What's your definition of power? You talk about wielding power - I don't see any of that going on in your example about the t-shirts. It's just knowledge.

As for the Neanderthals, who knows what...

Physical attraction??? Yuck! That is so ... Neanderthal!!

Forget computers, being cool, and people sucking up.

Women will always prefer guys with fast cars.

Hmmm, yes, I was pretty sure your next post would contain no proof whatsoever.

Prove it.

"Knowledge is power" as it stands is nonsense. Knowledge can only be power if it's not common knowledge, if the knowledge is restricted in some way, particularly if you're the only person with that...

I think this is where you start to go wrong. Someone has knowledge, knowledge is power, power can be abused ....

You're trying too hard. Not all knowledge can be used as a form of power. Not all...

And the ability NOT to, when it suits you of course ;-)

This is all so very true. In fact, I set up an email account with a girls name and posted on usenet with that account for about a year. People were so nice to me, it was quite funny. I also noticed...

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What superpower would I most likely want? Simple. The ability to fart at will. When I was at school "Lanky" Richardson could do it, and he commanded respect.

Failing that, the ability to invent...

Code Complete and HTML Complete are two quite different books.

I don't consider it a waste of a thread, it was a valid question. Perhaps it would be helpful if people pointed out when they were simply quoting the publisher rather than posting their own...

I thought the purpose of the book reviews section was for people to post their own review of books, giving their own opinion?

Root's review of HTML Complete appears to be a copy of the blurb put...

I'm so sorry to hear about your father, Dani.

Take care

OK, I've loosened up .... now where did I leave my false teeth???

August 6th, but I'm too old to celebrate these days - but the kids expect me to ;-)

when was your birthday?

I would drop the MSIE blurb on entry to the site and make it cross-browser compatible. And forget the link to download IE - nobody in their right mind is going to download it just to see your site.
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