User: dan_the_heretic

Re:Job Discrimination

On: Your Genome Scanned While You Wait

More importantly,
Do we have a MAC gene?

Re:Actually, it all has to do with the

On: Mac OS X Slow for Web Browsing?

Typical knee-jerk reaction of some Windows geeks.
You probally read the parenthetical remark,, too bad you didn't get it.

(hit once more with the "ironyless" filter)

Actually, it all has to do with the

On: Mac OS X Slow for Web Browsing?

ONE BUTTON MOUSE!! THAT'S THE PROBLEM!
one button mouse!
one button mouse!
one button mouse!
one button mouse!
one button mouse!
one button mouse!
one button mouse!
one button mouse!
one button mouse!
(this was supposed to be all caps, but the lameness
filter kicked in. Maybe it should be renamed a "ironyless" filter

Re:This is incredible

On: Web-Surfing Indian Slum Kids Ask: "What's a Computer"

The only thing Microsoft could make that woudn't suck would be a vacumn cleaner

If a vacumn contains nothing, how can you clean it?

And this is what Slashdot is all about

On: Star Wars: Galaxies Preview

News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.

If this is what matters, I'll go back to reading the Star for the important stuff.

Kids!!

Excuse me, but...,

On: Lab Develops Artificial Womb

I kind of object to the term "old fashioned way".
How about we use the term "natural way"?

Heaven Forbid that someone thinks...

On: California's "Wireless-Free" Zone

It seems that someone who says that the world is better off not having 24/7 access to the internet/phone system is as crazy as someone saying that OSX and Apple is a viable alternative to WinTel?!?

What does it matter

On: Warnings to Red Hat about AOL Buyout

Everybody I know thinks that Red Hat is EVIL anyway. They use Debian. I use S.U.S.E.
Let them go!

Windows does Dallas...,

On: Dave Barry Does Windows

Hmmmm,
does anyone know where I can get a copy? Just for eval, of course

I'll see it on the last day of its release

On: Review:Fellowship of the Ring

That way with all the scratches and splice repairs it will look like a true "historical document" from Middle Earth.

ARRR!! ARRR!!

There you go again...,

On: Senate Trashes Civil Liberties; House to Vote Today

Thinking you have any freedoms at all. Mod me down if you want, but you children still don't understand the way it is.

Dream on brothers & sisters

All Freedom is illusionary.

On: Freedom Flees in Terror

You are deluding yourselves if you think you have ANY freedom.

My challenge is that you think about that last statement for 24 hrs before you answer. Don't answer with you lower brain, this is high order thinking.
But then, maybe this should be left to the jingoistic rabble-rousing that is typical of /.

Just get a job!

On: Broadband Crackdown

If you want a server running a web site, co-locate! I have yet to see a ISP let their customers run a web site without extra cost. What's the big deal! Whinning 'cause you can't get it free? GROW UP! Access costs MONEY. Pay it. Then whine because you don't get the service you pay for!

No OS X for me

On: Dumping LinuxPPC For MacOS X?

I have a G4. I have SUsE PPC. As soon as I can get MOL going, I won't boot OS9 again!

I have been playing with Linux since '94 (Slackware). OS X ? Who needs it!

No sig, know life; Know cig, no life