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Comment Re: Number of terrorists per square mile? (Score 3, Informative) 44

You do realize that right up until the formation of Israel, the land in question was called ... drum roll ... "British Palestine," right? And that under the Romans, the region was known as Palaestina?

You don't have to be a supporter of the modern Palestinian movement to realize that your contention that it is merely a "nickname" created by Yasser Arafat is utter hogwash.

Comment Endangered? (Score 0, Flamebait) 53

So we are considering beige iconic now? Just because you call it "Platinum" doesn't make it any less generic than any of the million other beige computer models that came out in the 80s. This is literally the same bland color scheme that Apple's running away from with all their might with the first iMacs finally led to the era of distinctive-looking computer cases.

Comment Disposable ships (Score 2) 25

The "Liberty" ships built by the U.S. in WWII were never supposed to be a sustainable industry, merely to churn out ships faster than U-boats could sink them. To this end, they cheaped out on them in a lot of ways, including using low-cost, brittle steel and welds instead of rivets. As a result, when their owners continued to use them in the post-war years, they had a disturbing tendency to spontaneously break apart and sink.

To have become a viable industry, U.S. shipbuilding would have essentially had to restart from scratch with all-new designs. Rather than take on the expense of doing so, the companies pressed into service to make wartime ships returned to their core industries, and the rest is history.

Comment Re:Its not wood (Score 1) 99

Fail.

Not only does MDF NOT have the lignin removed, it is similar in density to regular wood (medium density - duh, it's right in the name). This engineered wood does have the lignin removed, and it is roughly twice the density of regular wood.

Furthermore, while the article does mention potential applications using chips to make pre-shaped pieces like fiberboard, beams, and moldings, the stuff they are selling now is NOT chipped and leaves the original grain intact.

Comment Re:Bourne Shell has entered the chat (Score 2) 19

And CP/M, which DOS is based on, goes back to 1974.

Which is besides the point anyway if you are not being a disingenous git, because just reading TFS makes it clear that the "30 years" comment refers not to command prompts in general, but to the length of the FreeDOS project

Comment Re: Jabba wasn't "mentioned by name" in the origi (Score 1) 79

No you didn't. You are clearly suffering from the Mandela effect. It appeared in some of the various promo materials around the film (along with the Biggs on Tatooine stuff), but the scene was never finished. They were originally going to matte in a non-human creature over the guy in furs, but it turned out to be impracticable with the tech of the time.

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Comment Re: Flat (Score 3, Interesting) 338

Calculating pay-in amounts is already by far the easiest part. Come back to me when your QuicBasic program can handle individual complex multivariable insurance benefit calculations for each of 71 million payees on a monthly basis without any hiccups. Because that's the problem we are dealing with, and it has precious little to do with whether the funds for the program are collected under a flat or progressive tax regime.

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