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  1. Re:Troll much? on WindowsUpdate.com Secured, Permanently · · Score: 1

    You mean, when using Microsoft products, you are in constant need of patches, just like a car needs gasoline to run?
    I fully agree.

  2. Re:A moving target is still a target on WindowsUpdate.com Secured, Permanently · · Score: 1

    And Windows is perpetually an alpha-level product, and, to be added: you P A Y for it.

    In SusE Linux you do: Yast -> Online Update. *POOF*, there it is.

  3. Re:Off topic but... on Chemical Element 110 To Be Named · · Score: 1

    Mine did (v 7.11).

  4. Re:Natural vs ??? on Chemical Element 110 To Be Named · · Score: 1

    According to present-day calculations, there's a region of about 300 "stable" nuclei ranging from Z = 107 - 124 and N = 154 - 185. (Z is the number of protons, N the number of protons and neutrons). Actually, the isotope Darmstadtium 294 is believed to be the most stable one with a half life of some ten thousand years up to some billion years.
    My source is Harry H. Binder's excellent encyclopedia of the chemical elements.

  5. Re:Natural vs ??? on Chemical Element 110 To Be Named · · Score: 1

    Incorrect. Decaying Uranium 238 can produce Tc-isotopes. Tc was found 1961 in a place named Katanga, wherever this is (yes, it is on earth). It is also found in Molybdenum ores.

  6. Re:Natural vs ??? on Chemical Element 110 To Be Named · · Score: 1

    That's absolutely not right. The elements > 94 have not been discovered in stars or anywhere else. They cannot be created during natural processes, even supernovae can't do.

  7. Just out of laziness on Microsoft Code at Fault for Half of all Windows Crashes · · Score: 1

    I know, this is redundant and maybe even off-topic. But I keep on wondering all my days:
    How can anyone waste money on an OS? Especially if it CRASHES?
    I fail to find any reason except for people who use software which cannot run on any other OS and which has no substitute (and/ or whose developers cannot be emailed in request for supporting free OSes).

  8. Re:I don't want to start a flamewar... on Flavor vs. Flavour · · Score: 1

    Why is that an advantage? For etymologists and other language scientists, it may be a wonderful thing. For people who know Latin it's nice. But for Joe Average there's absolutely no advantage.

  9. Re:Flavor/Flavour on Flavor vs. Flavour · · Score: 1

    >Especially because of all of the trouble I used to get into
    >for using Amaricanised spellings

    Now that would be "troble" in American English, right?

  10. Re:Wrong on Darwinian Poetry: From Bad to Verse · · Score: 1

    Did you mean something like poem #6454:

    "into the soullessness"

  11. Re:I'm a Creationist poet. on Darwinian Poetry: From Bad to Verse · · Score: 1

    then check this one out:
    poem #10191;

    "so sent me godlikeness of simplistic precepts"