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  1. Senator Ford Contact Info on South Carolina Seeking To Outlaw Profanity · · Score: 1

    Senator Robert Ford
    District 42 - Charleston Co.
    Contact Address:
    (H) P.O. Box 21302, Charleston, 29413

            Bus. (843) 813-1777 Home (843) 852-0777
    (C) 506 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29201

            Bus. (803) 212-6124 Home (803) 798-9220
    E-Mail Address: RIF@scsenate.org

  2. Re:Crayon Physics was new in 2007 on Crayon Physics Combines Science and Puzzles · · Score: 1

    After discovering Crayon Physics last week I found another similar game called Zany Doodle. Check out these amazing videos of many types of engines, and even fusion & fission done with Zany Doodle.

  3. Re:Web ads have themselves to blame on How Web Advertising May Go · · Score: 1

    Maybe they're still trying to do that, but I'll never know; because some worthless X-10 popup weenie is being blocked by my hosts file.

    I haven't seen an X-10 popup in 8 years. Not because I'm blocking them, I'm pretty sure X-10 stopped using them long ago.
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  4. Re:Suddenly... on Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? · · Score: 1

    Enough rice to stop you from starving to death for how long?
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  5. Re:Suddenly... on Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? · · Score: 1

    After all, it's pretty much what the US/UK armed forces do in iraq and Afghanistan. The price of rice is higher than the price of an AK-47 in those regions.

    One grain of rice costs more than an AK-47?
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  6. Re:Kill!!! on Tales From the Support Crypt · · Score: 1

    Or you could just put the screenshots in a .zip file or something...

    And that would be handier and easier how exactly? How do the screenshots become individual files without pasting them into something first, such as Paint? That method sucks if you have several to collect.

    Open Word. Flip to what you need to snap. Hit Alt-PrintScreen. Flip to Word. Paste. Repeat as necessary. Save. You're not going to beat that with Paint, saving each individual shot into a specially prepared folder somewhere, then zipping that up. Work smarter not harder. What I really don't understand is how that classifies someone as an idiot.

    Every time I've opened a word doc with embedded pictures the doc file version is invariably incompatible with the wordpad version I'm using and the pictures are un-viewable.
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  7. Re:Kill!!! on Tales From the Support Crypt · · Score: 2, Informative

    Consider it this way: your hourly rate is X. The person you are supporting has an hourly rate of Y. Y is greater than X, or else they would never pay you.

    That's not necessarily true. Someone who makes $10/hour probably can't find someone to fix their car for $9/hour, that doesn't mean they can't get their car fixed. Tech support is no different.
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  8. Re:Disappointing on 30 Years of Star Wars Technology · · Score: 0

    Ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side.
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  9. Re:the real problem is the speed limits themselves on Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies · · Score: 1

    It was completely safe by any objective evaluation, and the officer made it clear it was going to be pointless to try to contest it in court, as it was his word against mine.

    Always contest it if you can spare the time, at least in my state where the 2 points you get on your license are going to cost you ~$1200 over 6 years. And appeal if you lose as many times as you can. I've had good luck contesting tickets, almost always win, never got a speeding ticket but in your case you definitely had a good chance.
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  10. Re:the real problem is the speed limits themselves on Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies · · Score: 1

    I do like the "advised speed" that's attached to signs signaling curves ahead. That actually provides useful information about the road rather than info about the revenue generation and/or paranoia of the local residents.

    Yeah, only problem with those is thanks to those unnecessarily conservative speed limits some people ignore limit drops. There is a highway near here where the speed limit drops from 65 to 50 around a gentle looking curve. Thing is the curve is not as gentle as it looks at 65. After several accidents, 2 rolled 18 wheelers and a rolled fuel tanker the 50 MPH sign now has flashing yellow lights. In this location 50 really means 50.

