If it is really an issue of National Security concering "sensitive" information covering up misuse/loss/theft/etc is ALREADY a criminal activity. Voting is NOT that kind of life/death issue of national security. Any kind of voter fraud is criminal. IMNSHO, actually releasing the info about the machines to the public was irresponsible, now there will be any number of hacks tried. They should have just fixed the problem ASAP. Unless they are doing formal proofs on the software or testing every possible path and range of inputs no one can say for certain the software is perfect.
Math and logic are intertwined but you can do logic without mathematical expressions (like add & subtract).A CPU has an ALU (Arithmatic Logic Unit) and most also have a MMU (Memory Management Unit) as well as some special logic functions such as for pipeling instructions out of order execution, etc. Modern CPUs are a lot more diverse than just doing computations.
LOL..my brain works faster than my fingers and I was off thinking about something else and I should have previewed my post before I sent it. My bad.
Hal, open the (i)Pod Bay doors!
I think you are confusing Math and Logic. A computer program or algorithm can be proven correct by using the rules of Logic. The "proofs" you are talking about are Mathmatical Induction, etc. that prove the Mathematical respresentation is accurate within it's domain and range of values, or for all values. That's valuable in some cases but being able to construct a Logic Equation that is correct is far more valuable in Programming or Computer Science. After all a program is a sequence of logical operations. A computation can be reduced to a logical series of steps. You are 100% correct in saying Graph Theory (Discrete Math as it was called in the 1980s when I did my CS degree) is very very common, it's just that most of those programming don't recognize it. I think most of the folks here are using "Math" to mean Trig, Calculus and other higher types of Math such as found useful in Physics and Engineering.
I'm surprised that you didn't mention that if kids learn things the "new" way, about 400 years at least of math and engineering terminology/equations are going to have to change. Those who know the new won't know the old and vice versa, I think that would lead to some serious communication issues and mistakes as software, tools, etc are setup to express things in the "old" systems. We have a hard enough time converting standard measurements to metric measurements as the Mars Observer mission showed now add this to that. Talk about a mess!
Will the player enforce DRM on anything you stick in? Once the RIAA knows about this and has it's way you'll be just as subject to the DRM issues in your car as on your PC!
"I'm sorry Hal, I can't let you play that, it is pirated"
A new box at $1500 versus maybe a few $100 for an upgraded Windows OS (or zero $$$ and stay with XP until forced to upgrade). IIRC, Apples' X86 OS/X won't run on Windows PC hardware at this time. The X86 CPU and other Architecture in the X86 Mac is going to be used to lock the OS to that target Hardware. Joe Consumer is going to go the cheaper route. Nothing insightful at all about the parent post.
Several reasons. 1) It's complicated and it delays the proceedings. Just because MS wants to is not a valid reason to seal. Look at the IBM and SCO case as to how each side handled requests to seal documents. It took the judge to settle it and it took quite some time. MS only really has a year to bring the case against Mr Lee under his employent agreement. If they want to take Google on after that on "Trade Secret" claims that is another case. 2) Since it would be a year or more after the fact, MS would have to show the "secrets" are still relative. If what was then secret is now a plan that is being executed publically then there are not any secrets. 3) Often judges won't seal transcripts unless there is some reason that the "public interest" is not the overarching concern.
4)In the case of a jury trial there are the jurors who may "leak" information anonymously to a reporter. Often, esp. If the info leaked is negative the firm is better off making an announcement and clearing the matter up.
Maybe, but the burden of proof is on MS to prove he used Confidential info. To prove this they would have to reveal that Confidential info at trial to show the judge and jury the facts and I doubt the judge would seal the transcript. So then everyone would know.
This won't get in front of a trial judge, it will be settled. All it would take is for Google to not let him work on the technologies he developed at MS for one year, and I doubt the case can get heard in a year. Of course MS could then sue Google for somehow using MS "Trade Secrets" they supposedly got from Mr Lee. But that is still very hard to prove.
How many trees per minute is that?;) At the rate this beast can print IBM might should get into the paper business too! This thing could eat a forest in a few days.
Seriously who needs something this fast? Junk mailers? Visa/Amex/Mastercard to print gazillions of paper statements? As much as everyone "intends" to go paperless is this the pinnacle of printing and everything else is downhill as printed material keeps decreasing?
