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  1. Re:Good luck... on Aussie Speed Cameras in Doubt Because of MD5 · · Score: 1

    And may I point out that weaving is ordinarily caused by other idiot drivers (*cough* New York *cough*) sitting in lanes that are inappropriate for their current speed (ie. 50 in the fast lane) and refusing to move over. If everyone kept right except to pass, highways would be a lot more efficient.

  2. Re:I cannae see shit, cap'n! on Moody Non-Photo-Realistic Driving · · Score: 1

    What was the project?

    % /usr/demos/bin/bzfs &
    % /usr/demos/bin/bzflag ...unless you wrote bzflag... in which case, I enjoyed doing the same with your particular piece of software when I was in HS.

  3. Re:is HTML really necessary on Sanely Moving from Word to the Web? · · Score: 1

    Unless there is a good way to lock PDF's, you could certainly edit it with any number of programs. Few things, short of paper, are truly uneditable.

  4. Re:is HTML really necessary on Sanely Moving from Word to the Web? · · Score: 1

    What speed machine? I bet it's a four digit number. None of my machines are -- there are few things I need that kind of speed for. PDF shouldn't be one of them.

  5. Re:is HTML really necessary on Sanely Moving from Word to the Web? · · Score: 1

    PDF is often irritating to use for certain applications, and for me is a turn off (load time for Adobe). When putting up my resume I had the same issue, as I wished to provide it in HTML as a third option (HTML, Word, PDF).

  6. Try this... on When Should You Buy Your Kid A Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Buy them them the laptop bag first. If they still have it in 4 weeks, put a laptop in it.

  7. Re:You know... on March of the Penguins Tops Box Offices · · Score: 1

    Adios Anonymous Coward. Funny how someone who's got time to be such a wiseass doesn't have time to register for an account or stand behind his comments.

    You are the only one who has been bringing partisan politics into this, spouting "you Democrats" (incorrect) every chance you got, and the only one who has insisted on being childish and calling names at every step of the juncture. You try to support claims against someone with a just-as-biased Rebublican shill "public interest" group.

    You continue to put words in my mouth. I did not say I stick blindly to my point of view, I said that I do not get my information from bullshit artists.

    People like me do not start oil wars of give no bid contracts to my friends.

  8. Re:You know... on March of the Penguins Tops Box Offices · · Score: 1
    The first of the two articles I referred to includes links so all you have to do is click to "do the research". How much easier could anyone make it for you? Some things you have to do for yourself if you are going to be taken seriously (sorry but there's no chance of that happening now I'm afraid).


    Yeah, and sometimes when you're at work, you don't have the time to click on 50 links and cross-reference them all to see if they're correct. Plenty of people cite all sorts of shit
    (think Ann Coulter) and publish all sorts of shit that isn't true -- clearly after while you get a nose for that kind of things. I don't tend to go to the tabacco lobby for my lung cancer info, however thorough research they may have available one click away from their main site. Doing the research involves coming up with unbiased third parties, not just finding a page, clicking all of the links and calling yourself informed.

    I apologize for "being a snot" but I am not pleased to have been wasting my time writing to someone who can't be bothered to click on a link or two to either learn something or to have a proper rebuttal.


    If your time is so valuable, go do something worthwhile with it. Don't attempt to blame me for wasting your time. If you bothered to read the entire first site, you clearly don't value your time that much.
  9. Re:Shouldn't this already be a problem? on Extra Daylight Savings May Confuse the Gadgets · · Score: 1

    You can turn it off. Not having it is easy. Moving it is not.

  10. Re:NASA is afraid of... FLUFFY, FLUFFY CLOUDS !!! on Shuttle Delayed Due to Cloudy Skies · · Score: 1

    Also humidity. It came up WRT the tanks and icing. However, the tanks, AFAIK, have to drop into water... it's a decent place to launch from for that reason.

  11. Re:Gimmicks? on A Buyer's Guide to Inkjet Printers · · Score: 1

    Not only that, there are expensive fuser and imaging drum repairs. The inkjets have basically paper feed and printhead arm. Those things don't tend to need replacement.

  12. Re:You know... on March of the Penguins Tops Box Offices · · Score: 1

    That is very true. By their own admission, they look to bring Judeo-Christian morality to the world policy scene. Frankly, these are not the people I go to for information on such matters. I'm looking at their OWN mission statement. I do not have a proper rebuttal, since I do not know and do not have the time to do the research. However, I do know whose research I would accept on the whole as credible, and that of the EPPC is not among them.

    As for the second part, I didn't need definitions of the word. I'm sure you knew that. What I needed was to know in WHAT WAY were the "terrorists" "promoting" the film, and in what was should the corporation have refused whatever "assistance" this was. You clearly don't know, so have resorted to being a snot and defining words for me.

