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  1. Re:Gee, no shit tag needed for this story on Video Games Linked To Child Aggression · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Peer group is at least as important as family. Probably more.

  2. Re:Voter registration on How We Used To Vote · · Score: 1

    It isn't about privacy, it is about your caveat. There are 50 state level jurisdictions and then thousands of local jurisdictions within the states. It might make sense to compel people to register with the government whenever they move as you indicate is the case in your country, but it would be an enormous hassle for little gain (because the voter registration process is already easy).

  3. Re:car analogy on Asus To Phase Out Sub-10" Eee PCs · · Score: 1

    GM never pushed the EV1 to market. They provisionally leased a few to people to see how they liked them, but they never tried to sell them. They lost money on the leases, so I'm not sure it is worth comparing the lease price on the EV1 to the Volt (which you might be doing, I can't tell). There are lots of people who say that they would love to have an electric car with a 100 mile range, but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't love to pay $60,000 for it.

  4. Re:Update on Astroturfing on Asus To Phase Out Sub-10" Eee PCs · · Score: 1

    The idea that it is a common belief here may be one of your own making (Twitter alone may account for half of the usernames that you think are accusing people of astroturfing).

  5. Re:Common sense? on French Senate Passes Anti-Piracy Internet Cut-Off Law · · Score: 1

    Fly carefully. Northwest seems to buy a lot of their planes from France.

    Also, it would probably pay to get a dictionary that had decent etymology, so you could avoid using words that are borrowed from French.

  6. Re:Hard drive noise? on Silencing a Hard Drive Using Household Items · · Score: 1

    Or he has terrible hearing.

  7. Re:"Reader"? on How To Supplement Election Coverage? · · Score: 1

    What if it is a dog!?

  8. Re:dear god on How To Supplement Election Coverage? · · Score: 1

    I think his English teacher is working in a factory in China.

  9. Re:fellow human beings? on How To Supplement Election Coverage? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When given the choice of sitting on or drinking your duff, always drink it.

  10. Re:Could/Should we push all the junk back at earth on Space Litter To Hit Earth Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Easier, but less useful. I got the impression that the post was about the general case of space junk. If a laser could be stuck into a high orbit and used to push on all the little pieces of crap, eventually, there might be less crap (but it seems like it might be pretty hard to have a laser that was powerful enough to do much, at least in space).

  11. Re:One device per contract is a deal-killer on Why Netbooks Will Soon Cost $99 · · Score: 1

    Most of the contracts that people sign include wildly unpredictable costs in the event of an overage.

    We don't need to agree, but I really don't think that the cell phone market in the U.S. contains particularly savvy buyers (i.e., they don't have any idea what the providers actual costs are, they don't know how much usage they actually need, they don't look at how much that usage costs under different pricing models, etc).

  12. Re:One device per contract is a deal-killer on Why Netbooks Will Soon Cost $99 · · Score: 1

    I sort of think people prefer contracts because they are bad at thinking. But that is just me.

  13. Re:One device per contract is a deal-killer on Why Netbooks Will Soon Cost $99 · · Score: 1

    Contract plans only make sense because the majority of people sign them for a cheap phone. If less people signed contracts, there is a good chance phone companies would work harder on customer retention, rather than acquisition, and prices would drop for non contract and pay as you go (and they are getting better anyway, Virgin Mobile offers unlimited voice for $80 a month with no contract, which is somewhat competitive/comparable with the $100 unlimited plans from the big carriers, except for data/messaging, which aren't all that expensive).

  14. Re:Yes he is muslim on Poll Finds 23 Percent of Texans Think Obama is Muslim · · Score: 1

    Actually, it would be enormously problematic if he were a Muslim. Mostly because he has repeatedly stated that he is not a Muslim..

  15. Re:it's the Texans on Poll Finds 23 Percent of Texans Think Obama is Muslim · · Score: 1

    I love how your rant against an opaque media starts off with what is presumably your personal assumption about the level of transparency in the media.

    Sorry if you addressed that somewhere, I didn't finish reading your comment.

  16. Re:Forgive me on Fraud Threat Halts Knuth's Hexadecimal-Dollar Checks · · Score: 1

    This post isn't a troll. English uses the decimal number system; "twenty-three" stands for the decimal number 23, not the string of digits 2,3.

  17. Where to address the reading issue. on Google Book Search Settlement Receiving Criticism · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The reading issue is better addressed with Congress than it is the publishing industry. Sure, the publishing industry has a lot more friends in Congress than the public seems to, but ultimately, the best solution is not to hope that a large company can force the industry into favorable terms, it is reasonable terms for copyright.

  18. Re:Forgive me on Fraud Threat Halts Knuth's Hexadecimal-Dollar Checks · · Score: 3, Funny

    Has being wrong made things difficult for you?

  19. Re:More stupid censorship on MTV Bleeps Filesharing Software Names In Weird Al Video · · Score: 1

    I think just the ones working at the radio station.

    Everyone else is free to ignore the fact that it exists.

  20. Re:Who? on Duplicating Your Housekeys, From a Distance · · Score: 1

    People get obsessed with their pocket paraphernalia. They compare key chains and such.

    Google for 'key chains' or 'every day carry' if this seems unlikely.

  21. Re:Why the war started on Discuss the US Presidential Election & the War · · Score: 1

    The big differences that have kept the U.S. out of North Korea and Iran are called China and Russia

    (the U.S. would probably go ahead and irritate Russia if Iraq were not an alternative, but they probably wouldn't risk irritating China unless something utterly crazy were going on; starvation and a pathetic attempt at a nuke are not utterly crazy (well, the starvation is a humanitarian crisis...)).

  22. Re:Empirical measures on Discuss the US Presidential Election & the War · · Score: 1

    It's probably geographic. In parts of Texas, gas has been under $2 for a few days now (according to CNBC anyway).

  23. Re:Anal on Researcher Warns of "Digital Dark Age" · · Score: 1

    A plow is a machine. You mean mechanical power.

  24. Re:any evidence on Discuss the US Presidential Election & the Economy · · Score: 1

    Yes, that is why I called her a billion dollar girl. The day she was handed her parachute, the market value of HP increased by more than $1 billion.

  25. Re:Archive... on Researcher Warns of "Digital Dark Age" · · Score: 1

    Apparently, Fallout works:

    http://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?showID=1647&letter=F

    (with the usual headaches surrounding hardware drivers of that era, you have to tweak DOSBox and then run the games configuration utility).