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  1. Re:wow on US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The purpose of government is to act for the good of society. LOL

    The purpose of government is to maximise the personal wealth of those governing, at the expense of those governed.

  2. Re:What kind of boondoggle is this? on Palau May Get Satellite Power In the Next Decade · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, but you're missing the point. They'll be in debt for 2000 years so the banks will be happy, the people will be able to beam with pride at how technologically advanced they are and the government get to look like they're important.

  3. Only on slashdot on Email In the 18th Century · · Score: 4, Funny

    The irony of having to define the word "Wanker" to a bunch of mostly American nerds.

  4. Re:Postal mail used to be pretty good, too. on Email In the 18th Century · · Score: 1

    In some major cities, like New York and Boston, the mail used to come as much as five times a day. The Banks.
  5. Re:TCL/TK runs the world on Tcl/Tk 8.5.0 Released · · Score: 1

    what it's used for has no relevance in reference to that fact. Course it does you chickenshit little coward. Function defines form.
  6. Re:Tcl language vs. Tcl environment on Tcl/Tk 8.5.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately the Tcl language itself is peculiar, dated and just not very good. Really? For what purpose?
  7. TCL/TK runs the world on Tcl/Tk 8.5.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Yahbut tcl/tk is used to run machines, factories. The hint is in the name.

    Whether the widgets look like Windows, Linux, OSX, Motif or whatever is largely irrelevant as long as the start and stop buttons work when you click them.

  8. What I find fascinating on FBI Prepares Vast Database of Biometrics · · Score: 1

    Make no mistake, the underlying sponsors of this unConstitutional boloney are corporate. Is that your standard Republican and Democrat voter both believe that you can have a government able to create infinite amounts of money and not have this happen.

    Money is power. It is goods and services. With it you can enact your will, without it, you cannot.

    The fact that it plays right into the hands of certain power hungry politicians and their appointed/unelected officials is just unfortunate for us. It really has nothing to do with chance.
  9. Re:Sigh on FBI Prepares Vast Database of Biometrics · · Score: 2, Informative

    Real change needs to start with things like amending the Constitution to put term limits on Congress It's The Money, Stupid.

  10. Well... You have an election coming on FBI Prepares Vast Database of Biometrics · · Score: 1

    Just who's the boss?

  11. Well, the date is obvious on Mystery Company Recruiting Talent With a Puzzle · · Score: 1

    It's the "Tri-Valley Singles Lock & Key and Dance"... Clearly.

  12. You forgot to add on High Efficiency Hybrid Car Planned For 2009 · · Score: 1
    • look like a prat driving one: yep

  13. What kind of idiot are you? on Notebook Makers Moving to 4 GB Memory As Standard · · Score: 1

    It's hard enough trying to explain to customers why they shouldn't waste their money on 4GB of memory and a 1GB video card You try hard to stop customers handing you their money?
  14. It's very very simple. on Retail Store Scalping Wii Consoles on eBay · · Score: 1

    retailers make absolutely nothing on them, and either you play by Apple's pricing rules or you get cut off. If you're not making a profit. You stop selling. Getting cut off is hardly a hardship if you're making a loss on every unit.

  15. Re:So what on Retail Store Scalping Wii Consoles on eBay · · Score: 1

    Either you have a lot of unearned income, or... no you simply must have unearned income. No, there's another option.
  16. Apparently I am either on People Were More Likely To Google Themselves This Year · · Score: 1

    A mechanic
    A writer
    A photographer
    A director of Rolls Royce
    A mortgage provider

    oooh. A War correspondent!

  17. Personal genomics... on Science Magazine's Top Stories of 2007 · · Score: 0

    Imagine manipulating the influenza virus to deliver a specific payload to a host matching a particular gene sequence... Individuals, families, races...

  18. Re:Great idea on Single-Chip x86 Chipsets Around the Corner? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yah, but current ARM processors max out at about 700-900 mhz.

    If they can really pull off a good, stable, low powered chipset in the 1.5 ghz range.. I would be very interested. Right. Because more gigahertz means faster.
  19. Re:I only have one wish... on Plexiglass-like DVD to Hold 1TB of Data · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh, FFS. You just wait till one side wins, let the early adopter retards pay all the development, marketing costs and take the risk.

  20. Oh great, the retarded mods are out again on Anti-Virus Effectiveness Down from Last Year · · Score: 1

    Apparently they are unaware that the diversity which sexual reproduction creates effectively limits the size of the population which a virus can infect, severely curtailing the spread.

  21. Indeed on Mathematicians Solve the Mystery of Traffic Jams · · Score: 2, Funny

    Once you understand how it works, you can create traffic jams in even relatively light traffic. If you're really good, they're still there when you go home the other direction.

  22. Yes, we've know for years. on Mathematicians Solve the Mystery of Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    And these solve the problem permanently.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7148731.stm

  23. I have the solution on Anti-Virus Effectiveness Down from Last Year · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sex.

  24. Why bother? on Microsoft is the Industry's Most Innovative Company? · · Score: 1

    if Microsoft is so innovative, why can't we get something better than the Zune?" They're coining it in from their monopoly position, they don't need to do dick.

  25. Really? on Toshiba Builds Ultra-Small Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    Cos they didn't factor it in here in the UK. £70 billion subsidy from the taxpayer.