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  1. Re:fp? on India Plans Its Own Moon Shot · · Score: 2

    you're right. the solution is to squash the capitalist pigs and bring everyone under a benevolent totalitarian reign of terror and destroy the environment. Yuppies of the world unite!

    If Nikita Krushchev hadn't been a class traitor engaged in an extraterrestrial pissing match with the evil capitalist Kennedy, we might all be happy comrades by now, even the subhuman brown skins.

  2. Re:It`s not "Luna!!!" on India Plans Its Own Moon Shot · · Score: 2

    see, if you can control the vocabulary you can control the debate. You can even declare who wins, depending on what "win" means.

  3. Re:What competition? on India Plans Its Own Moon Shot · · Score: 2

    Why aren't we skiing on Mars?

    No vert.

  4. Re:Japan? on India Plans Its Own Moon Shot · · Score: 2

    no, it would violate the treaties enforces at the conclusion of world war 2.

  5. Re:Gravitons are different, silly on Boeing Joins In Anti-Gravity Search · · Score: 2

    no it didn't. the rotational momentum caused a forward arc in the path of the ball that was, however, less than the momentum of the gravitron due to friction and gravity

  6. Re:Another option? on Will Earth Expire By 2050? · · Score: 2

    human population has the potential to grow exponentially. That's a fact. In fact, it's held true over the long run in most times and places. It's part of the state of being alive. Probably inherent in the definition of being a living organism.

    But what do we eat? (Hint: it isn't gold, or oil)

    That's right kids. Other living organisms. Plants and Animals. Which, coincidentally or not, also have a tendency to grow exponentially.

  7. Re:Paul Ehrlich vs. Julian Simon on Will Earth Expire By 2050? · · Score: 2

    You mean the ones with nearly infinitely more access to modern medicine than they had just a few years ago? A generation or two ago, Penecillan was a miracle cure in most of the world. And they're jsut learning to piss downstream in some of those countries. HMOs aren't as common yet in India or Nigeria, but there has been more than just a bit of "modern medicine" helping those countries grow.

  8. Re:Paul Ehrlich vs. Julian Simon on Will Earth Expire By 2050? · · Score: 2

    If you wan't to believe the numbers, there are more than half again as many people in the world since the 70's (when they decided the 4 billion number had been reached), and there is at least 4 times as much fossil fuel based production. Not in the US, but in places like China, India, and South America.

  9. Re:Another option? on Will Earth Expire By 2050? · · Score: 2

    I was proud of our success, as actually tackling the relatively intractable problems of the Middle East with a bunch of not particularly politically aware or bright students in a generic high school class is quite a bit more difficult and less exciting.

    Now you know how the real Israeli's feel dealing with the rest of us.

  10. Re:Another option? on Will Earth Expire By 2050? · · Score: 2

    What's wrong with a person picking beans in California? I'll tell you what's wrong. He's Mexican and you're racist. Because there are Mexicans in your hometown, and maybe you don't like their food or their music, or their dirty clothes or their criminal activity. They're too real to be romantic.

  11. Re:Flamebait? on Will Earth Expire By 2050? · · Score: 2

    and now they say it's the rich Christians (Republicans) as opposed to the rich Atheists (Democrats). Because when they say "the Rich" they mean that minority of the rich that is not politically allied to themselves.

  12. Re:Flamebait? on Will Earth Expire By 2050? · · Score: 2

    Since my great-great grandmother grew up in pre-Nazi Germany (before the Jews were kicked out), I can confidently speak as a definitive authority on the subject and say that those filthy kikes manipulated the rest of the world into believing that they were innocent and unjustly persecuted and that 3000 of those anti-Christs didn't show up to work at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

    Palestinian is not the opposite of Israeli, its the opposite of Zionist.

  13. Re:Flamebait? on Will Earth Expire By 2050? · · Score: 2

    alot of them have started adding "jew" to the "rich" epithet. And even more say "rich" with a very conspicuously missing sense of irony.

  14. Dude, don't you know that salt is bad for you? on Will Earth Expire By 2050? · · Score: 2

    Sodium Cloride is one of the most toxic, corrosive chemicals in existence, next to Carbon Dioxide. If you don't believe me, pour saltwater on a plant -- it will die. Plus, if you drink lots of salt water, you will throw up. If that isn't proof enough, look at people who eat meat (a majority of Republicans admit it eating meat) -- guess what the primary ingredient used to season meat is? You got it. Sodium Cloride. It's close chemical relative, monosodium glutemate, has been proven to cause cancer in lab rats. Or at least to make them hungry for Chinese food again only a half hour after eating. I forget which.