NASA isnt the only agency that tracks the objects, the Air Force (NORAD) does. The size they can track is about the size of a basketball anything smaller and they can't track it with radar but they know its' approximate orbit.
When the average speed of impact 20,000 mph (i.e. orbital velocity or both items), even a thumbnail-sized piece of debris can make a BIG impact.
http://www.oceanit.com/index.php?option=content&ta sk=view&id=339 has in intersting article about a guy who makes his living helping to track Space Debris.
OK so they have good doctors, what about the OTHER issues such as the entourage they carry to prevent defections? Or maybe thats not such a big issue as the doctors likely to defect would not be allowed to come over, only the "good Socialists". But with a surplus of doctors why should Cuba CARE if they defect???? Of course since the USA has a surplus I don't know if they could sucessfully practice here (licensing issues aside).
As far as facts on health care, they do have better infant mortality by a few % (.17 better per 1000). Life expectancy is a little lower (.9 yr). Immunizations are about the same as well. So yes, pretty comparable. But you do realize that Free Health Care is about all they get in Cuba, many other things (food, gasoline) are in short supply, about all they have to offer anyone in trade (even the USA if there was not an embargo) is Sugar, Fruit, Coffee, some nickel and Tourism. But these days Tourism is tightly controlled by the Government. So while you can have a long life with good health care in Cuba you give up a lot of other things.
We have plenty of doctors available to help, the problem was supplies of medicine, medical equipment, etc. We had a whole Hospital Ship standing by that was not used. In fact they are now reporting that things are NOT as bad as they feared. So the 1000 Cuban doctors would have had very litte to do. So I don't see it as political.
Ames just had a LOT of budget cuts. There are a LOT of things going on at NASA right now with the new Director. Check out www.nasawatch.com for more info. I have worked for NASA twice and I do agree that the STS has outlived it's usefulness and should be replaced rather than being a "black hole" to throw money into. There are several good lauch systems that can be used to get supplies to ISS and people as well. Experiments can be done using satellites, ISS materials can be launched on Delta, Titan or Energia with a litle work. There are much better solutions than set NASA up for a long term presence in space rather than throwing money at a 30 yr old, fragile and unreliable Shuttle.
Funny, Cuban doctors would need Visa's to enter the USA which takes time. Also, how many spies would be in that group and how many handlers does it take to make sure none of them defect?? Also, the Cuban doctors would need to speak good English as most Americans in that area don't speak fluent Spanish. As bad as health care is said to be in Cuba, do they even have 1000 doctors to spare, do the doctors in Cuba know the most modern practices concerning diseases and injuries? I think this is just a big PR stunt by Castro. There are more than enough doctors from this country who have volunteered plus those in the Military. With a lot of the folks having been relocated out of the area into shelters the local medical community where the shelters are located can do the work needed. The USA has a surplus of Doctors AND Lawyers. Let's hope the surplus of Lawyers does NOT get involved!!!
Very good point, if the open source community wants to contribute I suggest collaborating to invent a easy to use, low bandwidth, secure system to match the donations of X, Y and Z to the locations that actually NEED X,Y and Z and also figure out how to get them there the quickest (shortest route). This would allow those in the area who had some comms to send requests and those managing donations (Churches, Red Cross, Salvation Army, etc) to log on,pick a need and match it. Of course this would all have to be real-time and mutually exclusive so 9 groups don't get respond to the same need at the same time.
Five nines on 1 E10K box? I doubt it. If you ever had to patch Solaris there goes your downtime for the years to come. Oracle Grid while a great idea, I've not seen it implemented yet on the scale you are mentioning and it's a bit new. I think I would go for more proven technology. I notice you didn't mention an email package that can USE the Grid Database, there are very few out there that can even use plain old relational DB like Oracle or DB2 to store mail. A DB based mail system could be nice as DBs are designed for high volumes of inserts and deletes, and threads could be generated easily, forwarding of documents would just be the SQL query to grab if from the table and it would not be sent 1000 times, logging would be done automatically, backups/restores are easy. The only issue might be that you would need to setup the Data Architecture and Storage such that lots of small mailboxes don't cause performance issues, or lots of large ones don't. You need to know more about the "average user" to configure the system right.
