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  1. Once oil was discovered, the British, divided up areas of the middle east along what they wanted, not ancient trial boundaries.

    They were a darn site better at drawing lines than you are at placing commas.

  2. confiscated many of his electronics.

    One electronic would be one electronic too many. Or should that be too much?

    I don't know. Aaaaaaaargh!

  3. Re:It's a shame on Why Did Ubuntu Drop Unity? Mark Shuttleworth Explains (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    knowing what apt get does

    It says:
    E: Invalid operation get

  4. TBH I am glad Unity is gone; Gnome was always the better choice

    That's like saying Bashful is taller than Doc.

  5. Re: An alarmist view on FCC Ends Decades-Old Rule Designed To Keep TV, Radio Under Local Control (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    it's still ultimately a government court that sends them to prison

    They can be bought too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  6. it is also potentially liable, too.

    Sure it's not slaindre?

  7. "Will of the people" and "hysteria" are not mutually exclusive, though in that case it was well founded anyway.

  8. When we invent an engine that run's on religious self-rightesousness

    I'm working on making fuel from idiotic apostrophes. There's an endless supply of them and they have no other use.

  9. it will free up funds for stations to spend on staff and programming.

    You misspelled "owners", "hookers", and "blow".

  10. Re: It's a shame on Why Did Ubuntu Drop Unity? Mark Shuttleworth Explains (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    They won't fork the the thread because they don't know how. They'll sure talk about it at great length, though.

  11. Vii

  12. Re:I was an Ubuntu user back in the day on Why Did Ubuntu Drop Unity? Mark Shuttleworth Explains (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    If you're using Mint, you're using Ubuntu.

    Unless it's Mint Debian Edition.

  13. Re:Even with what remains, profitability a challen on Why Did Ubuntu Drop Unity? Mark Shuttleworth Explains (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    There's a desktop variant of RHEL - called WS. Did you think "enterprise" implied "on a server"?

  14. Re:I liked the way... on Why Did Ubuntu Drop Unity? Mark Shuttleworth Explains (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Ergonomics without regard to usability.

    At least one of those words doesn't mean what you think it does.

  15. Re:Spoof the source IP and get them to eat themsel on Legal Hack Back Lets You Go After Attackers In Your Network (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. The words "false", "flag" & "lawsuit" spring immediately to mind.

  16. Re:What is the "Red-hot co-working space business" on WeWork Employees Caught Spying on Competition (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Hah! I'm still waiting for "synergy" and "blockchain".

  17. Re:forty spots on WeWork Employees Caught Spying on Competition (nypost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Anything that a prospective customer - not even an actual one - can see is hardly a secret.

  18. Re:What is the "Red-hot co-working space business" on WeWork Employees Caught Spying on Competition (nypost.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think it's like Starbucks but instead of selling you overpriced coffee they charge you rent. And then sell you overpriced coffee.

  19. forty spots on WeWork Employees Caught Spying on Competition (nypost.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Have they actually done anything wrong? I'd be very surprised if hotel chains, airlines etc. didn't send people to try out the opposition from time to time.

  20. Ah the good old gold argument. It doesn't hold water

    Of course it does. It's ideal for the job, because it doesn't rust. Don't they teach kids chemistry these days?

  21. Alternative solution on Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs (npr.org) · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Suffer less in cold weather? on Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Seems as sensible as me regulating my temperature by burning my overcoat.

  23. Re:I don't get it... on Hong Kong Has No Space Left for the Dead (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    For suitably small values of intact. Or did they not have germs & worms in those days?

  24. Cement is for soft southern poofters on Hong Kong Has No Space Left for the Dead (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Wheear 'ast tha bin sin' ah saw thee, ah saw thee?

                            On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at

                    Wheear 'ast tha bin sin' ah saw thee, ah saw thee?
                    Wheear 'ast tha bin sin' ah saw thee?

                            On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at
                            On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at
                            On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at

                    Tha's been a cooartin' Mary Jane

                    Tha's bahn' to catch thy deeath o' cowd

                    Then us'll ha' to bury thee

                    Then t'worms'll come an' eyt thee oop

                    Then t'ducks'll come an' eyt up t'worms

                    Then us'll go an' eyt up t'ducks

                    Then us'll all ha' etten thee

                    That's wheear we get us ooan back

  25. Translation: we've finally hidden all the dodgy stuff.

    P.S. Forrester says they're shite.