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  1. Re:Penalties on Microsoft Patents Sudo's Behavior · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Patenting sudo is a slight legitimate error?

    Damn. I want some of that anti-guilt thing you are taking.

  2. Re:To "the season" on Google Gives the Gift of Free Airport Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    You, sir, are a grammar nazi.

    And probably a Goodwin nazi, but that remains to be proven.

  3. Re:Considering the source on Whistleblower Claims IEA Is Downplaying Peak Oil · · Score: 1

    Ah... you think that "making sense" of things is the same as believing in them? Understanding is believing?

    Ooookay....

    I rest my case and on the critical thinking issue, well right back at you.

  4. To "the season" on Google Gives the Gift of Free Airport Wi-Fi · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Fuck the season

    Fuck the horse (or "raindear") it rode in on.

    And fuck the "spirit" of whatever the hell makes you feel all twingly inside and more "giving"

    You are either a good person or an asshole, regardless of the time of the year.

  5. Re:No shit on What Computer Science Can Teach Economics · · Score: 1

    If we are at the BNW society, where the fuck is my free drugs?

  6. Re:Hope on US Supreme Court Skeptical of Business Method Patents · · Score: 1

    Thats not the way it went down.

    The thing is that their license on hope I sold them expired and they didnt cough up the buck. I suspended them.

  7. Re:Probably overblown on Whistleblower Claims IEA Is Downplaying Peak Oil · · Score: 1

    Moot point.

    If we dont have at least the same energy we have now, some three billion people people are going to die.

  8. Re:Considering the source on Whistleblower Claims IEA Is Downplaying Peak Oil · · Score: 1

    You shouldnt if what they say makes no sense for you.

  9. Re:Gas prices a factor in economic collapse? on Whistleblower Claims IEA Is Downplaying Peak Oil · · Score: 1

    Excelent analogy. The whore doing the blow job is to blame, obviously.

  10. Re:US bias, come on, it's getting tiresome on EC Formally Objects To Oracle's Purchase of Sun · · Score: 1

    Not that the europeans werent caught in the exact same position regarding the crisis.

    This "counterpart" stuff is just bogus: they are the same ilk.

    Abmicious trolls are on the wheels of occident.... but then again, I cannot recall a time when they werent.

  11. Re:Bah! on Whistleblower Claims IEA Is Downplaying Peak Oil · · Score: 1

    THats the smallest problem: a rising temperature means a vicious cicle. It increases energy demands, which increases energy production, which increases energfy demands.

  12. Re:Bah! on Whistleblower Claims IEA Is Downplaying Peak Oil · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Third world scum?

    Well, I can see that the US is entering the third world when this kind of talk passes as "argument". I expect that in latinamerica, where we are all frustrated and poor. Not from the first world, that is supposed to be enlightened.

    Not anymore it seems.

  13. Re:Bah! on Whistleblower Claims IEA Is Downplaying Peak Oil · · Score: 1

    Thats plain dumb: if you deplete the world's reserves using your clout, the last country with oil will be the US. Duh.

  14. I think this USED to be a problem on John Hodgman On the Coming Geek Culture · · Score: 1

    But not anymore.

    And you can look at the younger generation and even as I do want to send them back to school until they learn to properly write in their mother tongue (not their mother's tongue, which would be desirable, but trumps on some human rights) or tell them to just die already instead of making "statements" by using the exact same haircut than their peers, they are MUCH more tolerant.

    Really.

    MTV giveth, id say. Even if MTV taketh otherth thtuff away too.

  15. Re:It had to be France... on French Branch of Scientology Is Convicted of Fraud · · Score: 1

    Communism is a religion all by itself.

    Problem solved.

  16. Re:It had to be France... on French Branch of Scientology Is Convicted of Fraud · · Score: 1

    Ah, but you see, they are in Tibet and consider it to not be a part of China.

    Dont mix milk and malt... or do it very, very consciously.

  17. Re:I'm surprised nobody has said this yet, but.. on French Branch of Scientology Is Convicted of Fraud · · Score: 1

    Ok mods, this IS flamebait, but its a very nice one. Have mercy.

  18. Re:I'm surprised nobody has said this yet, but.. on French Branch of Scientology Is Convicted of Fraud · · Score: 1

    You can EXPLAIN why people believe in Christ, in Yawe, in Alah. You cannot, in any way, explain why people believes in a sci fi character which their OWN WRITER said was false, and just fantasy, and a great business.

    Yes, there IS a difference in being a conman and being a man of the cloth.

  19. Re:It had to be France... on French Branch of Scientology Is Convicted of Fraud · · Score: 1

    I should say that I see no real parallel between any real religion and Scientology. Yes, they are both bussinesses, but I do think that the muslim believe their faith, that the pope believes in his. We know where they are coming from and it can all be explained (not can be proven right or wrong, it can be explained WHY do they believe this or that) when speaking about real realigions.

    The scientologists are no religion at all. They are a global cartel of con-men.

  20. Re:The Ammunition for Both Sides on French Branch of Scientology Is Convicted of Fraud · · Score: 1

    An interesting datum: most of the veredicts of the inquisition did not end in death for the condemned. It ended in their torture and a sentence of life as slaves.

  21. It had to be France... on French Branch of Scientology Is Convicted of Fraud · · Score: 1

    There are things for which the positivist, almost socialist state works wonderfully. This is one of those things. I say yay to the French and if in this instance you guys are thinking of bringing your old friend Ms. Guillotine out for a ride, I wouldn't cry a single tear.

  22. Re:Never even heard of it on Microsoft Opening Outlook's PST Format · · Score: 1

    "I have 10GB+ PSTs laying around."

    Ah, its you who have been eating up all the cycles in the Cray.

  23. Re:From My Simpleton Point of View on Why Developers Get Fired · · Score: 1

    Sorry.

    It doesnt work that way.

    However, I do wonder what kind of a coder you'd have to be if you didnt care about the quality of your work more than office policy. Kudos to you, but I anticipate a bumpy ride in your beginings. In the end, though, I stillbelieve the best stay ethical and get to the top (of the coder food chain: you cant be ethical and be a C*O).

  24. Re:whatever on Alan Turing Gets an Apology From Prime Minister Brown · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I believe you mean "a puff".

    Nothing more than a computer-theory-inventing-second-world-war-winning-hero puff.

  25. Re:An Easy Apology on Alan Turing Gets an Apology From Prime Minister Brown · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "I suppose we should be pleased that Brown has issued this apology, just a shame he's part of a government that knew about torture of terrorism suspects under interrogation. I don't think chemical castration is any worse, and it was even legal at the time. How times have changed eh? Now the government only does awful things to you without evidence and when you've not even had a trial."

    Well yeah. The thing is, Turing's contribution to the great britain shouldve made him a hero. INstead, he got castrated.

    The cases you point to, at least, were against "enemies" (however true that is). What they did to Alan was against a war hero, perhaps the most important life saver in the retake of europe from the nazis as his work allowed the allies to gather the information they needed to get the nazis out the countries they had invaded.

    Not to mention, for christ sakes, that he was the inventor of computer theory. Not just europe or the brits owed things to him: my job and life revolve arround what he started because I work in computing. The computer revolution would not have been possible without his mathematical work (and that of many others like Von Neuman).