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  1. Re:9th, 10th, and 14th amendments say ... on SCOTUS Says EPA Can Regulate Carbon · · Score: 1

    And what about corporations ? Shouldn't they have limited power ? Heck, they aren't even chosen by the people.

  2. Re:Important side note on SCOTUS Says EPA Can Regulate Carbon · · Score: 1

    CO2 is only a small contributor to warming, say on the order of burning a candle in a house causes the house to become warmer. We have been doing that to the earth for a long time already. But the analogy isn't complete. The house is insulated very VERY well, to the point that we are able to heat it with a candle.
  3. Re:Relative risk on SCOTUS Says EPA Can Regulate Carbon · · Score: 1

    such as sanitation, have significant environmental costs, Not necessarily. It can be done environmentally friendly. In the long term it's cheaper too.

  4. Re:Watch the movie and learn about IPCC LIES. on SCOTUS Says EPA Can Regulate Carbon · · Score: 1

    yeah, what do 99%(that has grown from 0%) of the scientific world know?

  5. Re:Light != dangerous on X Prize For a 100-MPG Car · · Score: 2, Funny

    the perception that Real Men drive Hummers with gunracks. Sure, but I call that compensation.
  6. Re:It's really "The Courts" on SCOTUS Says EPA Can Regulate Carbon · · Score: 1

    It's time "nerds" take their heads out of their asses. Sorry, it had to be said.

  7. External HD on Better Jukebox Software for Bigger Libraries? · · Score: 1

    Currently I use CD's exclusively, but just now I bought an external HD to put my music on; so i just have to lug that thing to my work and back. Problem is : I want to be sure i could hook it up to a windows and to a ubuntu and have it work both ways. Any tips ?

  8. Re:This is the police. on Widespread Spying Preceded '04 GOP Convention · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, 200 years ago, religion was the method to pull a blanket over your eyes. Now, Nationalism is used in the same way.

  9. Re:Wing Flex on Flying the Airbus A380 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think the wings on every plane do that. If they wouldn't, they would break.

  10. Re:This must change on IT and A National Security Letter Gag Order · · Score: 2, Funny

    Funny ? How the hell could that be funny? It's as serious as cancer.

  11. Re:This must change on IT and A National Security Letter Gag Order · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We should have 140,000 people in jail right now for talking about them, Provided They don't end up as enemy combatants. Oh you say they aren't enemy combatants ? How are you going to prove that ? You're not allowed a trial ! Yeah, vote republican !

  12. Re:Business advice on Strange Bedfellows Fight Ethanol Subsidies · · Score: 1

    We certainly eat enough meat already. Cutting back wouldn't hurt.

  13. Re:abseiling gear? on Caves on Mars? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry ... I thought poster meant paragliding ... Go ahead with abseiling ... it'll be easier than on earth.

  14. abseiling gear? on Caves on Mars? · · Score: 0

    I suggest you mount rocket boosters then ... Mars has a lower gravity; but no atmosphere, so No planes, no choppers, ... only rockets will keep you up.

  15. media type on Best Practices for a Lossless Music Archive? · · Score: 1

    I suggest you back on a Hard disk; It's about the same price per Gigabyte, smaller, and i guess easier to maintain; Last but not least : it's more durable.

  16. Re:Can Outing an Anonymous Blogger be Justified? on Can Outing an Anonymous Blogger be Justified? · · Score: 1

    Yes, if you are not in danger of being prosecuted for your opinions. Try saying the war in Iraq is unjustified, you'll get your dose of hatred, isn't it so, dixie chicks ?

  17. flamewar on Law Student Web Forum: Free Speech Gone too Far? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "The cure to bad speech is more speech,"
    can anyone say 'flamewar' ?

  18. Re:Yeah on Law Student Web Forum: Free Speech Gone too Far? · · Score: 3, Informative
  19. Yeah on Law Student Web Forum: Free Speech Gone too Far? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sitting behind a computer, typing, you don't hold back as much as when you talk to a persons face ... (I've seen a study about that, but i can't find it anymore) so yes, we'll have to accept trolling, it's inevitable.

  20. Re:Really? on Microsoft Responds to DOT Ban on Vista, Office, IE · · Score: 1

    It's used in any case in the discworld series from Pratchett.

  21. Re:Stand and deliver! on Sun May Be Warming Both Earth and Mars · · Score: 1

    cause a global recession that will put hundreds of millions starving in the Third World. No, they won't. They are in their present state because we interfere too much. (by buying things and food at slavery-prices)

  22. Re:Wave systems can be hidden, unlike wind on Scotland Building Wave Power Farms · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In human society, too many get off with less than a warning. Correction : In human society, stupidity is encouraged by the corporations. consume, consume,consume !

  23. Re:ad-homs won't help. on 500-in-1 Electronics Kits? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Basil: Manuel! (Nothing) Manuel! (Still nothing - totally
    apopleptic now) MANUEL! (Manuel enters from the dining room)
    Manuel: Que?
    Basil: (Holds up vase) What is this?
    Manuel: Ah, is voz.
    Basil: No.
    Manuel: Que?
    Basil: (Patiently) No, try again.
    Manuel: Oh, um - ah! Is flower pot?
    Basil: (Grinning a very scary grin) No.
    Manuel: Que? (looks over to Polly and Sybil) Mister Fawlty, is
    crazy! (Whereupon Basil removes the flowers from the vase and dumps
    the water over Manuels head, then as Manuel is spluttering, whaps
    him in the face with the flowers)
    Basil: This, you dago basket case, is a vase that is about as shiny
    as a decaying dog turd. Now go and polish it properly or I shall
    kill you. (Manuel scuttles off) Honestly, where do you have to go
    to find good help these days? Beyond me. (turns and sees Polly and
    Sybil giving him the evil eye) Well?

  24. Re:Dell's laptops cost MORE w/ no OS than w/ Windo on Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming · · Score: 1

    So it seems that Windows has a negative price tag as far as Dell is concerned! I'll take a 1000 please!
  25. casual on World of Warcraft - The Burning Crusade Review · · Score: 3, Funny

    what do they mean by casual players? People playing less than 2hrs a day ?