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We have some black men over here who have done pretty good for themselves such as Supreme Court Justice, Secetary of State, CEO of major corporations, etc. Can't say a Christian in Pakistan could accomplish that! A Briton in Europe perhaps.
And by the way we provide Government everything for our poor, I'm sure Pakistan doesn't and I have no clue about the welfare systems in the EU. So black man in American is NOT the worst thing to be. I would say being a Christian FEMALE in Saudi would be much worse.
You still have not explained anything. Just speculation. Much of our National Debt is there from a LONG time ago, some current DEFICITS could be attributed to increased costs of the "war". IMNSHO, it's better to spend several hundred billion dollars to fight the Terrorists in Iraq than have another 9/11 happen. What was the impact of 9/11? I'll bet you it was more than 192B!!!
If you go back and look at 1999, you are seeing the end of the dot com bubble. I have done VERY well in the market since 1999. The idea is BUY LOW and SELL HIGH regardless of who is in office.
I see through you smoke, you just want to lay the blame for everything on a Republican adminstration without doing any root cause to show it was "your hero" Clinton who passed up 3 chances to capture Osama, gutted the Military, increased taxes, increased Social spending and drove the economy to a recession.
I won't bother to correct the other mistakes as I have productive work to do earning a living creating value.
I have invested (small) in SpaceDev. Hey, someday they may amount to something, the stock is cheap and they DO seem to be making and selling products. I encourage anyone who thinks Space is the future to put a little money down on it.
You are welcome! As I'm sure you are aware, being a "Dot Com CEO" that the Internet tends to move towards the lowest common denominator in things like humor (and intelligence). I'm begginning to see that Hari Seldon's (aka Isaac Asimov) fictional concepts of a PsychoHistory might just be true!
"The short time we've been in Iraq so far has accrued 192B$ in direct costs (and this doesn't count things like the economic recession from the uncertainty leading up to it, the effects of the oil shortage afterwards, the economic loss of the removal of so many reserves, etc). This also doesn't count the rapid DOD growth, which is not included; we now spend half of the world's total military spending."
Bullshit-- The "recession" was there when Clinton was in office and 9/11 made it worse, that had NOTHING to do with the War. The economy is quite good or haven't you noticed it (assumes you live in the USA).
Oil Shortage? So the shortage from Katrina and instability in places like Nigeria and the threats from Venezuala and the fact the rest of the Persian Gulf is pumping at the max already is a result of the War? How about the fact that CHINA grew 6% last year, and that takes energy (oil).
Economic Loss from Reservist? Don't you know BY LAW these guys have to be given their jobs back? The unemployment rate is 4.9% and the economy is growing, totally contrary to your "gloom and doom"
DOD growth has been occuring but it is part of a cycle, the last 10-12 yrs the DOD SHRANK. So that shortfall in weapons systems has to be made up if we want to continue as the sole superpower.
I doubt we spend 50% of the defense budget of the world as noboy knows how much the Chinese spend and that is a BIG number.
Umm..GWB DID cut taxes during a war and the economhy is doing well, more than paying for the war.
Like I said the $50M they needed in NO could have been found somewhere out of SOME budget. I need to dig a little deeper but I bet they were other COE projects that got full funds, why, I dont know perhaps they were considered higher priority?
As for spending..go see http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=1944&sequence =0 Which shows total Social Program spending in the USA in 2004 of 191B not counting Meidcare of 176B and Medicaid of $265B. The Defense Spending which includes the War was 486B. Social programs outspend DOD by over $100B. Regardless of what other want to say, the war costs are NOT off the books, they have to be paid and the numbers from the CBO show the full costs allocated to the DOD. In the FY06 Budget a supplemental "plus-up" of $75B is allocated to the DOD for the War on Terror (Iraq & Afghanistan will get 90% of this money).
Geez Louise, I guess you don't understand how Slashdot works, you can post something every 30 seconds. It doesn't mean it'll get read or modded up. If you said maybe TMM has too much time on his hands since he posts so much that would be a fair criticism. Next time you get mod points go find one of his posts and mod it down! Would that make things all better? TMM's humor is about on par with most of/.ers. Yours is the one that is different!
