Now all we need is to figure a way to get all the cabon-laden pollution to be recycled into graphene and we'll be all set. How plausible would that be once the technology is refined enough?

It is a South Africanism, in that everything here gets turned into a race issue whether it has anything to do with race or not. Despite the fall of apartheid and having a democratically elected government, the new 'leadership' still has a vested interest in creating the perception that whites are still out to get blacks - it's a nice diversion to distract their voters away from the government's corruption and hypocrisy. Everything the ANC seems to do these days creates the impression that they deliberately keep their own supporters beaten down in order to retain their support, blaming the supporters misfortune on racism and 'the legacy of apartheid'. I get the impression that we'll still be blaming apartheid in another 50 years time... that is assuming that the ANC doesn't finally give up all pretenses and just publicly turn the country into another Zimbabwe, rather than trying to do it behind the scenes.

An unfortunate side-effect of the continuous cry of racism is that a (hopefully small and insignificant) number of the youth of today are growing up indoctrinated with the belief that everything is still a race issue. A key example of this is the leader of the ANC youth league, Julius Malema. While he's generally ridiculed universally for his stupid utterances and ridiculous beliefs, the sad reality is that he actually believes in what the rest of us consider to be drivel. And he is poised to rise into the leadership of the ANC and therefore the country within the next decade or two.

Every time you read a report of something being connected to racism in South Africa, take it with a grain of salt. Yes, there is still a lot of racism going on, but it's the same sort that you experience anywhere else... nowhere near what we used to have. It's sad to see the ANC that fought so hard to end apartheid is now working so hard to ensure that it prevails.

Wonderful.... burning is a great way to reduce trash, as long as you don't care about air pollution.

Never mind the fact that you don't need an iAnything to use the web or to have a high quality web browsing experience. If you don't have flash though, you are locked out of a lot of content. Flash is impacting the openness of the web; Apple, with their iPhones and iPads does not impact the openness of the web.

Its a clear distinction and an extremely important one.

Need i say more?

It'd be fairly easy to make the installer relatively safe for people with seizure disorders. If you can't use even office apps on a PC without getting a seizure, then you shouldn't be installing computer software anyway.

You can lead a horse to water...

Forcing someone to sit in a training class doesn't mean they'll actually learn anything beyond what it takes to complete the course. For everything else, the helpdesk will pull their fat out of the fire.

Does anyone remember playing an old school NES game called StarTropics? Half way through the game you were asked for a random 3 digit code, and had to provide it before you could continue. The code was inside the manual, and you had to run water over a page to make the code magically appear. Oddly enough, I still remember the code was 747.

Yeah, but you're assuming I'm dumb enough to let somebody borrow one of my guns. Like hell I would. These people did something dumb, and now they're complaining about it. If they wanted to have expansive use definitions for samples that they voluntarily surrendered, they should have had those terms in writing. Then if this had still happened, they could sue. The end.

Continue to rage againt the machine brah. Cut your internet btw, there is no way your ISP has clean hands.

You don't seem to understand that we can wisely and selective decide how and where and with whom we associate.

So you fly off the handle and start mocking people who act in such a way.

libvirt will launch plain qemu instead of the KVM version. You could use the QEMU Accelerator to speed up the basic qemu.

Never mind that people actually pay more for "collector's editions" of games, which generally are just more packaging... http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/01/img273.jpg http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360/image/article/924/924565/fallout-3-collectors-edition-20081028113013731_640w.jpg I suppose Ubisoft would need to focus on making consumers happy as opposed to squeezing them for every last penny.

It's been the case for a while; not too many people in postcolonial studies are big fans of science. There's a decent amount of writing accusing scientific study of non-Western cultures of "epistemic violence", by displacing another culture's explanations with Western-science-culture's explanations.

That sounds more like a "brown" initiative.

Bullshit, Hollywood proves that a million rehashes of the same story can coexist.

And for everything he wrote, it was never a matter of what he wrote about, but how he wrote it.

Lastly, he would have probably given us even more good quotes about lawyers and maybe someone would have acted up one of them by now.