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  1. Re:Transformers on Illegal Film Downloading Up 33% In the UK · · Score: 1

    It is also incorrect as far as Libya is concerned. The US does not have an oil interest in Lybia, their oil goes almost exclusively to Europe. Qaddafi has been a thorn in our side for decades, our selfish reason for intervening in Libya is removing him, and that just happens to promote the freedom of the Libyan people as well.

    Libya has signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation treaty and it is therefore plausible that a nuclear site used to develop nuclear weapons in Libya could be considered "illegal", it is hardly an exclusively American thing.

  2. Re:Transformers on Illegal Film Downloading Up 33% In the UK · · Score: 1

    Wait... How are we suppressing the Libyans freedom at the moment? You have at least some argument for the others but last I checked we were providing at least a little support for the freedom of the Libyan people.

  3. Re:Thunderbird is the best for Linux on Thunderbird Unseats Evolution In Ubuntu 11.10 · · Score: 1

    what about pine? I know it is old as hell, but I never had problems with it.

  4. Re:Say waht you will about MS on Bill Gates On Energy · · Score: 1

    Our power grid is in disrepair anyway. When we get around to fixing it, might as well update it to allow for better power distribution as well.

  5. Re:Say waht you will about MS on Bill Gates On Energy · · Score: 2

    1: thermal batteries using molten salt.

    2: see 1.

    3: he was joking, but yes, what else are we going to do with huge arid deserts otherwise unfit for use?

    4: yes, less than a 100x100 mile square for the entire US energy use if you include day, night and the energy cost of all transportation including cars, trucks, trains, and airplanes and shipping (I don't recall if this accounts for transoceanic shipping or not though).

  6. Re:Say waht you will about MS on Bill Gates On Energy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A lot. At current levels of efficiency a square 100 miles on a side in the US southwest could provide more than 100% of the US power needs including transportation.

    Put other such squares in the sahara, gobi, patagonia and austrailian outback and you can far exceed the total energy production of the entire world a couple times over. using a fraction of otherwise unused deserts you could elevate all 6.whatever billion people to an American standard of energy consumption and still have space left over for growth.

    All that said, a couple bad storms could devastate a purely solar powered grid. Nuclear power is a safe, clean alternative that should be used alongside solar to provide the worlds power.

  7. Re:Yes, It's Called Google+ on Google Wrestles With Privacy Bugs In Google+ · · Score: 1

    ... as per tradition.

  8. Re:FTFA on Don't Fly If You Just Had Surgery! · · Score: 2

    They will pat real hard.

  9. Re:What about ... on Don't Fly If You Just Had Surgery! · · Score: 1

    It was also the first plot arc of schlock mercenary

  10. Re:This was the logical end on Don't Fly If You Just Had Surgery! · · Score: 1

    Obviously, he hasn't been shot in the face with a shotgun.

  11. Re:I wonder... on How Apple Came To Control the Component Market · · Score: 1

    I would have turned down $65k/year because the cost of living in California is high enough that that isn't significantly better than an entry level wage. It would take at least $80k to get me to move out west.

    Then there is the BS where you think factories invent products instead of produce them...

  12. Re:Can't wait... on 3D Chocolate Printer · · Score: 1

    In the US, "real" chocolate is usually called dark chocolate, while milk chocolate is the more common mild sweet stuff for kids.

  13. Re:Steves on How Apple Came To Control the Component Market · · Score: 1

    Did Steve Jobs create any jobs?

    Yes, he took some away from RIM, but the ones he actually created blow.

  14. Re:Newscorp isn't in the business of news on News Corp. Subsidiary Under Fire For Hacking Dead Girl's Voicemail · · Score: 1

    Ok...

    How the hell do you not know about this?

    http://ceasespin.org/ceasespin_blog/ceasespin_blogger_files/fox_news_gets_okay_to_misinform_public.html

  15. Re:Nothing to see here.... on Cisco Helps China Keep an Eye On Its Citizens · · Score: 1

    Correct. When china does it, we speak out and sigh, ultimately knowing we don't have the right to force China to respect its people and their rights. When our own country does it we speak out and anguish in despair, ultimately knowing that we don't have the force to right our nation to respect its people and our rights.

  16. Re:A future prediction on China's Coal Power Plants Mask Climate Change · · Score: 1

    A lot of them have "converted" to teabagger already.

  17. Re:Yeah on NYC Mayor Demands $600M Refund On Software Project · · Score: 1

    Ok, every sane Architect will either walk away without making a bid or ask for 10 times the time and money that he actually expects. Most projects come in late and over budget, even ones that were well estimated, planned and executed from the start will do so somewhat with some frequency.

  18. This is not new on Silver Pen Allows For Hand-Written Circuits · · Score: 0

    Conductive ink pens have existed for years. I remember the time where overclocking certain AMD CPU's required one to bridge two points on the back of the chip.

  19. Re:Cam-guided? on A Solar-Powered 3D Printer Prints Glass From Sand · · Score: 2

    Its a computer assisted machining using a camera as input and a set of camber arms for positioning. Did I miss any other use of the "cam" that could apply?

  20. Error establishing a database connection on 30 Creative 404 Error Pages · · Score: 1

    Error establishing a database connection

    Ok? doesn't seem like a particularly good one. And Its the only one mentioned on the page.

  21. Re:Save important pet lives...? on San Francisco Considers Ban On All Pet Sales · · Score: 2

    The point of a Chihuahua is that is just the right size to boil in a pot and make a single family meal without having to take the time and effort to butcher it and preserve the left over meat. They are the original fast food. They are not meant to survive.

  22. Re:Barbiturates work too on LSD Alleviates 'Suicide Headaches' · · Score: 1

    Next time, you can try either masturbating until climax (I assume you are not in any kind of a mood for actual sex while having these headaches!), or take a rather large dose of Niacin (which also causes a histamine release), THEN take your Aleve.

    Beats puking, and is a lot easier on your brain than driving your core temperature dangerously upward...

    From personal experience, the physical activity will amplify your migraine pain dramatically, so any temporary relief will at best get you back down to where you were before, but not relieve the migraine.

  23. Re:Barbiturates work too on LSD Alleviates 'Suicide Headaches' · · Score: 1

    The only treatment I found for migraines was to lie down in a frigidly cold, perfectly still, quite and dark room for between 30 minutes and 3 hours.

    Aleve does absolutely nothing for me, not even for "normal" pain.

  24. Re:Dumbest Idea Ever on Capcom Announces Unreplayable Game · · Score: 1

    Ancient? "She" is probably in her early-mid 30s to have enjoyed a 1988 game as a kid.

    Most of us are in our 30s.

  25. Re:Study Design a Must on There Oughta Be a Standard: Laptop Power Supplies · · Score: 1

    Nothing a bit of solder and epoxy cant fix.