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  1. Re:Some numbers on A Strange Streak Imaged in Australia · · Score: 1
    Why does the "After" photo have a timestamp BEFORE the mystery photo?

    Hooptie

  2. Re:No way on A Strange Streak Imaged in Australia · · Score: 1
    Actually, it looks to me like something behind the trees could be causing the smoke which is then rising up beside the pole.

    Hooptie

  3. -1 Offtopic, regarding subpoenas on Nmap Author Receives FBI Subpoenas · · Score: 1
    Why can the Federal Government, or any prosecuting body, issue subpoenas? There is nothing in the Constitution granting it that power. Amendment VI recognizes the right* of Defendants to "...to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor..." I don't think you can abuse the commerce clause to grant that power to the government. So I ask you again, why can a prosecuting body (the government) issue subpoenas?


    *I almost typed "gives the right" but that is NOT how the Bill of Rights works

    --Hooptie

  4. Voting for the "Lesser of 2 Evils" on Pre-Election Discussion · · Score: 5, Insightful
    is voting for evil!

    Regardless of how you try to justify your vote, a vote for a major candidate is a statement that you:

    • Approve of that candidate
    • Endorse that candidate's position(s)
    • Want that candidate to be the next President of the United States!

    If these three items are not true, you can either abstain from voting, or vote for a third party candidate. Please note that it is not possible, in the US, to vote against a candidate. The most you can do is vote for one of the competetion

    As for myself, I will be voting for Michael Badnarik for President. What's that? I hear cries of:
    "But, he doesnt have a chance to win!"
    "This election is too important to risk electing the wrong person!"
    These are both true statements, however I refuse to "waste my vote", or "throw my vote away" by voting for a candidate that I disagree with.

    Hooptie

  5. I may be wrong on Making Tracks on Mars · · Score: 1

    bit I don't think you will find an Apollo Lunar Lander on Mars.

  6. Re:Conservation of angular momentum on The Space Elevator - Public or Private? · · Score: 2, Informative
    Yes.
    But the Earth will speed up on the return trip, so the net effect is no speed up/slow down at all.

    Hooptie

  7. Re: Self-Selecting Crowd on Firefox Browser On An Upward Trend · · Score: 1
    You are soooooooooo correct.

    The company I work for makes women's shoes, hats and handbags. According to WebTrends since Sept 1 we have had:

    • 11,217 IE visitors
    • 201 Mozilla (most of those are probably me, I'm using Firefox 0.9.2 although I may show up as one of the 655 others)
    • 26 Konqurer
    • 1085 Everything else

    I know this is not a CNN/Gallup poll, but as they say the plural of anecdote is data :)

    Hooptie
  8. Re:YES! on Should Star Trek Die? · · Score: 1
    Don't worry. The trolls can still talk about *BSD dying.

    Hooptie

  9. Re:TiVo - for them, not for you on Jack Valenti: The Exit Interview · · Score: 1
    In addition to Rosie O'Donnel, whose hypocrisy has already been mentioned at the time I write this, how about Diane Feinstein

    Hooptie

  10. Oh, please! on Space-Age Houses · · Score: 3, Insightful
    That is same as complaining that the the Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, are worthless because they wont carry a family of four. Look at the application for which this structure is designed. How often do they get 220+kph winds in Antarctica? How often do they get 7.0 quakes?

    TFA does not say that they advocate replacing ALL current building methods with this. If you did RTFA you would have noticed this:

    In its current design the SpaceHouse can withstand vibrations from earthquakes of up to 7 on the Richter scale, wind speeds of up to 220 km/h and up to 3 metres of flooding - specifications that came out of discussions with the insurance industry for a typical European location.
    (emphasis mine)

    This was NOT designed for Florida, it was designed for Europe/Antarctica.

    Hooptie

  11. No. on A Flying Leap for Cars? · · Score: 1

    She doesnt have three breasts, but you will get your pizza delivered by an Imperial shuttle.

  12. Re:200 students? that's it? on IT's Musical Habits · · Score: 1
    The Beatles, I thought you were talking about music. You know Gustav Holst, Henry Purcell, George Handel(a transplant but he "went native" so to speak) etc...

