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  1. Re:Are they good for anything? on Miscalculation Invalidates LHC Safety Assurances · · Score: 1

    I'm not so sure it would develop that fast in the beginning but I don't know how those things work.

    And yes, life is weird, I mean if I go to the cemetery and see all those 200 year old graves, all I can think of is "Who was that? Who gives a crap now?", it's kind of sad really. Everything we do and experience will be lost when we die and soon no-one will care about us at all.

    The only thing we can be proud of is that we have ancestors back to the beginning of life (unless it's started multiple times, because then we have it back to some of the very simple new life forms.) and if we get kids ourself our heritage will remain on the planet for some time more.

    But then what?

    Sure it may be sad to miss out on the experiences, but the as I said in the end they don't mean anything, and some of them will be bad or very bad to.

  2. Re:Are they good for anything? on Miscalculation Invalidates LHC Safety Assurances · · Score: 1

    It was philosophy, or something such :D

    In your case the problem is that the instinct of surviving and fighting on (mostly so you can have more children and their genes pass on..) may not be very reasonable or take the death of the solar system into the consideration. So people will still think that their or others death are injustice, no matter how useless and unimportant they may be.

    You and I got the instinct of trying to and wanting to survive, but it may not be logical and something we have decided because it makes sense.

  3. Re:Okay, fanboys... on Photog Rob Galbraith Rates MacBook Pro Display "Not Acceptable" · · Score: -1, Troll

    Stop whining, with 1 hour battery life new and 10 minutes after a year does it really matter? Current Apple laptops don't work "portable" anyway, lower energy requirements 10 times and we might have something ..

  4. Re:Okay, fanboys... on Photog Rob Galbraith Rates MacBook Pro Display "Not Acceptable" · · Score: 1

    + one billion.

    And the situation is the same for desktop, servers and network equipment as well.

  5. Re:Okay, fanboys... on Photog Rob Galbraith Rates MacBook Pro Display "Not Acceptable" · · Score: 1

    The TN panel will switch colors and brightness when you move your head somewhat anyway so how much does it really matter? It's a mess no matter what. Demand IPS panels instead.

  6. Re:Macbook pro 17" on Photog Rob Galbraith Rates MacBook Pro Display "Not Acceptable" · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's shit no matter what.

    But so are all TN panels, which is what almost everyone use, laptop TN panels more so.

    Though then again it's not impossible that Apples isn't among the top of the TN ones.

    Benq has a 24" MVA-one which isn't that expensive nowadays, and Dell got a couple of 27" ones, it seems impossible to get a decent 20" nowadays, and IPS is hard to find no matter what.

  7. Re:Are they good for anything? on Miscalculation Invalidates LHC Safety Assurances · · Score: 1

    Sometimes I wonder that to. I guess it's mostly because I think it would be rude against my mom/ancestors.

    And also I may be wrong.

  8. Re:Are they good for anything? on Miscalculation Invalidates LHC Safety Assurances · · Score: 1

    "Plausible" on the third alternative but yes, that's how I see it to. In the end we're screwed no matter what :D

    Why fight it? ;D

  9. Re:Woah on KDE 4.2 Is Released · · Score: 1

    ... i mean't no-one obviously, sorry :)

  10. VNV Nation - Further lyrics on Miscalculation Invalidates LHC Safety Assurances · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who would remember if we all died?

    At the end of days, at the end of time.
    When the Sun burns out will any of this matter.
    Who will be there to remember who we were?
    Who will be there to know that any of this had meaning for us?
    And in retrospect I'll say we've done no wrong.
    Who are we to judge what is right and what has purpose for us?
    With designs upon ourselves to do no wrong,
    running wild unaware of what might come of us.
    The Sun was born, so it shall die, so only shadows comfort me.
    I know in darkness I will find you giving up inside like me.
    Each day shall end as it begins and though you're far away from me
    I know in darkness I will find you giving up inside like me
    Without a thought I will see everything eternal,
    forget that once we were just dust from heavens fire.
    As we were forged we shall return, perhaps some day.
    I will remember you and wonder who we were.

