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  1. Re:Ben Franklins 13 month 28 day calendar is bette on New Calendar Proposal · · Score: 1

    THanks, I remember reading about this calendar.

    It made WAY more sense than this lunatic's. "And we'll have arbitrary "party weeks" for an arbitrary amount of time to keep with the seasons. Balogney.

    I actually think it is a shame that Ben Franklin's calendar wasn't adopted in 1776 with the founding of America. That would have been ripe with 13 colonies. They could have won approval by denoting the months after the colonies in order of the signing of the Constitution

    So May would be the Month of Connecticut... :)

  2. Re:Sigh on U.S. Govt. Stipulates Free Annual Credit Reports · · Score: 1

    This is NOT a business...

    It is MY credit report. And if you are going to keep "personal" info about me and not do it correctly I bloody well need to be able to enter information just like businesses can.

    Or I will blow their !@#$% brains out and yours too. And don't tell me that's wrong and I should be tried for blowing your piddly brains out because then you'd be telling me how to run my business of "Moronic Idiotic Twit Elimination - Makes Right" service. ...also known as "M.I.T.E. Makes Right"

  3. Senator Hatch on U.S. to Get New IP Czar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Needs to be tarred, feathered and deballed!

  4. Closest I've found to Natural Language... on The State of Natural Language Programming · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is Macromedia's ColdFusion syntax. As it continues to become less tied to HTML it will be interesting to see where this goes.

    But natural language requires more typing than say C syntax.

    A EQUALS B
    A = B

    But does the thought process get speeded up. If so one needs to know how the gains and loss affect overall development.

  5. Re:Yea... on Halo 2 Released · · Score: 0, Troll

    Damnable French always trying to sabotage the American economy due to their envious nature of us... :P

  6. Re:Reality Check on Kerry Concedes Election To Bush · · Score: 1

    All people die...

    The sobering unfortunate reality is that people are dying earlier than need be and living a life of lower-quality than need be.

    But in truth, I'd rather be living in Iraq than most of Africa.

    There is a tragedy we need to address...

  7. Re:saddest day in my life ... on Kerry Concedes Election To Bush · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Ah...

    We bail you European & British Empire folks out of wars constantly. Than when we are fucking attacked you guys do this.

    Do you really think you guys are free of this? We're the target cause we're prominent. If we don't stand strong. Guess what...for all your support of liberal ideas and thoughts, homosexual marriage, etc. It will be moot.

    You want us to not defend ourselves or the right to be. Guess what...if we don't. It will be extremist fanatics killing every gay in Canada in the name of Allah. Destroying every bank, savings and loans. Forcing your women to wear excessive garments.

    Man you don't get it...but you euro-minded people never have.

    Would you like to give Austria and Poland to NAZI Germany now or later?

    You in your dismal lack of understanding think this is a pride USA #1 issue. The irony is this....

    The conservative segment of America is the one leading for the war, defense of American ideals, and so on. The irony, most of the conservatives tend to personally agree with the Muslim stances on homosexuality, banking, sexual licentiousness, etc. (The degenerate culture we export around the world that is the number one reason Osama attacked.) And the irony, is we are defending the rights of people like you to have the freedom to be things we do not believe in.

    Maybe we should let the extremists come to power...

    Let me ask you this...what do you think would happen? who do you think would be the ones allowed to live? moral conservatives....or the supporters of homosexuality and non-traditional morals?

    We're defending your asses...and you're to pompous and full of yourselves to realize it.

  8. Re:It's Not Just Bush v. Kerry on Kerry Concedes Election To Bush · · Score: 1

    like try to do what the people want instead of pushing their philosophical elitist agendas?

    *hmmm*

  9. Re:a victory for America on Kerry Concedes Election To Bush · · Score: 1

    Because he is a longer term stratagist and Kerry was short-term.

    Short-term thinking is why we still use ICE (Internal Combustion Engines). Short-term thinking is why we fought WWII...concede to Germany and they'll leave us alone. Maintain status-quo and all is well.

    They DON'T work...

    Kerry was like the teachers who told me "It takes two to start a fight!" and "They can't chase you if you don't run!"

