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  1. Re:Sounds like a headache on US Contemplating 'Vehicle Miles Traveled' Tax · · Score: 1

    Urban sprawl is your project, eh? Awesome.

  2. Re:Sounds like a headache on US Contemplating 'Vehicle Miles Traveled' Tax · · Score: 1

    I am very much willing to bet that that's not correct.

  3. Re:Sounds like a headache on US Contemplating 'Vehicle Miles Traveled' Tax · · Score: 1

    I call bullshit on the heating and cooling costs. Apartment life is much more energy efficient for heating and cooling.

    And the rest of it? Really, stop bitching.

  4. Re:Sounds like a headache on US Contemplating 'Vehicle Miles Traveled' Tax · · Score: 1

    Most people for whom transit is not reasonable moved to the wrong place.

  5. Re:Sounds like a headache on US Contemplating 'Vehicle Miles Traveled' Tax · · Score: 2

    That's complete bullshit, unsupportable, and backwards.

  6. Re:Sounds like a headache on US Contemplating 'Vehicle Miles Traveled' Tax · · Score: 1

    And you'd drive in a major city why?

  7. Re:Sounds like a headache on US Contemplating 'Vehicle Miles Traveled' Tax · · Score: 1

    So if you don't want to live like "sardines in a can," which is not what living in an apartment is, but whatever... then you should have to bear the extra costs associated with living a more environmentally damaging lifestyle. Too bad we long ago decided to subsidize suburbia and exurbia.

  8. Re:Sounds like a headache on US Contemplating 'Vehicle Miles Traveled' Tax · · Score: 1

    I can choose not to drive on the roads. I can choose to buy locally sourced foods. I cannot choose to not get sick, in many cases.

  9. Re:Sounds like a headache on US Contemplating 'Vehicle Miles Traveled' Tax · · Score: 1

    Oh, yeah, totally. We're about to get invaded ANY SECOND now, right?

  10. Re:Sounds like a headache on US Contemplating 'Vehicle Miles Traveled' Tax · · Score: 1

    So it's all or nothing? A lot of the pollution comes from food transit too, which theoretically a tax on the use of fuel would punish as well.

  11. Re:Sounds like a headache on US Contemplating 'Vehicle Miles Traveled' Tax · · Score: 1

    ...can't afford the big god damn house they want near where they work, is really what I think you normally mean.

  12. Checkpoints on Google Won't Pull Checkpoint Evasion App · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I find checkpoints annoying, and I don't drink and drive. Seems to me if I want to know how to avoid them, I should be able.

  13. Unbelievable! on Is the Business Card Dead? · · Score: 1

    I can't believe Bryce prefers Van Patten's business card to mine. :(

  14. Re:Considering ..... on Japan Battles Partial Nuclear Meltdown · · Score: 1

    Don't think that might have anything to do with money instead, eh?

  15. Re:What's going on? on Ubuntu: Where Did the Love Go? · · Score: 1

    Penalties for crack are much worse than penalties for other types of cocaine, for example. This isn't exactly what GP said, but you get the idea. So black folks disproportionately end up in jail often because of prejudiced juries, but they stay there because of penalties.

  16. Re:Only 1 in 10? on 10% of IT Pros Can Access Previous Jobs' Accounts · · Score: 2

    This was one of our IT assistant director's ideas. I was uncomfortable about it from moment 1, but I did as asked. Someone about a year later looked at me like I was crazy when I said that that's what happened and told me to disable the account immediately.

    I don't know why I'd want a former employee logging in, ever.

  17. Re:emacs on Common Traits of the Veteran Unix Admin · · Score: 1

    I preferred it when I was learning on IRIX in high school. The sysadmin there had me do a Solaris 2.5.1 install and told me to try to edit some files after it came up, and quickly I saw why any allegiance to pico was a problem. Nowadays I'm flustered if it comes up by accident (oddly enough, some versions of Linux appear to have EDITOR=nano).

  18. Re:Just describes a bad Unix admin on Common Traits of the Veteran Unix Admin · · Score: 1

    What about those methods are old and crappy exactly?

  19. Re:Veteran Unix Admin? More like wanna-be on Common Traits of the Veteran Unix Admin · · Score: 1

    The HP N4000 we had was about 20 mins to reboot. I generally discovered that when I was not careful with focus-follows-mouse.

  20. Re:You're not an admin. on Common Traits of the Veteran Unix Admin · · Score: 1

    Don't feel bad. I have a relatively low ID and I'm not yet 30.

  21. Re:Rebooting on Common Traits of the Veteran Unix Admin · · Score: 1

    Hasn't anyone else ever heard of wakeonlan?

  22. Re:I would say sun is done on Post-Oracle Purchase, How Is Sun's Software Doing? · · Score: 1

    I think that you can access the console before you have the software installed too. I haven't read up too closely.

  23. Re:I would say sun is done on Post-Oracle Purchase, How Is Sun's Software Doing? · · Score: 1

    I recently worked with a server that has one, though I couldn't tell you what model. OpenManage is the software that installs on the OS to configure the LOM.

  24. Re:I may have been one of the first players on Oregon Trail — How 3 Minnesotans Forged Its Path · · Score: 1

    I'm not trying to be a grammar nazi here... but does anyone know if that's the proper use of the word digress? I've never seen it used that way before and was thrown.

  25. Re:I may have been one of the first players on Oregon Trail — How 3 Minnesotans Forged Its Path · · Score: 1

    Most people played the Apple II version, I would figure. It's in the article that way as well.