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  1. Re:Time to jailbreak 3GS on IOS 4.3 Now Available For Download · · Score: 1

    So the fact thatyou can't use new features added for free makes your phone obsolete.? If you say so....

  2. Re:The Apple Way on IOS 4.3 Now Available For Download · · Score: 1

    Same reason many people assume that anyone who disagrees with them is stupid and evil. Humans are clannish and xenophobic.

  3. Re:what's his gain? Lots on Activists Seek Repeal of Ban On Incandescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    OK, so how does that work? Design a new fixture that's only used in closets, and require that everybody change their sockets? Mandatory annual light bulb inspection?

    The ban is silly, but this workaround is absurd.

  4. Re:look elsewhere on HarperCollins Wants Library EBooks to Self-Destruct After 26 Loans · · Score: 1

    OK, I'm no expert, but I've checked out a lot of library books. I've never seen this printing-scanning-pasting evolution you describe.

  5. Re:I think Beck has started to believe his own con on Glen Beck Warns Viewers Not To Use Google · · Score: 1

    Public funding of news media sure was. Go read about newspapers before they were a business.

  6. Re:Thanks! on Android Tablets Were Born Too Soon · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because 1024x768 screens are completely unheard of in the computer industry. Where do they come up with these ridiculous numbers?

  7. Re:Competition on Cheap Games a Risk To the Industry, Says Nintendo President · · Score: 1

    This apple and this kitchen sink are different, and cost different amounts of money. News at 11.

  8. Re:Whats next? on 'No Refusal' DUI Checkpoints Coming To Florida? · · Score: 1

    You read history funny.

  9. Re:It is all about resolution on The 5-Year Console Cycle Is Dead · · Score: 1

    Shockingly, engineers sometimes change their designs as they develop complex products. THEY MUST BE STOPPED.

  10. Re:Offensive on X-37B Secret Space Plane To Land Soon · · Score: 1

    ...all spoken by people who have never driven them hard.

    Look at any weekend autocross. Look at any amateur race paddock. THEN tell me Miatas are girl cars.

    Having said all that, my wife drives the SHIT out of my Miata, so I win either way you go.

    Anybody who gets their gender identity hung up on what other people think about his car (and, yes, it's almost always men who worry about that), is a pansy.

  11. Re:Also there is simply a weight consideration on US Army Unveils 'Revolutionary' $35,000 Rifle · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is the statement you replied to:

    "The caliber of AK-74 is smaller than that of M16"

    You missed the part about the numbers, and therefore, you were wrong. Own it. Learn and get better. Or continue to be a doorknob. Your call.

  12. Re:Also there is simply a weight consideration on US Army Unveils 'Revolutionary' $35,000 Rifle · · Score: 1

    AK-47 fires a 7.62x39 mm round.
    AK-74 fires a 5.45x39 mm round.

    Now that you have been properly educated, you may go read the rest of the post. Doorknob.

  13. Re:Taxation without representation on Every Day's a Tax Holiday At Amazon · · Score: 1

    "owning a business" and "starting a corporation" are not the same thing. That's why people start corporations.

  14. Re:Offensive on X-37B Secret Space Plane To Land Soon · · Score: 1

    Spoken like somebody who's never driven one hard.

  15. Re:Not profitable enough on The Sensible Body Scan Alternative · · Score: 1

    The argument stands on its own merit. Your ad hominem attack is useless.

  16. Re:You're kidding, right? on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    If you do not think that universal insurance coverage should be mandatory, then you accept that people without means should be allowed to die in the street.

    Because universal insurance coverage is the least expensive (to me, a wealthy insurance covered person) option, and that is the right way to do it.

    If you think that health care can ever be a free market, you do not understand what free markets mean.

  17. Re:Sauce for the goose on GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal · · Score: 1

    "FYI, the range on GPS / VHF transmissions in urban environmentsis very short. It gets unreliable after a few hundred meters and it completely thwarted by brick."

    I carry a device in my shirt pocket that sends and receives data at non-trivial rates, supported by a reasonably reliable network of transceivers. It works more or less anywhere in the industrialized world, and lots of places that aren't very industrialized.

    Come to think of it, most days, I carry two. They're pretty small.

  18. Re:Either that on Google's CEO Warns Kids Will Have to Change Names to Escape "Cyber Past" · · Score: 1

    To me, (not the OP), being a Christian means being a follower of Christ, not necessarily a follower of any of the vast number of "Christian" churches, which often have little to do with actually paying attention to the message of Christ.

    Or focus on the torture porn part, not on the "be nice to each other" part.

  19. Re:Best way to fix it on No, Net Neutrality Doesn't Violate the 5th Amendment · · Score: 1

    RIght, and that point is relevant in this case because creating the infrastructure to deliver Internet service does not have tremendous barriers to entry, and would naturally be the province of free markets.

    Dude, pass what you are smoking.

  20. Re:Supersonic?!? on Boeing's Hybrid Electric Airliner of the Future · · Score: 1

    So, in other words, the person you were disputing who said " They are cool as hell, but not very useful for SST." was 100% on point, and you decided they needed to be wrong.

    Cool. Let me know how that works out for you.

  21. Re:Sure... on Boeing's Hybrid Electric Airliner of the Future · · Score: 1

    NASA is taking an integrated approach to the problem. By carefully scheduling arrivals and departures to minimize loitering, you reduce fuel burn. You have to be clever in how you control aircraft that fly closer to one another than they're allowed to today. It's a complex problem.

  22. Re:So, just plastics and lube then? on Boeing's Hybrid Electric Airliner of the Future · · Score: 1

    Hey! You forgot Everett, WA! USS Abraham Lincoln hangs out here sometimes.

  23. Re:Obvious question on Boeing's Hybrid Electric Airliner of the Future · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and how big of a pressure vessel are you talking about? The strength of the pressure vessel does not depend only on the pressure differential, but also on the volume enclosed.

    It's harder than you think it is.

  24. Re:Obvious question on Boeing's Hybrid Electric Airliner of the Future · · Score: 1

    Well, on the free body diagrams I drew in my flight dynamics classes, Jeng is more right than you are.

    Induced drag is the component of the lift vector that opposes the thrust vector. Induced drag is a component of the net drag on the airframe. It's not generally useful to think of induced drag as a part of the lift force.

    You can draw your vectors however you want, but nitpicking other peoples' coordinate systems doesn't make you look like you know what you're talking about.

  25. Re:Obvious question on Boeing's Hybrid Electric Airliner of the Future · · Score: 1

    Depends on the turn. Like I mentioned above, it is possible to combine pitch, roll, and yaw into a coordinated turn, where your net apparent "gravity" (centripetal acceleration, however you like to think about it) is straight down through the floor.