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  1. Re:Some better statistics. on Customers Rate PC Vendors' Tech Support · · Score: 1
    76.3% of all statistics are invented on the spot

    I thought it was 85.4%!

  2. Re:Apex AD600 on Consumer Friendly (or Disney Hostile) DVD Players? · · Score: 1
    I'll vouch for the 1500!

    best part: it's cheap!

  3. Re:Some quotes of Edsger Dijkstra on Edsger Wybe Dijkstra: 1930-2002 · · Score: 1
    Feynman is the man.

    (Screw karma)

  4. Re:2 observations on The Golden Age of Cup Manufacturing · · Score: 1
    Yes - a person can kill himself by drinking too much water

    Something my grandpa always says: too much of a good thing is always bad. Even water. Have you heard of drowning?

  5. Re:Not just drinks... on The Golden Age of Cup Manufacturing · · Score: 1
    a question: do Pizza Huts in Brazil (and I know there are some, there was one in Barra years ago) follow the custom of having the "Maracana" sized pizzas?

  6. Raskin on GUIs for Everyone · · Score: 1

    Jef Raskin, for those who don't know, is the chap who told Steve Jobs about all the interesting stuff going on in PARC.

  7. Re:Perhaps... on NYT Discovers the Panopticon · · Score: 1

    Yeah, in the U.S. they send it to the Library of Congress in D.C.

  8. Re:Not such a great idea on Black Boxes to Track Driving Habits? · · Score: 1

    Or, if your kid is a smart, hardworking chap, buy him a car instead of making his grades suffer because of working and not studying. Or buy him a reasonable car. Or give him good values. yeesh.

  9. Re:But now you can live in certain places.... on 100th Anniversary of Air Conditioning · · Score: 1
    45 is hell. I'm from Rio, and when it got to 40, look the hell out. Esepecially with the bay and the ocean providing all that fun humidity everyone loves.

    I hear in Dakar, Senegal, (I think) you go to the mall and wait for the guy with a wet umbrella to come and take you inside. You don't ever turn off the air conditioning. Or so I hear.

  10. Re:Air conditioning has destroyed architecture on 100th Anniversary of Air Conditioning · · Score: 1
    Methinks Television had more to do with that than AC

    What do anonymous cowa........oh. right. Sorry.

  11. Re:lower temperature inside - what about outside? on 100th Anniversary of Air Conditioning · · Score: 1
    intolerable levels (more than 25 C)

    ??????? Where are you living in? Buffalo?

    No, even Buffalo is hot in summer. (I'd know, I lived in East Amherst, a suburb of Buffalo about 30 min. away.)

    You sure you don't mean 35? Back in Rio, where I'm from, there was this song called "Rio 40 degrees," cause that's how it got in summer. That is too much. It's winter there now. I came back day before yesterday from there, and in winter it made about 30. in day. It got to a freezing 19 at night.

  12. Re:does that work both ways? on World Cup Final · · Score: 1
    Speaking of that, I loved the banner I saw in the audience saying "God is Brazilian"

    The announcer didn't say anything, though. (I was watching Globo, the Brazilian channel.)

    Am I the only one who hates Galvao Bueno?

  13. Re:Darn, now on the next Karoake night... on World Cup Final · · Score: 1
    Ouvirao do Ipiranga as Margens placidas

    Um povo forte, bravo e retumbante...

    It's pretty hard for ME, and I'm Brasilian!

  14. Re:Not only physics... on Physics in the Movies · · Score: 1

    Where, and please tell me they locked the fucker up. For a long, long time.

  15. Re:OS X: Xerox PARC on Walmart Ships PCs with Lindows OS · · Score: 1

    And I guess Xerox PARC were real innovators when they stol their UI from Douglas Englebart.

  16. Re:excuse me but on Mozilla 1.1 Alpha Released · · Score: 1
    *[no rants please about upgrading my connection, there is nothing better available, not even 56K, where I live]

    Dude, upgrade your connection!

    :-) j/k

  17. Re:California high speed rail a boondoggle on Riding the World's Fastest Train @ 500 kph · · Score: 1
    That was dumb. Sorry to reply to my own post, but it's Bay Area Rapid Transportation.

    Oops!

  18. Re:California high speed rail a boondoggle on Riding the World's Fastest Train @ 500 kph · · Score: 1
    Bart. B-A-R-T. BART!

    The Bay Area Transportation Service.

    Why hasn't anyone mentioned bart yet? It takes me from Danville to Walnut Creek to Dublin to Pitsburgh to Oakland to Market or Powell streets in San Fransisco.

    Useful? HELL, yes. Very, very good. We don't need high-speed rail in the Bay Area: we already have it. Now, if it ran faster, well, that would rule. :-)

    But they're (reasonably) cheap, (reasonably) clean and pretty damn convenient.

  19. Re:When I was in HS 8 years ago... on Games in High School? · · Score: 1
    You played unregistered doom. That's funny, considering last year, as a freshman in HS (You can tell I'm a Sophomore now? Good.) the science teacher got a bunch of older computers (PI 166s, I think) and we, the programming class (consisting of Visual Basic 3 times a week) networked them out of our own pockets to play Doom during lunch.

    Now, this was last year. DOOM. It was so old school!

  20. Re:Iceland is awesome on Iceland to Voluntarily Go Oil Free in 30-40 Years · · Score: 1

    Brazil uses government subsidized alcohol. Sugar Cane production is huge. We're a big country. The pollution problem doesn't go completely away, but, well, we're much more self-sufficient, especially since Petrobras, the Brazilian oil company, supplies most of the rest.

  21. Re:Not All Condoms are Alike: on Subversive Gifts for New College Students? · · Score: 1
    And no, I'm not trying to pimp for that online store-

    Pimp? good verb use, considering the context of the post.

    :-)

  22. Re:Spoiler! Or is it? on The Empire Stumbles · · Score: 1

    Independence Day? Overly patriotic? You kidding me? The American President saving the world on July 4th? Naaaaaaaaaaah.

  23. Re:Katz is even more pathetic than usual on The Empire Stumbles · · Score: 1
    Speaking of burning karma, you forgot "post-Columbine," and, the new favorite, elephantine.

    (Look at this and his previous articles, you'll see what I mean.)

  24. Re:Other factors on The Empire Stumbles · · Score: 1

    I'll be amazed if SM makes any significent money outside the US Right, cause if we don't have it in the UK, no one else does! I guarantee you many, many Brazilians will watch the movie. Comics are very big, and everyone knows the story.

  25. Re:DMCA? on Home-built 747 Simulator · · Score: 1

    That's right! Those damn feds... always messing with our violations of copyri----wait, that was dumb!