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  1. Re:Happy Winter Solstice! on Merry Christmas · · Score: 1
    Then I would say that usage of "Hear, hear" would be from Sir Garrett and would have nothing to do with "Here, here". You don't show any connection between the two expressions.

  2. Re:Happy Winter Solstice! on Merry Christmas · · Score: 1
    Christians aren't trying to kill you; they just want you to have a little bit of fun on the holidays.

    Pat Robertson would disagree with you. So would Bob Barr. And Jerry Falwell. And a whole bunch of other people who claim to be Christians, though they don't seem to have much in common with most of the Christians I know.

  3. Re:Guilty on Oregon Supreme Court Declines To Hear Schwartz Case · · Score: 1
    .....And to think . . . Al Gore invented all this!

    As soon as you see a refernce to this misquote, you know you don't have to bother listening to anything else the person is saying.

  4. Re:What is the case about? on Oregon Supreme Court Declines To Hear Schwartz Case · · Score: 1
    Swimming pools kill more children than guns every year.

    Care to site a source for that, or are you just making it up because swimming pools are popular? Everyone knows that it's dangerous to let a young kid near pool unsupervised. But it's never OK to let a kid handle a firearm, supervised or not.

    The Oxford statistics, like most other anti-gun zealots, include 17 year-old gang members in their "child gun death" statistics...

    Maybe this is because 17 year olds are considered children.

    ...even those killed by the shotguns of liquer store owners who they were trying to rob.

    Did these 17 year old children receive a fair trial acoording to their constitutional right? Is the theft of a couple hundred dollars punishable by the death penalty anywhere other than in the Taliban-run Afghanistan or the Christian Coalition-run United States?

  5. Re:What is the case about? on Oregon Supreme Court Declines To Hear Schwartz Case · · Score: 1
    Guns keep authority in the hands of citizens. You are saying that is the wrong hands?

    No, the Constitution keeps authority in the hands of the citizens. Unfortunately, most people do not exercise their authority when the time to do so comes around.

    Many people do not vote and there are many more people who do don't make use of their right to assemble and protest. Of those who do vote, most vote not for the candidate they feel is idealogically aligned with themselves, but with the guy they think will win.

  6. Re:Microsoft's Claim is Legit (IAAL) on Microsoft Starts Legal Fight Over Lindows Name · · Score: 1
    Nah, then they would have to get the symbol they go by now inserted into Unicode.

  7. Re:Whither X? on Microsoft Starts Legal Fight Over Lindows Name · · Score: 1
    Kleenex has already failed and Xerox is becoming a generic verb.

  8. Re:Yep. on Microsoft Starts Legal Fight Over Lindows Name · · Score: 1
    Doesn't adding ".com" to the end of the company's name convey that message already?

  9. Re:Innovation on Microsoft Starts Legal Fight Over Lindows Name · · Score: 1
    If you're searching for a OS with gaping security holes, why would you migrate from MS products?

  10. Re:/complexity/ ?? on Let's Kill the Hard Disk Icon · · Score: 0, Redundant
    I think he means that options on a submenu should be "instant effect" type things like center or right justify. Don't put print in a submenu.

  11. Re:Support can't last forever on Win95 Lifecycle Draws to a Close · · Score: 1
    He said they're perfectly legitimate licenses, what does it matter if they'e OEM or not?

  12. Re:Less cool at $3000 on This is IT? · · Score: 1
    I don't think it would... What happens if you are on an IT and the batteries die? (For whatever reason). If you're in traffic, you're f'd. At least on a bike you are under your own power.

    Batteries dieing have nothng to do with bodily injury. I think what the parent to your post was saying was that the injury that would prevent you from riding a a bycicle wouldn't prevent you from riding this device.

    Ironically, while all the news/rumour outlets were hyping this thing up, the Daily Show, once again coming forward with more insight thatn any of them, said it would be a scooter.

  13. Re:I'm sorry, but - on @Home Network Approaching Shutdown · · Score: 1
    Maybe his school can't afford to give every TA office space. Maybe office space (when it's available) is given on a seniority basis and he's at the bottom of the ladder.

  14. Re:DSL is the way to go on @Home Network Approaching Shutdown · · Score: 1
    First of all, how is that a troll?

    Second of all, I did do the research and I was too far to get reliable DSL access. Thus, I chose cable.

  15. Re:As seen on Excite on @Home Network Approaching Shutdown · · Score: 1
    And for another thing, it's excite@home that may be shutdown, not the entire excite network.

