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  1. Re:I'be been a Mac user for 13+ years on Apple Working With Consumer Reports on MacBook Pro's Battery Issue (cnet.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's spelled Schiller. Freudian slip?

  2. Re:The Ancestors Tale on What's the Best Book You Read This Year? · · Score: 1

    I'm sure there must be an apostrophe one side of the s, what with Dr Dawkins not being an ignorant fat cunt and all that.

  3. Re:Best book I reread. on What's the Best Book You Read This Year? · · Score: 1

    You're nothing if not original.

  4. Piece of shit on HandBrake 1.0.0 Released After 13 Years Of Development (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 1

    I've had no joy getting it to work on Centos. Plus it has a dependency on the gstreamer-plugins-bad package. Does that ring a bell?

    For the corner case that mencoder & ffmpeg couldn't handle it's not worth it.

  5. Re:Traitors. on After Brexit, More Than 100 Firms May Move To Ireland (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The South is very dependent on financial services. Depending on how brexit goes a fair bit of that might be lost to Frankfurt or Paris.

  6. Re:After Brexit, France may nuke England on After Brexit, More Than 100 Firms May Move To Ireland (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Froutre le camp?

  7. Re:Traitors. on After Brexit, More Than 100 Firms May Move To Ireland (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It was driven by the need to stop Germany invading France again. The UK wasn't even in it at the start.

  8. Re:Look, a Trump-U graduate! on Are Airlines Intentionally Overbooking Their Flights? (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    In the context of economics, you should use the economics definition.

    Mind your head down there, I'm dropping you a new spade - that one looks worn out.

  9. TRALALALALA on You're An Adult, But Your Brain Might Not Be, Researchers Say (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't hear you.

  10. I dunno. These days it would show up straight away with realtime analytics and shit like that. But he said 30 years ago. Did they have computers then, or did they do everything with slide rules and an abacus?

  11. Re:Look, a Trump-U graduate! on Are Airlines Intentionally Overbooking Their Flights? (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    s/amount/number/
    s/Economy/Economics/

  12. Re:Yes, all airlines have been doing this forever on Are Airlines Intentionally Overbooking Their Flights? (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Well that's why it doesn't work and the whole process is clearly a myth. Because everyone, from senior business people to backpacking vacationers, has exactly the same money/time tradeoff profile as you.

  13. Look, a Trump-U graduate! on Are Airlines Intentionally Overbooking Their Flights? (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 0

    The demand would not change at all if you change the price.

    Rubbish. Demand is defined as the quantity people are willing and able to buy at a specific price.

    Look at the graph. Is the line flat? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  14. Re: It has always been this way on Are Airlines Intentionally Overbooking Their Flights? (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Not in Israel, unless it coincides with Hanukkah.

  15. Of course it isn't, because they don't offer you a refund or a ticket on an alternative flight and hey kick you in the nuts too. That's whey pretty much every time you go to an airport you see check-in agents being dragged away in handcuffs.

  16. Wait ermine it. Whoever told you you could spell mustelid, so I don't think you otter go round insulting people.

  17. rise the peices.

    You are Officer Crabtree from Allo Allo AICMFP.

  18. Re:Just so everyone knows on Store Adds Donald Trump's Picture To $150,000 Gold-Encased iPhones (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    They go to India, discourage the use of contraceptives and then get saintified (or whatever the word is, I'm not a bead-jiggler).

  19. Re:And this ladies and gentlemen on Store Adds Donald Trump's Picture To $150,000 Gold-Encased iPhones (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet resources are irretrievably consumed in its manufacture that could be used for something else.

  20. humfuckingbug on 'Star Wars' Actress Carrie Fisher 'Stable' After In-Flight Heart Attack (abc7news.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    I was a kid around that time and I thought it was utter poo.

  21. Never had a dose of Ghandi's revenge?

  22. So Hitler had amnesia?

  23. There used to be a thing, I think it was called a landing card, and the last question was "Have you answered all the above questions truthfully?"

    I'm sure that caught out hundreds of criminal masterminds.

  24. Re: Once you've found all the socialmedia users... on US Government Begins Asking Foreign Travelers About Social Media (politico.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And UX designers.

  25. Re:Strategic Areas on IBM On Track To Get More Than 7,000 US Patents In 2016 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Doing the needful.
    Doing the needful with rounded corners.
    Doing the needful with a computer.
    Doing the needful over the internet.
    Doing the needful over the internet with rounded corners.