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  1. Re:Unnecessary on Chris Christie Proposes Tracking Immigrants the Way FedEx Tracks Packages · · Score: 1

    If you wrote a sentence that could be parsed into something intelligible, I'd write a reply.

  2. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on "Hack" Typeface Is Open Source, Easy On the IDEs · · Score: 1

    Looks pretty good at 8px to me.

    I also note that it's got support for Latin-Extended, Cyrillic, and Greek, which is useful for me.

  3. Re:Here's the article on "Hack" Typeface Is Open Source, Easy On the IDEs · · Score: 1

    Serif fonts suck onscreen.

  4. Re:Unnecessary on Chris Christie Proposes Tracking Immigrants the Way FedEx Tracks Packages · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The last thing I want to see is the travesty that is asset forfeiture expanded.

  5. Re:Small correction on Malaysia Blocking Websites Based On Political Content · · Score: 5, Interesting

    We have this problem in Sweden, whose previous mishandling of massive inflows of immigrants has already started leading to ghettoisation.

    The Left here refuses even to discuss this, thus ceding the debate to Sverigedemokraterna (the right-wingers) before it's even begun.

  6. Re:Why link.. on Malaysia Blocking Websites Based On Political Content · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's mentioned here: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

  7. Re:Small correction on Malaysia Blocking Websites Based On Political Content · · Score: 2

    Israeli currency is labelled in both Hebrew and Arabic.

  8. Re: Brought about by the internet? on Germany Wants Facebook To Obey Its Rules About Holocaust Denial · · Score: 1

    One or two counter-examples do not a refutation of "usually" make.

    Unlike you, I don't need to sift the Internet, as I live in Sweden, and need look no farther than my very own refrigerator.

    Let's see... Here's a carton of eggs labelled "EKOLIGISKA ÄGG". And here's a milk carton with "MELLANMJÖLK -- EKOLOGISK". I've seen similar labelling in at least a half-dozen other European countries.

    Maybe if you actually emerged from your basement every once in a while and checked out things here in the real world, you might be less likely to post ignorant nonsense.

  9. Re:Germany does have a unique history on Germany Wants Facebook To Obey Its Rules About Holocaust Denial · · Score: 1

    "We aren't going to pretend this didn't happen." Except that is exactly what they did. You cannot even learn about the Nazis in Germany...

    Says someone who has obviously never been there.

  10. Re: Brought about by the internet? on Germany Wants Facebook To Obey Its Rules About Holocaust Denial · · Score: 1

    Has APK developed a sudden interest in this topic, or what? Certainly his brand of "logic" being applied here.

  11. Re: Brought about by the internet? on Germany Wants Facebook To Obey Its Rules About Holocaust Denial · · Score: 1

    In the US, yes. In Europe, such products are usually labelled "Ecological".

  12. Re:Just like systemd and /etc/resolv.conf? on Abusing Symbolic Links Like It's 1999 · · Score: 2

    systemd is responsible for that mess?

    Before learning about this, I merely *disliked* systemd.

    But now...?

    KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!

  13. Re:we can fix this on Abusing Symbolic Links Like It's 1999 · · Score: 3

    You will simply kill the proprietary software in this jurisdiction.

    You say this as though it's a bad thing...

  14. Re:Betteridge's law of headlines says ... no on Do We Need More Emojis? · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Chinese wouldn't add more kanji. They might add more hanzi, though.

    You are aware that the Japanese still use several thousand kanji in addition to hiragana and katakana, right?

    Oh, and the Chinese do have at least two systems for phonetic representation--zhuyin and pinyin.

  15. Re:couldn't hurt on Do We Need More Emojis? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'd like to be able to use Chinese in my sig.

    And no, we do not need fucking emoji in the standard. Especially not when there are still actual *writing* systems that haven't been properly handled yet.

  16. Re:Ubuntu _is_ primarily a desktop OS... on Ubuntu Is the Dominant Cloud OS · · Score: 1

    Maybe they've fixed it by now, but the last couple of times I've tried Kubuntu, KDE was messed up, with bits missing that might not have mattered to the Ubuntu folks, but they did matter to me.

    I'm not a big fan of Ubuntu in any case. Always seemed kind of dumbed-down to me, and the default UI has always been a sort of Fisher-Price horror show.

  17. Re:The summary makes me quiver on Harshest Penalty for Alleged Rapist Was For Using a Computer To Arrange Contact With Teen · · Score: 1

    Oh, right. I'd completely forgot about that, somehow.

  18. Re:yet another clusterfuck on Systemd Absorbs "su" Command Functionality · · Score: 1

    Welcome to The Age of Horus, The Crowned and Conquering Child.

  19. Re:domination on Systemd Absorbs "su" Command Functionality · · Score: 1

    This is another step towards systemd becoming a complete OS.

    We can only hope that day comes soon.

    Once that happens, maybe we can have Linux back.

  20. Re:I'm not sure this is the right response on Ashley Madison CEO Steps Down, Reporter Finds Clues To Hacker's Identity · · Score: 1

    Infidelity is only impolite - blackmail is illegal.

    Depends on where you are. In some places, having sex with anyone you're not married to is punishable by death.

  21. Re:huh? on Ubuntu Is the Dominant Cloud OS · · Score: 1

    It's even less of a surprise when an AC can't punctuate his meaningless complaint about someone's language correctly.

  22. Re:Ubuntu _is_ primarily a desktop OS... on Ubuntu Is the Dominant Cloud OS · · Score: 1

    Please don't advise people to use Kubuntu. They'd be expecting to get KDE, and they'd be badly disappointed.

  23. Re:Almost on Ubuntu Is the Dominant Cloud OS · · Score: 1

    Sorry to disappoint you but your attention span or lack thereof is *not* a reliable metric for the truthfulness of s.petry's assertions. TFP.

  24. Re:Eh? on Arro Taxi App Arrives In NYC As 'Best Hope' Against Uber · · Score: 1

    Why would Uber's driver churn be any worse than other taxi firms? Uber is very attractive in that you don't have a boss telling you what to do or bawling you out, and you can pick your own hours, without even having to choose ahead of time.

    Or ever having to worry about being made redundant through automation!

    Oh, wait...

  25. Re:The summary makes me quiver on Harshest Penalty for Alleged Rapist Was For Using a Computer To Arrange Contact With Teen · · Score: 1

    You're thinking of someone else (although the XML reference would certainly be appropriate to me, as well). My previous sig was "RELEASE THE KRAKEN...".

    The current one is a variant on the punchline to a joke I first heard about 30 years ago. Or perhaps you inferred this already.