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  1. Re:Arrogance on Port-A-Nuke · · Score: 1
    Build your own damn supercarriers, neutron bombs, and space lasers instead of sitting on your thumbs.

    Like France?

    As for countries like Iran, Hussein's Iraq, Pakistan, etc, they were broken up for a reason. Very simply: we can't trust them as far as we can kick them.

    Then why the hell has the US supported every one of them militarily?

    Leave the US and England out of this. Our nuclear weapons are pretty much at the "yeah, we have some" point.

    More like "yeah, we have enough to nuke every city on this planet".

  2. Re:RTFA on Inflatable Spaceship Ready for Test · · Score: 1

    "Can also be used as cover in flamewars."

  3. Re:Well, duh!! on Women See Colors Better · · Score: 1
    Still doesn't explain why neither gender ever mentions the color "burnt sienna" after age 6.

    Well, Bob Ross always used a little bit of burnt sienna - and a lot of other little bits of strange colors to paint his happy little somethings. What that says about his gender, I don't know. PS: the link is harmless. No, really.

  4. Re:FAQ #402 on Apple Launches iTunes Affiliate Program · · Score: 3, Funny
    1: If you join, there is a non-zero chance that you do.
    2: If you don't join, there is zero chance that you do.
    3. If you convince others not to join, your chance gets bigger.

    See, math is easy.

  5. Re:FAQ? on Apple Launches iTunes Affiliate Program · · Score: 1
    Lessee: n. One who displays productive originality (eg. an advertisement creative); an advertising term referring to graphic design work like logo's and banners.

    IOW: "A creative creates creative creative" is a correct sentence - in the advertisment business at least ;-)

  6. Re:I would have busted him, too... on Bikes Against Bush Creator Busted · · Score: 1

    You mean this whole Republican convention thingy is illegal because it disrupts the normal flow of things?

  7. Re:Monopolies are not all bad on VoIP And Cell Phones Eroding Traditional Telecoms · · Score: 1
    I remember reading something about the head of Standard Oil (IIRC). One of his business advisors asked why they didn't raise the price of oil in the winter when demand spiked to make more money and he replied that he had to keep it affordable otherwise people would freeze to death.

    He wasn't being benevolent, he just had the kind of common business sense todays managers are mostly missing. If you kill your customers, they can't pay your outrageous prices. If you kill your market, you are dead. If you outsource jobs to back-of-the-woddistan's ultra-cheap workers, neither they nor the people you fired can afford your product.

  8. Re:Sad on "Scotty" Gets Walk of Fame Star · · Score: 1
    Doohan didn't invent the Klingon Language, that was Marc Okrand.

    That didn't stop Doohan from telling people that he invented Klingon. He even did it in an interview on German television ~ 10 years ago.

  9. Re:I love that... on The Last Atlas 2 Rocket Launch · · Score: 2, Interesting
    What about CUBA 90 miles south of you?

    Don't worry, the US is supporting the anti-Castro terrorists any way they can.

  10. Re:Proof the mods are insane. on G5 iMac To Come With Marble Blaster Gold · · Score: 1
    They are insane.

    This coming from the guy that claims that the original post "seems to be pro Apple".

  11. Re:Class M? on Astronomers Find Smaller Extrasolar Planets · · Score: 1
    A Terrestrial planet is catagorized by an abundance of surface water [...] Examples of Class M planets include: Earth (Sol III), Vulcan

    Tsk. From the description of Vulcan linked from that page:

    Vulcan's climate is generally harsh, with much of the surface consisting of large deserts or mountain ranges.
    Doesn't sound like "abundance of surface water" to me ;-)
  12. Re:Anyone else laughed at the art? on Astronomers Find Smaller Extrasolar Planets · · Score: 1
    Doesn't even have to be a planet. It could be a really heavy asteroid.

    Well, really heavy asteroids several times the mass of Earth are called planets.

  13. Re:Well obviously its a hoax... on Half-Life 2 Going Gold on Monday? [updated] · · Score: 1

    You mean they test games for bugs before they release them? ;-)

  14. Re:Unlikely on Apple Introduces New G5 iMac · · Score: 1
    No, you just need to lock down the config tight enough so that can't happen.

    Sure. But now you're not able to change mouse settings.

  15. Re:Apple needs more configurability on Apple Introduces New G5 iMac · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why does your secretary need 1.8 GHz instead of 1.6 GHz?

  16. Re:Unlikely on Apple Introduces New G5 iMac · · Score: 1
    One problem is that with the Dell you can put in any video card you want to run games.

    Hey, that would be a great slogan for Apple to use - since we are talking about a corporate computer that's fucking not supposed to run games.

  17. Re:Unlikely on Apple Introduces New G5 iMac · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And not to mention the Win64 virus.

  18. Re:Unlikely on Apple Introduces New G5 iMac · · Score: 1

    And this is exactly why Apple doesn't try to break into the hardcore corporate client market by being cheap. Even if they sold at a proce below Dell's, beancounters would still complpain that it doesn't run Windows and that they will have to re-buy all software. As long as a finance department isn't beyond simple bean counting, they're a lost cause for Apple.

  19. Re:Slashdot's posting help wanted ads now? on Apple iPod with Video and WiFi Capabilities? · · Score: 1
    Given that this "news" is almost a week old, Apple could have easily taken it down, either just to fool people who want to check whether the job posting is there, or because somebody already has taken the job.

    Anyway, this of course means a WiFi/video iPod is not in development yet, IOW we'll have to wait a bit for it to come out.

  20. It's all about logistics on Absentee Ballots by Email? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If the US government can't manage to let the servicemen vote properly and get the votes back to America in time, maybe they shouldn't go to war. Period. Because other countries manage to do so.

  21. Re:Speaking Chinese on Mobile Phones w/ Support for Chinese Characters? · · Score: 1

    Ahh,yes. Chinese Roulette.

  22. (Official) English Version on New iMac Pictures Leaked? · · Score: 2, Informative
  23. Re:Hosted on Mac.com on New iMac Pictures Leaked? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Someone claimed to have posted stolen pics of the iMac G5 taken in an elevator at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. They were available on a .Mac account for about 90mins before they were taken down. (http://homepage.mac.com/ihepworth/PhotoAlbum1.htm l)"

  24. Re:For crying out loud on New iMac Pictures Leaked? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Or they could have checked the English Edition of MacBidouille

  25. Re:Are you kidding me? on OpenBSD Vulnerabilty · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Funny, I haven't been affected by even one microsoft vulnerability.

    You may actually think so, but you probably have. Had to wait for a product you ordered because a company involved in making or shipping it was hit by a mail worm? Had a slower internet "experience" because of Blaster? Get more Spam via distributed Spam relays installed by a worm? And I'm not even counting things like not being able to get cash at the ATM because it BSODed because that's not a vulnerability.