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  1. Re:...And everything that goes with it on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 1

    The President loved Animal Crackers.

  2. Re:Cuisine on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that be gastronecrophilia?

  3. Re:For the record on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 1

    It may not be a matter of being offended, but of not being a socialist.

  4. Re:For the record on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 1

    first, increasing decentralization in production and planning reduces need for centralization, naturally. this has been so throughout history.

    How much has this occurred in history, and is it happening now?

  5. Re:For the record on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 1

    Yeah, let McCain/Palin win and watch ordinary Americans (not Secret Service agents) take bullets for McCain because death is preferable to a Palin Presidency.

  6. Re:NDAA does not have that provision on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 1

    Would that make Clinton Bush II?

  7. Re:To be fair to Obama... on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 1

    I am perfectly willing to bash Bush 43 on his own overreach, but President Obama (hey, I voted for him) isn't doing much to walk it back.

  8. Re:To be fair to Obama... on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 1

    The President would have needed to flip four votes in the House, hardly an impossibility.

  9. Re:To be fair to Obama... on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 1

    And flipping 4 votes in the House makes it 279-140, which falls short of a 2/3 majority.

  10. Re:Stop caring about jurisdiction and just get the on Leaked Online Chats Expose Author of Largest Spam Botnet · · Score: 1

    It means something similar in American English. I was hoping that such people were not that gullible.

  11. Re:Stop caring about jurisdiction and just get the on Leaked Online Chats Expose Author of Largest Spam Botnet · · Score: 1

    I hope you meant "juror" instead of "jurist".

  12. Re:News Flash: CEOs Think Strategically on NYT: IBM PC Division Sold To Advance China's Goals · · Score: 1

    GP sounds more like a comically paranoid xenophobe to me.

  13. Re:News Flash: CEOs Think Strategically on NYT: IBM PC Division Sold To Advance China's Goals · · Score: 1

    India for crucible steel, the cotton gin, and the number zero?

    The Mayans had a notation for zero centuries before the Indians.

  14. Re:Really? on The Un-Internet and War On General Purpose Computers · · Score: 1

    The author may have meant iOS, not OS X.

  15. Re:Good idea? on New Online Dictionaries Automate Away the Linguistic Middleman · · Score: 1

    I never understood why end-of-sentence punctuation should appear inside quotations, especially if it might not match what was quoted, like making a question out of a sentence.

    So I'm not the only one? Yeah!!! Although I believe that you may have a question mark outside of quotes if the sentence (and not the quoted material) is a question.

  16. Good idea? on New Online Dictionaries Automate Away the Linguistic Middleman · · Score: 1

    At the risk of being elitist, I wonder if I should adjust my use of language to that of the average American.

  17. Re:Proper use of "sir" on Arise SIR Jonathan Ive · · Score: 1

    No. I am not a teenager, nor do I desire an iPhone.

  18. Re:Proper use of "sir" on Arise SIR Jonathan Ive · · Score: 2

    people with social skills

    This is slashdot.

  19. Re:Proper use of "sir" on Arise SIR Jonathan Ive · · Score: 0

    Are you a jaded teenager angry at Christmas because you didn't get a white iPhone?

    No, I'm just sick of your aristocracy crap.

  20. Re:It gives you 10 incompatible choices on Arise SIR Jonathan Ive · · Score: 1

    the same concept as Linux ".so" files.

    Unix *.so files.

  21. Re:No, YOU shut up on Is Twitter Aiding and Abetting Terrorism? · · Score: 0

    Aww, you just object to Irgun blowing up the King David Hotel.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun

  22. Re:Is the air aiding and abetting terrorism? on Is Twitter Aiding and Abetting Terrorism? · · Score: 1

    Does the NDAA trump the laws of physics?

  23. Re:Pedantry on Where Would Earth-Like Planets Find Water? · · Score: 1

    0.9999c only gets you a factor of 71. Besides, the GP did specifically worry about not recognizing earth on your return. Kind of like Charlton Heston in Planet of the Apes

  24. What would Edwin Black say? on Running Great Britain? There's an App For That! · · Score: 1

    This seems more user friendly than using punch cards.

  25. Word and object on Samoa and Tokelau Are Skipping December 30th · · Score: 1

    The skipped the day, not the notation.