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  1. Re:The rotating machinery has got to go on 5.5 oz. MPEG-4/Audio Portable From Archos · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How much of that 16gb is legal music?

  2. Re:WHY VIDEO? on 5.5 oz. MPEG-4/Audio Portable From Archos · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Another reason the iPod does so well is that it is a brand name product and some people will pay whatever it costs to have all brand name products.

    IOW, a lot of people have an ipod not for what it does, but for what its named.

  3. Re:Wrong. on Top Banned Books of 2003 · · Score: 1

    No, you where wrong as the Just Cause list is about as long as the Windows XP bug list.

  4. Re:The rotating machinery has got to go on 5.5 oz. MPEG-4/Audio Portable From Archos · · Score: 1

    How much of that 20gb do you have filled up with music/audio?

  5. Wrong. on Top Banned Books of 2003 · · Score: 1

    Sura - 9 Ultimatum (Bara'ah)
    Order Of Revelation 113, Verses: 127

    [9:5] Once the Sacred Months are past, (and they refuse to make peace) you may kill the idol worshipers when you encounter them, punish them, and resist every move they make. If they repent and observe the Contact Prayers (Salat) and give the obligatory charity (Zakat), you shall let them go. GOD is Forgiver, Most Merciful.

    "Whoever changes his Islamic religion, kill him." (Hadith Al Buhkari vol. 9:57)

    5:51 "O you who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: they are but friends and protectors to each other. And he among you that turns to them for friendship is of them." This freindship makes any Muslim a enemy of their own and deserving of the same fate as the unbeliever. This is because God does not guide an unjust people.

    Sura 4:89 "seize them and slay them wherever you find them: and in any case take no friends or helpers from their ranks."

    Sura 2:187-189 "And kill them wherever ye shall find them, and eject them from whatever place they have ejected you; for civil discord is worse than carnage: yet attack them not at the sacred Mosque, unless they attack you therein; but if they attack you, slay them. Such the reward of the infidels...Fight therefore against them until there be no more civil discord, and the only worship be that of God: but if they desist, then let there be no hostility, save against the wicked."

    Sura 8:57 "So if you gain the mastery over them in war, punish them severely in order to disperse those who are behind them, so that they may learn a lesson."

  6. Re:What about "Unfit for Command" on Top Banned Books of 2003 · · Score: 1

    What major portions of the book are incorrect?

  7. Re:banning on Top Banned Books of 2003 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What did YOU do to protest what happened?

  8. Re:Why Harry? on Top Banned Books of 2003 · · Score: 1

    No, in Potter magic is presented as a tool that can be used as good OR evil. But then again it is the mostly the same people who say drinking is a sin that think Potter is evil. IOW, they haven't read their Bibles and thought about what it says they have only trusted what others have to told them about the Bible.

  9. Re:Why Harry? on Top Banned Books of 2003 · · Score: 1

    A lot of 3rd party companies have published a lot of such material for 3.0/3.5 Edition D&D. WoTC has even published the Book of Vile Darkness which is just a little more intense than the 1st edition DMG/MM.

  10. Re:Why Harry? on Top Banned Books of 2003 · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it a joke? (HINT google for iron python(HINT2 it's a version of phython that runs of MONO/.net))

  11. Re:Why Harry? on Top Banned Books of 2003 · · Score: 1

    The 'religious' groups in theis country need 'evils' so people will give them money to fight said 'evils'

    Partial list of evils.

    Comics
    Rock and Roll
    Dungeons and Dragons
    Harry Potter

  12. Re:How about... on Top Banned Books of 2003 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The TOS of the domain administrator decides what is right. And they decided they didn't think it did.

  13. Re:Not me... on Electromagnetic Suspension System · · Score: 1

    Was. Now they have a very large portifolio of 0% 0.9% 1.9% and 2.9% loans.

    Not much profit in that. GMAC http://www.gmacfs.com/ also now does a lot more than just auto loans.

  14. Re:Like on Electromagnetic Suspension System · · Score: 1

    Funny but my CSW DTT 3500 sounds better to me than any of the sub $350 bose equiptment that I have heard.

  15. Re:Not me... on Electromagnetic Suspension System · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Since they aren't making as much on auto loans they have to make thier profit somewhere. And that someplace is repairs.

  16. Re:Like on Electromagnetic Suspension System · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What is so special about it?

  17. Re:It IS good for us. on Outsourcing is Good for You · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should lookup the effects of that many nukes going off at once. I would not be that good for the USA as a lot of the lighter fallout would make it to the USA.

    Research Nuclear war before you speak on the subject again as your use of the term 'carpet bombing' in relation to nuclear weapons shows your ignorance.

  18. Re:Not a negative choice on HP Linux Laptop Is A Winner · · Score: 1

    Easy. When you spend that much on something you are apt to ignore flaws in it.

  19. Re:It IS good for us. on Outsourcing is Good for You · · Score: 1

    We are getting rid of the old ones that cost a lot of money to keep up. We are keeping our current gen/next gen MIRV ICBM's. When you have enough to destroy the earth 5 times over, cutting it in 1/2 doesn't really make a damn bit of difference.

    We are building that missle shiled because it's HARD to take out ALL the missles with a pre-emptive stike and china is also working on SSN's that are next to impossible to take out. That type of operation has to have a 100% success rate or Millions in the USA could die.

  20. Re:It IS good for us. on Outsourcing is Good for You · · Score: 1

    Our current ICBM's have a CEP of less than 3 meters. That is about as good as it can get. Do you have proof that china's are better?

  21. Re:It IS good for us. on Outsourcing is Good for You · · Score: 1

    OK. Name those positions and also name which programs people should take to learn those skills.

  22. Re:Sounds perfect for Florida... on Space-Age Houses · · Score: 2, Informative

    165 mph = 265.54176 kph

    Cat 5 hurricanes can have wind speeds above 165 MPH.

    That only 45 kph over the max rated wind speed.

  23. Re:Boo friggin yah! on Half-Life 2 Preloading from Steam · · Score: 1

    Well he would have the cd's so he would not have to download a few gig if his system crashes. And, correct me if I am wrong, but valve hasn't said they online purchase will be cheaper than the store price. Hell, it may even be higher once store discounts are figured in.

  24. Re:Dear XM on TiVo-like Application for XM Radio Under Fire · · Score: 1

    You can make that four.

  25. Easy. on TiVo-like Application for XM Radio Under Fire · · Score: 1

    The hope to beat it by buying off those in DC that write new laws.