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Comment Re:Maybe because the movies were not that good? (Score 5, Informative) 360

Alec Guinness was already big before this movie, at least in the UK.

Seriously? Lawrence of Arabia? The Bridge on the River Kwai? Doctor Zivago? Great Expectations? Our man in Havana? I think Sir Alec was big all over the place, even before Star Wars. He just offered to help, because he was their only hope.

Comment Re:Approx. every other version of Windows is shit. (Score 2) 122

Maybe it's named after the apple tree:

The 'Spartan' is an apple cultivar developed by Dr. R.C Palmer and introduced in 1936 from the Federal Agriculture Research Station in Summerland, British Columbia, now known as the Pacific Agri-food Research Centre - Summerland.[1] The 'Spartan' is notable for being the first new breed of apple produced from a formal scientific breeding program.[2] The apple was supposed to be a cross between two North American varieties, the 'McIntosh' and the 'Newtown Pippin', but recently, genetic analysis showed the 'Newtown Pippin' was not one of the parents and its identity remains a mystery. The 'Spartan' apple is considered a good all-purpose apple.[3] The apple is of medium size and has a bright-red blush, but can have background patches of greens and yellows.[4]

Comment Re:A Language With No Rules... (Score 2) 667

I think non-native English users make all sorts of errors, while native speakers make the constistent errors that are all over the internet. For instance "between you and I" is the result of some mistaken political correctness, that you can never say "and me". It's horrible, it's ungrammatical and it must stop now. "Then/than" and "your/you're" problems aren't confined to non-natives either. PS: I am not a native speaker of English

Comment Re:The real shame of homeopathy is its origins (Score 2) 447

Samuel Hahnemann was the sole inventor of homeopathy, "not one of the first". And apparently he built a time machine too, and travelled from the "invention" of homeopathy in 1807 to become "key to the development" of vaccination in 1796. Amazing! Later he theorized that all disease originates from coffee.

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