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  1. Re:Just so I get this right... on UK Teachers Say Censor The Internet · · Score: 1

    Or get a Qur'an and follow its instructions to their logical conclusion, that's what not a few suicide bombers believe they are doing (rightly or wrongly). Which of these three has been the most dangerous?

  2. Re:Just so I get this right... on UK Teachers Say Censor The Internet · · Score: 1

    thus far in human history religion has the far bigger body count than weapon assembly

  3. Re:"Definitely, Vista is very very improved OS.." on Looking Beyond Vista To Fiji and Vienna · · Score: 1

    true, but it pops up that annoying window upon saving about formating being lost in text-only format.

  4. Re:Just so I get this right... on UK Teachers Say Censor The Internet · · Score: 1

    a bad person could do evil things on the basis of a religious book, just as a bad person can do evil things with a book on how to make bombs. A good person could just learn from any of them.

  5. Re:Which card? on The Problem With Driver-Loaded Firmware · · Score: 1

    actually, if you look at the wireless card's boxes at a Best Buy or OfficeDepot or Target, you will see the word "Linux" on some of them. works for me

  6. Re:"Definitely, Vista is very very improved OS.." on Looking Beyond Vista To Fiji and Vienna · · Score: 1

    hah, didn't notice that wasn't there, but that's what I use to take text file from Unix or Linux and add CR-LF, just bring the ascii file up and then save it. well, not any more.

  7. sorry to pop your bubble on Looking Beyond Vista To Fiji and Vienna · · Score: 1

    my employer has state government agencies that still use Novell with IPX protocol, and we also have client companies with marketing departments using Macs with appletalk. Not everyone buys software for 2 to 3 years use.

  8. "Definitely, Vista is very very improved OS.." on Looking Beyond Vista To Fiji and Vienna · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Exactly what is the basis for spouting this load of crap? How about this list of why Vista is inferior to previous versions of windows:


    No Support for IPX, Appletalk, WebDav, or NetDDE
    Even less capable backup built in than XP, which itself had inferior backup to previous versions
    High cost
    Bloat #1 - takes over 10GB of hard disk
    Bloat #2 - 2GB of RAM needed
    Crippled wordpad can't read .doc
    Obtuse menuing requiring going in half a dozen or more levels in for basic controls
    Stupid ReadyBoost trying to do what would be better done by simple swap/page to usb device, except RB is MUCH slower
    Hardware vendors not in hurry to support Vista


    in short, you'll gain nothing and lose functionality by going to Vista. save your money, just say NO.

  9. Re:Apple with no Jobs? on NYT Reports Steve Jobs' Exoneration · · Score: 1

    a stock option is worth $0 if not exercised, I have some from the dot-com era that aren't even good for wiping my ass (difference between apple's and mine is if exercised mine would have negative value).

  10. Re:WARNING on Free Guide to Naked-Eye Astronomy · · Score: 1

    that can be bad for the scope too, it heats the optics at the far end. Best to get a proper solar filter that goes on the big end

  11. Re:godless evolutionist pagans!!! on 100 Things We Didn't Know Last Year · · Score: 1

    but plants were created the day before, and plants have egg cells. Not to mention eggplants. 8D

  12. Re:godless evolutionist pagans!!! on 100 Things We Didn't Know Last Year · · Score: 1

    that's only half right, the other half of chickens are hens.

  13. Re:stat on everest on 100 Things We Didn't Know Last Year · · Score: 4, Funny

    thus we see it is far safer to climb mt. everest than to be president of the U.S.A.

  14. Re:My results on The Insatiable Power Hunger of Home Electronics · · Score: 1

    I always thought that the large size was for more conductor surface area since alot of former British colonies are located in the hot humid sordid shitholes of planet earth, corrosion and filth having less effect that way

  15. Re:Hey! on Beating Procrastination with Self-Imposed Deadlines · · Score: 1

    and I was going to have brillant and insightful comments on this subject yesterday too. maybe tomorrow I'll post them.

  16. Re:Nomenclative relativity of "kiwi" on Penguins Disappearing From Southern Hemisphere · · Score: 1

    it's worse than that, some people use "kiwi" as a slang word for new zealanders, the grandparent poster is going to serve batter fried arms sans fingernails

  17. Re:But will it... on Thinkpad X60 — the Tablet Goes Ultraportable · · Score: 1

    blend schmend, the real question is how well does it make toast?

  18. Re:Bah! on Vending Machine For Books Coming Next Year · · Score: 1

    by and large most of the lazy, non self-sufficient dumb-asses in New Orleans didn't manage to die either

  19. Re:Bah! on Vending Machine For Books Coming Next Year · · Score: 1

    100 sick and 6 or 7 people dead? That's hardly any casualties at all. Look at what storms or earthquakes do to major cities in third world countries. We've got it made here, even the dumb-asses by and large don't get themselves killed.

  20. Re:"fire" them on Debian Delayed by Disenchanted Developers · · Score: 1

    oh yeah, that's never a problem in the proprietary software world. In fact that is mostly a problem in the proprietary software world, not the open source one.

  21. Re:Tomorrow's Article on Giant Squid Caught Near Japan · · Score: 1

    mmm, salty and sour ikakyu-maki

  22. Re:Red-haired child - stuck in a rut for 5 years? on Has the Desktop Linux Bubble Burst? · · Score: 1

    what the hell, I plug USB sticks into Ubuntu, SuSE and Debian desktops and servers and everything is just fine. Did you last use Redhat 5.2 and leave the Linux world spouting the same trash ever since?

  23. Re:You work for free, or... on Debian Delayed by Disenchanted Developers · · Score: 1

    eh, there are plenty of contributions to Debian packages from funded developers and for that matter funded distributions (e.g. good things from Debian derived Ubuntu going back to Debian ). Free as in liberty and no cost to the user.

  24. Re:Military-tech always trickles down to civilians on Military Tech for Daily Life · · Score: 1

    you mean they perverted Christianity into a state religion which has been one of the major banes of humanity ever since.

  25. Re:Military-tech always trickles down to civilians on Military Tech for Daily Life · · Score: 1

    if we were directly derived from greek culture rather than via roman, I'd imagine the arches to be inverted forming either a set of "golden bozos" or a golden buttocks.