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  1. Re:Office on Microsoft Losing Big To Apple On Campus · · Score: 1

    Well, I did all my undergrad work in Mac Office '04, two thesis in Mac Office '08 and now I support a state agency who is 100% Mac Office and we exchange documents on a daily basis with state offices and school districts who use older Mac Office, Open Office and Office for Windows with very few incompatibilities or calls to the user's desktops.

    My shopping lists I do in Shopper on my iPhone

  2. Re:Office on Microsoft Losing Big To Apple On Campus · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but are you smoking crack?

    I've used Mac Office in mixed environments for years and years, the current Mac Office works just fine with the current Windows Office.

  3. Re:Here's hoping they can track down peanut allerg on Researchers Pinpoint Cause of Gluten Allergies · · Score: 3, Informative
  4. Re:So... on Court Rejects Warrantless GPS Tracking · · Score: 1

    In 2000 the Arkansas Supreme Court's Committee on Professional Conduct called for Clinton's disbarment, saying he lied about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

    In January 2001 Clinton reached an agreement under which he was ordered to pay $25,000 in fines to Arkansas state's bar officials and his Arkansas law license was suspended for five years.

    The agreement came on the condition that Whitewater prosecutors would not pursue federal perjury charges against him.

    So he took a plea and in effect admitted guilt and was fined.

  5. Re:Way to block Bush and the Republicans on Court Rejects Warrantless GPS Tracking · · Score: 1

    No, Obama's policies are not Reagan like.

    From Wiki

    Domestic policies
    Federalism, and passed policies to encourage development of private business, routinely criticizing and defunding the public sector. He greatly accelerated the nation's War on Drugs. His policies put forth the largest tax cut in American history

    Foreign policies
    The United States also offered financial and logistics support to the right wing insurgencies in central Europe and took an increasingly hard line against socialist and communist governments in Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, and Nicaragua. The U.S. provided overt and covert aid to democratic guerrillas and resistance movements in an effort to "rollback" Soviet-backed communist governments in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

    The only similarities there are Federalism.

  6. Re:Way to block Bush and the Republicans on Court Rejects Warrantless GPS Tracking · · Score: 1

    Did George W Bush commit a crime?

    He has not been charged, tried or convicted for illegal wiretaps, so it can't be said that he "committed a crime". The only president since 1975 to stand trial was Bill Clinton.

  7. Re:They will make them comply on Pentagon Demands Return of Leaked Afghanistan Documents · · Score: 1

    I'm in favor of disbanding the CIA entirely, but I just don't see the CIA ever reigning itself in or being reigned in.

  8. Re:Does it matter? on Senate Confirms Elena Kagan's Appointment To SCOTUS · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, I'm ignoring a one time aberration. Supreme Court deciding on the Presidential Election or months of chaos without a president, I think they did the right thing.

  9. Re:lulz on Senate Confirms Elena Kagan's Appointment To SCOTUS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    People were pissed because she was giving textbook answers to make it through the job interview with the Senate while everyone knows she's going to be an activist judge ruling off of her opinion because she has no practical experience.

  10. Re:Does it matter? on Senate Confirms Elena Kagan's Appointment To SCOTUS · · Score: 1

    You realize that the Supreme Court of the United States doesn't really have anything to do with voting right?

  11. Re:They will make them comply on Pentagon Demands Return of Leaked Afghanistan Documents · · Score: 1

    The CIA is meant by design to operate outside the US. A better rule of engagement for them would be to keep them from projecting power inside the US.

  12. Re:They will make them comply on Pentagon Demands Return of Leaked Afghanistan Documents · · Score: 1

    Bill Clinton?

  13. Re:They will make them comply on Pentagon Demands Return of Leaked Afghanistan Documents · · Score: 1

    Nope.

    If that were the case the USAF would be leasing 767 tankers from Boeing right now instead of having sent officers and Boeing officials to prison and being in a bidding process to buy tankers from either Airbus/Northrup Grumman or Boeing.

    The USAF would still be buying F-22As, the XM-8 program would have gotten somewhere, the Army would have Crusader, etc

    While military contractors have alot of power at the Pentagon, they don't have all that much power over the rest of the Federal Government and nearly no power over the state governments.

