Begging your pardon (and ignoring the conflation of Christ with Sun gods in early Romano-Christian history); I think the comparison might be more apt if a group of Christians worshipped on Thursday, a day named after Thor, so named themselves Thursians.

Personally, I would find that ironic - perhaps it's that extra step of actually naming yourself after the deity.

However, your mileage may vary.

On a related note, I find it somewhat amusing that many Christians (in my experience) would term saying "Christ" as blasphemy, and think of it as something akin to a surname - not knowing it as the transliteration of the simple Greek "Christos" (Saviour)

Exactly. One doesn't blame the mail service because one has sent out invites for spammers to send spam letters.

Facebook enables you to keep in touch with those you want to keep in touch with. If you are finding that those you friend send more trash than value, there is a simple answer:

Don’t friend them.

Seriously, if you don't want to spend time listening to drivel - you would avoid the drivelers - not cut off your ears (well, I hope not).

Caveat emptor: If you end up with no friends, it is likely a statement on your standards, or your choice of acquaintances.

Indeed, and the title is older than the English word "orange" itself. This was introduced to English in the early 1500's (just in time for Shakespeare to complain its lack of rhyme...), and is termed after the name for the fruit. Prior to this, the colour was "geoluhread" (yellow-red). Note, we don't call it "carrot", as (yellow-red) carrots were developed in the 1700s.

Now, the house of Orange comes from the city, originally "Arausio", in southern France. This was named for the local Celtic water God of the same name.

Being Irish, I admit I find it somewhat ironic that the "Orange-men" are originally termed for a pagan, Celtic god...

If you try it and don't like it, you can always say "that burger was shit!" :-P

I heard an interview with Pratchett on the radio (Ireland). He stated that the singular tragedy was this: The guy in this film had to cut short his life while he could still enjoy it, for this very reason.

He had to travel, and to end his existence, while still lucid and still capable.

All for fear he would reach a point of no return, and no hope of exit.

Don't read this if you are a (non-tech) manager. It might contradict the self-evident truth that the cloud really is up in the sky, managed by security conscious fairies and run on pixie dust.

Then again, I'm likely posting on the wrong site here...

I wonder how he'll deal with all the prior art... I mean, we're talking tens of thousands of years here.

It would be freaking hilarious if they granted it, and he went around suing all the Churches...

Please, please, please...

Yep, but those were the days when they would delete your account if you didn't use it in 3 months or so (1996 or so for me). We didn't have dialup even at home, so one day the account went bye-bye. Had my original Slashdot account linked to it too. No low ID for me :/

Which is going to help mountains in Belgium...

Hell, orange carrots were only developed back in the 1700's.

That's why we call "orange" after oranges (oranges were introduced to England in the 1500's - before that the colour was yellow-red)

Looks like we Irish are going to be screwed again...

We have "black pudding" here in Ireland. It's blood sausage.

Back in the old days, when a family would have a potato patch and a pig, they would bleed the pig, mix it with some oats, and eat the sausage.

Family gets protein, pig lives.

I am in the strange situation of having visited a dentist today (first time in 10 years, erp), having followed the advice of online reviews. They were excellent.

Back to your post: OK, the dentist* has a set waiver form.

There is NOTHING stopping you (barring pain) refusing to sign (or even, as writings are relatively anonymous, say that you had). When they ask you to leave, you write up a scathing review that they refused to treat you despite appointments; speak of their useless, defensive service; and state how you were shown the door when you refused to waive your right to judiciously review their service. You give it 0 stars or what have you - and cast doubt on any positive ratings anyone else gives.

I know where I would not go if I read that review.

Also, as you have specifically stated you have not signed their "all my writings belong to dentist" clause, they cannot ask that it be taken down.

Obviously, my opinion... Argue as you will.

*After six years of a PhD, I rankle at calling Bachelor's of Medicine "Doctors", let alone giving tooth drillers that title. Not that I would mention it in the chair...

All you need is a whole load of Sellotape (Scotch-tape for you Americans) (and some deuterium).

Everyone (well, Slashdot readers) knows that peeling Sellotape produces x-rays, so get some industrial sized sheets of Sellotape, probably at least a few layers. While peeling, aim your Sellotape at some material why only needs low energies to induce a photonuclear reaction (deuterium, beryllium perhaps).

Some might say that those might need gamma rays, but those are only high energy X-rays, so shake your Sellotape fast, and you'll increase the frequency nicely.

And voila: Neutrons!

The rest is just details