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  1. Re: Quite warm beneath the car, right? on How the World's Fastest Electric Car Is Pushing Wireless Charging Tech · · Score: 1

    "And there will be a fire; sooner or later, it will happen!" then it will definitely be more like F1, they used to fill up with fuel during a race and had fires as a result

  2. anecdotes aren't evidence. i'd prefer to see some evidence

  3. Re:Oblig. on Fish Raised On Land Give Clues To How Early Animals Left the Seas · · Score: 1

    not Ned Flounders?

  4. Re:The US slides back to the caves on Limiting the Teaching of the Scientific Process In Ohio · · Score: 0

    "And we will until something better comes along. " - i doubt you'll ever get anything better or as simple as the metric system

  5. Re:The US slides back to the caves on Limiting the Teaching of the Scientific Process In Ohio · · Score: 1

    "I think you'll find that most people include Russia as part of Europe." - they do???

  6. Re:My opinion on the matter. on Choose Your Side On the Linux Divide · · Score: 1

    it depends what your server is doing, years ago we had SCO branch servers and they took 15 minutes to complete a reboot due to all the services it started, nothing was started in parallel. if you've got a customer at the counter relying on comms with Head office systems via the branch server, it makes a good reason for a fast reboot if something crashes.

  7. Re: WTF is up with the title of this article... on Munich Council Say Talk of LiMux Demise Is Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    I think it was the deputy mayor who lost the election to become mayor

  8. Re: LibreOffice on Munich Council Say Talk of LiMux Demise Is Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    i've had plenty of incompatibility between 2 version of Word in the past.

  9. Re:NT is best on Munich Council Say Talk of LiMux Demise Is Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 2

    "The desktop environments (Gnome, KDE, Xfce, ect.) on Linux are ugly, slow, buggy, and generally shitty. But, as a Linux zealot, you have no choice, thus you embrace them, warts and all."

    pot, kettle black. you've obviously never used a linux desktop.

  10. Re:Okay... and? on For Microsoft, $93B Abroad Means Avoiding $30B Tax Hit · · Score: 2

    They should just pay the taxes in the country it was earned, not set up elaborate tax avoidance schemes. the world would be a better place if all the global companies paid the tax they should.

  11. Re:The real crime here on 33 Months In Prison For Recording a Movie In a Theater · · Score: 1

    when are you moving to ISIS?

  12. Re:Do the math on New EU Rules Will Limit Vacuum Cleaners To 1600W · · Score: 1

    They'd do better to ban vacuum cleaners that still use bags to collect the dust

  13. Re:Here's the interesting paragraph on Would Scottish Independence Mean the End of UK's Nuclear Arsenal? · · Score: 1

    yep, we'll have to find and pillory the ones that support Scotland staying in but want to be out of Europe

  14. Re:Here's the interesting paragraph on Would Scottish Independence Mean the End of UK's Nuclear Arsenal? · · Score: 1

    here's what could happen if they don't take their share http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

  15. Re:close to population on Would Scottish Independence Mean the End of UK's Nuclear Arsenal? · · Score: 1

    Did you actually read the article you posted? This is in the first paragraph of the said article..

    'Secret plan to let [the] Nazis take Scotland' claiming that 'Scotland would have been abandoned to the Germans in the event of a Second World War invasion, according to new research'. None of this is true, not in any way. It's a 'factoid' – 'an item of unreliable information that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact'. [Oxford English Dictionary] The problem is that this 'fact' has since been used frequently to justify a 'Yes' vote in the referendum, by re-writing history and, in some cases, pandering to anti-English sentiment, and it's been attached to my name, as the person who did the research.

    I think you'd better read the rest of the article as soon as possible

  16. Re:No it will not. on Would Scottish Independence Mean the End of UK's Nuclear Arsenal? · · Score: 1

    no, you have to be in the EU for that and they wont be.

  17. Re:No it will not. on Would Scottish Independence Mean the End of UK's Nuclear Arsenal? · · Score: 1

    "UK is probably better served with Scotland staying with the pound than switching to the Euro."

    i doubt it. Remember Salmond and Strugeon claiming "we're being bullied" when all the parties in UK said they will not allow a currency union. Imagine if there was a currency union and if Scotlands economy either overheated or collapsed and the only cure was to inflate/deflate the currency (or play with interest rates) but those actions would disrupt the rest of the UK, so its refused, just imagine what they will bleat then. That is why a currency union would be refused by the UK

  18. Re:No it will not. on Would Scottish Independence Mean the End of UK's Nuclear Arsenal? · · Score: 1

    you need to read this then http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/n...

  19. Re:Should be interesting RE- Nato on Would Scottish Independence Mean the End of UK's Nuclear Arsenal? · · Score: 1

    "'they'll try and use their current position of being British to just seamlessly slot into NATO and the EU' This is because we are part of these unions and there's no reason to think we'd be kicked out" - the EU has already told them that they cannot do this. once out of the UK, they are out of the EU. Its even in teh scottish papers http://www.scotsman.com/news/p...

  20. Re:Should be interesting RE- Nato on Would Scottish Independence Mean the End of UK's Nuclear Arsenal? · · Score: 1

    you need to get more info on this. All other countries that have areas within them wanting independence e.g. Spain, will veto Scotlands leap into the EU without going through all the necessary legal entry procedures. Once Scotland leaves the UK they are no longer EU citizens.

  21. Re:No. It would not. on Would Scottish Independence Mean the End of UK's Nuclear Arsenal? · · Score: 1

    "Scotland will no longer be subsidizing the UK" - i think you are trolling, anyway london virtually subsidizes the rest of the UK on its own

  22. Re:Nope on Would Scottish Independence Mean the End of UK's Nuclear Arsenal? · · Score: 1

    Scots would probably lose all the normal ship building jobs in Glasgow etc as well

  23. Re: Why focus on the desktop? on Linus Torvalds: 'I Still Want the Desktop' · · Score: 1

    "we ALL also have read our share of Linux users on these comment-pages that believe that paying for software (and I don't mean FOSS) is something that doesn't apply to them"

    i think you live in an alternative dimension with a bollox comment like that

  24. Re:Linux could own the desktop... on Linus Torvalds: 'I Still Want the Desktop' · · Score: 1

    so did KDE waste resources in the redesign?

  25. Re:Well, you have mine. on Linus Torvalds: 'I Still Want the Desktop' · · Score: 1

    reboot for kernel updates or app updates? i never reboot for app updates