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  1. Re:please, no more bullshit on Blogger.com Banned In Turkey · · Score: 1

    Ammm ... in the 20s there were 100,000 Greeks in Istanbul, now a few thousand. Minor Asia a million or two, where did they go ? The 50s pogroms ? What happened there ? Sure in Turkey according to you the Armenians are saying one thing but then you can go to jail for insulting ... Turkishness

  2. Re:Turkey? on Blogger.com Banned In Turkey · · Score: 5, Interesting

    An then there is history

    "Turkey is the one Muslim country that does not directly attacks anyone with another religion, and commits genocide upon them."

    Pretty much wiped out the Armenians in an inconvenient genocide. The Greeks are gone in repeated pogroms. Any equality was pretty much expressed in the form that everybody got genocided pretty much evenly.

    They are now working on the Kurds. A decade ago it was illegal to speak Kurdish, name your child with a Kurdish name, broadcast in Kurdish, used Kurdish colors. This has been relaxed because Turkey wants in on international institutions.

    I guess "equality" is a work in progress in Turkey with it trying it equalize everybody into being a particular Turk, God forbid if you are not.

    You'd be insulting Turkishness (A criminal offense by the way)

    G

  3. Re:How can you call it a car... on 1000-mph Car Planned · · Score: 1

    A F1 car at speed with it's ground effect can run or the ceiling of a tunnel if it was allowed to do so. It would make for some spectacular overtaking

    G

  4. Re:I've got a better idea on 1000-mph Car Planned · · Score: 1

    With the exception of the

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren_F1

  5. Re:MPG is an obsolete measurement on 1000-mph Car Planned · · Score: 1

    As an eight year old to add

    1mm + 6mm +12mm +25mm

    ask an Engineer to add

    1/16" + 1/4" + 1/2" + 1"

    Start the stop watch, award the winner the best system.

    Not convinced ? Receiver the activity, start the wall clock

  6. It's not piracy if it's OK on Learning To Profit From Piracy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You are not pirating his book if he picks a license that allows you to copy. Otherwise he is being the pirate, by making available a copyright work.

  7. OK ... one more expert ... on Recovering Moldy Electronics? · · Score: 1

    I will tell you two methods

    Wash in an ultrasonic bath. 10 minutes in isopropanol. 10 minutes in methanol. If you can only do one, use mathanol as it is a water dispersant. A warm oven would be a good next move ...

    Now something that is also done professionally ... dip the whole thing in a drum of WD40 (or spray profusely)... wash in distilled water. Let dry, put in oven

    Use ...

    G

  8. Re:Told to F-O on TSA Employee Caught With $200K Worth of Stolen Property · · Score: 1

    Next on Youtube ... look at the weird things joe the plumber caries in his luggage. Frilly underwear, rubber chickens, and this ... what is this ? ... click ... bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

  9. Re:Times are different now. on Australian State May Give Students Linux Laptops · · Score: 1

    Man I love Linux, but my Windows XP nevr crashes, and in fact Linux crashes more often. Neither crash inconveniently often.

    Get Linux because it is better over all, but not in every way, or for everybody...

    G

  10. Americans ... on People Prefer Angry-Faced Cars · · Score: 1

    I don't mean to be anti- anything but I just went to the Australian motor show, and as well from my experience on cars in the street the US cars seem to be made that way. The European have a sense of luxury, The Asian seem practical and a little frilly but the American cars are in your face, me vs the world. Keep the outside world out ?!?!

  11. M ? on Microsoft's New Programming Language, "M" · · Score: 1

    Why not "F", that is what we gave Vista

    G

  12. Re:Don't vote on Voters In Many States Must Register By October 6 · · Score: 1

    "26% of Americans agreed that we should bomb Switzerland if the sanctions don't work"

    A simple question posed a decade ago, goes to show that 26% of Americans could do with a lobotomy

    I hope they are not that dumb any more ...

    G

  13. Re:Hey so you catch it, and then what ? on Removing CO2 From the Air Efficiently · · Score: 1

    That requires heaps of energy. Add it all up and and what you have is not something that works, but a theory for politicians to stop other solutions

    The joke is in the wording. So you can make collectors anywhere you want !! Say you build 100,000 of them. Now you have 100,000 small sources that you need to transport your CO2 from. Then you need to take it all to a carpet to shove it under. You start with the cheap spot, they will run out quickly (and use up energy) Then what ?!

