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  1. Re:Nutron Star? on Frictionless Superfluid Found In Neutron Star Core · · Score: 1

    it's ment to catch people who can't work it out due to spelling and grammatical errors.

    From Franklin's,
    Democracy is two wolfs and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. [which has some religious connotations]
    Liberty is a well armed lamb.

    sociopath/anti social personality disorder/ psychopath end of the spectrum are well... self centred with human attachment, manipulative.
    Autistic's tend to be very unattached and not people centric at-all, going to the socially awkward but not anti-social Asperger's to more NT
    NT (neuro typical) are somewhere in the middle and go with the flow... which would tend towards the narcissistic due to sociopath/anti social personality disorder/ psychopath end of the spectrum.

    All run in families in one way or another, so I'd call that some form of racial or religious trait. [religion being a way of life]
    but the a bias.

    Scitzoids are just plain bonkers, but who could blame them really.
    society is an artificial construct, the individual is naturally anti-social.

  2. Re:Good News, Bad News on Consumers Buy Less Tech Stuff, Keep It Longer · · Score: 1

    umm... there are still people living as hunter gathers etc.... well until people come and chop the trees down anyhow.

    as you say some did some didn't....
    "In fact, I daresay that old/ancient civilizations who lived in some form of harmony with their environment is the exception, not the norm. Those exceptions were folks like the Pre-colonial Australians, *some* North and South American tribes (after suffering population crashes), the Zulu, and a few others."

      that's not a myth if some did then is it?

    Err, by and large, no they didn't: Easter Island, Great Britain (a specific topic to seek is "oak trees") ...Yep Great Britain etc.... but even for a while, it was managed reasonably well by some in some places... tends to end in revolution in more modern times.

  3. Re:Good News, Bad News on Consumers Buy Less Tech Stuff, Keep It Longer · · Score: 2

    you can make clothes too.

    I didn't come with any... I suppose being naked would scare you off. oh no, original sin..

    Did you realise that forests where originally worked sustainably? How do you think charcoal was made for instance, and all that antique wooden furniture.

    Many civilizations manage/d to live just fine and in a sustainable manner. some still do...

    If it snows make an igloo or move north/south or find some of those left over trees, or dig a hole or use clay, mud bricks, dung, grass and soil a bender....

    I'd avoid bridges though.... only stupid trolls and straw-men there, I prefer the more intelligent ones.

  4. Re:Good News, Bad News on Consumers Buy Less Tech Stuff, Keep It Longer · · Score: 1

    use money and a magnifying glass made from sky-scraper windows.

  5. Re:Good News, Bad News on Consumers Buy Less Tech Stuff, Keep It Longer · · Score: 2

    light a fire..... u do know how to do that?

    anyhow, sleeping out in the open ain't bad.... that was a quote from and American Indian tribe by the way.

  6. Re:Wow! on Microsoft Rewarding Employees Who Phone It In · · Score: 1

    you make the claim in reverse.

    Whilst working for Microsoft business practise meant that we all put lots and lots of bugs into things.....
    It's obviously their intellectual property leaking out onto my tax return.

  7. Re:Wow! on Microsoft Rewarding Employees Who Phone It In · · Score: 2, Insightful

    does that work for errors on tax returns?

  8. Re:Good News, Bad News on Consumers Buy Less Tech Stuff, Keep It Longer · · Score: 2

    when you have cut down the last tree and poisoned the last river... etc...
    only then will you realise that you cannot eat money.

  9. Re:Glad they focussed on standards on UK Gov't Says Open Standards Must Be Royalty Free · · Score: 5, Informative

    Government defines “open standards” as standards which:
      result from and are maintained through an open, independent process;
      are approved by a recognised specification or standardisation organisation, for
    example W3C or ISO or equivalent. (N.B. The specification/standardisation
    must be compliant with Regulation 9 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006.
    This regulation makes it clear that technical specifications/standards cannot
    simply be national standards but must also include/recognise European
    standards);
      are thoroughly documented and publicly available at zero or low cost;
      have intellectual property made irrevocably available on a royalty free basis;
    andAction Note 3/11 31 January 2011
      as a whole can be implemented and shared under different development
    approaches and on a number of platforms.

  10. Re:Glad they focussed on standards on UK Gov't Says Open Standards Must Be Royalty Free · · Score: 1

    wasn't that IP made etc.....
    and a de-facto standard at the time.

  11. Re:Only $12~18K? on Device Addresses Healthcare Language Barrier · · Score: 2

    are you hard of hearing? I still read allowed, when I'm allowed, or if my allowance has come threw I get some1 at the libraee to reed it out 2 me.

