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  1. Re:Vouchers on How Do You Fix Education? · · Score: 1

    I think at some level they view school as a prison

    The white collar, resort type?

  2. Re:Good on Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide · · Score: 1

    Where the fuck did I say equally?

    You don't think you inferred it when you lumped them together with the phrase "sick people both"?

    Seeing the world in absolutes, black/white, either/or instead of as various shades of gray is itself often a sign of mental illness.

    Interesting. Anyway, resorting to swearing often means you have too poor a vocabulary and insufficient intelligence to express your "thoughts" any other way. But enough about you.

    By the way 'infer', the word I used above, means to say something without saying it, to hint at it in a roundabout way. You probably get it confused with 'imply'.

  3. Re:Stop Playing Their Game on How To Deal With Internet Bullies? · · Score: 1

    Rest assured he was on the internet within minutes, registering his disgust.

  4. Re:Damn... on Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide · · Score: 1

    Sadly many people who have not commited any crime (apart from murder, obviously) kill their own family

    Fixed.

  5. Re:Good on Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide · · Score: 1

    Do you think they're equally sick? Because as far as I can see one group aren't actually harming anyone.

  6. Re:The FBI press release on Spam King Escapes From Federal Prison · · Score: 1

    At last, global warming debunked!

  7. Re:Coward. on Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're just jealous because he went one better than you. Right, Hans?

  8. Re:What to do next? on Spam King Escapes From Federal Prison · · Score: 1

    IANAL, but I suspect that if you skip bail, you don't get the money back. The man keeps it, man!

  9. Re:The FBI press release on Spam King Escapes From Federal Prison · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe it's for the benfit of the Yurpeans. I here they have metric time over there.

  10. Re:Editors on Spam King Escapes From Federal Prison · · Score: 1, Funny

    For some reason, your post made me think of Hans Reiser.

  11. Re:Google is overvalued on Speculation On a Second Internet Economy Collapse · · Score: 1

    The reason that so few people do well is because it takes knowledge, diligence and being closely related to the CEO to recognize the true value of stock

    Fixed that for you.

  12. Re:Interesting on Amazonian Tribe Has No Word To Express Numbers · · Score: 1

    If 'X' is a tens digit, then it functions in context identically to our own tens digit: 0.

    If it's just a straight substitution s/0/X/ (and/or a conversion to base 11?) then what's the point? Whatever base you use then there could be a number with none of a particular power of that base so you'd need something to act as a placeholder. Unless you went with something like the Roman system. Perhaps I'm missing something?

  13. Re:Bottom Line on EBay Deal Irritates Individual Sellers · · Score: 1

    Perhaps. But bear in mind the pareto principle (20% of your customers usually give 80% of the profit) and also economies of scale (the overheads on a $1000 sale aren't 100 times those of a ten-buck one).

    So the assertion that driving small sellers away is losing them money is by no means certain. It could well be the case that the the little guys just aren't worth dealing with.

    Of course there's also the phenomenon where the more users there are, the more attractive it is to other users. There's a buzzword for it that I forgot.

  14. Re:Interesting on Amazonian Tribe Has No Word To Express Numbers · · Score: 1

    How would you represent a number that had zero as one of the coefficients, i.e if I subtracted 6 x X (or indeed, 4) from 13X64?

    Also how does one resolve the ambiguity of 31X? Is that three X cubed plus 1 X squared plus ten units? Or is it three X squared plus twenty units?

  15. Re:English Language on Amazonian Tribe Has No Word To Express Numbers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slashdot readers are all roadies?

  16. Re:Different skill sets needed on Amazonian Tribe Has No Word To Express Numbers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If morality is a luxury, why are some of the poorest societies on Earth also the most religious?

    Probably because morality and religiosity, even if they aren't entirely orthogonal, are most definitely not the same thing.

  17. Re:Bottom Line on EBay Deal Irritates Individual Sellers · · Score: 1

    Ebay's current emphasis on big sellers at the expense of individuals is losing them money

    I'm sure you have a cite for that.

    Confucius, he say: "Profit proportional to size of customer; work proportional to number of customers".

  18. Re:No competition on EBay Deal Irritates Individual Sellers · · Score: 1

    1) They'd suck,
    2a) Then they'd get bought out by Microsoft
    2b) or by Yahoo and then by Microsoft
    3) And continue to suck at least as much, and probably more.

    There might be profit at step 2, for the original owners.

  19. Re:Coming up later on "Vetrolium" From Agricultural Waste · · Score: 1

    A mix of propane and butane - pootane?

  20. Re:Turned it down on Workplace BlackBerry Use May Spur Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    You forgot about:

    candidate C - some relative of a C*0.

    candidate D - who has massive boobs.

  21. Coming up later on "Vetrolium" From Agricultural Waste · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fuels from bodily waste. Will you choose peesel or shitroleum?

  22. Re:Obligatory... on The Very Worst Uses of Windows · · Score: 1

    Korea spends a lot of its time being nationalistic (just look at the anti-U.S. mad cow demonstrations happening now), yet they send I-don't-know-how-many-billions of dollars to the U.S. for Windows XP every year.

    You must bne right. I mean it's a long way from China. In fact I don't know why I mentioned that, since China isn't the intergalactic centre for piracy at all.

  23. Re:Obligatory... on The Very Worst Uses of Windows · · Score: 1

    Is it the Tannhauser gate?

  24. Re:web 2.0 doesn't exist! on Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide · · Score: 0, Troll

    what's in a name?

    Nothing, asshole.

  25. Re:Isn't morphine still widely used in military? on Australian Ban On Fallout 3 – Why? · · Score: 1

    True but is it that much of an issue anyway? It's a fictitious setting so they could have called it "Inventium" if they'd wanted.

    [strokes beard a little] Of course that wouldn't have generated any free publicity, would it?