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  1. Possible solutions on Resolution To Impeach VP Cheney Submitted · · Score: 1

    1. Have him get suspended jail term, but his community work should be that he gets a spade and gets dropped in Iraq outside of the green zone. Let him do the rebuilding.

    2. Extraordinary rendition, would serve him too.

    3. 5-year sentence in Gitmo.

    4. 2 months in Abu Graib.

    5. Any combination above, and youtube clips of his "adventures"

  2. Re:I predict that data thieves will love this! on Cell Phones Predict the Future · · Score: 1

    Why data thieves? Our dear government would love it even more. Department of Fatherland Security would definitely use it. When you do what it predicts you are OK, but if you deviate, they will be sending the Man In Black (FBI). The study clearly shows that 15% of the time all MIT professors are terrorists...

  3. Re:Matrox Parahelia on Triple Headed Desktop Display for Fast 3D Apps? · · Score: 1

    However, there is no Linux (Fedora) support to speak of...

  4. Re:Matrox Parahelia on Triple Headed Desktop Display for Fast 3D Apps? · · Score: 1

    It supports 2 DVI outputs. But the good news is that they also have a PCI version too. 4 monitor DVI goodness with 2 cards, here I come...

  5. Re:Next To Go: '+' Sign on Calculator Flaw Forces Recall in Virginia · · Score: 1

    By having a convenient way of checking the correctness of your work, you will be able to score A+ on all tests, with less investment in practice (to the point of error-free work).

    Peter

  6. Multi-part on Is HTML E-mail Still Evil? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Repeat after me:

    M U L T I P A R T

    Technology is your friend, even if you don't fell like making sense of rfc822. Send both in the same mail.

    And don't buy the spam filter argument. While it is true that multipart messages get consistently higher spam scores, if your content is not spammy you are A-OK. If your content is spammy you got a problem on your hand regardless of the TEXT/HTML issue.

  7. Re:Evil Hard Copy on Printing (Big) Manuals? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or if you don't want an extra pain in your putt (aka KVM) just get an extra monitor. If your video card does not support multi-head, just get a new video card as well. All new boxen can handle any number of video cards. You can always get PCI if your AGP/PCI-Express is taken. You can get a decent 1024x768 15 or 17" monitor for 150-200 new and an older used video card for 20-30. That is less than the printing cost!

  8. Re:Protest on Former Turkish DMOZ Editor Draws 10 Months In Jail · · Score: 1

    *IF* in fact there was a Moses, and *IF* he had done the carving, he was an evil genius. Evil as basing your "morale" on superstitions and other beliefs is evil. He would be a good genious if he had educated his tribe to ratianlly accept the same values, as so build a strong society.

    We could have done without the 10 or so centuries of "dark" middle ages.

  9. Re:Protest on Former Turkish DMOZ Editor Draws 10 Months In Jail · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As a humanist, I take issue with your narrow minded definition of morality. It is certainly not between me and my God, as there is no God. Morality is a collection of common sense rules that make a society livable for all participants. If you look hard at the Ten commandments (or the Hindu or Buddhist, etc. analog) you will see that these rules are to ease building of a functioning society. The extra fluff of having it cast in stone and carried it by Moses dude is as real as Cinderella.

  10. Re:Big difference in the results. on Westerners Migrating to India for Jobs · · Score: 1

    I tolerate people being stupid. I equally tolerate stupid people hurting (or killing) themselves. It's all good and part of the same philosophy. Hmmm, maybe I should start a religion on this... Hobbard did pretty well (as in $$$) with his concotion...

  11. Re:Big difference in the results. on Westerners Migrating to India for Jobs · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the tip. I did.

    Unfortunately the dictionary does not include and warning to the extent of "eye of the beholder"...

    If you carefully look at your employment situation (I am ass-U-me-ing here, but statistically I might be right), one might characterize it as exploitation. I know mine could be argued, in spite of being a highly paid professional. I am paid the going rate, yet I know the work that I put in brings 100x revenue to my companies' owners. How about that for exploitation?

    How about exploitation, where the ruling elite decides on the minimum wage, and either refuses to have one (India) or sets it extremely low (US), so that you are stuck in the same wage jobs forever (can you imagine living on $5.25 even in rural America?). Even the relatively communist Santa Barbara local government's plan to increase hourly wage to $11 is laughable when your famaily income needs to be above $100K a year, in order to afford a median priced house in LA county (not even in Santa Monica).

  12. Re:Big difference in the results. on Westerners Migrating to India for Jobs · · Score: 1

    Hmmmm,

    GE contracts on nu-cu-lar plants, don't it?

    There are people who despite of being privileged and brought up being exposed to different cultures and ideas manage to stay remarkably close minded. BTW, it equally applies to Osama and our Fuhrer, Georgie King... (Heil!)

  13. Re:Big difference in the results. on Westerners Migrating to India for Jobs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Consider that the pittance allows her to have a "comfortable"* life while the lack of pittance would put her in the slums.

