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  1. Re:Whatever happened to common sense? on State Bans Texting While Driving · · Score: 1

    s/(?<=)hy/d/

  2. Re:Whatever happened to common sense? on State Bans Texting While Driving · · Score: 1

    Actually, I was thinking more about occupational exposure to chemicals which are also legal
    e.g; benzene or formaldehye, which happen to be a components of tobacco smoke.

  3. Re:Whatever happened to common sense? on State Bans Texting While Driving · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So a factory owner should be allowed to run a shop that's not in compliance with OSHA
    regulations as long as it's his intention do so, and all of his employees "agree" to it?
    Brilliant!

  4. Re:Ban texting, ban photo taking, ban calling, gam on State Bans Texting While Driving · · Score: 1

    But then they won't have an incentive to get a Real ID!

    Seriously though, like so many *privileges* driving has
    been ingrained as a constitutional right in the minds of many.

    "How am I supposed to get to work? And the movies? And..."
    Well fuck Bob, what made you think it was a good idea to live
    three hours from everything that you actually want access to?

    No soup for you!

    (I think that's enough conflation of topics for now)

  5. Re:a nonstereotypical persective on Could Global Warming Make Life on Earth Better? · · Score: 1

    How the hell is this OT? Is it novel? No, but it ain't OT.

  6. Re:It's like Barbara Bush said on Could Global Warming Make Life on Earth Better? · · Score: 1

    In trailers that they'll have to buy.

    But seriously, I *really* wish people would stop citing Katrina as evidence of global warming;
    I know it's a long shot, given just who actually does so. New Orleans was destined to be flooded.
    Fucking-A man, get it through your thick skulls: That's what happens when you build a city on
    sinking ground (pumped-out swamp) between three bodies of water in a hurricane-prone floodplain.
    Especially when the surrounding infrastructure is poorly conceived and unmaintained.

  7. Re:Hello, Spiegel on Could Global Warming Make Life on Earth Better? · · Score: 1

    You're assuming that it was a freely floating ice cube with a tether, as opposed to the possibility that it was
    (in part) a structural extension protruding from the continent i.e; part of its load was not borne by the sea.
    This article seems to support the latter: http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/oldissues2002-2003/Su n102702/icebergs.html

  8. Re:Thinly veiled exercise in social engineering on Could Global Warming Make Life on Earth Better? · · Score: 1

    The debate does not "keep renaming itself." Climate change is an ambiguous term chosen by neo-cons to reframe
    global warming (a more accurate description) as precisely what this article portrays: more days to eat ice
    cream, neglecting the fewer days to ski. They're notorious for clouding the minds of the masses with such
    tactics, compare "partial birth abortion" vs. "late-term abortion." Frank Lutz and his ilk are at best
    amoral twits, and at worst evil incarnate.

  9. Re:This is what marks the difference between liber on Could Global Warming Make Life on Earth Better? · · Score: 1

    You've got your labels on backwards.

  10. Re:Threatening a religion on Surprise Arrest For Online Scientology Critic · · Score: 1

    You need to learn a bit more before you rant about such things. It's not hard. Try reading a variety of things,
    or maybe watching PBS. In fact, there was an excellent (misnamed) series "America at a Crossroads" about Islam
    recently. It addressed a variety of issues around modern funamentalist Islam including "close mindedness"
    (which ain't so dissimilar from what you are advocating in your bashing of multi-culturalism and tolerance).

    http://www.pbs.org/weta/crossroads/ especially http://www.pbs.org/weta/crossroads/about/show_fait h_without_fear.html

    "Freedom of speach doesn't include the rights to criticise, inflame, insult or anything else..."
    Like fun it doesn't. There are very few things it does not cover, and the exclusions are fairly basic such as
    inciting to riot, "Kill the president!"...

    Now just to get the point across: Fuck Jehovah, Fuck Allah, Fuck Buddah, Fuck Moses and Fuck Xenu too.

  11. Fucking bias on Hybrid Cars No Better than 'Intelligent' Cars · · Score: 1

    "No better"? how about "can provide the same efficiency gains"? Surely you could slap
    this on a hybrid and the decked out hybrid would be better than the decked out Camaro.

  12. Re:I pay may taxes. on Library of Congress Threatens Washington Watch Wiki · · Score: 1

    Trademark and copyright are hardly the same thing. You could go and make your own
    conception of an MTA map and you would be well within your rights. Now, whether or
    not state and municipal agencies *ought* to restrict access and reuse of goods
    produced in the public interest is another matter.

  13. Re:Is this guy a "real" journalist? on What's The Greatest Web Software Ever? · · Score: 1

    As opposed to what *some* journalists do. Yes, there are rather bloggery columnists.
    But there are also those who practice what might be described as proper journalism:
    investigative reporting, trying to explain "complicated" things to the hoi polloi...

