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  1. Re:SO MUCH WASTED SCREEN SPACE! on GNOME Settings Area Getting a Refurbishment (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    Make all containers as big as possible instead of based on the content and never, ever take the size of the display into account

    FTFY.

  2. Re: divisions and unscripted? on The BBC Announces Robot Wars' Return To TV (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I thought tethered projectiles were allowed? I remember coming up with a bastard of a harpoon but it never made it past the beermat stage.

  3. Re:SO MUCH WASTED SCREEN SPACE! on GNOME Settings Area Getting a Refurbishment (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but ... no, but ... FLAT!

  4. Didn't it sort of get bogged down? on The BBC Announces Robot Wars' Return To TV (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Didn't it get tedious towards the end with all the robots being a sort of wedge with a flipper?

    What I'd like to see is more autonomous bots, rather than what are effectively RC tanks.

  5. Re:Not only right, it's important on Kentucky Bill: Wait an Hour Before Posting Injuries To Social Media (kentucky.com) · · Score: 1

    Hard for police to quietly murder a black man and sweep it under the rug.

    Unless they beat him totally flat there's be a bulge.

  6. Re:Fuck adverts on Apple Purchases Software Company To Read Users' Expressions (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Hardly any people cheat on their spouses or steal things from work. The vast majority are prepared to pay more for higher quality, whether that's products or public services.

    Well, that's what they say.

    If you think you can find the truth by surveys and questionnaires then former UK Prime Minister Neil Kinnock would like to talk to you.

  7. You're saying that many distros have decided in favour of systemd[1], and surely they can't all be wrong? Except they aren't really independent decisions. Most distros are either respins of RedHat or rely heavily on source provided by them, just due to their sheer size. The downstreams made the decision, rightly or wrongly, that excising it is either not possible or not feasible. Some suspect it's been intentionally written that way.

    So the decision was made once - by, or under the influence of, Lennart Poettering. Whether it's ego, stupidity or if he's just plain been nobbled I can't say.

    [1] even if it was, it'd be an argumentum ad populum.

  8. Re:Penny on Should the US Change Metal Coins? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Pity you didn't discover punctuation.

  9. Re:Penny on Should the US Change Metal Coins? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Two and a half, old boy.

  10. Re:Penny on Should the US Change Metal Coins? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Belgium totally does not.

  11. Re: Penny on Should the US Change Metal Coins? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    They think King George is still alive.

  12. Re: Penny on Should the US Change Metal Coins? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 0

    Which is why Germany, which has no guns because Hitler took them away, has a Patriot Act and the TSA.

  13. Re:Tax on Why Do Americans Work So Much? · · Score: 1

    However one cravat

    What? I'll read that again.

    However one cravat

    Yup, you did. Are saying that owning a property can tie you down?

  14. Re:What do you use the penny for? on Should the US Change Metal Coins? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Who uses a few pennies to make up the price when paying for something, as opposed to pulling out a couple of bills instead and getting some change.

    People who work in shops frequented by idiots who can't count.

    More and more transactions are done electronically these days - so you can keep your $x.99 pricing

    Except you can't, because sales tax.

  15. Re:we're off the gold system on Should the US Change Metal Coins? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    it doesn't really matter how expensive they are, that doesn't affect their value.

    It matters when it becomes worthwhile to melt them down.

  16. Re:I wouldn't vote for you on Marco Rubio: We Need To Add To US Surveillance Programs (dailydot.com) · · Score: 0

    I want the govt to mostly leave me alone.

    Apart from paying you and keeping out the competition, you mean?

  17. Re:Possibly Lung on David Bowie Dies At Age 69 (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I always thought he was indestructible, along with Lemmy out of Mötörhead and Ozzy.

    Shows how much I know. Still, I wouldn't be surprised of one of them outlives me and I'm *cough* at least a decade younger.

  18. Re:Holy shit this is the first I've heard of this! on David Bowie Dies At Age 69 (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I would call you Captain Obvious, but I think Colonel is more appropriate.

    There's clearly an entire battalion of blithering idiots who aren't very good at spotting sarcasm.

  19. Re:Yet another blatantly biased submission. on Gardasil Cleared of Anti-Vax Nonsense (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    If it's NPOV you're after, Thickypedia is over there somewhere --->

  20. Re: "other people" on Gardasil Cleared of Anti-Vax Nonsense (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Has Joe_Dragon started giving English lessons?

  21. Re:Why would anyone tolerate this bullshit!? on 'Get Windows 10' Turns Itself On and Nags Win 7 and 8.1 Users Twice a Day (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Embrace, extend, extort.

  22. Microsoft is tired of supporting old ass insecure software.

    I read that and expected the "appers apping apps" guy.

    Frankly, I wish it had been - he's funnier and more intelligent.

  23. Re: Major Tom will be giving the eulogy on David Bowie Dies At Age 69 (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hey Einstein, get this - there aren't actually any spiders on Mars either.

  24. I used to a have a six-fret reach... on K-12 CS Efforts Earn Microsoft CEO Ringside Seat For State of the Union Address · · Score: 1

    Did Grace Murray Hopper see other girls programming?

    OTOH, she invented you-know-what so maybe it would have been better if she had been discouraged.

  25. Re:I'm somewhat on PostgreSQL 9.5 Does UPSERT Right (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    It's more like "If it's X, change it to Y. If it doesn't exist at all, create it with a Y."

    Without this, trying to modify a record that doesn't already exist will cause an error. //to do: dig at MySQL goes here.