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  1. Re:Resisting ad hominems on Are National ID Cards a Good Idea? · · Score: 0
    it's a phrase derived from a foreign language, it should be italicised.
    Cite? I suppose you're sitting on a chaise-longue in your pyjamas, absorbing the Zeitgeist while sipping crème de menthe are you? Gets tiresome, doesn't it? Anyway, it isn't derived from a foreign language - it's in a foreign language.
    there's no hyphen in 'ad hominem'
    I'll give you that - but at least I know what it means - unlike the dork I was replying to.
    Here's a tip: don't try to look clever by criticising others when you don't know what you're talking about. It tends to have the opposite effect
    As your website proves: "I credit this in large part to living in London where the locals are au fait with such practices". My italics. Haythangyu.
  2. Re:Absolutely not on Are National ID Cards a Good Idea? · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Most Americans are oblivious to the amount of data already available on them and would revolt if they really knew.
    Most? Bullfuckingshit. To revolt they'd have to get off the couch.
  3. Re:Resisting ad hominems on Are National ID Cards a Good Idea? · · Score: 0
    You are right about the arguments connecting to the Nazis being ad hominem arguments and thus largely useless to this discussion.
    No he isn't, partly because they aren't ad-hominem arguments, but also because he never said they were. That could well be because he knows what an ad-hominem is.

    Here's a tip: don't try to look clever by using Latin phrases that you don't know the meaning of. It tends to have the opposite effect.

  4. Re:Someday soon ... like 2050 on Neural Interface for Gaming Getting Closer? · · Score: 0

    You could maybe even control a jet fighter like that. But you'd have to think in Russian. Or as the film is set in Soviet times, maybe it would think in YOU!!!!

  5. Re:Hammer, Feather, Freefall on the Moon: Revisite on Next in Browser Development, High DPI Websites? · · Score: 0
    it seems the OP meant not the force, but the acceleration
    In other words he wasn't right, and neither were you.
  6. Re:The purpose of war is to decide morals on Google Violates Miro's Copyright? · · Score: 0
    A possible complete Nazi victory in Eurasia That would've been because the Axis powers were morally right?
    History's always written by the victors.

    So yes, in a way. Because they (being the victors/survivors) would be able to define "moral" as they choose. Everyone else would either be too dead to have an opinion or too scared to express it.

  7. Re:It's not your work on Google Violates Miro's Copyright? · · Score: 0
    The fact is intellectual property law is wrapped up in too many metaphysical theories that scientists these days refuse to examine.
    How fascinating, would you care to elaborate? Or perhaps you have a newsletter to which I could subscribe?
  8. Re:everybody avoids the rush hour on Leaving Early May Cost You Time · · Score: 0
    if most people will leave outside of the rush hour, then i guess, they will all be stuck in the same type of rush hour traffic and this will no longer be true.
    Only if they all choose the same new time (i.e the rush hour has simply moved). That isn't really very likely, is it?
  9. Re:as opposed to big cities ... on Leaving Early May Cost You Time · · Score: 0
    unless the city gets flooded by rain like it did in July last year - 37 inches in a single day
    I'll bet that was the first shower of the year for most of the inhabitants.
  10. Re:There are a lot of "Web 2.0" buzzwords... on Ajax and the Ken Burns Effect · · Score: 0
    Web 2.0 is a buzzword itself.
    No it isn't. It's two words. Or even four. Or two-dot-zero, or four-dot-zero. And another thing, why does your name mean "The Girl"? Or are you named after a premium brand of Belgian butter?
  11. Re:Nanos were made to have smaller capacity on 8 & 10 GB iPod Nanos Rumored · · Score: 0

    Plus some of use our mp3 players to hold other things. It's not often I do it, but occasionally I need to back up or move a lot of data. Always nice to have a bit of space on there.

  12. Re:Nope on The Challenges of A DVR Service · · Score: 1, Funny

    No. The biggest Burdon by a country mile is Eric. Him out of the Animals. #Dumdiddleumdumdidy Dumdiddleumdumdidy Dumdiddleumdumdidy Dumdiddleumdumdidy DUMumdiddleumdumdidy DUMdiddleumdumdidy Dumdiddleumdumdiddy DUMMM#.