  14. Re:Is this guy a "real" journalist? on What's The Greatest Web Software Ever? · · Score: 1, Troll

    No, in today's vernacular a blogger is someone whom plays at being a journalist
    by having a public diary and parroting the thoughts and ideas of others.

  15. Re:Windows 95 on What's The Greatest Web Software Ever? · · Score: 1

    I think you have your sort order reversed.

  16. Re:Burning what? on Internet2 Taken Out by Stray Cigarette · · Score: 1

    Oh wow, so maybe there were two fires Tuesday (as per my earlier post) because there
    was smoke in the same area (in the tunnels) at 3PM that day.

    I also what there is to burn in that area, Longfellow is stone and they say
    "roof of the bridge", but it's not exactly something you'd see in Madison County.
    The Herald gives a slightly better idea of the scene.

  17. Re:You have a bad internet connection.... on Internet2 Taken Out by Stray Cigarette · · Score: 1

    And your fucking point? This is a tech news site. Information about stupid drivers,
    and the consequences for those who can't be bothered to take BART or live someplace
    where they have a saner commute is covered by the usual news outlets. Yes, even all
    the way over on the other coast we saw stories about the big bad broken bridge,
    "worst thing since Loma Prieda" (which I was around for). So what? Yeah, okay. We
    probably only saw the pieces because it happened before it was revealed some dumb
    football player for "New England" (not MA) was wearing the hat for an NYC baseball
    team and not Boston's. Nevertheless, it's not tech news, and it's not especially
    notable. Get over yourself.

  18. Timeline on Internet2 Taken Out by Stray Cigarette · · Score: 1

    I'd actually wager that it started much earlier. I switched from the Green Line to Red
    at Park Street around 3:00 on Tuesday and there was quite a lot of smoke coming from
    the outbound end of the tunnel. It wasn't clear what it was, but apparently nobody
    reported it (including the conductors who have radios). My guess is because they didn't
    want to bring the system to halt over false alrams "oh noes! smokes! It's anthrax!"

  19. Re:This is great news on Vonage and Verizon — Prepare for Round 2 · · Score: 1

    Yeah yeah, so I learned from a coworker in environmental law recently.
    What's your point? Lawyers can't even write intelligible English,
    so why should I care that they can't be bothered to keep uo with
    conventions that actually happen to be relevant?

    USSC could expand to any number of things, and only through context is
    it "apparent" what the author meant. USSC also looks a lot like USMC.
    (VERA does not have SCOTUS but if you give it USSC it gives you USMC
      USSR and USSS)

    Q: What do you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the sea?
    A: A good start.

  20. Re:This is great news on Vonage and Verizon — Prepare for Round 2 · · Score: 1

    Heh, I was just coming to say the same thing.

  21. Re:fovnder on MIT Dean of Admissions Resigns in Lying Scandal · · Score: 1

    >And I must say, I am amazed at this attempt to diss The WBR. He's the freakin fovnder of the institvte.
    What are you smoking? Read the thread man, I'm not the OP.

  22. Re:Home Automation on Mercury Contamination Vs. Energy-Efficient Lightbulbs · · Score: 1

    You seem to have missed the point. The light may be off, but the switch is itself is still on.
    Your TV and computer aren't off, they're actually sleeping. There's no way around it: If the
    device has to be able to receive signals or make decisions, it's drawing current.

  23. Re:Nuclear Energy + Old Lightbulbs on Mercury Contamination Vs. Energy-Efficient Lightbulbs · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how the hell you arrive at "most people." Most nuclear eningeers and "old guard" maybe.
    Firstly, switching from one non-renewable to another isn't that bright. Second, fission isn't as much
    of a win with respect to carbon as you think. There's a hell of a lot of wasted energy in how most
    stations operate, as well as a lot of embodied energy in the station itself. I'm not sure how metric shitloads of high and low-level wastes is less bad than the occasional (non-endangered) bird kill,
    or well placed low-head hydro, etc.

  24. Re:Info from EnergyStar.gov on Mercury Contamination Vs. Energy-Efficient Lightbulbs · · Score: 1

    If it's not deep pile. Obviously aspirating the mercury coated glass into a cloth filter with lots
    of high speed air moving across it isn't such a good idea. In general though, these tend to break
    into large enough pieces that you can pick most of them up safely once you've aired out the room a
    bit.

  25. Re:What NEMA says about this on Mercury Contamination Vs. Energy-Efficient Lightbulbs · · Score: 1

    Actually, mercury most affects our health (and that of other beings) in aquatic ecosystems once it
    settles out of the air and is methylized.