  15. Direct correlation? on Scotland: Aliens' Official Favorite Destination · · Score: 2

    Scotland, coincidentally(?) has the highest percentage of the populace living off the government dole. In America, similar statistics are evidenced.

  16. Re:More "expert" chapters on Writing CGI Applications with Perl · · Score: 2

    It sounds to me that your real complaint is that you are getting underbid by people without mortgages and car payments. Not that their code is insecure, which it usually is.

  17. Re:Writing CGI apps in PERL... on Writing CGI Applications with Perl · · Score: 2

    here is how php is supposed to be written:

    <?php
    require(mylib.php);
    preprocess_request($HTTP_REQUEST_VARS);
    ?>
    <html >
    <body>
    <h1>Welcome, <?php get_username(); ?> </h1>

    <h2>This is my html page!</h2>

    Here is something cool and dynamically generated:

    <?php

    /* do something cool here
    * but don't do it inline
    * call myfunction()
    * that's what require() is for
    *
    * namespaces are a bit of a problem, but you
    * can translate all the get, post, session,
    * and cookie stuff at the beginning of each
    * script -- see preprocess_request().
    */

    ?>

    <h3> I hope you enjoyed my page </h3>

    <?php include ("footer.html"); ?>

    </body>
    </html>

  18. Re:I have to take issue with this: on Writing CGI Applications with Perl · · Score: 2

    if curly braces and semicolons make java a part of the C family, then glasses and bad haircuts make linus and bill gates brothers.

    Puctuation does not make languages similar!!!

  19. Re:That's the power of .NET on F# - A New .Net language · · Score: 2

    out of curiosity, since you're confident you've got them all, how many apps have a static zlib? I saw some preliminary lists when the advisories came out, but nothing definitive.

  20. Linus's Answer: NIH on KBuild Issues on the LKML · · Score: 2

    Linus's post hints fairly well why he objects to kbuild 2.5

    - Kai has already shown that he can merge with me easily, and actually
    took one traditional flag-day-project (ISDN: every single merge was a
    flag-day merge), and has turned that into a very easy gradual merge
    for me. I used to dread ISDN merges, these days I don't even have to
    think about them.

    - Kai obviously already knows the build system, as he has been doing a
    lot of incremental stuff on it already.

    - Kai isn't an enthusiastic kbuild-2.5 supporter. In fact, he tends to
    be a bit down on some of it. Which is a plus in my book: it means
    that whatever Kai tries to push my way I'll feel just that much more
    comfortable with as having had critical review.
    </i>

    All this translates fairly straightforwardly into: "I'm not accepting patches from Keith. I like Kai, and he is part of the *in* crowd, so if he wants to champion it (since I know he doesn't like it), I'll accept it from him."

    Implicit is that the Linux kernel is officially closed to new contributors. The whole bkbits issue is all about the same thing.

  21. Re:What is the real reason? on KBuild Issues on the LKML · · Score: 2

    What was the RFC for TCP/IP packets being dropped vs. rejected? And can we implement it in Linus?

  22. Re:is this a good idea? on KBuild Issues on the LKML · · Score: 2

    The issue isn't getting Linus to merge a feature, its getting Linus to decide whter to merge a feature or not. People are wasting time maintaining code that may or may not be included in the official tree. Some of them would like an answer. How do you like it when you have a job interview then can't seem to ever get ahold of the recruiter. How long should you keep trying before you "get the hint?" Amd should you have to "get the hint" at all when a 5 second reply of 'sorry, we're not interested', or 'you'll have to excuse me, I'm a moron' would suffice.

  23. Re:That's the power of .NET on F# - A New .Net language · · Score: 2

    Smaller languages can really compete with popular languages...as long as they are c#

  24. Re:I'll believe it when I see it. on Can Superconductors Block Gravitational Fields? · · Score: 2

    "extraordinary proof" means something besides a stupid writeup in a club magazine. Most scientific "proofs" these days are nothing more than pieces of paper with ink on them that speculation about impossible conditions in nonexistent space with false math that are not observable but may exist (or be incorporated into a science fiction novel) sometime in the future.

    By extraordinary proof, they mean "at least some tiny shred of evidence." By which the poster means, it's not possible, and the club magazines sucks these days because the sci-fi has no characterization or plot.

  25. Re:Note that it can't generate antigravity fields on Can Superconductors Block Gravitational Fields? · · Score: 2

    Newton and Liebnitz didn't invent calculus independently either. And famous physicists are too bloody inventive these days. Not in physics, at least.