and edible must be a nut

    the great thing about this premise is how you tie it to the conclusion that people who eat grape nuts are prone to being klan members. since we've been calling left-wing hippies "granolas" since the '70s, i think you're on to something here....

  13. too late! on Politicians For Sale... On Amazon · · Score: -1, Redundant

    i already bid $100 for howard dean on ebay!

  14. Re:No on Is Your Silver-based Thermal Paste Really Silver? · · Score: 5, Funny
    Soylent green is not 100% people. Quit believing advertising

    i call this the "grape nuts theory".

    no grapes. no nuts. grape nuts.

  15. Re:the real contest on Perl Haiku Poetry Contest · · Score: 1

    i went to this page....
    and correct me if i'm wrong, but you have to pay?

  16. Re:the real contest on Perl Haiku Poetry Contest · · Score: 4, Funny

    sorry windows guy
    perl trix are for unix kids
    try vb perhaps?

  17. Re:fp.pl? on Perl Haiku Poetry Contest · · Score: 3, Funny
    and now for something obvious...

    it is powerful
    it extracts and it reports
    and it's a language

  18. Re:Linux, the last OS? Or Debian? on IBM Supporting Linux On Power Processors · · Score: 4, Funny
    It will also be the day I have to abandon Linux in favor of a more "user friendly" OS

    linux is user friendly... it's just picky about its friends.

  19. Re:Again? on Sun Sparc 5 Nostalgia · · Score: 1
    in two years there I never had any problems with it.

    then you obviously never had to try to get a replacement mousepad for that optical beast.

  20. Re:I say, Wow! on Tom's Reviews Expensive, Noiseless Case · · Score: 4, Funny
    Expensive, Noiseless Case

    so, essentially, a g5 right?

  21. Re:I wanted to read this but... on BSD For Linux Users · · Score: 1
    perhaps is it more an ulimit or something problem ?

    perhaps it is more of a joke or something

  22. Re:I wanted to read this but... on BSD For Linux Users · · Score: 3, Funny

    er. this is not a good advertisement for bsd as a web server....

  23. Re:YES! on The Software Monoculture · · Score: 1
    the problem wasn't that the irish were reliant on the potato. the problem was britain.

    from october of 1845 to january of 1846 - the height of the "famine" - ireland exported:

    • 30,000 sheep
    • 30,000 oxen
    • 100,000 pigs
    to britain.
  24. Re:Not lost on Lost Doctor Who Episode Found · · Score: 4, Funny
    1. "lost" in time is what we call "late"
    2. the adjunct to which is the etymology of "tardy" - which is just an old anglo-saxon mispronounciation of "tardis".

    the things you learn at a liberal arts college!

  25. Re:Patent the patent on URLs Patented, Domain Registrars Sued · · Score: 3, Funny
    this made me think of a business plan!

    i'm going to patent the idea that a business plan can be suing people who break alleged patents. then sue all the companies that sue companies for break patents because it breaks my patent.

    or something like that.