  13. Re:Can someone on Software Tracks Blogosphere Mood Swings · · Score: 0
    please explain to me how ROI and TCO got into this list?
    Not encountered it personally, but the annoyance probably comes from asshats using them out of context: Nope, I can't come to the bar after work, the TCO's too much. How's the Vikings' defensive ROI this year?
  14. Re:Why is it a buzzword? on Software Tracks Blogosphere Mood Swings · · Score: 0
    when a word like "blog" gets repeated all day in the media, usually to describe things that used to be "websites".
    Are they the same as chatnets and userooms?
  15. Re:Domain names worth their weight in gold!? on Domain Names Worth Their Weight in Gold Again · · Score: 0
    am not an authority on this
    I already suggested the solution to that: shut the fuck up.
    Fair enough, perhaps I got my terminology confused. I'm not a physicist,
    Shut the fuck up about physics then. And chemistry.
    I'm a computer programmer
    I am like totally impressed. Now shut the fuck up.
    I take this is as a pathetic attempt at humour. I am not laughing.
    I don't care if you laugh: you're afucktard. I'd rather you just shut the fuck up.
    I didn't claim, at any time, to know what I was talking about.
    Well shut the fuck up, then.
    I don't know what gives you the right to tell me to "shut the fuck up". I didn't force you to read my post, and while I'm not in the US, I do support your "right to free speech",
    I'm not in the US either. Fucktard.
    compromise a bit more in future, and understand people from different countries/cultures.
    Make me, or shut totally the fuck up.
    you can kiss my arse
    Get over yourself, gaylord.
  16. Re:Nope on Linux Snobs, The Real Barriers to Entry · · Score: 0
    People usually know how to operate a car when they buy it. The same is not true of Linux.

    I agree. But then I was born knowing how to drive and I could double declutch before I could walk.
  17. Re:Time for a little balance to the propaganda on A Stark Warning On Climate Change · · Score: 0
    And I'm sorry, but in a crash, if you're in an Excursion you'll stand a far better chance of surviving than if you're in a Mini Cooper.
    Even if what you say is true (and it isn't, find out what "crumple zones" are) it wouldn't alter the fact that you're much more likely to have an accident in the first place. Poor handling, instability, long stopping distances are enough, even before you factor in bad driving - perceived safety means you drive like an ass and expect everyone else to get out of your way.
  18. Re:Need an SUV???? No! on A Stark Warning On Climate Change · · Score: 0
    Before there were such things as SUVs[1] people used to tow boats & trailers with - gasp - ordinary cars!

    [1] There was - but only the Range Rover.

  19. Re:Don't Confuse Weight with Mass ... on Domain Names Worth Their Weight in Gold Again · · Score: 0
    It is patently obvious that domain names are worth their MASS in gold, mass being a measure of the degree to which the domain name warps space-time about it.
    Steve Jobs has loads of money. And reality warps around him. Hey, I think you might be onto something here!
  20. Re:Tell me about it :-[ on Domain Names Worth Their Weight in Gold Again · · Score: 0
    I guess too much imagination when choosing your domain name CAN be a bad thing.
    Well it might be that.

    Or it might be your total inability to speak English, because it's obvious to anyone who does that [vowel]wsm[another vowel] is pretty clumsy to pronounce.
  21. Re:Domain names worth their weight in gold!? on Domain Names Worth Their Weight in Gold Again · · Score: 0
    I haven't bothered to go an do the research to work out what the difference in the number of electrons is when the atom is positively or negatively charged.
    I don't need any fancy intarwebs to know that its less or more, in that order.

    I also leave it to you to work out the atomic weight of a gram of gold
    No nuch thing as the atomic weight of an amount of a substance.

    keep in mind, that once the electron leaves the gold atom, it's not a gold electron anymore
    Yes it is. That's why it has intrinsic value and speaker wire costing 900 bucks a foot sounds better.

    You don't know what you're talking about. Now shut the fuck up.

  22. Re:Time for a little balance to the propaganda on A Stark Warning On Climate Change · · Score: 1
    the US refuses to cut levels (translation: "refuses to devolve our economy")
    Correct translation: refuses to walk/take a train/drive there is something that gets double digit miles per gallon.
  23. Re:One good reason it'll never happen... on Star Trek's Synthehol Now Possible? · · Score: 0
    do you really think that any government is going to allow another synthetically produced substance that alters your mood in any way whatsoever?
    Allow it? I'm surprised they don't make it compulsory.
  24. Re:Force Field? on Mysterious 'Forcefield' Tested on US Tanks · · Score: 0

    Does reactive armour hit incoming missiles at a distance? No.

    You haven't really got a clue what you're talking about, have you?

  25. Re:Go for it! on Computer Science as a Major and as a Career · · Score: 0
    Where parent is saying 75, putting the 25, and jolly old visa vesa!
    That's H1-B visa versa?