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Comment: Re:Victorian Gay Curiosa? (Score 1) 91

by frisket (#43670159) Attached to: Help the OED Find a Lost Book
From which it should be clear that it is a book of poems they are looking for, not prose.

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A Copy of Verses kept in the Cabinet, and only shewn to a few Friends, is like a Virgin much sought after and admired; but when printed and published, is like a common Whore, whom any body may purchase for half a Crown (Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects)

Comment: Insurance (Score 3, Insightful) 329

by frisket (#43624901) Attached to: Is Buying an Extended Warranty Ever a Good Idea?
They're not warranties. They don't warrant anything at all. They're just insurance. Once you get that clear, it's a straight choice on the basis of cost vs benefit. A real warranty penalises the manufacturer for shoddy goods or inadequate service by making them make good the deficit. That is not the case here.

Comment: Re:Still fiddly if you RTFA (Score 1) 181

by frisket (#43504557) Attached to: Ars Reviewer is Happily Bored With Dell's Linux Ultrabook

I think the problem here is the razor-thin window edges.

The trouble is that the implementations of X seem to conflate the visible border of the window (possibly 1px wide) with the grabbable area that ought to cause the cursor to change to the "i can move this" double-arrow. That needs to be several pixels thick for most people to grab it. The designers of Unity and other windowing systems appear to place more emphasis on "looking pretty" than on "working well".

Comment: Re:Pythons (Score 1) 245

by frisket (#43465715) Attached to: Giant Snails Invade Florida

>Be my guest. Personally, I think snails are disgusting.

Overcome your food phobia. Snails taste delicious.

No, they taste disgusting.

Garlic and butter are the traditional cooking medium but I had them cooked in a bacon gravy at Morel's restaurant in Vegas and they were superb.

Wrong. The garlic butter and the bacon gravy are superb. The snails are still disgusting.

Comment: Re:Pythons (Score 1) 245

by frisket (#43465703) Attached to: Giant Snails Invade Florida

Not to mention pesticides people put down to control them. This is a problem with a lot of wild foods. A plant that is perfectly safe when harvested from a remote mountainside is something you'd want to give a pass if it came from the side of a highway.

Particularly if it came from the side of a highway. During the era of leaded gasoline, lead was deposited in roadside terrain and herbiage, and it's still there, and not going away any time soon.

Comment: Re: death to children and teenagers. (Score 2) 343

by frisket (#43445897) Attached to: Six Retailers Announce Recall of Buckyballs and Buckycubes

...common sense went out the window with this generation of uber-morons.

No, common-sense went out the window with this (and the previous) generation of judges. You know, the ones who award millions in damages for trivial foolishness that the subject was too stupid to avoid, and deny proper damages in cases of genuine suffering because some company paid them to look the other way.

The plot was designed in a light vein that somehow became varicose. -- David Lardner

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