Thank you for your kind words! This epiphany occurred to me as soon as I posted my comment, of course! I think it was my evil twin, skippy, who moved the comment threshold to 5.... I really wanted nothing more than to erase my comment and even appealed to a higher/. authority, but it occurs to me now that someone could learn from my dumm and dummer mistake! Hear ye, hear ye!
I find it deeply depressing that this is the second week in a row I have had moderator points... only to find that everything is moderated at 5, and, what is even worse, that is exactly how I would have moderated!!! "Use 'em or lose 'em" eh? I think it's the/. Bayesian filter that has a loose screw! I mean, how many people are moderating, really? And how come we are all in agreement??? Like Senator Joe "MAC" Carthy, brilliantly immitated by the previous poster, this is, no doubt, a communist plot to overthrow/.
Did everyone miss the three letters between "slate" and "com"?
I don't think it's the Apple that is terrified, nor the Penguin who is pulling ahead. The cartoon is written from the point of view of m$n who is terrified of the Apple and the Penguin, who are now both running hand in hand! It's m$n's worst nightmare: double teamed by *nix!
Minas Gerais translates as "General Mines".... pretty boring, eh? Minas=mines, as in Tolkien, and Gerais=general as in ' the whole state is generally full of mines."
Speaking as an inflammable Brazilian, it turns out that the "Minas Gerais" was, in fact, a national joke in Brazil when it was bought by the Brazilian Navy in 1960.... I was 8 at the time, when I saw it in Rio, and I clearly remember that Brazilians saw it as a me-too imitation of the US Navy, which had the real carriers, not this toy version. I mean, what were the Brazilians going to do with it? Invade Argentina?
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Thank you for your kind words! This epiphany occurred to me as soon as I posted my comment, of course! I think it was my evil twin, skippy, who moved the comment threshold to 5.... I really wanted nothing more than to erase my comment and even appealed to a higher /. authority, but it occurs to me now that someone could learn from my dumm and dummer mistake! Hear ye, hear ye!
I find it deeply depressing that this is the second week in a row I have had moderator points... only to find that everything is moderated at 5, and, what is even worse, that is exactly how I would have moderated!!! "Use 'em or lose 'em" eh? I think it's the /. Bayesian filter that has a loose screw! I mean, how many people are moderating, really? And how come we are all in agreement??? Like Senator Joe "MAC" Carthy, brilliantly immitated by the previous poster, this is, no doubt, a communist plot to overthrow /.
Did everyone miss the three letters between "slate" and "com"? I don't think it's the Apple that is terrified, nor the Penguin who is pulling ahead. The cartoon is written from the point of view of m$n who is terrified of the Apple and the Penguin, who are now both running hand in hand! It's m$n's worst nightmare: double teamed by *nix!
Minas Gerais translates as "General Mines".... pretty boring, eh? Minas=mines, as in Tolkien, and Gerais=general as in ' the whole state is generally full of mines."
Try looking on your map of Brazil Earth Map. It is a state of the United States of Brazil. I kid you not.
Speaking as an inflammable Brazilian, it turns out that the "Minas Gerais" was, in fact, a national joke in Brazil when it was bought by the Brazilian Navy in 1960.... I was 8 at the time, when I saw it in Rio, and I clearly remember that Brazilians saw it as a me-too imitation of the US Navy, which had the real carriers, not this toy version. I mean, what were the Brazilians going to do with it? Invade Argentina?