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  1. Re:Good exercise? on How the City Hurts Your Brain · · Score: 1

    the mental stress of being abused by just about everybody else on the road led to me being pissed off the whole time

    I hope you don't take up bicycling -- I've been this way for years.

  2. Re:Will we do nothing to escape the fantasy? on Plug-In Hybrids Aren't Coming, They're Here · · Score: 1

    I wish I could figure out how to add you to my Friends list. :-) This is the only rational thing I've read all day -- except for the one above me about the electric bike, which, from a purely engineering standpoint, is the ideal vehicle.

  3. Re:Efficiency on Plug-In Hybrids Aren't Coming, They're Here · · Score: 1

    ...till the top mileage increases to that of a current gas engine...

    This is the part that I'm so tired of hearing about.

    EVs have never caught on because of this perceived shortcoming, but it's ridiculous.

    Think about it: EVs could be made **very** inexpensively if people had realistic expectations about their speed and range. (Not "till the top mileage increases to that of a current gas engine")

    If you live in an urban environment, the speed and mileage of "a current gas engine" should not even be necessary!

  4. Re:I give Toyota some credibility here... on Plug-in Hybrids May Not Go Mainstream, Toyota Says · · Score: 1

    >just for commuting, and not for expressway use.

    In America,that's a contradiction in terms. ^_^

  5. Re:Disingenuous much? on Google Using DoubleClick Tracking Cookies · · Score: 1

    The U.S. does not have a real government at all, and hasn't for probably fifty years.

    What we have is a corporate liaison.

  6. Re:If only on NVidia Reportedly Will Exit Chipset Business · · Score: 1

    Then nVidia could focus on debugging their Vista video card drivers

    Real World: Nvidia lays off the people who debug Vista video card drivers, and give themselves a nice fat bonus.

  7. Re:An the solution is.... on MoBo Manufacturer Foxconn Refuses To Support Linux · · Score: 1

    if you don't run Windows then you aren't a computer user...

    Similar to not owning a car in the U.S. makes you homeless.

  8. Re:With GMs luck. on GM, Utilities Partner To Advance Plug-In Hybrids · · Score: 1

    My first car, a '71 Chevy Nova, had a charcoal filter to prevent this from happening. My point? Gas hasn't "evaporated and escaped" since the early '70s.

    You do,in fact want to use the gas, as it turns into something really, really nasty if you don't. Then again, that takes a matter of years.

  9. Re:It flew under the radar on Best Buy Is Selling Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Um, no, she'd be fired for not squandering company money on software, because if it's free, it must not be worth anything.

    I finally figured out how to phrase this: Nobody wants anything that's free. They just want it for free.

  10. Re:Bill Waterson process on Larrabee Based On a Bundle of Old Pentium Chips · · Score: 1

    One can certainly imagine the myriad of uses.

  11. Re:What the hell is Larrabee? on Larrabee Based On a Bundle of Old Pentium Chips · · Score: 1

    Rumor has it there are "desperate cowboys" in some place called Brokedick Mountain.

  12. Re:Convincing one of safety of small vehicles. on VW Concept Microcar Gets 235 MPG · · Score: 1

    You need to visit Austin,TX where there are no traffic laws whatsoever.

    Our whole concept of "quality of life" is based on how many red lights we can run on the way to work.

  13. Re:Nooo! on Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why is parent flamebait?

    We are Slashdot of Org. You will be moderated. Relevance is foobar.

  14. Re:Good riddance! on The SUV Is Dethroned · · Score: 1

    It's not just about image. When you drive a tank, it doesn't matter (theoretically) if you know how to drive -- all you have to do is keep it between the ditches. Whatever else happens is the other party's problem.

  15. Typo in Summary on OEMs Looking to Ubuntu for Netbook Market · · Score: 1

    Is anyone paying attention in Redmond?

    More like, is anyone paying attention TO Redmond?

  16. Re:It's Not Always the Software Per Se on The Most Annoying Software Out There · · Score: 1

    OMG LOL WTF BBQ!

    You're the only person left in the world (or maybe the only one on /.) who knows how to spell "per se".

    You are The One[TM]!

  17. Re:Windows XP? on Hands-On With the Windows XP-Based Asus Eee PC · · Score: 1

    About the same time as MS-DOS.

    In other words, any day now.

  18. Re:His fellow students won't remember him for this on 11-Year-Old Becomes Network Admin for Alabama School · · Score: 1

    Your extracirricular activities do not intrigue me and I do not wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

  19. Re:While these stories are interesting... on 11-Year-Old Becomes Network Admin for Alabama School · · Score: 1

    And when these kids go to high school and college and the corporate world they'll probably be running Windows anyway so why introduce them to Linux

    And when these kids go to high school and college and the corporate world they'll probably be running Apollo Domain anyway so why introduce them to Unix?

    And when these kids go to high school and college and the corporate world they'll probably be running VMS anyway so why introduce them to DOS?

  20. Re:How about on-the-go charging? on MIT's Nano Storage Could Replace Hybrid Batteries · · Score: 1

    I don't get it. If you were to go to that much trouble, why not just lay train tracks so you can move 3 zillion people at one time, instead of perpetuating the single occupant vehicle status quo?

  21. Re:Passes worthless! I got on a flight without pay on The Rising Barcode Security Threat · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of a warehouse I had a temporary job in. We temps had no badge to get in, but we couldn't leave the door open, even temporarily, for the sake of perceived "security".

    Never mind that the bay doors (where the trucks dock) were wide open.

  22. Re:You need more data before you jump to conclusio on Computer Glitch Halts Seattle New Year's Fireworks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Everything you just said would've cost more money. I'm pretty sure that wasn't a priority.

  23. Re:Not about spying on Adobe Quietly Monitoring Software Use? · · Score: 1

    Beyond that, should it be legal for a company to commercially leverage a user's internet connection?

    It's not "user", it's "consumer".

    I trust this clarifies things for you, Citizen.

  24. Re:Well no wonder on Dutch ODF Plan Could Sideline Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. Of course you can read it.

    For a nominal fee, of course.

  25. Re:I understand the feeling on Commodore 64 Still Beloved After All These Years · · Score: 1

    ...users... In Corporate America, the correct term for this is "consumers". FTFY.