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  1. Re:STEINBERG on 4K Ultra HD Likely To Repeat the Failure of 3D Television · · Score: 1

    Thanks! My Dad appreciates it.

  2. Re:Pot calling kettle. on Best Practice: Travel Light To China · · Score: 1

    No, cast iron is still the best, mostly due to high specific heat but also because it can be seasoned (made non-stick) by repeated heating with oil. Also, isn't there some correlation between cooking on aluminum and Alzheimer's disease?

  3. Re:Obligatory jarhead joke on BigDog Robot Gets Much Bigger · · Score: 1

    I went to your Ranger school, and passed the land nav there. Then I did your Pathfinder school and passed that too. At no time did I see any soldiers, except to the rear, as usual. Semper Fi.

  4. Re:Economic Justice? on Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester" · · Score: 1

    You're an ignorant idiot (with apologies to Chad C. Mulligan). What I observed firsthand at both the Oakland and San Francisco events was a great deal of community effort, altruistic and directly effective. And yes, yuppies coming together with bums and helping out.

  5. Re:What about the Tea Party Movement? on Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester" · · Score: 1

    I'd rather a little poo, as opposed to racist ideologues trying to drive a President out of office because he's black. Insert here: lyrics from "Society Pages" by Zappa.

  6. Re:What about the Tea Party Movement? on Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester" · · Score: 1

    Dude, you are completely full of shit. Are you scared of OWS because they have long hair?

  7. Re:What about the Tea Party Movement? on Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester" · · Score: 1

    Not really. There's a distinction between rational protesting for and irrational protesting against. 2011 has seen a lot of rational, constructive protesting. The Tea Party was all about irrational, destructive rabble-rousing.

    OWS: We want the "rich" (anyone who makes more than we do) to pay more taxes so the government can give us free stuff! Only evil people are rich (except for the rich politicians and other rich political players on *our* side...that's *different*!)! And if we don't get what we demand despite being a voting minority, we'll use violence (*this* is what democracy looks like!!!1!!one) to achieve our goals.

    TEA Party: We want government to stop taxing us so much and wasting so much of the taxes they take from us, and to actually start obeying the laws and the limitations on government power that's in the Constitution.

    You were saying something about irrationality and destructive rabble-rousing? I must have missed the TEA Party riots, arrests, violence & assaults, drug dealing/use, rapes, property destruction, and the massive clean-ups needed like that which occur/occurred at OWS protests.

    Strat

    What crap. I, for one, didn't miss the assholes showing up at rallies with loaded guns (in order to, what? intimidate the President?), or spitting on members of Congress, or shouting people down, or brandishing racist hatespeech &c. Teatards all.

  8. Re:Elevator to nowhere on Space Elevator Conference Prompts Lofty Questions · · Score: 1

    Thank you, GT. -Norman Niblock House

  9. Re:Passwords are a mental disorder on The Case For Lousy Passwords · · Score: 1

    Excellent rant. Thank you!

  10. Re:Correlation on Former Military Personnel Claim Aliens Are Monitoring Our Nukes · · Score: 1

    I'll second that- subs have the best chow.

  11. Re:FrostPeas on Texas Schools Board Rewriting US History · · Score: 1
    No- fairness matters here, and is the strategy more likely to achieve good security. Osama bin Laden has enough money to hire anyone, including Grandma. And Fred Thompson is a complete zero. What the police should do, in a democratic society, is just what Israeli customs officials do: interview every single person that goes through the airport.

    I'll quote Fred Thompson on this one: "The Times Square bomber wasn't flagged at the airport even though he paid cash for his ticket. Which is understandable. Why would you worry about a nervous, cash-paying Pakistani when there are grandmothers in wheelchairs to be searched?"

    Should the police "stop anyone off-white"? I don't think so. But shouldn't they be more suspicious when they see a nervous Pakistani paying his ticket in cash, or when they see young white men in militia uniforms driving around federal buildings in a white Econoline? I mean, at some point one has to stop being self-righteous and let some common sense take over.

  12. Re:Sad that this is even being considered on Texas Schools Board Rewriting US History · · Score: 1

    Yes- liberalism is the bias that an educator should have, as the result of said bias is the formation of a critical mind.

  13. Re:Video in action on Hot Sales In China For Wi-Fi Key-Cracking Kits · · Score: 1

    I love the translations of the ads- what is "prevention husband derailment trick"?

  14. Re:Passive Antenna Repeater on How Do You Extend Your Wireless Connection? · · Score: 1

    It's called a bent pipe....and it works. I installed this, two yagis and RG6. My signal went from -80 dB to -36.

  15. Re:Naval fluff... on The 10 Most Absurd Scientific Papers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the Marine Corps is just a department in the Navy....the MEN'S department!

  16. Re:Good for PF...but also...bad for PF? on EMI Cannot Unbundle Pink Floyd Songs · · Score: 1

    My dad was an engineer on an episode of The Pat Boone Show, circa 1967, that featured PF as musical guests....they lip-synced and wore matching pink leather outfits. Ah, the '60's....

  17. Re:Emi on EMI Cannot Unbundle Pink Floyd Songs · · Score: 1

    WQNA, the local college station, is truly a nerd station. There's a show called "Pemberton's Basement", there's a disk jockey for a heavy metal show who's named "Commander Riker", and a nerd friend of mine, Mike King, has a blues show on Sundays. Mike's paying job is programming and computer consulting.

    "WQNA, with roughly the power of four light bulbs!"

    your sig made milk come out of my nose.

  18. It's the lighting...and the writing on 50 Years of the Twilight Zone · · Score: 1

    Besides the sheer excellence of the dialogue (economy and concision seem to be lost arts), the thing that constantly knocks me out about this (fifty year old!) show is the absolute beauty of the lighting and cinematography. Nothing beats luminous black&white on 16 mm film for expressiveosity. My opinion, you're welcome to it.

  19. As for me personally, on Nissan Gives Electric Cars Blade Runner Audio Effect · · Score: 1

    ...I like the cars, the cars that go BOOM!!

  20. Re:Stability on Why Users Drop Open Source Apps For Proprietary Alternatives · · Score: 1

    Second that re: Cinelerra. It wins for most hyped/least useful. But KDENLive has really worked out for me- very stable in my experience. And Blender is quite usable as a cuts-only editor for me.

  21. Re:On behalf of arizona... on Arizona Judge Tells Sheriff "Reveal Password Or Face Contempt" · · Score: 1

    What is racist about trying to keep people from coming and staying in the country illegally?

    Everything. The United States is allegedly an open society. You can tell because we have open borders. When you keep people out because of who they are, rather than what they do, that is racist.