Posts by Robert 31

Terror in the Chernobyl dead zone: Life - of a wild kind - burgeons

Nature doesn't mind if wolves get bone cancer after they've had a few litters of pups. Hippies do.

Linux kernel dev who asked Linus Torvalds to stop verbal abuse quits over verbal abuse

Why is it so hard to demarcate (in both the giving and receiving) technical from personal criticism? Are we babies here?

Mexican Cobalt-60 robbers are DEAD MEN, say authorities

Re: Question ?

I've been robbed and burgled. I'm still a liberal pinko hippy.

So why aren't terrorists...

...truck jacking radioactive shipments in countries with security problems like Mexico?

More to the point, why aren't people worried about this easy way to get a city emptying weapon?

Slip of a lad to play James Bond's Q

perfect if they make him a non-comedic geek type

Steve Jobs death certificate: 'respiratory arrest'

It means doctors killed him

Respitory arrest happens when doctors give so much morphine for pain control that the patient stops breathing. It is fairly standard practice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_double_effect#Palliative_care

Canada buys Obama's reject Brit choppers for spare parts

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maybe lewis page has just discovered the girls laughing meme

Julian Assange wins peace prize

the reg is just bitter

the techies and geeks here cannot stand to see one of their own becoming a giant celeb. and doubly bitter that he's become one for being anti establishment