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  1. Re:Tesla on 6 Major Pre-Production Electric Vehicles Compared · · Score: 0

    ...so you must have been walking for quite a while now, huh?

  2. Re:Roads? on 6 Major Pre-Production Electric Vehicles Compared · · Score: 0

    Actually the WAY we're going, we're gonna need a lot more roads...

  3. Re:Developers vs. Customers on 10 Years of Pushing For Linux — and Giving Up · · Score: 0

    Customers? Linux isn't a PRODUCT, it's FREE. Expect no support unless you're willing to hire programmers to fix it for yourself. This could work brilliantly in a larger corp environment ...except that the accelerating trend is to outsource every fucking thing.

  4. Re:That's what caused HAL to malfunction on Mass Storage For Phones · · Score: 0

    Not true, both HAL and Dave are reborn on a higher plane, as I suspect your Windows Mobile device might be if it had a better OS installed on it.

  5. Re:Someone better tell China on On Electricity (Generation) · · Score: 0

    It'll help the US become poorer and more inefficient, more likely.

  6. Re:That was actually my point on On Electricity (Generation) · · Score: 0

    Most of the radioactive particles produced by coal burning power stations are contained within the ash rather than the soot. Pity the poor fuckers who live near the plants, as this ash is NOT a well managed waste product.

  7. Re:wow on London 2006, Meet London 1984 · · Score: 0

    There really aren't that many black people in the UK, even in London. The problem with black Britons is that a great many of them live in shithole ghettos like Harlesden, the murder capital of the UK.

    We should have active government intervention to break up ghettos and disperse racial communities.

  8. Re:Well, it's only fair. on U.S. to Gain Access to EU Retained Data · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Funny, those are EXACTLY the same reasons I'm afraid of the USA and Israel. They believe that they're right, that God is on their side and that that makes them better than others.

  9. Re:OMG! Poniez!!!!1 on MPAA training Dogs to Sniff Out DVDs · · Score: 0

    Is English your first language, tucker?

  10. Re:UK on The NSA Knows Who You've Called · · Score: 0

    PLANS to? Haven't you seen all the fucking cameras? Most of them are easily accessible on motorway crossing bridges and the wires are EASY to snip with garden shears/pruners. Not that I'd do such a thing after supergluing biscuit-tin squares on 'safety' cameras.

    Nope, not me.

  11. Re:OMG! Poniez!!!!1 on MPAA training Dogs to Sniff Out DVDs · · Score: 0

    Not in the UK. No fair use here.

  12. Re:Copied Apple again!! on Dell, HP, Lenovo Announce New Display Protocol · · Score: 0

    The current 30" displays are 2560x1600 and, believe me, they are FAR better than 2 1600x1200s side-by-side.

    When you have a 30", the term 'desktop' suddenly makes sense.

  13. Re:Bandwidth... on Dell, HP, Lenovo Announce New Display Protocol · · Score: 0

    WHy do people persist with this 'QUXGA' crap? Call it what it is - no-one gives a shit what LGUXA-W is. If it's 3200x2400 that you mean, just fucking write that.

    Cunts.

  14. Re:best prices on low-end parts? oh yeah... on Wal-Mart to Offer Components for DIY Computers · · Score: 0

    What is the achievement in BUYING HDDs to store movies on? Why not just BUY DVDs instead? They can be incredibly cheap if you know where to look.

  15. Re:free as in beer on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 0

    Unfortunately, grape juice is disgustingly sweet.

  16. Re:Fast food on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 0

    That's not exactly unheard of in the UK. When my girlfriend and I go to the chippy (once every other month, probably) we order 1xsmall chips and 2xhaddock. That single, "small" portion of chips completely fills 2 of our 10" dinner plates.

    They're good chips, but Jesus!

  17. Re:This is a trash study on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "The NHS is a complete disgrace. If you ever had to use it you might know this. It is almost impossible to get a referral out of any doctor nowadays. It is just as difficult to get a dentist. Should you get sent to hospital, chances are you will be misdiagnosed and there's also a high probability you will catch MRSA."

    That really is nonsense. Impossible to get a referral - what? My GP gave me a wide choice. I have an NHS dentist. I've been hospitalised six times in the last 4 years and have never been infected with MRSA. In fact, the NHS is no worse than any other large organisation when it comes to administrative inefficiency or general incompetence.

    Where I do agree with you is on American food, it is quite abominable, and most products are barely more than GM soya by-products and corn syrup held together with hydrogenated palm oil.

  18. Re:This is a trash study on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 0

    I'm a natural Tory, but I'm very much an advocate of the NHS and state-funded education - including university (although I believe in selection according to academic aptitude). Insurance schemes work best when they are paid for by and available to as wide and diverse a group of people as possible, the NHS is a brilliant case-in-point.

  19. Re:Answer is easy. on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 0

    I'd love to see how your 'human rights' got on while being mauled to death by a Lion. Humans have no rights, just like any other lifeform we survive as best we can.

  20. Re:Vegetarism on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 0

    "I know many here think this is a far stretch, but energy is always preserved, so it makes sense that some of the animalistic mind is still left in the meat while plant-food is more "tranquil"."

    No it doesn't, unless you're some kind of lunatic.

    Humans are animals, why do you find that so difficult a concept to come to terms with?

  21. Re:Vegetarism vs veganism on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 0

    India has more malnourished children than any other country in the world.

  22. Re:Thriving in the UK on Dot-com Boom's Biggest Duds, From Flooz to iSmell · · Score: 0

    Unfortunately, Ocado only carry the same range as the smallest Waitrose store and thus is a hopeless alternative for those of us who use a decent sized Waitrose. Anyway, I'm so enamoured of Waitrose's self-scan that online shopping loses its appeal.

  23. Re:Nostalgia, Anyone? on Dot-com Boom's Biggest Duds, From Flooz to iSmell · · Score: 0

    No, he definitely wrote Google.

  24. MOD EDUCATION UP on Dot-com Boom's Biggest Duds, From Flooz to iSmell · · Score: 0

    and ignorance down

  25. Re:Dumb. PC==Mac. Mac==PC on New Apple Campaign Target PC Flaws · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Would a room full of rackmounts running windows count as a PC in your world?