    1) Standing there instead of running will result in you being clobbered and much pain/harm.

    2) Although it does take two to have a fight (a bully can't be a bully if he is the only kid on the planet because he doesn't have anyone to boss around or beat up. However, there is more than one child on this planet and in our schools.)

    And although "it takes two to have a fight" it only "takes one to start/instigate a fight". If you have an aggressor, irregardless of your desire for peace there will be none.

    Kerry was pro-U.N.

    U.N. is a horrendous entity that gives a dictatorship nation equivalent authority as a Democracy. Syria's vote = Australia's vote.

    How can I respect that...???

    Give me a global government in which all voting nations must have some Democratic/Republic means and a Constitution or governing document ensuring the basic human rights of their citizens and I might be willing to submit America to such authority. But until then...no way am I going to support giving up U.S. sovereignty to the U.N.

  10. Re:what have you done? on Kerry Concedes Election To Bush · · Score: 1

    Actually lesser divide...

    I am much closer to being in the same financial league as the Bushes than the Kerry'.

    Not that I am anywhere near either!

  11. Re:why don't we have more eyes? on The Eye: Evolution versus Creationism · · Score: 1

    But it's not...

    We have trouble seeing in the dark...

    We have been driving in the dark for years now...

    We have been walking in the dark for centuries if not millenia

    Why are we not increasing our night vision?

  12. Object Oriented Programming or Spaghetti Code on The Eye: Evolution versus Creationism · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Object Oriented Programming or Spaghetti Code

    The debate of Evolution vs ID(Intelligent Design or Influence) is really one of programming philosophy.

    Please read the following quote:

    "She found an opsin, a light-sensitive molecule, in the worm that strikingly resembled the opsin in the vertebrate rods and cones....This was concrete evidence of common evolutionary origin."

    The following statement claims that said discovery is de-facto proof of evolutionary origin. But in truth, it is not. It could be applied as evidence for support. But as there are other simple explanations it cannot be used as proof.

    To me, evolution is "spaghetti" code. Is the world written sloppily or is there a framework? are there functions?

    One could look at the above example in the quote and assume that it is proof that said molecular arrangement originated in worm and was carried thru to vertebrates as they evolved and got more complex.

    However, there is a simple explanation, code re-use. In an Object Oriented model of programming one writes functions that perform a particular task. One later writes functions that call other functions/routines to accomplish a large task.

    So the thought of ID, explains the above discoveries equally well. Both the worm and the vertebrates include some of the same function libraries. So such a development philosophy easily offers another rational for the observed phenomen. Thus I do not see this as some 'concrete evidence'.

    In fact, code-reusage and modular development also explains the instances where scientists state that there is code in the DNA for primitive functions we do not use.

    Might I ask how many programmers use a "library". I know in my first C++ class we had to import a library for which to utilize certain functions. Furthermore, I know that I did NOT use all those functions. So how can we look at such code and claim those as arguments for random development and than go to our bosses and expect a paycheck for our labor?

    Just some food for thought

    - The Saj

  13. Crock of BS (Ballmer Sh*t) on Software Piracy Due to Expensive Hardware, Says Ballmer · · Score: 1

    Okay...let me get this right....

    In the past 5-10 yrs computers have dropped from $3,000-$4,000 for a full system. To $500-$1,000 for a FULL system.

    That is 75% - 84% drop in price. Meanwhile, Microsoft's operating systems have dropped how much?

    Hardware manufacturers are now commodities making $10-$20 on many cards that used to have $100 profit.

    If anything, I think software piracy would drop dramatically if I could buy Windows XP or Office for $50, or professional editions for $100 (and upgrades for $50).

    Anyone think Ballmer's has big balls for just saying this publicly?

    And if I could get a computer for $100....why the heck does my Xbox cost $150 with 3 yr old technology? *humpf*

  14. Re:Jon Candy is dead... on Mel Brooks Says 'Spaceballs' Sequel In The Works · · Score: 1

    I actually think this is why Spaceballs II never happened. Without Candy it just couldn't be done.

    I believe the NEW Spaceballs II will focus on the prequels, thus they will occur before Spaceballs.

