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  1. Re:Talk about double standards on Senator Arlen Specter Becomes a Democrat · · Score: 1
    I don't hear any Republicans, "right wingers" or otherwise, proposing to get government out of the marriage business. Do you know of any exceptions? I'm all for it, but given that it's a non-starter, the various Dem positions on gay marriage are a whole lot more rational that the stuff you hear from the Repubs.

    I know lots of Christians who are behind the various "one-man one-woman" marriage amendments. Anecdote, but there you go.

  2. Re:Neo-Conservatives on Senator Arlen Specter Becomes a Democrat · · Score: 1
    I can't believe there are people out there still making these arguments. You're basically saying the WMD argument was valid even though there were no WMDs. Listen to yourself, "There probably was a lot of raw materials for WMDs". Used to be war needed to be justified, not this slippery shit coming out of your mouth. Why don't you talk about the real threat that Iraq posed to the US wrt to their WMD program? What was the threat. Justify our invasion in real terms. Hysteria got us into Iraq, you're insane to continue to rationalize that hysteria.

    Your "GOOD strategy" argument is unprovable, unmeasurable hog wash that ignores the real, measurable costs of the war ($'s and lives).

  3. Re:More data forces the need for more bandwidth on The Road To Terabit Ethernet · · Score: 1

    Being able to push more content, move more data, combined with data files being that much larger, is the real driving force behind this push.

    Interesting, please subscribe me to your newsletter.

  4. Re:Bah @ negative people on Telepresence — Our Best Bet For Exploring Space · · Score: 1

    citation needed

  5. Re:Good on $74k Judgment Against Craigslist Prankster · · Score: 1

    I agree with 97% of your post.

  6. Re:It's a loan not a bailout. on Tesla CEO Says Gov't Loan Is 99% Sure and Deserved · · Score: 1

    It's a LOAN, not a bailout. You have to pay back loans. College students get them all the time, but you don't see people complaining about them.

    Unless the corporation goes bankrupt. Nah, that'd never happen.

  7. Re:Use Handbrake on Decent DVD-Ripping Solution For Linux? · · Score: 2, Funny

    You love it so much that you misspelled its name twice? :)

  8. Re:Harshness is all about color temperature on CFLs Causing Utility Woes · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I didn't consider that. If only had I had a heat pump:) Actually, I have a gas furnace, but run a couple electric space heaters in a couple rooms in order to keep the overall house temperature lower. I always figured having the lights on in the room with these space heaters was a wash.

  9. Re:Harshness is all about color temperature on CFLs Causing Utility Woes · · Score: 1

    When compared to other methods of heating ones home, waste heat from incandescent lighting is incredibly inefficient.

    Can you elaborate on that? Are you assuming that I don't have an electric furnace, or is there some other inefficiency you are referring to?

  10. Re:How about the followup? on Interview With the Author of "Mastering Cat" · · Score: 1

    How is that funny?

  11. Re:Dr. House Syndrome on Are Quirky Developers Brilliant Or Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    Maybe the don't show every case? I can't believe you actually analysed the business case for this fictional show. Amazing because it's a recurring theme whether it is worth it to keep Dr. House from several perspectives: business, ethical, social, etc. So if you read between the lines and assume the full existence of the universe the show portrays, then your analysis comes up short some how. Based on the logic in your analysis, he's saved 110 people in 110 hours.

  12. Re:What a waste on What Does a $16,000+ PC Look Like, Anyway? · · Score: 1

    Foreplay?

  13. Re:Not a bug on Apps That Rely On Ext3's Commit Interval May Lose Data In Ext4 · · Score: 1

    The idiocy is really breaking existing applications that used to work...

    I think you meant "applications that were already broken but perhaps had a smaller window of failure". If having a small window of failure is ok with you, then sure, let's not fix those broken applications and continue to pine for unrealistic filesystem semantics that for some reason filesystem developers over the last 40 years have been too stupid to come up with but.

  14. Re:Not a bug on Apps That Rely On Ext3's Commit Interval May Lose Data In Ext4 · · Score: 1

    It's easy to just call the patent an idiot however unless you're going to go around and fix thousands of apps with this problem there's not much that can be done.t.

    Those apps are broken no matter what you do. If having a lower risk of that brokenness manifesting in filesystem X versus filesystem Y make you happy, then you are a fool.

  15. Re:To Anonymous Coward: on Apps That Rely On Ext3's Commit Interval May Lose Data In Ext4 · · Score: 1

    You keep saying it's a filesystem limitation in some completely meaningless way in which all things are limited. Congratulation filesystem, you are among the set of things which have limitations of which all things are a member. What are you trying to prove other than you can't admit that you are wrong?

  16. Re:Energy Independence on National Ignition Facility Fires 192-Beam Pulse · · Score: 1

    Those countries are mostly poor and in no position to be starting www-3.

  17. Re:You Got Your Blinders On on Why TV Lost · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can watch a 2 hour slot of American Idol in less than 30 seconds.

  18. Re:Relative to other power sources... on Solar Panels Reach $1 a Watt · · Score: 1

    Link please. You first sentence; I'd quote, but I'm too lazy. I don't think were anywhere close to fusion as a power source, but I haven't paid much attention in the last 5 years. Based on the previous 45 years, I'm assuming it's still "15 years out".

  19. Re:I'm getting old, I don't understand the New Mat on Safari Beta Takeup Tops Firefox, IE and Chrome · · Score: 1

    lol - i've got that Laibach album on now. Must be a cover of something, what is it?

  20. Re:Relative to other power sources... on Solar Panels Reach $1 a Watt · · Score: 1

    IMO, throwing money at fusion R+D is the way to go, but obviously nobody has a "shovel-ready" blueprint for a practical, cost effective fusion reactor yet.

    obody has a "shovel-ready" blueprint for a practical, cost effective fusion reactor yet
    nobody has a blueprint for a practical, cost effective fusion reactor yet
    nobody has a blueprint for a cost effective fusion reactor yet
    nobody has a blueprint for a effective fusion reactor yet
    nobody has a blueprint for a fusion reactor yet

  21. Re:GCC compatibility on High Performance Linux Kernel Project — LinuxDNA · · Score: 2, Funny

    All my feature-incomplete software is really fast, too.

  22. Re:No torch? on Earth Under Threat From Dark Comets · · Score: 1

    Stomping foot?

  23. Re:If only this was truly a threat to them on Rabbit Ears To Stage a Comeback Thanks To DTV · · Score: 1

    You must be useless here.

  24. Re:Slashdot: Never news, nothing that matters. on Is the Relational Database Doomed? · · Score: 1

    Please explain the irony. I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

  25. Re:what about qualified voters? on Iowa Seeks To Remove Electoral College · · Score: 1
    I believe many people are woefully, neglectfully ignorant of civics, current events, politics, etc. However, here's a flip side to your test:

    1 - only people who pass the test can vote
    2 - people who pass the test are the one who define the test
    3 - people's ability to pass the test is affected by the outcome of the vote guarded by the test (e.g. education)

    I'd rather have idiots voting that such a recipe for tyranny.