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If it is really an issue of National Security concering "sensitive" information covering up misuse/loss/theft/etc is ALREADY a criminal activity. Voting is NOT that kind of life/death issue of national security. Any kind of voter fraud is criminal. IMNSHO, actually releasing the info about the machines to the public was irresponsible, now there will be any number of hacks tried. They should have just fixed the problem ASAP. Unless they are doing formal proofs on the software or testing every possible path and range of inputs no one can say for certain the software is perfect.
yes, assuming anyone bothers to check the boxes after an election. If the election was close they might but otherwise not.
Math and logic are intertwined but you can do logic without mathematical expressions (like add & subtract).A CPU has an ALU (Arithmatic Logic Unit) and most also have a MMU (Memory Management Unit) as well as some special logic functions such as for pipeling instructions out of order execution, etc. Modern CPUs are a lot more diverse than just doing computations.
LOL..my brain works faster than my fingers and I was off thinking about something else and I should have previewed my post before I sent it. My bad. Hal, open the (i)Pod Bay doors!
I think you are confusing Math and Logic. A computer program or algorithm can be proven correct by using the rules of Logic. The "proofs" you are talking about are Mathmatical Induction, etc. that prove the Mathematical respresentation is accurate within it's domain and range of values, or for all values. That's valuable in some cases but being able to construct a Logic Equation that is correct is far more valuable in Programming or Computer Science. After all a program is a sequence of logical operations. A computation can be reduced to a logical series of steps. You are 100% correct in saying Graph Theory (Discrete Math as it was called in the 1980s when I did my CS degree) is very very common, it's just that most of those programming don't recognize it.
I think most of the folks here are using "Math" to mean Trig, Calculus and other higher types of Math such as found useful in Physics and Engineering.
I'm surprised that you didn't mention that if kids learn things the "new" way, about 400 years at least of math and engineering terminology/equations are going to have to change. Those who know the new won't know the old and vice versa, I think that would lead to some serious communication issues and mistakes as software, tools, etc are setup to express things in the "old" systems. We have a hard enough time converting standard measurements to metric measurements as the Mars Observer mission showed now add this to that. Talk about a mess!
Will the player enforce DRM on anything you stick in? Once the RIAA knows about this and has it's way you'll be just as subject to the DRM issues in your car as on your PC!
"I'm sorry Hal, I can't let you play that, it is pirated"
For neat GIS stuff see www.esri.com (GIS Software and links to sites) www.geodata.gov (GIS of USA)
A new box at $1500 versus maybe a few $100 for an upgraded Windows OS (or zero $$$ and stay with XP until forced to upgrade). IIRC, Apples' X86 OS/X won't run on Windows PC hardware at this time. The X86 CPU and other Architecture in the X86 Mac is going to be used to lock the OS to that target Hardware. Joe Consumer is going to go the cheaper route. Nothing insightful at all about the parent post.
Several reasons. 1) It's complicated and it delays the proceedings. Just because MS wants to is not a valid reason to seal. Look at the IBM and SCO case as to how each side handled requests to seal documents. It took the judge to settle it and it took quite some time. MS only really has a year to bring the case against Mr Lee under his employent agreement. If they want to take Google on after that on "Trade Secret" claims that is another case. 2) Since it would be a year or more after the fact, MS would have to show the "secrets" are still relative. If what was then secret is now a plan that is being executed publically then there are not any secrets. 3) Often judges won't seal transcripts unless there is some reason that the "public interest" is not the overarching concern. 4)In the case of a jury trial there are the jurors who may "leak" information anonymously to a reporter. Often, esp. If the info leaked is negative the firm is better off making an announcement and clearing the matter up.
Maybe, but the burden of proof is on MS to prove he used Confidential info. To prove this they would have to reveal that Confidential info at trial to show the judge and jury the facts and I doubt the judge would seal the transcript. So then everyone would know. This won't get in front of a trial judge, it will be settled. All it would take is for Google to not let him work on the technologies he developed at MS for one year, and I doubt the case can get heard in a year. Of course MS could then sue Google for somehow using MS "Trade Secrets" they supposedly got from Mr Lee. But that is still very hard to prove.
How many trees per minute is that? ;) At the rate this beast can print IBM might should get into the paper business too! This thing could eat a forest in a few days.
Seriously who needs something this fast? Junk mailers? Visa/Amex/Mastercard to print gazillions of paper statements? As much as everyone "intends" to go paperless is this the pinnacle of printing and everything else is downhill as printed material keeps decreasing?
