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  1. Re:Thats ok , as an XP user on Internet Explorer 9 Will Not Support Windows XP · · Score: 1

    'Along with kickstart installer images (RHEL family and Ubuntu) ...'

    So GNU/Linux has finally caught up with the Amiga?

  2. Re:Interesting on Users Rejecting Security Advice Considered Rational · · Score: 1

    So they do housecalls? Otherwise, why would they need your address.

  3. Re:Uh yeah... very speedy. on Speed-Assembling Servers · · Score: 1

    Recalling my initial attempts at these, one could say that it was creative fiction :)

  4. Re:Brinkmanship not Brinksmanship on Brinksmanship Continues In Google-China Row Over Censorship · · Score: -1, Troll

    Both are correct, moron.

  5. Re:flamebait? on AMARSi Project Aims To Have Robots Learn Jobs From Co-workers · · Score: 1

    They also won't buy your product (as was pointed out to Henry Ford nigh on a century ago).

  6. Re:What? on Texas Approves Conservative Curriculum · · Score: 1

    Yes, but they're cooked.

  7. Re:Can't it degrade over time? on MIT Scientists Make a Polyethylene Heatsink · · Score: 1

    Actually, that's a mistranslation from the original Klingon :)

  8. Re:Not social networking... on William Shatner Takes On Social Networking · · Score: 1

    I can't use it; I have my pride and self respect to consider.

  9. Re:Wonderful news on Bill Gates No Longer World's Richest Man · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "Autre motif d'orgueuil, que d'être citoyen! Cela consiste pour les
    pauvres à soutenir et à conserver les riches dans leur puissance et
    leur oisivité. Ils y doivent travailler devant la majestueuse égalité
    des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les
    ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain."

    "Another reason for pride, that of being a citizen! For the poor
    citizenship consists of supporting and sustaining the power and
    idleness of the rich. They must work for those goals before the
    majestic equality of the laws, which forbids rich and poor alike to
    sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread."

    Anatole France, Le Lys Rouge

  10. Re:Also coming up this year... on Historic IEEE 802 Group Looks Back and Forward · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, in this case, one can actually Blame Canada, eh?

  11. Re:To the people saying A La Carte is the answer on ABC Pulls Channels From Cablevision · · Score: 1

    As well; each song 3+ minutes, each show 1/2, 1, 1 1/2 hour. Also, music works for backgound when doing anything else; TV not so much.

  12. Re:Better teachers and more funding ! on Improving Education Through Better Teachers · · Score: 1

    There are as many varieties of good teachers as there are varieties of students.

  13. Re:"Natural" methane? on The Arctic Is Leaking Methane · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Firstly: unnatural doesn't mean supernatural. It's idiomatic.

    Secondly: humans capacity for technological development allows us to usurp common and typical natural feedback mechanisms that limit effects of any other species' activities. This allows us to regularly or contiually have potential effects typical only of relatively uncommon events such as major volcanic eruptions, meteor strikes or worse (for us and every other organism).

    Finally: we have the ability to comprehend that there are unintended consequences to our actions and deliberately choose to ignore even the consideration of these even when we can reasonably predict dire results.

  14. Re:Fire hazard on Officials Sue Couple Who Removed Their Lawn · · Score: 3, Funny

    '.... In these places you've actually got such a scarcity of water that you have to measure how much you use and pay based on that! Why would you want to live like that?'

    For the spice.

  15. Re:Sampling bias on Secret Service Runs At "Six Sixes" Availability · · Score: 1

    Out! Out! damned lier.

  16. Re:Meditations on First Philosophy on Key Letter By Descartes Found After 170 Years · · Score: 1

    I guess now it's: 'He's dead, therefore he isn't'?

  17. Re:A partial solution: on Beliefs Conform To Cultural Identities · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, unless you count extreme political views as a religion.

    Not a religion, another ideology of which the proponents are just as unthinking.

  18. Re:It's maths all the way down on Triumph of the Cyborg Composer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We're not there until the computer writes its own algorithms for generating music, modifying themes and styles to match the environmental context.

  19. Re:Quasi futuristic styling on Hungarian Electric Car Splits Into Two Smaller Cars · · Score: 1

    For an alternate view of a splittable car, see Malcolm .

  20. Re:What?!? on Google Italy Execs Convicted Over YouTube Bullying Video · · Score: 1

    Google videos are user submitted.

    cf. letters to the editor and unsolicited articles.

  21. Re:Computational Beauty of Nature on "Immortal Molecule" Evolves — How Close To Synthetic Life? · · Score: 2, Funny

    When your only tool is a computer, everything looks like a computation.

  22. Re:Well... on Math Anxiety Affects Skills As Basic As Counting · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's because one doesn't have to count to four; one just sees the items as 'four of them'.

  23. Re:My research on Researchers Say Women Secretly Desire Hairy Geeks · · Score: 1

    Get real!

  24. Re:Excellent! on Looking Back From the 1980s At Computers In Education · · Score: 1

    Also note that the GRAMAZE BASIC code listing has an error at 580.

  25. Re:Ill placed worries on New Plan Lets Top HS Students Graduate 2 Years Early · · Score: 1

    However some school officials are concerned that fewer students in school will lead to redundancies in the school staff.

    FTFT

    A 16 year old who can't handle being in college is either retarded or was reared wrongly. The former wouldn't apply in this situation and the second is unlikely as they have already demonstrated an ability to take matters into their own hands to advance beyond the expectations.