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  1. Re:Zoning gone wild. on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    it's not about cops, it's about firemen and
    Pamela A. Wilderman, Code Enforcement Officer, 508-460-3765; and if you've never dealt with a code enforcement officer your lucky. Code Enforcement Officer as a group tend to be the most petty, stupid and anal of all petty, stupid and anal bureaucrats; Mr. Deeb needs to lawyer up and bitch slap them hard.

  2. Re:And they say ... on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1 degree and 359 degrees are not far left and far right when compared to the 180 degrees that freedom loving people should be moving towards.

  3. Re:And they say ... on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No the part I find most troubling is

    Firefighters found more than 1,500 vials, jars, cans, bottles and boxes in the basement Tuesday afternoon, after they responded to an unrelated fire in an air conditioner on the second floor of the home. Chemist allowed to go home, sans his lab

    it wasn't cop but firemen; traditionally fire fighters have held a special position and had abilities to enter buildings and perform activities that we have prohibited policeman from performing without a warrant, by doing things like this the firefighters are jeopardizing this trust and placing the ability to protect the public safety in danger.

  4. Re:one in every two animals a new species on Robot Submarine To Dive Deep In the Caribbean · · Score: 1

    new medicines from organisms that live at 400 degrees C, we elect you to be the guinea pig.

  5. Re:The GPS is only used on the surface on Robot Submarine To Dive Deep In the Caribbean · · Score: 1

    What if you're in the exact center of the earth?

    if you hiccup you change your position 60 degrees!

  6. Re:PHP3 on Official Support For PHP 4 Ends · · Score: 1

    Netcraft says SQL is dying, movie at eleven

  7. Re:This just in... on Did NBC Alter the Olympics' Opening Ceremony? · · Score: 1

    objective? maybe honest, they are unapologetically conservatively biased unlike the liberal media that pretends to be objective.

  8. Re:This just in... on Did NBC Alter the Olympics' Opening Ceremony? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I was behind the scenes at the Olympics in 1996 at the boxing venue and I was amazed at how mediocre the average Boxer is! Seriously most of them would be as likely to get asses kicked out on the street as any of us, i was amazed some of them didn't get their heads handed to them. I actually had to escort a Moroccan Boxer out of the building because he was smoking after he lost his match! Anything you see on the television has been hand-picked by the network and shot by the media-pool feed. The Boxing had matches going 12 hours a day for a week and the networks worked in shifts. Some of my guys got put in the ring to shadow-box so the crews could practice before the event started.

  9. Re:The old green question on Bigger, Cheaper Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    I suspect that after Suzie Homemaker reads about a flywheel explosion in the "World News Weekly" between the batboy and bigfoot stories, flywheels will be a pretty hard sell! Beside if Nickel was that bad, Wouldn't we have all died from handling money by now?

  10. Re:How you can prove curvature on The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us · · Score: 1

    The Egyptians had a far more convincing arguments that not only allowed them to measure the circumference of the Earth's sphere to an amazing accuracy but the distance to the Moon. They achieved this amazing feat about 4000 years ago by measuring the angle of the sun to the Earth at different latitudes simultaneously on the same longitude a known distance apart!

  11. Re:new ad idea on The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us · · Score: 1

    The problem is the M$ ad is suggesting that the People who avoid Vista are like the Flat Earthers who are rejecting the obvious; but the reality is just the opposite. The Flat Earthers position is the original position and have the status quo position where the Round Earthers have the challenging position and the burden of proof; likewise M$ needs to not only convince People that Vista is better than XP, but that it is also better than OS X, Linux, BSD and Solaris, and that is a mighty tough row to hoe.

  12. Re:Fake, fake and fake. on The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us · · Score: 1

    Actually the Iroquois story of creation had the Earth as a water world and that North America was formed by sea bottom mud fetch by a muskrat and placed on the back of a turtle; and that is why North American is called Turtle Island

  13. Re:Encouraging... on The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us · · Score: 1

    I doubt that Global Warming is secure enough of a position scientifically for the Flat Earthers to actually consider worthy of debate; It probably included so that the n00b's have something easier to debate as they work their way up to the challenging topics.

