Posts by TheMountain

60 million Americans don't use the interwebs

Numbers

This study seems to consider all Americans to be generic "people". There are just over 300 million Americans, nearly one third of which are children, and thus not decision-makers for purchasing broadband (at least, not generally). Of the 200 million who are left, a significant percentage, probably one third, are senior citizens who really don't care about the internet, as they have little technological literacy and like it just fine that way. That alone accounts for a big chunk of that "don't use the internet" demographic in the survey.

Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx to Facebook and Twitter you

KDE

How does this affect the Kubuntu branch? Hopefully this shite will be left out of the serious branches of the distro.

Austrian army cans Benny Hill recruitment ad

Chicks who like tanks

Me, I'm more impressed by chicks who dig tanks than chicks who dig overpriced sports cars. That Audi only has two seats anyway, so three of those women aren't going anywhere with baldy.

US airport body scanners can store and export images

You're forgetting a corollary to Rule 34

If you can imagine it, someone has made pr0n of it. The corollary being that, if someone makes pr0n of it, it's because someone out there gets their jollies looking at it. You can be sure there are plenty of sweaty palms over the idea of voyeurism at the airport.

Swedish lactating bloke's dream turns sour

Re: why nipples

Human embryos are sex-undifferentiated from a physical structure standpoint for several months during development, but the nipple structure is present early on. Just as the genitals are analogous between the sexes (with different parts more or less developed and in different ways), so too breast development differentiates later through hormone production. In other words we all get everything to make either male or female bodies, and which side gets activated by hormones is determined by chemicals. More efficient to standardize the chassis and determine configuration by setting different switches, I guess.