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  1. Re:Ah, the Republican Party ... on Congressman Wants YouTube Video Covered Up · · Score: 1

    Correction, I meant "Ever hear of fair use?"

  2. Re:Ah, the Republican Party ... on Congressman Wants YouTube Video Covered Up · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ever here of fair use?

    Fair use, a limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work, is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without acquiring permission from the rights holders. Examples of fair use include commentary, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching, library archiving and scholarship.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

    This could easily count as commentary, criticism, or maybe even news reporting.

  3. Re:borked link on Why Russian Space Images Look Different From NASA's · · Score: 1

    thank you

  4. Re:Not just Republicans on Using the Open Records Law To Intimidate Critics · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Its public info, frankly I'm glad that people are boycotting their businesses because they are bigots. I dont want to support any business which feels it has a right to say what I do when it affects only myself.

    Thanks for the boycott list though, Ill doubly make sure I don't buy from any of those businesses.

  5. Re:"If we litigate, we have a chance to win.'" on Cable Channels Panic Over iPad Streaming App · · Score: 0

    It's wireless bandwidth scarcity that hes referring to... what brain dead moron modded you up?

  6. Re:End of the world on Microsoft Buys 666,000 IP Addresses · · Score: 1

    I have every intention of borrowing your hypothesis.

  7. Re:Found some more info on Air Force Supercomputer Made From PS3's · · Score: 1

    +1 Informative

  8. Re:DMCA broken on Air Force Supercomputer Made From PS3's · · Score: 1

    Your right I think... I don't know I cant find anything definition either way. I do know that other os was hobbled to some extent. The graphics card is often better at very parallel tasks then the processor(IIRRC)... thats why you see all the distributed computing clients that can use them. So Ill stand by my point that its very likely the air force isn't using the same other os feature that we all know and love.

  9. Re:DMCA broken on Air Force Supercomputer Made From PS3's · · Score: 0

    I'm sure they have full access regardless of the other os feature. The other os was crippled to using only one of the cells of the processor, I'm willing to bet they are using all 8 in this super computer.

    They either have a special license from Sony, or they've cracked it a long time ago.

  10. Re:Thanks for posting the relevant link on Japanese Chip Shutdown Causing Shortages · · Score: 1

    No prob, your suggestion got me to learn something new today.

  11. Re:Captain Oblivious strikes again! on Japanese Chip Shutdown Causing Shortages · · Score: 5, Informative

    Remember how AMD got into the x86 biz? No? Go look it up.

    Excellent suggestion, link for anyone interested.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amd#Processor_market_history

    Relevant quote for those not interested. Seems like good planning on IBMs part.

    IBM wanted to use the Intel 8088 in its IBM PC, but IBM's policy at the time was to require at least two sources for its chips.

  12. Re:TSA involvement on Cocaine Found At Kennedy Space Center · · Score: 1

    +5 Funny

  13. Re:Bad Bill on Utah Governor 'Honored' With Blackhole Award · · Score: 1

    Because the politicians are paid well by the pharmaceutical companies, and the private prison industries to keep it illegal.

    The budget works like this, if you send money (aka bribe) to a politician then they protect all the budget items that are good for you. The problem is all the big players have paid their protection monies to the government, the only place to cut is from the little man. The government is actively trying to cut the little people out of the budget, why not they havn't paid their bribe.

    Expect every single cut to services for the individual to be explained away with "budgetary reasons".

  14. Re:THIS is why we pay so much for our Military! on Prepare For Massive Wave of Earthquake Scams · · Score: 1

    My comments were aimed more at the active component of the military needing congressional approval.

    Your absolutely right that the NG can act on orders from the state government. If I'm not mistaken the enlistment oath for the NG even reflects that. The reasoning for that (I believe) is because the NG doesn't act as a standing army, but more of a state militia. They are also funded in a large part by the state (IIRC).

    I spent my time active, so I only have a passing familiarity with the way the reservists and NG work. The point I was trying to make though was that if its not on federal land then active duty needs some sort of approval for doing pretty much anything.

  15. Re:THIS is why we pay so much for our Military! on Prepare For Massive Wave of Earthquake Scams · · Score: 1

    Lol I was in the military.

    Yes we can train, I always trained on federal land. I dont know how much training they do elsewhere, but the best I can remember I never saw it.
    Yes there may be combat operations, if congress approves it.
    Yes there may be Disaster Relief, usually only reservists and NG.
    Intelligence Operations? Expand on that please.