  14. Re:Not Necessarily News on The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us · · Score: 1

    A disk shaped Earth would due the same so no cigar; try again

  15. Flat Earthers v. Scientologists on The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us · · Score: 1

    Well both know that their stated beliefs don't really reflect reality, the Flat Earthers do it to enjoy the mental stimulation of engaging in the arguments; the Scientologists do it to suck the life out of their "followers" financially and emotionally; so I'd say the Scientologists are the more outrageous.

  16. Re:Duh! on The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us · · Score: 1

    how do you define flat?

  17. Re:Scientific community? on The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is no scientific basis for the "flat earth theory". None. Zero. Zilch.

    Are you sure, have you seriously looked at their arguments and considered them on their merits rather than you emotional beliefs? I'll bet if you sit down with a dedicated Flat Earther and had a debate, he or she would smoke you. i seriously doubt that the Flat Earthers believe the Earth is flat, but they do like taking the contrarian position and arguing it for the sport value.

  18. Re:Get used to seeing them. on Bigger, Cheaper Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    yes and they were gleeful at the prospect of having a vehicle that only consumed energy while they were in operation unlike draft animals and not having to employ brigades of street sweepers to keep the horse manure under control

  19. Re:Arizona! on Bigger, Cheaper Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    well obviously we would then need to build some nuke plants to energize the reverse osmosis plants to destinate the sea-water, and build some wind generator to power the pumping stations to get the water to the solar enegy farms in the desert!

  20. Re:The old green question on Bigger, Cheaper Solar Cells · · Score: 3, Informative

    More likely these installations will use the good old Nickel-Iron battery

    In many respects the Nickel/Iron battery was almost "too good." A battery that lasts for decades in many cases can outlast the equipment that it was originally designed to power. So from an economic standpoint lead acid, NiCd and other technologies have been deemed "good enough" and are the predominant technologies in use today even though they do not last as long as a Nickel/Iron counterpart. Nickel-Iron battery

    These batteries do have limitations that make them less suitable for vehicular use such as

    low specific energy, poor charge retention, and poor low-temperature performance.

    since a residential or commercial solar pv installation is stationary, specific energy isn't a concern, the charge will only be needed to pull you through a night or a couple cloudy days and the batteries will be stored in a climate controlled area so they should be awesome for the task.

  21. Re:Support is Better on Paid Support Not Critical For Linux Adoption · · Score: 1

    somebody needs to read through the forums and move the frequently asked questions into the frequently asked questions, Doah. Wow I just realized that was a reverse version of the good 'ol "RTFM n00b"

  22. Re:Support is Better on Paid Support Not Critical For Linux Adoption · · Score: 1

    They are not going to get that they have two choices;
    1. Pay some outside company like sun or Microsoft to be not responsible, or
    2.Not pay some outside company like sun or Microsoft to be not responsible.
    It's a case of "But Darling you knew when you signed the contract we weren't responsible, we just pretended to be responsible to get your money and let you feel warm and cozy"

  23. Re:Support is Better on Paid Support Not Critical For Linux Adoption · · Score: 1

    I've very few had a problem with Arch that took more experience than scanning through the forums for an answer that was all ready there rather than asking the same question 50 times. When I did have a problem the required some experience they always fell into one of three catagories
    failure to update frequently enough update fail because your packages were to far out of date, which usually means having to rename a file in /etc. On very rare occasions you can get a corrupt package which will stop your upgrade and youll have to upgrade that package individually before the automatic full system upgrade will run successfully

    Permissions you need to add you user to a certain group to get access to a piece of hardware on your computer.

    Failure to start a daemon which means you have to edit /etc/rc.conf.

  24. Re:It's misnamed on "Mobile Plate Hunter" Cameras Raise Questions · · Score: 1

    Ianal but I don't see how that applies as the insurance I have covers my vehicle when others operate it, and it also covers me when operating another vehicle irregardless of whether that other vehicle as an insurance policy covering it. When I operate that otherwise uninsured vehicle, it is insured.

  25. Re:Honestly... on RIAA Gets Nervous, Brings In Big Gun · · Score: 1

    I would hope that the damaged media would be enough proof for a replacement of the same artist/title. say for about half price.