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  1. Re:Can't find SPEC results at spec.org for Apple?? on G5 Benchmark Roundup · · Score: 4, Informative
  2. Re:Excellent news! on EMI and Sony Lose Lawsuit Over Crippled Music Disks · · Score: 1

    None of the last 3 CDs I have bought in the last month have carried the logo. They are all REAL CDs too.

  3. Re:Paying twice? on US Army Signs $471,000,000 Deal for Microsoft Software · · Score: 1

    The deal is for 6 years. About $159/seat/year. So your corp got shafted.

  4. Re:Benchmarking Across Platforms on Apple's G5 Speeds Challenged · · Score: 1

    Xi's Opteron workstation. Only single processor.

  5. Re:What about the backplane???? on Apple's G5 Speeds Challenged · · Score: 1

    Fast user switching debuted in XP. Unless there is something I am missing in 2000?

  6. Re:Paintball on What's Your (non-tech) Hobby? · · Score: 1

    I play paintball, if only it wasn't so expensive. I need to start using a pump so I don't go through so much paint.

  7. Re:DOes it work ? on Honda Crash Detection System · · Score: 1

    No, you just downshift. I drive down the 405 ofteen going from/to the valley and rarely hit the breaks, just downshift. I always keep 2-3 car lengths in front of me.

    Oh yeah, I guess you would need a manual transmission for this. I always wondered why people would say something like I bet you hate your manual transmission on the freeway in rush hour. I am always say NO, that is when I gain the most benefit from it!

  8. Re:And the reason... on Digital Baseball Umpires · · Score: 1

    They only work a couple of days a year? There are 162 games a year. 30 teams. You would need tens of thousands of umpires if they only works a couple of days a year.

  9. Re:Censored information about SARS in the USA? on SMS, SARS, And Censorship · · Score: 1

    Geez, that is more an attack on the US healthcare system and the current administration than a story on SARS. Not to mention it is basically wild speculation.

  10. Re:BofA on Mozilla 1.4RC2 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, WMAU works great with mozilla. Here is a pretty big list of banks. Hasn't been updated in 5 months though.

  11. Re:Do what I did.. on More Incompatible DVDs and CDs Coming Your Way · · Score: 1

    Hehe, oops. :)

  12. Re:Do what I did.. on More Incompatible DVDs and CDs Coming Your Way · · Score: 1

    I would, except my copy of Hail to the Thief is not copyprotected. (the title is takes on new meaning due to this) I ripped it and can play it in all my players, looks like a standard CD to me. Looking around it appears that the US version is not copyrighted (the only one according to several sites).

    You should return the CD, it will send a louder message than a letter.

  13. Re:Hey, now... on Capcom Takes Grand Theft Auto To Japan · · Score: 1

    I don't know what is funnier, the subject matter of that video or the fact that your comment was modded as Informative. :)

    Japan has some strange porn.

  14. Re:So? on Matrix Gets Egyptian Ban For Explicit Religion · · Score: 1

    A) How many christians are raised in the church but don't curently practice?

    B) How is a catholic not a christian?

  15. Re:Multiculturalism in a nutshell on Matrix Gets Egyptian Ban For Explicit Religion · · Score: 1

    North America: Neo kicks the crap out of someone and then gives a passionate kiss to Trinity. R-rated for explicit sex.

    Not sure if you are talking about Reloaded or the original so:

    The Matrix - Rated R for sci-fi violence and brief language.
    The Matrix Reloaded - Rated R for sci-fi violence and some sexuality

    But hey, don't let the facts get in the way of your point.

  16. Re:So? on Matrix Gets Egyptian Ban For Explicit Religion · · Score: 1

    I think you need to rethink your idea that very few Christians are Catholic: http://www.adherents.com/adh_branches.html#Christi anity

    Probably true in the US, though about ~25% is hardly very few.

  17. Re:So? on Matrix Gets Egyptian Ban For Explicit Religion · · Score: 1

    Eastern culture is fragile

    Survival of the fittest then.

  18. Re:So? on Matrix Gets Egyptian Ban For Explicit Religion · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't genetic screening be put into place so that you can tax people who are more predisposed to certain illnesses?

  19. Re:Eeewww... on Play Counter-Strike For Real · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just schedule it during spring break at one of the current hotspots. Then give away t-shirts. Works for GGW...

  20. Re:I think it's a good thing on E.U. Agrees To Launch Galileo Satellite Location System · · Score: 1

    And so we get back to my original point. What about the sunni, kurds and christians? A shiite government will opress them. But that is OK because they are the minority? We tried that in the US, it is a bad idea and we are still trying to fix the problems.

  21. Re:Good for them! on Chinese Moon Base by 2012 - or 2006? · · Score: 1

    1. Debunked on the same sight, that is pretty convenient.
    2. Not going to read the whole site, but the gist seems they were watching the terrorists? They can be lambasted for not warning the US, but doesn't show they participated.
    3. They did, or did you not see the hour or so they were smoldering?
    4. Wow, two short quotes from 1person out of 10000+ in the building and surrounding areas. That is convincing.

  22. Re:I think it's a good thing on E.U. Agrees To Launch Galileo Satellite Location System · · Score: 1

    "So, you are basically saying "democracy is only good if it serves the minority that we approve of?"

    No, I am saying that leaving the whole governemnt up to the Shiite is insanely stupid and would create a regime as opressive as the baath party. I consider religion to be the source of most problems in the world so I scoff at the idea of a theocratic governement being a good thing in Iraq.

    I don't want to give the wrong impression though, I am all for the US pulling out of EVERYWHERE and letting the UN handle everything.

    I never disputed that the conversation happened, I was merely pointing out that your source was crap.

  23. Re:I think it's a good thing on E.U. Agrees To Launch Galileo Satellite Location System · · Score: 1

    The Shiite Muslim majority who have been protesting for the US to leave since 3 days after capitulation?

    I am sure the Kurds, sunni, and christian Iraqi's have something to say about this? Leaving Iraq to the mullahs would be worse than never having invaded at all.

    Oh and from your www.makeshitup.com link:

    I cannot confirm the reliability of the source, a strange website called which I found via a meta-search engine, but here's their scoop on Glaspie and Saddam

    Yeah, good source.

  24. Re:Mathematicians! on New US $20 bills Released, Colors & Layout Change · · Score: 1

    Alexander Hamilton ($10) and Ben Franklin ($100) were not presidents. Hamilton basically established our national monetry system. Franklin was an inventor/scientist/statesman/philosopher.

  25. Re:Controls should be interesting on Preview Of Halo For PC Finally Sighted · · Score: 1

    You forget that you have a keyboard as well as a mouse. BF1942 has proven that switching from walking to driving to flying can be accomplished using a mouse/keyboard combo. About the only thing you cannot do too well (well enough to compete online at least) is fly with the mouse/keyboard, but switching to joystick/keyboard is pretty easy to do.