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  1. Re:Firsssssssst Posssssssst on Digitizing Rare Vinyl · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why doesn't he contact archive.org. Archiving old material is their mission. I know they have the storage space and the bandwidth to handle it. Besides, I want to be able to torrent all the wav files. ; -)

  2. Re:What about the native americans? on Knights Templar Sue the Pope · · Score: 5, Funny

    The English deported their religious fanatics to America and their criminals to Australia. I think we, the Americans, got the short end of the stick on that one. I want to sue the English government for dumping their religious nut jobs here. I'm going to admit videos of the 700 club as evidence of this maleficence.

  3. Re:Money comes from where? on SCO Owes Novell $2.5 Million · · Score: 1

    A stake of white oak through the heart, cut off the head, sliver cross on the chest, sprinkle with holy water and expose to direct sunlight. THAT should do the trick.

  4. Re:NOOoOOOO!!! on Steven Hawking Considering Move To Canada · · Score: 1

    Mr. President, we must not allow a foreign scientist gap !

  5. Re:Oh great... on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    Oh, really? I live near Oakland Ca. and know a few former members of the Black Panthers. They took up arms to defend their community from the Oakland power structure AKA. the police. When that happened the US government came down on them like a ton bricks. The Black Panthers were defending their homes and churches from being attacked and most of them ended up in jail. One of the guys I know, who was former Army, used to sleep with an AK47. Did him a lot of good. The FBI came a dragged his ass off to jail.

    Armed citizens are no match against the US government, they are severely out gunned.

  6. Re:Oh great... on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    Do the people in East TN have howitzers? Can they call in an air strike with a fuel/air burst? Carpet bombing? Stinger missiles?

  7. Re:Oh great... on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    Hmmmm, lets see. Farmer John with his double barrel shotgun vs. U.S. Army with a Howitzer. Anyone care to guess how that one is going to shake out?

  8. Re:Back in the day... on Terminal Chaos · · Score: 2, Informative

    Taking a boat across the Atlantic or Pacific is right out; even when there was still regular passenger service, it took more than a month to cross the Atlantic.

    I'm not sure where you get your information but a transatlantic crossing today is about 6 days. Have a look at cunard.com. My parents are planning to take the Queen Mary 2 from New York to Southampton next summer and the Cunard website says 6 days. If I remember right a transatlantic crossing in the 1890's took 8 or 9 days. Look up RMS Titanic on Wikipedia. She left Southampton on 10 April 1912. She ran ran into an iceberg on 14 April at which time she was close to Newfoundland.

  9. Re:Difficult since hackers hide behind huge NAT on China's Cyber-Militia · · Score: 1

    Yep, These bozos were banging away at my sshd process for weeks until I changed the port sshd listens on. Now, I change it every months or so and alert the people who need to login into these servers that the port has changed.

  10. Re:Wouldn't it be nice... on Spammers Hijacking IP Space · · Score: 1

    Dear spammer bastard.

    Welcome to my firewall. I hope you rot in hell.

  11. Re:Sad on Cisco Lawyer Outs Self As "Patent Troll Tracker" · · Score: 1

    I second that. I have also worked at Cisco as an engineer. Cisco is a very big fan of Linux and FreeBSD. You can count Cisco as among the white hats. You can also be sure that Rick Frenkel cleared this with his management and they support him.

  12. Re:Creationism in Europe? on Texas Creationist Museum Facing Extinction · · Score: 3, Informative

    The English deported their religious fanatics to America and deported their criminals to Australia. Personally, I think America got the short end of the stick on that one. The Australians can party like a Kennedy.

  13. Re:All Pau... on DOJ Doesn't Like the Idea of A Copyright Czar · · Score: 1

    I have not bought a _NEW_ CD in 3 years. I only buy used CDs. The record companies have gotten their last dime out of me. It is time for them to die and if no one buys their crappy products they will die. It's actions like this that show how desperate they are. The record companies are seeing their sales dropping, they look down the road and they don't see things improving. They have convinced themselves that piracy is the cause of all their woes. Not the fact that they are selling crappy products and/or they are treating their customers like shit. Like I said, its' time for them to die.

  14. Re:Wrong on US Government Caught Manipulating Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    A whois of the IP address show that the address is assigned to the U.S. House of Representatives. It has been about 15 years since I was last at the congress building but I would guess that they don't allow just any random person to wander into the building, jack into the nearest network port and hack away. I bet they have lots of security people guarding the doors, checking badges, looking for Osama bin Laden, eating donuts, reading the sports page, etc.

  15. Re:What's the legality of contracts, exactly? on Non-Compete Agreement Beyond Term of Employment? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The 9th circuit court (California, Oregon, Washington, etc.) has ruled these sort of agreements as void. They are deemed to be prior restraint and hence the agreement is unenforceable. Outside of the 9th? Unknown. Either way talk to a lawer. Most likely her/she will laugh at this agreement. However, what ever work you do on your own time, make sure you do not do it on company time or equipment.

