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  1. Re:Actually... on Apple Sics Lawyers on SomethingAwful · · Score: 1
    no -- there's no conspiracy or jealousy involved. they are just trying to stop publication of their technical repair documents.


    Is that so? Or are they trying to silence their critics?

    A single picture does not a service manual make.
  2. Re:Comparison of Filesystems. on Apple Looking at ZFS For Mac OS X · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Heh. on Macs May No Longer Be Immune to Viruses · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Transfusion != Transplant on Bloodless Surgery · · Score: 1

    >>>How did you make it through college and med school with those English skills?

    Nobody could decipher his doctor's handwriting

  5. Re:Driving force for bloodless surgery on Bloodless Surgery · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    >>> ... and this is a problem how?

    1) Your family
    2) Won't speak to you

    Get it? Geez, and I thought you godless scum are the pinnacle of evolution. Here is one specimen who is even dumber than a monkey.

  6. Re:Sex Crime, 1984 on Apple's All-Seeing Screen · · Score: 1

    >>> So me mastabating in front of the computer would now be considered a sex crime?

    No. Sexcrime

  7. Re:Laptop, I don't think so... on Apple Announced 17" MacBook Pro · · Score: 1
    Then again, I don't want kids anyway.


    Was there even choice involved? :)
  8. Re:A Machine For Suckers With Too Much Cash on Apple Announced 17" MacBook Pro · · Score: 1
    iPod sales have dropped in half and every indication they will continue at that slower rate this year as the market is hitting saturation.


    Don't worry, two facts for ya:

    1) All iPods are Made in China.
    2) Nobody I know ever buys Applecare extended warranty for their iPods.

    Combine 1+2 = eternal profit!
  9. Re:Wrong side of compiler on Torvalds Has Harsh Words For FreeBSD Devs · · Score: 1

    >>Oh... then does the Apple revolve around Sun??

    Let's see... apples on Earth, Earth revolves around Sun.

    I harbour to say, yes.

  10. Re:Thinkpad and MacBook Pro .... on Lenovo & Customer Perception · · Score: 1

    "toss a MacBook Pro in the back of a trunk or truck-bed" I think (having both a PowerBook and a ThinkPad that a PowerBook would survive this... it wouldn't look nice but I'm quite sure it would work. ...and we who handle our laptop this way... we don't really care if the scratches they got can be seen or not.


    So? You will lose your laptop the next time your "logic" board dies and your Applecare coverage gets voided because of "physical abuse".
  11. Re:sculpture? on Sculpture to Reflect Campus Wireless Traffic · · Score: 3, Funny

    Any chance that my internet traffic will look like naked women?

  12. Re:What about zombies? on China Bans Running Your Own Email Server · · Score: 0, Troll

    >>Given the amount of chinese zombie networks, I seriously doubt they can throw that many people in jail, for purely logistic reasons if no other.

    Take a hint from that, they don't.

    Even shoplifters get executed there. Fast, clean, easy, plus free money from sales of body parts!

  13. Re:If you want an apple, buy one. on Cringely Predicts Apple to Ship OS X for Any PC · · Score: 1

    >> Apple has never left backwards compatibility behind; look at 'Classic' or 'Rosetta'. I belive apple has a better track reccord of backwards compatibility than Microsoft.

    Intel Macs do not support Classic.

  14. Re:Ah, the backdoor approach. on Microsoft Subpoenas Thrown out of Court · · Score: 1
    There was no comity when Google obeyed China's laws.


    You got that wrong, there is no comity when US wrote its laws. If anything no other country in the world has more right to establish the global law, by mere majority alone.
  15. Re:Does MS have a say? on Apple Joins BAPCo · · Score: 1

    Can you say class action?

  16. Re:How do they even write these patches??? on Two Unofficial IE Patches Block Attacks · · Score: 1
    as we say in Australia, fuck the Queen!


    Ewww...
  17. Re:I haven't heard much on Ruby On Rails Goes 1.1 · · Score: 1

    >Nobody. They're all to busy hyping it and posting on slashdot about how great it is. Meanwhile all us PHP/JSP/ASP/whatever
    >programmers are off actually making web applications.

    They can afford to do so, afterall writing a web app with those dinosaur languages take 5-10X as long when compared to Rails...

  18. Re:How could this be BAD news? Like this... on Evidence of the Missing Link Found? · · Score: 1

    > Anyone else want their name stricken from the Book of Life?

    Thankfully there is such a thing as "lawyer", I'll simply get another name!

  19. Re:Obviously on Evidence of the Missing Link Found? · · Score: 1

    >
    No, the spaghetti monster is, by definition, the most perfect bowl of spaghetti that can exist.

    So what if it is the most perfect bowl of spaghetti ever? I'll just EAT it all the same and be done with it. That's all spaghetti is for - to be eaten.

    Thanks for playing.

  20. Re:Problems on Online Test Measures Speed of your Brain · · Score: 1

    >>
    With above-average household income and education levels, the Mac population [atspace.com] [is] very attractive [ intellectually [atspace.com] as well as physically [atspace.com].

    Noticed that the link you provided does not even show a good looking masculine male?

    What does that mean... as a Mac user you are either a pussy or a fag? :P

  21. Re:Ball in Microsoft's court... on Windows Drivers for Mac Rolling Out · · Score: 1

    >More like 2%, and they don't ignore it, they make software for it.
    >(Including VirtualPC, which is likely more profitable per copy than a OEM Windows license).

    It's more like 10% of the domestic PC market, and 5% worldwide.

    Some recent polls have found uptakes of macs in some colleges to be as high as 47%, so I wonder how old that 2% figure of yours is... 1980?

  22. Re:Because you *can*. on Windows Drivers for Mac Rolling Out · · Score: 1

    don't you people realize that if your job is "foisting" windows applications on
    you... that you need a different job? Tell the company to go fuck themselves and
    better yourself somewhere else. Why would you deliberately bring yourself down to
    some least common denominator, one size fits all, brainless environment?


    And how do you propose finding funding for all those "fancy" Macs without a job?

    You are expendable, they don't need you. Never forget that.

  23. Re:Vaporware on Windows Vista Delayed Again · · Score: 1

    Perhaps we will see a lot of freedom shattering DRM?

  24. Re:Everything should be patented on SCOTUS To Hear Patentable Thought Case · · Score: 1

    >>point of fact: china is way more than 17 years "behind" the united states

    Keep deluding yourself buddy

    Yours Sincerely,

    CCP

  25. Re:He was cheating.. on Banned From WoW For WINE & Programmable Keyboard · · Score: 1

    >>Sounds like level envy to me.

    Irrelevant, he is level 0 now.