Comment: Tellico (Score 1) 188
For a modestly-sized library, Tellico could fit your needs.
Comment: Hourly income was $55,600 annually! (Score 2) 235
The median hourly income in 2010 for telecommunications equipment installers and repairers was $55,600 annually, up only 0.4 percent from 2008."
Terrific start to the year with that sentence!
Comment: To've (Score 1) 161
2012 also saw the last minute coining of the contraction to've, which is unique in that it contracts the verb have in the infinitive rather than the auxiliary have found in perfect tenses (such as I've been to Moose Jaw).
Then there's the still unfinished story of SOPA; at least in some cases, speaking loudly seems to've caused businesses to change their public stances as defenders of the law as proposed; could this be called washing SOPA out with mouth?
Comment: Re:Window close/minimize/maximize buttons (Score 1) 241
Why the heck all the Linux Window managers are copying Windows 95-XP with the placement of the window close/minimize/maximize buttons ?
Razor is not a Window manager. The placement of the buttons comes from kwin or OpenBox or whatever wm you chose to use it with.
Comment: Re:sold to china (Score 1) 522
After all, the PRC would never invade any of its neighbors. Not Vietnam, not Korea, not India, not Russia, not Tibet. And they certainly wouldn't make constant menacing gestures against ROC-Taiwan or Japan...
Not Tibet???
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Comment: Re:Well, that's it then... (Score 1) 302
Which is why the islamic extremists hated America. *NOT* because of our foreign policy. That was a global excuse of justification to recruit additional members from around the world. No, the true reason they attacked the West is because democracy is the antithesis to their belief. You see, the act of democracy and self determination is an act of hubris. That in of itself is punishable by death according to Al-Qaeda.
That's nonsense. Islamism is a movement against those who commit what they consider to be injustice or unjust rule. Now people can argue all they want about what constitutes injustice and whether there is any justification for the feelings of injustice. But to resort to "They Hate Our Freedom" is missing the point. Islamists are active or have been active against the USA (a non-Muslim democracy), Arab dictatorships (nominally Muslim), the USSR (most certainly not a democracy or Muslim) and even against targets in Muslim democracies, such as Pakistan, Turkey and Indonesia.
There is no single reason for the use of violence in these cases, but it does come down to fighting what they consider oppression or occupation, or to fighting for supremacy within their own society.
Comment: Re:Can't be right (Score 1) 51
Not everyone in Syria is Muslim. Not all those who are nominally Muslim actually practice the religion. And some of those who do practice still break the rules (alcohol, etc). Welcome to the real world.
Comment: Chinese Currency (Score 1) 149
Note: it would be great if you include in your answers some idea about their currency â" if you're in China right now, say, or if you were there more than a year ago.
I can do this.
I was in China more than a year ago, seven years ago to be exact. Their currency was the Chinese Yuan.
You're welcome.
Comment: Re:Video (Score 1) 338
Horrible looking, but amazingly not an explosion.
Serious questions here: should we expect a plane like this to explode on impact?
Comment: Re:That's it, fuck CAs (Score 1) 141
It's not Convergence. It's "Convergence Beta". And I'm not interested in beta software protecting my security.
Wait, you're saying that they use "Beta" to market their product because it sounds cool? Yeah, not interested in that either.