    Good job he ain't 733t.

  12. Re:That agrees with my figures on Windows Browser Ballot: the Winners and the Losers · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think it could be described as too late in some ways.... what would have happened if this was in there from the start?
    would it have created a more equal market for competition to develop in. overblown, it's been what 10 years?

  13. Re:IEEE on Atomic Antennae Transmit Quantum Information · · Score: 1

    "since that your require devices to observe the signal first first before connecting, which would result in a quantum paradox."

    sounds a lot like this free-will / choice thing they go on about.

  14. Re:people are broke.. on Music Execs Stressed Over Free Streaming · · Score: 1

    hmm..... there used to be a hell of a lot of protest songs....
    e.g. a bridge over troubled water. that's would be the boxer laying you down, not your mum.
    or something in the way by nirvana, just a remake of a bridge over troubled water.
    etc.... then it all got a bit commercial and crap pop like.

  15. Re:Lies on Programmer Arrested For Logic Bombing 'Whac-A-Mole' · · Score: 1

    did the three strikes rule ever make it's way down as far as life if you didn't pay three parking tickets?

  16. Re:Why programmers will never rule the world.... on Programmer Arrested For Logic Bombing 'Whac-A-Mole' · · Score: 2

    many just rely on hard to find code in lots of bugs to keep their jobs.....

  17. vanity on Music Execs Stressed Over Free Streaming · · Score: 1

    They've got no brain, I'd have thought by now they'd have a clue.

  18. Re:Nutron Star? on Frictionless Superfluid Found In Neutron Star Core · · Score: 1

    I found a rare gold coin once. unfortunately it was under a man hole cover I couldn't lift.

  19. Re:siting in a room for as low as $5 a day sucks y on Lawyers Using Facebook Research For Jury Selection · · Score: 1

    I'm more into making things

  20. Re:What's going on? on Ubuntu: Where Did the Love Go? · · Score: 1

    I usually prefer the rebuttle... When you'r heads not full of complicated shit, everything is simply pleasing.

  21. Re:What's going on? on Ubuntu: Where Did the Love Go? · · Score: 1

    Nope, I just RTFA... it's canonical not serving the interest they mouth off about, but instead living in some kind of wonderland.

    Stable release cycles and all that.... well go on then Mr Shuttle worth.... fix bugs upstream and work with the community instead of adding more shit and string it up... put your money where your mouth is...

    hardly surprising they ain't making a profit... They don't seem to realise that a disrto should do the stabilisation and hand back bug fixes into the community and the community does the ivory tower stuff... after all if u want to make money, work for it ;->

  22. Re:Just because the "best days" are in the past.. on Are Google's Best Days In the Past? · · Score: 1

    Where I live anyhow... facebook had a bit of a blip... but now it's a but mundain.. mostly people are into youtube and still search with google.

    No I would organise an uprising that quickly on youtube or via search engines... but as they say the English plot the French revolt.

    Google is more about business than pleasure, and currently, business is running the world, pleasure is just something to toy with and comes and goes.

  23. Re:Just because the "best days" are in the past.. on Are Google's Best Days In the Past? · · Score: 1

    if only there where a people interested in coming together to make them...

  24. Re:What's going on? on Ubuntu: Where Did the Love Go? · · Score: 1

    here little consume... you like being lazy and fed like a little duck don't you... good consumer... now u are under my control... consumer... don't think for yourself... consumer... expect everything on a plate from now on.... consumer....

    The only think wrong with Ubutu is that I have a patch right here on my desktop.... but I ain't got a clue how the fuck to get the idiots at Ubuntu to include it.... hell I may just post something on the internet with a fix and hope someone finds it.. the people at Ubuntu can't seemed to be arsed with it.

  25. Re:What's going on? on Ubuntu: Where Did the Love Go? · · Score: 1

    Yep, I'm never worked out what was so 'great' about Ubuntu..

    I'm currently working on stabilizing my own Linux variant, using Ubuntu as a base since it's got lots of third part packages etc....

    But I really want to clear out all the dead wood and build some proper solid foundations that's nice and easy to support instead of having a half arsed LTS or a half broken moving target to work with.

    MY thoughts are stability and bug fixing over the latest and greatest half implemented bollocks, I have no idea who'd want the latter but it's only a deb away if they do want it.

    I have myself and quite a few other people that I support running Linux.. it's less of a pain that windows in many many ways and works very nicely on old kit.
    They don't need 40k of packages or a trillion different desktops to try, nor do I. I just want something I can iron the bugs out of.. give them.. along with all the open source software the man on the street needs to do anything and be done with it.

    If they want to go fucking around with the system... well there's a PPA for that.