    In fact, if Mel Brooks were a genius, he'd name it Spaceballs 0.5 and open it up with them rewinding the video tape scene. From "Now" to "Way Back Then"

    LOL

  15. WIN::WIN::WIN Scenario.... on Beatles vs Apple · · Score: 5, Insightful

    WIN::WIN::WIN Scenario....

    Apple delves into their $4 billion cash reserves. They then buy the "Beatles" rights off of Michael Jackson (giving Jacko some much needed raw $$$).

    They then negotiate a deal with Paul McCartney to exchange ownership of the "Beatles" library for a merger with Apple Music and exclusive right to online digital distribution of the said Beatles library.

    Apple wins doubly (ends legal battle gains exclusive Beatle content rights). McCartney doubly wins (re-gains ownership of music and gains shares in Apple Corp. online venture!

    vwaaalaaa....

    Now was that so hard?

  16. The 75th game eh? He wasn't beaten...he was bored! on They Killed Ken! · · Score: 1

    Really....

    He lost after winning 75 games. Anyone who understands genius realizes that he did not lose. He simply was bored and allowed someone else a shot.

  17. No...Rick Berman should retire... on Should Star Trek Die? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I am sorry...

    I feel Rick Berman is killing the franchise. I believe him to be all about the $$$.

    A few main things killing the franchise:

    1) Lack of creativity. Although Enterprise has shown some.

    2) Failure to adhere to cannon. So often now it seems like in order to have a plot the writers toss out previous cannon. Often contradicting the orinal series. This irks die-hard fans in hopes of garnering newer weaker fans.

    3) Failure to integrate the Treks. I am sorry I can sit down and within an hour come up with more decent plots than Rick Berman has in 5 yrs.

    a) ENTERPRISE EPISODE: Time travel back to medieval age to encounter Merlin "Q" (John DeLancie)

    b) MOVIE: ST:TNG Enterprise destroyed. Crew enroute to starbase on Excelsior class. Encounter new Romulan ship generating a wormhole. 4 warbirds uncloak as hailing message from Commander Sela (Tasha Yar's daughter). She explains that they plan to send the ship back to destroy the Enterprise C before the Khitomer massacre. Picard creates a distraction allowing Geordi and Data to beam aboard the new Romulan ship. Meanwhile, Data see Tasha Yar being hauled away and must make a decision to save her or not. They manage to destroy the Romulan ship that generated the wormhole. This collapses the wormhole and the remaining temporal energies cast the Enterprise C into the future. (Thus explaining the episode in ST:TNG.) This was originally conceived after "Generations" and is not really possible with the loss of Data.

    c) SERIES: Star Trek: Empires - this series would re-juvinate the Star Trek franchise. Follows two ships (alternating weekly) one a Romulan warship and another a Klingon warship. Episodes can diverge from the traditional "perfect world". The series would be a two year limited series. Imagine watching a diplomacy situation in which the Klingon crew decides to handle things with a planetary bombardment of the colony's moon killing 40 million inhabitants? very atypical from the normal view of Star Trek. (Yes, Klingon humor would make this much more of an adult show.) The 2-yr story arc would result in the re-unification of Romulans and Vulcan and explore a lot of the history. Including a a multi-part story arc to the exodus and the witnessing of the Vulcan mindlords and the arisal of logic.

    Just imagine an episode each in which we see how "Q" toys with the Klingons and the Romulans. *lol*

    d) ENTERPRISE EPISODE: Caught on a warp wave and brought far into the unknown reaches. The Enterprise encounters an advanced alien race of humanoids. Benevelont, wise, kind, even a willingness to share technology in a mentoring program. Discussions to retrofit the Enterprise with more advanced warp systems and send along a mentoring group occur and all seems perfect until they are informed of a change of plans. Apparently, said race is engaged in a war and are losing. Their main protective defenses have been breached and it's only a matter of time before the enemy reaches their homeworld. The alien race decides that giving Enterprise advanced technologies would be too dangerous without their ability to help to mentor the younger earthlings. They do debate and decide to have one of their ships return the Enterprise to it's own space. The council also decides to launch the prototype of the great weapon. The final version of the weapon is not expected to be ready for several years. On the screen in the council room one can see a comparison of the prototype weapon and the much much larger but only half constructed "Great Weapon". (The prototype being none other than the "Doomsday Machine"...a.k.a. The Killer Ice Cream Cone from ST:TOS.) The Enterprise is returned. Meanwhile...Captain Archer sits with the alien captain as they watch their homeworld being attacked and destroyed by a strange "cube-like" structure. (Yes...the Borg.) This plot may need a slight time shift (easily explain by the warp wave). And would really be a pre-cursor to the Vendetta novel.

