Right click context menues are just cool. They save precious screen space, and are only marginally more difficult than the more traditional "taskbar at the top of the window" system.
(Although they added a taskbar which duplicates the right click context menu in Gimp 2.0)
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It's a bigger deal when Superman kills somebody than when a lion kills somebody. Terrorists and dictators are expected to do brutal acts. It's tragic, but not entirely unexpected, and it's not like they're going to listen to your protests anyway. But when the most powerful democracy on Earth starts doing it, you start to get worried.
It's repetition for dramatic effect, that is, they are repeating what they are saying intentionally, with the intent of producing a dramatic effect for the purposes of being dramatic. It's a quite standard effect for those who wish to dramatize what they're saying, and make it more dramatic.
I made the joke from just a coy response to a running joke. This gave the potential for people to extend it further using tetration.
For reference, I also find this sort of thing very funny:
1Gbps internet connections? BAH! In my day we used 300 baud aural modems... and WE LIKED IT!
You had modems? I had to whistle the tones into the phone myself.
You had phones? I had to communicate the message to the server using carrier pidgeons.
You had pigeons? I had to breed my own species of bird out of reptilian species!
You had reptiles? All I had was just a bunch of crummy amoboeas.
You had amobaes? I had to learn to live with self-replicating DNA molecules.
YOUR DNA SELF REPLICATED? In my day, we had to replicate the DNA by hand!
Bah. In my day we didn't have all these fancy polymers. We had ionic compounds, and we liked it!
You had compounds? I had to stick with lone atoms. And none of these fancy pants lead atoms. Nah. We had to learn to forage with Hydrogen atoms usually.
You had atoms? All I had was a proton. I dreamed of someday getting my own electron, but it never came.
You had protons? All I had was a bag of quarks. Mostly strange quarks, which weren't of much use anyway.
Wrong. "Beg the question," like "slippery slope" has both idiomatic and literal interpretations. Traditionally, the phrase means an argument which uses its conclusion as presupposition. But when you look at the words literally, the interpretation "Begs for the question to be asked" is totally legitimate.
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Although copyrightinfringementisnottheft, I like the phrase "Free as in Theft."
Right click context menues are just cool. They save precious screen space, and are only marginally more difficult than the more traditional "taskbar at the top of the window" system.
(Although they added a taskbar which duplicates the right click context menu in Gimp 2.0)
Only old Koreans get karma for funny.
But anti-humor is funny. Very much so.
In Korea, only old people use their hand as a knife.
Location, I guess.
You make money off jobs, but there's rarely an expectation to make money off of a hobby.
It's a bigger deal when Superman kills somebody than when a lion kills somebody. Terrorists and dictators are expected to do brutal acts. It's tragic, but not entirely unexpected, and it's not like they're going to listen to your protests anyway. But when the most powerful democracy on Earth starts doing it, you start to get worried.
IHBT. HTH. HAND.
Yes, of course the real goal is to develop a DRM-compatible human. iFnord or something along those lines.
Abusing Tibet is bad.
Abusing Microsoft is good.
Defending Tibet is good.
Defending Tibet by trolling is bad.
It's repetition for dramatic effect, that is, they are repeating what they are saying intentionally, with the intent of producing a dramatic effect for the purposes of being dramatic. It's a quite standard effect for those who wish to dramatize what they're saying, and make it more dramatic.
I suppose you could be right, but haven't you ever heard of a little thing called MSN? AOL is kind of competing with Microsoft.
Right to live trumps right to property.
Google Suggest has a crappy filter running on it.
I made the joke from just a coy response to a running joke. This gave the potential for people to extend it further using tetration.
For reference, I also find this sort of thing very funny:
1Gbps internet connections? BAH! In my day we used 300 baud aural modems... and WE LIKED IT!
You had modems? I had to whistle the tones into the phone myself.
You had phones? I had to communicate the message to the server using carrier pidgeons.
You had pigeons? I had to breed my own species of bird out of reptilian species!
You had reptiles? All I had was just a bunch of crummy amoboeas.
You had amobaes? I had to learn to live with self-replicating DNA molecules.
YOUR DNA SELF REPLICATED? In my day, we had to replicate the DNA by hand!
Bah. In my day we didn't have all these fancy polymers. We had ionic compounds, and we liked it!
You had compounds? I had to stick with lone atoms. And none of these fancy pants lead atoms. Nah. We had to learn to forage with Hydrogen atoms usually.
You had atoms? All I had was a proton. I dreamed of someday getting my own electron, but it never came.
You had protons? All I had was a bag of quarks. Mostly strange quarks, which weren't of much use anyway.
You had matter?!
In Korea, only old people use nuclear power.
Pfft. I don't know what sort of half-baked school you went to, but I learned that 2^2 = 4
I don't think "vanishing within a couple of months" is actually part of the NNTP standard.
There are vague rumors that the first Zelda games were inspired by that movie.
Robots can do those things.
Wrong. "Beg the question," like "slippery slope" has both idiomatic and literal interpretations. Traditionally, the phrase means an argument which uses its conclusion as presupposition. But when you look at the words literally, the interpretation "Begs for the question to be asked" is totally legitimate.
What's scary about it?
Uh yeah, that's from There's Something About Mary. Adams is Adams, and Farelly is Farelly, and never the twain shall meet.
No, it was called Kazaam. Still pretty bad though.
Conservatives are always trying to hold us back. That's what the word means. Resistance to change.
Of course, whether Republicans are conservative with regards to space travel is another question entirely.