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  1. Re:wow on Dot-commers Back to the Dorm · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one that plain out makes up information at such points?

  2. Re:Why is it... on The New Athlons · · Score: 1

    I don't have the numbers but I bet even though the majority of Windows users use Intel, there are still more Windows machines with AMD processors than Linux machines.

  3. Re:hello on FreeCiv 1.12.0 Released · · Score: 1
    One word:

    anti-karma

  4. Re:Isn't it already illegal? on The Joys of School And "Website Protection" · · Score: 1
    They do this all the time.....

    Someone gets a gun illegally. They shoot someone. The easy thing to do is propose another gun law... same goes for here. Much easier to tell your constituents you tried making a law then enforcing one already on the books.
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  5. Re:On Canada on American Solar Challenge Completed: Blue Went · · Score: 1
    There may be alternatives but consumers aren't going to use them until they are cheaper than oil.

    We are not there yet. The current choice isn't between US oil and alternative sources. It is between US oil and a continued dependance on foreign oil. It's wrong to let OPEC have such power over America's economy.

    And why can't we do both anyway? There's no rule that says the government couldn't allow further drilling in various US land and not also fund alternative energy sources.

    I also suggest you use a paragraph marker once in a while before you criticize anyone else's grammar.
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  6. Re:On Canada on American Solar Challenge Completed: Blue Went · · Score: 1
    Isn't the whole "no drilling in the US" awful hypocritical? If the Earth is unified and all that, isn't it just as bad to buy oil that was drilled in Saudi Arabia?

    If you're not going to boycott using oil entirely, you have no business boycotting it in the US.
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  7. Re:try breaking a monitor on IBM Research Enables Flat-Panel CRTs · · Score: 1
    you seem pretty knowledgably about this...

    Your monitors or someone else's? :)
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  8. Re:In real life terms please on 200GeV Collisions at RHIC · · Score: 1

    Infinitely more than your complaining will.
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  9. Equals means equals on 200GeV Collisions at RHIC · · Score: 1
    Yes it does.

    Point in fact - Mercury's orbit. The orbit of Mercury had significant perturbations that caused concern at the turn of the century. Some astronomers postulated a small planet inside Mercury's orbit, called Vulcan (a very logical name), that was the source of the extra gravity causing the problems.

    However, Vulcan was never discovered. With Einstein, came the realization that the sun's gravitational field, which is a huge amount of energy, corresponds to a smaller but still huge amount of mass, which has its own gravitational field. So Mercury is ok after all because what you said is true.

    So, (getting back on topic), that 200 Ge/nucleon is mass, just in the form of photons, so it has gravity. A *very* small amount of gravity. I don't feel like doing the math, but the mass/volume ratio that determines black hole-ness probably has plenty of volume to spare.

    So, no dice for now. And even if it did happen, not really a worry. As long as one is far enough away to not worry about tidal effects, it doesn't matter how concentrated that mass is.
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  10. Re:Ouch! on Vidomi GPL Violation Case Resolved · · Score: 2

    It's a part of their strategery to use extra helping verbs and cutback on the dreaded "t" wear and tear that occurs on most keyboards.
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  11. Doubtfully Marketable on Hotel on the Moon · · Score: 1
    There's only a handful of people in this world who are wealthy enough to blow money going up to space as a tourist at this point.

    Any good business plan, especially with such a small base of possible customers is to get repeat business... customers are expensive to find, in terms of time and money. You make more money off the top 30% than you to the bottom 70% usually.

    But all these... sure, someone might pay 20 million for a vacation in space. But once every who has the money and desire has gone once... Will anyone go to the moon on a regular basis?

  12. US policies on Global Warming: Do You Believe? · · Score: 1
    ...especially in light of the fact that the government's existing environmental policies...

    Why does the US get the blame? *No country* but ROMANIA has signed the Kyoto treaty yet all we hear about is the US's lack of concern.
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  13. Re:A comment. on Review: Atlantis · · Score: 2

    ALL of the hyenas were not only dark-skinned, but voiced by black voice talents Since when has Cheech Marin been black?

  14. Another SW Mud on Star Wars Galaxies · · Score: 1
    Little bit of advertising, but the Star Wars Combine (swcombine.com) is a developing for-free (the administration and programmers are doing this voluntarily) SW Mud running under the "Fair Use" act, and the client program's source is opened....

    Besides the fact that we owe our existance to a several ideas everyone here espouses to, it's a lot of fun (and even more so once it's up and running) for any RPers out there.