Comment: Re:Same kids (Score 1) 97
Why do people on slashdot feel the need to make points about things of which they have no information?
'Cause they don't have wikireaders
Comment: Re:Playing the race card again (Score 1) 1078
A pox on both your frickin' houses.
Relativity: A grook with no reference whatever to the two-party system
To wear a shirt that's relatively clean,
You needn't ever launder off the dirt
If you possess two shirts to choose between
and always change into the cleaner shirt.
-- Piet Hein
Comment: Re:Focus all you want... (Score 4, Funny) 207
Yes. I just downloaded a Kobe book - so far, half way into it, I'm finding it a much better experience. Every. Single.Amazon.Book. that I've purchased has numerous, obvious typos. . . .
s/Kobe/Kobo/
Comment: Re:My theory (Score 1) 1010
Also rip the Type R badging off an old Honda. That'll add a least 25 HP to your laptop.
But my laptop is a Dell. Why would I want to add Hewlett-Packards to it?
Comment: Re:Wacky physics, or... (Score 1) 44
And the gravity of the Sun, Jupiter, Mars, and your neighbor's Honda Civic... and that's just the tip of the iceburg
I knew Dirk Gently was right about "the fundamental interconnectedness of all things"!
Comment: Re:How is this gasping news (Score 1) 443
If you re-read the post you will find that it was the drunk driver not the victim who was using a cell phone.
Comment: Re:mSATA SSDs (Score 1) 347
"How many of each kind did Moses bring on the Ark?"
Well, there were 2 cherubim. And although Poland hadn't been invented yet, there were also 2 Poles.
Comment: Re:Aaaaaand It's Gone!!! (Score 5, Insightful) 232
You've clearly never gone camping in the winter. Winter is much easier to deal with; just grab a snowball. Cleaner than toilet paper.
I don't think you know what "easier to deal with" means.
Comment: Re:The ultimate in egress filtering (Score 1) 165
I don't think you understand the point of the embargo... if 300 million gringos found out they could get better medical care for free 90 miles from Florida it would be an economic catastrophe in the US. The wall is to keep us out, not them in.
Unfortunately, US health care is a like the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem:
There was a little girl,
Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good,
She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid.
This allows the political elite to convince themselves and a sizeable proportion of the masses that they have the best medical system in the world.
Comment: Re:I call bullshit. (Score 1) 255
a dry mile is 3 9/8 bushels longer, except in Kansas where it's *another* 7 degrees higher and isn't allowed to be measured at all on a Sunday.
It is actually dependent on which county you're in. Dry counties are actually 7 3/4 degrees higher with further restrictions on measurement after 10:00 pm the rest of the week.
Comment: Re:Wikileaks wannabees. (Score 1) 87
And if I break the window and swipe the TVs at the local electronics shop I've proven how lousy their security is.
And if your government passes a law requiring local electronics shop to store masses of your personal data. You've also proven how lousy your security is. You've also proven that your government doesn't pass good laws.
Comment: Re:tegra 2 (Score 2) 118
I remember when the tegra 2 was hot shit.
Meh.
I remember when the AMD 386DX40 was considered to be wickedly fast, except for the Motorolla 68xxx line in the Macs. Now, my router has a more powerful CPU that runs on just 100 milliamps, 5 volts. . .
Meh.
I remember when the PDP11/73 was considered awesomely fast. Now I have a faster processor in my wristwatch.
Comment: Re:Simple solution (Score 1) 64
If you think the moon is bad, see how a nearby black hole affects the LHC.
If you think a nearby black hole is bad, see how a black hole caused by the LHC affects the LHC
Comment: Re:As an Autralian ambassador... (Score 1) 67
Must have been written from someone from La Vega or Lo Angele maybe An Francico
Comment: Re:a**? (Score 2) 265
Hmm, how would you say that in COBOL?