    * comforatable means different things to different people.

    Otherwise way to go. Your comment style completely lacks any kind of intelligence. Is it by choice or you actually enjoy being stupid?

  14. Re:Big difference in the results. on Westerners Migrating to India for Jobs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Quality of life != salary.

    Examples:

    Netherlands salaries are 10-20% less than US. But they get 30+ days of vacation. That comes out to 10-20% extra pay. Which one would you have 80+ hrs of EA weeks or 30+ hours of workweek after removing the vacation time?

    In India you can get a maid who cooks, cleans for rupies a week. Even when you make 10% of your Western salary you can afford it. The food is much cheaper in India, especially if you compare restaurants to restaurants. In other words you will not need to cook at all.

    Learning tolarenace is a gigantic value for your society, by being exposed (not as a tourist, but as a working member) to several different cultures is invaluable.

  15. Re:Idiot Jukebox on Centrally-Controlled Home Music System on a Budget? · · Score: 1

    :-)

    Point taken.

  16. Re:Idiot Jukebox on Centrally-Controlled Home Music System on a Budget? · · Score: 1

    My words exactly. If you stop learning you will forget how to.

    I have read about people getting their PhDs in the 60s and 70s. Nothing is unreachable, just harder. A matter of maintaining good habits which promote brain health as well as body health...

  17. Re:ummm... on Police Disperse Bush Protesters with Pepper Paintballs · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Fascism? No. This is a bunch of cops who would rather inflict than be inflicted upon. I highly doubt either candidate would tell the cops to do this!


    Don't we sound retarded!

    IT is not a question who or wether anyone told the police to use excessive force.

    IT is more of a question who did not tell the police not to use excessive force. (Which has always been the pattern, the police force need to be controlled by overview, otherwise it becomes fascist...)

  18. Re:That blob... on Global Air Pollution, From Above · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, the red blob IS in china. It is the triangle roughly between Beijing, North Korea and Hanzhou, The northern industrial region in China.

    I guess the blurb was written by someone attending geography classes in a US highschool...

  19. Re:This is what id like.. on The Perfect Online Music Store? · · Score: 1

    The "feeling lucky" link on Google takes you to a page where a quote from a NY high-school student graduating in law (WTF is THAT?) asserts that there is no US law opposing the legality of downloading from AOM3.

    In my neck of wood high-school students gradute in smoking pot, so I tend to disregard their learned opinions, at least in legal matters.

    The problem in the US is that while it might be possible to prove (in a court of law) that you are right about legally downloading from Russia for personal use, it is just a selected few (read 1% of the 1% of the 1% of the population) who can actually financially afford to stand up to RIAA.

    You settle with RIAA by the way of they taking all of oyur 401k plus IRA and complete savings. What you will earn in the rest of your wretched life will go towards to court and compensation for your lawyers. Good luck...

  20. Re:This is what id like.. on The Perfect Online Music Store? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, allofmp3.com got it right. Two "minor" complaints:

    1. It is illegal to download from there in the US and probably most contries other than Russia.

    2. They seem to use per-track normalization, on some if not all of their albums. Which tends to fcuk up almost all classical and some popular albums.

    Other than it is "funny" [*] how we still don't have any decent large-selection music stores in the US, but the Russians got it right.

    [*] funny as in really downright sad, annoying and unexcusable. Fuck RIAA!

  21. Re:What a Jerk! on Inside Kerry and Bush's Technology Agendas · · Score: 1

    If I were POTUS, magazine interviews would be my number one priority!

    I thin you meant to say:
    If I were DOOFUS, ...

  22. Re:They lied to me .. I do NOT live in a free coun on Getting Accurate Political Information? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    More expensive oil bought, means more expensive oil sold. Most likely the profit margin stayed constant in percentage points (it actually increased, see SEC reports of Shell, Chevron, etc). Even at constant it means more absolute dollars in the oil company's pocketses. It is better for them to sell it more expensive, higher oil proces also mean, that they can tap reserves, which were too expensive to tap beforehand (think arctic).

    All is well, and business is booming. Especially when you can sell oil 2-3 times the going rate to the army, essentially funneling away taxpayer moey to corporate profit...

  23. Re:Not sure if entire relavent on UPS Hacking in Hurricane Season? · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected. Thanks. I got that diploma long time ago :-)

  24. Re:Not sure if entire relavent on UPS Hacking in Hurricane Season? · · Score: 1

    110V AC = 110V peak, 110 / SQRT(2) ~ 80V effective

    110V DC = 110V effective.

    In other words, clouds of smoke, PCB BBQ and general panic... If not you are 41.42 % off voltage and maybe your PSU's tolerance deals with it, but most likely not...

  25. Re:Black Electric Tape on How Do I Disable My Gadgets' LEDs? · · Score: 1, Funny

    So is a hammer. Or a pick-axe.