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  1. Re:Oh YEAH? on Ubuntu 9.04 Daily Build Boots In 21.4 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Hes referring to the weimar republic. You know when germany went through hyperinflation and had to use wheelbarrows to carry around money, i'm sure you've seen pictures.

  2. Re:Your Goal: One Second or Less on Ubuntu 9.04 Daily Build Boots In 21.4 Seconds · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow the reality distortion field is strong today. Modding a total lie to +5. . . . Oh no! . . Its pulling . in . . .
     
    SSDs if you think about it are a really innovative cost effective way to improve computers. Itunes DRM was never that big of a deal. I love you Jobs! Have my babies!

  3. Re:oh goodie on US Senate & House Create YouTube Channels · · Score: 1

    Oooo delicious irony, modded redundant not GP. And hey /. I thought redundancy was something to strive for. Yet I get modded down for it, that really hurts.

  4. Re:oh goodie on US Senate & House Create YouTube Channels · · Score: -1, Redundant

    retroactive abortion? ........ Isn't that a tad redundant?

  5. Re:Food for thought on Future Astronauts May Survive On Eating Silkworms · · Score: 1

    In a long term mission like one to mars we will need to create artificial gravity anyways. Though not quie as cool as 0g sex ... Maybe like .4g sex? you could prolly come up with some crazy positions.

  6. Re:ATTN: SWITCHEURS! on Future Astronauts May Survive On Eating Silkworms · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure no message has ever been deleted off of /. they've had requests from microsoft to do so in past which were summarily ignored. If you change your browse settings you don't have to see posts rated -1 making all the junk posts invisible.

  7. Correlation on 3 Cups of Coffee Increases Hallucinations · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why must we tag EVERYTHING correlationisnotcausation. Does /. suddenly have a patent disregard for statistics in it entirety? Seriously, what is the alternative here? People about to have a hallucination have a sudden caffeine urge before their episode? Looking at the study from both sides is good. Ignoring statistics entirely is cowardly. I see too many people ignoring them because they are offensive (religion correlates with violent crime, homocide, stds, abortion). And i mean blanket ignoring, not trying to deduce anything from the stats. I never used to think of /.ers as the types to plug their ears and go lalalala. But this meme is childish.

  8. Re:Sure, 17 year-olds believe this because of a ga on Halo 3 Criticized In Murder Conviction · · Score: 1

    In D2 hardcore mode if you died you DIED/

  9. Re:Sure, 17 year-olds believe this because of a ga on Halo 3 Criticized In Murder Conviction · · Score: 1

    I must be really confused about Easter then...

  10. Re:No on actually reads that thing on Halo 3 Criticized In Murder Conviction · · Score: 2, Funny

    It was Lot not moses. A mistake anyone could make. There are a lot of names in that book :p

  11. Re:Lost sleep? on How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? · · Score: 1

    Posting on /. ... then you aren't REALLY working are you... *pulls aside his coat so you can see the handle of the cat-o-9tails*

  12. Re:Lost sleep? on How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    not baffling, depressing. That working through lunch has become a standard...

  13. Re:The solution is... on IRS Eyeballing Virtual World Tax Policies · · Score: 1

    'In theory, you could hide assets in a game and in that way avoid triggering the AMT.'
    Fucking ingenious... though i'm sure there are easier ways than that.

  14. Re:Hardcore Slashdotters won't notice... on New Google Favicon Deja Vu All Over Again? · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is also a firefox addon which lets you pick your own favicons. I've got my whole bar filled with every site i'll ever need that way. :D

  15. Botting on 20+ Companies Sued Over OS Permissions Patent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I could make a bot/spider that scanned the whole internet for phrases that could be construed as ideas. Then have a bot copy that idea into a patent form and send it in. I figure it will cost me about 5million dollars or so to get a sizable chunk of ideas in the world. Then in 5years or i can sue every for several billion dollars.
      So who wants to invest in my company, Trolls R Us (NASDAQ: FUCK).

  16. Re:Final Fantasy on New Final Fantasy XIII Details, Website Launched · · Score: 1

    yeah true for 8,10,10-2,12 .... not true for 1~7,9,11. So we'll wait and see.

  17. Re:correction on Gaza Debate Goes Virtual · · Score: 1

    What? I cant even guess what you are talking about... Bangladesh?... 250,000people?
    As for the ones on the news, its not that at all. Its that the western world isn't currently supporting with billions of dollars massacres. If the gov were giving a few billion dollars to wipe out blacks in sudan i'd be equally pissed.
    And TV is resoundingly pro-Israel, I do my research. Unlike you apparently 10million executed?? ... And I probably know the history of the area better than you.

