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  1. Re:Not applicable on Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Screening Reviews · · Score: 1

    Lucas gave us Carrie Fisher in a metal bikini.

    Adams gave us... OK, Lucas wins that one.


    How about levitation sex on the wings of a roaring Boeing 747? I thought that was rather hot.^-^

  2. Re:Purolator on Speakeasy Embraces Firefox · · Score: 1

    Why don't you just sniff for Opera properly? It's not that hard:

    Opera/7.0 (OS; U) [la]
    Mozilla/5.0 (OS; U) Opera 7.0 [la]
    Mozilla/4.78 (OS; U) Opera 7.0 [la]
    Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; OS) Opera 7.0 [la]


    Guess the algorithm.:)

  3. Re:In A Related Story... on China Bans 50 Games · · Score: 1

    I am not sure if that principle can be followed indefinitely.

    It's like counting. For some tasks "one, two, many" works perfectly fine. And "severe incarceration" tends to blur with "very severe incarceration" rather easily.

    Of course, I belong to the rehabilitation crowd myself, so the whole punishment aspect is not the overarching goal of prison for me.

  4. Re:In A Related Story... on China Bans 50 Games · · Score: 1

    Uh, so... would you want to go to prison if they allowed you to play video games at times?

  5. An #include too late on Sega Done with Sports, Take-Two Launches Label · · Score: 1

    #includes go at the top of a file, silly. That way, C++ preprocessor inside my brain can physically parse the disclaimer before getting to your actual code.

    Putting an #include at the bottom is like closing the barn doors after the horses have escaped and declared an independent republic where all horses are equal and some horses are more equal than others.

    DUUUUUUH!;)

  6. Re:Perhaps a more fitting tribute? on Asteroid Named After Douglas Adams · · Score: 1

    Will he be stepping on ants, eating cows, braining rabits, parachuting on whales, and again stepping on ants at the same time?:)

  7. Futurama quotation on Flame Wars, Forks and Freedom · · Score: 1

    Bender: Oh, no room for Bender, huh? Fine! I'll go build my own lunar lander with blackjack and hookers. In fact, forget the lunar lander and the blackjack.

    [No reaction.]

    Bender: Eh, screw the whole thing.

    [Bender turns and walks away.]

  8. Formal Management Training on Geeks in Management? · · Score: 1

    lobotomy

    1. What a hacker subjected to formal management training is said to have undergone. At IBM and elsewhere this term is used by both hackers and low-level management; the latter doubtless intend it as a joke.

    2. The act of removing the processor from a microcomputer in order to replace or upgrade it. Some very cheap clone systems are sold in "lobotomised" form - everything but the brain.

    [Jargon File]

  9. Oh, yeah? on Microsoft to Sell Outlook Subscription Service · · Score: 1

    Oh, yeah? Well, I've memorized 36 digits of pi!

    3.14159265358979323846264338327950288...

    Wait, is 50 bigger than 36? Ooops. Never mind. Pretend I didn't say a thing.^-^

  10. Re:Yeah, hotmail is for l00zers on Microsoft to Sell Outlook Subscription Service · · Score: 1

    What about gmail? I have recently switched from listing 02petraz AT utsc.utoronto.ca to listing leons.petrazickis AT gmail.com. I think it has a certain regal majesty about it.

    I do own a domain name, but I don't have anything set up with it at the moment. Hmm.

  11. Re:Demand, where where is the (legeal) supply? on P2P Operators Plead Guilty · · Score: 1

    If there were easily downloadable tv episodes with embedded ads, no one would bother looking for ad-free ones. The TV industry is shooting itself in the foot by not trying to exploit the fact to perpetuate its monopolies. Oh, well.

  12. Spelling nazi commentary on Do You Want to Live Forever? · · Score: 1

    It's time to spell 'millennium' correctly or chew bubblegum, and I am all out of gum.

  13. Evolution can bite me on Harvard Pres Says Females Naturally Bad at Math · · Score: 1

    I believe in Evolution, and I believe it can go fuck itself. A dumb physical process has absolutely no business interfering with my free will.

  14. Story with Frank Drebin on United Paper Shuffle · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...A bus fell on OJ Simpson. Frank didn't notice. He was soaking in the glory of the gorgeous redhead who had just walked into his life. She had legs like alpine skiing slopes, and a bust that put Tetons back in the Grand Tetons.

    And then a cruise ship fell on OJ Simpson. Frank startled, turned around, and shot it a few times. Random sailors fell. The redhead smiled the kind of smile that would have melted even the cold, metal heart of Joseph Stalin.

    The Moon fell on OJ Simpson, followed by several alien motherships, but Frank was already on his way to a restaurant with the redhead.

  15. Re:Oh noes! on Aqua OpenOffice.org v2.0 Cancelled · · Score: 1

    The Mac and Windows Office are based off two different codebases.

    Microsoft tried to unify the codebase with Word 6.0 for Mac, but it was such a disaster that they ended up selling downgrades back to Word 5.1 for Mac.

  16. Re:Musicians in China on Gates Elaborates on IP Communists · · Score: 1

    Recordings aren't music.

  17. Re:Thank God! on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    A VCR is a far far simpler device than a self-reproducing automaton...

    I disagree, and not just because a VCR is macroscopic and needs a lot of structure just to hold itself together.

  18. Re:the same for creationism then on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Depends on what you mean by Creationism. Flood-geology Creationism is bullshit, and will forever remain bullshit. Gods starting the Big Bang, or playing with Evolution's dice is implausible, but not impossible.

  19. Re:Keep Google in the box on Planning For Mozilla 2.0 · · Score: 1

    If you type a 'g' before your search string in the Opera address bar, it will search Google for you. Mu.

  20. Is Too on Opera Offers Free Licenses For Educational Use · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is too. For example, Opera 7+ supports CSS3 Media Queries. Firefox doesn't. Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah.^-^

  21. Mod Parent Up: +1 Reasonable on Getting the Girl · · Score: 1

    No text.:)

  22. Slurs on Getting the Girl · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes, stratjakt, you are being taken to a concentration camp is an airless cattle car. If you suffocate or starve to death en route, so much the better.

    If you are sickly when you get there, you will be carted off to the mass showers to be gassed immediately. Otherwise, you will be put to work digging mass graves and dragging bodies to the incinirators.

    Insulting your opponents is not a legitimate debate tactic. Likening them to the Third Reich makes you look even more foolish.

  23. I think not on Intel and AMD's 2005 Plans Revealed · · Score: 1

    We are the good kind of Socialist -- the kind that respects privacy. Nice try.:)

  24. Re:Rules that are meant to be broken. on US To Push Criminalization of IP Violations · · Score: 1

    Must... not... agree... with... Rand... Oh, darn. Fine, Rand is not always wrong just because she is often wrong. You win this one, logic.

    Curses, foiled again.

  25. Re:Justice Must Be Done... on Google's 20-Year Usenet Timeline · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, the first "Me Too" predates the Great Renaming. There is no such newsgroup as net.micro.pc anymore.

    You could bump Announcement of UUNET, but there is much less romantic allure to that.;)