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  1. Re:Where does this leave GIMP? on GIMP Dropped From Ubuntu 10.04 · · Score: 1

    Windows does!

  2. Re:Where does this leave GIMP? on GIMP Dropped From Ubuntu 10.04 · · Score: 1

    Sometimes you don't want to distract the subject before you use the flash. I don't use red-eye functions on cameras when my daughter is doing something cute because she will notice and stop and stare at the camera.

  3. Re:Shocking! on BlueHippo Scam Collected $15M, Only Shipped One PC · · Score: 1

    I see a lot of Toyota ads on TV with really fuzzy fine print. Most of it is illegible unless you can reasonably guess what it says.

  4. Re:Appearently I'm not a good American, on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    Nuclear energy isn't mentioned either. Does that make nuclear powerplants unconstitutional?

  5. Re:Appearently I'm not a good American, on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    You still haven't objectively shown the bill is unconstitutional. You've shown why you think it is but you are one of only a few that believe that.

  6. Re:Appearently I'm not a good American, on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    No one is changing the constitution, just creating laws that fall within the constitution. I don't know what is so hard to grasp about that.

  7. Re:Appearently I'm not a good American, on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    I don't support the healthcare bill and never said that I did. You ASSUmed it. I'm just pointing out that claiming it is unconstitutional is absurd.

  8. Re:Appearently I'm not a good American, on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    You do realize that the founding fathers understood that they could not predict the future, right? That clause is in there to account for things they could not foretell. That's why they wrote the Constitution to be somewhat flexible. Want to see an inflexible constitution? Just look at Texas. If it isn't stated in the constitution, it isn't a power. The US Constitution has numerous implied powers. Just read the Madison's last sentence in your quote.

  9. Re:Appearently I'm not a good American, on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    PleasE go to college. You'll learn all about the Constitution. You really need the knowledge.

  10. Re:Appearently I'm not a good American, on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    How about the Constitution of the USA? Can you point to one place in there where the federal government is given the power control health care and medicine? And remember if it does not give a power then government does not have that power, it is a document limiting what government can do.

    Ever hear of the "necessary and proper" clause? Before you go spouting off about the Constitution, read and understand it first.

  11. Re:Laws on Comcast's New Throttling Plan Uses Trigger Conditions, Not Silent Blocking · · Score: 3, Informative

    The electric company isn't always a monopoly. In Texas, the electric company can't own lines or power generation equipment. They buy electricity wholesale and sell it retail. The Transmission and Distribution Service Provider is a natural monopoly, however. This means that your choice of electric company can be boiled down to what sources your electricity comes from.

  12. Re:That is the programmer sucking on Why Computers Suck At Math · · Score: 1

    The summary math isn't wrong. Try reading the part about ticks per second again.

  13. Re:It says: 256MB RAM... on Ubuntu 9.10 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    By the same token, why haven't I upgraded my laptop to more than 1GB of RAM? It is super cheap, after all. Oh, right. My laptop doesn't support more than 1GB. I imagine his is a similar case.

  14. Re:So.... on Film Studios May Block DVD Rentals For One Month · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If no one watches movies at the same time you get a lot of conversations that go like this:
    Person 1: So, I watched ____ last nght.
    Person 2: That's nice.

    But if people watch movies at the same time, people will actually talk about them. No one wants to talk about the movie you saw last night, they want to talk about the movie WE saw last night.

  15. Re:I can see plenty of uses for it. on Apple Blurs the Server Line With Mac Mini Server · · Score: 1

    I would worry trying to back up a drive to another in the same machine on a frequent basis. I'm worried about some type of single failure easily and seriously affecting both drives. I'd much rather only have the backup drive connected when it is making a backup. Maybe I'm just being too paranoid, though.

  16. Re:Advertising these days... on Toyota Claims Woman "Opted In" To Faux Email Stalking · · Score: 1

    Their "Buy Toyota, Buy Now" campaign sounded a bit desperate to me.

  17. Re:Well, all are illegal... on Blogger Loses Unemployment Check Because of Ads · · Score: 1

    My asshole of a boss fired me for being 2 minutes late. Before that, hours had been reduced for several weeks due to lack of business and I had to use what I had saved to make up for it. Suddenly, I was out of a job with no savings.

  18. Re:An unemployed LAWYER was perhaps.... on Blogger Loses Unemployment Check Because of Ads · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I concur. I just started a Business Law class and had no clue about one of the primary components of a contract, consideration. Then it got more and more complex, things like "When is an offer considered to be accepted or even valid?" and that is just the basics.

  19. Re:An unemployed LAWYER was perhaps.... on Blogger Loses Unemployment Check Because of Ads · · Score: 1

    Do you think laws didn't start out simple? We started off with "Thou Shalt Not Murder" and over time it has become "Thou Shalt Not Murder Nor Attempt Murder And If One Does It May Or May Not Be Murder Or Attempted Murder Depending On The Circumstances".

  20. Re:Vista on Revisiting the Original Reviews of Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    I agree that Vista drivers sometimes don't work. My built-in SD reader doesn't work under 7 but does under Vista. It seems strange.

    I strongly disagree that it is slow. It runs better on my 6-year-old laptop that maxes out at 1GB RAM than XP ever did. It was like I got a whole new computer.

  21. Re:Where's Windows 7? on Microsoft Leaks Details of 128-bit Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Windows 7 really is 7.0, it just claims to be 6.1 for compatibility reasons.

  22. Re:They tried this with Ask Slashdot... on StackOverflow For Any Topic · · Score: 1

    Even then, the question wasn't asked that well. I believe it went something like:

    "How is babby formed?"

  23. Re:the wunnerful 50's, not on '09 Malibu Vs. '59 Bel Air Crash Test · · Score: 1

    The petrol tank can't explode, no matter where it is. The petrol has to be vaporized with the proper air/fuel ratio for it to explode, a condition that is not possible in a petrol tank.

  24. Re:MMS is pretty pointless after all on MMS Arrives For the iPhone — Will It Crash AT&T's Network? · · Score: 1

    Many carriers assign an email address to each phone number. I send my wife MMSs all the time by emailing a picture to the appropriate address.

  25. Re:Ecchhh... on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 1

    The problem with menus is that you have to put things somewhere in the menus. If you've ever used more than one program, you know that things never seem to be in the same place. Preferences are the obvious example. By one line of thinking, the should be in a certain place. By another line, they should be somewhere else.