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  1. Re:What! GM backing cheap fuel! on Startup Claims to Make $1/Gallon Ethanol · · Score: 1

    I don't know the merits of this particular deal, but it never made sense to me that "car makers" really cared one way or the other about the fuel costs (and the SUV craze has borne that out...)
    They'll make anything that sells. Consumers do not care about gas prices, or rather, can live with higher gas prices in order to have their big cars. The SUV format is the government's fault when they tried to regulate fuel consumption.
    Notice how small cars are the norm in Europe, Latin America and Asia (consumer preference)

  2. Re: America's education system on OLPC To Be Distributed To US Students · · Score: 1

    You should reevaluate then the whole issue of public education. It is bad in Mexico as well as in the U.S. Why? Because it is public, and because there is no stimulus for improvement, because it is hampered by government intervention, and by a drive to equalize our children.

    Public school is worse than the private stuff everywhere.

    Disclaimer: I have lived in Mexico and Venezuela my whole life.

  3. IP is not really property on Only 2 in 500 College Students Believe in IP · · Score: 1

    Read Stephan Kinsella's essay: Against Intellectual Property

  4. Re:MOD PARENT UP on Presidential Candidates and Online Privacy · · Score: 1

    No, he makes the reasonable assumption that some bureocrat does NOT know better than you. If government screws up, they don't go out of business.

    There would be private, optional certification for drugs, with actual legal accountability, competitions and responsibility. In the same way that you do not trust your judgement to diagnose yourself or to give yourself legal advice, you would get help from a brand name, an independent quality asessment firm, or any other provision originated in the market.

  5. Re:Hey, English in the USA is doomed on The World's Languages Are Fast Becoming Extinct · · Score: 1

    Sí señor!

  6. Re:Technology doesn't matter in the long run... on Can Open Source Give Comfort To the Enemy? · · Score: 1
    If you have an "enemy" that doesn't play by your rules, and out breeds you, you will lose in the long run. Eventually they will simply out number you, and maybe even just "vote you out", without a shot fired.

    Greetings to London, there!

  7. Re:Faster than a speeding bullet? on NASA Finds Star With a Tail · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How many football fields would 13 light-years be?

  8. Re:Cool! on Chinese Pirates Copy iPhone, Make Improvements · · Score: 1

    Going in the same trend:

    Fascism == Communism == Socialism == Totalitarian State

    The political implications of trying to impose a plan on everyone is a totalitarian state. It is the only way it can be done.

    Social Democracy == watered-down Socialism == PITA Regulations == High Taxation + Welfare

    None of them brings freedom to the individual.

  9. Re:Good. on No OLPCs for Cuba, Ever · · Score: 1

    Of course you did not meet those who oppose the government, because they're either killed by a firing squad or in jail. If those you met opposed the government, they'd be too scared to tell you anyway. You met those who came to accept their poverty as something not caused by their government, but by "Yankee Imperialism"

    Even if there were no embargo against Cuba, citizens there don't have freedom to produce or exchange goods, do business, or own any means of production (and even a backyard raised pig is considered so). They can only produce as far as they are employed by the Cuban government; and the Cuban government maintains a policy of "austerity", that is, poverty for everyone but party officials. Even if you could buy them, you won't be sold imported goods in government run shops(everything is run by the government), or a cellphone, or use any of the services intended for foreigners only.

    The US may not be the land of the free, but comparing Cuba favorably does not lessen the fact that Cuba is a ruthless communist dictatorship that cares very little about their own citizens.

  10. Re:What's the speed of force? on Matter Discovered Traveling at Near Light Speed · · Score: 1

    The speed of any interaction is slower that the constant c (speed of light in the vacuum) This is one of the consequences of General Relativity.

    Is the sun exploded right now, that earth would start drifting into space ONLY after about eight minutes, which is the time it takes to the sunlight to reach us.

  11. Re:SUPPORT THE GPLV3 NOW on What the GPLv3 Means for MS-Novell Agreement · · Score: 1

    We all know how that episode ends....

  12. Milestone on Software Error Likely Killed MGS Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    So now we can milestone the first paperweight in space...

  13. Re:Hmmm.... on Giant Mexican Telescope Launched · · Score: 1

    Sell it to the japanese...

  14. In related news.. on OpenSourcing Yourself, Are You Ready? · · Score: 3, Funny
    In related news, Steve Ballmer is quoted as saying:

    Open source, my ass!

  15. Re:Python is SLOW on Core Python Programming · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Then dont pretend that Python is an all purpose programming language and admit/accept it for what it really is : An overhyped, scripting language, a better PERL in some aspects if you will.

    It *is* a general purpose programming language. Well, it is as well suited to 3d games programming as C is to a web application; and nobody would dare to say C is not a general purpose programming language.

    I know you said "all purpose programming language", but then again, for that matter no language is "all purpose" (not even all-purpose flours are really that)

    Based on my own experience, I wouldn't say Python is overhyped, and it IS a MUCH MUCH, MUCH better Perl (I used Perl for 2 years, discovered Python and never looked back.)

    You called Python a "scripting language". What newer language or implementation runs on the bare hardware, or the bare OS Libraries, apart from C/C++... let's see: Java? nope, VB? nope any .NET Language? NOPE You see a pattern there?

  16. Re:Study hot life instead on Antarctic Microbes Could Live on Mars · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, that would be interesting. As for the time being, we are marsiforming Terra.

  17. Re:Exact time? on Firefox 2 Launch - Interview With Chris Beard · · Score: 1
    What time is "afternoon" exactly? Is it 12:01 PM - 3:00PM. It sounds very vague.

    Looks like you're vaguely in the U.S.

  18. Mermaids on Irish Company Claims Free Energy · · Score: 1
    I can't wait until I can use this free energy to power my flying car and heat my aquarium of mermaids.

    An aquarium of mermaids is hot per se.

  19. Re:It is real, look out the window on Environmentalists Coming Around to Nuclear Power? · · Score: 1
    Why should we tune the ecosystem to our own benefit, when the planet has gone through things like ice-ages which have only served to refine the life here?

    Cause we are expected to be diligent about becoming the fittest.

  20. Re:Can someone explain this to me? on The 2006 Underhanded C Contest Begins · · Score: 1
    Yes, for instance we could say it is malicious if it wouldn't halt

    That's it. I'm writing a program that will determine that. I'll post the code to /. as soon as it's done.

  21. Re:Get his name right, please on Opera Software Co-Founder Passes Away · · Score: 1

    Funny, we speak of la reina Isabel II.

    Hugo

  22. Re:Good. on President Defends Global Outsourcing · · Score: 1
    While that is true, the inequity would be sharply curbed if you couldn't make money from the labors of others. It would be within an order of magnitude, not six of them or so.

    And if, for some reason, you could not do labor, you'd starve to death.

  23. It's freshperson, you insensitive clod. on Laptops Required for Freshmen · · Score: 1

    It's freshperson, you insensitive clod!

  24. Proof reading!!! on NTP Pool Project Reaches 500 Servers · · Score: 1

    "who's"
    "usefull"

    What's up with you guys? I'm not even a native speaker. You were just a "should of" and an "it's" short of a crap submission.

  25. Re:Imagine, if you will... on Chinese Ban on Wikipedia Prevents Research · · Score: 1

    In Communist China, Wikipedia bans YOU!