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  1. HOW IS BABBY FORMED on Designer Babies · · Score: 1

    HOW GIRL GET PRAGNENT

  2. Re:The gaul wars were a mixed bag on Superguns Helped Defeat the Spanish Armada · · Score: 1

    You miss my point. I'm talking about all the FUD about Iraq's WMDs and the Bush Administration's staying on message about the danger of Iraq.

  3. Re:The gaul wars were a mixed bag on Superguns Helped Defeat the Spanish Armada · · Score: 1

    A better Roman analogy to the Iraq War's buildup was Cato the Elder's "Carthago delenda est!": "Carthage must be destroyed!" before the Third Punic War. He would end all his speeches, even if unrelated, with that or a variant of the phrase.

  4. Re:But should it be that way? on The Hard Upgrade Path From XP To Vista To Win 7 · · Score: 1

    Because I don't use word processors much, and it's effort to switch to DOS.

    Fun fact: the secret to WordPerfect's speed back in the DOS days was was that it was ill-behaved. Instead of using DOS or the BIOS to get keyboard input, it read directly from the 8042 keyboard controller. This let it keep up with fast typists even on 8088s.

  5. Re:But should it be that way? on The Hard Upgrade Path From XP To Vista To Win 7 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you never used WP 5.1, did you?

  6. Re:RIP My Friend on Palm Pulls the Plug On Palm OS · · Score: 1

    Where do you get your ammo? AIM Surplus has it for about $0.55 per round for softnose. It's Prvi Partizan, which is fairly dirty (much dirtier than the Sellier & Bellot 7.62x54R I have), but it shoots OK.

  7. Terrier dog on How To Keep Rats From Eating My Cables? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    there's a breed called the rat terrier, not as common as it once was, but probably other terriers could do for this work. Possibly you can deal better with typical dog behaviors better than cat behaviors.

  8. Re:RIP My Friend on Palm Pulls the Plug On Palm OS · · Score: 1

    That I do, and it did. Tried to contact the former owner and never heard back, but he'd be in his 90s if he's still alive.

    I've got it upgraded with a St. Marie Graphics scope mount and cheap Pentax scope. Shoots well, but the extra stuff makes it heavy.

    I do enjoy taking it apart and admiring how well it's engineered and made, especially the bolt.

  9. Re:RIP My Friend on Palm Pulls the Plug On Palm OS · · Score: 1

    Yeah, GP11, which is 7.5x55mm.

  10. Re:RIP My Friend on Palm Pulls the Plug On Palm OS · · Score: 4, Funny

    I won't miss if it's within a hundred yards. Swiss-made rifles FTW!

  11. Bad summary on MIT Team Creates Shock That Recharges Your Car · · Score: 3, Insightful

    should s/shock/shock absorber/ so we know WTF you're talking about right away.

  12. Re:Misleading summary on MS To Offer Free Windows 7 Upgrade To Vista Users · · Score: 4, Informative

    Your BIOS is most likely set to have your SATA controller emulate an IDE example. Many BIOSes have this option. You lose hotplug, NCQ, and maybe some other features, but it's just the thing for compatibility.

  13. Re:Misleading summary on MS To Offer Free Windows 7 Upgrade To Vista Users · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wrong. XP doesn't have any SATA drivers. I think Dell's OEM version of XP SP3 does, but not standard XP SP?.

    I use DriverPacks.net's drivers integrated into a DVD; works a treat for getting a computer up quickly.

  14. Re:Culture on China Aims To Move Up the Food Chain · · Score: 0, Troll

    They certainly invented a lot of ways to deal with Jews.

  15. Re:Vim's gvim frontend on Vim 7.2 Released · · Score: 1

    There was a kvim at one time; don't know what happened to it.

  16. Re:Too perfect that it's based on RED Hat. on Russia's Operating System May Be Fedora Based · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's the beta testing-ground for RHEL. Mostly works, but only mostly.

  17. Too perfect that it's based on RED Hat. on Russia's Operating System May Be Fedora Based · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Don't know why they'd pick the unstable beta distro to do it, though. Ought to use the Russian version of CentOS or Ubuntu LTS.

  18. Re:CYBER on Obama To Name Melissa Hathaway Cybersecurity Chief · · Score: 1

    Are you racist against rednecks?

  19. Re:Is the site getting a new tagline? on Is Google Silently Removing Posts? · · Score: 1

    "New"? That's been the invisible tagline for a while now, especially when Zonk used to post or when kdawson currently posts stories.

  20. When did CBS get the rights? on CBS Hosts Ad-Funded TV Series, Incl. Original Star Trek · · Score: 1

    If I remember correctly, NBC was originally responsible for Trek Classic.

  21. Re:Here's an idea on Why Sustainable Power Is Unsustainable · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is there something wrong with turning down the thermostat and applying more insulation? To getting a more efficient means of transportation?

    Don't be retarded.

  22. So is this a new Twitter dupe? on The Broken Design of Microsoft's "Fix it" Tool · · Score: 1

    I realize that other posters on here can be that stupid, but this has a certain odor about it.

    Also, kdawson sucks. He needs to go wherever Zonk went.

  23. Re:When are they going to destroy these samples? on Washington State Wants DNA From All Arrestees · · Score: 1

    Please tell me that prosecutor served hard time for misconduct.

  24. Re:just dandy on US Digital TV Switchover Delayed Until June · · Score: 1

    Bah, the local station playing the Super Bowl was analog and standard-definition, and me with my new 42" HDTV. They haven't yet bothered switching their digital transmitter on.

  25. Can the bang on Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development · · Score: 1, Insightful

    When you write Joomla with the exclamation point, you look like such a wanker. We don't do it for Yahoo, don't do it for this either.