Comment Re:It figures! (Score 1) 456
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Comment Re:Missing option (Score 2, Insightful) 467
Comment Misleading news (Score 5, Informative) 391
According to the prosecutors the video remained online for two months even though web users had already asked for it to be taken down.
It is also worth mentioning that Google execs will not serve jail time because in Italy sentences of less than three years are commuted for people without criminal records.
Comment Re:This is what linguists have been waiting for (Score 1) 197
I could have joked about the syntax of 13-years-olds online which may turn out to be much less complex than that of any other primates, but I'm not sure it would have been equally funny, especially considering that teenagers are not world leaders addressing respectable audiences...
Comment Re:This is what linguists have been waiting for (Score 1) 197
No, I'm sick and tired of the extended partisan hatred: Dems against Nixon, Reagan and W, Republicans against the Clintons (although it all seems to have shifted towards BHO).
The partisan vituperation against most sitting presidents in the past 40 years is also really frickin' old.
Believe it or not, I wasn't expressing a political judgement on the former US President. More simply, one on Bush the public orator whose frequent mistakes were, frankly, rather embarrassing.
Comment Re:This is what linguists have been waiting for (Score 1) 197
The war is over, you won, W is gone. Now GIVE IT A FUCKING REST ALREADY!!!!
A little nervous, eh?
There was no war... As to the war against idiots, well, I like to quote De Gaulle on this: "Vaste programme, en effet."
Comment Re:This is what linguists have been waiting for (Score -1, Flamebait) 197
... a chance to really look at a real proto-syntax, because all human languages have a very strongly developed syntax.
I must assume that you have never heard Dubya speaking.
Comment Re:Kindle killer? (Score 2, Insightful) 260
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