  16. Re:Save that ridiculous hyperbolic crap on Airlines Have to Ask Permission to Fly 72 Hours Early · · Score: 1

    "You can leave, but not with your money."

    Except you can, and this point is bullshit.


    Oh, really??? Try googling "irs 8854"

    Here, let me help you out.

    http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/international/article/0,,id=97245,00.html

    And this is today. The working theory with these people is the Boiling frog syndrome.

  17. Re:Welcome to Amerika on Airlines Have to Ask Permission to Fly 72 Hours Early · · Score: 1, Informative

    Where we have our very own Iron Curtain (it just goes the other way).
    Here's the progression:
    No, we don't let you in.
    You can leave, but not with your money.
    You can leave, just give us 72 hours to make sure you're not on our list of Bad People (anyone we don't like).


    As a Jew who grew up with great aunts and uncles who survived nazi germany and was told the their story many times, this sounds exactly how things went after the nazi came to power in 1933. Any one old enough to remember the cold war, this is exactly the sort of shit we used to get down on the soviets about. Look up "Enabling Act of 1933" and "Reichstag fire" on wikipedia. Wake up, the downward spiral of this country has begun.

  18. Re:Fuck this liberal environmentalist whining... on Method for $1/Watt Solar Panels Will Soon See Commercial Use · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Let's be like China and make electricity the man's way - with coal! And let's go back to burning leaded gasoline so we don't have to fuck with this unleaded crap that limits engine compression. Also, catalytic converters suck. I always take mine off after inspection or go to shops that don't care. Also, we need to get rid of welfare and we need George W. Bush for another eight years! And fuck solar cells. Solar cells can't even power calculators properly.

    Write in George W. Bush in 2008!


    Very nice. I would guess that you have never been to Perth Amboy, N.J. or Mexico City or Los Angeles in the early 70's. Why don't to travel to Mexico City when they have one of their inversions and try breathing. Now think what it would like to live there.

    Oh by the way, bush can't run for president again. Thank G*D for the Twenty Second Amendment.

  19. Re:Need to accrue Novell payment? on Half of SCO's Accountants Quit · · Score: 3, Informative

    Criminal charges for what? Lousy books?

    Yes. As corporate officers of a publicly traded company they have a legal obligation to make sure the books are in order. If there is fraud in the books then they face prosecution. Have you been asleep for the last 5 years or so? Do the names Enron, Tyco, or WorldCom ring any bells??

  20. Re:Need to accrue Novell payment? on Half of SCO's Accountants Quit · · Score: 1

    No, they have not been delisted, not yet anyway. When their stock closed below $1.00 on August 13th. that started a clock. Nasdaq rules say if they trade under $1.00 for 30 consecutive business days (Monday through Friday) They will receive a delisting notice. They then have 120 business days to get their stock trading above $1.00. If they don't they will be delisted. 30 days is this Friday, Sept. 21.

  21. Re:SCO's assets and ip on Half of SCO's Accountants Quit · · Score: 3, Funny

    What assets and ip?

    The several dozen copies of the Book of Mormon ?

  22. Re:A rhetorical question on Small Webcasters Offered a Rate Break, Reject It · · Score: 1

    Yes, This is exactly what is going to happen if SoundExchange (RIAA) get their way. It has happened before. The following links should serve as an example of what is most likely going to happen.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_radio

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshore_radio

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Caroline

    RIAA are stupid enough to try to kill the goose that lays the golden egg. They have decided that they want it to have it all, their way. For them its "My way or the highway". Unfortunately, rather than work with the Internet radio stations to get some money, the stations will move offshore, out of the reach of the RIAA who will then get nothing. The RIAA will then spend a fortune on lawyers, offshore lawsuits, bribes to the criminals in congress. It will be a running game of cat and mouse. Then, because it gets written up in the papers, people who before never thought of listening to radio stations over the Internet will start. Listenership will soar, etc, etc. The MP3 story all over again. Some people just never learn.

  23. Re:This "Feature" Has Been Known For Years on Documents Reveal US Incompetence with Word, Iraq · · Score: 1

    What is this country coming to? I tried to exercise my 2nd Amendment right to bear arms but they took away my RPG-7. No where in the Bill of Rights does it say "You can't own an RPG". I was just exercising my rights. I can't believe they are taking me to court over a few RPGs. When RPGs are outlawed then only outlaws will have RPGs. And the worst part part of all this is the NRA is doing nothing to help me. Those fuckers, after all the money I sent them.

  24. My patents on Microsoft Details FOSS Patent Breaches · · Score: 4, Funny

    "You are violating a bunch of my double secret patents. You have to guess which ones. I don't have to tell you. Give me money."

    Now, where have I heard this before?

  25. Re:Pig parts? on Regrowing Lost Body Parts Getting Closer All the Time · · Score: 1

    I can't speak for Islamic law but there already has been a Rabbinic ruling on just this. Insulin used to be made from pigs. Since insulin is need by those suffering from diabetes it was ruled that the laws of kosher do not apply here. The preservation of life supersedes the laws of Kosher.