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  1. Re:The pluses and the minuses from two weeks' usag on Ubuntu 9.04 RC Released · · Score: 1

    Other minus: Updates killed my sound (on both a laptop and a desktop) not long after it went beta. Fortunately, it works in a fresh install. I guess a config file got clobbered somewhere.

  2. Re:This already occurs in NYS on The End of Tax-Free Internet Shopping? · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't call a bazooka a firearm, either.

  3. Re:This already occurs in NYS on The End of Tax-Free Internet Shopping? · · Score: 1

    I'm all for a citizen's right to reasonable armament, but an unlimited right to bear arms means you should be able to own RPGs and F-22s. I can't take seriously the private citizen who stands for such a proposition.

    A while back someone here pointed out that artillery is ordnance, not arms (guns). I'm sure RPGs, F-22s, and nukes also fall outside that classification.

  4. Re:This already occurs in NYS on The End of Tax-Free Internet Shopping? · · Score: 1

    [1] What part of the "right to bear arms" excludes fully automatic weapons?

    Explicitly? None that I know of. But the right is simply "to bear arms". No mention is made of type. Probably because at the time virtually every gun was a single-shot muzzle-loaded pistol/rifle (and maybe shotgun). One could not walk into a building and gun down everybody.

  5. Re:What the hell? on Amazon To Block Phorm Scans · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Cut new squares out of them.

  6. Re:Obesity & Bacteria on Are Human Beings Organisms Or Living Ecosystems? · · Score: 1

    10% of the spinach-energy is 1000 kcals. Still double what is in the chocolate. ;-)

  7. Re:Islam, eh? on UK To Train Pro-West Islamic Groups To Game Google · · Score: 1

    Seth
    ... and more

  8. Re:Bad idea on PG&E Makes Deal For Solar Power From Space · · Score: 1

    California isn't all idiots on the beach. Virtually everything around Fresno (especially to the south) is farmland.

    Wait... Popcorn on the cob! Yes!

  9. Re:Cut off the money supply on Obama Taps a 5th Lawyer From the RIAA · · Score: 1

    Or you could do something *legal* and support non-??AA artists.

    And what can I do? I do not buy, download, or even listen to music. That isn't a hole I am willing to start throwing money into.

  10. Re:In other NON-News... on Vista Post-SP2 Is the Safest OS On the Planet · · Score: 1

    Here's a template: [Insert Person's Name Here], [insert title here] of [insert company name here] [announced|proclaimed|stated|declared|quothed] "[insert company's product here] is the [insert superlatively positive attribute here] in the entire [world|planet|universe]."

    Fixed that for you.

  11. Re:Sorry- but on Mozilla Mulls Dropping Firefox For Win2K, Early XP · · Score: 1

    USB, CD-R, Active Directory, rsync, ssh/scp, FTP...
    It's never necessary to have a web browser on a server.

  12. Re:They ought to provide training for Linux on Microsoft Won't Vouch For Linux · · Score: 1

    Next thing you'll tell us that they're worried about Google, too.

    Didn't Ballmer *BEEEP* kill it already?

  13. Re:They ought to provide training for Linux on Microsoft Won't Vouch For Linux · · Score: 4, Funny

    OS X and Linux are STILL just playing catchup to where Windows was 5 years ago.

    That could be a good thing. Vista wasn't around 5 years ago.

  14. Re:What a myopic governor, kissing ms' ass just on Microsoft Won't Vouch For Linux · · Score: 1

    Because it's her own state's most famous industry.

    Christmas Trees?

  15. Re:What Will Canonical do? on Microsoft Won't Vouch For Linux · · Score: 1

    Meh.
    Site needs some work.

  16. Re:What are "Linux skills" on Microsoft Won't Vouch For Linux · · Score: 1

    No. Depending on how loosely you define "word processor", that was either Wang Laboratories or IBM.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_processor#History

  17. Re:Aaand already slashdotted. on He's a Mac, He's a PC, But We're Linux! · · Score: 1

    They must be hosting this on a [Insert Your Least Favorite Underpowered Device Here].

    This makes me wonder: what is the largest site /. has ever trampled?

  18. Re:I'm Linux... on He's a Mac, He's a PC, But We're Linux! · · Score: 2, Informative

    My six-year old son likes Ubuntu so much that he writes his name in that roundy Ubuntu lettering.

    If you haven't installed it already, ttf-ubuntu-title allows you to use that font

  19. Re:Propaganda as Nebulous as Apple's or Microsoft' on He's a Mac, He's a PC, But We're Linux! · · Score: 1

    What could be better than Nethack?

  20. Re:Islam, eh? on UK To Train Pro-West Islamic Groups To Game Google · · Score: 1

    But there are exceptions to some of these rules. If your brother died without children, you were supposed to get his widow pregnant.

    True, though that exception (and rule) may still fall outside one's definition of incest. Know of any more direct incest examples? I confess I don't have much argument about Adam & Eve's children, but how else is a species of 2 supposed to multiply much more than that?

    This was the story of Onan, where some religions get their prohibition against masturbation.

    I only know that various denominations of Christianity use that passage. I am unaware of Judaism and Islam's interpretation.

    they should have gotten the prohibition against misleading women and failing to fulfill family obligations.

    I would think Onan's fate was warning enough, though a penalty was spelled out in Deuteronomy 25:5-10. Seems like a metaphorical slap on the wrist, though. I presume the potency of the social stigma is lost in translation.

  21. Re:Oh bloody hell on Project OXCART Declassified From Area 51 · · Score: 1

    I only have up to Season 7. Did they ever find multiple working gates in a single star system (home star straddles address boundary)?

  22. Re:Oh bloody hell on Project OXCART Declassified From Area 51 · · Score: 1

    The NID is at Area 51. All the cool toys SG1 brings back go there.

  23. Re:Oh bloody hell on Project OXCART Declassified From Area 51 · · Score: 1

    The SGC then rented their original gate back.

    They later bought it from Russia with a 304. Very lucrative fishing expedition for the Russians, if you ask me.

  24. Re:Because if two people know, it's not a secret on Project OXCART Declassified From Area 51 · · Score: 1

    ...all they know is that the CIA wants some flyboys.

    I would be surprised if they have never hired pilots or other specialists that people will notice being gone for a few days, and didn't use them; just for the misdirection.

  25. Re:I WANT TO BELIEVE on Project OXCART Declassified From Area 51 · · Score: 1

    Either you get a whoosh, or I do.