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  1. Re:That brand name on How Do You Organize Your Gear? · · Score: 1

    Rubbermaid: Like tupperware, only better quality, cheaper, and you can find it in any store (tupperware is mail-in only, or used to be until rubbermaid started killing their business).

    I think its international, but uses different brand names in different countries?

  2. Rubbermaid! on How Do You Organize Your Gear? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Rubbermaid makes stackable tubs and various other things for organization. Once you have that in order, look to store VERTICALLY (ie - build shelves) not horizontally.

    If you want great ideas, tune into TLC channel and watch a show called "Clean Sweep" were extremely cluttered people learn how to organize and redesign rooms to bring their life back in order.

  3. Re:One thing is for sure... on Effective XML · · Score: 1

    Hate to reply to a joke, but there ARE books that discuss the 'wrong' way to do things in order to avoid them.

    One that comes to mind would be Bitter Java which demonstrates wrong patterns used in applications and alternatives that tend to be more effective.

    So don't be too sure that it is better than Ineffective XML ;-)

  4. Congrats! on Firefly: A Special Feature · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Congrats on working with a great series that should have had a bit longer time on the air for people to get used to it.

    And congrats on the free ad space ;-P

  5. Re:so cool on iPod-Jacked · · Score: 0

    Actually, I'd think the future will be more like "Want to see what pr0n I'm watching?" Cause if this takes off, the adult industry will be all over it, and 'sharing pr0n on the city sidewalk' will take over ;-)

  6. Re:I'm torn.... on Caldera/SCO Co-Founder Ransom Love Speaks · · Score: 1

    I cycle through my sigs from time to time. The princess bride one was cute, everyone read it, but it was time to move back to an oldie.

  7. I'm torn.... on Caldera/SCO Co-Founder Ransom Love Speaks · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...I want to know how this will all end... but am sick of hearing all the scwabbling that is going on...

    I could turn off stories about Caldera to just get it off my front page....
    But, then I can miss it when something major happens...

    Or I can whine in bitch in the article....

    I'll chose the latter, I suppose :-P

  8. Re:Come on, it's not even December yet... on Scientific American's Sci/Tech Gifts for 2003 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The best 'present' is just to have others around. Not buying gifts and stuff, but spending the whole day with the family and having fun.

    So instead of saying 'nothing', simply say 'just stop by on Christmas for a boardgame or some food'. That'll keep'm all happy :-)

  9. Re:Sea monkeys make a nice deterrent to interuptio on Scientific American's Sci/Tech Gifts for 2003 · · Score: 1

    Extremely cruel, but I can't stop laughing....

    This little guy just paid for your interruption

    Oh man... ROFLMFAO!

  10. Just imagine... on Is Space Mining Feasible? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just imagine all the cheese from the moon!

  11. Argh! on Forbes Examines SCO Subpoenas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Man, this SCO crap is getting as bad as when Napster first went under attack. How about we just hear about it once a day until either its settled, one of the parties backs out, or the trial starts.

    Enough speculation, lets quit getting our panties in a bunch until the real meat of the lawsuit comes to life.

  12. Re:sad but fun on SCO Fires back, Subpoenas Stallman, Torvalds et al · · Score: 1

    Oh yes, when you can't comment, just make fun of the country (especially if you don't live in it). Way to troll.

    And before I get the response, yes, another thing to do when you have nothing to comment is insult others that have nothing to comment. Blah blah blah... (hey, its more fun to insult those that are already insulting than to sit quietly :-P)

  13. Re:I like the saying... on SCO Fires back, Subpoenas Stallman, Torvalds et al · · Score: 1

    I hope that wasn't geared as an insult, cause you're the one that knew the magic card well enough to recognize it (sounds more like a proverb that wizards of the coast nabbed for a magic card blurb).

  14. Re:How useless on Star Trek Enterprise Tested to Mach 5 · · Score: 1

    LMAO. Nwahhh... I was just in a pissy mood that day and talked some shit. Seeing as people are safe from physical harm on the internet, they talk all kinda shit.

    But I kinda deserved it for bein an ass.

