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  1. Re:Et tu, Britannia? on Britons Unconvinced on Evolution · · Score: 1
    Oh wait, are you talking about the 'stupid, ignorant, fat, lazy, white-trash' Christian militant fundamentalists that we can all make fun of, or the 'we dare not say anything bad about them because it would be politically incorrect despite the fact that their morality seems stuck in the friggin eighth century AD' Islamic militant fundamentalists?

    I don't think we have very many of either. Those we do have are, of course, very well-motivated.

  2. Re:Wage equity on Linux Desktops in New Zealand Schools · · Score: 1
    assuming an 8-hour day 30UKP=240UKP per day=1200UKP per week=62400UKP per annum.

    Average wage in the UK is 18000UKP per annum, or thereabouts. You are way off :)

  3. Re:A Jedi once bit his sister... on Britain's First Jedi Member of Parliament · · Score: 1

    Anakin: I'm so sorry I killed all those villagers, but when I'm in this idiom.....

  4. Re:State sponsored OSS on The Unemployed Working on OSS Projects · · Score: 1
    I agree with all that, I was merely pointing out the (most obvious) difference between the OP and your counter-examples.

    People don't work for free in any profession, naturally. Including IT, and even in this case they are having to do some work in order to get their dole payments. So I suppose I'm completely failing to get your point.

  5. Re:State sponsored OSS on The Unemployed Working on OSS Projects · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, there is a flaw, in that the marginal costs of motor cars and food are non-zero, whereas the marginal cost of distributing software is approaching zero.

  6. Re:And legality? on U.S. Declares War on Intellectual Property Theft · · Score: 2, Insightful

    that's right, and it's even exporting heroin again. yay for the USA!

  7. Re:Monkeys on Gene Therapy Turns Slackers Into Workaholics · · Score: 1

    Rumours they had created a valid sendmail.cf were later discredited as being wide of the mark.