What's the worst that could happen to our cow? Croak like a bullfrog?

No. 2+2=4 is merely a set of rules that every human educated in mathematics agrees upon because it is very useful indeed. Over time, 2+2 tool on a variety of meanings ( think 2+2 (mod 3) ). However, the gist of it still remains. The same goes for human rights. It is a social construct that allows a great number of people to live comfortably.

Nope, gravity is the scientific way of saying that everything sucks. cf. vacuum, the scientific way of saying that even when you don't have anything at all, it still sucks.

What? Never forget that Grecian Unix lost out because its copyright owners got into a civil war, allowing the Romans to invade them.

X/Open vs. OSF; Achaean vs. Aetolian

Actually, that's a poor allusion. Linux more parallels the Romans than the Closed Source OSes.

Remember, the cavity is closing up in 3 dimensions while the air has only one direction in which to escape. Rather than profound, it is an interesting phenomenon, and can possibly have some practical usage.

More likely: the AC gave us the IP of goatse.cx, which is actually hosted on ervage.net.

Reputation, my friend, reputation.

The case that proportional fonts are not good for programming. Ask yourself these questions before seriously contemplating switching over to proportional fonts:

• Is it easy to distinguish between ; and :, and ' and "? Also, are ,. distinguishable?
• Does '' look like " ? What about `` ?
• Is it easy, at a glance, to distinguish between [{}]()l\/V1!Ii|?
• Of course, the Oo0Q characters too.

Monospace fonts gives width to characters like punctuation and parentheses which is undesirable in prose but essential in programming.

the 64-bit Flash Player 10 works almost fine in iceweasel in my (sid) Debian Linux machine --- it does not play sound (sometimes crashes) when some other application is using the audio server, and when it plays (with audio), other attempts to play audio fail. Do you have know what might have caused this?

Not newsworthy. Not newsworthy at all.

Try this

So... how many Libraries of Congress worth of culture have we lost?

It's a much better proposition than the reality that we have now. Really, I think that such a system will actually enlighten us to the fact that there is nothing worrisome with short copyright terms other than losing the pack rat sickness that made big media companies want long term copyrights.

I can see an abuse of sprintf() some in handy... Where it normally does sprintf("Insert comment here"), typing "%s" will, well.

He said ancestry. You're the one who's confusing things.