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  1. Re:Archive and install on Leopard Upgraders Getting "Blue Screen of Death" · · Score: 1

    Or you could click the uninstall option in the APE prepane...

  2. Parallels? on Vista Vs. Gutsy Gibbon · · Score: 1

    Anyone got it working through Parallels? It seems to be having screen resolution or driver issues.

  3. Re:Britishisms? on Adams' Dirk Gently Serialized on BBC Radio · · Score: 1

    You sensitive clod!

  4. There's a Wordpress plug-in... on Carnegie Mellon CAPTCHA Digitization Project Now Underway · · Score: 1

    Can't see if this is mentioned, but there is a plug-in for the Wordpress software that implements reCaptcha. A particularly appropriate use is on http://www.ifshakespeare.co.uk/ which is a literary blog.

  5. Self delusion in music: who'da thunk it on Universal Offers iPod-Resistant Music · · Score: 1
    At height of the Apple vs Apple dispute a year or two back the top bloke at Apple Corps serious argued that the Beatles' Apple was a globally renowned and revered brand, loved by millions throughout the world, much more so than the upstart computer maker.

    The self-delusion was quite breathtaking.

  6. Not just PC World on Retailer Refuses Hardware Repair Due To Linux · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine ran into precisely the same problem with a Sony Viao - Sony refused to accept that the problem was anything other than Gentoo. Guess which maker he won't be buying from in future...

  7. Re:NeoOffice opens its web site on launch on NeoOffice 2.2.1 Available For Mac · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is telling you there is a patch available....

  8. Re:The Results Were Pre-ordained on HardOCP Spends 30 Days With MacOSX · · Score: 3, Informative
    (I still don't know which site i should use to get freeware for macs specifically)

    http://www.versiontracker.com/

    http://www.macupdate.com/

  9. Re:FF&OO on Help Make Firefox On Mac Suck Less · · Score: 1

    You've not heard of NeoOffice, have you?

  10. He isn't dead on Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Dies At 84 · · Score: 1

    He just came unstuck in time.

  11. Re:Happened in the past with renewables on Biofuels Coming With a High Environmental Price? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    renewable is not equal to renewed....

  12. Re:'Twas always this way on The Sci-Fi Movie Stigma · · Score: 5, Funny
    I haven't seen "I, Robot", but if it's even a little bit like the book...

    Don't go there....just don't go there.

  13. Re:And the summary is an example of that hyping on Global Warming Endangered by Hot Air? · · Score: 1
    People essentially just sit down and tweak the models until they get the results they expect, then use them to generate best case and worst case analysis. That folks, is hardly science.

    You do realise that straw man is a logical fallacy, don't you? Do you seriously believe that real climate scientists aren't out their every day gathering hard, real world empirical evidence for the specific purpose of improving their models?

  14. Re:Skeptics are useful. on Global Warming Endangered by Hot Air? · · Score: 1

    About that chap on the grassy knoll...

  15. Re:Skeptics are useful. on Global Warming Endangered by Hot Air? · · Score: 1

    Given that Gore has made no attempt whatsoever to hide his "angle", are you saying he is the one doing the paying of the shills...er.....whose research is readily available in peer reviewed journals? Or are the peers Gore's shills too?

  16. Re:Skeptics are useful. on Global Warming Endangered by Hot Air? · · Score: 1

    So because a politician says something, we must automatically assume it is false because he is a huckster only in it for the attention?

  17. Re:Skeptics are useful. on Global Warming Endangered by Hot Air? · · Score: 1
    Paid doesn't mean I give you money.

    What are you? Some kind of communist?

  18. Re:Skeptics are useful. on Global Warming Endangered by Hot Air? · · Score: 1
    So people can be damned for being thoughtful?

    Who is he a shill of, and/ or who is he paying to be a shill?

  19. Re:Skeptics are useful. on Global Warming Endangered by Hot Air? · · Score: 1

    Gore's a scientist?

  20. Re:Skeptics are useful. on Global Warming Endangered by Hot Air? · · Score: 1
    But if you look at it from the perspective of second-rate scientists who need to catch a break, the incentive to come up with exciting "findings" is very powerful.

    Which second rate scientists have been promoting global warming?

  21. Re:Skeptics are useful. on Global Warming Endangered by Hot Air? · · Score: 1
    Lots of people are getting paid to come to the conclustion "global warming is a serious threat to us all".

    Really? Who?

  22. Re:Blimey. on Global Warming Endangered by Hot Air? · · Score: 1

    I have cohorts? Lummy. I've never had them before. Do I need to make a speech?

  23. Blimey. on Global Warming Endangered by Hot Air? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I get "Troll" while "Lots of people have something to gain by hyping global warming. Politicians looking for power, actors trying to look "caring", socialists making another attempt to weaken the United States." above gets +5 Insightful? Sheesh.

  24. Re:In my case, yes. on Global Warming Endangered by Hot Air? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Apart from the 30-odd years of extra empirical evidence...

  25. Re:Skeptics are useful. on Global Warming Endangered by Hot Air? · · Score: 1
    You are aware that one of the scientists they featured has slammed the programme for deceiving him about its content and the context in which his contribution would be used?

    Link

    And Monbiot on the maker. I'm no big fan of Monbiot, but the factual base here rather goes to the credibility of the film maker. He has, as we say over here, "form"...