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  11. Re:I think SSD will take off on Will 2009 Be the Turning Point For SSDs? · · Score: 1

    Sure, but read/write is more complicated than read only.
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  12. Re:I think SSD will take off on Will 2009 Be the Turning Point For SSDs? · · Score: 5, Informative

    300 GB disk drive - I spent $90.

    256 GB solid state - $7,426 to $9,125 online

    Ouch.

    This is why Nintendo 64 and Nintendo DS cartridges never grew larger than 0.3 gigabytes, and why for the Cube and Wii they abandoned the solid state cartridge in favor of discs.

    Nintendo cartridges were ROM chips. I don't think they have much relation to SSDs.
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  13. Re:to be fair on Google Zeitgeist 2008 · · Score: 1

    It's easier to go to google which most ppl have as their homepage and type in 'yahoo' (5 characters) than 'www.yahoo.com' (13 characters).

    It is? First, lose the www., it's not needed. Second, considering page load times, I believe it would be faster to type yahoo.com into the address bar and press enter than to search google for yahoo, wait for the page to load, scan the page for the appropriate link, then click on it. Especially considering most people I know who search instead of using the address bar have trouble scanning the results and finding the right one. Far to often these people click on ads and then buy stuff that they can get for free.
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  14. Re:Really? on Carbon Dioxide and Water Found On Exoplanet · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How do you know this planet isn't teaming with life?
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  15. Really? on Oil Exploration Leads To Video of a Mysterious Elbowed Squid · · Score: 4, Insightful

    biologists and big oil sure make for strange bedfellows
     
    Really? I would think that they (deep sea drillers and deep sea biologists) have learned quite a bit from each other over the years.
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  16. Re:Shit on Lori Drew Trial Results In 3 Misdemeanor Convictions · · Score: 1

    Should have gone with trial by judge.
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  17. Re:Shit on Lori Drew Trial Results In 3 Misdemeanor Convictions · · Score: 1

    So you really are Batman?
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  18. Slashdot Effect? on US Officials Flunk Test On Civic Knowledge · · Score: 1

    ordinary citizens managed an amazing 49 percent on the 33 questions
     
    I just took the test (90.91) and the cumulative average it gives now is 77.8 percent.
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  19. Re:Key Generator on A Look At the CoreFlood Botnet · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'd like something like that. My bank said if someone gets access to my account I'm screwed. All I have protecting me is having to answer 1 of 3 questions. Mother's maiden name, etc.
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  20. Re:2 Elephants in the Room on Supreme Court To Rule On TV Censorship · · Score: 1

    i thought it was ignorance, laziness, or stupidity but this is a very good point.

    If I have kids I'm going to tell them they can watch whatever they want once they circumvent the vchip.

  21. Re:The Supreme Court knows fuck all about swearing on Supreme Court To Rule On TV Censorship · · Score: 1

    It's a bit worrying that they're ruling on language which some of them don't understand.

    Like the Constitution? The 1st Amendment? The Commerce Clause?
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  22. pricey on World First Review of Dell's 12.1in Netbook · · Score: 2, Interesting

    At $1000 I'm not sure who this is targeted at.
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  23. How can you tell? on Underground Lab To Probe Ratio of Matter To Antimatter · · Score: 1

    I thought it wasn't possible to tell antimatter from matter from afar?
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  24. Re:Considering the last 8 years... on ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone" · · Score: 1

    What do you think the common weapons are in Iraq? AK-47s, Light Machine Guns, homemade bombs, the occasional RPG? Besides RPGs all are available to civilians in the USA.
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  25. Re:Considering the last 8 years... on ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone" · · Score: 1

    Start with supporting 2nd Ammendment.

    Do you really think that you and your BB-gun can scare Uncle Sam? If the government wanted you dead they could launch a missile from a submarine, or an airplane, well out of range of any weapon you might legally own, and turn you into ground long-pig. The second amendment is essentially toothless.

    Your right ordinary people with their BB guns are no match for Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam had no problem dealing with the Iraqis, Afghanis, and Vietcong. Oh wait...
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