Most of those French soldiers would have eaten a lot of rare beef... and been infected with a parasite[1] which gets into the brain and slows ones reactions down. Not good for combat soldiers.
Not cowards, but they may have been overwhelmed by soldiers with better reactions.
[1] I tried googling to find the exact name of this parasite but all it came up with was ads for patent medicines for the colon.
"we already settled it yesterday, the French fought valiantly in WWII."
Yeah... once they realised that the Germans were *already* behind them and that they couldn't run that way (the Germans went *around* the Maginot fortresses) and that the only direction they *could* run was, uh, into Germany... naturally they fought with all the vigor of a Cornered Rat!;)
Nah I know that there are plenty of Frenchmen out there who would knock my block off. As long as they hadn't eaten too much 'rare' beef (the brain parasites from that stuff slows your reactions down something terrible and around 80% of French people are infected).
In fact, as I understand it, one of the biggest gripes that the USA has with the EU, WRT GE foods, is that the EU *insist* that the consumer has a right to know if food contains GE ingredients and require labelling, whereas the USA *insist* that companies producing GE foods should not be disadvantaged by adverse publicity and that openly labelling foods might damage their profitability because (*heavens forbid*) consumers might know what they are eating.
Face it, most of the very best Linux gurus are also among the most anal retentive people on the planet.
When something like this SCO bullshit comes up, these 'best and brightest' will insist on keeping up to the minute with every twist and turn of the case.
My guess is that the Linux community is losing thousands of man-hours of its very best admins and developers due to them feeling the insatiable need for more SCO lawsuit news.
DON'T PLAY SCO's GAME!!
They *want* you to flame them on every opportunity; they are counting on it. Because while you are flaming SCO or even discussing this rubbish with colleagues over coffee, you aren't doing anything constructive for Linux nor for your employer.
At the end of the day, they will have won if they can have wasted our time.
"Add to all this that the public would need a near-100% safety record in order to buy into a space tourism industry,"
Sorry, but this is absolute rubbish.
I am certain that there are a LOT of potential space tourists out there who would accept a far less than 100% safety record.
I live in New Zealand and we get heaps of 'adventure tourists' who love nothing better than high-risk fun.
I firmly believe that a cruise to the moon would be the very *peak* of high risk fun.:) especially if they had private cabins for, uh, zero-G sex romps.
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plus the glasses might help protect your eyes from the spray...
Since Linux is free, maybe they just don't count Linux users as consumers?
I guess that what he means is "It's"
I keep them out at the firewall.
Nothing from any doubleclick gets in and nothing to any doubleclick gets out.
Its like kicking dead whales down the beach though.
Most of those French soldiers would have eaten a lot of rare beef... and been infected with a parasite[1] which gets into the brain and slows ones reactions down. Not good for combat soldiers.
Not cowards, but they may have been overwhelmed by soldiers with better reactions.
[1] I tried googling to find the exact name of this parasite but all it came up with was ads for patent medicines for the colon.
"we already settled it yesterday, the French fought valiantly in WWII."
;)
Yeah... once they realised that the Germans were *already* behind them and that they couldn't run that way (the Germans went *around* the Maginot fortresses) and that the only direction they *could* run was, uh, into Germany... naturally they fought with all the vigor of a Cornered Rat!
Nah I know that there are plenty of Frenchmen out there who would knock my block off. As long as they hadn't eaten too much 'rare' beef (the brain parasites from that stuff slows your reactions down something terrible and around 80% of French people are infected).
"There are probably people in Norway who believe things that would disgust you as well as me,"
Fuckin' OATH!
There are Norwegians that believe lutefisk is a foodstuff!
I think that America (and much of the west) just has better and more effective techniques for the long term manipulation of their societies.
the last thing you want to do is let go...
Proof that eating brains makes ya smarter!
"Every domesticated animal has undergone far, far more extensive genetic modifcation than any molecular biologist can even begin to comprehend."
And don't forget that they have also been through FAR more extensive 'testing' than any molecular biologist could *ever* get funding for.
How many generations of R&D have dogs been through to produce todays wierd and wonderful breeds?
GE projects have to be out of the door in a matter of a few years or else you won't get that Ka-*Ching* effect and shareholder profit.
If the food was sushi, and therefore raw and with its DNA intact, might genes in it be picked up by ones gut-bugs?
so..... you wouldnt eat an animal unless you'd *also* eat the food that the animal ate?
:)
Do you eat meat *at all* (apart from home-raised vietnamese pot belly pigs[1] fed only on doughnuts[2])?
[1] or chickens or whatever
[2] insert whatever *human* food here
In fact, as I understand it, one of the biggest gripes that the USA has with the EU, WRT GE foods, is that the EU *insist* that the consumer has a right to know if food contains GE ingredients and require labelling, whereas the USA *insist* that companies producing GE foods should not be disadvantaged by adverse publicity and that openly labelling foods might damage their profitability because (*heavens forbid*) consumers might know what they are eating.
I'm going to see if I can get a grant to insert a weed killer resistance gene into kudzu grass.
:)
While I'm at it, I'll add the gene from the castor plant, the oil is *useful*! (too bad its highly toxic as well.
What else can we cram in there... kudzu sounds like such a good starting point for world domination through genetics!
My 'baby' deserves the best chance I can give it.
In Soviet Russia, the license own YOU!
oh... wait...
Already did that; it was called 'Beagle'
Isn't that the very purpose of the modern American legal system? (squeezing money out of it).
its an attack on Linux developers and admins.
Face it, most of the very best Linux gurus are also among the most anal retentive people on the planet.
When something like this SCO bullshit comes up, these 'best and brightest' will insist on keeping up to the minute with every twist and turn of the case.
My guess is that the Linux community is losing thousands of man-hours of its very best admins and developers due to them feeling the insatiable need for more SCO lawsuit news.
DON'T PLAY SCO's GAME!!
They *want* you to flame them on every opportunity; they are counting on it. Because while you are flaming SCO or even discussing this rubbish with colleagues over coffee, you aren't doing anything constructive for Linux nor for your employer.
At the end of the day, they will have won if they can have wasted our time.
"Oh, and the chocolate rations have been increased to 5 units."
Thats 'chocorations', your newspeak needs work. The thought police will be calling shortly to assist in your re-education.
"NASA also has photos, straight from their fake set in Hollywood where they produce all the "space" footage."
I thought they did all that sort of filming stuff in New Zealand these days...?
Oh if *only* :)
"Velcro? Swiss inventor, 1948.
Teflon? Ohio researcher, 1937."
So it *wasn't* aliens???
the law economy is extremely important.
If the USA stamped out frivolous lawsuits, the economy would be in terrible trouble.
"Add to all this that the public would need a near-100% safety record in order to buy into a space tourism industry,"
:)
Sorry, but this is absolute rubbish.
I am certain that there are a LOT of potential space tourists out there who would accept a far less than 100% safety record.
I live in New Zealand and we get heaps of 'adventure tourists' who love nothing better than high-risk fun.
I firmly believe that a cruise to the moon would be the very *peak* of high risk fun.
especially if they had private cabins for, uh, zero-G sex romps.