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  1. Re:No Child Left Behind on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 1

    smart kids aren't able to keep pushing beyond the limits of the course
    We'll call these group A (thinkers)

    the stupid kids don't get personal hands-on teaching.
    We'll call these group B (doers).

    Both lose. The only ones who win are the "cool" kids who'd rather turn the class into a circus.
    We'll call these "future managers".
  2. Re:Thats what they get on Mass Effect DRM Still Causing Issues · · Score: 2

    The problem is losing one key and the solution is to lose both of them?

  3. Re:Free speech. on Indefinite Imprisonment For Web Site Content · · Score: 1

    That consensus is that you can say pretty much whatever you like, but don't be obnoxious about it. The guy in this case seems to be rather like that
    Hmmm. Remind us, where is he from?
  4. Re:Slander and defamation -- definition on Indefinite Imprisonment For Web Site Content · · Score: 1

    A court's decision is legal, unless and until a higher court overturns.

    Simply ignoring a court's decision and appealing against it are two different things.

  5. Re:He's Not Dead... on Special Effects Wizard Stan Winston Dead At 62 · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm sure it wasn't suicide. His programming wouldn't allow him to self-terminate.

  6. Re:Disagree: on The Red Team Wins · · Score: 1

    the color red is more irritating to the eyes (try looking at a red screen all day, vs a blue one)?
    I use windows, so I've only seen the latter - and it's irritating enough, thanks all the same.
  7. Re:American Revolution on The Red Team Wins · · Score: 1

    US Civil war was Grey v Blue.

  8. Re:Why talk on GE Microbes Make Ersatz Crude Oil From Many Sources · · Score: 1

    It makes more sense to say "Genetically Modified" - GM. No ambiguity there.

  9. Re:Why talk on GE Microbes Make Ersatz Crude Oil From Many Sources · · Score: 1

    During the dotcom boom my uncle developed an aseptic filling plant and had an order from Mars.
    They obviously though he was a loony, tryng to sell stuff to little green men.

    What are the chances? A million to one, I'd say.
  10. Re:Screw water on Japanese Company Says Laws of Physics Don't Apply — to Cars · · Score: 1

    Oh it gives us an energy surplus, but a lot of it is wasted.
    What you originally wrote was:

    the oil system we have today, depends on burning more resources than it pulls out, but the costs are largely hidden from the consumer.
    So make your mind up already, which is it?
  11. Re:Screw water on Japanese Company Says Laws of Physics Don't Apply — to Cars · · Score: 1

    Helium is monatomic. That means that if there is such a thing as helium molecules, they're identical to helium atoms.

  12. Re:Say what?!? on Nokia Urges Linux Developers To Be Cool With DRM · · Score: 3, Funny

    we can just take the most current version of QT and FORK.
    Nokia can go and fork themselves!
  13. Re:Expect anti-modchip legislation in 3, 2, 1... on Mod Chips Legal In the UK · · Score: 5, Funny

    I doubt he really has an opinion on modchips.
    I liek mudkips.

    Yours sincerently,

        GWB.
  14. Re:Okay on Microsoft Applies For "Digital Manners" Patent · · Score: 1

    Just pass a law that if anybody's phone goes off during a movie the offending twat has to reimburse everybody else's admission.

    On a second offense, it's popcorn all round too.

  15. Re:Good ridance on Jack Thompson Walks Out On Hearing · · Score: 1

    Bah, I did all that when I was 10. By the time I was 13 I was regularly screwing a middle-aged divorcee who lived down the street. Later she remarried and moved away, but I'll never forget Mrs Urcreepyneighbor.

  16. Re:poverty of expectations on Kurzweil on the Future · · Score: 1

    A singularly worthless comment

    ... and self-referential too!
  17. Re:People don't learn from history on Barack Obama Wins Democratic Nomination · · Score: 1

    Maybe he's the other kind. You know - teepees, bows and arrows, feathers on their heads. Just saying.

  18. poverty of expectations on Kurzweil on the Future · · Score: 4, Funny

    we'll be adding computers to our brains and building machines as smart as ourselves.
    Sigh, talk about picking the low-hanging fruit...
  19. Re:You will be missed bill on Bill Gates's Last Speech · · Score: 2, Funny

    At peak, Microsoft held $64,000,000,000 in LIQUID CASH ASSETS.
    That should be enough for anybody!
  20. Re:Truecrypt on Nominations Open For "Most Likely to be Shut Down By Government" · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nonesense. P.S frotso pots!

  21. Re:why would you want a partner from a failed bid? on Obama Campaign Seeks LAMP Developers · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is, Keynes wasn't well versed in economics?

  22. Re:It's murder, not killing, that is condemned on Obama Campaign Seeks LAMP Developers · · Score: 1

    a fictional novel written by dozens of people (real and imaginary
    Imaginary people can write books? Tell me, when copyright periods are calculated from the death of the author how does that work?
  23. Re:Why stop at "human like" articulation? on Huge Leap Forward In Robotic Limb Replacement · · Score: 1

    I don't know, but I bet it could do a darn good rensdition of Skynrd's "Freebird". Especially that widdly-widdly bit at the end that goes on a bit too long.

  24. Re:Don't laugh on A Home Lab/Shop For Kids? · · Score: 3, Funny

    My mothers first fiance died stuffing a bunch of fireworks into a pipe
    ... leaving the field open for someone else to become your dad. Maybe that Darwin was guy right after all!
  25. Re:All Programming Languages Suck on What Makes a Programming Language Successful? · · Score: 1

    Ones and zeroes are too restrictive. We should do everything in trinary.