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  1. Re:Just hardware, no apple OS. on Terra Soft Offers Linux-booting iPods, FW Drives · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Nope, the question should be how well does it work?
    Try again; you'll notice that "good" is listed in the OED as a legitimate adverb, derived from a similar usage of the Teutonic gut:
    good, a., adv., and n.

    B. adv. a. qualifying a vb. In a good manner; well; properly. {dag}b. qualifying an adj. or adv., with intensive force: In a high degree, 'right'. Obs. (Cf. A. 19b.)

    c1380 WYCLIF Sel. Wks. III. 130 And gode marke how Crist..bad his gostly knyghtes go into al {th}o world.
  2. Re:Oh please! on Microsoft's 'IsNot' Patent Continued... · · Score: 0
    Yes[;] and SCO is back[,] my Microsoft.
    That was actually the better version.
  3. OED: unpossible, a. on The Indirect Case For Life On Mars · · Score: 0

    unpossible, a.

    Now only dial.

    Impossible. (Very common c 1400-1660.)

    1362 LANGL. P. Pl. A. XI. 225 Poul proui{th} it is vnpossible riche men in heuene. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 153 {Th}er is no {th}ing vnpossible to stalwor{th}e nature. 1453 in Wars Eng. in France (1864) II. 488 It is unpossible unto us so sone to purvey for the saide socours. 1471 FORTESCUE Wks. (1869) 535 The forsayd minor is now clerely proved unpossible. 1523 LD. BERNERS tr. Froiss. I. cxlv. 173 The frenchemen coude natte passe no way, without they wolde haue gone through the marshes, the whiche was vnpossyble. 1570 T. WILSON Demosth. Orat., Life 127 Vnpossible it is for anye one to deceyue him. 1610 FLETCHER Faithful Shepherdess II. i, Whose grief..to anothers eye May seem unpossible of remedy. 1697 G. BURGHOPE Disc. Relig. Assemb. 169 There's nothing requir'd of us..which is unpossible. 1773 GOLDSM. Stoops to Conq. II. i, By the laws, your worship, that's parfectly unpossible. 1825 BROCKETT N.C. Words, Unpossible, for impossible. The word is frequent with the vulgar in the North. 1844- in Sc. and dialect use (Eng. Dial. Dict.). 1866 FLO. MARRYAT For Ever & Ever II. 194 That is an unpossible thing, Sir.

    absol. 1581 MULCASTER Positions iv. 17 Nothing giuen to the vnpossible, where possibilitie must take place.

    Hence unpossibleness; unpossibly adv.

    1561 T. HOBY tr. Castiglione's Courtyer IV. Ss ii, The vnpossiblenes of ye matter. 1658 OSBORNE Adv. Son Wks. (1673) 175 Therefore not unpossibly the cause why the Devil was so earnest..to make them commit if [sc. a sin]. 1659 Misc. Ess. Paradoxes 176, I confesse the Party may not unpossibly be very Rich.

  4. Re:What is the utility of this information? on College Students Turn Away From Landlines · · Score: 0
    I can't believe that garbage got modded insightful.
    You'd be amazed what the Trough deems insightful.
  5. Teleglaucosis on CRTs Still Beat Flat-Panel TVs · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    That anyone still submits at own cost to teleglaucosis,
    funding thereby the displacement of Man Thinking,1 is funda-
    mental:

    In this view of him, as Man Thinking, the theory
    of his office is contained. Him nature solicits
    with all her placid, all her monitory pictures;
    him the past instructs; him the future invites.

    Whether displaced of dioxene, phosphore or neon? Moot.

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    1 Emerson, Ralph Waldo; "The American Scholar",
    http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar .htm

  6. Fine Print on Burn the CD on Both Sides · · Score: 1
    LightScribe technology consists of three components: a LightScribe-enabled disc drive, LightScribe-enabled discs, and supporting software.
    No generic medium will do, apparently; have to shell out, in addition, for the proprietary burnables.
  7. Re:Just one thing to say: on Microsoft May Charge for Security Tools · · Score: 1
    What balls!
    That's not testicles, man, that's chutzpah; and chutzpah is an emasculate virtue.
  8. Re:Seems like a prudent thing to do. on U.S. Makes Plans for GPS Shutdown · · Score: 1
    It can always be turned back on when the threat has passed [...].
    Thou understand'st not the oil-monger's nature: there's nothing retroverse about it.
  9. Re:aww...good try on HIV Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Actually, of virus' five plurals, virora has the most distinctive ring; third declension neutra were always my fave.