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  1. Re:I hope on Britons Unconvinced on Evolution · · Score: 0

    A science lecture from a bible thumper. Whatever next. How that got to +5 is a mystery - or perhaps a miracle, you'd say - since that's how your type explain everything.

  2. Re:XPICTOC IN VELOCIPEDEM on Soap Opera for Luring Women to Tech is a Flop · · Score: 0
    XPICTOC IN VELOCIPEDEM
    Christ on a bike? Still, you know you shouldn't mix Latin & Greek. Or so I heard on television once.
  3. Re:Et tu, Britannia? on Britons Unconvinced on Evolution · · Score: 0

    Sorry, but parent is not flamebait. The UK certainly has fewer, and much lower profile, fundamentalist Christians than the US. But [duh!] there are other kinds - try googling for "Finsbury Park Mosque" or "Abu Hamza".

  4. Re:what's the point of a 1 billion page sample? on A Statistical Review of 1 Billion Web Pages · · Score: 0

    [sic] is used to indicate a spelling mistake in a quoted passage. There is no spelling mistake in the post you replied to, only a rather bad pun.

  5. Re:2 Tiered internet on 'Webcaster's Right' in WIPO Treaty · · Score: 0

    FFS, whoever modded this flamebait is fucking retarded. And has never got laid.

  6. Re:Facts? on Who Owns Baseball Statistics? · · Score: 1, Insightful
    You moderate[1] the post, not the poster. Explain how something which has not been rated at all can be over or underrated.

    [1] rather you should.

  7. Re:The Corporate Nightmare & Employee Torture on There is No Open Source Community · · Score: 0

    Parent should be at -1: pants on fire

  8. Re:Why on Vista Won't Play With Old DVD Drives · · Score: 1, Funny

    Mod parent -1: Whoooooosh

  9. Re:Poor article on Cutting Through the Patent Thicket · · Score: 0
    After reading the article, I have to say the author has a poor grasp of patents. Yes, he has 70, but by his own admission they were trivial.
    I'd be particular interested see the exact quote where he admitted that his (as opposed to some of AT&T's that he was aware of) patents were trivial.

    How did this get modded informative? Looks to my like the usual "OMG patent$ are teh evil" knee-jerk reaction to me.

  10. Re:Lens, my foot! on Macro Lens from a Pringles Can · · Score: 0
    From what I know, that's typically how macro lenses are done.
    Well you don't know much then. An extension tube (or a billows, or better yet a bellows) is not a lens; it's a device used in conjunction with one to increase its distance from the film plane. A macro lens is, as the name implies, a lens. In addition to having a greater than normal extension range it's also optimised for closeup work.

    Whoever modded the parent informative is clueless.

  11. Re:Godwined in the summary? on Sober Attack on 87th Anniversary of the Nazi Party · · Score: 0
    Very interesting. But what does "godwin'ed" mean?

    P.S. Who modded this blatant karma-whore up?

  12. Re:What about security? on PHP 5 Recipes · · Score: 0

    It's not plagiarising if you name your source. Insightful my ass.

  13. Re:No, you're wrong on Google's Ten Golden Rules · · Score: 0
    Hence it is /this/ that Google is legally obliged to follow, and not maximising profit at the cost of all else.
    Aha. We go out there to play entertaining football rather than to win, the cheque's in the post and of course I'll respect you in the morning.
  14. Re:Your building a name on Mega Bloks Wins Supreme Court Battle Against Lego · · Score: 0
    Your building a name
    No, my building not a name. My building a street and number.
  15. Re:If you can't stand the heat... on Austrian Town Sees the Light · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's not an entire country on the march. The population of one small town is going to have an insignificant effect on the housing market in Austria, let alone the whole EU. Unless they all choose to move to the same, equally small, town. But that would be silly.

  16. Re:I thought... on Mom Makes Website, Gets Sued for $2 Million · · Score: -1

    Anyone who modded this insightful is a total crackhead. Please use metamoderation and make sure they don't do it again for a long time.

  17. Re:Who wrote the introduction? on A Guided Tour of the Microsoft Command Shell · · Score: 0

    Plus the sod's binary, so not much chance of patching it by hand if it does get borked.

  18. Re:FP BS! on The Car That Makes Its Own Fuel · · Score: 0
    Well, that would be my problem. I like to cook.
    So? Buy a bit each day or every other day, on the way home.
    run kids around to activities..etc.
    When I was a kid we used to run round, and that was the activity.
  19. Re:FP BS!, Al smelters? Not in the USA on The Car That Makes Its Own Fuel · · Score: 0
    reduce alumina to aluminum and then reduce aluminum to alumina.
    Reduction is the opposite of reduction? And there's me thinking it's oxidation ...
  20. Re:419 Emails From A Cultural Perspective on 419 Emails From A Cultural Perspective · · Score: 0

    So which of "I don't get the joke" or "I'm a liberal arts major anfd that is my thesis title, you insensitive clod!" does offtopic mean today?

  21. Re:stored procs and triggers, finally on MySQL 5.0 Now Available for Production Use · · Score: 0

    Interesting? Bloody hell...

  22. Re:No, they don't need free software on Microsoft Thinks Africa Doesn't Need Free Software · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    to feed themselves they need a competitive modern economy.
    Interesting. So in the period before modern economies (to choose an arbitrary date, 1776) food fell out of they sky, or people had some kind of photosynthetic capability that has since atrophied?

    Since when did trite + factually incorrect = insightful?

  23. Re:You have no clue, do you? on Gates Donates $15M to Preserve Computing History · · Score: -1, Troll
    dividends have to be declared, record what stockholders get them, and THEN they are distributed.
    If you mean that the dividend payments don't happen literally in realtime, that they are paid (say) quarterly after yadda yadda administrative processes yadda, then thanks for the lesson - hoping to be a business major, are you? Notwithstanding those bloody obvious facts that you've so patronisingly posted, it's possible by means of mathematical equations and similar magic (ask your teacher) to average those out into an hourly rate.

    If that wasn't what you meant, then WTF did you mean?!?

  24. Re:Corrosion Resistance on Transparent Aluminum a Reality · · Score: 0
    By "aluminum materials" I Imagine you mean "aluminum". Which this isn't, if you RTFA. If the substance mentioned in the article is an "aluminum material" then so are sapphires, and last time I looked those are pretty resistant.

    Metamods note - parent is not remotely insightful. Ignorant is closer to the mark.

  25. Re:Gilberto Gil, biopiracy, and Brazil on Royal Society Issues IP Charter · · Score: 0
    mint chocolate, which itself it's not such a good idea
    Right. Shall I let them know, or do you want to do it?