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Comment Repost (sorta): we had this sort of article before (Score 3, Insightful) 219

I gave up on being a Wikipedia editor a long time ago, what a waste of time trying to be helpful and make the articles better. Even doing a simple edit like "its" for an incorrect "it's" got nasty emails sent to be almost immediately about it, and the edits reverted in no time. All I ever wanted to do was correct minor grammatical and typographical errors, which never would have gotten past an editor in a "real" encyclopedia, and make for better looking articles. The grief I got for it..., well, it wasn't much fun. They want editors, they get them, the editors give up in disgust. It's also why I haven't given them a dime.

Everything2 was what Wikipedia should have been. Much better class of people there.

Comment Re:Severed limbs mailed to political parties? (Score 2) 289

I never really understood this in the movie. No blood on the ground...

Guess you never read the book, then. Coppola had to leave a lot out from the book, including how this scene got set up. Coppola had to leave so much out, he left enough material for the sequel.
Want to know why Woltz was so pissed at Hayden at the dinner?
Want to know happened to Sonny's goomah after his death?
More about Johnny Fontane's career (and why Sinatra tried to stop the movie's production)?
About the doctor who played a very significant part in the book, left completely out in the movie?
How Michael found out about Vitelli (who bombed the car)?
Why Michael fell for Apollonia so hard? And then why he rekindled a relationship with Kay?
Where Neri came from, why he was tied to Michael?
Why Don Tommasino was so big a part of the Godfather's life, and why the Godfather was so bothered by Luca Brasi?
All that and more...

It's all in the book.

Comment I'm sorry, but... (Score 1) 184

I will not be incorporating any insects aside from water crustaceans into my diet. They may be nutritious, may be tasty, but the "yuck" factor is simply too great to overcome.

Maybe I could if they were processed, but surely someone will make a big deal about the loss of nutrition with processes insect products.

Comment Bees and ants are distantly related... (Score 1) 47

and from the Wiki bee article, seem to live rather similar lives:

"For the first 10 days of their lives, the female worker bees clean the hive and feed the larvae. After this, they begin building comb cells. On days 16 through 20, a worker receives nectar and pollen from older workers and stores it. After the 20th day, a worker leaves the hive and spends the remainder of its life as a forager."

Most of the other related general in the bee/ant world also lead similar lives. So I wonder what the researchers were expecting.

Comment Re:Does anyone read books like this anymore? (Score 1) 81

Not sure if I should be glad or ashamed: I also have the entire MSVC 1.5 doc set, along with the full MASM 6.1 doc set, in a bookshelf behind me. Yes, it's two full shelves of old dead trees. Haven't touched those book since '96, but there they still are. And both you and I have 5-digit UIDs.
The rest of you: get the hell off my lawn, dammit!

I like Sobell's books, I have a number of his and Kochan's book going back years. Always very well-written books. But for 1200 pages, I'll wait for the PDF.

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