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  1. Re:Buzz Beer! on Caffeinated Alcoholic Drinks May Be Illegal · · Score: 1

    Lager + Lime juice + a little salt = Michelada (chilli powder optional)

    It's a lot more refreshing than straight beer and great when you are on the beach

  2. Re:white dwarfs not white dwarves on Two Earth-Sized Bodies With Oxygen-Rich Atmospheres · · Score: 1

    The real historical plural of dwarf is dwarrows.

    You are aware that Tolkien was writing fiction when he wrote that, are you?

  3. Re:nomenclature on Two Earth-Sized Bodies With Oxygen-Rich Atmospheres · · Score: 1

    Ach! An' me withou' me mod-points! I'll kick meself in the heid!

  4. Re:North America Ag systems on Nicaragua Creates Innovative Agricultural Information System With Open Source · · Score: 1

    You can fry previously boiled bovine or sheep intestines and eat them in tacos... pretty tasty but fattening

  5. Re:Obligatory... on Nicaragua Creates Innovative Agricultural Information System With Open Source · · Score: 1

    A bunch of fascists in the Honduran Congress, Courts and Military do not legitimize the fact that they staged a coup against the democratically elected president.

    EVERYBODY in the international community, has recognized this coup for what it is, and has condemned it in the most serious way (except the US).

    Citations needed

    There are many examples, this is only one of them:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_FUBELT

  6. Re:Is it live, or is it Memorex on Time To Ditch Cable For Internet TV? · · Score: 1

    Why is this modded Troll? It is the plain truth!

    Besides, some of us are outside the US and cannot access Hulu or any other similar service...

  7. Re:Obligatory... on Nicaragua Creates Innovative Agricultural Information System With Open Source · · Score: 1

    Also obligatory:

    "See?! Only dirty commies use Open Source software!"

  8. Re:hmmm. on Nicaragua Creates Innovative Agricultural Information System With Open Source · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nicaragua's climate is not best suited for coca... Pot would probably be best

  9. Re:Bide your time on Software Piracy At the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    The BSA offers rewards to whistleblowers?

  10. Re:Simple: outlaw poor people. on City Laws Only Available Via $200 License · · Score: 1

    This was true in the US until the sixties or so, when "vagrancy laws" were deemed unconstitutional...

  11. Re:New form of taxes! on City Laws Only Available Via $200 License · · Score: 1

    This is what Wikileaks is made for

  12. Re:In Texas, nothing is sent on City Laws Only Available Via $200 License · · Score: 1

    In Texas, any offense is punishable by the death penalty!

  13. Re:New form of taxes! on City Laws Only Available Via $200 License · · Score: 1

    This just proves that you should not talk to authority without the assistance of a lawyer

  14. Re:Well ... on Microsoft Buys Teamprise, Will Ship Linux Tools · · Score: 1

    I might be offtopic here, but the only thing I know about Mono is that the only .Net application I am interested on running (the D&D insider tools) doesn't work on it.

  15. Re:1,000 years? on Synthetic Stone DVD Claimed To Last 1,000 Years · · Score: 1

    The first CD I ever bought (Dark Side of the Moon I'm afraid)...

    Don't be ashamed. The first CD I owned was an eighties hair-rock compilation called "Laser Rock" or something silly like that...

  16. Re:New form of taxes! on City Laws Only Available Via $200 License · · Score: 1

    In my experience the "ignorance of the law is no excuse" standpoint holds up whether or not you have a good excuse for your ignorance. The police once copied down my address incorrectly on a ticket (they ignored my correct address on the copy of the ticket I mailed in) causing a summons to court, a notice of default judgement against me, a notice that my ticket was unpaid and a notice that my license had been suspended to be sent to the wrong address. I was later charged with driving with a suspended license after an accident a few months later. I discovered what had happened after some digging at the bureau of public records. I explained what had happened to the judge and he told me the ignorance of the law is ones own fault period. The fact that the state had tried to contact me was sufficient on their part. It is always your responsibility to become informed of the law regardless of any difficulties you have.

    What's wrong with you people?

    The Plans for the Interstellar Bypass have been available in the offices in Alpha Centauri for over 100 years!

    If you can't take an interest in your own local affairs you can't ask me to sympathize!

    [Apologies to the late, great Douglas Adams]

  17. Re:not sure I totally agree with what he says on The Languages of "The Office" · · Score: 1

    "What's wrong?" "Nothing." "Ok! I'll be on my way." Nooo, that's the nothing that means there's something and I'm supposed to fish.

    Bazinga!

  18. Re:Um, wasn't bloated Multics the reason *WHY* . . on 40 Years of Multics, 1969-2009 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It turned out that UNIX, while inferior, was good enough for a lot of things...

    It's amazing the number of times in computing where something, while inferior, was good enough for a lot of things and ended up dominating...

  19. Re:I hope it catches on on Apple's Mini DisplayPort Officially Adopted By VESA · · Score: 1

    The parallel port, though, is easier to program for if you just need relatively low-frequency IO. As in some data logging applications and of course, prototyping. There are C headers that will let you interface *directly* with the parallel port, and all you need on the hardware end are a couple opto-isolators for safety. No need for any kind of special UART or host controller.

    Is it too hard to program for USB, instead? I am sure there must be a lot of ready-made libraries in most major languages...

    Just wondering... I don't code myself, but it seems that in this day and age, it would be wiser to use a port that is available in almost every single computer in the world

  20. Re:icing on the cake: on Glenn Beck Loses Dispute Over Parody Domain · · Score: 1

    Michelle Obama is not a pundit famous for her strawman attacks

  21. Re:Pilots are being taken out on MIT Grad To Make Digital "SixthSense" Open Source · · Score: 1

    You'd be surprised what a good autopilot can do. Did you know the space shuttle, using 70s tech, lands itself, with the only human interaction being pushing the landing gear doors? No kidding hands completely off from orbit to runway using 40 year old tech?

    But...but... what about Hillary Swank heroically landing the space shuttle in Los Angeles in The Core

    Don't tell me that movie was gasp! inaccurate!

  22. Re:not sureprised on Did Microsoft Borrow GPL Code For a Windows 7 Utility? · · Score: 1

    Sorry if I sounded harsh, but your comment sounded a bit like those unprovable claims that Linux was "infringing on SCOs copyrights"

    And as you know, you don't need to provide proof for those allegations, you just need to state them in order for them to become FUD ...oh, and for the record, I don't code for a living, and my only contributions to FOSS consist of the occasional bug report, so no guilty feelings here....

  23. Re:not sureprised on Did Microsoft Borrow GPL Code For a Windows 7 Utility? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Probably those who get paid to work on GPL software...

    Your point is? Do you have an accusation to make?

  24. Re:not sureprised on Did Microsoft Borrow GPL Code For a Windows 7 Utility? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ok, then... If MS used GPL code, then they did not "Borrow" it either

    They used it in violation of copyright

  25. Re:Why can't I own Canadians? on What Does Google Suggest Suggest About Humanity? · · Score: 1

    And Mexico is still "the backyard" : ^ /