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  1. Re:DSL with fixed IP Address on Geek Gift Ideas 2001 · · Score: 1
    Pacbell.net

    384 - 1.5 down

    128 up

    39.99 a month. free install.

    sweeeeeet!

  2. Re:the iPod on Geek Gift Ideas 2001 · · Score: 1
    Your sig, the "Holy Toledo! This is big!" thing?

    It still gets me every time. *Sighs* cuecat...

  3. Re:Brazil is same order of magnitude on French Government Online-Why Isn't the U.S.? · · Score: 1
    In Brasil, we can use our state-provided "numbers" and voter declarations to see our tax returns and declare inelligibility. Likewise, we can take a stroll around the digital national library and download some famous romance, or poetry, or maybe check out what the president is up to, while looking up federal laws. In fact, the government provides a link to every large ministry we have. To see what other governments around the world have for online tax and immigration services, click here.

    Oh, how the world has changed!

  4. Re:More security improvements on Apple's New, Improved Airport · · Score: 1

    *Smacks himself on forehead*

  5. Re:YAGOD (Yet Another Geek-Only Distro) on Conectiva Linux 7.0 Review · · Score: 2, Informative
    Does the world need another distribution that caters only to geeks?

    Perhaps the U.S. doesn't. But this is A Brazilian product, and technical support is gonna be in Portuguese. (Or Spanish, if you stretch it.)

    The Brasilian people, yes, DO need a nice geek-catering distro, if only because it has techsupport in Portuguese.

  6. Re:It could also generates eletricity on Pedal Your Way Through Quake · · Score: 1
    is that the correct spelling?


    Nao, o jeito correto e "rationing."

    :-)

    But i doubt it would generate less-than-negligible power.

  7. Re:Rune is pretty fun, but the reviewer has issues on Rune for Linux Review · · Score: 1
    Frogger, yes.

    However, you can't go blaming people for being young.

  8. Re:Rune is pretty fun, but the reviewer has issues on Rune for Linux Review · · Score: 1
    Are you 15 years old

    I liked the comment, but I resent the above.

    I'm 15. And I've played most (not Shadows, MDK, Armargetron, Tuxracer) of the mentioned games. Age has *nothing* to do with gaming. Unless you're under a certain age, you can have played many great games.

    Furthermore, age (or lack thereof) does not mean tendency towards playing shooters; many of my friends have played, say, Monkey Island, Wolfenstein, etc.

    So don't discriminate against us young people.

  9. Re:My thoughts... on Review: Monsters, Inc. · · Score: 1
    but I didn't see a single spelling mistake

    Third paragraph, first sentence.

    "Exceptins"

    Blergh.

  10. Re:Aliens and Non-Residents on Anti-Terrorism Law Passed · · Score: 1
    The Alien and Sedition Acts.

    Made by the Federalists, I believe, to keep dem-rep sympathizers (immigrants, who went west, and were therefore farmers) out of voting.

    Jefferson and Madison decided to protest, and since the Federalists controlled all 3 branches, they got the states of Virginia and Kentucky to pass laws contradicting the federal law. This act was often used by Jefferson Davis to advocate states' rights to secede.

    Just some historical background...

  11. Re:Some contradiction here? on Slashdot Updates · · Score: 1
    A few other things like messages were added with Banjo!

    What? I get more things added cause of my username???

    :-)

  12. Re:Ogg on What Sounds Better, MP3 or Ogg? · · Score: 1
    I'm waiting for them to support things other than mp3.

    The Rio Volt supports another format....WMA!!!

    (I couldn't resist.)

  13. Re:It is time... on US Starts Attacking Afghanistan · · Score: 1
    I wouldn't quite call it forefather-bashing. Just kinda remining people that these peoples aren't gods. Have you read Loewen's Lies my teacher told me ? I Have to read it for my history class. (AP US History) So please, none of the historical revisionism argument. I hear it too much every day. In fact, our textbook, A People and A Nation (from whence I took the Jefferson quotation) is written with such criticism in mind. Another funny thing about Jefferson, is the "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Knowledge" bit. John Locke had an interestingly similar frase...."Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Property."

    A source for that? Just google it. Here's one I found quickly.

    Yes, true, Jefferson was a GREAT writer. The preamble to the Decl. of Ind. is quite great. And that idiocy of "creating a Union better then the U.S." is quite stupid. I never criticized American government, simply reminded you that the American forefathers are not as perfect as the textbooks make them out to be.

  14. Re:It is time... on US Starts Attacking Afghanistan · · Score: 1
    I will make no comments on the Afghani situation, just a funny thing about your "best."

