"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies." -- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.

This is great to further spread the idea of direct distribution, but I'm still more impressed with Pioneer One which is accomplishing more with much less and using a creative commons license. http://www.pioneerone.tv/

"The word bipartisan means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out." -- George Carlin

You used to be able to apply a personal -2 penalty for Funny mods. It worked great for me for the past decade read at a threshold of 2 or 3 and not have Funny comments dominate. But apparently they took away they ability to fine tune so well with the new system since I can't find the option any more to direct you to.

I'm surprised I didn't see anyone also point out that they got the range of valid scores wrong, also. It's obviously not "1 to 5" as quoted.

"Mr. Ryan, would you characterize this as a first-strike weapon?"

"Uh, that is a possibility, sir. It is designed to approach by stealth and to shower its target with multiple independent warheads with little or no warning before impact."

"Goddamn thing's made to start a war."

I figured someone would do this. I just used my last mod point, but thanks. (ah, non-mouse device is a "stylus", I was wondering if linux's shift-numlock numpad mouse violated it, too)

They both answered, "Europa". We humans really love forbidden things. :)

This semantic debate is quite pointless to rehash for the millionth time. Read this rather than make up your own terminology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_atheism

Because the government is a start-up without an HR department to handle that paperwork?

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian W. Kernighan

oops, was just being silly anyway, but lost the > due to html and shouldn't override q// ;)
"for my $supernova ( @supernovae ) { alarm if measure_q($supernova) > 0 }"

Saul was heard to mutter "for my $supernova ( @supernovae ) { alarm if q($supernova) 0 }"

Iain M. Banks' Surface Detail is another fascinating example of that.

You just unroot it if you need to take it in for a warranty replacement. I did just that. It's quite painless nowadays with all the howtos and utilities folks have developed to make it easy.