NASA isnt the only agency that tracks the objects, the Air Force (NORAD) does. The size they can track is about the size of a basketball anything smaller and they can't track it with radar but they know its' approximate orbit. When the average speed of impact 20,000 mph (i.e. orbital velocity or both items), even a thumbnail-sized piece of debris can make a BIG impact. http://www.oceanit.com/index.php?option=content&ta sk=view&id=339 has in intersting article about a guy who makes his living helping to track Space Debris.
OK so they have good doctors, what about the OTHER issues such as the entourage they carry to prevent defections? Or maybe thats not such a big issue as the doctors likely to defect would not be allowed to come over, only the "good Socialists". But with a surplus of doctors why should Cuba CARE if they defect???? Of course since the USA has a surplus I don't know if they could sucessfully practice here (licensing issues aside). As far as facts on health care, they do have better infant mortality by a few % (.17 better per 1000). Life expectancy is a little lower (.9 yr). Immunizations are about the same as well. So yes, pretty comparable. But you do realize that Free Health Care is about all they get in Cuba, many other things (food, gasoline) are in short supply, about all they have to offer anyone in trade (even the USA if there was not an embargo) is Sugar, Fruit, Coffee, some nickel and Tourism. But these days Tourism is tightly controlled by the Government. So while you can have a long life with good health care in Cuba you give up a lot of other things. We have plenty of doctors available to help, the problem was supplies of medicine, medical equipment, etc. We had a whole Hospital Ship standing by that was not used. In fact they are now reporting that things are NOT as bad as they feared. So the 1000 Cuban doctors would have had very litte to do. So I don't see it as political.
Ames just had a LOT of budget cuts. There are a LOT of things going on at NASA right now with the new Director. Check out www.nasawatch.com for more info. I have worked for NASA twice and I do agree that the STS has outlived it's usefulness and should be replaced rather than being a "black hole" to throw money into. There are several good lauch systems that can be used to get supplies to ISS and people as well. Experiments can be done using satellites, ISS materials can be launched on Delta, Titan or Energia with a litle work. There are much better solutions than set NASA up for a long term presence in space rather than throwing money at a 30 yr old, fragile and unreliable Shuttle.
Funny, Cuban doctors would need Visa's to enter the USA which takes time. Also, how many spies would be in that group and how many handlers does it take to make sure none of them defect?? Also, the Cuban doctors would need to speak good English as most Americans in that area don't speak fluent Spanish. As bad as health care is said to be in Cuba, do they even have 1000 doctors to spare, do the doctors in Cuba know the most modern practices concerning diseases and injuries? I think this is just a big PR stunt by Castro. There are more than enough doctors from this country who have volunteered plus those in the Military. With a lot of the folks having been relocated out of the area into shelters the local medical community where the shelters are located can do the work needed. The USA has a surplus of Doctors AND Lawyers. Let's hope the surplus of Lawyers does NOT get involved!!!
Very good point, if the open source community wants to contribute I suggest collaborating to invent a easy to use, low bandwidth, secure system to match the donations of X, Y and Z to the locations that actually NEED X,Y and Z and also figure out how to get them there the quickest (shortest route). This would allow those in the area who had some comms to send requests and those managing donations (Churches, Red Cross, Salvation Army, etc) to log on,pick a need and match it. Of course this would all have to be real-time and mutually exclusive so 9 groups don't get respond to the same need at the same time.
Five nines on 1 E10K box? I doubt it. If you ever had to patch Solaris there goes your downtime for the years to come. Oracle Grid while a great idea, I've not seen it implemented yet on the scale you are mentioning and it's a bit new. I think I would go for more proven technology. I notice you didn't mention an email package that can USE the Grid Database, there are very few out there that can even use plain old relational DB like Oracle or DB2 to store mail. A DB based mail system could be nice as DBs are designed for high volumes of inserts and deletes, and threads could be generated easily, forwarding of documents would just be the SQL query to grab if from the table and it would not be sent 1000 times, logging would be done automatically, backups/restores are easy. The only issue might be that you would need to setup the Data Architecture and Storage such that lots of small mailboxes don't cause performance issues, or lots of large ones don't. You need to know more about the "average user" to configure the system right.
