Exactly, Algol60 was the language that targeted Die-kstra. Seemed to have missed him though.

http://www.pfizer.com/files/annualreport/2010/financial/financial2010.pdf page 53 says it all. About twice as much on advertising as on R&D. Not counting the sales 'scientific' conferences they fund from the R&D budget...

What would have happened in the US would be that the Americans would invade the wrong country and start hunting muslims there, while sacrificing all civil rights at home. Good thing that didn't happen.

Something like this you mean? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haywain_Triptych

Around here you can get an early upgrade from a competitor: get a new phone and finish your old contract...

http://translate.google.com/#en|es|cunt

>How many companies hire aerospace engineers, for example? Or wheat geneticists?
Right now? Plenty: MacDonalds, Burger King ...

The command is explained in section 1 of of the man pages.
You would say 'sandbox (8)' for redhat (default SELinux enabled) systems. Claiming no OS today allows you to run an application that way is just a bit of friendly trolling.

I still make a difference between advertising and spam.
I'm glad the law around here doesn't anymore.
Unsollicitated bulk E-mail of any kind is treated exactly the same: The advertiser receives a warning and is fined if the spam continues. Despite popular opnion on slashdot that this cannot work, I have not received spam from any nearby company since early this year.
Apparently the real cause of spam is not people clicking on the ads, it is the people paying the spammers to send out the ads.

Surely you meant: "break into usajobs.gov and put an interview in the recruiters diary" ?

If the mission results are going to be used by the numbers two and three in IT, perhaps they could be persuaded to fork out an hours worth of bonuses to sponsor the project?

Really? You prefer to be forced to print on US Letter or A4, even when the closest shop selling that particular paper size is 5000 miles and an ocean away?

Probably partly because it's the oldest ccTLD. It also has a good standing for (local) business use, as it has been around and used in radio ads since the 80's.

I can skim it 100 times and will still not have understood it
Don't worry, it's probably just a symptom of a very common condition known as 'stupidity', most of my co-workers suffer from it.

I'm glad you replied. It saves us the trouble of putting down the 'your disease can be cured if you want it enough' loonies.
Especially as you are suffering from side-effects of an essentially 'herbal' treatment.