  13. Re:Gimmicks? on A Buyer's Guide to Inkjet Printers · · Score: 1

    I can ordinarily repair the ink carts that haven't been used in awhile with hot water...

    Color lasers do produce sketchy photos too... there is too much shine in some places and not enough in others.

  14. Re:You know... on March of the Penguins Tops Box Offices · · Score: 1

    "NOT the incompetent evil genius (sic) they are trying to paint him as."

    Incidentally, where is the error that necessitated the "(sic)?"

  15. Re:You know... on March of the Penguins Tops Box Offices · · Score: 1

    I didn't say I didn't like them, I said that their motives and credibility are suspect because they are one of those bullshit "non-partisan" groups that is in the pocket of the administration. It is very difficult to get honest information out of a group like that.

    As for the second part... what if I were to start "promoting" the movie. "Accepting the assistance" means what, exactly? Not telling them to cease and desist? Who cares?

  16. Re:Gimmicks? on A Buyer's Guide to Inkjet Printers · · Score: 1

    My last inkjet was free (someone thought it was broken), and I don't replace ink more than maybe once or twice a year. It's been a pretty cheap investment for me. Color laser carts are not cheap either.

  17. Re:Not #2 yet, and no chance for #1 on March of the Penguins Tops Box Offices · · Score: 1

    It's kinda hard to not be depressed in a world that is shaping up like this one. "Ignorance is bliss," eh mate?

  18. Re:You know... on March of the Penguins Tops Box Offices · · Score: 1

    Oh please. Let's go for the first link:

    "The Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) was established in 1976 to clarify and reinforce the bond between the Judeo-Christian moral tradition and the public debate over domestic and foreign policy issues. Its program includes research, writing, publication, and conferences." ...this is who we're going to to debunk the movie? Let's try someone who isn't biased and based on the "moral tradition" that Bush was supposed to be returning us to.

    From the second article:

    "Terrorists Support Fahrenheit

    Deceit 59

    As reported in the trade journal Screen Daily, affiliates of the Iranian and Syrian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah are promoting Fahrenheit 9/11, and Moore's Middle East distributor, Front Row, is accepting the terrorist assistance:

            In terms of marketing the film, Front Row is getting a boost from organizations related to Hezbollah which have rung up from Lebanon to ask if there is anything they can do to support the film. And although [Front Row's Managing Director Gianluca] Chacra says he and his company feel strongly that Fahrenheit is not anti-American, but anti-Bush, "we can't go against these organizations as they could strongly boycott the film in Lebanon and Syria." ...what an idiotic assertion. "The terrorists like his movie." So what? I'm pretty sure a few of them would have liked Total Recall too, but that doesn't have much to do with the movie's content.

  19. Re:And the best part... on March of the Penguins Tops Box Offices · · Score: 1

    The point, and I can repeat it for you since you don't appear to have read it, is that people argue that it is NOT NATURAL. Clearly it is. I think this also argues that it is likely innate. I doubt severely that these penguins decided it was chic to be gay.

  20. Re:Heat Tiles and the Filler Material? on Shuttle Delayed Due to Cloudy Skies · · Score: 1

    Apparently the gap fillers are for takeoff, I believe to keep the tiles from ramming one another and cracking. I thought the same thing at first, but apparently they are not needed for landing or they'd just fix them and that'd be that.

  21. Re:Look on the bright side on Shuttle Delayed Due to Cloudy Skies · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't see how this is off-topic at all. Off-COLOR maybe, but not off-topic.

  22. Re:Better safe than sorry on Shuttle Delayed Due to Cloudy Skies · · Score: 1

    One problem is there is no second chance, which actually makes it kinda surprising that there has never been a landing problem. No chance to go 'round for another shot.

  23. Re:Shoulda gone Canadian on Shuttle Delayed Due to Cloudy Skies · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually, chalk one up to the engineers who designed the plane so that people could get out twice as fast enough, considering only half the exits worked. ;)

    Realistically, in most of the major crashes, quite a few extra "exits" are created by the crash.

  24. Re:Gimmicks? on A Buyer's Guide to Inkjet Printers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What are you going to buy for a color printer if not an inkjet? I can't afford to blow that much on a color laser.

  25. Re:Radical Islam and Deterrence on Terrorists Move to Cyberspace · · Score: 1

    Hey, Britain was in on that too so they deserve a fair amount of the credit for that also.

    The problem with the "if he was a terrorist, they'd have been praised," is that it never seems to actually be a terrorist.

    Plus, I have a thing about people standing trial.