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  1. Re:good....? on Republicans Defeat Net Neutrality Proposal · · Score: 1

    Go down the canal, you can often find dead ducks in or around canals and provided they haven't died all that long ago they're fine to eat.

  2. Re:business methods wildly counterproductive... on Netflix Suing Blockbuster for Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    Here is a link to back that up. It is described in this article as an automated production line but I think that is as good a description of an assembly line as any.

    http://www.briontoss.com/education/archive/miscmay 03.htm

  3. Re:business methods wildly counterproductive... on Netflix Suing Blockbuster for Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    I believe the royal navy invented the assembly line to manufacture the blocks used in their sailing ships.

  4. Re:Wow ... on Self-Parking Cars Coming To U.S. · · Score: 1

    If you have no option but to remain in the lane you're in because the other one is full then fair enough but if there is room then you should pull over because as you say tailgating is dangerous and if you have the option to reduce the danger then you'd be a complete muppet to stay where you are because you want to drive above the speed limit and through some sense of outrage that someone wants to drive faster than you.

    I don't know what the law is in the US but in the UK the right hand lanes are overtaking lanes, you use them to overtake cars on the inside lane - they are not "fast" lanes. If you're not overtaking anyone you should be on the inside left hand lane.

  5. Re:Oh, this again? on Americans Gearing up to Fight Global Warming · · Score: 1

    If everyone was spaced out evenly each person would have 44 square kilometres to themselves. Of course an awful lot of those people would quickly die since they'd find themselves living in the middle of the Antartic or the on of the many deserts in the world.

  6. Re:Abolishing patents on Interview With Leader of Sweden's Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    What goes around comes around.

    I think US industry benefitted from stealing technologies patented in the UK in much the same way China is doing now.

  7. Wonder no longer on Interview With Leader of Sweden's Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    Here is the link: http://www.thepiratebay.org/

  8. Re:"Could care less" on Why Everyone Loves Apple · · Score: 1

    I must admit I've never heard anyone but Americans use this phrase, I have still yet to hear anyone say it and have only ever seen it written in places like /. by Americans.

  9. "Could care less" on Why Everyone Loves Apple · · Score: 2, Informative

    How is it a bad thing if other companies could care less about their customers ? I'd hate to a customer of a company which did care less about me than one of those that could do but didn't.

  10. Re:A better Solution on Automating Future Aircraft Carriers · · Score: 1

    I may well cost less money to buy old US Carriers but I am guessing that a lot of the contracts for this work will go to French and British companies and by building our own we get the added benefits of keeping our industries up to date rather than relying on buying in technology we don't have from elsewhere.

    Essentially what I am saying is that actually being able to field this sort of carrier in the fleet is only one of the goals of the program.

  11. Re:A better Solution on Automating Future Aircraft Carriers · · Score: 1

    I think you are confusing bigger with better.

  12. Re:the Brits don't need help, so why? on Automating Future Aircraft Carriers · · Score: 2, Funny

    The French and British co-operate on a lot of military ventures and despite what you may hear about famous Anglo/French rivalries actually have a good working relations. In fact I think we'd probably trust the French much further than we'd trust the US or Israel, not least because we can always hop across the channel and kick their little froggy arses if they get too uppity.

  13. You are ridiculous on The Twists of History and DNA · · Score: 1

    No, you muppet TFA is not saying that we can choose to evolve in a specific way it's saying that since humans have gained the ability to choose to live in certain conditions, e.g. as farmers rather than hunter-gatherers the same processes which led to the evolution of humans in the first place are carrying on and causing subsequent generations of humnans to be better adapted to the environment in which they are living than previous generations may have been.

  14. Re:Who Really Won The SuperBowl? on Who Really Won the Super Bowl? · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    American Football is a sport ? I thought it was just a bunch of big jesses standing around in body armour for hours on end. Rugby is a sport.

  15. Re:take it for what it is. on CIA Secretly Reclassifying Documents · · Score: 1

    Yes you're absolutely right, it would just be like, a hypothetical scenario, where maybe the Nazis had won the war and didn't really feel like making any of that stuff about concentration camps public. Our understanding of history is obviously not affected by parts of it being secret.

  16. Re:To all the people that say jobs... on What Do You Want in a Job Website? · · Score: 1

    Try to format it to look a bit nicer and to split things up into easily recognisable sections, at the moment it's hard to see what's what and you can't read the section you might be interested at a glance.

    I'd suggest putting the work experience above your qualifications since this is what most people will be more immediately interested in, also the summary leaves the impression that you have little to no experience which given you have work experience isn't the case.

  17. Re:Zionism != Judaism on Rumsfeld Requests 24-hour Propaganda Machine · · Score: 1

    Yes, that was my point. You can't use 3000 year old claims to land to justify creating modern countries.

  18. Re:Three words: on Rumsfeld Requests 24-hour Propaganda Machine · · Score: 1

    "Here in America we want to engage in free trade with other nations"

    That's not strictly true is it, wasn't there an issue with the steel industry a while back ?

  19. Re:I would think it is obvious.. on Rumsfeld Requests 24-hour Propaganda Machine · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Please list the goals that you have made ( citing original sources ) and explain how you believe they have been achieved. I'll start you off

    1) Find Saddams huge arsenal of Weapons Of Mass destruction.

  20. Re:Zionism != Judaism on Rumsfeld Requests 24-hour Propaganda Machine · · Score: 1

    "According to my history teacher, jews have been living in that land since at least 1000 bc until the muslims declared them unislamic and kicked them out."

    So you're suggesting that anyone who can say where their ancestors lived 3000 years has every right to go and demand that they live there now and the present inhabitants should have no say in the matter ?

  21. Re:BTW, climate is demonstrably simpler than marke on Greenland Glaciers Melting Much Faster · · Score: 1

    So are you saying that all the evidence for global warming including the EPICA challenge is simply made up or invented by dishonest scientists chasing a pay cheque ?

    You'd have thought that if that is what you're saying you'd have mountains of evidence yourself clearly demonstrating the corruption, the fixed results, the bogus data etc and wouldn't need to resort to simply making unfounded allegations of dishonesty against people against whom you appear to dislike or disagree with.

    Alternatively you could perhaps publish your own studies demonstrating where the CO2 in the atmosphere comes from and the likely effect it'll have on the environment. Will you be doing that ?

  22. Re:Skepticism on Greenland Glaciers Melting Much Faster · · Score: 1

    How about this scenario then

    "There's a Big Mac tethered to the road which I am enoying eating, those two headlights heading towards me at high speed could be a bus that will kill me, but they could be two motorcyles that will pass harmlessly on either side of me. I think I'll stand here until I know for sure."

  23. Re:The inevitable killer app comment on We Don't Need No Stinkin' Broadband · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what options you have for choosing broadband but my provider makes none of these restrictions, you can use it how you like to download what you want and there are no usage caps at all. They have also trebled the available bandwidth over the last three years for no extra charges.

  24. Re:Version control plus backups, and organization on How Do You Store Your Previously-Written Code? · · Score: 1

    Don't bother following the link, his recipie is "Use Subversion" but he needs a lot of ads to bring you that information.

  25. Re:Trigger Happy? on Real Warriors Trained In Virtual Worlds · · Score: 1

    And this invalidates the point the grandparent was making how exactly ?