  18. Access2PDF (not sure if this will help) on Replacing FileMaker with Free Software? · · Score: 1

    Not sure if this will help....

    But it's a reporting tool that allows you to use Access reports to publish them to the web in Adobe PDF format.

    http://www.access2pdf.com

  19. Re:Future echoes on Transparent Aluminum Is Here · · Score: 1

    You forgot the recently discovered sub-atomic tractor beam...

    and when I read your close I thought it said

    "For Sake Sake, STOP THE WHALING"

    (man...imagine if all the rice wine just went poof if the Japanese did not stop whaling....I think you are on to something here. STOP WHALING or SAKE DIES!!!)

  20. No worry....worthless patent...here is why... on Nintendo Patents Online Console Gaming · · Score: 2, Insightful

    See, the question here is on the term "console"...and this is what will kill Nintendo.

    I am sure Microsoft has dozens of similar patents in the PC world. Nintendo is just trying to say they have ownership in the console world.

    However, all Microsoft's lawyers need to do is shatter the distinction of console/computer. Show that throughout history computers have been both generalized (PC) and specialized. And that a game console is nothing but a specialized computer.

    Then simply prove it by walking in with a Nintendo Gamecube. Open the box....point to it's main processor. "PowerPC"

    Then look back to the judge and simply ask "and how is this NOT a computer, a PC even? look right there in the box....on the core chip it says so. "PowerPC"

    Nintendo not only loses all the strength of it's patents. They now become susceptible to Microsoft's own patents in these areas. Next day headlines read - "Nintendo's case against Microsoft dropped! Microsoft now suing Nintendo for multiple patent infringement!"

    Two years later the case is settled out of court. Microsoft now owns a 24% share of Nintendo. And is the largest single stockholder.

    Yup.....

    God help the company that tries to win a legal war with Microsoft. Even if you win you are sure to lose....

  21. Re:The first american hybrid? on Ford Launches First American Hybrid · · Score: 1

    i hate to bust it to you idiots....

    but a LOT of people need trucks...

    I dj and do sound and lighting and no f'ing Honda Civic is going to lug that stuff around or pull a trailer.

    So i'd really like to cut down 10% of emissions. I mean...imagine if 10% of all auto emissions were reduced. That'd be a darn good thing!

  22. IN NEED OF A DVD RIPPER/BURNER for Windows on Lawsuits Force 321 Studios Out Of Business · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I am in need of a DVD-Ripper/burner for Windows. (Please no trashing windows comments...the applications I use aren't available elsewhere for other platforms).

    But I am in a position where I need to perform a task and am unable to do so because there seems to be no software on the market.

    Can anyone point me to a tool?

  23. Re:Zombie Proteins on Artificial Prion Created · · Score: 1

    Prions = Half Life

    "Now it all makes sense!"

  24. Re:Not really. on Artificial Prion Created · · Score: 1

    If that is the case...

    Could we just manufacture quantities of the properly folded protein and periodically inject the patient with it to keep them healthy.

    Yes the prions will eventually convert them to unsuable state, but as long as we kept an influx of usuable proteins could we not keep the person healthy?

    I am sure pharms would love life-long treatment contracts....LOL

  25. Re:Improving Star Trek, the idiot's guide: on Star Trek XI: Romulan Wars? · · Score: 2, Funny

    11) Bring Garibaldi and Marcus Cole from B5 into the series. They are awesome. Ivanova would be nice too, but she and Kira would likely kill eachother within five minutes.

    [[[Easily resolved! Bring in Ivanova...having Kira and Ivanova fall in love. Fans finally get what they want! And neither one kills each other. Countless men die at their hands and at their feet.]]]