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  1. Re:wow. on FDA Approves First Brain Stem Cell Transplant · · Score: 1

    .... We are very fortunate to live in this time ....

    whoa, Tank! Calm those cannons!

  2. Re:Really? on FDA Approves First Brain Stem Cell Transplant · · Score: 1

    If I could only meta this funny!

  3. Re:Time Machine on Geeky Gadgets for Halloween Parties? · · Score: 1
    We used to do this at parties except instead of dripping milk in front of it we would drum on a drum pad. I you played at the same tempo as the frequency of the strobe light it looked like the sticks werent moving at all.


    Who the fuck sat there all night doing THAT?
  4. Re:So why should anyone develop . . . on Violating A Patent As Moral Choice · · Score: 1

    What? Time? These companies get millions in grants from the federal government? Their costs are mostly paid by us anyway. So, why do drugs cost so much? Well, one excuse is advertising. Now sure how that can be. Hell, Budweiser has adds everwhere you look, and you can pick up a case for less than 20$. I know someone that works with these companies, and he tells me that they waste so much you'd cry if you've every seen it; the stories would make you rage.

  5. Re:I wanna play, too! on Federal Court Shuts Down Pay As You Go Wireless · · Score: 1

    thanks for the idea.

    [new tab]

    www.uspt.....

  6. Re:So... on Federal Court Shuts Down Pay As You Go Wireless · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sort of like the Patriot Act?

  7. Re:This should not exist on Estonian Internet Voting Called a Success · · Score: 1

    so.... where _exactly_ do you live? Fred, right? I knew someone named Fred. What's your last name again, Fred?

  8. Re:Hardware on New Hopes From Sun's Idea Factory · · Score: 1

    um, did you say hardware? thank you.

  9. Re:Hardware on New Hopes From Sun's Idea Factory · · Score: 1

    I don't see how Linux negatively affects Java or server sales. They can offer both flavors of unix like others do, at which point it comes back to hardware. I might be wrong (and I'm willing to admit it), but I fail to see how Linux can hurt their hardware sales.

  10. Hardware on New Hopes From Sun's Idea Factory · · Score: 2, Funny
    "and of course other companies promoting Linux as the solution"


    I thought that Sun was a hardware company?
  11. Re:$115k on How Much Money do Programmers Really Make? · · Score: 1

    are you hiring? No, really, are you hiring?

  12. Re:why we classify on Cost of Secrecy Continues to Increase · · Score: 1

    Well, now that you just told the world it's collected by satellite, it serves no purpose to keep it secret. Also, you might want to adding some links: HUMINT

  13. Re:Summer trip? on The View from the Top of Husband Hill · · Score: 1

    cool, i didn't know that. Maybe it means "John gets a lot of Pussy." Actually, I think it's Polish or something. Not sure though.

  14. Summer trip? on The View from the Top of Husband Hill · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, this looks very close to i picture I took during my cross-country trip a few years ago.

    summer trip image

    .

  15. Dear Senator on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 1

    Dear Senator,

            I find it disturbing that there are no federal regulations to counter the record increasing gas prices. For instance, why hasn't there been oil refineries built in the past 30 years? Maybe to restrict the flow of oil, thus manipulating supply and demand? This kind of monopolistic jockeying is a failure of both the oil companies (who obviously love it) and those who are supposed to represent the American people.

    Something to consider:

            Television production began in the late 1930s, 30 years after the production of vehicles. The FCC, however, has announced changes to broadcasting by issuing a requirement for digital television to be in place by December 31, 2006, only a few years after the technology has been possible.

            The Department of Energy, on the other hand, has yet to issue such decrees for transportation and other high energy demanding products, even though capabilities of hydrogen fuel cells have been know since the late sixties. Of course, one might say that even though it was know, the capabilities of production could not have met our needs. To counter that, I would say that very little funding was put forth for such research and development. Now, however, even with the capability of hydrogen production at quantitative and cost effective levels (using amoeba), little is being done to facilitate further advancements, let alone set reasonable deadlines to migrate to these new technologies. In fact, moving to alternative (non-fossil) sources of energy is the only solution.

            So, senator, there is one question that you need to answer that will surely influence my vote:

            Who do you represent?

  16. hmmm on Europe to Join Russia Building Next Space Shuttle · · Score: 0, Troll

    the EU and not this! ha.

  17. Re:Korganizer on Where is the Killer Calendar? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    K'm Kretty Kick Kf Khe Khole Lts-KDE-Ko-Kverything-Kas-Ko-Ktart-K-Kucking-K Khing. Kt's Kot Kute Knymore, Kuys.

  18. Re:Build on The Laptop Supply Chain · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Check out this Tomshardware link

    http://www17.tomshardware.com/howto/20050504/

  19. Build on The Laptop Supply Chain · · Score: 3, Funny

    I build my own. This way I can play, too.

  20. Re:Linux? on Intel Head Recommends Apple · · Score: 1

    OSS needs a central organization to bring in hardware manufactures to support their products in the OSS model. The hand that rocks the hardware industry is the hand that rules the world.

  21. Re:What does Sony and others have to say about tha on When is 720p Not 720p? · · Score: 1

    What's sad is that the engineers for these companies are keeping quiet. What ever happened to having ethics for your profession?

  22. The radical ones.. on Yankee Group Slams Linux 'Extremists' · · Score: 1

    The radical ones of the group got Open Source where it is today.

  23. Why is Microsoft .... on Ready or Not, Here Comes Service Pack 2 · · Score: 1

    Why is Microsoft so hot to get SP2 installed on everyone's machine?

  24. Hmm... a Goverment controlled network on Is Anti-Municipal Broadband Report Astroturf? · · Score: 1

    Welcome to 1984.

  25. Re:Kodak is run by idiots. on Kodak Wins $1 Billion Java Lawsuit · · Score: 1
    Kodak is run by idiots.
    Doesn't say a lot about the USPO