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  1. Re:Its OK though on EU May Allow US To Keep Snooping On European Bank Data · · Score: 1

    Don't be naive. The underground economy worldwide moves billions every year. Where do you think the money financing drug, weapons, etc. comes from?

    US citizens shouldn't be affraid of their own government, normally that government should protect its citizens from big business and maffia. unfortunatly, through centuries of scaremongering, and bickering about protection from its government, US government is fallen into the hands of said big business and maffia.

  2. Re:Everything works for me on Gaming On Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    XP

    HAH! 2000 is still working fine ...

  3. Re:Dirigible. on The Rocky Road To Wind Power · · Score: 2, Informative

    not strong enough. the weight of a small 2-MW turbine-nacelle : 60 tonnes.
    http://ecogeneration.com.au/news/repowering_turbine_technology/00337/

  4. Re:i have entire 1993 CD-R spindle on Up To 10% of CD-Rs Fail Within a Few Years · · Score: 1

    more with increased write speed

    I have the same experience. I copied my original music CD's for use in my car, and the first few batches broke rather quickly, but when I switched to lower write speed(X4 on a X10 writer I think it was), things improved drastically.

  5. Re:Problem with wind and solar? on Expanding the Electricity Grid May Be a Mistake · · Score: 1

    WHOOSH to all off you. the impact of building windmills on the weather is FAR outweighed by anything else we have build. And shouldn't we also tear down all mountains then? In fact, the ONLY way wind returns its energy to anything else is through drag of anything on the surface of the planet. Wind exists as a result of thermal convection due to the sun radiating on us. if wind wouldn't have drag on the surface ...

  6. Re:Carbon sequestering is all fine on Expanding the Electricity Grid May Be a Mistake · · Score: 1

    that's the first intelligent post here.

  7. Re:Problem with wind and solar? on Expanding the Electricity Grid May Be a Mistake · · Score: 3, Insightful

    yeah, like building 1 billion houses has no impact. or demolishing 10 billion trees.

  8. Re:If you don't want it indexed, then either on EU Publishers Want a Law To Control Online News · · Score: 1

    actually, i meant : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_informationperfect information, not total information.
    also see : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics#Criticism_of_assumptions

    Nevertheless, prominent mainstream economists such as Keynes[157] and Joskow, along with heterodox economists, have observed that much of economics is conceptual rather than quantitative, and difficult to model and formalize quantitatively.

  9. Re:If you don't want it indexed, then either on EU Publishers Want a Law To Control Online News · · Score: 1

    it's a sound theory

    Economic theory is a bunch of inapplicable hogwash, because it is also based on the assumption : total information available to all players.

  10. Re:who uses it anyway? on Hands-On Preview of Microsoft Office 2010 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    me neither.
    office 97 had enough features already. the bloat continues ever forward.

  11. Re:Wireless? You've already ruled me out on Best Mouse For Programming? · · Score: 1

    WHOOSH

  12. Re:Exactly on Best Mouse For Programming? · · Score: 1

    bad luck, my MX510 is still going strong after 3? 4? 5? years.

  13. Re:Ames Research Center.... on US Offering $45M For Huge Wind Energy Test Bed · · Score: 1

    from http://oea.larc.nasa.gov/PAIS/WindTunnel.html :

    The largest wind tunnel in the world is at NASA's Ames Research Center. This subsonic tunnel, which can test planes with wing spans of up to 100 feet, is over 1,400 feet long and 180 feet high. It has two test sections: one 80 feet high and 120 feet wide, the other 40 feet high and 80 feet wide. Air is driven through these test sections by six 15-bladed fans. Each fan has a diameter equal to the height of a four-story build

    windturbines currently being deployed have blades of over 60 meters (200 feet, so a diameter of 400 feet) how are you going to fit them into those tunnels ?

  14. Re:Here's a thought... on Bike Projector Makes Lane For Rider · · Score: 1

    I do however ride a fair distance from the curb when the lane is narrow. The problem with riding close to the curb is that doing so will give impatient motorists the incorrect impression tha

    hear hear! I do the same thing. I woul like to add to that : if you're already close to the curb, you don't have any space left to evade - very necessary.

  15. Re:i'm a bit startled... on Standard Cellphone Chargers For Europeans · · Score: 1

    What happened?

    the banking crisis: now 'mericans can see the good of market regulation.

  16. Re:Thanks EU regulation on Standard Cellphone Chargers For Europeans · · Score: 1

    finally a step in the right direction : countries telling companies what to do, not the other way around.

  17. Re:Thanks EU regulation on Standard Cellphone Chargers For Europeans · · Score: 1

    the reason for this : consumers are much less powerful than the corporations; pricing is approaching zero elasticity due to this.

  18. Re:Thanks EU regulation on Standard Cellphone Chargers For Europeans · · Score: 1

    Voting with your wallet only works

    There is not much you can vote on with your wallet. It is a fable for gullible fools aka consumers.

  19. Re:So what's it gonna be? on Standard Cellphone Chargers For Europeans · · Score: 1

    it's the American way!

    lead the path, we europeans will follow !

  20. Re:What languages? on Emigrating To a Freer Country? · · Score: 1

    yup, the UK has done it's job well of destroying the UNION's ability to become a democracy.

  21. Re:What languages? on Emigrating To a Freer Country? · · Score: 1

    in my opinion, it's not the fault of the EU, but of the newspapers. they should report more on europe, in stead of just shouting at it, after all: the people working in the parliament are elected just as the national parliaments are elected.

  22. Re:What languages? on Emigrating To a Freer Country? · · Score: 1

    Then again, a lot of the anti-freedom crap is coming from EU....

    please elaborate.

  23. Re:Err.. on Harvard Study Says Weak Copyright Benefits Society · · Score: 3, Insightful
  24. One Word. on English Market Produces Energy With Kinetic Plates · · Score: 1

    Greenwash

  25. Re:Google to the rescue? on How To Manage Hundreds of Thousands of Documents? · · Score: 1

    Capitalize the first letter of every word in a name.

    why? caps don't add value.