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  1. Re:18 Months on Python 2.4 Final Released · · Score: 1
    try to keep your functions so that you can read most of them on one screen.

    Or just print it out when you want to examine it.

  2. Re:I don't know about you... on NASA's Deep Impact · · Score: 1
    Or when staunch Republicans are Jesus fans (the ultimate liberal) or pot heads or swingers.

    Don't you know that half your party would gladly throw you in the clink for your deviant sex acts?

  3. Re:How about... on Envisioning the Desktop Fabricator · · Score: 1

    Energy, rare elements will have value. They will be the only tangible goods *with* value, along with anything that doesn't have an open-source fab program.

  4. Re:..which begs the question on Envisioning the Desktop Fabricator · · Score: 1

    We'd still need energy and raw elements, and in the far future, at least energy.

  5. Re:No lemon law in Minnesota on Valve Cracks Down on 20,000 Users · · Score: 1

    What could be more countable than physical objects? It's what counting was made for.

  6. Re:Unlike the US... on Soviet Space Battle Station Images Published · · Score: 1

    Ha! This congress won't take piss with Cheney's say so.

  7. Re:Old Soviet Overlords on Soviet Space Battle Station Images Published · · Score: 1

    So why are we still running?

  8. Re:Whats wrong? on New Video Game Recreates Kennedy Assassination · · Score: 5, Funny

    And yet a large minority of the players devote their time to knifing hapless newbs.

  9. Re:I have got to get me one of THESE! on 230mph Electric Car · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should move closer to work?

  10. Re: Clarke and the Clinton on Richard Clarke on Cyberterrorism and Iraq · · Score: 1

    You didn't read the rest my post, did you? Clarke and Clinton acted on it, and fast. George Bush got even luckier pre-9/11, and he didn't do jack.

  11. Re:Satelite imagery on Google Keyhole, Google Scholar · · Score: 1
    They KNOW your wearing it.

    Then you made your hat wrong. You have to angle a smooth part of the foil to reflect the sunlight and blind the sattelite cameras.

  12. Re:Character assasination? on Richard Clarke on Cyberterrorism and Iraq · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Clarke and the Clinton administration cracked the Millenium attacks when they had far fewer lucky breaks than we got pre-9/11.

    We knew who two of the hijackers were terrorists and we detected when they entered the country.

    We'd arrested short-bus hijacker Mousaoui.

    FBI field agents guessed correctly the friggin plan in writing to their superiors, for Christ's sake.

    Here's a good idea, let's vote for the guy that blew it then covered it up then attacked the wrong country.

    The scuttle but is that Rumsfeld, Cheney and Powell were the movers who decided on the response to 9/11. Only one of them wanted to attack Afghanistan before Iraq. Thank goodness he got his way. Can you guess who it was?

    I'll give you a hint: he's the only one that Bush has fired.

  13. That's just sad. on Disney to Make Toy Story 3 Without Pixar · · Score: 1

    Eisner is a punk.

  14. Re:At first I thought -Who will think of the roach on Robots to Rid Us of Cockroaches? · · Score: 0

    Actually, the same surveys on the exact same issues from the environment to trade to foreign policy showed that Kerry voters had a very good understanding of their candidate's policies.

  15. Re:At first I thought -Who will think of the roach on Robots to Rid Us of Cockroaches? · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    That's why Condi's getting promoted, the new head of the RNC is gay, and Doug Feith, a man fired twenty years ago for giving info to the Israelis, a man totally taken in by an Iranian agent in the run up to Iraq, a man called the "fucking stupidest guy on earth" by non other than Tommy Franks is getting the homeland security position.

    Not to mention a new AG who wrote memos supporting the torture at Abu Ghraib.

    It's more likely that you don't understand why you won. Study after study showed just days before the election that the vast majority of Bush voters believed Bush's policies were 180 degrees from what they actually were on a whole range of issues.

  16. Re: Ah, terrorism on U.S. Goverment Responds to EFF's Indymedia Motion · · Score: 1

    When Saddam gassed the Iranians, we didn't stop supporting him. The Iranians I've talked to were shocked that he crossed the line and the international community didn't stop him. They learned a hard lesson, one which most people still dismiss out of hand. "They can't do that! They wouldn't do that!" Oh yes they can, and they will. Who is going to stop them?

  17. Re:femto-mandelbrots ? on Interview With Math Legend Benoit Mandelbrot · · Score: 2, Funny
    A friend and I used the unit of "Bobcat", as in Bobcat Goldwaith, to measure bad acting.

    Costner = Bobcat * $1,000,000 to sign for a movie.

    Which is really not normalized very well since Costner measures several dozen Costners himself.

  18. Re:It was an interesting article on Interview With Math Legend Benoit Mandelbrot · · Score: 2, Informative

    Comeon mods, it's the Cantor set, it's self similar, get it?

  19. Re:Some little problems... on Segway vs. Roomba · · Score: 1
    Another recipe for fun:

    2 high strung cats
    1 Apartment with a cirular floor plan
    Supersoakers

    Weed is optional but recommended.

  20. Re:What is the Speed of Sound? on NASA to Attempt Mach 10 Flight Next Week · · Score: 1

    So what happens when you break Mach 1 in water?

  21. Re:Base 10 bad idea? on Museum of the Future · · Score: 1
    Isn't the whole point of metric to make simple calculations easier? Wouldn't base 12 have helped that?

    Where I live we've got an 8.3 percent sales tax...which is almost exactly 1/12th of a dollar!

  22. Re:US Legal system sucks ass on U.S. Goverment Responds to EFF's Indymedia Motion · · Score: 1
    Didn't they seize indymedia computers in UK, and after 24 a judge ordered them returned since the government hadn't shown probable cause? And they did?

    The contrast is striking. Our freedoms are disappearing. We now live in a nascent police state where police actions are justified on the say so of the police.

  23. Re: Ah, terrorism on U.S. Goverment Responds to EFF's Indymedia Motion · · Score: 5, Funny
    New Motto for George Bush's America:

    "Still better than North Korea".

    I'm sold.

  24. Re:SAFE! on U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft Resigns · · Score: 1

    You and I don't have those rights anymore, since they can be denied by the administration at anytime without apparent recourse.

  25. Re:Your rights shot to hell on U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft Resigns · · Score: 1
    In REALITY, Al Qaeda is larger than ever, cells are more autonomous, our military is bogged down, our world wide coalition against terrorism has been fractured for our coalition of the willing against Iraq which also is fracturing, Iraq has turned into a paradise for terrorists for recruiting and killing Americans, has permitted Bush to turn every slanderous lie bin Laden told about America into incontrovertable truths.

    What's more, after ignoring clear and specific pre-attack intelligence, then lying about it, then trying to cover it up, Bush opposed every single attempt to investigate the 9/11 attacks, including classifying information that implicated the government and elite of Saudi Arabia, people with whom he has had long time business dealings.

    And we just reelected that man. Things are going real swell.