Exactly. I don't care if a tiger bites because it's intrinsically violent or because it's been mistreated; in either case I'm not going to poke my fingers through the bars.

The total number of atheist[s] in the US [wikipedia.org] compromises[comprises] only about 6% of the population. A president would have to represent at least 50% of the population and the 6% number is less than the number of people who voted for Ross Pero[t] in the 90s when he was one of the most popular independent candidates.

One, you're assuming they'd vote based solely on religion. God help us if everyone was as dumb as you, or as dumb as that, if there's a difference.

Two, you're assuming that there's only one religion.

Percentages of what? The portion of GDP going to industry X could fall if somebody found a way of making X much more cheaply.

But that's a good thing, right, even if you like X?

Ah, that explains why nobody's ever been prosecuted for it - because nobody does it, because there's nothing to gain from it.

Apart from British Airways, Qantas, Air France, Lufthansa, Heineken, Danone, Siemens, Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric, Toshiba, Sainsbury's, Asda, Safeway, Dairy Crest, Robert Wiseman Dairies, The Cheese Company, ABN Amro, Hynix, Infineon, Micron Technology, Samsung.

But that has black text. For the modern UX-approved look the text should be very light grey, as should all the icons.

Contrast is so utilitarian. Ugly, ugly!

IOW, they've reinvented NetworkManager/nw-applet?

what happens when you have two astrophysicists studying the same topic and disagree?

I think you resolve it by killing a cat.

Or maybe you don't.

What is going to happen when some naive person, say a Congressman or Senator, wanders onto Slashdot and see's posts like that marked "Informative"?

They'll say "What the carnations is that apostrophe doing there? It's not even a plural!"

Funny is it's own reward.

Saints preserve us.

If they had a sense of shame, embarassment, or pride in their work then that would at least be an improvement.

Could happen, but they'd have to sober up first.

Go on, but please speak up.

See, I'm already running for the hills wailing about how the tree knitting yoghurt huggers want to take away my hummer.

Choosing to cook brussel sprouts (aka stillborn cabbages) is poor planning.

Don't overcook them. Add a good splosh of lemon juice to the cooking water. And whatever you do, don't overcook them.

They do make good 'edible' missiles.

When I eat them they become a chemical weapon.

Well since you brought it up, it's rather odd that none of them is a ginger.

It can be argued that GMO replicates a completely natural process-- evolution.

It can be argued that 1, like all other odd numbers, is a prime.

Your point was what?

Sciarntists is an anagram of tairsts. Well, nearly. Better safe than sorry.

SHOOT ANYONE WEARING A WHITE COAT

How many machines are out there that don't have a DVD drive? OK, I have one, gathering dust. I'll modify the question: how many machines are in use that have a CD drive but not a DVD one?

The last time I used Live Build, it produces (by default) an image that will work on USB or optical media.
http://live.debian.net/manual/...

If size is the problem, you can customize what packages are installed till you get below 700M.

No really sure what you're whining about, to be honest.