We have some black men over here who have done pretty good for themselves such as Supreme Court Justice, Secetary of State, CEO of major corporations, etc. Can't say a Christian in Pakistan could accomplish that! A Briton in Europe perhaps. And by the way we provide Government everything for our poor, I'm sure Pakistan doesn't and I have no clue about the welfare systems in the EU. So black man in American is NOT the worst thing to be. I would say being a Christian FEMALE in Saudi would be much worse.
You still have not explained anything. Just speculation. Much of our National Debt is there from a LONG time ago, some current DEFICITS could be attributed to increased costs of the "war". IMNSHO, it's better to spend several hundred billion dollars to fight the Terrorists in Iraq than have another 9/11 happen. What was the impact of 9/11? I'll bet you it was more than 192B!!! If you go back and look at 1999, you are seeing the end of the dot com bubble. I have done VERY well in the market since 1999. The idea is BUY LOW and SELL HIGH regardless of who is in office. I see through you smoke, you just want to lay the blame for everything on a Republican adminstration without doing any root cause to show it was "your hero" Clinton who passed up 3 chances to capture Osama, gutted the Military, increased taxes, increased Social spending and drove the economy to a recession. I won't bother to correct the other mistakes as I have productive work to do earning a living creating value.
I have invested (small) in SpaceDev. Hey, someday they may amount to something, the stock is cheap and they DO seem to be making and selling products. I encourage anyone who thinks Space is the future to put a little money down on it.
You are welcome! As I'm sure you are aware, being a "Dot Com CEO" that the Internet tends to move towards the lowest common denominator in things like humor (and intelligence). I'm begginning to see that Hari Seldon's (aka Isaac Asimov) fictional concepts of a PsychoHistory might just be true!
Thanks for the correction. I have karma to burn but it almost always takes me longer than 2 minutes to write and post anything informative.
"The short time we've been in Iraq so far has accrued 192B$ in direct costs (and this doesn't count things like the economic recession from the uncertainty leading up to it, the effects of the oil shortage afterwards, the economic loss of the removal of so many reserves, etc). This also doesn't count the rapid DOD growth, which is not included; we now spend half of the world's total military spending."
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Bullshit-- The "recession" was there when Clinton was in office and 9/11 made it worse, that had NOTHING to do with the War. The economy is quite good or haven't you noticed it (assumes you live in the USA).
Oil Shortage? So the shortage from Katrina and instability in places like Nigeria and the threats from Venezuala and the fact the rest of the Persian Gulf is pumping at the max already is a result of the War? How about the fact that CHINA grew 6% last year, and that takes energy (oil).
Economic Loss from Reservist? Don't you know BY LAW these guys have to be given their jobs back? The unemployment rate is 4.9% and the economy is growing, totally contrary to your "gloom and doom"
DOD growth has been occuring but it is part of a cycle, the last 10-12 yrs the DOD SHRANK. So that shortfall in weapons systems has to be made up if we want to continue as the sole superpower.
I doubt we spend 50% of the defense budget of the world as noboy knows how much the Chinese spend and that is a BIG number.
Umm..GWB DID cut taxes during a war and the economhy is doing well, more than paying for the war.
Like I said the $50M they needed in NO could have been found somewhere out of SOME budget. I need to dig a little deeper but I bet they were other COE projects that got full funds, why, I dont know perhaps they were considered higher priority?
As for spending..go see http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=1944&sequenc
Which shows total Social Program spending in the USA in 2004 of 191B not counting Meidcare of 176B and Medicaid of $265B. The Defense Spending which includes the War was 486B. Social programs outspend DOD by over $100B. Regardless of what other want to say, the war costs are NOT off the books, they have to be paid and the numbers from the CBO show the full costs allocated to the DOD. In the FY06 Budget a supplemental "plus-up" of $75B is allocated to the DOD for the War on Terror (Iraq & Afghanistan will get 90% of this money).
Geez Louise, I guess you don't understand how Slashdot works, you can post something every 30 seconds. It doesn't mean it'll get read or modded up. If you said maybe TMM has too much time on his hands since he posts so much that would be a fair criticism. /.ers. Yours is the one that is different!
Next time you get mod points go find one of his posts and mod it down! Would that make things all better?
TMM's humor is about on par with most of