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  1. Maybe the Droughts are causing the climate change? on Climate Change Doubles Drought Stricken Area · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Or at least the development, farming, clear cutting in those areas has caused it. Places where they measure temperature and rainfall the most are areas that are developed the most. The real question here is are these really long term changes or just natural fluctuations. 5, 30, 100 years are not long term in the scheme of things here.

  2. EAT is a bad word in UK.. on iPod Shuffle, Mac Mini, iLife '05, iWork · · Score: 1

    They make a lot of normal US words into sexual references. Pants for example refer to panties in the UK.

  3. I wonder.. on RIAA/MPAA Contractor Deploys Malicious Adware Trojans · · Score: 5, Insightful

    why people trust wmv files when this can happen. Combine it with some ie security holes and you got a real problem. It'd be pretty easy to create a p2p wmv worm that infects the entire network.. no?

  4. Re:Cool thing! on Free Windows Software Without Spyware/Adware · · Score: 1
    4. Don't forget about Opera. A banner is no spyware. www.opera.com
    A banner in a program is called AD-WARE. This is is suppose to be adware free.
  5. Return it. on FreeBSD Foundation Needs Cash For 501(c)3 Status · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think they should return the $15K that is putting them over the limit. If they want more money, they should try managing it better.

  6. Re:They just need to follow ./'s lead on Is RSS Doomed by Popularity? · · Score: 1

    Yahoo news uses a ping mechanism. They only update your feed every once and awhile, but, if you want it updated faster, you ping them when you have an update.

  7. Re:One internet? That's nothing! on History of the First Internet · · Score: 1

    Isn't there an Internet 2 now? Doesn't that mean there are not multiple internets?

  8. Yet China is more poluted.. on Kyoto Treaty to Enter Into Force · · Score: 1

    For those of us who have gone over there. We know that Cities in China are far far more poluted than cities in the US. Polution is more than just CO2 of course.

  9. Water.. on How Negative Thermal Expansion Works · · Score: 1

    Doesn't Ice contract when it is heated to melting? That's why ice floats. (and why we're here today)

  10. Re:Kerry Wins in France on DIY Polling Shows Bush, Kerry Will Win · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Even more specifically, the kind of person that would want to go to France and hear all the crap they are spouting over there. My cousins were over from Paris this summer and their comments were endless, useless.

  11. These don't look like Kerry's memo's.. on Bush Service Memos Questioned · · Score: 1

    Just look at the Discharge Document and other documents from Kerry. These all use either handwriting or fixed width fonts.

  12. Re:Moore's critics don't care about truth on Michael Moore Seeks TV Airing of Fahrenheit 9/11 · · Score: 1
    I like to stick to facts in these discussions and stay away from concepts.

    Florida was clearly a close race. There are so many variables, we will never know the true number of people intending to vote for each canidate that day.

    However, I think that democracy is served with either candidate winning... Over 1/2 the people will be upset anyway... It's not like someone from out of nowhere grabbed a gun and some men and took over the white house by force, with no support from the people. Most of the country likes the job that Bush is doing... And, it's not like we don't get to vote him in/out again this year. Please, get over yourself. This is a democracy... nobody said it was perfect.

    Good luck to your candidate, whoever that might be.

  13. Re:Moore's critics don't care about truth on Michael Moore Seeks TV Airing of Fahrenheit 9/11 · · Score: 1

    I often state the obvious, and people like you just argue with me. Bush won the election... Not everyone has accepted it.

  14. Re:Moore's critics don't care about truth on Michael Moore Seeks TV Airing of Fahrenheit 9/11 · · Score: 1
    "You took your biased, preconceived prejudices with you into the theater. If you came to a conclusion two minutes into the movie what it was all about, that speaks volumes about your objectivity."

    Wrong and wrong: I didn't see it in a theater, and the reason I say two minutes it's because that's how long it took me to find critical damning lies. See my post on the recount.

    Some people told me that the movie had no lies, and that it was a documentary. Clearly, those people were wrong.

    I just wish I could pull out the facts from the slant of the movie. There were many other deceptions (like the taliban meeting bush in TX, which never happened) There are people out there who try to present both sides of an issue, I just don't know anyone who does that with the issues in F911.

    But, just for the record, do you agree that Moore is slanted? Do you agree that there is at least one deception in the movie? Do you agree that this is just an anti Bush film?

  15. Wrong! on Michael Moore Seeks TV Airing of Fahrenheit 9/11 · · Score: 1
    Uhm, what history book are you looking at?

