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  1. Re:Who can spot the infiltrated posts now? on Obama Appointee Sunstein Favors Infiltrating Online Groups · · Score: 1

    6. Profit?

  2. Re:An opportunity cost taken way out of context. on One Expert Pegs Yearly Cost of IT Failure At $6.2 Trillion · · Score: 1

    "So some journalist decides he'll take a swipe at one of the most efficient segments of the world economy" Fixed that for you.

  3. Re:Early Adaption Success on Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala · · Score: 1

    I upgraded my eeepc 1000H running xubuntu-ish. Easiest OS upgrade I have every done. Pressed the "there is a new release..." or whatever button in upgrade manager and, apart from a couple of prompts to keep or use a new config file, 1.5 hours or so later I was upgraded. Linux is getting a bit too easy. I might have to look for another OS so I can feel superior :) /s.

  4. Re:Not suprised on Obama Looks Down Under For Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    Australia has a low population, but it is very urbanized:

    http://globalis.gvu.unu.edu/indicator.cfm?IndicatorID=30&country=AU#rowAU

    In 2005, 92% of the population of Australia lived in urban areas - ranked 11th. In contrast, only 80.8% of the population of the USA lived in urban areas - ranked 38th.

    Population density is just used as a bogus excuse for many things in Australia. Sure, Bruce in Birdsville and the other 50 people in town might have to wait a while, but they chose to live in a godforsaken remote location.

  5. Re:Welcome To The on "Three Strikes" To Go Ahead In Britain · · Score: 1

    Indeed. The BE was only able to exist as a result of the conflicts. Divide and conquer anyway?

  6. Re:Bligh was a genius on Captain Bligh's Logbooks To Yield Climate Bounty · · Score: 4, Insightful

    (Slightly under half of) the sailors were inspired to mutiny by Tahitian pussy, or lack there of after five months of it. Bligh was too nice in letting them live ashore with the Tahitians, having relations with them, and not flogging them enough.

    The Rum Rebellion happened because he tried to remove the advantageous position some people in the Sydney colony had. This position would be called a monopoly nowadays.

    So, maybe not a genius, but he tried to do the right thing(tm).

  7. Re:Perfectly understandable on Apple Takes Action Over Australian Logos · · Score: 1

    Same here. In fact, I have eaten a green apple from Woolworths within the past hour. No, really, I have.

  8. Re:Driving While Impaired on Federal Summit Eyes Crackdown On Texting While Driving · · Score: 1

    Do you get upset about not being able to play war games for real as well?

  9. Re:Doesn't make sense (MS not doing anything wrong on Microsoft Tax Dodge At Issue In Washington State · · Score: 1

    Sorry, China has already cooked your goose and canned it. Photos, so it's true: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1309/1203124928_12566d8af1.jpg

  10. Re:Deaf people cope on Nissan Gives Electric Cars Blade Runner Audio Effect · · Score: 1

    Try being a cyclist, a driver and a ped. I hate everyone. Luckily the human population of my mum's basement is on the low side.

  11. Re:Thermodynamics on Incorporating Human Behavior Into Wall Street Mathematical Models · · Score: 1

    Isn't the "Keynesian bullshit" just like a battery/capacitor though - save some excess X so we can use it when we are not producing/cannot get enough X when we need it - therefore physics?

  12. Re:BBC has a video of the rat on Lost World of Fanged Frogs and Giant Rats · · Score: 1

    Volcanos do that.

  13. Re:Epicness! on Appeals Court Overturns 2007 Unix Copyright Decision · · Score: 1

    Lets hope it is in Linuxia, not Nova SCOtia.

  14. Re:Anime Eyes on Facial Expressions Are "Not Global" · · Score: 1

    No, it's because evolution did it first. Big eyes + big head ~= cute ~= look after me.

  15. Re:The parents need internet! on Parents Baffled By Science Questions · · Score: 1

    And that god is a hungry pest.

  16. Re:Not evolutionary design .... on 10 Worst Evolutionary Designs · · Score: 1

    "Let's face it, even if it [sex] feels good, it [sex] looks silly" - Frank Zappa.

    Must have been a a member advanced species.

  17. Re:The album used to be great.... on Music Labels Working On Digital Album Format · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We don't need a new Beatles or Beach Boys, we need a new Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd!

  18. Re:The competition is OSX on Windows 7 RTM Reviewed & Benchmarked · · Score: 4, Funny

    They can pry my Ubuntu from my warm sweaty palms!

  19. Re:The new oxymoron? on 30,000-Lb. Bomb On Fast Track For Deployment · · Score: 1

    Being old enough to remember that war quite well (I actually went on my first holiday sans parents on the day it broke out.... to Turkey of all places), those individual bombs may have been delivered by stealth, but Bagdhad was under 24/7 air attack at that point so it is highly likely that civilians were making use of said facilities.

  20. Re:Just guessing .. on Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — "I've Had Enough" · · Score: 1

    I assume you are not being sarcastic(?). Linus and Alan are discussing what to do with the roots. People are free as always to branch away as they please.

  21. Re:Fuck you Jupiter! on Something May Have Just Hit Jupiter · · Score: 1

    That is because everyone would know you are talking out of uranus.

  22. Re:Wake up too yourselves !! on Swine Flu Kills Obese People Disproportionately · · Score: 1

    Excuses, excuses. A load of crap. You just took the easy option end of story. If there was a famine would you not be able to lose weight? No. You eat too much and exercise too little. End of.

    Just over two years ago I was 96kgs = BMI 31. Being saddened greatly by this I joined my local gym which has cheap personal-ish training. 6 months of 3x30min sessions a week later I had lost between 6-11 kgs. I cannot remember exactly) as I was more concerned with general fitness. At this time I also started cycling the 16km/10 mile round trip to work (with ~250M of climbing there and 50M back) as well. This definitely got me down to 85kgs, so there is your 10kgs, Plus one more.

    Just over a year ago my place of work moved so I now have a 50km/32 mile round trip which I cycle almost every day. I have been hovering between 75-76kgs BMI ~= 24 for the past 3 weeks or so. This includes going from 80kgs in late November back up to 85kgs until I started to get rid of that again in January.

    So... I am less than 4/5s of the man I used to be with very little help.

    You could say that the PT was "a help", but he did not force me to go to the gym and did not force me to do what he told me to do while I was there. Nobody forces me to cycle - in fact most people seem to want to force me off the road with their cars :(.

    I also eat loads (of good stuff) and rarely feel hungry. The ride means I can eat between 1000-1500 calories extra *a day* without putting on weight and it takes me about the same time as driving my car to work through rush hour traffic.

  23. Re:OSX 10.4 support dropped... on VLC 1.0.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Because 10.4 works fine and you have to pay for 10.5?

  24. Re:Learn English on PC Invader Costs a Kentucky County $415,000 · · Score: 1

    Cocoa conspirator.

  25. Re:Awww, it even has a little red cape... on Japanese Creating "Super Tuna" · · Score: 1

    Steller's Sea Cow.

    All eaten up. Just like that.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steller's_sea_cow