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  1. Re:Why get a seperate reader? on Upbeat on E-books · · Score: 1

    You need to find a better publisher. Might I sugest BaenIt's been plugged elsewhere, but they realy deserve props. About 40 titles for free, and most of the rest of their titles at a very cut price. No DRM, available as .lit, html, MobiPocket, REB. DOC and RTF formats. Easy, and they know that people are more likely to buy a book they've read.

  2. Re:Baroque Cycle ebooks-Downsides. on Upbeat on E-books · · Score: 1

    It's pretty damned easy to photocopy a book, and it's not realy that expensive or difficult to OCR it, so realy paper is piss poor DRM.

  3. Re:Consequences? on Kyoto Treaty to Enter Into Force · · Score: 1

    Freon and the Ozone hole were alarmist and bad science. Also, the "global warming" that we are "observing" could just as easily be due to increased urbanization skewing the measurements, since they are in the middle of cities, which are hotspots.

  4. Re:ISO? on Professional CD-R and DVD-R Burners/Duplicators? · · Score: 1

    Google sued googlegear, they are now Zip Zoom Fly to prevent name confusion.

  5. Re:Steam = dongle on Valve Takes the Offensive on Warez Users? · · Score: 1

    Damn all you gamers are making me so glad I run Linux, and avoid comercial software, have fun with big brother.

  6. Re:OT:More HTML fun on WinAmp's Death Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    Actualy I used the ecode tag in my post, slashdot rendered it out to what you saw in the "view source" option.

  7. OT:Reasons I like Lists on WinAmp's Death Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 3, Informative
    What you've just done is a perfect example of why we have ordered lists. For example if I wanted to state why I like ordered lists I could type:
    <ol>
    <li>because HTML doens't render linebreaks
    <li>because I'm to damned lazy to keep track of the numbers in my list
    <li>because it makes me look super 1337 even though it's so simple
    </ol>
    and that would look like this:
    1. because HTML doens't render linebreaks
    2. because I'm to damned lazy to keep track of the numbers in my list
    3. because it makes me look super 1337 even though it's so simple
    Remember, it's spiffier when you use it!
  8. Re:U don't need proof on Atlantis Found. Again. · · Score: 1

    The seven pairs were of "clean" animals, those animals that were edible under jewish law. It wasn't a different version of the story, it was just dependent on the type of animal.

  9. Re:Is there a better URL? The Minoans are fascinat on Atlantis Found. Again. · · Score: 1

    City walls numbskull, buildings could still have walls, otherwize how would you know it was a city?

  10. Re:Atlantis -- antarctica? on Atlantis Found. Again. · · Score: 1

    And why the hell not? There is evidence, the Spinx, and Stonehenge. These are VERY old structures, and very big structures, Stonehenge was built several times over, in the same spot, the newest contstruction dating back pre-egypt. Historical record does not support civilization further back because there is no "history" to find, the peoples could have not used writing, or it's posible that their writings have since been destroyed.

  11. Re:The other kinds of Indians on Outsourcing To Rural America · · Score: 1

    The whole shell doesn't vaporize, it does vaporize the armor it hits. Also tank rounds are fired at a higher velocity than medium caliber rounds. Both large cal, and medium cal are made from DU for their armor peircing.

  12. Re:The other kinds of Indians on Outsourcing To Rural America · · Score: 1

    You're right, it's actualy the SPEED of the DU round that causes it to vaporoize. They pack a hell of a lot of propelant behind it, and No, it's not gunpowder.

  13. Re:The other kinds of Indians on Outsourcing To Rural America · · Score: 1

    Yep, and we stole all the best parts from them, put it in a great big cultural blenter, and drank the pure essence of being a bad-assed center culture.

  14. Re:Arkansas isn't so bad... on Outsourcing To Rural America · · Score: 1

    That's why you should outsource to the Midwest. We're nice and open about things. If we want you dead, you'll be sure of it. You can take us at face value.

  15. Re:Crap on Microsoft Dropping Itanium Support For Clusters · · Score: 1

    FEH! It's just Windows, I mean come on. Or is it like you run that at home or something?

  16. Re:Windows Supercomputer? on Microsoft Dropping Itanium Support For Clusters · · Score: 1

    the P in PDF stands for portable, you can slap them on Unix just as well as on windows.

  17. Re:I did!! on Microsoft Dropping Itanium Support For Clusters · · Score: 1

    Just run Linux on them instead. You can run plenty of ray tracers that will love the clocks and FLOPS.

  18. Re:Linear Independence? on Greens and Libertarians Team Up to Demand Recount · · Score: 1

    Money is power, without money they wouldn't have that power. Monitoring people costs money, enforcing bans on sexual aides costs money. Now as to your second and fourth points, the second has to do with a threat to the safety and security of our freedoms, and the fourth is a reaction to the civil court system being out of control. Does that excuse them, no, however there are larger issues that need to be addressed to remove the need for those particulars.

  19. Re:That's a really good point-Glass Houses. on Microsoft Says Firefox Not a Threat to IE · · Score: 1

    Well, you see, the house is realy plexi-glass, so MS can thow all the stones they want back at us. Now just to get the ladies room moved to the attic...

  20. Re:Tabbed browsing not important on Microsoft Says Firefox Not a Threat to IE · · Score: 1

    I'm using Galeon, and the tab I'm typing this in makes 10 tabs, but I'm going to close it as soon as I'm done typing this reply.

  21. Re:Tabbed browsing not important on Microsoft Says Firefox Not a Threat to IE · · Score: 1

    New versions of MS office use SDI, sorry 'bout that. So now the awnser is Yes they do force you to open a new window.

  22. Re:Linear Independence? on Greens and Libertarians Team Up to Demand Recount · · Score: 1

    But one of the most important ways that the govt. can get the fuck out of the lives of the citizens is economicaly, so libertarinanism isn't very compatable with liberalism.

  23. Re:Finally! on Will Wind Power Change Earth's Climate? · · Score: 1
    Which is why it is inevitable that we will affect the Earth's climate, despite what "green energy" proponents believe. No matter what the source, we are releasing heat energy from all of our power consuming devices in places where it wouldn't be naturally. In the case of "green" sources like wind, solar, or hydro-electric we are taking that energy away from where it naturally occurs and thereby also affecting the climate/environment at the source. With nuclear or fossil fuels we are releasing previously stored energy so it has the "benefit" of only affecting the environment at the output, not the input. /blockquote I'm sorry, you seem to be saying that in burning fossil fuels there is no waste heat. By burning fossil fuels or creating a nuclear chain reaction we are heating at the source and heating at the use. Of course the flip side of this is that they are using climate modeling systems, which rarely work anyway.
  24. Re:OT Re:2nd Amendment: on US Ready to put Weapons in Space · · Score: 1
    Um, in the second instance you sited being is a verb that relates to the male resident, and has nothing to do with anything that is if-then. The first instance you stated the use of being indicates that the president disproved the measure, Please report full sentances, so that people don't have to look up the whole thing. Now here is the first pasage you partialy quoted:
    Clause 3: Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill.
    When would fit in there just as well as if. Also notice the OR there, this isn't a logical or, but rather a conditional or. Because there is already a conditional in place there isn't a need for being to be conditional. Now on to ammendment 14 here is what it actualy says:
    Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age,(See Note 15) and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
    Being clearly refers to the male being 21 years of age, no conditionality at all there. I'm afraid you've not supported your position at all. Oh, and just so you don't have to bother googling here are two links to get you to the appropriate areas.
  25. Re:Hmmm on The Real da Vinci Code · · Score: 1

    Couldn't be easier, To compute is to do math. Hence a computer is a machine that does math.