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Comment Re:Calculated customer drops == quality drops (Score 1) 316

Maybe you should go back to high school. The USSR was Communist. China is Communist. My father was born in Communist Czechoslovakia. None of these has ever been in the least communist.

And by the way, why don't you take a little vacation to Egypt before you make such an uneducated generalization about the class gap there. You cannot so subjectively compare the two nations. It is more or less like comparing England to Congo and declaring that the Congolese have a better wealth distribution amongst their people.

Comment Got any words for this, MDSOLAR? (Score 3, Insightful) 308

Interesting. France's going to be selling nuclear power to Germany for the rest of our lives. The French are smart people. Not only have they weighed out all the environmental concerns (don't get me started about coal), but these guys are really going to cash in on energy sales. Props to you, France!

Comment Re:What? (Score 5, Informative) 574

The astronomers are the indirect object, putting the 'comprised of' descriptor onto the direct object, which is the Nebula.

Umm, excuse me. ESO astronomers is NOT an indirect object. ESO astronomers is the subject of have been which is a linking verb. Just so that you know, linking verbs don't have DOs or IDOs. They have predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives. Comprised of silica and alumina dust is a phrase that is used adjectivally and is intended to modify nebula. However, since the phrase was placed in the front of the sentence, at best, it is dangling. As the phrase is placed now, it modifies astronomers. Whoever modded up the parent needs to go back to grade school.

Comment Fortress Forever (Score 1) 195

If you like a TFC-like game where there's more skill required, you get grenades, and you can move around at more than a mile per hour, check out Fortress Forever. Now that TF2 is free, that gives you a free copy of the Source engine and in turn makes Fortress Forever completely free to play.

1. Download TF2 for free
2. Download Fortress Forever.
3. Install.
4. ????
5. Enjoy better gameplay!

And you don't have any whiny kids on these servers complaining that you beat them when you actually used a little skill. :)

Comment Re:Old school (Score 2) 161

TTL chips? Luxury! When I was a lad we had to use coconuts and vine to fashion NAND gates.

Gilligan, don't forget the NOT gate that we fashioned out of the two transistors from the radio or the infinite power source that came out of it. Now why couldn't have that satellite flown overhead a few moments after we completed the digital telecommunicator device?

--The Professor

Comment Re:Mmmm (Score 1) 417

I can imagine the revival of the campaign right now. You know, go with the wife to McD out of pure excitement, get her to put on her Moon Man earrings. And this is exactly how it would go:

Me: Mmmm-hmmmmm! This is a TASTY BURGER! Katrina, ever have a Sewage Burger?
[Wife shakes her head]
Me: Wanna bite? They're real tasty.
Wife: Ain't hungry.
Me: Well, if you like burgers give 'em a try sometime. I can't usually get 'em myself because my girlfriend's a vegeterian which pretty mu......

Yeah, I really can see this happening now.

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