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  1. Re:or go vegetarian? on Future Astronauts May Survive On Eating Silkworms · · Score: 1

    Because Mulberry leaves are not a complete food source for humans.
    However, they are for silkworms, which are a more complete food for humans.
    You can then feed your human waste to the mulberry tree, and the circle is complete. With of course extra energy being introducted into the loop via sunlight.

  2. Re:Impressive... on Conflict of Interest May Taint DTV Delay Proposal · · Score: 1

    I think you'll find that after 8 years the world is well and truly sick of your retarded president. We no longer listen to what he says, because his comments are invariably lies, ignorant, or a mixture of both.

    Not finding WMD's is about as 'unfortunate' as dubya suddenly finding out that the USA does torture people after all.

  3. Re:and the land of the.... on Australia To Block BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Our national anthem starts with:

    Australians all let us rejoice
    For we are young and free

    But most of us don't sing about it, few know the words, or cares to learn them. We really don't associate with our anthem at all.

    But Waltzing Matilda or Khe Sahn....

  4. Re:Priorities, people, priorities on The Mouse Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    In summary: We hate F#$@ing Illinois Nazis

  5. This is easy to defeat on Technical Specs Released For Aussie Net Filtering · · Score: 1

    Easiest way to defeat this: "accidentally" add the .gov.au domain to the blacklist.

    Could you imagine the serenity?

  6. less academic students, more education on Royal Society of Chemistry Slams UK Exam Standards · · Score: 1

    I think the main problem is the "anybody can grow up to be president" mentality. Huge steps have been taken to squish the bell curve at the low end of the scale, and nothing to stretch it at the other end.

    So you end up with an education tailored for the average to poor student.

    I know this sounds a bit harsh, but most of these average kids don't need or want an academic education, they much prefer and are best suited to vocational training.

    Kids need to be treated according to their individual needs, not based on the lower common denominator. Which means get rid of this stupid standardised cookie cutter approach, and actually grade students (yes, I said it) according to ability.

    All kids are created equal, but some are more equal than others.

  7. Re:Uneasy on New Star Trek Trailer · · Score: 1

    Thank You, that was one of the best posts I've ever read on /.

  8. Not much security on An Inside-Out Look At the Antec Skeleton Case · · Score: 1

    It will make hardware upgrades much easier. Just wander around a LAN party and take what you like.

    It's like a silicon buffet

  9. Re:The best thing about standards... on Bell's Axioms on Standards · · Score: 1

    I thought microsoft have a strange view of standards. They like taking an existing standard, and tweaking is just enough so that they only work properly on thier platform, but not badly enough that its totally unaccessable on others.

    A classic example of this is IE

  10. Re:Cant say I'm too disappointed here. on Aussies Ban GTA3 · · Score: 1

    Even with an R rating this would not be permissible content for a movie, let alone a game. WTF is up with the sick fucks over DMA Design?
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    You ever seen American Psycho, or one of 27,000 other movies. I'm australian, and I think its a stupid decision. Sure, restrict its sale to kids, but allow us adults to have some fun

  11. Re:3dfx... on Nvidia Geforce 4 (NV25) Information · · Score: 1

    The point I'm amking is they didnt try to rescue the company either, which with the NVidia millions would be easily accomplished.

    This left quite a void next to NVidia at the top for quite a while, which only ATI is starting to fill now.

  12. Re:3dfx... on Nvidia Geforce 4 (NV25) Information · · Score: 1

    NVidia's purchase of #DFX was in my opinion, more a cheap purchase of a struggling competitor to wipe them off the face of the earth, and maybe inherit one or two good ideas, rather than a cooperative purchase.

  13. Re:Why do we have to bash Microsoft? on The Return of Microsoft · · Score: 1

    why do we bash microsoft, especially office??? one word: clippy DIE BITCH DIE!!!!

  14. Re:And it only took them four years... on Hormel Gracefully Concedes On SPAM vs. Spam · · Score: 1

    sir, I bow before thy sig

  15. Re:An essay on Microsoft on Review: The Dish · · Score: 1

    I love how any thread on /. eventually denegrates into either an american or M$ bashing session. Oh, and kooks with conspiracy theories as well