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  1. Re:USA against the World? on US Defunds UNESCO After Palestine Vote · · Score: 2

    Really? I guess a group of people that are using something and have done something for political reasons isn't obvious to various people. The law is fine.

  2. Re:USA against the World? on US Defunds UNESCO After Palestine Vote · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Pft.
    The palestians have and regularly trashed historical artifacts belonging to other cultures in the region, they should have never been invited to join it. Canada is looking to defund from it as well, and with good cause.

  3. Re:Small time on How To Rob a Bank: One Social Engineer's Story · · Score: 1

    Funny that. I guess I've never made money in the market by knowing what countries are going to issues a CDS and taking advantage of the forex market either. Oh wait...

  4. Re:They don't care on DHS Stonewalls On Public Comment About Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    Decade huh? Yeah don't let reality stop you or anything. Since Bush actually went through congress and the senate. But just remember that Obama is actually turning around and fully side-stepping both the house and senate to pass laws he wants passed. We call that a banana republic.

  5. Re:Prices are already rising on ASUS Running Out of Hard Disks · · Score: 1

    Sounds about right. The prices I got from ingram and supercom for future nov orders were in the est $200-250 range for november.

  6. Re:I stopped reading the responses after... on The White House Responds To We the People Petition · · Score: 1

    I smoked pot over 10 years ago, and decided that yep. That was enough and quit. I smoked cig's about 12 years ago and decided the same thing. If you can guess which one took nearly 5 years to quit, I'll give you a cookie. Pot in itself isn't as or nearly addictive as anything, you can quit cold turkey. Smoking however? Not a chance in hell. There's mornings I wake up and still go to reach and crave a smoke. I've never craved a joint.

  7. Re:Beh... on Student Loans In America: the Next Big Credit Bubble · · Score: 1

    Zing, and you successfully miss the point. For someone who's supposed to be in their 50's, perhaps you can go back and re-read my post. More slowly.

  8. Beh... on Student Loans In America: the Next Big Credit Bubble · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Maybe people will start picking up responsible majors to cover their schooling costs, but hey who knows. I mean how many MA's in womens studies along with various lgtb stuff? Dime a dozen.

  9. Re:CELEBRATE ENDLESS GODWIN on TSA's VIPR Bites Rail, Bus, and Ferry Passengers · · Score: 1

    Yes! Not only have you broken down in to generalizations about someone you have no clue about(tip: canadian), but you have no idea what you're talking about. The STASI used not only the state but the average person to control, check, and impose control on the population. Including the checks of all personal mail. The information out of the archives gives that 4:5 people worked directly or indirectly for them.

    And sadly the nazi's weren't virulently anti-communist. They were anti-soviet, and that is the difference. Many of the nazi's ideas came directly from the works of marx. You may now carry on with your lack of understanding of not only history, but how far the 'reach' of the STASI was.

  10. Re:If only Apple set up further south... on Apple Building Solar Farm In North Carolina · · Score: 1

    Never happen outside of regular investments by people. Besides we have such a glut of power from nukes, coal, ng and hydro based that we sell 30-50% of it to the US now anyway.

  11. Re:If only Apple set up further south... on Apple Building Solar Farm In North Carolina · · Score: 1

    Yeah these are the same retards in the provincial government that "buy" power back at nearly 80c/KWH to put on the grid from green resources(specifically wind, and solar). And people wonder why the power rates continue to go up in Ontario. Ontario is pretty poor for anything outside of water based power generation. But the environuts don't want that, it might hurt the fish or something.

  12. Re:Police on Anonymous Takes On a Mexican Drug Cartel · · Score: 1

    In mexico, the police are running scared. The gangs are better armed, better equipped, better trained, with people who want to make money at the cost of their lives. It also doesn't help when the cartels string people up from bridges, skinned alive. Generally makes people lose their nerve to fight.

  13. Re:CELEBRATE ENDLESS GODWIN on TSA's VIPR Bites Rail, Bus, and Ferry Passengers · · Score: 1

    The Nazi's didn't, but their sucessors the STATSI did.

  14. Re:Oblig Futurama reference on Cutting Open a Heatsink Heatpipe To See Inside · · Score: 1

    hah.

