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What humans have different from other species is the ability to change itself:

Kewl, Bok, but I'd expect you to have:

When anyone who knows that the English Channel shares the meteorological peculiarities of the scepred isle.

I shall now perform an act of public service and close this thread before more innocents are infected ...... with poor spelling disease ...

My god that was tedious.

Command line is less user-friendly, but much more precise. It gets a little silly with some of the old-school Unix commands (that can be a couple of lines long, complete with obscure punctuation marks used for actors), and it also doesn't require a top-heavy GUI to be effective. The downside is that the commands can be quite abstruce because of their obscure nature.

As someone who has used both OSes extensively (most of my university career was conducted on Macs) I can say that I find Windows irritating in that nothing works as designed or properly, and the error messages suck. Mac OS is brilliant, because everything just works. Until it doesn't. Which isn't often, but when it happens you have to replace whole parts. I like the flexibility of Windows, but then again I still use the command line.

Awww, what did Teddy do to deserve that?

Put out an APB on Balloon-headed Man, quick!

Yes, but five year olds don't have the vote ... That was the whole point (subtext) of the films and tv series based on the Planet of the Apes. Although I don't agree with the Judeo-Christian concept of the world and all her inhabitants are at the beck and call of humans, I think I would rather ask you what you are trying to achieve ...

Maybe they didn't realise that Ike postponed it for a day?

A middle manager in a HUGE company (think GE) equates to Rome, Inc, rather than being senior manager in Gaul Goatherders, Inc.

You never told me that before. Right, let's get building that rocketship ...

Benny Hill

Read the synopsis to this book in a recent Sunday Times: Basically why Rome succeeded (where others tried and failed, like the Carthaginians) was because Rome was (the first) BRAND: an ideal that the simple goatherds of Gaul could understand ... and more importantly the local hierarchy could identify the benefits and be quickly incorporated into the empire ... after all, it is better to be a middle-manager in a huge firm, than a senior manager in a tiny firm.

Yep, follow the bouncing ball ...

*goes off to play more games*

... Olives ...? Yes.

Look at the size of that eeny-weeny Pharoah's head:

Hear that noise? That's the sound of the barn door slamming after the horse has bolted. Too little, too late.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_magnetic_field

... And change the rules of spelling, so that goddess never existed!

The biggest problem with the EU is that it creates ANOTHER level of management and administration ABOVE the national threshold: yet one more abstraction from the electorate to the decision makers ... ... although looking at some of the voters, I'm not sure that is entirely a bad idea ...