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  1. Re:if nader runs on Ralph Nader Might Announce Run For President · · Score: 1

    You are supposed to vote for the candidate you wish to win, not the candidate that you think others will pick that you would be able to tolerate. You and those that do the same are missing the entire point of voting.

    Granted http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting/ would take care of that problem. But I don't think Republicans would ever win under those circumstances.

  2. Re:Nader is an agent of change. on Ralph Nader Might Announce Run For President · · Score: 1

    You know, this was moderated troll, but it is really on target.

  3. Re:How many times? on Ralph Nader Might Announce Run For President · · Score: 1

    How is it late in the running? There has been a bunch of pomp and circumstance surrounding the primaries this year, but don't forget that the REAL election has not even started.

  4. Re:Dear God on DHS Official Suggests REAL ID Mission Creep · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but that isn't true. It may me legally true, but I cannot buy anything anywhere even containing pseudoephedrine without signing something.

    What's a bigger scandal to me is that the replacement, phenylephrine, doesn't do shit but is still being sold to people, and the difference is being intentionally obscured.

  5. Re:digg? on Top 10 Most Memorable Tech Super Bowl Ads · · Score: 1

    I suppose by vocal, you mean retarded.

  6. Re:But why on KDE Goes Cross-Platform, Supports Windows and OS X · · Score: 1

    Sorry, that's GNOME. Nice try though. :)

  7. Re:Why power down? on Do Any Companies Power Down at Night? · · Score: 1

    Not to mention hot chicks. I'm up to my ass in hot chicks just because I like to conserve energy and not fuck up the environment for other people. Who'd have thought?

  8. Re:Do you support wake-on-lan? on Do Any Companies Power Down at Night? · · Score: 1

    Had you heard that Ron Paul is anti net neutrality?

  9. Re:Are they insane? on Google To Offer Free Database Storage for Scientists · · Score: 2, Informative

    I like my job, I'm a sysadmin, I'm on call right now, and I'm a committee chair for my union. Guess you don't know everything.

  10. Re:My aren't you blowing high and mighty on Microsoft Will Stream Ads To Grocery Carts · · Score: 1

    This is not strictly true. I shop for gasoline (when I buy it -- once every other month at this point) on price and brand. The reasons I look at brand are A) I /refuse/ to buy gasoline from ExxonMobil unless I am in danger of running out of fuel (and with a little planning, one never is) and B) generally some gas stations, like Delta or RaceWay tend to be cheaper. If I see a RaceWay with no other station around, I can generally expect that that's probably a fair price for gas. As I said, I drive so infrequently that I seldom buy fuel, and I really don't know what a good price for gas is anymore without looking for discount carriers.

    Does that mean advertising worked? I'm not so sure about that -- I choose based on my own personal criteria. If I noticed that Delta became more expensive than Citgo, I'd probably go to Citgo instead. And yes, Citgo's politics are a positive in my opinion, not a negative.

  11. Re:Reasonable to think they weren't drinking? on Facebook Photos Land Eden Prairie Kids in Trouble · · Score: 1

    Reasonable doubt, if I'm not mistaken, means that no reasonable person would have any doubt. A reasonable person would have almost no doubt, but there would be some.

  12. Re:Don't they have anything better to do? on Facebook Photos Land Eden Prairie Kids in Trouble · · Score: 1

    That's not proof. I know it's unlikely, but unlikely is not how the law works.

  13. Re:apple on Innovative Designs and Devices · · Score: 1

    On a somewhat related note, I'd heard that Apple DOES want to set up a record label. If that were true, that would be a problem.

  14. Re:Hardware vendor lock-in on Is Apple Killing Linux on the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Which at this point is damn near anything.

  15. Hardware vendor lock-in on Is Apple Killing Linux on the Desktop? · · Score: 0

    Linux runs on all hardware by design. Mac OS X doesn't.

    Apple hardware is significantly more expensive (I spec'd one about a year ago).

  16. Re:Galaxy or Banana Blitz? on DS Games To Be Downloadable to the Wii · · Score: 1

    I recently bought a Samsung DVD player that surprised me in that it can play AVI's encoded in DivX format. I have a bunch of those from college time.

  17. Re:F40PH Factor on Where Linux Gained Ground in 2007 · · Score: 1
  18. Re:That would be me on Gen Y Hits the Library the Most -- But Not For Books · · Score: 1

    Mine is that I most often get books in the airport and there are no libraries in the airport (though the bookstore I went to last time in RSW -- Paradise? Something like that -- is willing to buy them back for half price within six months ). Another was is a book given as a gift. I suppose they could give you a book they took out from the library also and it would have the same effect, but I bet that'd be looked at funny.

    But yes, you're otherwise correct.

  19. Re:NASA's mission on NASA Releases Cryptic Airline Safety Data · · Score: 1

    You must be new here.

  20. Re:This is not new . . . on The World's Cheapest Car Set To Launch · · Score: 1

    In fact, my parents had friends who owned a white one that I rode in many times. They're the only people I know of, though.

  21. Re:Meh. on Dell's Linux, IT Re-Invention · · Score: 1

    Well, we just got a shipment of 1708's and 1908's, so we're not looking back.

    I personally got a 198WFP, I think is the model number. Something like that. Not very happy with it.

  22. Re:Meh. on Dell's Linux, IT Re-Invention · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What's interesting is that I have about 75 GX270's and I don't know about more than a couple that have had motherboards fail. I have had trouble with the USB ports on mine twice now, though... is that the problem we're talking about, or are we talking no-boot?

    Contrast that with the M782 monitors, though, where we had damn near every single one we ordered fail. The "new" ones that come back are clearly not new, either, as they arrive with inconsistent displays (bad convergence on only one side, etc).

  23. Re:OLPC is tanking on Microsoft Wants OLPC System to Run Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Also a type of Dodge Neon, if I'm not mistaken.

  24. Re:OLPC is tanking on Microsoft Wants OLPC System to Run Windows XP · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Schoolbooks do NOT have a lifespan measured in centuries. USSR or Yugoslavia, anyone?

  25. Re:Not to troll, but what do they expect for retur on Wal-Mart's $200 Linux PC Sells Out · · Score: 1

    I come from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford,_New_Jersey -- it's not really the same situation though. It IS bigger, and it's 20 mins outside of NYC.

    I don't live there now though. In that area, however, it wasn't Wal*Mart, it was malls with other stores (JC Penney, etc.)

    Some of it is about choice though. Does one really NEED 15-16 choices? In a smaller store, too, sometimes it doesn't take much to get them to buy something you need that they don't sell.

    The hours are a real problem though. I now live in Newark, NJ and most things close at 6. It makes it HARD to get there, but not impossible. On a lot of days, though, it doesn't happen. There really should be some sort of subsidy for staying open late as a small business in a slow area or something... I dunno what the solution is.