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Obama stumbled because Chief Justice Roberts repeated the Oath of Office incorrectly. He said, first, "I will execute the Office of President of the United States faithfully" when in fact it was supposed to be "I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States". A little...

Good thing that this thread is entirely not about that then, eh?

For me, poor spelling and grammar annoys me wherever it is. I'm not so much of a Nazi that I insist that people use full stops and capital letters in IM conversation (although I do use them myself, it's a habit) but it still gets on my nerves when people use 'u', 'ur', etc. People who defend...

This avatar thing is so passé.

Perhaps because he doesn't want to look like he's trying to cover his previous post up? It's what I'd do if I'd gone a bit mental.

No, not the only one. The Boy Scouts of America openly discriminate against atheists, agnostics and homosexuals by disallowing them membership. For any organisation, this is disgusting; for a youth organisation it is especially abhorrent.

The EEEPC 901 I have is excellent and I'd say the perfect size, although I would be impressed if the 6-hour battery life claims on the NC10 were true (my 901 holds out for 4:30 under Ubuntu with WiFi on). The keyboard looks nice, too.

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Tennant was my secret mancrush. :(

Happy new year!

There are other forces at work besides our throwing rice at them. If we simply left them alone, people would still die in huge numbers, totalitarian regimes would still exist, and economic problems would still arise. The difference would be that more people would be starving. Your final point I...

We Westerners have a habit of coming along, starting businesses in developing countries and becoming exceedingly rich whilst the people who are employed by the business are paid barely anything at all and work under awful conditions, just because there's nowhere else to go.

I don't think any poor African farmer is going to see this and say "Don't worry guys, there's no need to work! The Westerners will supply us with free rice from their internet games!" The idea that charity is somehow causing problems in developing countries is absurd. Whether it solves them or...

Nope, not one.

Did I ever tell you how much I love you?

You can cd to the DVD and use mencoder from there. As for the wildcard, it ought to be in alphabetical order.

I remember reading a brochure about that. They were describing it as some kind of miracle language course that would leave your 5-year-old fluent in French because their 'window of opportunity' is still open. Whilst it is easier for young children to learn languages because their brains are...