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  1. (emphasis mine)

    You...you can't be that stupid. You're using a computer, so...you're punking us right? ... You're literally using a translator's errors as your evidence for Biblical "inerrancy" (which I'm pretty sure is a made up word. Infallibility is the word you are looking for).

    Here's another pro tip: If you going to trash talk someone at least try to look up the word. I right clicked "inerrancy" and click "look up" and my computer gave me the dictionary reference: "inerrant |inernt| adjective incapable of being wrong. inerrancy noun" and the Wikipedia reference "Biblical inerrancy - Biblical inerrancy is the doctrine that the Bible, in its original manuscripts, is accurate and totally free from error of any kind.."

    Maybe you should consider getting another computer.

  2. The obligatory... on MySQL's Creator On Why the Future Belongs To MariaDB · · Score: 1

    Founder and head of software project claims the future belongs to them. News at 11.

  3. Re:Bullshit Prevarication on USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise · · Score: 1

    So you are saying USPS is selectively enforcing that regulation based on the contents of the box's decoration. I wonder if Amazon, Gateway, and other e-merchants encountered the same problem? I imagine not. I used to send packages with security designs and the words "SECURITY TAPE INSPECT CONTENTS IF OPENED". I never experienced a problem with delivery. If it was a mechanical limitation and not a dick head postal employee problem, I think I would have the same problems.

  4. Re:The Stupidity, It Hurts! on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 1

    Yet the fervent defenders of the second amendment have no qualms with gutting the first!

  5. Re:Welcome the diversionary tactics! on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 1

    Why do you make extreme assumptions to justify some libertarian view?

  6. Re:Welcome the diversionary tactics! on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 1

    Yes. It would be a great thing is we could keep certain things out of the hands of the mentally infirm. The trick being how to do it without punishing those who are not a risk to themselves or others (mostly others).

  7. Welcome the diversionary tactics! on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We don't want to do anything that may jeopardize our political career by limiting access to firearms, so let's start blaming video games and violent movies. Never mind the fact that this media is available globally and the US seems the be the only country having a sizable problem with firearm related violence or that the firearms flowed freely for so long that we will never be able to "put the toothpaste back into the tube".

    Nothing like pretending we are going to solve all our problems legislatively to keep us in office.

  8. Re:That is what makes one a Douche-bag on Google Reportedly Making a Smartwatch, Too · · Score: 1

    Yes. ;)

  9. Re:Barbra Streisand Effect? on Google Reportedly Making a Smartwatch, Too · · Score: 1

    When I'm in a meeting or in a middle of a conversation, I can quickly look at my watch to see if I need to leave for my next appointment without having to take my phone out of my pocket or scout around for a clock and hope that it has the correct time.

    You don't actually believe that people don't get annoyed when you pull out your smartphone to see what time it is.

  10. Re:Barbra Streisand Effect? on Google Reportedly Making a Smartwatch, Too · · Score: 1

    Just when you thought the iPod nano on a wristband craze was over, someone had to restart the smart watch fad all over again.

    No worries. It's been an on again/off again thing since the Casio calculator watch...

  11. Re:Solar? on Wrong Fuel Chokes Presidential Limo · · Score: 1

    Despite having a Cadillac logo on the front the presidential limo is based on a GMC truck chassis.

    Like an Escalade? Newsflash: Cadillacs are GMC vehicles with a Cadillac logo on them.

  12. Re:No, they haven't on Australian PM Targets Imported IT Workers · · Score: 1

    (Pressed submit instead of continue editing)

    Now Western Australia is pretty desolate.

  13. Re:No, they haven't on Australian PM Targets Imported IT Workers · · Score: 1

    All that "space" in the middle of Australia is a giant desert with no water, no food, and really no civilization of any kind.

    I spent months in Alice Springs, NT and I don't think this statement is entirely accurate.

  14. Re:No, they haven't on Australian PM Targets Imported IT Workers · · Score: 1

    They have plenty of space in the middle.