    Funny enough though, I get the feeling with the current generation of CPU's, we're just about at the end of basic air cooling. Especially since sealed liquid cooling units are becoming dirt cheap. For the price you pay for this one, you can pick up a sealed unit that has half the noise ratio. So if you really want to build a nice quiet system you can.

  15. Re:Small time on How To Rob a Bank: One Social Engineer's Story · · Score: 1

    CDS and cross-ownership of debt. That's how. The same reason why there was a massive implosion of the mortage and banking system in iceland. On average the mortgage there was divested by nearly 60% into other non-standard currencies and debts.

  16. Re:Small time on How To Rob a Bank: One Social Engineer's Story · · Score: 1

    The big criminals are the guy sitting in government. Hate to break the news to you. Banks can only work with the regulations given, or forced on them. Remember that housing bubble and collapse? Did you enjoy the government forcing banks to loan out money to unsafe groups? I bet you did!

  17. Re:It's a gamble... with huge potential rewards on US Funds Aggressive Tech To Cut Solar Power Costs · · Score: 1

    We already know how this should shake out. Giant solar collectors at the north and south pole that beam energy back to earth in the form of microwaves. As it stands now, there's just too many people getting green kickbacks to make it viable.

  18. Re:China black-banned on China Hires 1 Million People To Fight Fake Products · · Score: 1

    No. I'm pretty sure he used black-banned. It is used in a few parts of the world to mark places where products aren't sold. Aussieland, Canada and India use this term.

  19. Re:Coming very soon, world brands from China on China Hires 1 Million People To Fight Fake Products · · Score: 1

    So those chinese cars are the same rolling death traps that we already know and love right? Fatal crashes at 30mph.

  20. Re:recycle the plutonium to NASA on US's Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Being Dismantled · · Score: 1

    Nah the US has this irrational fear of plutonium. Just keep sending it to Canada, we use it as part of our MOX fuel mix for our reactors, so does S.Korea.

  21. Re:It's called data analytics on Mastercard, Visa To Help Target Ads · · Score: 1

    No. Because I don't use social networking sites, and I have adhosts blocked, and use an ad blocker. Hell the only reason why I have a credit card is because I don't feel like dealing with carrying a wad of cash when I'm on the road, and my canadian debit card doesn't work in the US. Well my credit card can be hit or miss too.

  22. Re:Software solutions on Jaguar Recalls 18,000 Cars Over Major Software Fault · · Score: 1

    Right. That's why the most common method of locking a vehicle in cruise without a vacuum or wire system is to lock the throttle actuator, or simply override it in to a 'by wire' system. Since most modern vehicles use by-wire for the gas pedal now, this is the most common way. My bet is that they went out of their way with some backasswards convoluted design to stop the small time mechanics from having an easy way to fix cruise and TPS/MAF systems.

    I'm a big fan of mechanical systems for just this reason. It's pretty hard to screw up TPS based cruise system when you simply 'lock' the setting via the computer.

  23. Re:I saw this last night on Epic Geomagnetic Storm Erupts · · Score: 1

    Kinda funny. I was up in far north canada up until about 2 days ago, I got in around 10pm last night in Ontario, after an 11hr drive. Didn't see squat. While up north people said they saw them occasionally, but nope not while I was there. Not when I got back. Most of the time though, it's either raining or cloudy here when they're up. Ah well maybe there will be slim chance of seeing something tonight but I'm not holding my breath. Good thin I'm heading back up to the far northern wasteland for 10 weeks, I might see something. But knowing my luck, it'll just start snowing and not stop.

  24. Re:Maybe on purpose? on iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Sell Out · · Score: 1

    It explains it just fine. I don't actually know anyone that uses one, not even in my line of work. And the people I work with, make in the 80k-150k range, putting them in the 'upper-middleclass' here in Canada.

  25. Re:Maybe on purpose? on iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Sell Out · · Score: 1

    I don't even own a cell phone, so I realize this is kinda moot. But both Samsung and HP had terrible marketing campaigns where they were already trying to launch a new product into an overly saturated market. This hurts even more in a downturn economy, where people aren't generally buying *OOOH SHINY* rather they're in the paycheque to paycheque.