I love the USPS. Your absolute statement is now proven to be false.

My favorite meme is the wheel, followed by calculus as a close second.

I love those fuckers at Gandi.

Boring anecdote: I had to call my credit card company and authorize it for French transactions before I could purchase domains through them. No bullshit!

Actually, one of Aesop's fables specifically states that one wrong deserves another.

The Fox and the Stork: http://www.bartleby.com/17/1/19.html

Some people do think two wrongs do make a right, for instance, death penalty supporters think this way.

You again!!! I thought it was past your bedtime. TIMMY, GO TO BED!!!

ACs name calling?

Coward is rude when his actions are unaccountable. News at 11!

Said the AC.

I was a fluxbox user but switched to openbox with lxpanel a year or two ago and haven't looked back. Minimalism FTW!

RMS is not a violent man.

That comment was so funny I am now in love with you.

Luckily, my wife doesn't get jealous easily.

Nope. The bags of mostly water are too salty to drink from.

I know a rat that tried it once . . .

I suspect the answer to that "denial".

You seem to be the one that has not been taught correctly. The fundamental logical structure of hard drives is base two. You stated they are base 10 and that simply is not true. In a word, you are "wrong".

You cannot write a single byte to a hard drive. You write an entire sector at a time or nothing. There is no low level communication to the hard drive that allows a single by to be written. You cannot do so. Software can trick you into thinking you can but at the hardware level the smallest read or write is a sector. The logic to write one byte or ten bytes does not exist in the hard drive controller. The smallest addressable chunk for hard drives is a "sector" and the size of a sector in modern hard drives is most commonly 512 bytes. Two sectors equals 1024 bytes which is more commonly known as one kilobyte.

By your own argument, hard drive sizes should be reported as the base 2 format and not the base 10 formats.

This might sound harsh but you need to read it anyway. You (and the people that modded you up) need to go read the fucking manuals.

Mod parent up.

In many cases the holder of a patent is not the first person to discover a non-obvious meme (meme in the classic sense). The patent holder is the first to file, but not the first to discover. Finally, many a patent exists which should not. For instance many should never have been issued because the amount of existing prior art at the time the patent was granted should have invalidated it. The patent system is broken and this case is evidence of that.

Finally, how about this brilliant idea? How about the patent office's job gets changed? How about we as a society say, "Let's make the patent office's job more helpful to every person on the planet?" We could organize our labor in our own best interests. Funny how we don't do that.

How about its new job is to document, catalog and distribute patent knowledge to the whole human race? It doesn't hoard knowledge. Its job is to track science and engineering innovation and make sure other interested parties are kept informed of new developments in their fields. It would be a world library of human engineering knowledge. Then we could focus collectively on spreading our beautiful and terrible species throughout the known universe.

Or we can continue to be crabs in a pot -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality

What?