    Excuse me, I gotta go find another ISP.

  16. Re:Not Ironic on U.S. Court Ruling Nixes EULA Sales Restrictions · · Score: 1
    Rain on your wedding day and a plane crash are very unfortunate and maybe even improbable, but certainly not ironic.

    Is that what her songs are about? Ye gods, that's depressing. Now I'm glad I never listen to her.

  17. Re:This is absurd. on Libraries Asked To Destroy Reports, Databases · · Score: 1
    If the damned terrorists want to know all about our nation's infrastructure, the information is readily available in A LOT OF PLACES, not all under government control. The ways of getting at such data are simply innumerable. This is wrong, and yes, I'm going to mention 1984 here. How much closer do we have to get? The government is, in effect if not by intent, enforcing the concept of revisionist history. I don't pretend to understand how to deal with our current problems (here in the U.S.), but this isn't the way.

    That's because this has nothing to do with terrorism. The Bush administration saw the terrorist attack as a golden opportunity to push their radical, draconian policies that would otherwise never be allowed to see the light of day.

  18. Re:Harry not cool in 7th grade... on Review: Harry Potter · · Score: 1
    Pat Buchanan and his ilk do it all the time, so it must be ok.

  19. Re:MS on Microsoft Blames the Messengers · · Score: 1
    Uh, the bug being griped about is not the undeclared object, but the fact that the full source code was made available, thus showing the address for the database server, in addition to other information. The author's point was that anyone could place a Trojan horse on the Web server, and because it would not be blocked by the firewall, the cracker would own the database.

  20. Re:No Win32 Open Source? on Open Source Software in a Windows Environment? · · Score: 1
    Windows does still run on top of DOS. Win-ME, which removes the DOS-mode option so you can't see DOS, still runs ontop of DOS. I've even seen a screenshot of a Win2000 error message that said "Not a valid MS-DOS program".

  21. Why PowerPoint is really bad for productivity on Holes in PowerPoint and Excel · · Score: 1
    People use it for everything. And I'm not making this up: at the Air Force base that I work at every summer, even a single-page there's-gonna-be-a-banquet-for-Colonel-Smith's-ret irement notice gets done in PowerPoint and then emailed to everyone on base. Just thinking of the bandwidth waste makes my head hurt.

    You get no email for half the day sometimes because a high-up sent a base-wide email with a PowerPoint attachment that he thought everyone could need when he should have just given to the folks in his office. This makes it difficult when part of your job is to email reports to supported agencies and reimbursement vouchers to customers.

    It doesn't help that when someone makes a PowerPoint project, they go all out and put lots of pictures and animations on every page.

  22. Re:Unfortunately... on Sklyarov Indicted · · Score: 1
    Just like they can ban worship services on Saturdays and tell the Jews and Muslims and Seventh-Day Adventists, ``oh, get over it, everyone's permitted to worship on Sundays''.

    It's not the same: prohibiting people from worshiping on Saturday is the sanctioning of Sunday-worshipers over Saturday-worshipers and is thus implied as establishing Sunday-worship as a National Religion.

    Simple. Congress has no authority to outlaw it. At the time the Constitution was drafted, the Bill of Rights applied only to the Federal government, meaning it was still lawful for a State government to have an established church (Massachusetts did, for instance), or to forbid their citizens the ownership of weapons. But once the 14th Amendment was passed, and people enjoyed all the protections at the State level that they enjoyed at the Federal level, most state gun control laws also became invalidated.

    Now you're changing the subject. The 2nd Amendement says: A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

    Please explain how that phriase means that you can carry a concealed weapon.

  23. Re:Unfortunately... on Sklyarov Indicted · · Score: 1
    "Assault Rifle" is generally used to refer to rifles with a semi-automatic/burst setting. As this technology was not around when the Bill of Rights was drafted, I don't see how the Founders were intending people to carry machine guns.

  24. Re: But isn't .com for commercial stuff? not .org? on Battlebots Battles It Out: TV Show Versus IRC · · Score: 1
    we all remember the QVC idiocy?

    No, we don't. Remind us.

  25. Re:What constitutes "publishing" on Australian Court OKs International Net-Defamation Suit · · Score: 1
    The Australian court is saying that the data doesn't need to reside in Australia, it just need to be readable by someone in Australia. Thus, it doesn't matter where it's cached or even originally stored, it's considered published there if it shows up on an Australian's computer screen.