    "blacks are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind." -Thomas Jefferson

    As for Ben Franklin.......well, this speaks for itself! [amazon.com]

  15. Re:So Long, and thanks for all the fish on Yahoo Serious Fights Yahoo! trademark · · Score: 1
    I knew I had seen it somewhere.....

    God, did I love that series.....too bad he's dead now. I remember when he died.....downloaded the whole audio series.

  16. Re:Oh dear so 'Serious' might be trademarked ? on Yahoo Serious Fights Yahoo! trademark · · Score: 1
    Sorry, but Mostly Harmless is already taken.

    I am positive that I've seen that in some computer game somewhere......wasn't it a setting in DOOM?

  17. Re:Philology on Review: Tolkien's World · · Score: 1

    Isn't that philantropy?

  18. Re:We had it coming... on World Trade Towers and Pentagon Attacked · · Score: 1
    The Arabs had it _before_ Abraham, that's what I'm saying. And it was called Palestine back then. It's in da Bible.

    But everyone's wrong, and you won't answer me (Being an AC) so it doesnt matter.

  19. Re:Nope, Religionism on Attacks On US Continued Reports · · Score: 1
    If your God says it's OK to kill people, your God is fucked up.

    Hence the reason the Arabs hate the Israelites: The Israelites invaded Palestine after leaving Egypt (milleniae ago) and killed everybody in name of God. Then the Arabs kicked them out, after the Israelites were enslaved and sent to Ur, Babylon. (Where they learned how to write and made the Old Testament)

    So anyways, the Israelites made it back. Of course the Palestinians want them out. And whenever the Israelites are opposed, they immediately label any such person as anti-semitic and a holocaust-supporting evil nazi person.

  20. Re:We had it coming... on World Trade Towers and Pentagon Attacked · · Score: 1
    They're surrounded by people who hate them for a very good reason: They were there first. The Arabs lived in Palestine since antiquity, until the liberated Jewish slaves from Egypt took it over and killed everyone in name of God.

    The Jews believe themselves to be God's Chosen People, and that everyone is inferior to them. And you wonder why people don't like them? Cause if they could, they'd oppress everybody.

    Of course, this is the Jewish institution. There are many perfectly nice Jewish people. Well, you know what i mean. And whenever someone has the gut to stand up to Israel, the Jews immediately call that person a racist anti-semite. Come ON!

  21. Re:We had it coming... on World Trade Towers and Pentagon Attacked · · Score: 1
    So therefore, everyone's wrong.

    5000 or so years ago, the poor Arabs were kicked out by the Isralites who killed everybody in the area in name of God. (They came from Ur.) Then the Arabs took their land back. (The Crusades.)

    Then, again, the Jews, "God's Chosen People" take their land AGAIN. And people expect the Arabs to be ok with that. I won't even get into the atrocities thing.

    Then the Jews complain everyone wants to kill them. Gee, wonder why? Cause they think everyone is inferior to themselves. That's why. The Arab idea to kill all Jews is just as wrong, but you have to identify with the Arab point of view first.

  22. Re:This is not a good trend to cheer. on Brazil Breaks Patent to Make AIDS Drug · · Score: 1
    First of all, the inflation problem today is *nothing* compared to the 250% a month of two decades ago.

    Second of all, it's a philosophical question: should the masses suffer later to save the few (though still many) now?

    I don't know. But the government thinks so.

  23. Re:This is not a good trend to cheer. on Brazil Breaks Patent to Make AIDS Drug · · Score: 1
    Speaking of that "stealing food" thing, I was reminded of Les Miserables.

    Was Jean Valjean at fault for stealing bread to support 8 people? Hugo thinks not. He says that Jean was forced by society, which created these circumstances. What you think about this is your answer to the patent problem.

  24. Re:This is not a good trend to cheer. on Brazil Breaks Patent to Make AIDS Drug · · Score: 1
    short-sighted?

    I don't think so. It was a thought-out choice. Simply put, the lives of the many (i should say few, but there are a lot) outweighed the future inconveniences of the whole. And I agree. I am Brasilian. A lot of my family are M.D.s, and all of them are somehow involved in treating AIDS patients. What really kills me is looking at the picture in my uncle's refrigerator and seeing him with some patients: 8 toddlers, all with AIDS.

    What do they have to do with patents, and money, and effort?

  25. Re:This is not a good trend to cheer. on Brazil Breaks Patent to Make AIDS Drug · · Score: 1
    those in the western countries

    Western countries? And where is Brazil? Asia?