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  1. Re:Uhhhh... on Light Bulb Replacements · · Score: 0, Troll

    Green is a mix of blue and yellow. Green is a secondary color, not a primary.

  2. Re:Color.... on Light Bulb Replacements · · Score: 1

    This is basic color theory.

    Red, yellow, and blue... mix them together to make white.

    Incandescents also emit color other than white, mostly in the red and yellows (warm colors) but some are blue (artist bulbs). Try painting with two different bulbs and you will quickly see the difference.

    This is not just limited to LEDs.

  3. Re:Best 5 I've seen in a while on Linux Corporate Influence: Boon or Bane? · · Score: 1

    Some little kid is pushed off the TCP Choo-Choo Trainsport by a Muslim and the government steps in and closes down the park because the residents of Penguina won't ID and photograph everyone who rides the TCP Choo-Choo.

  4. Re:/. parrotting Micro$oft product announcements? on New Microsoft Mouse Scrolls Both Ways · · Score: 1

    The first thing that came to mind for me was a gallery site I am working on that will use horizonal scrolling and I was happy to see that this will soon be a standard.

  5. Re:I don't care about the code... on Maryland Plans Code Review for Voting Software · · Score: 1

    If you vote mid-day, when the lines tend to be short, it wouldn't be hard to pin down that voter John Doe checked in at 1:17pm, that a vote for candidates A, B, & C was recorded at booth 5 at 1:19pm, and that John Doe checked out at 1:20pm. Guess what, you've just figured out who John Doe voted for.

    There's no logical reason to have timestamps attached to votes.

  6. Re:I know what I am doing next election on Maryland Plans Code Review for Voting Software · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Immigrants can't vote until they are citizens, so your analogy is flawed. Besides, if they become citizens they would be encouraged to turn someone like that in to INS by the process of becoming a citizen, not something a fraudster would want to risk.

    However, it would not be impossible to force someone to absentee vote in your favor, but there is less risk associated with just voting in the name of deceased voters or just outright poll fraud. Less witnesses, less risk.

  7. Re:I know what I am doing next election on Maryland Plans Code Review for Voting Software · · Score: 2, Informative

    Have you ever voted absentee? There are two envelopes, one goes in the other... the inside envelope face is blank and has no information about you and holds your vote.

  8. Re:I don't care about the code... on Maryland Plans Code Review for Voting Software · · Score: 1

    Use thermal paper like they use in cash registers.

  9. Re:skewed statistics. on Gates Provides Windows Crash Statistic · · Score: 1

    What series? I think i have the same problem with mine but it's out of warranty and they tell me to take it to Best Buy or Circuit City (no fucking way).

  10. Re:strange days on Wozniak Unveils WozNet · · Score: 1

    The message is: "sell out, cash in". It's the latest fad in the high-tech totalitarian society. Freedom is so passe anyways.

  11. Re:Great idea!!! Except.... on When Good Spammers Go Bad · · Score: 1

    bwahahaha

  12. Welcome to the Banana Republic... on House Bill to Make File-Sharing an Automatic Felony · · Score: 1

    Representative government? For who?

    "We the People..." my ass. I hope America wakes up one day and torches this unconstitutional junta that has taken over our republic.

    Thomas Paine is spinning in his grave.

  13. More Infuriating... on How to Legally Infuriate the RIAA? · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...is that he got paid to write this trainwreck of an article.

  14. Re:Gonna Backfire on Working Hard? · · Score: 1

    Get guns off the national radar screen: no new federal laws. (Nov 30)
    No more federal gun laws; leave them to states. (Nov 24)

    WTF is your justification for saying that I'm anti-gun? I'd like us to be able to own tanks!

  15. Re:Unionize, and I'll move my business elsewhere. on Working Hard? · · Score: 1

    In regards to your initial comment: You need me more than I need you.

    We need each other, once you realize that it is not the duty of the company to exploit and it is not the duty of the employee to exploit but rather it is a mutual agreement, then perhaps you will realize WTF Rand meant.

  16. Re:Unionize, and I'll move my business elsewhere. on Working Hard? · · Score: 1

    Until someone who wants the job more than you offers the _same_ amount of brains for that same "x-y" dollars, in which case you're SOL.

    Like I said, it's a two way street, I can pit two companies against each other in order to bid up my salary just as easily as you can pit two workers to get one cheaper.

  17. Re:Unionize, and I'll move my business elsewhere. on Working Hard? · · Score: 1

    you are an idiot.

    You need my brains and I agree to sell them to you for x dollars. If you don't want to pay that, then you can get less brains for x-y dollars.

    However you are free to hire someone for less and get less work out of them, less ideas and such.

    It's a two way street and just because you are in an advantageous position (buyer's market) now does not mean it will stay that way. If you choose to pay less than the market value you will get less than the market value, if you think long term and pay above market in order to retain employees, you will get better employees and work.

    PS. you need to get off the Rand kick if you can't properly apply the philosophy... it's rooted in Emmanuel Kant's political/society principles of freedom and willing cooperation. I suggest you read up on it.

  18. Re:Gonna Backfire on Working Hard? · · Score: 1

    Howard Dean is a moderate dressed up like a Democrat, the NRA gave him an "A".

    On the Issues - Howard Dean (scroll down to see the chart).

  19. Re:Bless America on Working Hard? · · Score: 1

    Attention World: Learn from our mistakes as you have with other countries that have gone off the deep end of history, we're fucking doomed over here and we know it. Just wait a bit and you'll get to see it all implode anyways (but only after it gets MUCH worse).

    In the America that rises from this catastrophe of a Republic, corporations will no longer be citizens.

  20. Re:Yeah! on Working Hard? · · Score: 1

    You can just hire someone to spend your money for you, unemployment goes down.

    Nevermind... we already have the government doing that for us.

  21. Re:HEY YOU! on Working Hard? · · Score: 4, Funny

    WORK HARDER! Millions on welfare are depending on YOU!

    I didn't know there were that many corporations.

  22. Re:Why are we so surprized? on Incas Used Binary? · · Score: 1

    They're only supposed to watch and record, but sometimes they get a little out of hand and next thing you know they're making the Jews follow a "pillar or fire" around in the desert for 40 years or some rookie fogets to charge the transport before leaving and gets stranded in Sumeria for a few years and has to recharge the damn thing somehow.

  23. Re:Not unique on Incas Used Binary? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The cover of the MySQL book by New Riders has a picture of Mayan ruins.

    How weird is that?

  24. Re:And the point is...? on Philips Introduces Mirror TV · · Score: 1

    I bet the TV would last longer than a Saturn.

  25. Re:42? on 42-Volt Autos · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But he got a blowjob.