Base 12 system like the imperial was widely used before by merchant because it is easily divisable with 2,3,4 and 6. Which comes in handy when trading goods.

The meter is not arbitrary at all, it is based on the distance from the equator to the north pole. There are 40 000 meters around the earth.

I wonder how it come that some people become patent trolls? I can't imagine anyone's childhood dream was; "when I am big, I am going to be a lawyer, a POWERFUL! lawyer that will sue everyone I know and anyone I can find".

Probably, these people are forced to become patent troll by their financial circumstance, we should not be angry at them. They deserve our pity and help from their awful situation that has lead them to live a life of a destructive harbringer of everything good and cuddly.

Business cards are the best thing for doing business. You want that number to a person who you know can get you what you need. Simply get the business card and there you have it.

You do know that democrcy(greek etmyology) and republic(roman latin etmyology) have the same meaning, right?

Who would have known, there are several different people posting on /.

I just got the job as an advertisement designer half a year ago. I went from printing a few A4 papers per year to probably used up a few trees on my own in this half year I have been employed.

Heey, don't say that, Canonical's biggest contribution to the open source world has been to Gnome as they created a a set of icons. Accidently that is pretty much the only contribution they have made upstreams.

If I am not suppose to mess around with the files in /dev, how am I ever going to mount my media? Sorry to say but you are speaking crazy. Better to learn the simple way instead of relying on the ill-functioning script some kiddie at Canonical wrote.

I loooove my cancer, I can't live without my cancer!

Lucky for me I am not under US laws >)

My friend set his arm on fire under one the experimental lessons we had in chemistry class in 9th grade. No injuries, though I never saw him wearing that sweater again.

The borg side of me want to make use of this technology for evil purposes such as programming people. While my benevolent side think this is really exciting cybernetic tool to enhance the human capabilities.

Ahhhhhh! Anonymous is here, run for your life!