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  1. Re:Homeschoolers secret: Saxon Math on Best Way To Teach Oneself Math? · · Score: 1

    not all words that can be "logically" constructed are valid English- whether you like that or not
    That's good advisation - I'll make an endeaffort to rememberize it.
  2. Re:Urgh. on Why ISS Computers Failed · · Score: 1

    Jeans? Don't be silly. He did some wicked tunes though.

  3. Re:Reminds me of an old story... on Bill Gates Denied Visa To Nigeria · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not to mention choking in big Rugby matches.

  4. Re:Fuck you. on Bill Gates Denied Visa To Nigeria · · Score: 1

    Only a tiny percentage of Australia's original settlers were convicts. Most of us are descended from those who got away before they were captured
    Fixed that for you.
  5. Re:Reminds me of an old story... on Bill Gates Denied Visa To Nigeria · · Score: 5, Funny

    cut up my bars of soap
    I had the same going into France. Apparently they'd bever seen it before.
  6. Re:Misreading on Bill Gates Denied Visa To Nigeria · · Score: 4, Funny

    the son of the President of Nigeria, an overweight whiner named Dare Obasanjo [25hoursaday.com], actualy works for Microsoft.
    Does he have a shedload of money in a locked bank account, by any chance?
  7. Re:As suggested by Mark Twain on The Evolution of Language · · Score: 1

    It sounds like a German accent when you speak it. No wonder you lost, twice.

  8. Re:So his salary must be... on Ohio Official Docked Vacation Time For Stolen Tape · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know [flies up in the air] Aaaaaargh!

  9. Yon exchange on The Evolution of Language · · Score: 1

    Yon means something akin to "that" or "over there" in some dialects. Thus one could confuse a method of water softening with a building where shares or commodities are traded, and which is visble but distant.

    I for one think that's too much of a risk.

  10. Re:As suggested by Mark Twain on The Evolution of Language · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd not seen that one, but the one where it morphs into German is quite common.

  11. Re:Easy- a lot of it will go on The Evolution of Language · · Score: 1

    Harvard comma? It's an Oxford comma, you bally colonials!

  12. Re:Pictures on Interpol Unscrambles Doctored Photo In Manhunt · · Score: 1

    A blur does not destroy the information, it merely redistributes it.
    Tripe. Taking an a average is a kind of blurring, and it surely destroys information about the individual values.
  13. Re:Pictures on Interpol Unscrambles Doctored Photo In Manhunt · · Score: 1

    The only ones I've encountered were both female and dressed like penguins.
    You're hereby found guilty of being islamophobic and a misogynist. Please hand yourself into your local police station for cultural sensitivity reprogramming.
  14. Re:Tired of this goddamn label on SAS CEO Blasts Old-School Schooling · · Score: 1

    tl;dr

  15. Poor turtle! on 2.5 Mile Deep Hole Drilled Into San Andreas Fault · · Score: 1

    But what if they drilled right through the unfortunate testudinate?

  16. Re:Freedom? or Anarchy? on German Court Rules That Websites Can't Retain Logged IPs · · Score: 1

    Actually, in sensible (i.e. English based) legal systems a lot depends on reasonable expectations.

    Perhaps someone should hold a large weight above your heead and release it. After all, he shouldn't reasonably expect it to fall on you, should he?

  17. Re:But.... on D.C. Commuters to be Scanned With Infrared Cameras · · Score: 2, Funny

    But then you will be chopping up and sewing together bodies all the time
    Depends how big the microwave is. You might be able to pick up one of this guy's on eBay...
  18. Re:Freedom? or Anarchy? on German Court Rules That Websites Can't Retain Logged IPs · · Score: 1

    Anonymizing your IP is an active step.
    And so is typing a url into your browser, so you can argue either way. Hopefully someone will come along with a car analogy and clear it all up..
  19. Re:US Dollar and Oil? on The History of the Federal Reserve · · Score: 1

    he's not actually enforcing getting paid in $US
    Nothing to enforce. Currency the price is denominated in isn't necessary the transaction currency. That was the entire point.

    I have no idea what relevance warships have to the question, but if what you mean is "USA! NUMBER ONE!" then you're probably right, at least for the moment.
  20. Re:Idiocy on German Court Rules That Websites Can't Retain Logged IPs · · Score: 1

    Not really. Even though the physical analogy is strained a bit, a website is more like a shop or a pub - private property to which the public have access.

  21. Re:And where is Steve Forbes now? on The History of the Federal Reserve · · Score: 1

    Don't knock him, he seems to have chosen his parents very well.

  22. Re:US Dollar and Oil? on The History of the Federal Reserve · · Score: 1

    I can agree to buy X amount of very nice beer from J Random Belgium SA/NV, and the price could be marked in dollars. Assume it's 100 dollars. Rough figures, what would happen in practice is that I'd send 50 quid and he gets 75 Euro. I don't know why he'd do that - maybe most of his customers are in the US - but the point is, nobody actually needed to have any dollars at any point during that transaction.

  23. Re:Vonage was just more corporate evil. on Vonage Hit With $69.5M Judgement · · Score: 1

    That's all well and good, but it doesn't have any relevance in this case.

  24. Re:The Kilogram is not losing weight on Kilogram Reference Losing Weight · · Score: 1

    I specifically know quite a big bunch of Polacks and they are pretty good artisans specially regarding wood arts.
    Then why are they working as plumbers?
  25. Now you've done it on Microsoft to Buy 5% of Facebook Valuing at $10bn · · Score: 1

    Shhhhh!

    P.S. I've got some shares in Northern Rock - sounds like a solid investment, eh - now I would hang on to them but my daughter's getting married and I need the cash in a hurry...