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  1. Re:Modify people, not planets. on Floating Cities On Venus · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you're against Stem Cell research, odds are it has something to do with the "Right-to-life," "Life begins at birth," and other such nonsense. That belief will almost never change in a person, it's too strong and central of a belief.

    Life doesn't begin until 18 years of age. Go ahead and slaughter anyone younger than that. Those conservative nut jobs and their crazy ideas that Life begins at birth.

  2. Re:Environmental Wackos on China Races To Clean Up Olympic Air · · Score: -1, Troll

    They can't be the worse. The US is the worse by far. Living the the US is barely tolerable and people die constantly due to the large amounts of pollution in the air and people gunned down by their government. Everyone else in the world lives in peace and harmony. except of course the places that king bush has decided to invade in order to help pollute the US even more.

  3. Re:Normal People? on Apple Climbs Into Third Place In U.S. PC Market · · Score: 3, Informative

    $ apt-cache stats
    Total package names : 32368 (1295k)
        Normal packages: 24717
        Pure virtual packages: 508
        Single virtual packages: 1876
        Mixed virtual packages: 234
        Missing: 5033

    That's a lot of packages, and they are all maintained by volunteers.

  4. Re:don't forget zip-ties on NASA Shuttle Replacement's Problems Are Worsening · · Score: 4, Funny

    My tool box has two items. Duct tape and WD-40.

    If it moves and it's not suppose to Duct Tape it.
    If it doesn't move and it is suppose to WD-40 it.

  5. Re:libertarian with a lowercase "l" on McCain Campaign Uses Spider/Diff Against Obama · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In the US, yes it is a lifestyle choice. Perhaps not the choice of "I want to live in poverty" but the choice being "I want to spend more than I make" or "I want to drink heavily and not go to work" or "I want to live in this same place that floods every year because thats where I've always lived" or "I want to continue using " or "I'm from the south side yo and that's where I'm staying" or "I'm going to continue to have child after child" or "I'm disabled and not going to go fill out my disability paperwork" or "I'm not going to work for someone else. I'll do my own thing" (and never do.)

    In some places people are physically and politically oppressed to the point where they can't escape poverty. In the US it is a choice.

  6. Re:Oblig. Futurama Ref. on McCain Campaign Uses Spider/Diff Against Obama · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Republicans - "Kill people because we see them to be guilty." (true or not)
    Democrats - "Kill people that are innocent in the name of choice."

    Which is more evil?

  7. Re:Why is updating your policy positions bad again on McCain Campaign Uses Spider/Diff Against Obama · · Score: 1

    Every single word that Obama or McCain says right now is in hopes of them getting elected.

  8. Re:Why is updating your policy positions bad again on McCain Campaign Uses Spider/Diff Against Obama · · Score: 1

    Lots of places have. Unfortunately it seems to have cut off oxygen to their brains.

  9. Re:Why is updating your policy positions bad again on McCain Campaign Uses Spider/Diff Against Obama · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...we have a sensationalist media that caters to the lowest common denominator...

    sounds like liberal bias to me.

  10. Re:Linus... on Linus on Kernel Version Numbering · · Score: 1

    I think Sun as a patent on that numbering system.

  11. Re:Linus... on Linus on Kernel Version Numbering · · Score: 1

    I had to recompile my balls.

    Ok, I can see the humor.

  12. Re:Linus... on Linus on Kernel Version Numbering · · Score: 1

    Or, only purchase stuff from manufacturers that play nice.

  13. Re:Define "lots" on Linus on Kernel Version Numbering · · Score: 1

    Linux supports only a very small percentage of the devices Windows supports.

    By "devices" you must mean the very small subset of bleeding edge PC accessories. Otherwise, devices as a whole, I'd wager a bet that Linux supports not just more but an order of magnitude more.

  14. Re:Linus... on Linus on Kernel Version Numbering · · Score: 1

    Let's say that I create a nice little printer and I want it to be compatibly with Linux. This printer needs a driver so I write it and even make it GPL.
    Now I have to get it into the Kernel.... And now I have to wait for that Kernel to make it in to the major distros.....
    All the time I am selling them for Windows.

    Since when have printer drivers been in the kernel? I add and remove updated printer drivers to the printing system CUPS all the time.

  15. Re:Problems... on Send the ISS To the Moon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Buy the General Lee, and get a job at a day care.

  16. Re:"A Napkin Drawing?" on NASA Engineers Work On Alternative Moon Rocket · · Score: 1

    Right now they're trying to get out of the 70s and back into the 60s with hints of the 50s, and a nice modern look.

  17. Re:Clever new tools for kernel config on Linux 2.6.26 Out · · Score: 1

    maybe something like a:

    # make currentsys_config

  18. Re:Not surprised, even if I am amused on B-2 Stealth Bomber Gets Upgrade, Joins the '90s · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yea, at least dealing with the private sector and private contracts you don't have to worry about any of those issues.

  19. Re:There's a Reason for That on B-2 Stealth Bomber Gets Upgrade, Joins the '90s · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Ultimate reliability" and "Pentium class from the 90s" just doesn't really go well together.

  20. Re:Some suggestions on 20 Features Windows 7 Should Include · · Score: 1

    Or, they could take a clunky unintuitive but well known graphical user interface and rewrite a BSD/POSIX like kernel from a spaghetti code of underlying cruft, missfeatures, lockins and backwards bug compatibility.

    oh, wait...

  21. Re:A good add-on on Nintendo Unveils Wii MotionPlus · · Score: 4, Funny

    "What will be interesting is what happens with actual swordfighting. If you complete a sword swing, but your opponent blocks it, the game will have to resolve the situation by... what? It's not an impossible problem, but it'll still be something new to get used to."

    If it's the new Lightsaber game then maybe it'll use force feedback. HAHAHA get it "force feedback" You know, like the force. Lightsabers are from the movie series "Star Wars" where they used a magical power called the force, and controllers that simulate resistance are called "force feedback controllers," and the only way to get that feed back in a free form controller such as the one the wii uses would be through a magical effect such as "the force." It's funny mainly because I took this much time to explain it or not.

  22. Re:Few, many, Lots on Amazonian Tribe Has No Word To Express Numbers · · Score: 1

    Or few. For one the size of a Volkswagen beetle.

  23. Re:Not surprising. on Amazonian Tribe Has No Word To Express Numbers · · Score: 1

    I thought it was second hand smoke.

  24. Re:What... wait... IPsec, is that you? on The Pirate Bay's Plans To Encrypt the 'Net · · Score: 1

    Hmm, they say they're developing a technology to help prevent passive eavesdropping then:

    "so their solution only helps against passive eavesdropping. I'm not impressed."

    Some people really confuse me.

  25. Re:The answer is right there on Obama Losing Voters Over FISA Support · · Score: 1

    I don't know, that'll have to go back to committee for review and a committee revote. Then studies have to be re-done on the provision of feeding children while not killing kittens. It'll be 2 years before your new legislation comes back for a full vote. In that time $x children will have died of starvation and $x kittens will have grown into cats. Let's get this bill in now, and work on your bill at as a way to fix it in the future.