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  1. Re:Who cares... on Real Presidential Debates · · Score: 1

    It varies. Italy has a very fragmented system, such that any post-WWII Italian government which lasts 18 months is doing well. Most countries aren't so extreme.

  2. Re:Do you -know- how many candidates there are? on Real Presidential Debates · · Score: 1
    There is not enough air time on tv to cover all parties.
    :blink: There are two months left until the elections, aren't there?
  3. Re:American flag? on Real Presidential Debates · · Score: 1
    Last Modified: 10/28/00
    I wonder whether it's still true.
  4. Re:American flag? on Real Presidential Debates · · Score: 1

    Is that addressed to Drakonian or flint?

  5. Re:Online CCG? on Independent Games Festival 2005 Entries Announced · · Score: 2, Informative

    M:tG has an official online version now. I'm not sure how its popularity compares to the paper version, but it's certainly not a negligible market.

  6. Come on! on DIY Warriors Saluted And Sought · · Score: 4, Funny

    You give a URL for a project involving CVS cameras and you don't tell people to "check it out"?

  7. TIAJ on Xbox Modchip Featuring Onboard Operating System · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually the space bar on the lead developer's keyboard is broken, so he had to use newlines to separate tokens.

  8. Re:All links dead.. on Xbox Modchip Featuring Onboard Operating System · · Score: 1

    Surely it would be better to have the default state being that a cache link is provided, and you have to opt out when providing links to sites like the BBC which can handle the load?

  9. Re:Five years... on NYT On Flying Cars · · Score: 1
    Or as Tom Lehrer put it:
    So, let the raucous sleighbells jingle,
    Hail our dear old friend Kris Kringle,
    Driving his reindeer across the sky.
    Don't stand underneath when they fly by.
  10. Re:Globalization on Submit and Moderate Questions for Bush and Kerry · · Score: 1

    When you say "less than half", I think you actually mean "less than 1%". At "less than half" we in the UK could make the same complaint about the US - your living costs are lower, and your workers seem to have fewer rights.

  11. Offtopic on US Judge Strikes Down Bootleg Law · · Score: 4, Funny
    Did you deliberately adjust the length of that post? My preferences are set to clip long posts at 2k, and clipped it at
    The Recording Industry Ass
    I thought for a second that you were quoting an article from The Register.
  12. Re:I'm waiting for the 'Think about the Children' on Town Fights FOI Request for GIS Data and Images · · Score: 0, Troll

    I would say there's a big distinction between "loved" and "pitied".

  13. Re:I'm waiting for the 'Think about the Children' on Town Fights FOI Request for GIS Data and Images · · Score: 2, Funny
    We used to to be the most loved country in the world
    For the benefit of a non-historian: when was this?
  14. Re:What is the role of war? on Submit and Moderate Questions for Bush and Kerry · · Score: 1

    Simple answer: easy distribution of J2EE apps.

  15. Re:Funny... on Soviet Space Shuttle Found In Bahrain? · · Score: 1

    The KGB certainly had a large branch responsible for technology espionage. See, for example, The Mitrokhin Archive.

  16. Re:old school on USB Thumb Drives as ... Fashion Statement? · · Score: 1

    "No, I'm not pleased to see you: it's just a vacuum tube in my trousers"?

  17. Re:Pocket protectors? on USB Thumb Drives as ... Fashion Statement? · · Score: 4, Funny
    ...a college campus with a large population of women, and some days without
    Do you have any theories as to why the population of women on campus fluctuates so wildly?
  18. Re:Er... "20 Million users a week"?? on Ceefax Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    About 60 million; probably about 55 million. Taking into account that Ceefax provides i) TV listings; and ii) subtitles it wouldn't surprise me that 1/3 of people who use a TV use it at least once a week.

  19. Re:A probably stupid question: What is ICT ? on Report Says Patents Threaten Software Innovation · · Score: 2, Informative

    Information Communication Technology. It seems to be the currently fashionable term for IT.

  20. Re:Not like this report will change anything :( on Report Says Patents Threaten Software Innovation · · Score: 1

    They had the Presidency for the first half of 2004.

  21. Re:Well yes, but on Report Says Patents Threaten Software Innovation · · Score: 1

    I haven't RTFA, but the summary implies it was specifically about software patents. Europe doesn't have them at the moment - why would the US need something to replace them? Companies will continue to innovate because there's an advantage to being the first in a field; academics will continue to innovate because that gives them papers to publish.

  22. Re:Actually, try to read the LAW and not the blurb on New California Law Bans Anonymous Media File Sharing · · Score: 1

    I thought the whole point of Bittorrent was that you don't "disseminate all or substantially all" of the file to any one person. *AA behind the times?

  23. Re:Let me get this straight... on New California Law Bans Anonymous Media File Sharing · · Score: 1

    You have to get with the times. It's too much effort to send someone to your door nowadays - far simpler to send you an e-mail threatening legal action. Then if you don't comply, they'll take you to e-court and win an injunction which forces your ISP to serve up snippets from 'Manos' the Hands of Fate instead of the webpages you request.

  24. If nothing else, it serves to confuse outsiders on Metaprogramming GPUs with Sh · · Score: 2, Funny

    Imagine how must fun it must be explaining to the human resource people that yes, you do have experience in sh and Sh, and yes, those are different.

  25. Re:deeded ? on Does Google Censor Chinese News? · · Score: 1
    The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language also offers
    tr.v. deeded, deeding, deeds: To transfer by means of a deed
    The Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Law, and Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary offer similar verbal definitions.