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  1. Re:This is why ethanol in the US won't work. on Are Biofuels Still Economically Feasible? · · Score: 1

    I'm Canadian. Have a good look at what we have to do to extract oil from tar sands - it's a disgusting disgrace - and a huge waste of water.

    Until a better process comes along to separate oil from sand, the tar sands should stay in the ground.

  2. Re:good luck getting support on Chinese Automaker Unveils First Electric Car · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What's so hard about supporting an electric car?
    Changing wires? Replacing batteries? How about we make the Big Three assist the nimbler domestic startups.
    They've shown that their size has been a liability when it comes to change.
    If they want public funds, they should be serving the best interests of the public - and, increasingly that means GOING green, not play-acting green.

  3. What's wrong with you people? on Chinese Automaker Unveils First Electric Car · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have yet to see a serious, insightful post about this story. A little googling turned up pics and data although I confess that I don't know what
    16 kwh / 100 KM works out to in MPG.

    The pictures I saw of the car look pretty nice. Congrats to the Chinese - if this turns out to be a quality vehicle, it may force the Big Three stragglers to dump some of their guzzlers and give
    us clean, efficient vehicles we can depend on

  4. Re:Saline pushes for larger on HP Pushes Open Source For Small Businesses · · Score: 1

    Hey, AC, i think you've injected too much saline into your "brains" if you're complaining about the moderation of the grandparent post.

  5. Re:What, again? on HP Pushes Open Source For Small Businesses · · Score: 1

    I hope that they are better than their Windows one.
    Those damn Brother MFC drivers are a pain and their USB serial emulation used to prevent Windows from going into Standby

  6. Re:China is one of the 5 nuclear powers. on Has HavenCo's Data Haven Shut Down? · · Score: 1

    China has the cash to buy whatever the fuck they'd need - and arms dealers have no consciences.

  7. Re:The answer is on Unix Dict/grep Solves Left-Side-of-Keyboard Puzzle · · Score: 1

    As was pointed out, stewardesses could then be disqualified because it's the plural form.

  8. Re:ok, so help me out here on CRTC Rules Bell Can Squeeze Downloads · · Score: 1

    Good question. I'd used Emule obfuscation some a good while back to get around Rogers throttling.
    I suspect they might try throttling it by total number of connections ( per second? ) for all encrypted streams - that will probably bugger some
    VPN connections, I would think

  9. Re:A Nice Mashup on Science's Alternative To an Intelligent Creator · · Score: 1

    Do tell, oh Anonymous COWARD

  10. Re:The 'new' James T. Kirk better nail EVERYBODY! on New Star Trek Trailer · · Score: 1

    Timothy Dalton was the biggest change wrt to classic womanizing Bond although the pendulum did swing back when Pierce took the reins.

    Daniel Craig is the most complex Bond to date and the most believable ass-kicker of the lot. Althought, the fight on the train between Connery and Robert Shaw ( From Russia with Love ) is perhaps still my favorite after all these decades.

  11. Re:No sense... on Online Carpooling Service Fined In Canada · · Score: 1

    I hope that you are making an apples to apples comparison. A government ( or corporation) might be getting 1000s of small projects right and really messing up a few big ones that collectively may be worth or cost more than the thousands they get right.

  12. Re:Two words on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    Al Qaeda's 9/11 plans all came into existence in February 2001?

      Jeez, get one ugly woman to suck your dick and everyone forgets all the good you tried to do.
    Keep in mind that his efforts were blocked by Republicans and they delivered a much-watered down version of the initial bill

    http://www.cnn.com/US/9604/18/anti.terror.bill/index.html

  13. Re:Two words on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    Clinton left office with the economy is great shape.
    And he did go after terrorists.
    What's your beef with Bill? ( Ok, aside from lousy taste in interns )

  14. Re:Free Is Good, But Quality Is Lacking on Theora 1.0 Released, Supported By Firefox · · Score: 1

      Look how long it took to get Theora 1.0 released. Better to release something
    and ship an improved version later.

  15. Re:Only traitors will vote for Oook-oook Banana on Air Force To Rewrite the Rules of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Really? Thank you. I'll see if I can find a copy.

  16. Re:Only traitors will vote for Oook-oook Banana on Air Force To Rewrite the Rules of the Internet · · Score: 0

    Wow, you have no shortage of either venom or free time. So, if you're proven wrong, will you put as
    much effort into a rewrite or retraction?

  17. Re:Just the speed of reaction on Brains Work Best At Age of 39 · · Score: 1

    That's a really bad paraphrase of an old maxim:
    "New brooms sweep clean, but old ones know the corners"

  18. If true, how do you explain mathematicians? on Brains Work Best At Age of 39 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Historically, their most significant work is done before age 30.

  19. Re:Noise on Brains Work Best At Age of 39 · · Score: 1

    I'm 44 also. The biggest change I've noticed is that I'm a LOT worse at remembering names and I have a lot more "tip of my tongue" episodes compared to 5-10 years ago.
    I did notice a dramatic worsening of my short-term memory after being knocked briefly unconscious by a car in my late teens but was otherwise fine.

  20. Re:In order to counterpoint you: on ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone" · · Score: 1

    No to mention, pushing a police officer is assault.
    That'll get you a lot more than a dog sniff - you'll find your ass in lockup and, under the new "Freedom" rules, you could be there for a while.

  21. Re:In order to counterpoint you: on ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone" · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? Is there a database of police dogs and their false-positive alerts?
    Is an individual entitled to know this before allowing a dog to sniff his vehicle?

    The only thing you can do is fight it in court, which takes time and a lot of money. And, while you might win, unless the laws are overturned, it can happen again and again.
    Oh and guess what - you're now in their database, almost definitely flagged as a "problem individual".
    I almost 100% certain you'll never have a stress-free border crossing ever again - and you'd better move outside the 100-mile zone.

  22. Re:You'd need a LOT more plugs than gas pumps. on Australia Developing Massive Electric Vehicle Grid · · Score: 1

    Having heard recently of the potential benefits of high-voltage DC lines, I wonder if ConEd may not have made a small mistake.

  23. Re:Fist Prose on President Signs Law Creating Copyright Czar · · Score: 1

    Noriega was a scumbag as are the Taliban and Osama
    bin Laden but the US has seen fit for a very long time to support scumbags when it suited their purposes.

    Capitol Hill is full of bible thumpers who apparently never bothered to read the Book of Hosea - "For they have sown the wind, and shall reap the whirlwind"

  24. Re:Wow.... $170 is cheap? on Getting Away With a Cheap Graphics Card · · Score: 1

    How did this get +5 Insightful? C'mon, people be a little discriminating

  25. Re:Firefox's bottleneck isn't JS on Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM_improvements_in_Firefox_3

    It seems they have been focusing on extending the DOM support but TraceMonkey will eventually be used to enhance FF's DOM performance

    (Excerpt from this page: http://ejohn.org/blog/tracemonkey/)

    Right now there isn't any tracing being done into DOM methods (only across pure-JavaScript objects) - but that is something that will be rectified. Being able to trace through a DOM method would successfully speed up, not only, math and object-intensive applications (as it does now) but also regular DOM manipulation and property access.