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  1. Re:Is Space Mining Feasible? on Is Space Mining Feasible? · · Score: 1

    > It all boils down to this: The "Galaxy Far, Far Away" is small and dense.

    just like the brain of a Slashdot slug

  2. Re:My psychic girlfriend's vision on Best Buy Uses DMCA To Quash Black Friday Prices · · Score: 1

    can she get me the lottery numbers?

  3. Re:Nothing really matters. on Three More Solar Flares · · Score: 1

    > But ask anyone interested in astrology

    ummm... I think you meant Astronomy

  4. Re:CHINOOK DOWN! WOOHOOO!!!! 15 PIGS DEAD!!! on CNN Reports on Diebold · · Score: 1

    you forgot to add various Soviet & Russian dictators.

  5. Re:how is this an issue on Court Upholds FCC's 2007 Deadline For Digital TV · · Score: 1

    ummm 20 years ago? Do you still live there? Do you still get the same stations?

  6. but what I really want ... on Digital Art For Your Wall-Mounted TV · · Score: 1

    is a HD aquarium

  7. Re:Villages? on Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Design · · Score: 1

    > It seems to me that in a "village" there's not going to be enough people around to provide incredibly tight security

    but the lack of people would make an outsider easy to spot

  8. Re:Why are they backing off? on SunnComm Reconsiders Lawsuit Threat · · Score: 1

    > And then once you go to court, if your record is clean, they may (usually? always?) offer to let you take a `don't shoplist!' class

    I am very interested in this `don't shoplist!' class, I often find that the only way to remember to buy some obscure item like chicken bullion is to write it down. I would really like to be able to remember everything I need to buy at the store without relying on a shop(ping) list. Do you know if they use rote memorization or a more elaborative encoding scheme?

  9. Re:Finally on 10th Circuit Says FTC Can Enforce Do Not Call · · Score: 1

    Citizens have constitutional rights, not corporations. Even if you take the position that a corporation is a pseudo-citizen and enjoys limited constitutional protection, telemarketing is commercial speech and therefore not protected.

  10. Re:The Left coast on Vancouver Bars Network Together to Track Patrons · · Score: 1

    Depends on how you define left and right. Would you consider Cuba left or right? How about North Korea or China?

  11. Re:big brother? on Vancouver Bars Network Together to Track Patrons · · Score: 1

    > even though the driver has a perfect abstract

    just in case your sources were not done in proper APA formatting.

  12. Re:At that price... $4/watt?? WTF on New Solar Cells 20 Times Cheaper · · Score: 1

    > 0.666

    I always knew the enviromentalists were in league with Luicfer.

  13. Re: Stock? on SCO Derides GPL, Will Revoke SGI's UNIX License · · Score: 1

    bah, it's not the neurons, it's the connections between them...

  14. Re:Company != family on The Surprising Benefits of Being Unemployed · · Score: 1

    > Their loyalty consists of viewing you as primarily cannon fodder.

    You've never served. You cannot understand.

  15. Re:A thinly veiled political rant, actually on The Surprising Benefits of Being Unemployed · · Score: 1

    What is a freeper and little green footballer? Why would the Nation Reconnaissance Office care?
    If the Democrats run Dean, Bush is in for another four.

  16. Re:Hmph... on New Anti-Swap CDs Hit Shelves · · Score: 1

    > Despite your "two DVD players" the rest of the world still enjoys and uses DVD players

    I believe you meant to say: Despite your "two DVD players" the rest of the world still enjoys and uses CD players

  17. get the feds to do it on Anti-Spammers DDoSed Out Of Existence · · Score: 2, Funny

    Put it on a .gov website, then whomever tries to DDOS it gets a one way ticket to Gitmo.

  18. Re:The Abstract from PUBMED via the NLM gateway on Drowning in a Sea of Microwaves · · Score: 1

    ah yes, but humans make such bad models for rats.

  19. Re:He won the election on The Return of Apollo? · · Score: 1

    The only person to blame for Gore not getting elected is Clinton. My guess is that the reason the Republicans choose GWB to be the contender is that they figured Gore was a walk on (and rightly so, relative peace and an economy that appeared to be in perpetual fast forward) and they wanted to sacrifice a political light weight in the election. I don't know if you remember the Ford-Carter election but I feel that Carter beat Ford because Ford represented the Nixon legacy and people were not so much voting for Carter (a relative unknown) as much as they were voting against the "ghost" of Nixon. I think the Gore-Bush election was similar. People just had had enough of Clinton and wanted a change. Also, the Gore election strategy orbited around personal attacks on Bush and trying to smear Texas; great for soundbites and laughs but bad for trying to win a national election. Gore should have had a landslide, it should not have come down to one state and the SCoUS. Now the Democrats are going to do it to themselves again, Dean may say the things that party activists like to hear, but trying to get elected on Bush bashing is not going to fly with the middle 80.

  20. Re:Get fucked you baby raping faggot american on Learning to Say No in the Workplace? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I would rather have killed everyone in Japan then lose a single American soldier.

    Here is a lesson for you. If you might not like the outcome, don't start a war.

  21. Re:But, Long term on Big Company on Campus · · Score: 1

    Why should they think about it? It isn't their money afterall.

  22. Re:Quality. on PanIP May Be Standing On Shaky Ground · · Score: 1

    call me kooky but I don't think the author needs the money ... anymore.

  23. Re:population on OpEd Piece on Extended Life Expectancy · · Score: 1

    From Holland (I think) based on optical discoveries that had some level of origination in the Arab world. This information was later placed in books that were in turn stored at the library in Medina (sp?), Spain when it was under Moorish control. During the crusades this city was taken intact and the works were sent to protestant Holland. Read James Burkes "The Day The Universe Changed" for the complete (and more accurate) story.

  24. Re:An insult on the US justice system... on SCO May Countersue Red Hat, SuSE Joins The Fray · · Score: 1

    No, RedHat wanted to make sure that it had all of their ducks in a row. Now I realize that all the SlashLawyers knew instantly and absolutely that SCO had no legal grounds; however, in the real world you make sure you have a solid as possible case before you make your first move. My guess is that there were (in)formal meetigns between the legal teams of IBM and RedHat (and possibly others) to form a loose strategy. Not that IBM would share all that they know, I have little doubt that their legal team keeps an ace or two up their sleeve as standard practice.

  25. Re:Not just spam, but crap wages for their own peo on Telemarketers Sue Over "Do Not Call" List · · Score: 1

    The calls may originate in India, but the companies still have some level of US presence. It may be little more then a distribution center, but it can still be shut down and siezed in lieu of payment. Plus federal arrest warrents could be issued and probably would be if offshoring became a big enough problem and it happend to be an election cycle.