    Use nuclear, no emissions, no pollution created (just the existing bad stuff becoming less bad)

  14. Hey so you catch it, and then what ? on Removing CO2 From the Air Efficiently · · Score: 1

    Somebody has to make a tick box responce for this as well.

    OK, so you captured all that CO2, you have just converted your problem to CO2 sequestration.

    That is a scam and a half, it costs money to shove it underground, so calculate that. Much like oil, cheap sites for sequestration are a diminishing resource.

    You wanna fix your problem ? Don't make the stuff, not create excuses to do so ...

    These type of solutions give alibi to polluters ...

  15. Re:This Just In on Palin Email Hacker Found · · Score: 1

    Oh my goodness, Bush manadged to set a high bar on something after all.

    G

  16. Cool ... addvertising on McAfee Artemis Claims Protection Online, On-the-Fly · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow addvertising in the article as well as below. Maybe slashdot should work together with addvertising so thay match.

    G

  17. Much like solar power ... on 1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change · · Score: 1

    This will take decades to implement and much like solar power it will stop true solutions.

    Voice of reason: We already have zero emissions abundant energy with minuscule amounts of pollutants it is called Nuclear energy.

    Greenie: Now, let's go for Solar/Wind/Shove carbon under the earth/Fusion. All we have to do is burn money and effort and time making them work ... just wait a little more ... say 20 years

  18. Re:Quote from the Future on McCain Picks Gov. Palin As Running Mate · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Naaaa ... teach it. The only reason they have credibility is because they are made martyrs so they love the attention. get them to produce a text book and have be laughed as they try and teach kids creationism in a scientific context.

    g

  19. They sold them selves ... on Wikileaks To Sell Hugo Chavez' Email · · Score: 1

    They got this info from somebody who could have sold it themselves

    They lost their credibility ... pity

    G

  20. So they did make it into orbit on Iran Announces Manned Space Mission Plans · · Score: 1

    "Fell noticeably short of the Earth's atmosphere"

    Doesn't that mean they made it into space ?
    I mean ... sitting on the ground means it made it to atmosphere, so not quite making it to atmosphere is the purpose of all launches

    G

  21. The First boing 777 flew on Getting Human Hands Back Into Digital Design · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The first Boing 777 flew and flew exactly as the model predicted.

    There was a time when you would make a physical model to see how it will behave, but no longer. They sort of do it with cars but only for the sake of styling. Aerodynamic models are more accurate and styling is more important so there is no need for wind tunel testing.

    Modern Cad pakages like SolidWorks, Catia, ProE are amazing and almost a comodity.

    Skilled manual labour is a beautiful thing, but is becoming more distant

    I am sure there is a SciFi script in this.

    G

  22. Re:Other market cap comparisons on Apple's Market Cap Exceeds Google's · · Score: 1

    MS works so hard and has it's hand in so many markets, I recon Apple is but 2% or less than MS on the big picture, and to have 60% of the value of MS

    I stand by:

    Top news story at 11: "Chair seen in orbit around Pluto"

  23. Re:Other market cap comparisons on Apple's Market Cap Exceeds Google's · · Score: 2, Insightful

    60% of Microsoft with less than 10% of the market ?!

    Top news story at 11: "Chair seen in orbit around Pluto"

  24. Re:I thought Taboos applied to people not things. on Google's Streetview Seen As Culturally Insensitive In Japan · · Score: 1

    They are not protesting the act of them selves spying but being spyed upon. So if I take a photo of you showering ... brrrr ... and post it on the net you may be OK, but others are not.

    On the other hand in these times of completely connected we are loosing our want of privacy. I have an Iphone and I can get a program called tracker. With I can submit my location to a private website so I can see were I have been ... and so can the website. Handy ?

    G

  25. Re:China's Cultural and Political Issues on MediaSentry Hired By People's Republic of China · · Score: 1

    I agree with you, I exaggerated my point. The Chinese see flaws in the "American Dream" as much as the Americans see flaws in the Chineese. How do you run a county of over a billion with the American system ?

    Yes you do have lack of some fundamental freedoms that in our eyes seem terrible, but in the micro cosmos of the individual Chinese ... it may be seen as enabling not restricting.