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  1. Re:A Few Notes on Your Suggestion by mcgrew · · Score: 2 · on Domestic Drilling Doesn't Decrease Gasoline Prices

    Also, last year was the first time since 1949 that we exported more oil than we imported.

  2. Re:A more retched hive of scum and villany... by Tony · · Score: 1 · on Tech Giants Bankrolling IP Hoarding Start-Up

    Have you thought about the fact that these big companies are 'bankrolling' the new IP only company because they are just trying to protect themselves?

    How very noble of them!

    Of course, once they have the power, what is to stop them from using it? Oh, that's right! (litigous bastards) corporations don't sue other corporations over intellectual property.

  3. The market isn't truly free, but is mostly free... by LinuxParanoid · · Score: 2, Interesting · on USAF Studies Teleportation

    I totally agree with you that the market isn't truly free.

    A company or industry that's doing well can try to extract concessions from politicians (DMCA, antitrust wrist-slaps, telcom regulation, etc) and a company that's not doing well can generate political pressure to save jobs. And the former annoys me greatly, as I can tell it annoys you.

    But I find it hard to dismiss the sense that there is a "mostly free" market out there, having watched closely billion-dollar companies fall (SGI), and from a distance seen others just get lost (Kodak) or shift their core activity to avoid a lingering death (IBM). The market may not be truly free, but it is a harsh mistress.

    I can't find a full list of companies kicked off the Dow Jones (just 1999, 2004, 1895), but big companies even with their vast political influence cannot succeed when the market says "no thanks" to paying the hoped-for-nicely-profitable amount for their products.

    --LP

  4. Pictures for comparing by TubeSteak · · Score: 2, Informative · on iRiver Preps Linux-based Media Player
    Here's some direct links for those people too lazy to RTFA

    iPod vs. iRiver PMP-120
    Here's an older article (May25) about the iRiver and here's their accompanying picture. I wonder what that is around her neck?

  5. Re:WMD && Oil != the issue by vt0asta · · Score: 1 · on Saddam Hussein Arrested
    Well, if you want to be the conservative conspiracy theorist, then I think this post deserves just the opposite.
    What conspiracy theory? Saddam stated that he was upping the pay out for families of suicide terrorist. This is going to down in the history books as a war on terror. Indirectly or directly, Saddam supported terrorist and terrorism. Bush stated any state in alliance with terrorist has to go. Your Euro USD thing may have some basis, but at the end of the day, I can sleep at night knowing that Saddam was supporting terror and this war was just.
  6. Re:bin laden.. by aled · · Score: 1 · on Saddam Hussein Arrested

    Thanks for pointing this. This fact fall under my radar. I didn't want to put erroneous info. After a quick search I found this article

  7. Re:Can we really enforce this? by Dimensio · · Score: 2, Interesting · on California Tries Spam Ban

    the punishment for annoyance is death?

    In addition to being an annoyance, spam is also theft to the tune of billions of dollars per year.