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Comment Re:Fortunately (Score 1) 233

Because /. isn't about 'breaking stories' or 'investigative journalism' or anything of the kind. /. is about discussing recent news stories from your mom's basement, and it normally takes a moment or two for that news to to filter down through the carpet tiles and ventilation ducts. The delay is intentional.

As a bonus, this delay gives you time to formulate your rage into a semi-coherent rant for / against the subject and post it here for the world to point fingers at. Alternatively, you could just troll like everyone else does. Or post a link to goatse or tubgirl. Or your lame blog.

Or you know, you could actually get involved with the discussion.

Your call...

Comment Re:Three (Score 1) 674

They saw a chair try to hump a table and therefore said that the chair is a he and the table is a she.

In Italian, yes. In French, Catalan and Spanish both these items are feminine.

He must have been some real twisted SOB to come to the conclusion that a woman's vagina is a masculine noun!

Conversely, 'vagina' is only masculine in French. In Italian, Catalan and Spanish both these items are feminine.

Even though we lump them together under a common 'Romance' flag, the differences between the various constituent languages are enormous. It's these differences that retain my interest. I love the idea that there are whole chunks of words in French that are silent, but implied. Makes the language a bitch to learn though, unlike Spanish where it is spoken as read; where every letter is pronounced (and always with the same intonation).

For the record, I live in Barcelona with my French wife. While her Spanish (Castilian) is technically perfect, she often has problems making herself understood because she can't make the right sounds (the rolled double R in 'Tarragona', the J in 'cojones'). As a Scot, I have no problem with these, but trip up embarrassingly often on 'beaucoup' (beau cul)!

Comment Re:A few notes on the OS X version (Score 1) 436

On OSX you should take a moment to check out Camino. It's normally a couple of steps behind the latest Firefox release, but it's far more Mac-like with full support for the 'Services' menu, Keychain, speelchequer, etc. To automatically get the latest Camino nightlies that are somewhat closer to the Firefox releases, you may be interested in CaminoKnight.

You may miss a few common Firefox plugins, but at least Adblock is there...

Comment Re:"Get A Mac" (Score 1) 655

I think you'll find Rule #42 is:

"DON'T PANIC"

The rule in question is, I believe, #38. Perhaps you should take a moment to review the rules that have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months.

Take a flashlight.

Comment Re:Cars (Score 1) 665

In my experience, most dealer parts stores _will_ ask for a VIN for your vehicle if you ask them for a headlight; that way they can ensure you get the right part for your model year.

However, a VIN is not taken as proof of rightful ownership - in fact I can buy parts for anyone else's car without question. Why should computer parts be any different?

By the way, VIN number contains a redundancy ;)

Comment Re:Here are some other sources: (Score 2, Informative) 842

OK, I was gonna mod you 'troll', but I decided it would be best to counter your facile PAEDOPHILE!!1ONE jab with a couple of points of interest to, you know, give a little bit of context:

1. I assume you're talking about Aisha here, right? You cannot in all seriousness judge people who lived 1400 years ago by today's societal mores. Times change, history doesn't.

2. Educate yourself on the Age Of Consent in various countries today. For example, the AOC in Spain and Japan is currently 13, 12 in Mexico, and puberty in Bolivia. Ironically, in Saudi Arabia (Mo's birthplace) there are motions to establish 14 as the minimum age for marriage (extra-marital sex is illegal).

While #2 above might be an affront to your white Christian Western sensibilities, it has absolutely nothing to do with paedophilia.

Space

Space Litter To Hit Earth Tomorrow 443

A refrigerator-sized tank of toxic ammonia, tossed from the international space station last year, is expected to hit earth tomorrow afternoon or evening. The 1,400-pound object was deliberately jettisoned — by hand — from the ISS's robot arm in July 2007. Since the time of re-entry is uncertain, so is the location. "NASA expects up to 15 pieces of the tank to survive the searing hot temperatures of re-entry, ranging in size from about 1.4 ounces (40 grams) to nearly 40 pounds (17.5 kilograms). ... [T]he largest pieces could slam into the Earth's surface at about 100 mph (161 kph). ...'If anybody found a piece of anything on the ground Monday morning, I would hope they wouldn't get too close to it,' [a NASA spokesman] said."

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