    Hoooptie

  13. Re:Thats not culture, thats the truth. on When Videogames Publishers Go 'Street' · · Score: 1
    You had a woman, but she killed herself 59 years ago. That is where your thug lifestyle ends, cyanide and a bullet to the head.

    Hooptie

  14. Re:No mention of the mistake? on Apollo 11's 35th Anniversary · · Score: 1
    I like Pete Conrad's words better.
    "Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me."

    Hooptie

  15. Mom? on Matrix Decision Making · · Score: 1
    My mom would make us do this as kids. If we wanted to split something (pie, cookie etc...) the rule was "I cut, you choose." And, as a result I am doing the exact same thing with my kids :)

    You would be amazed at how evenly something can be divided by hand.

    Hooptie

  16. Re:Metric? on Bar Coding The World Away · · Score: 1
    Actually if you listen to news reports. Weed is measured in pounds, but cocaine is measured in kilos.

    I took my daughter to the doctor last week. They measured her height as 127.2cm and her weight as 56.5 pounds. Go figure...

    Hooptie

  17. Re:Linux based RPN calculator ... on The Future of RPN Calculators · · Score: 1
    Will it still work if I am naked, petrified and have hot grits in my pants?

    Inquiring minds want to know.

    Hooptie

  18. Re:Hackers are artists, not scientists on The Thermochemical Joy of Cooking · · Score: 1
    Hairdryer?!

    Hell, we got the leaf blower out this weekend to help our fire along. Went from wimpy smouldering mass, to raging inferno in about 10 seconds.

    And the fire marshall didn't come this time.

    Hooptie

  19. Re:*YOU* don't know?!?!? on Dinosaurs Died Within Hours of Asteroid Impact, says New Study · · Score: 1
    Grilling - Cooking the food, usually outside, on a metal grille, over open flame or charcoal. (Barbecue in Br. E)


    Barbecue is different than grilling.
    Grilling is cooking on a grill over a heat source as you say. Barbecue is a very slow cooking process involving copious amounts of smoke.

    Damn English! They can't even speak English correctly :)

    Hooptie

  20. Re:Neat toy on The Future of Cars According to Toyota · · Score: 2, Funny
    Since it is a single passenger car, with whom would you be making out?

    Be careful, you could go blind...

    Hooptie

  21. Re:Likely to commit an act of terrorism? on What's Your Terrorism Quotient? · · Score: 4, Funny
    If there are 120,000 people on the list, shouldn't there have been more acts of terrorism in the US?

    You don't get it. The fact the there are not "more acts of terrorism in the US" is *PROOF* that things like this database, the PATRIOT act etc... are working.

    If you don't believe this, we will be happy to put you name on this list we have here...

    Hooptie

  22. Re:Yet another reason for the US to switch to metr on The Logic Behind Metric Paper Sizes · · Score: 1
    Wheneven I hear about drug busts, the news always reports kilograms of cocaine, but pounds of marijuana.

    Go figure...

    Hooptie

  23. -1 Offtopic, but.... on Amateur Rocket to Carry Ham Radio Payload to Space · · Score: 1
    Him my fat leathery arse to kiss I told. -- Angry Yoda

    That doesn't sound like an Angry Yoda, that just sounds German.

    Hooptie

  24. Don't feel bad on Is eBay Worse Than Early Sears Catalogs? · · Score: 1
    "A management team distracted by a series of short-term targets is as pointless as a dieter stepping on a scale every half hour."

    Living in Germany I read 'dieter' as 'deeh ter' and pictured this large, hairy guy I know named Dieter stepping on a scale every half hour. Needless to say, this would also be pointless, probably even more so than a person trying to lose weight. ;-)
    Dont feel bad. I don't live in Germany and I read it exactly the same way. I was scratching my head wondering who Dieter was.

    Hooptie

  25. Scrutiny it so rightly deserves on Researchers To Climb Ararat To Seek Noah's Ark · · Score: 1
    I think his point is that most people here are NOT scrutinizing the Bible. They are just saying "Oh Yeah?! Well this guy somewhere, I think his name was Bob, said it was all a bunch of hooey. So, Bob says its hooey, then its hooey!" And then they smugly dismiss Christianty, as schitzophrennic delusions or as childlike fantasies. Then they go jizz on their keyboard convinced of their superiority.

    Hooptie