    The Florida Supreme Court only ordered a Partial recount: http://covenantnews.com/dec08.htm

    "The divided Florida Supreme Court brought Democrat Al Gore's presidential campaign back from the brink of death, adding 383 votes to his total and ordering a manual recount of 9,000 disputed votes in Miami-Dade County and any other disputed ballots in other Florida counties."

    These disputed ballots were recounted, after the fact and Bush still won. The critical mistake of Gore was not to challenge the votes in the entire state, instead only focusing on counties where he thought he should have more votes.

  16. Re:This film is full of lies... made from facts. on Michael Moore Seeks TV Airing of Fahrenheit 9/11 · · Score: 1
    I'm not sure which of my statements are are saying is wrong. Please pick one:

    1. Bush won the election.

    2. Based on some theories and on some research some people think that Gore would have won with a full state recount.

    The fact is, not ALL scenarios of vote counts point to one canidate, like Moore states in the movie. You can add stipulations and say things like: "If I was the only voter in Florida, then GORE would have won the election under all scenarios." however, you can't remove the stipulation and still be true and say: "GORE would have won the election under all scenarios." It "IF" is a clearly big determining factor in the logic of the statement. You can't remove it, like Moore did, and still be logical. The nerd in me reports for duty!

  17. Re:War on Michael Moore Seeks TV Airing of Fahrenheit 9/11 · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, Kerry centers this campaign around Vietnam. Guess what, I don't care about that.

  18. Re:This film is full of lies... made from facts. on Michael Moore Seeks TV Airing of Fahrenheit 9/11 · · Score: 1
    Oh.. caps, you must be mad! I won't respond to your screams with lies.

    The fact is, under the scenario that played out, Bush won! The proof of course is that he is president. I know that you don't believe that, but that is the truth. Maybe in your fantasy land, Gore is POTUS.

    I think that Gore was an idiot in not requesting a full state recount. That is the truth!

    " Had an ENTIRE STATEWIDE RECOUNT been done, GORE WOULD HAVE WON. This is a fact."

    That is not a fact, that is a prediction. It didn't happen, so it is not a fact. Based on some theories and on some research some people think that Gore would have won with a full state recount. That is the fact.

  19. Re:Moore's critics don't care about truth on Michael Moore Seeks TV Airing of Fahrenheit 9/11 · · Score: 1

    Uhm, neither does Moore. If he had presented a movie that wasn't full of lies, the truth might stand out more. 2 minutes into the movie I knew I couldn't trust Moore to present the truth... I hoped for a documentary, all I saw was slanted attack commercial.

  20. This film is full of lies... made from facts. on Michael Moore Seeks TV Airing of Fahrenheit 9/11 · · Score: 1
    Dictionary.com defines "lie" as:
    1. A false statement deliberately presented as being true; a falsehood.
    2. Something meant to deceive or give a wrong impression.
    There are many clear false impressions and distortion of facts. The movie may take many facts and quotes, but it produces lies by deceiving the viewers. If you haven't read Fifty-nine Deceits in Fahrenheit 9/11, you should.

    My favorite lie: 'A little while later, Fahrenheit shows Jeffrey Toobin (a sometime talking head lawyer for CNN) claiming that if the Supreme Court had allowed a third recount to proceed past the legal deadline, "under every scenario Gore won the election."' ... while the truth is " if there had been partial recounts under any of the various recounts sought by Gore or ordered by the Florida Supreme Court, Bush would have won under every scenario."

  21. Why not crossover? on Microsoft Renovates Office Suite as a Web Service · · Score: 1

    I agree with you that it's a bad ides to create this "website" with callbacks / native code... However, I don't see how it would be impossible for crossover to support this. They just have to make sure they support the native calls that it uses. It might be even easier to support than regular MS Office as there /should/ be fewer local commands to support.

  22. Help getting download working.. on Moore Approves Fahrenheit 9/11 Downloads · · Score: 1

    Hey, I got this downloaded, but the vcd files don't play on any of my linux programs (xine, etc) Does anyone had hints on getting the vcd files to play on linux, or how to convert them to a playable format.

    Alternatively, helping get my cd burner to burn in linux so I could actually make the vcd's would be acceptable as well!

  23. going backward in time? on The Universe is Pretty Big · · Score: 1

    Aren't we suppose to be going backward in time if we travel that fast? Or.. at least have time stand still?

  24. Re:The OFFICIAL torrent on Fedora Core 2 released to Mirrors, Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    That would be great, however the FINAL Core 2 release is not listed there, only test3.

  25. Re:Mutex Trapping on New Windows Worm on the Loose · · Score: 1

    Randomizing the name would not help, it would still be a new mutex name and would still be caught. It could try to use an existing mutex name, but then it has the chance of that program already running. The only cure would be not to use a mutex.