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  1. Re:Consumer trust on People Trust Yahoo! and Google For the Brands · · Score: 1

    Most third parties don't even try with Congress or anything else anymore. You never even see third-party ads for anything but President. This is because third parties aren't very smart.

  2. Re:Free, as in worthless? on People Trust Yahoo! and Google For the Brands · · Score: 1

    Coercion isn't just sticking a gun to your head and making you do something. Microsoft has all the coercion it needs in the form of having application developers eating from the palms of their hands.

  3. Re:The list can change on No OLPCs for Cuba, Ever · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Giulani is completely Irish and completely not running for President.

  4. Re:not forever on No OLPCs for Cuba, Ever · · Score: 1

    What's funny is that President McKinley basically said the same thing.

  5. Re:Good. on No OLPCs for Cuba, Ever · · Score: 1

    How is referencing facts from the Central Intelligence Agency socialism?

  6. Re:Good. on No OLPCs for Cuba, Ever · · Score: 1

    Is that why trips to the US from places like Europe and Canada are at an all-time low? There are two major issues on which every civilized nation in the world except the United States has fallen in one place: death penalties and universal healthcare.

  7. Re:for always and eternity on No OLPCs for Cuba, Ever · · Score: 1

    People stopped using that term when the phrase "the pot calling the kettle African-American" arose.

  8. Re:for always and eternity on No OLPCs for Cuba, Ever · · Score: 1

    Heck, there are differences within the US too. See your reactions to calling somebody "Sir" or "Ma'am" in Atlanta and Boston, respectively.

  9. Re:for always and eternity on No OLPCs for Cuba, Ever · · Score: 1

    Well, the Loyalists are about as much rightful owners of Boston as the Mafia was of Cuba.

  10. Re:Let me guess... on Ban On Price Floors Abandoned, Internet Prices May Rise · · Score: 1

    When Newsweek or Time or such did an article on Sandra Day O'Connor, they had the judges in a line according to "liberal" or "conservative". They could almost draw a squiggly line to show how each vote went.

  11. Re:Let me guess... on Ban On Price Floors Abandoned, Internet Prices May Rise · · Score: 4, Informative

    Marbury v. Madison. The Chief Justice was a Federalist who served a few days under a Federalist president and basically up until 1850 or so under non-Federalists.

  12. Re:A more interesting question... on Microsoft to Sell PCs, Starting in India · · Score: 1

    More likely it will just be stocked full of WinComponents.

  13. Re:Interesting date to choose... on GPL 3 Launch Date Announced · · Score: 1

    Actually, the original GNU project code was written by Stallman. Admittedly, RMS hasn't done much coding recently, but he was important.

  14. Re:It is dark here. on The History and Future of Zork · · Score: 1

    Zonk is the name of the editor who posted this article.

  15. Re:It is dark here. on The History and Future of Zork · · Score: 0, Troll

    Considering this is a Zonk article, perhaps you mean gnue...

  16. Re:Good. on No OLPCs for Cuba, Ever · · Score: 1

    The guy's probably a Tom DeLay supporter. Did you know that the Tom DeLay Legal Defense Fund actually used a segment of the Colbert Report where Colbert was pretending to support DeLay as evidence that he should be let go?

  17. Re:Because that is the correct pronunciation... on Giant Microwave Turns Plastic Back to Oil · · Score: 2, Informative

    They came from the same root but not really. "Gigans", the Greek(imported into Latin) word that it all comes from refers to a specific stock of really big gods. It was pronounced "gig-ans" by the Greeks and Romans. But then came Vulgar Latin and the decline of the Latin lagnguage coinciding with the fall of the Roman Empire, which pronounced the "c" and "g" weirdly when it's before i or e. When the SI used "gigans" as a prefix they reverted to the correct Greek pronunciation rather than the corrupted Romance pronunciation, because they're not idiots.

  18. Re:Interesting date to choose... on GPL 3 Launch Date Announced · · Score: 1

    Well, most of them probably wouldn't've heard of MySQL were it not for the mindshare it has due to the GPL.

  19. Re:The power of debate on Spirited Exchange Over Net Neutrality · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Truthiness, not facts!

  20. Re:Mental stability on Autism Reversed in Mice at MIT Lab · · Score: 1

    As a high-functioning autistic myself, it would depend on the side-effects. I don't think such a cure could be effected without causing significant damage to my brain but if it didn't I might be willing to try. I'd still wait a few years until it's shown to not be like the stuff they gave Algernon though.

  21. Re:Further information on Autism Reversed in Mice at MIT Lab · · Score: 1

    You're on Slashdot, aren't you?

  22. Re:Now that's just selfish on Autism Reversed in Mice at MIT Lab · · Score: 1

    Actually, MIT is 45% female. I'd suspect Georgia Tech(25% female) and Caltech(15% female) have more trouble finding dates...

  23. Re:Not so Definitely on Autism Reversed in Mice at MIT Lab · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The question I want to know is: for HFA/Asperger's people, will this destroy their mental advantage? That's pretty much all I want to know.

  24. Re:Pharaoh genome on First Royal Mummy Found Since Tut is Identified · · Score: 1

    All this talk about Ancient DNA and nothing on the ATA gene! I feel MENDICATED!

  25. Re:Modern day descendants on First Royal Mummy Found Since Tut is Identified · · Score: 1

    Those are all Roman, and mostly built by engineers(the Romans were the first engineers, the Greeks were liberal-arts majors), not the emperors themselves.