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  1. Re:That's nice on Google Donates €1 Million To Help Refugees In Need · · Score: 1

    Crazy idea, but how about starting their own?

  2. Re: meh on Why the Black Hole Information Paradox Is Such a Problem · · Score: 1

    What if there's a tape recorder?

  3. Re:Change the channel, Marge on New Release of the Trinity Desktop Environment · · Score: 1

    From the post I replied to: "Compiz, beryl, metro are mistakes, right? Wrong"

    So which distro of Win 8 do you recommend?

  4. Re:How is this news for nerds on Google Donates €1 Million To Help Refugees In Need · · Score: 5, Insightful

    clearly, they are fleeing from war to another country. That makes them refugees.

    A migrant wants to get to place X. A refugee is just desperate to get out of Y.

  5. blue upside down head fixie riding hiptard on Why the Black Hole Information Paradox Is Such a Problem · · Score: 0

    Are there any paradoxes concerning StartsWithABang and a sockpuppet?

  6. Re:Change the channel, Marge on New Release of the Trinity Desktop Environment · · Score: 1

    My brother and his wife had also switched to Mac

    Clearly false.

  7. Re:frosty shit on Facebook's Solution To 'One of Education's Biggest Problems' Is a Dashboard · · Score: 1

    I'm sure reinventing the Gantt chart will promote peace in the Middle East, cure cancer, and make Win 8 usable.

  8. Re:So... on Samsung Unveils Gear S2, Gear S2 Classic Smartwatches Running Tizen · · Score: 2

    Yeah, it does, but it's from MojoKid. If he told me the sky was blue I'd look up to check.

  9. Re:pros and cons on F-35 To Face Off Against A-10 In CAS Test · · Score: 1

    cut backs of social welfare

    They're flogging people now?

  10. Re:Change the channel, Marge on New Release of the Trinity Desktop Environment · · Score: 2

    Wrong, they were steps forward, but in a wrong direction

    Have you any idea how dumb that sounds?

    research if you will. Added knowledge that everyone has benefited from, including OSX.

    Bollocks. Learning from mistakes is fine - in the lab. Releasing shit is inexcusable.

  11. Re:pros and cons on F-35 To Face Off Against A-10 In CAS Test · · Score: 1

    British bombers didn't carry enough guns to defend themselves, which is why there was the switch to night bombing.

    Freeman Dyson, the OR pioneer, calculated that they'd be better off saving the weight (and two or three men) by removing the turrets and getting better performance.

    Given that the beastly huns had started a dastardly trick of attacking from underneath with diagonally mounted guns, many bomber crews never even saw the night fighter that downed them, so he may well have been right.

  12. YADE on New Release of the Trinity Desktop Environment · · Score: 1

    Choice is good.

    I think Gnome 3 sucks, but having figured how to get Mate to pretty much work how I like, am I going to start from scratch with something else? That'll be the same for the poor benighted fools who use Cinnamon, LXDE, KDE etc.

    It'd have to be really awesome to be worth the time investment.

  13. Re:Wrong! on The Politics of Star Trek · · Score: 1

    I think he means the bake shop with the "no poofters" rule.

  14. Re:Literally on Is There Too Much New Programming On TV? · · Score: 1

    If the amount of new programming is insane, the decision that created such new programming must be insane.
    Mr. Landgraf is chief exec of FX networks, one of the network that contributes to the amount of new programming.
    Since Mr. Landgraf is responsible for the decisions that created the new programming, he is insane.

    By that logic, Werner Von Braun landed on the moon. Sorry, but attributes don't inherit like that.

    What part did I parse incorrectly?

    You failed to find the subject.

    Also, "sanitorium" and "sanatorium" are nearly same thing.

    That much is true. Indeed the confusion arose because people used to pretend loony relatives had gone away to recover from TB. Either spelling is allowable for TB, the "a" spelling is the euphemism.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    But don't get me started about Metallica.

  15. Re:Now we need... on 60,000 Antelope Died In 4 Days, and No One Knows Why · · Score: 1

    Don't know why you're wittering about race, it's Irrelevant. Are you one of those people who reads words but not sentences?

    Any person born after 1974 inherited the genes of 2 people born before 1974. You won't have had many mutations in a few decades. Therefore, effect on diversity = nil.

  16. I'm not sure if this is a total load of bollocks, or if it doesn't actually say anything at all.

    posted by theodp it's 50-50.

  17. Re:I for one... on Robot Submarine Poisons Sea Stars To Save Coral Reefs · · Score: 1

    Pah! You're so last month. Now we design the design of the design via an asynchronous global supply chain made of turtles.

  18. Re:Who decides? on Robot Submarine Poisons Sea Stars To Save Coral Reefs · · Score: 1

    That's like culling a lion pride because they eat antelope and their food source might not be sufficient.

    100% correct. Because it was like totally us (well, it was actually me that gave the order - whoops!) that put the lions where the antelopes were.

  19. Re: What could go wrong? on Robot Submarine Poisons Sea Stars To Save Coral Reefs · · Score: 1

    More like "Huh huh, they kicked him in the balls".

  20. Crap crap crap on What Is Open Source Pharma (and Why Should You Care)? · · Score: 1, Troll

    Humanity today is almost completely dependent on huge pharmaceutical companies to create the drugs we need.

    No it isn't. Most people don't have access to modern medicine at all.

    Oh, and for fuck's sake stop referring to anything other than software as open source.

  21. Re:As Stalin said... on Is There Too Much New Programming On TV? · · Score: 1

    Given that the Soviets' policy throughout WW2 was the embodiment of the phrase, the fact that you can't name the guy, and finally, FFS, you cite those spamming cuntards, I remain unconvinced.

  22. Re:Rebuilding supply chains = really hard on F-35 To Face Off Against A-10 In CAS Test · · Score: 1

    Fucked up defence projects are nothing new. 30 years back there was the A-12.

    Spend: $57 billion. Unit cost: NaN

  23. Re: Isn't this thing already deployed? on F-35 To Face Off Against A-10 In CAS Test · · Score: 1

    I like the A-10 because:

    1) It has a big gun that fires so fast the dakka-dakkas blend together into a vrrrrp.
    2) I have been compared to one, in that I move slowly, close to the ground and destroy things
    3) It's a brilliant example of design for purpose: form following function.
    4) Did I mention the gun?

    That aside, I'd pretty much concluded that the future of CAS would be helicopters, but it could well be drones. Or perhaps both.

  24. Re:Teaching programming has no place in schools on Lack of Teacher Training Hampers UK Programming Education · · Score: 1

    tl;dr High school level X isn't university level X.

    That's hardly much of a revelation.

    I'll dare to suggest that postgraduate X might be different to undergrad X too.

  25. Re:Yet Another Software Engineering Revolution? on An Idea For Software's Industrial Revolution · · Score: 1

    Forget about these wild dreamers

    You appear to have misspelled "scamming shysters".