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  1. Re:Ummmm on Congress Mulls Research Into a Vehicle Mileage Tax · · Score: 1

    They think people driving 3000-lb. Priuses should be paying the same gas tax as 100,000-lb tractor trailers and 7000-lb. Hummers.

    Despite the fact that road damage scales with the fourth power of the car's weight per axle.

  2. Re:Ummmm on Congress Mulls Research Into a Vehicle Mileage Tax · · Score: 1

    it has some significant disadvantages, such as being a regressive tax structure.

    You can always make other things more progressive to compensate.

  3. Re:Ummmm on Congress Mulls Research Into a Vehicle Mileage Tax · · Score: 1

    Then switch over to taxing electricity. Coal and oil badly need an externality tax already.

  4. Re:Can it read email? on How the iPod Nano's Video Abilities Stack Up · · Score: 3, Informative

    Turning a 0.5 second video clip into a picture is trivial. Play the video, full screen, take a screenshot, save to whatever you want.

  5. Re:How to make science popular? on How To Make Science Popular Again? · · Score: 1

    To have a conditional, you need a main clause, which is still missing. Sure, it's common usage, but using their, there and they're interchangeably is also common usage.

  6. Re:Netbooks are getting too big and bulky. on Netbooks Have a Huge Impact On the PC Industry · · Score: 1

    We need a 10 cm * 30 cm netbook with a rollout screen. Who wouldn't want to have something like that?

  7. Re:Ummm... what? on Netbooks Have a Huge Impact On the PC Industry · · Score: 1

    It is our hope that one day linux apps will be advanced enough to include a spelling checker.

    Unix philosophy. Go edit some config files and install the extension.

  8. Re:How to make science popular? on How To Make Science Popular Again? · · Score: 1

    1) Everyone is singular not plural, so that would be everyone was
    2) Your first sentence is missing a main clause.

  9. Re:No effect whatsoever on Japan's Cell Phones May Get DRM, At Music Industry Behest · · Score: 1

    That's not a reason, it's a justification. The actual reason is most likely that the music industry is paying money for this to be included.

  10. Re:Only Vista on Windows 7 Upgrade Can Take Nearly a Day · · Score: 1

    The above post is the epitome of whoosh.

  11. Re:Public Enemy #1 on Father of Green Revolution, Norman Borlaug, Dies at 95 · · Score: 1

    Indeed. The sheer amount of lives that he saved dwarfs (ants might be more appropriate) all of our favorite war heroes who enjoy everlasting fame.

  12. Re:2% difference... big deal. on IE8 Beats Other Browsers In Laptop Battery Life · · Score: 1

    Yeah, fuck this test if IE won!

    We bashed these tests last time, when Chrome won.

  13. Re:I hope it is dead. on Is City-Wide Wi-Fi a Dead Idea? · · Score: 1

    Then help solve the problem and pirate stuff over it!

  14. Re:what about Linux based phones? on Japan's Cell Phones May Get DRM, At Music Industry Behest · · Score: 1

    They'll just put in a hardware lock like they did with the Kindle.

  15. Re:No connection? on Japan's Cell Phones May Get DRM, At Music Industry Behest · · Score: 1

    So cell phones will start sending out signals on planes? Expect a lot of opposition from the air traffic people.

  16. Re:So? on Google Groups Used To Control Botnets · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What's it supposed to do, turn my computer into stooooooooooooooooooooooooooo[NO CARRIER]

  17. Re:New manning slot? on Boston City Government Discovers Email Retention · · Score: 1

    Retaining emails with backups is more costly than you think.

  18. Re:Important emails on Boston City Government Discovers Email Retention · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    to a person they have pledged their life to

    The statistics disagree with you:

    50% percent of first marriages, 67% of second and 74% of third marriages end in divorce ( http://www.divorcerate.org/ )
    Average length of a marriage is 8 years ( http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/p70-97.pdf )

  19. Re:Mucking with evolution on Scientists Clone Oldest Living Organism · · Score: 1

    Even if we did our absolute worst and nuked each other all to Hell, while simultaneously letting global warming run amok

    Fry - "It's a good thing global warming never happened"
    Leela - "It did. But it's a good thing nuclear winter cancelled it out"

  20. Re:The jokes are just writing themselves. on Microsoft Interns Still Feel the Love · · Score: 1

    It was actually misspelled, the original being "internets". MS used crowdsourcing to get Vista done - too bad they only got the people too ignorant to know about Linux.

  21. Re:Ok, so I got the popcorn ready.... on First Botnet of Linux Web Servers Discovered · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Stop bickering and solve the problem on First Botnet of Linux Web Servers Discovered · · Score: 1

    New Linux slogan! Want help solving an incompatibility issue? There's a forum for that! Want a bunch of people denying your problem even exists or wondering why the hell you need the right mouse button? There's a forum for that!

  23. Re:And here it comes on First Botnet of Linux Web Servers Discovered · · Score: 1

    Linux just needs a nice GUI. "Vlad12353 wants to install dancing bunnies on your machine. Abort, retry, fail?"

  24. Re:Ok, so I got the popcorn ready.... on First Botnet of Linux Web Servers Discovered · · Score: 1

    And robot is from the Czech work for "slave". And "slave" comes from the word "slav". And "slav" comes from the word "slovo", meaning "word". So clearly MS Word is responsible for this.

  25. Re:Yes, more holidays please on Russia's New Official Holiday — Programmer's Day · · Score: 1

    To celebrate National Recursion Day you must first celebrate National Recursion day.