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  1. Re:Misleading to talk about a "human-ape split" on Ape-Human Split Moved Back By Millions Of Years · · Score: 1

    "Most people don't consider them to include humans."

    Anyone who knows what monophyletic and paraphyletic mean isn't "most people".

  2. Re:When will people ever learn? on New HD TiVo and Cable Incompatibilities · · Score: 1

    What's this VCR you speak of?

  3. Re:Owners are the ones with the money on Music Industry Shaking Down Coffee Shops · · Score: 1

    of course it's not as productive, no one says they have the right to make money. but it's not the business owner playing the songs.

  4. Re:And? on Music Industry Shaking Down Coffee Shops · · Score: 1

    Why would the owners have to pay, they pay the performers and the performers are the ones profiting. If anything the performers should play and if you have a tv on the owners of the tv station should pay(oh wait they already did!!). Yeah I'd like to see them try and harass a band.

  5. Re:Harmful on FSF Rattles Tivo Saber At Apple · · Score: 1


    >> If anything, this is a huge disinventive for any company in the future to deal with any oss software. The rabid fanboys who think they know better than everyone will simply denounce you and cause bad publicity, sometimes without proof.

    that's always been the point of gpl, if you use it and don't let people change it then they don't want you using free software.

  6. quid pro quo on SWSoft Out of Compliance With the GPL · · Score: 1

    if they don't respect our licenses . . . .

    You can find serials and copies of parallels on isohunt.com and thepiratebay.org

  7. Re:Here's the facts on Canadian health care on Google Protects Healthcare From Michael Moore · · Score: 1

    or he's merely pointing out how correlation doesn't imply causation. How about the correlation between crime rate and distance from the equator.

  8. Re:Not Evil on Google Protects Healthcare From Michael Moore · · Score: 1

    it's not a free market right now. If it was and you needed a procedure(e.g. appendectomy) you could call a few hospitals and get a quote, but you can't. In fact getting a price before anything is done is next to impossible.

  9. Re:All heat sink related? Probably not. on The Man Who Went Through 11 Xbox 360s · · Score: 1

    yey for annecdotes. I'm on my second xbox 360. The first one had issues where it would freeze after long periods of play. Then it got stolen, and I got a new one. This one has a dvd drive that starts to skip and cause read errors. Both issues were fixed by buying a loud ass intercooler device that snaps onto the back, or not playing during the summer. I live in Florida we keep things warm down here because electricity is expensive as fuck. I have a friend who has one, and he also talks of hardware glitches. early ps2's also were notorious for burning out. However, I have never heard of a console being this problematic. They never sold external cooling devices for ps2's.

  10. Re:Good news on OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X Alpha Released! · · Score: 1

    ad hominem ftw. Go moderators.

  11. Re:Y'know... on GNU Coughs Up Emacs 22 After Six Year Wait · · Score: 1

    Don't say that too loud or It'll hear you.

    Escape
    Meta
    Alt
    Control
    Shift

  12. Re:I'm not from America on Pro-ODF Legislation Loses In Six States · · Score: 3, Informative

    umm California and Connecticut are very demoratic
    oregon is a little democratic
    florida is a little republican
    texas is very republican
    Minnesota is a swing state.

  13. Re:Ironic! on Google Bans Ads For Essay-Writing Services · · Score: 1

    prostitution and drugs are quite a bit more victimless. At least they only hurt the buyer and seller at most.

  14. Re:NYC: 89.9, 89.5, 91.1 et al on RIAA Seeks Royalties From Radio · · Score: 1

    yeah, I'm going to one of those universities in a small ass eastern city. As a result I listen to Sirius. It may be easier to get a license but there just isn't much out here.

  15. Re:NYC: 89.9, 89.5, 91.1 et al on RIAA Seeks Royalties From Radio · · Score: 1

    Does your reality exclude anything but bigass eastern cities?

  16. Re:Sheesh on Microsoft Votes to Add ODF to ANSI Standards List · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As apposed to the alternate explanation. Microsoft is doing this out of the goodness of their heart. Yeah, that's more likely.

  17. Re:Welcome New Overlords! on 26 Common Climate Myths Debunked · · Score: 1

    I'm glad you think you're hot shit, and that passive aggressiveness works for you. Though you really know little about model selection.

  18. Re:Welcome New Overlords! on 26 Common Climate Myths Debunked · · Score: 1

    >> As a computer expert, I give up my knowledge that computer models are almost pointless when dealing with ten-thousand variable systems

    It's a good thing you weren't a mathematician.

  19. Re:Use a manual rule to block it on How Image Spam Works · · Score: 1

    >>I grey them out in Thunderbird so I don't have to notice them until I'm ready

    how do you do that?

  20. Re:My workout on Treadmill Workstation · · Score: 1

    It's a waste of time, if you want to do cardio three or more times a week for 30 minutes, you'll be spending at least a good hour coordinating. Some of us have fine social lives and exercise just to get it out of the way.

  21. Re:Realistically on Hybrid Cars to Get New Mileage Ratings · · Score: 1

    There's an interest in the government to subsidize new technologies with the potential for greater societal good. As to why, look up externality on wikipedia.

  22. Re:You're skipping versions on MS Offers Vista Upgrade Pricing To All · · Score: 1

    win98se was just some downloads. Win2k was a different product line.
    I didn't mention me, but it is as much of an upgrade as vista and didn't sell well either.

  23. Re:The curse of Vista... on MS Offers Vista Upgrade Pricing To All · · Score: 3, Interesting

    >> Like all versions of Windows, there is no reason for the average consumer to upgrade an existing computer - just wait until you get a new computer.

    Windows xp over 98/me was a huge improvement and there were plenty of reasons to upgrade.
    98 over 95 was a good upgrade as well.
    95 over 3.1 was also a good upgrade.

    This is the first time that there really is no reason to upgrade.

  24. Re:"Zune Scene"? on Details of Next Gen Zune Surface · · Score: 2, Informative

    way to notice. Blatant astroturfing.

  25. Re:Always too little too late on Google a "Wake-Up Call" For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    >> Hell, what has Linux innovated lately? Desktops on spinning cubes?

    Linux is an operating system kernel, not a person or a company, it's not sentient, and it's not going to innovate anything. I'm glad you were able to turn a microsoft bash into some kind of anti linux comment. You also forgot to bash apple and bsd.