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  1. Re:Hoots mon on the Celtic Fringe... on Reviews:Shrek · · Score: 1

    If he had done a genuine strong glaswegian accent - it would have been counter-productive - most american audiences would probably require sub-titles. I'm Irish and I have dificulties understanding some scotch accents.

  2. Re:not contributing anything useful? on Scientists And Engineers Say "Computers Suck!" · · Score: 1

    "never ever start a sentence with a preposition"

  3. Re:Sealand is to small on Why Offshore Napster Won't Work · · Score: 1

    satelite ip service.

  4. Re:The Xemu Leaflet on Scientology vs. Panoussis Ruling · · Score: 1

    BANG

  5. Re:Dont take this seriosly!! on Australia Is Getting Its Own DMCA · · Score: 1

    That is the exact behaviour of the Irish Government

  6. Re:Copy protection minus quality on DataPlay - Flash Killer or Copy-Control Nightmare? · · Score: 1

    dump audio to DAT drive http://www.ncf.ca/~aa571/index.html

  7. Re:Seen It Happen on The Future of Copy Control · · Score: 1

    yes and usually associate them with caller ID's

  8. advantage of subscription on How Will Subscription-Ware Affect OEMs? · · Score: 1

    business's could be in favour of this from a getting support point of view. ie 'you fix my software or I cancel my $2000 a month subscription'

  9. Re:No complaints about the mail here on Pushing The Postal Envelope · · Score: 1

    My family once recieved a letter sent to; 'mysirname' ,Ireland. We don't have a teribly common sirname but we were still quite impressed..

  10. Supergun!!!!! on Planning For The Colonization Of Mars · · Score: 1

    Supergun!!!!!

  11. Re:evil wizards on Live Streaming Video? · · Score: 1

    Yes, my machine does not like quicktime , my machine is perfectly stable with the exception of quicktime which manages to instantly blue-screen Windows.

  12. sulpher=bad on Global Warming Worse Than Thought · · Score: 1

    Long term use of sulpher damages the emision levels of engines. Where I live (Dublin, Ireland) our state-owned bus service used to import High-Sulpher diesel from the USSR. The sulpher built up deposits on the fuel injectors which resulted in poor combustion. Every time the bus driver put his foot down you could see a thick black cloud of smoke coming out the exaust pipe (which was for some reason facing out the side of the bus towards the sidewalk- a bus coudl easily leave you choking if it pulled away beside you).

  13. pancreas not liver on Researchers Find Off Protein For Immune System · · Score: 1

    pancreas not liver

  14. Are there that many PDP-10s still in use? on PDP-10 Revival · · Score: 1

    I work for a company in that (among other things) makes performance upgrades for pdp10/11's. I'm not involved in that area of the business but aparantly there is a big market in the former ussr for them (some element of their phone system seems to rely heavily on pdp's)

  15. 'Pointing the blame' is totaly inacurate on Microsoft Critiques Australian IT Policies · · Score: 1

    Ireland does not have extremely high normal tax levels ,income tax maybe but corporations only care about corporation tax and that has been at 10% for years. You have a massive choice of political parties because of proportional representation, labour(left),Fianna Fail(populist center ground), Fianna Gael (rightish), Progressive democrats (farther right), Green (leftie organic hippie party) + many smaller parties and independents. A party rarely gets a full majority so you are usually left with a coalition of two or more of these parties. We don't forbid calculators in school, when I was in school (3 or 4 years ago) we were permitted to use them for all our subjects. The vast majority of our citizens could barely string a scentence together in Irish. It is compulsory in school but all it ever did was create an antagonism towards the language and take up time better spent on other more useful languages (irish native speakers =20-40,000). We don't have great language ability (the dutch or germans are miles ahead of us in that department)Our great language advantage is that we speak english as our first language (an advantage for american investment) and that the only other english speaking country in europe (britain) has even worse language skills than we do.

  16. sysadmin strike on France To Tax Blank Computer Media · · Score: 1

    A sysadmin strike would probably be vastly more crippleing and effective than a bunch of farmers throwing live sheep into a mcdonalds shouting "rosbif scum".

  17. All they need to do is mail order on France To Tax Blank Computer Media · · Score: 1

    All they need to do is mail order the CD's from england. Eu sales taxes are enforced the oposite way around to American ones. Tax is paid in the country the product is shipped from not the one the consumer lives in. As long as they are not ordering vast quantities with intent to resell they will only get charged at the english rate.

  18. Somewhat irelevant on Is Sony Turning Its Back On CD-Rs? · · Score: 1

    My fathers car ( a second hand japanese import- ie it's spec is japanese home market) will not play most of my original cd's (most of them 2-3 years old) but it will play cdr copies of them. Anyone know why?

  19. so I can participate in the educational on Police Arrest Teen for "Obscene" Web Site · · Score: 1

    or just make a large pile of $ and buy one.

  20. Old VCR on What Cases Work Well For Building Set-Top Boxes? · · Score: 2

    Have you thought about modifying an old VCR Case?

  21. You want an open source solutution? Make one! on Microsoft, Unisys & Dell To Make New Voting System · · Score: 1

    You want an open source solutution? Make one! If dell+M$ are developing a solution , why not develop one yourselves, set up an umbrella organisation and tendor for the contract aswell.

  22. Re:Idaho on Microsoft, Unisys & Dell To Make New Voting System · · Score: 1

    (just working from memory here) but I seem to remember in bill brysons "made in america" that Idaho is called Idaho because it sounded like "a good indian name" to somebody who was responsable for nameing it.

  23. Re:Bose on What Audio System Powers Your Home Theater? · · Score: 1

    I got a pair of bose shelf speakers. 30w, decent quality, nothing to write home about but got them for nothing so I don't really have any grounds for complaint. -NAD Amp , cos your hi-fi has got to have balls

  24. 'normally aspirated' on Linux Powered Dodge · · Score: 1
    who care about 'normally aspirated'

    Mitusbishi Lancer Evo VI (2.0L 280-330 bhp - depending on version)

    Subaru Impreza turbo (2.0L 280bhp+)

    Weighs much less than your V8 rust-magnet.

    RWD vs FWD? Why bother with either when your can have 4WD with advanced traction control , ABS and all sort of other trickery (If americans took the same attitude to computers as cars we'd still be using tele-types.)

    Weight - a small fraction (due to something called "materials technology").

    Expense - not sure on American prices , but they are not all that expensive in my country and we tax the shit out of cars (21% sales tax + 26% 'Vehicle Registration Tax' (of the price + sales tax) = 151% of pre-tax price. around $30,000-$35,000 new.

  25. no:its just paracetamol on Linux Powered Dodge · · Score: 1

    not pcb - just paracetamol