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  1. Re:what keeps us from switching ? on Ask Slashdot: Is Postgres On Par With Oracle? · · Score: 1

    So PostgreSQL has only one guy handling the integration for your platform?

  2. Re:It is protest. on Why Are Japanese Men Refusing To Leave Their Rooms? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, next you'll tell me that Moon Unit Zappa sang about this.

    Oh, wait . . .

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM

  3. Re:practicalities make it impossible.. on Why Are Japanese Men Refusing To Leave Their Rooms? · · Score: 1

    When they're not parasites?

  4. Maybe not 20 on Why Are Japanese Men Refusing To Leave Their Rooms? · · Score: 1

    Victoria this week announced an inquiry into whether the punishments for sexting — which can include 10 years in jail and registration as a sex offender — are too harsh.

    Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/states-lead-the-way-in-reviewing-sexting-punishments/story-e6frfro0-1226122171777#ixzz2YwsctLfK

  5. Re:He is not a bad CEO just really mediocre. on Maybe Steve Ballmer Doesn't Deserve the Hate · · Score: 1

    Windows 8 is disruptive. Fails or succeeds it is changing the course of PC development.

    Towards Linux?

  6. Re:It was wrong. on Lincoln's Surveillance State · · Score: 2

    Except that Lincoln could have ended the war at any time by just letting the South go their own way.

    And then what happens if New York secedes. And do the slaves get to go their own way?

  7. Re:english already abandoned the thorn character on Man Campaigns For Addition of 'Th' Key To Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Where's my damn schwa key?

    No one is stressing it enough.

  8. Re:So much for "New Republic" on How Old Is the Average Country? · · Score: 1

    Yes it exists. And what calendar? Am I missing something?

  9. Re:Not Gaussian on How Old Is the Average Country? · · Score: 2

    That's not what the GP said. Of course one can find the mean of a non-Gaussian distribution. But how informative is a mean of a highly skewed distribution?

  10. Re:Incredible mistakes in Europe... on How Old Is the Average Country? · · Score: 1

    Yes, the death knell of the Army of Northern Virginia.

  11. Re:So much for "New Republic" on How Old Is the Average Country? · · Score: 1

    I believe that the US is the second-oldest republic, behind San Marino.

  12. Re:more data? on How Old Is the Average Country? · · Score: 1

    Have you tried setting the gap width to zero?

  13. Re:Why Aaron Swartz? on RMS, Aaron Swartz Among 2013 Internet Hall of Fame Inductees · · Score: 1

    And if being in a peace march is patriotic? Loving one's country means more than being willing to kill for it.

  14. Re:Secret courts? on US Senators: NSA Lies In Fact Sheets · · Score: 1

    There NO place for a free society in secret courts and secret Congressional hearings.

    FTFY

  15. Re:anti-trust is anti-private property nonsense on Microsoft Antitrust Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Dead at 76 · · Score: 1

    In the absence of antitrust rulings against IBM and ATT, would Microsoft even exist today?

  16. Re:What's the big deal? on Microsoft Antitrust Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Dead at 76 · · Score: 1

    time to man up

    man up

    No manual entry for up

    Thank you, I'll be here all week. Remember to tip your server.

  17. Re:Yeah right on Microsoft Antitrust Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Dead at 76 · · Score: 1

    About the only way you could do that on Linux would be with static linking.

    Or including the source and a compiler.

  18. Re:Well there's a news flash. on Ancient Roman Concrete Is About To Revolutionize Modern Architecture · · Score: 1

    Well, the followers of Janus nearly made a fortune by subjecting London to an electromagnetic pulse, but that heretic Bond had to interfere.

  19. Re:Prior art on Ancient Roman Concrete Is About To Revolutionize Modern Architecture · · Score: 1

    What counts as filing under first to file?

  20. Re:Prior art on Ancient Roman Concrete Is About To Revolutionize Modern Architecture · · Score: 1

    When did they slip "under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance?

    June 14, 1954

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance#Addition_of_.22under_God.22

  21. Re:Prior art on Ancient Roman Concrete Is About To Revolutionize Modern Architecture · · Score: 1

    Assuming that the concrete was the intellectual property of the Pontifex Maximus, that might be correct.

  22. Re:Yeah whatever on How the Linux Foundation Runs Its Virtual Office · · Score: 1

    Frisbsd? Does that run on the Wham-O architecture?

  23. Re:enough with this racist bullshit on HP Discontinue OpenVMS · · Score: 1

    The isolation of the Mayans doesn't preclude their invention of zero as a placeholder.

  24. Re:enough with this racist bullshit on HP Discontinue OpenVMS · · Score: 1

    the concept of zero as a placeholder

    Originated with the Mayans.

  25. Re:XP will be pwnt in April on What Keeps You On (or Off) Windows in 2013? · · Score: 1

    My most recent upgrade on Ubuntu didn't disrupt anything. Granted, it didn't change the first kernel digit.