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  1. Re:Now that heroin is taken care of...... on Vaccine Could Cut Heroin Addiction · · Score: 1

    Or Tobacco, Marijuana, cocaine, etc. :)

  2. Re:Who cares about light pollution? on Help Map Global Light Pollution, By Starlight · · Score: 1

    The crooks are really concerned. The victims of their deeds may see them coming and take protective measures if the light levels remain high.

  3. Re:Actual Picture on Iran Unveils Flying Saucer Using Old B-Movie Stock Photo · · Score: 1

    The actual picture looks nothing like a flying saucer. It looks like a helicopter body with two struts with engine pods for the rotors. So why is it called a "flying saucer?"

  4. Re:Recession? on $39.5 Million Hi-Tech Library Opens In Illinois · · Score: 1

    My city's library has internet and email classes people can attend for free, as well as large print books and a new children's wing that has indoor trees that kids can sit in and read from with specially aimed lights to help make that work. We don't have all that fancy TV stuff as the one in this story though. We do have a coffee, soup and sandwich shop though!

  5. Re:This is gonna be very rant like on Is Software Driving a Falling Demand For Brains? · · Score: 1

    We are, contrary to your statement, very good about inventing new things. Lately though we have been hampered by laws on copyright and patents from experimenting and coming up with new things if they are based on someone else' work.

  6. Re:Idiots on 'Spam King' Released From Prison, Now Lives In Seattle · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You have hit the nail on the head. Those who have been found guilty of sex crimes are particularly marred for life. I know a guy that was 18 with a 17 yo girlfriend, her Dad did not like the boy, and got him labeled a sex offender. He cannot get rid of the stigma and he is now in his late 40's.

  7. Re:Confused on Goodbye, HD Component Video · · Score: 1

    That Politician was Obama to the current PM of the UK, not Bush. Yes it did make us look bad.

  8. Re:Big Brother on Kids Who Skip School Get Tracked By GPS · · Score: 1

    Well, maybe the part that they have to press a key sequence is wrong, but they don't know that - to see if they will follow rules. It probably tracks locations every minute so it can be reviewed later when bracelet is downloaded. In fact, maybe the key sequence is actually to download their data to the school for their data retention.

  9. Re:Ho Hum article. on Compared and Contrasted: OpenOffice V. LibreOffice · · Score: 1

    On my work Mac, I have Libreoffice and Neooffice. However, I needed neooffice on my Mac to open old Word Perfect files (WP) because my agency switched to Word several years ago and the older versions of Word did open WP however, recent versions do not and at the time, OpenOffice did not while NeoOffice did. Libreoffice has that functionality though, so now NeoOffice is redundant. Ps. Printing is fine with my Libreoffice.

  10. Re:Up the gas tax five dollars for passenger vehic on White House Wants 1M Electric Cars By 2015 · · Score: 1

    That would also boom the diesel car and pickup truck market.

  11. Re:One Outrage I agree on... on Four Outrages Techies Need To Know About the State of the Union · · Score: 1

    Because he is TSA's big boss and he could change that without making any statement. It is all in his lap.

  12. Re:This is precisely why we haven't left MS on LibreOffice 3.3 Released Today · · Score: 1

    Why aren't you bashing MS for not writing to OOo files? When Word Perfect was the leading word processing software, Word could read Word Perfect files, but now, many years later, you have to use OOo or now LO to open Word Perfect files to convert to MSWord or the open file formats.

  13. Re:Let me get this straight ... on Record Labels To Pay For Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    Well, you may have unknowingly, but that was because the company you thought legit was not paying the copyright holders. RIAA $50Million set a side, you know.

  14. Re:Homeopathic Medicine on Placebos Work -- Even Without Deception · · Score: 1

    Jay, hate to tell you, but you can interview all the horses I have ever seen, and Mr. Ed was just a spoof on TV, no actual horse can talk. So of course they interviewed zero horses. :)

  15. Re:Surprising in its unsurprisingness on Compiling the WikiLeaks Fallout · · Score: 1

    Maybe Wikileaks should print pictures of Mohammad and things against Islam and see how long they last. :)

  16. Re:History is kind to presidents on George W. Bush Live From Facebook · · Score: 1

    That sounds like a Bill Clinton question to me. The blowing part-that is. Haw Haw

  17. Re:Better idea - remember the saying on FCC To Allow Texting To 911 · · Score: 1

    Police can be there in minutes when seconds count. Having a gun, is there immediately, when and where needed. Enough said.

  18. Re:Good. Hope this keeps up on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    parent said "It was a Democrat that said "The buck stops here" I believe...." Just not the current President who is a Democrat.

  19. Re:lpd on 2010 Geek IQ Test · · Score: 1

    If I had mod points, you would not be at zero as you are when I write this.

  20. Re:Adult movie on Interview With Head of Pixar Animation Ed Catmull · · Score: 1

    no lines if you don't think saying each other's names is dialogue. "Wallie" and "Eva" (Wall-e's Eve)

  21. Re:This explains the political process on The Placebo Effect Not Just On Drugs · · Score: 1

    The department of Energy was created to get us off our dependency on foreign sourced oil. We were using 20 % foreign oil at the time, now we are using 80% or so!

  22. Re:NO! - apparently against preventative medicine on Breakthrough Portends Cure For the Common Cold · · Score: 1

    Everyone else is clamoring for preventative medicine saying health care costs will go down, but you say let them get sick. Interesting

  23. Re:the 'journal of politics' ???? on Researchers Find a 'Liberal Gene' · · Score: 1

    First off, since when did politics enter the world of science? Yaayaya.. yadda yadda .. Have you missed the whole "Global warming" scandal? O.o

  24. Re:Oh, just great on Researchers Find a 'Liberal Gene' · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well, if they "cure conservatism" I suppose the human population will quickly fall apart as such conservative views as "don't spend more than you have" will stay gone and society will devolve quickly into a poverty that no one will be able to "cure."

  25. Why doesn't MS use Bing? They own it, don't they? on Big Media Wants More Piracy Busting From Google · · Score: 1

    Why doesn't MS use Bing? They own it, don't they?