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  1. Re:Charging can't work, so what are the other opti on High Depreciation May Slow Electric Car Acceptance · · Score: 1

    I do not think that it would be necessary to be able to recharge the batteries in an electric vehicle in five minutes or less. Think of how many things we do away from the house where we park our cars for an hour or more. You pull into a parking spot, plug in your car and swipe a card. Instead of recharging at a fuelling station we would recharge in a parking garage/lot, store or restaurant. Standardized battery sizes is a great idea as well.

  2. Re:Wait! -- What's that? on Google Considers China's "Web Mapping License" · · Score: 1

    That's the kind of attitude that promotes slavery and abuse of women.

    It appears that Godwin's law needs a corollary. In the few thousand years of "civilization" slavery has only been a dirty word for about 200 years. Abuse of women? Women aren't helpless. I must say I am surprised you did not mention genocide and those darn Nazis. If you ever want to make a point referencing genocide as a shock tactic, you might want to mention the British. They are the only one to have committed a successful genocide in modern history.

  3. Re:Hypocrisy on Wikipedia To Unlock Frequently Vandalized Pages · · Score: 1

    The correct name for the procedure referred to as partial birth abortion is dilation and extraction.. The procedure is used to save the life of the mother or if there are serious medical problems with the fetus.

  4. Re:Maverick Meerkat? Meh... on Next Ubuntu Linux To Be a Maverick · · Score: 1

    And I was hoping the last release would have been Lusty Llama...

  5. Re:Don't worry BP ... on How Bad Is the Gulf Coast Oil Spill? · · Score: 1

    BP made $6,000,000,000 in profits last quarter. They can afford it.

  6. Re:sounds like a safety law suit jackpot and not a on Company Sued, Loses For Not Using Patented Tech · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, this definitely qualifies as frivolous law suit. Power saws are dangerous, and if you don't know how to use one safely, you shouldn't be playing with them.

    Without Saw Stop technology, there is no other hand.

  7. Re:I love to be the first to say this... on Utah Assembly Passes Resolution Denying Climate Change · · Score: 5, Informative

    I did find an interesting study of the papers written by climate scientists between 1965 and 1979. Seven articles written in that time frame predicted global cooling, forty four predicted global warming and twenty were neutral. It seems the media at the time, not the scientists, were predicting a new ice age.

    http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/03/the-global-cooling-mole/

  8. Re:A Christian's take on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    I find it amusing when people insist that the universe must have a creator and then never wonder about the origins of their creator.

  9. Re:Bubby? Is that you? on German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names · · Score: 1

    Hitler was never convicted of any crimes in a court of law. Therefore he had no sentence to serve.

  10. Re:Bubby? Is that you? on German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names · · Score: 1

    Will I dinner and a movie come with that skullfuck?

  11. Re:Fixing all the WRONG problems on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    Section 8 - Powers of Congress

    The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;

    Seems Congress does have the power.

  12. Re:Fuck Eolas on Eolas To Sue Apple, Google, and 21 Others · · Score: 1

    To which slave owners are you referring? The Greeks? The Romans? Or are you referring to the slave owners in Europe and the Americas during the 18th and 19th centuries when people began to believe slavery was morally unacceptable?

  13. Who knew Slashdot could be useful? on Wii Update 4.2 Tries (and Fails) To Block Homebrew · · Score: 1

    For some reason I updated my wii today only to find my beloved homebrew was missing. Thanks to Slashdot, I was able to find everything I needed to fix the issue easily.

  14. Re:Wrong solution on Obama Makes a Push To Add Time To the School Year · · Score: 1

    There is a rather vocal portion of the population that screams "Not with my tax dollar!" when it comes to social spending. The type of social spending that would ensure that parents did not have to work three jobs to feed and house their children, leaving more time for child rearing. I can understand arguing against such programs based on their merits. When the only argument against such programs is "Not with my tax dollar!", that is selfish.

  15. Re:Wrong solution on Obama Makes a Push To Add Time To the School Year · · Score: 1

    Please forgive me if I gave the I gave the impression that I believe there is only one problem in our school systems. This was one of the problems I encountered on a regular basis while attending our fine public schools. Even in the honors and AP classes and I was not the most brilliant student in the school.

    What I do believe is the approach to education in the United States is structurally flawed and arguments such as smaller class size and more funding will fix the problem are a joke. If that is true, why do schools in other countries with a larger average class size that spend less per student consistently outperform US students?

    http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/11/class-size-around-the-world/

    These are the latest figures I could find for per student spending around the world. They are old...

    http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/edu_spe_per_sec_sch_stu-spending-per-secondary-school-student

    There is also the problem that many Americans are inherently selfish. This results in "school funding being tied directly with property taxes" and "parents having to work three jobs to make ends meet, making them too tired when they get home to give a shit about if their kids did their homework."

  16. Re:Wrong solution on Obama Makes a Push To Add Time To the School Year · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem is not the amount of money or time available for schools. The problem is it is assumed we are all equal and the schools cater to the lowest denominator in the classroom, handicapping the rest of the class. Unfortunately, segregating students based on ability is an unpopular idea because it does not reinforce the idea that we are all equal.

  17. Re:awesome on Melting Memory Chips In Mass Production · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are you sure? It can get pretty hot in my jeans...

  18. Obligatory Futurama reference on E. Coli Can Be Used To Clean Up Nuclear Waste · · Score: 2, Funny

    How will this affect my nuclear piles?

  19. Seems like I need a subject line to post... on Emigrating To a Freer Country? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Canada, eh?

  20. Re:EULA on Should Developers Be Liable For Their Code? · · Score: 1

    Wow. Looks like I learned something today. Thank you superwiz and True Grit.

  21. Re:EULA on Should Developers Be Liable For Their Code? · · Score: 1

    Treaties do have the power to modify the Constitution.

    Article VI - Debts, Supremacy, Oaths

    All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.

    This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

    The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

  22. Re:Better for the environment, but on Natural Gas "Cleaning" Extracts Valuable Waste Carbon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It does clog the injectors if the bio portion of the ratio is too high. The state of Minnesota requires all diesel in the state to be a biodiesel blend. During winter months the blend is lowered to 2 percent biodiesel.

    It is really good stuff. It acts as an upper cylinder lubricant and, as Tubesteak has stated, cleans the fuel system.

  23. Re:What did we expect? on Office 2007SP2 ODF Interoperability Very Bad · · Score: 1

    Microsoft really does love me. He just has a hard time showing it. And with all the pressure from the recession...

  24. Re:I wish they would focus their energies elsewher on Social Desktop Starts To Arrive In KDE · · Score: 1

    I see this complaint about KDE often and wonder how so many others are having a very different experience than me. I am currently using 262.6 MB of the 1 GB of RAM I have and 26 MB of that is due to the system monitor running. The processor is just an AMD Socket 939 something or other. I am running Kubuntu 9.04 and my system is very responsive. I do not doubt that others are having a very different experience than me but I do wonder why.

  25. Re:Sorry, size matters on The In-House Decency Patrol At Facebook · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have had wanker's cramp since I was fifteen and it hasn't slowed me down. Where do I need to send my resume?