    The military can do pretty much everything, but it all boils down to congressional approval in most cases. There were big concerns with standing armies in the early days of our country so alot of restrictions have been placed on how the military can act especially on home turf.

    In Japan it was likely someone called up the US airbase and was like, hey can you help? Well in that situation depending on the SOFA agreement, they could probably scramble the planes right away. If it happened in the US and the base was called, most likely they would be getting approval from far up the chain of command to act.

  16. Re:THIS is why we pay so much for our Military! on Prepare For Massive Wave of Earthquake Scams · · Score: 2

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

    The Act prohibits members of the Army, and Air Force, from exercising nominally state law enforcement, police, or peace officer powers that maintain "law and order" on non-federal property (states and their counties and municipal divisions) within the United States.

    The statute prohibits Army and Air Force personnel and units of the National Guard under federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress. The Navy, and Marine Corps are prohibited by Department of Defense Directive, not by the Act itself.[1][2] The Coast Guard, under the Department of Homeland Security, is exempt from the Act.

  17. Re:Before we start the flame wars on The Encroachment of Fact-Free Science · · Score: 1

    I didn't advocate any type of power generation whatsoever in any post in this thread/page/today/this week/probably much further beyond that, OK?

    I posted a study that answered a request, thats it.

  18. Re:Before we start the flame wars on The Encroachment of Fact-Free Science · · Score: 1

    Did you look at the table on page 33?

    The table labeled "Comparison of CO2 Production per GWh. Net Lifetime Energy Output for
    Various Electric Power Technologies (metric tons of CO2 )"

    Or read the paragraphs before it that explained the table and how they included the costs of manufacturing the plants, and how they got the numbers?

    You obviously didn't, because I think this is exactly what was being requested.

    Here is a quote from page 31:

    This report compares CO2 production per unit energy output during a
    30-year lifetime from a fluidized-bed, coal-fired power plant, a small
    and a large solar photovoltaic plant, and a solar thermal centralreceiver
    power plant. The approach used in making these calculations
    starts with an energy analysis that accounts for the energy embodied in
    all of the components of the plants
    , the energy required fox the
    operation and maintenance of the plants, and the fossil-fuel energy used
    to operate them.

  19. Re:Before we start the flame wars on The Encroachment of Fact-Free Science · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.nrel.gov/docs/legosti/old/3772.pdf

    Its an older study but the first I found on google. I'm sure there are much better sources out there though. Page 33 of the pdf shows a chart I think boils it all down.

    NREL is part of the DOE btw.

  20. Re:Transparency is always good... on Should Cyber Vigilantes Be Cheered Or Feared · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Be less interesting to read thats for sure though.

  21. Re:Enough of this already on Tolkien Estate Censors the Word "Tolkien" · · Score: 1

    Yea but is "Henry Ford" a valid trademark?

  22. Re:more concerned about israels nukes. on Iran To 'Remove Fuel' From Bushehr Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    LMAO

    Most people? He doesn't even deny the translation. The Palestinians even told him it was wrong to say. How did you get your head shoved that far up your rear end? Your going with your gut feeling without looking at any of the sources that have been posted. Good job.

    Who has the obvious slant? The one who posts sources to back up his ascertation. Sources that are regarded as at the very least generally truthful. Or the one who cannot provide a source, or can only provide a source that most people have never heard of.

  23. Re:more concerned about israels nukes. on Iran To 'Remove Fuel' From Bushehr Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    NYT:

    Admadinejad said, "As the imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map."

    I don't know how that doesn't count as a direct quote.

    Same NYT source I listed earlier.

  24. Re:more concerned about israels nukes. on Iran To 'Remove Fuel' From Bushehr Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    None of my sources has an obvious slant, unless you would like to expand on the BBC, CNN, NYT, and Washington Post. Do you believe they have a slant?

    You don't seem to understand either what I was saying, which is his source has an obvious slant. Which isn't Ironic because none of my sources has an obvious slant. Or you don't seem to understand the word irony.

  25. Re:more concerned about israels nukes. on Iran To 'Remove Fuel' From Bushehr Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    The translation came from the Iranian state news agency, leaders from around the world decried the quote, he admitted/defended the quote, Palestinians have been quoted as saying he should not have said that. That is enough evidence for most reasonable people to assume that that is at the very least what he meant.

    Your source has a obvious slant (not saying it isnt an admirable goal) but that slant is to stop wars. So someone with a obvious stated slant like that does not make them a good source.