    It was bad days like this that made me popular ;-)

  15. How useless on Star Trek Enterprise Tested to Mach 5 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If they have that much time on their hands, I have some important stuff they can work on... sheeesh

  16. Re:Gee Thanks Pal on Happy Birthday, Atom · · Score: 1

    And I quote:
    This comment was just a joke. If you are replying to say anything about how it'd be harder or memorizing 80 things are easy, save your fingers.

    Yeah, I KNEW IT WAS HARDER, but it was just a joke. I even tried to warn everyone not to take it too seriously... but I knew someone would eventually do it...

  17. Gee Thanks Pal on Happy Birthday, Atom · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thanks for almost making me fail Chemistry cause my dumb-ass teacher made me memorize the first 80 elements for a test!

    This comment was just a joke. If you are replying to say anything about how it'd be harder or memorizing 80 things are easy, save your fingers

  18. Re:Seat belts on Praying Doesn't Help · · Score: 1

    Thats a great point. I think I saw other people suggest that if you are at peace in your mind, your healing may go faster. We don't know all the secrets of the mind, but it is said that your thoughts can both help and hinder your physical self (trying -not- to sound like L.Ron Hubbard, btw) ;-)

  19. Re:Why? on Praying Doesn't Help · · Score: 1

    I think you get it now! ;-)

  20. Re:Why? on Praying Doesn't Help · · Score: 1

    1 Kings 8 (or is it 18?) is a story about how God doesn't like to be 'tested.'

    And I'm not dissing science. Not only am I an engineer, but I'm a HUGE fan of science. I am a geek after all... I'm just not keen on using it to prove God (although I do follow all the studies over religious items like the "Shroud of Turin" and such).

  21. Re:Why? on Praying Doesn't Help · · Score: 1

    Disclaimer
    Lemmie start off by saying I'd love to have a civilized debate. We have opposite feelings, so we're (more than likely) aren't going to change each other's minds, so lets just give out the arguements without anger. And one last thing, if any 'fundamentalist/extremist' Christians want to jump in and talk about how the parent is going to hell and stuff, just keep it to yourself. I hate it when Christians think its alright to judge others.
    End Disclaimer

    God knows everything. So he 'already' knows the pains you are going through. Prayers are just asking him to do his will and worship him. The one thing he doesn't like (as per the bible) is being tested (which sounds pretty logical for a diety, right?). So anytime you use science against religion, it will always fail.

    Also, another aspect is God is omni- present/potent/etc... and created all and exists everywhere. How can a human, using science (based on man-made theories and such), living in four dimensions be able to prove something that is so far above him exists?

    God wants people to believe him solely on faith (dunno why, that's just the way it is), so I don't believe science will ever figure out any proof about religion (although if you read the "Forever War" and "Forever Peace" scifi books by Joseph Haldeman, he has an interesting perspective of it all). We could prove evolution to a T, the bigbang theory, aliens, and anything else that should disprove everything in the bible, but faith would still exist and religion would still strive.

  22. Re:Seat belts on Praying Doesn't Help · · Score: 1

    I think he was pointing out "for extreme car crashes" (like falling off a very steep and high cliff), even seatbelts won't help. That example should not stop people from using seatbelts, because 'minor' car crashes, seatbelts DO help. Same is with prayer (not necessarily medically, but just with everyday life). You may agree or disagree with this, but I'm just expanding on eugenes analogy for the point you may have missed.

  23. Re:What exactly makes this /. newsworthy? on Praying Doesn't Help · · Score: 1

    The seatbelt analogy is fantastic!

    Therefore I rate this article as "-1 Michael".

    GREAT ZINGER! However, it'll get us both voted down to -1... but it was worth it!

  24. Re:obvious answer on Praying Doesn't Help · · Score: 1

    Great response! I'm just sorry at how many people will try and attempt a flamewar on this.

    This is a real Christian perspective, it is not offtopic, nor trollish. You got the science perspective in the story, and the parent is a good Christian angle.

    Also, I'd like to add (Christian perspective, obviously) that God knows whats wrong, so you aren't "drawing extra attention" by praying, just asking for him to do his will.

  25. Deus Ex and System Shock 2 on Top 10 Software Titles Every Home PC Needs? · · Score: 1

    I know you said no emphasis on gaming, but without these two games, your life just isn't complete!