  18. Crap on USB 3.0 Is Ten Times Faster; Get It In 2010 · · Score: 1

    According to the summary USB 2.0 is already legacy tech. Excuse me while i go to the corner and cry for being horribly outdated.

  19. Re:correction on Gaza Debate Goes Virtual · · Score: 1

    Pst. The original zionists got the entire province of palestine for themselves from someone who was generally referred to as "the caliph". There was no conquest involved.

    Who?... Link?

    Pst. There is no such thing as "muslim land". The only land that was peacefully converted to islam is a tiny part of 1 city : medina. All the rest was conquered. That would be "muslim-occupied land".

    The arabs have been living and running the area for hundreds of years....

    And I get your point about going back in history. Israel however isn't ancient history. Africa is such a mess that I don't think we can bring it into this debate, but i do think they need alllot of help/fixing. But saying only one neighborhood is voluntary muslim is silly, I saw some muslims at school the other day and i'm ok with them living here. Generally though i'm fine with ending conquest :P i'm not pro muslim or arab. Just don't like seeing slaughters.

  20. Re:correction on Gaza Debate Goes Virtual · · Score: 1

    Ah, thanks for that correction. I heard the statistic and was repeating without verifying. The population referred to the west bank as well. Even so the point can still stand.

    "Over three-quarters of the current estimated population of some 1.4 million are registered refugees; representing 22.42 per cent of all UNRWA registered Palestine refugees." - http://www.un.org/unrwa/refugees/gaza.html

    "Today, some 300,000 Palestinian refugees reside in Lebanon" (Its increased since then) - http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE18/010/2007/en/dom-MDE180102007en.html

    "the 1.7 million refugees registered with UNRWA in Jordan." - http://www.un.org/unrwa/refugees/jordan.html

    And expect more in syria, the west bank, egypt and saudi arabia.

  21. Re:Bullshit on Mumbai Police To Enforce Wi-Fi Security · · Score: 1

    He is referring to india's mandatory key logging program in net cafe. There is a growing concern in india that this will spread to modems or routers. As evidenced by government being comfortable to set rules with how you use your home internet (enforced wpa)....

  22. Re:Second life sim on Gaza Debate Goes Virtual · · Score: 1

    No No. Israel WAS allowing people like the UN to bring gaza food and electricity. Then they stopped allowing it.
     
    Think of it this way. You are locked in a prison, your jailers allow friends to bring you food (enough to keep you alive). The jailers also bring you a sandwich a week. Then they stop giving you that sandwich and stop letting your friends send you sandwiches. Would you try to escape or starve to death? Because this is exactly the situation.

  23. Re:No actually it isn't on Gaza Debate Goes Virtual · · Score: 1

    They are pretty much doing non-violent protest atm. Not because they are saints or anything but i think alot of them have given up hope. Look at the numbers. Assuming there were only 200 militants in Gaza the chances that only 5 or so had chances to take out an IDF member before getting shot down are ridiculous. Its not a battle, its a slaughter.

  24. Re:correction on Gaza Debate Goes Virtual · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Yeah but the fact that Gaza's population is 1/3 what it used to be, 50% of the population living as refugees outside. Their borders are blocked and they arent allowed water or supplies from the outside, oh and they have no electricity cause their powerplants got bombed. Oh and that israel is running an 80:1 kill ratio. Oh and that what is now Israel used to be Gaza. Oh and that Israel has expanded every decade since its inception. Oh and the IDF have been accused of as many war crimes as hamas by international commisions they also have more weapons. Oh and that Israel ignores UN pleads to ceasefire. Oh and they wont sign the geneva convention. I can keep going if you'd like.....

  25. Re:correction on Gaza Debate Goes Virtual · · Score: 4, Informative

    Pst. It isn't their old homeland. Even if you read the bible god expelled the jews from the area. They have never owned or run any land in the area, they lived in the region sure. Oh and the orriginal Zionists were terrorists that carved a chunk out of muslim land for themself. After the holocaust nobody could politically say anything bad about the jewish people. And they were pitied so they were given land which had been promised to return to muslims. The borders were more than shaky since its inception and have since that date ever increased in israels favour thanks to them being significantly richer than their neighbors. Oh and as for expulsion, arabs have been expelled from israel more than a few times, the arabic population in israel is much much smaller than it was in the 80s obviously.