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  1. Re:Eh? on Winnipeg Demands Immobilizers on High-Risk Cars · · Score: 1

    This is great until your name ends up on the Canadian Intelligence Agencies "Do not drive list"

  2. Re:Environment on The Man Who Went Through 11 Xbox 360s · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry I thought the quest was "If there isn't a lawsuit....why"

  3. Re:Other factors... on The Man Who Went Through 11 Xbox 360s · · Score: 1

    I have problems with one light bulb that burns out all the time. All my other light bulbs seem to last a reasonable sometimes exceptionally long time. Am I just unlucky and happen to always put defective lights in that one socket?

  4. Re:All heat sink related? Probably not. on The Man Who Went Through 11 Xbox 360s · · Score: 1

    to get 11 dead in a row 2.04E20 to 1 odds. If failure rate was 5%

    thats 204,000,000,000,000,000,000 to 1

    Ok, I'm probably wrong so someone correct me. I bet I'm close.

  5. Re:Environment on The Man Who Went Through 11 Xbox 360s · · Score: 1

    to keep him from investing in a PS3 instead? To insure the customer is happy? To insure he continues to purchase 360 games? Perhaps the person on the phone was new and still had a heart and just wanted to help the guy so he clicked the under warranty button and gave him an RMA#?

    Could be anything.

  6. Re:How about in the US? on Intelligent Design Ruled "Not Science" · · Score: 1

    One mans trash is another mans treasure.

    I see survival and reproduction as great and meaningful as far as existence is concerned.

  7. Re:How about in the US? on Intelligent Design Ruled "Not Science" · · Score: 1

    Seeing as Agnostic literally means not knowable or cannot know he is fine. The later portion of his statement is more a reflection of his ideals on organized religion rather than the existence of god. In general it also reflect my own idea of religion. Unless there is a god and he specifically spells out what it is he wants people to do and specifically corrects them when they do it wrong, religion is a complete waste of time and resources.

  8. Re:Give up the copyrights? on RIAA, Safenet Sued For Malicious Prosecution · · Score: 1

    As A Libertarian I have to say I don't believe in the state sponsored monopoly's known as Copyright. Nor in the State sponsored ideal known as corporations and corporate personhood.

  9. Re:Good Writeup! on Space Elevator Rebuttal From LiftPort Founder · · Score: 1

    Having all the answers to do something is a quite a bit different then having all the money.

  10. Re:Good Writeup! on Space Elevator Rebuttal From LiftPort Founder · · Score: 1

    Have the ribbion woven in several strands. Each trip up, add a new strand to one side of the ribbion, then on the trip down remove a strand from the other side. inspect and re certify and/or make new strands as needed.

    Brand new ribbon every 'x' trips.

  11. Re:Space Guns anyone? on Space Elevator Rebuttal From LiftPort Founder · · Score: 1

    So why can't a space gun be used to break a ship or shuttle of it's initial inertia? thus either lowering the booster size requirements or allowing for more payload. No reason to completely get rid of a working technology. Just call it a 'hybrid' and you'd have a bunch of supporters right off the bat.

  12. Re:Ok, here's my comment on Space Elevator Rebuttal From LiftPort Founder · · Score: 1

    I just wanted my 0.02's worth.

  13. Re:Hitting 3 petaflops takes an 884,736-processor[ on IBM's Blue Gene Runs Continuously At 1 Petaflop · · Score: 3, Funny

    Only when it comes time to move them.

  14. Re:As a Digital Native... on College Librarians Urged To Play Video Games · · Score: 1

    That sums me up pretty well. And i'm not that young any more.

  15. Re:Excellent on Lawyer Asks RIAA To Investigate Bush Twins · · Score: 1

    I though "Commercial activities" involved going to the bathroom or getting a snack.

  16. Re:Excellent on Lawyer Asks RIAA To Investigate Bush Twins · · Score: 1

    Well yea, but then can't we get him for forced child labor for buing the CDs, having the mix tapes made for him? I know there is something wrong here somewhere we have to find it. It's W for crying out loud.

  17. Re:The lake will be returned... on Lake Disappears into Andes · · Score: 1

    George Bush has been taking lessons from Chuck Norris. After his first lesson GWB jump kicked the environment and created global warming. Chuck Norris is such a bad ass even after his first lesson someone could do that much damage.

  18. Re:eye rolling speculation on Lake Disappears into Andes · · Score: 1

    This is all part of the cycle, fist in the begining of global warming there would be large amounts of condensation thus creating this lake. Now it has gotten so bad that the global warm has cause this lake to evaporate. Soon others will follow suit. Everyone stay in your homes and don't run anything that uses power. We must think of teh children. hybrid.

  19. Re:Easy to run broadband in dense populations on US Falls to 24th Place For Broadband Penetration · · Score: 1

    If you think there is money to be made then start a company to provide cable to everybody. If you don't think there is money to be made why would you think that a company should provide the EXPENSIVE infrastructure to get a cable to the person in BFE.

  20. Re:By "caught", you mean "killed", right? on Weapon Found in Whale Dated From the 1800s · · Score: 1

    They use GPS to hunt deer? Are the deer tagged with some type of GPS tracker? Or you mean they use GPS while hunting deer. Next you're going to say they can't wear clothes with zippers because it wasn't traditional. Perhaps it was traditional for them to learn better, easier and safer ways to bag whales.

  21. Re:You lost, big guy on Student Blogger Loses Defamation Case · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You contradict yourself or you don't know the meaning of the words you are using. Finding innocent and acquitting are not the same. Courts rarely if ever find you innocent. Acquitting just means they are unable to prove you did it with current evidence. Or basically means you got away with it.

  22. Re:By "caught", you mean "killed", right? on Weapon Found in Whale Dated From the 1800s · · Score: 1

    And how would that be different? If it takes the whale in a useable state (which I doubt) then I don't care how they take a whale and want to label their traditional method. As long as the quotas are set to insure the whales survive as a species.

  23. Re:Are you kidding?! on Weapon Found in Whale Dated From the 1800s · · Score: 1

    He also had a steering wheel lodged in his scrotum.

    The translation of the whale song when asked about it:

    "Argh, it's driven me nuts."

  24. Re:How about this: on Scientists Attempt to Replace Crude Oil With Sugars · · Score: 1

    Yea, the dinosaurs said the same thing. If we keep dieing and turning into oil we'll completely polute the underground caverns with the stuff.

  25. Re:How about this: on Scientists Attempt to Replace Crude Oil With Sugars · · Score: 1

    Actually most of what he says is miss-informed half truths.

    Purning corn doesn't "produce" CO2. There is just as much as there was before the corn was grown. There is just as much as if the corn was eaten. The only way to get less CO2 from corn would be to sink it whole into a carbon sink somewhere such as the bottom of the ocean or shoot it into space.