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  1. This guy is not a scientist. on Skeptical Environmentalist Saga Continues · · Score: 1

    That is part of the problem.

  2. That makes them right wing. on Skeptical Environmentalist Saga Continues · · Score: 1

    It is just that US politics have moved so far to the right that there are many people like you that no longer understand where the left is.

  3. Power, power! on Skeptical Environmentalist Saga Continues · · Score: 1

    The Presidnet is form the Green party! Er, nope.
    The Senate is under control of the Green party! Er, nope.
    But they have many Senators, er, not really.
    And Representatives! Er nope.

    Funny way to pursue power: point thinks that are clearly wrong and guide politicians to fix them.

  4. What better place to ask? on New Survey Finds No Linux 'Chill' From SCO Suit · · Score: 1

    People doing the daily grunt work congregate here. They are bound to know if this is having any effect, regardless their personal position regarding the matter, or OSS.

  5. I proudly proclaim... on History of a Famous Star Wars Scream · · Score: 1

    ... that I did not know anything about this, I did not know that such a scream had a name and can't actually remember the scene where it all happens. For me StarWars was all about the first scene, Obiwan Kwnobi vs Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker blowing the Death Star to pieces, those sequences remained on my mind.

    Somehow I feel left out of the herd, but much better for it...

  6. That is all fine when you are part of the majority on Cube House · · Score: 1

    But what about when you are part of a minority.

    There was nothing more uncomfrotable that to work in a Muslim country and have to put up with their faith displays, specially on Fridays.

    For all the non-muslims there (which were around 40% of the workforce between Buddhists, Xians, agnostics and atheists, these last foreigners of course, otherwise they would have been breaking the law) it was a real pain to have to work all the time around the needs of the Muslim majority.

    Consider yourself lucky that in civilized countries religious fervour is being relegated to where it rightly belongs: the personal sphere.

  7. And then... on Cube House · · Score: 1

    ... people ask why jobs are shifted to India:

    -Overpaid people with too much time on their hands...
    -.. that exhibit behaviour bordering on the dihonest (what about the cost of this "exercise" after returning "uneeded" items).

    Nice though, but somehow I had to let my little Scrooge out just on time for the festive season.

  8. Not inly your shoulder. on Recommendations For A Good Laptop Bag? · · Score: 1

    Your column. Back pain? If you use any kind of one strapped bag that may be to blame or a big contributing factor.

  9. Never heard of neither. on Asimov's "I, Robot" Gets Movie Treatment · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sorry. I am a movie buff, I would know about either if they were of any significance >:-p

  10. If that is fame.... on Asimov's "I, Robot" Gets Movie Treatment · · Score: 1

    ... I am the lost brother of Bill Gates.

  11. What logic. on Linus Blasts SCO's Header Claims · · Score: 1

    A standard body would set a standard in which the patent or copyright holder is not releasing any rights they may have.

    Give me some of that thing you are smoking, I'll need it for the festive season.

  12. Better they decide. on Interview with OpenBeOS Leader Michael Phipps · · Score: 1

    http://www.blueeyedos.com/project/license.html

    otherwise they lack any credibility due to the confussion....

  13. See the light. on Attorneys Prepare iPod Class Action Lawsuit · · Score: -1, Troll

    There is no excuse for producing throw away players that cost several hundred dollars.

    Good, I hope this dicourages anybody else to make such dumb decitions in the future.

  14. MS? on Microsoft Sends Linux Survey · · Score: 1

    Common, they may not be the brightest sparks, but they are not that incapable....

  15. Re:Odd, why surveymonkey? on Microsoft Sends Linux Survey · · Score: 1

    Did you RTFA? Check the reply to the email somebody sent. They replyed with a Hotmail account for goodness sakes, implying tha the MS email's Inbox used to gather responses was filling up!

    Give me a break, that should have been gathered automatically, and that is not an excuse to use Hotmail accounts to reply to inquiries regarding the survey.

    They are either hoaxing or completely unprofessional, either case this is an absolute joke.

  16. You have no idea what a 3rd degree burn is. on DeCSS: Jon Johansen Acquitted In Retrial · · Score: 1

    Otherwise you would do something more useful than try to defend the indefensible.

  17. Welcome to /. sonny. on SCO Gets More Desperate; Sends More Letters · · Score: 1

    Nice to see you joining the site.

  18. Has to be a fake. on Microsoft Sends Linux Survey · · Score: 2, Informative

    And for the looks of it, people are falling on themselves like lemmings. Do you guys really need that much the attention of MS?

    For once RTFA.

    You will see that somebody replied to the given address

    QUOTE
    It was signed by "Michael Surkan," using the "Reply To" address lnq@microsoft.com
    UNQUOTE

    And what did they get as a reply? this:

    QUOTE
    From: frankwilliams291@hotmail.com (Frank Williams)
    To: [name and email address removed]
    UNQUOTE

    So Frank Williams, via a Hotmail email address is helping out Mr Surkan from his hotmail account. Because arguably this Mr SUlkan is checking his own Inbox by hand? (look at the article, honest).

    And the survey is carried out in webmonkey.com Mmmmmh?!?!?

    It seems fake, it sounds fake, it must be fake and it seems like many people, on their eagernes (of what exactly?), felt for it.

    Where is all that critical thinking so many people talk about around here?

    I would not get involved with a survey I am not absolutely 100% sure it is what is says it is.

  19. Open Source that you can't modify? on Interview with OpenBeOS Leader Michael Phipps · · Score: 1

    Mmmmmhhhhh

  20. Shared experience. on Interview with OpenBeOS Leader Michael Phipps · · Score: 1

    The Linux guys are saying: "look, do not waste time, use the Linux kernel, twist it and get the same functionality you used to have, that way you get drivers and many other things without the innordinate effort (we are talking about millions of loc!)".

    If I see a felow pedestrian going to fall in the same hole in which I just falled in, what I am suppossed to do? Warn him or wait there to laugh at him once he falls?

  21. I would say... on Interview with OpenBeOS Leader Michael Phipps · · Score: 1

    ... why to reinvent the wheel?

  22. Who cares? You do. on Visual Effects Oscar Shortlist · · Score: 1

    Otherwise you would not be doing such a detailed apology of such shitty films.

  23. Mention another cinematic industry... on Visual Effects Oscar Shortlist · · Score: 1

    .... in which what he says is not true.

  24. Become a corporation. on BusinessWeek on Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    Join with 20 buddies and start a company.

  25. That is what happens with protectionism. on BusinessWeek on Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    Had other countries have any incentivies to open up the ease towards competition would have not caught so many people by surprise.

    You mention one important point, education, specially in the fields of biotech.

    Well, with your President banning research because it does not fit his irrational beliefs about abortion, and with people still discussing if the US education system should teach evolution (or give any thought to creationism in a science course) you are digging your own grave.

    Contrast that against countries in which abortion has been a family planning tool and you know that the US is at a huge disadvantage in the biotech field to start with (I am not intending to start a pro-choice flame fest, the fact is that research is being stopped in one place while most probably it will go on unstopped in another. These decision will have economical and social implications, that is all).