  11. Re:Why not? on Family Dog Cloned, Thanks To Dolly Patents · · Score: 1

    Why would it be so impossible that he's vegetarian?

    I don't know if cats are necessary cheaper either.

    / Vegan

  12. Re:Why? on Family Dog Cloned, Thanks To Dolly Patents · · Score: 1

    ... because playing Red Alert made him too hungry.

  13. Re:Are they good for anything? on Miscalculation Invalidates LHC Safety Assurances · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't see the problem, facts:

    1) We will all die some day.
    2) The solar system will stop working some day.

    So what's the problem? Sure it may kill us and all life on the planet, but does it really matter? We're screwed anyway.

  14. Re:Are they good for anything? on Miscalculation Invalidates LHC Safety Assurances · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just feed them the darkety kind and we'll never miss it.

  15. Re:IMAP on Offline Gmail Launched · · Score: 1

    Yeah, took ages. I can't figure out how to get Mail to check mails for spam BEFORE you open them either. Kind of unnecessary function if you have to click the damn mails before they are marked anyway ...

    Though it don't seem to learn on obvious spams anyway. Probably better with spamassassin and spamsieve or whatever it's called, or just trust gmail.

  16. Re:Guilty of supplying Parasitic bloatware on Obama Looking To Symantec CEO For Commerce · · Score: 1

    Symantec antivirus products not reporting NSA developed spyware?

    Paranoids and conspiracy believers unite!

  17. Re:IMAP on Offline Gmail Launched · · Score: 1

    ... aka the clueless morons which will be polite and forward the warning that MSN will close down unless they mail 14 of their friends the same warning.

  18. Re:1 question on KDE 4.2 Is Released · · Score: 1

    Same for me, used slink and then unstable potato which never got stable, kind off .. :D

  19. Re:IMAP on Offline Gmail Launched · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I use it thru IMAP with OS X mail and it keeps a local copy.

  20. Re:1 question on KDE 4.2 Is Released · · Score: 1

    Ah, three "unstable" levels, Debian for sure ..

    Anyway I just was pretty confident that it won't show up in a stable version of Debian for quite some time. And back in the days .deb used to be synonym with Debian, and therefor he'd have to take quite a nap if he wanted to use it (in a stable version atleast.)

    But as I said without the comment I'd get hit with the troll stick immediately. Moderators hate me! :D

  21. Re:1 question on KDE 4.2 Is Released · · Score: 1

    Oh well, someone overhyped the functionality atleast, I for sure remember that I was reading on about Plasma and such. Though the webpages probably never promised that it would be excellent at 4.0.

    Personally I started to use OS X before it was out so I've never tried it. Would be fun to see 4.2 though, liked 3.5 a lot.

  22. Re:1 question on KDE 4.2 Is Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think that KDE since KDE 4 has been one of the most criticized projects, even more than Windows.

    I think they have on thing in common:
    * Don't overhype it if you can't deliver on the promises!

  23. Re:1 question on KDE 4.2 Is Released · · Score: 1, Funny

    This will be moderated troll instead of funny but who cares about karma? :D

    Only one way to find out: I am installing the .debs tonight

    You mean "tonight" like two-three years from now?

    I know there are .debs for other dists than Debian, or the testing and unstable versions.

  24. Re:Woah on KDE 4.2 Is Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... and if it's only in use when you have decent graphics the computer probably don't take much of a hit since almost anyone is actually making good usage of their graphics card in Linux/whatever unix or unix-like OS.

  25. Re:Rational on Marijuana Could Prevent Alzheimer's, New Study · · Score: 1

    I have yet to hear a rational reason why many other things which may be bad for you is legal...

    Alcohol, tobacco, your AZO-dyes banned over here, ...

    But yes, people make bad decisions for their health and take risks every day, why ban some of them?