  14. Re:obvious suggestions on Where To Start With DIY Home Security? · · Score: 1

    Intruders, threats, zombies - shoot till you see brains is just good sense.

  15. Re:obvious suggestions on Where To Start With DIY Home Security? · · Score: 1

    A number of police have told me that if you shoot in self defense, "keep shooting until you see brains".

  16. Re:Woof woof! on Where To Start With DIY Home Security? · · Score: 1

    A guard dog doesn't have to be big or noisy. It just has to be a dog who wants to defend its pack and home.

    Your training plan is flawed, a well adjusted family dog of any breed will die defending pack and home, doesn't take many barks to put off a robber.

  17. Re:obvious suggestions on Where To Start With DIY Home Security? · · Score: 1

    With 000 buck, it has penetration, but only 3 balls.

    Birdshot a CQB range will at the very least hurt like hell and make a great noise.

  18. Re:Get ready to Bend over America on Google and Verizon In Talks To Prioritize Traffic (Updated) · · Score: 1

    I've never had it take more than three hours. Moving from ATT to Quest, to T-Mobile, to ATT. Never more than three hours.

  19. Re:Get ready to Bend over America on Google and Verizon In Talks To Prioritize Traffic (Updated) · · Score: 1

    Read the information in the link.

    "The ITRCC assumed this responsibility from the Indiana Department of Transportation on June 30, 2006 in accordance with a 75-year lease agreement, included as part of the 2005 Major Moves legislation proposed by Governor Mitch Daniels and enacted by the Indiana General Assembly in November 2005."

    Leased from the state, so the state still gets income from it. Built by the state.

  20. Re:Get ready to Bend over America on Google and Verizon In Talks To Prioritize Traffic (Updated) · · Score: 1

    What private corporation owns or takes the money from using a toll road?

  21. Re:I Guess I Don't Exist Then ... on Why Wave Failed · · Score: 1

    I tried it. We looked at it in the office for about ten minutes (I do distance learning and collaboration stuff in Alaska, a place where this sort of tool should be awesome) and we were "meh" about it.

    Then I was invited to a collaboration a month ago using Wave and it was very meh to use.

  22. Re:there will never be peace in this world on Most Consumers Support Government Cyber-Spying · · Score: 1

    1970s and even 1980s Persian Gulf was more stable than it is now.

    Even with the Iran-Iraq War the region was stable, now there is an insurgency in Iraq, Iran is going nuclear, Saudi Arabia probably is nuclear, the Gulf states are looking to go nuclear, there is an insurgency in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, oh and an insurgency or two in Iran, and don't forget the rise of Kurdistan.

  23. Re:there will never be peace in this world on Most Consumers Support Government Cyber-Spying · · Score: 1

    The true source of conflict is abundance of resources. When the majority of the world's oil came from the Persian Gulf the region was nice and stable, because the British and then the Americans made it stable.

    Then oil production developed in West Africa, Indonesia, Canada, Soviet oil opened up to the world, North Sea, Alaska, some regions remained stable and others became unstable, no country or bloc has the resources to secure all the areas so some slide into anarchy.

    Gold, diamonds, exotic metals are all driving wars, not because of scarcity, but because of abundance.

    If resources were truly scarce places like Pebble Mine wouldn't be up for debate, they'd be carving out the Bristol Bay region to get to those metals for US strategic security. As it is theres more than enough sources of metals right now to make Copper Mine a luxury

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_Mine

  24. Re:Nearly two thirds... on Most Consumers Support Government Cyber-Spying · · Score: 2, Informative

    Home Owners Associations are the tribes?

    No, HOAs are petty little bureaucracies made up of rules lawyers. HOAs don't gang up on one another.

    MMA is just the modern professional boxing since the professional boxing promoters and associations became so corrupt.

  25. What the heck... on Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2? · · Score: 1

    It's wikipedia's article of the day and so it's over on /. as "an epic battle is waging"?

    I missed /. two days ago, was the Action of 1 August 1801 described as "an epic battle in the Global War on Terror"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_1_August_1801