    So does the US so what's your point?

    My point was that its not nearly the same as the US-Mexico border where several MILLION people have just WALKED ACROSS.

    How is this relevant to the topic? What difference do volume and mode of transportation make? Why does there need to be a comparison between the US and Australia?

  15. Re:I covered my dorm room with Pink Floyd... on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Block Noise In a Dorm? · · Score: 2

    Make sure you use flame retardant insulating foam found at hardware stores and not some of the cheaper egg crate foam you'll find elsewhere. Also try to stay away from pyrotechnics and white snake.

  16. Re:No, they haven't on Australian PM Targets Imported IT Workers · · Score: 1

    Australia has a refugee problem where Burmese and Timor refugees arrive by boat. It has been a political hot potato for years.

  17. Re:Not surprised on EU Car Makers Manipulating Fuel Efficiency Figures · · Score: 4, Funny

    You could easily make the test more realistic by adding 'l','I', and '|' to the test.

  18. Re:I found much the same thing on Ask Slashdot: Mac To Linux Return Flow? · · Score: 1

    If you are the least bit creative with how you use technology, you will likely find that things aren't so easy.

    Please give me an example. My anecdotal evidence counters yours.

  19. Re:He lost me... on Ask Slashdot: Mac To Linux Return Flow? · · Score: 1

    You must not use OS X much. All I had to do was move Launchpad off the dock, drag the application folder back onto the dock and voila the UI becomes indistinguishable from leopard, snow leopard, and lion.

  20. Re:Petition on Google Reader Being Retired · · Score: 1

    The large number of whiny and self-entitled petitions that were emailed to me is what prompted me to unsubscribe from their service and I haven't gone back to look at the petitions again.

  21. He lost me... on Ask Slashdot: Mac To Linux Return Flow? · · Score: 1

    He lost me when he said iOS-ification. That's when I realized this was just a troll for comments.

  22. Re:Why not just ignore people who break the law? on US Government May Not Be Able To Fix Cell Phone Unlocking Problem · · Score: 2

    Florida's international drivers license requirement is an unenforceable law. Florida can't legally make it a requirement because it violates the Genova Convention on Road Traffic. While the law is unenforceable, it is still on the books and can cause grief for international travelers who may want to get a rental car within the state of Florida.

  23. Re:I do not see a problem on US Government May Not Be Able To Fix Cell Phone Unlocking Problem · · Score: 1

    The US constitution allows temporary copyrights; Congress has managed to ignore the spirit of the constitution by extending copyright terms 20 years every 20 years. How about we just do the same with DMCA exemptions?

    Technically it is still temporary. You just disagree on how long is temporary. Sort of like those "temporary" portable buildings at schools and the "temporary" Bush tax cuts, you never know how temporary it actually will be.

  24. Re:remote X is garbage anyway on More From Canonical Employee On: "Why Mir?" · · Score: 1

    Evidently you never heard of NX. It solves the latency issues quite nicely and you don't have to dedicate a port for each user's desktop like VNC. I use it all the time over a slow VPN connection, and the remote X window application is as responsive as my native applications.

  25. Re:Ignorance on display on More From Canonical Employee On: "Why Mir?" · · Score: 1

    You're just betraying your ignorance of Wayland. Wayland does NOT replace X windows. In fact Wayland was designed from scratch so that an X server can run in wayland WITH NO PERFORMANCE PENALTY.

    You should at least read the Wayland FAQ before calling someone ignorant. Because I think you'll be surprised about who actually is the 'ignorant' one. (Why even do an ad hominem attack at all?)

    Wayland DOES replace X windows. It just allows you to run an X server alongside it (like OS X does). They even go so far as state that Wayland native applications will not offer network transparent remote rendering (you will have to run remote desktop software like Windows and native OS X). Also unlike your claims, the FAQ explicitly states that there will be some minimum performance overhead for X windows applications running within Wayland.