This is madness!!!

No... THIS.... IS..... MARS!!!!!!!

And this is my Illudium Pu-36 Explosive Space Modulator!

What are these ads of which you speak? NoScript and AdBlockPlus, and I haven't seen an ad on Slashdot in YEARS.... except for Slashvertisements, of course.

Aren't Nvidia's drivers identical for both Win and Linux? I thought the binary blob was the core of the Windows driver.

Nursing is just dispensing pills and cleaning patients?

Dude, you have no FUCKING idea of what you are talking about. I was married to a nurse for 25 years. It's WAY more than handing out pills and cleaning patients... hell, a monkey could do that.

Nurses are involved in creating patient care plans, providing ADVANCED technical care, and much much more...

Actually, "lede" is correct.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lede

Win 7 was qualitatively better than XP in every respect and always has been.

Couple of exceptions:

1. Tweaking network adapter settings. XP: right click on icon in tray. Win7: dig about four levels deep into Network Settings.

2. Full Screen Console Mode. Not possible with WDDM.

No, but it tends to have a lot of knotty problems...

That's not how I RTFA'ed. I saw it as

• * Egypt had (undocumented) knowledge of a few right triangles
• * Mespotamia had documented knowledge of many right triangles, -- including large ones, which would indicate knowledge of the theorem
• * India has the first documented statement of the theorem
• * China has the first documented proof of the theorem

Well, back to the old drawing board!

Also the slot machine wheels spinning and locking in. Also the handle pull.

The one requirement that seemed off to me was "3-6 drive slots".

In what universe does a laptop need more than 2 drives? (I'm assuming SSD and magnetic for the two drives). The need for optical can be handled by USB if needed.

Good. Because I wouldn't want to get the wrong rederick County Councilman Kirby Delauter.

I was going to post that link.
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In addition, it's an acrostic, where the first letter of each paragraph spells out his name.

Remember, KGB stood for "Ministry for State Security".
Sounds a hell of a lot like DHS, doesn't it?

Someone please mod parent up.