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  1. Re: Chinese Virgin on China Bans "Human Flesh Searching" · · Score: 1

    -dei/-deng is Cantonese. Maybe that's what you're thinking of.

    In any case, in Mandarin, it's -men (). It's also used with nouns relating to people.

    If you're talking about e.g. the tóu in liù tóu niú [six cows, literally "six head cow"], then the term you're looking for is "classifier".

    It really sucks that we're stuck with Latin-1 here.

  2. Re:Your conclusions are invalid. on Oxytocin Regulates Sociosexual Behavior In Female Mice · · Score: 1

    I don't see how it can be taken any other way.

    But by all means, let TDM clarify this for himself, rather than offer to... read his mind for us.

  3. Re:Biased summary on Four Dutch Uberpop Taxi Drivers Arrested, Fined · · Score: 1

    Whereas you've already slid all the way down a slippery slope of your own and now stand hip-deep in False Equivalence.

    Keep up the good work.

  4. Re:Biased summary on Four Dutch Uberpop Taxi Drivers Arrested, Fined · · Score: 1

    What part of "Getting in a car with a stranger can be a dangerous act" did you fail to understand?

  5. Re:Your conclusions are invalid. on Oxytocin Regulates Sociosexual Behavior In Female Mice · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Whereas men are always perfectly rational when choosing a partner?

    Spare us the closet misogyny.

  6. Re:I disagree with the reseachers on Oxytocin Regulates Sociosexual Behavior In Female Mice · · Score: 1

    Where's that -1, Nutjob mod when you need it?

  7. Re:He's a nasty little man on The Cult of Elon Musk Shines With Steve Jobs' Aura · · Score: 1

    But the world needs Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Andrew Canarge and John Rockefeller's of the world.

    No, it doesn't.

  8. Re: Who wants it? on Crowdsourced Remake "The Empire Strikes Back Uncut" Now Complete · · Score: 1

    I made it through the first 5 minutes before I had to close the tab.

    So what did I win?

  9. Re:Is there no commandline? on ChromeOS Will No Longer Support Ext2/3/4 On External Drives/SD Cards · · Score: 1

    You can set the bong down now.

  10. Re:Do what while sitting quietly after assignment? on ChromeOS Will No Longer Support Ext2/3/4 On External Drives/SD Cards · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Once a student has completed all of a teacher's assignments, what should the student be doing while sitting quietly between having completed the assignments and the bell other than games?

    Perish the thought that they might--in a classroom, of all places--find a book to read.

  11. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! on Flash IDE Can Now Reach Non-Flash Targets (Including Open Source) · · Score: 0
  12. Re:Really? on 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay · · Score: 1

    This is another Nobel fail. Nice people but brown and female so not worthy of the prize.

    TFTFY.

  13. Re:Success is getting away from your own race... on 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay · · Score: 1

    The moral of the story is that she has a spine, and you've none.

  14. Re:yes, they people who follow the law/ rules on FBI Says It Will Hire No One Who Lies About Illegal Downloading · · Score: 1

    You mean "copyrighted".

  15. Re:Snowden's time will come on 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay · · Score: 1

    A whole bunch of people got jolted awake. You might not consider that positive, but some folks do.

    And what the heck does Atyarthi have to do with NSA surveillance, anyway?

  16. Re:Really? on 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay · · Score: 1

    An assertive woman is a ballbreaker, yeah, right.

    Listen up, homeboy: There can be no true peace without justice. Subjugation of women is not just.

    BTW, "Gandhi" was simply her husband's name, which she assumed upon their marriage. Her husband (Feroze Gandhi) was not related to Mohandas.

  17. Re:The perspective on this from Norway on 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay · · Score: 1

    ...not so much for getting shot, but for subsequently taking up the cause despite being shot, and at the risk of being shot again.

    Some people seem to have the odd notion that Malala was a victim of random violence. The truth of the matter is that it was anything but random.

    She did *not* take up the cause "because of" being shot or even "in spite of" it. Quite the opposite. She was marked for death by the Taliban precisely because (a) she was *already* an advocate for education for girls and (b) she was *already* working to expose the Taliban's horrid treatment of girls and women to the outside world. She is still so marked by them, and it's very likely that they (or sympathisers) will eventually get her.

    She knows this. And she already knows first-hand what it's like to take a bullet to the head for her beliefs. Yet she chooses to continue.

    She has already shown more courage than most of us will ever display in a whole lifetime.

    I am proud to be a member of the same species as she, and I wish I were even half as brave as she is.

  18. Re:Someone will complain about the political ones on 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay · · Score: 1

    FYI: "NGO" stands for Non-Governmental Organisation. The term is not particular to India.

    Otherwise, spot on.

  19. Re:STOP THE VIDEO ADS SLASHDOT! on GNOME 3 Winning Back Users · · Score: 1

    Install APK's Host Files Engine v. 37.0.

  20. Re:Where are the guarantees? on Brits Must Trade Digital Freedoms For Safety, Says Crime Agency Boss · · Score: 1

    You talking about this?

    http://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-...

    An interesting case (I read the whole thing) but it has absolutely nothing to do with the issue at hand.

    And in any event I think it's likely that you don't really understand the Souza case or the issues that it does raise.

  21. Re:Trading Freedom for Security? on Brits Must Trade Digital Freedoms For Safety, Says Crime Agency Boss · · Score: 2

    If they're smart, they'll never add an Edit button.

  22. Re:...the same company that predicted that OS/2... on One In Three Jobs Will Be Taken By Software Or Robots By 2025, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    I'd be hoping for Plan 9, myself.

  23. Re:automation + liberal capitalism = disaster on One In Three Jobs Will Be Taken By Software Or Robots By 2025, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    You left out the part about our precious bodily fluids.

  24. Re:Yes yes yes on One In Three Jobs Will Be Taken By Software Or Robots By 2025, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    So the arts, the law, English, and history no longer exist? And there are no more universities with CompSci departments?

    Even if either of these figments of your anti-intellectual imagination were true, there are still plenty of the voc-tech sort of educational institutions in the US where you can pick up a 2-year degree in programmable controllers, instrumentation, etc., and go straight to work with it.

  25. Re:Yes yes yes on One In Three Jobs Will Be Taken By Software Or Robots By 2025, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    You cannot make a fair comparison unless you are willing to compare the two times in the context of what was available at those times.

    The fact that we didn't have microwave ovens in the 1960s does nothing to alter the fact that we still had to obtain food and cook it somehow back then, and we had to earn and then spend money to do so--just like we do today.