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Comment A billion implementations (Score 1) 273

And I suppose PASCAL is better? It's always preached top-down programming but effectively forced people to write their programs bottom-up. Not only that, but for many years there was no standard I/O package because it wasn't originally designed to be compiled or run; just checked over by the class's instructor.

Comment Re:"/dev/null 2&1" (Score 1) 73

By the way, can you help me with that stupid GNOME taskbar across the top of my screen? It looks almost as retarded as a Macintoss. I want it on the BOTTOM, where the taskbar belongs!

I sure can: don't use GNOME. It's as simple as that. Use KDE, Xfce (my favourite) Enlightenment or any of the other available DEs. Unlike Windows, Linux is all about choice. If you don't like how one DE works, there are lots of others to try.

Comment Re: Let's be honest, shall we (Score 1) 126

TFA doesn't just talk about solar power it also talks about wind power. Thus, as long as the sun shines and/or the wind blows, the area can power itself from those renewables. Yes, there will always be times that they'll need power from other sources, but in the long run they'll need far less now than before.

Comment Re:I may be one of those people (Score 1) 23

I'm similar, but in my case I can see the resemblance between one actor and another. It's not that I mistake the two, it's just that I see the way one man's face is the same shape as the other's, or whatever. And when I comment about it, it's often hard to get somebody else to see what I mean, probably because they're looking for a more obvious resemblance than what I'm seeing.

Comment I almost voted "They all suck." (Score 1) 149

Just before voting I changed my mind and vote because I realized that I couldn't honestly vote that they all suck because I've never been a member of any of them and don't want to. I have no interest in social media, especially when I see people wasting hours every day following them. I, at least, have better things to do than obsess on what other strangers are saying and doing especially when they're talking about things I don't give a damn about.

Comment Re:And the government (Score 1) 52

Not just that, but all this really started with the GI Bill and Veteran's benefits -- free gov't money.

Clearly you don't understand that when somebody signs up for a hitch in the Armed Forces their contract includes, among other things, various benefits to be paid later, including the GI Bill and a number of other things lumped together as Veteran's Benefits. It's not free money, every last one of us earned it, often by putting our asses on the line.

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