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  1. Re:... depicting her as a lesbian. on School Official Sues Over MySpace Page · · Score: 1

    I knew a fag from Texan that went to church and delusions of grandure would describe him better than self-loathing.

  2. Re:Quiting school is not a life sentence on A Lot of Money for Playing Games · · Score: 1

    My wife lived next door to a semi-retired stripper; not sure what the biz is like now, seems there's a lot of competition from eastern european women anymore.

  3. Re:Bout time on School Official Sues Over MySpace Page · · Score: 1

    L. Ron might have been loonie-toons, but he was smart enough to sandwich the big-lie between two slices of truth; so as near as I can tell there isn't that much difference between Dianetics and the Psychology I was exposed to in college except terminology. When I read Dianetics my reaction actually was the it was basicly plagerised pop-psych articles about things that were disproven 5 years ago.

    I remember the last time I spanked my youngest stepson, he had completely frazzled his mother, who left the house rather than beating him senseless. Of course he then started on me, I said,"I've heard the word NO one too many times" and hoisted him over my knee and spanked him. Just as I had decided he gotten enough, he said "I'm going to sue you for $175,000.00!" It occured to me that $175K was a pretty screwball number, so I said "175 thousand, hell let's go for 350" and I spanked him again. Now that he's 28 we get along pretty good.

  4. Re:Apparently you don't have children on School Official Sues Over MySpace Page · · Score: 1

    13 year olds have been tried as adults, some have gotten life sentences.

  5. Re:Bout time on School Official Sues Over MySpace Page · · Score: 1

    FTA "She had been forced to discipline them several times, and was aware of their animosity to her," it kinda hints that there was a bit of history between the involved parties and the parents very well may have been confered with on several matters. I know in our area the school distric would seriously consider permanent expulsion in a case like this. Our procescuter have tried 13 year olds as adults in school related matters.

  6. Re:... depicting her as a lesbian. on School Official Sues Over MySpace Page · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well concidering that it happened in Texas, at least the kids had enough restraint to have not claimed she was something really bad, like an athieist!

  7. Re:When the money dries up... on A Lot of Money for Playing Games · · Score: 1

    So hows that different than any other individual sport, there is a hundred things that can knock you out. I used to bowl, you'd be amazed at how many PBA and former PBA bowlers are out there. Many saved up a bunch of money and went out on the tour to see if they had the chops to play with the big-boys when they burned through their money at a rate of about $2K a week they came home. Quite a few still throw at regonals, I imagine Golf is pretty simmilar. This guy has a sponsor he's getting a financial advisor, a media consultant and trainer and a $250K salary, that's actually a sweet deal compared to most.

  8. Re:When the money dries up... on A Lot of Money for Playing Games · · Score: 1

    My physics instructor was an MIT grad and his nick name was Wild Bill, and I thought his ego was comensurate for someone teaching non-calc physics at a community college; He was pretty cool too.

  9. Re:Quiting school is not a life sentence on A Lot of Money for Playing Games · · Score: 1

    Strippers do well finacially if they manage to stay away from drugs and booze and remember that after a decade, they're pretty much tapped out.

  10. Re:Then sell your home on Is Backyard Wind Power Worth It? · · Score: 1

    When you buy into a homeowners/condo association you don't typically own the land,
    That actually true for almost everyone in the United States, we don't own the land, just certain rights to it. That's why municipalities can have zoning ordinaces and tax the property.

  11. Re:Is it also worth the drama? on Is Backyard Wind Power Worth It? · · Score: 1

    These assholes tend to thive in "communities" that are recently established and purchaseing a property in the "community" has a deed restrictions that contractualy bind you to the "owners association"; I'm sure that in Englands such a thing would have had to been established about a millenia ago in most areas.

  12. Re:Sailing effect on Copper Wire As Fast As Fiber? · · Score: 1

    Yes but they are getting 100Mbs of Cat-3 copper, the is a lot of cat-3 copper in a lot of walls, think of all that 2B2 crap that suddenly useable for comuter networks instead of having to pull cat-5e, might our cat 5e be capable of 1Gbs? Holy cow what might fit through a cat 6 cable

  13. Re:*scratches head* on Copper Wire As Fast As Fiber? · · Score: 1

    Fiber cable has far more bandwidth for signal than copper, since it has lower losses at higher frequencies.
    You also have to remeber that fiber does have a finite speed limit for the photons, and those photons typically bounce off the walls of the fiber which means the individual photons are going to travel a random distance between the straight line distance of the fiber and the maximum angle of incidence. This means that the photons arrive at random times and the longer the fiber the more random, which causes the waveform to distort and limits bandwidth from its theoretical maximum. Still at some point in the datas travelling, it's got to be converted to copper for us to use it

  14. Re:*scratches head* on Copper Wire As Fast As Fiber? · · Score: 1

    No he doesn't, everybody knows the current in the internet is composed of interelecrons. One the other side, the intranet, the currents is carried by intrapositrons; the interelecrons and intrapositrons are anti-particals so you gotta keep'em seperate with a firewall.

  15. Re:Huh? on ICANN Grants Temporary Reprieve to Spamhaus · · Score: 1

    The problem with that is a lot of shared hosting use one IP address for several domain names and let the webserver sort it all out, so blocking one address can block hundreds of websites

  16. Re:Huh? on ICANN Grants Temporary Reprieve to Spamhaus · · Score: 1

    Dude the law that made interstate online gambling illegal actually made in-state online gambling legal! Want to do online gambling in a state all you need is an office in state and a state license to operate. The real purpose of the law was to allow the federal gov to require the banks to crawl up your financial ass with a microscope and report back to the USG

  17. Re:Huh? on ICANN Grants Temporary Reprieve to Spamhaus · · Score: 1

    I was wondering why they didn't ask to be removed from the state court and move to a British court!

  18. Re:PIR are the ones who could do it. on ICANN Grants Temporary Reprieve to Spamhaus · · Score: 1
    The Internet Society is a non-profit, non-governmental, international, professional membership organization. Its more than 100 organization members and over 20,000 individual members in over 180 nations worldwide represent a veritable who's who of the Internet community. ...

    1775 Wiehle Ave.,Suite 102
    Reston, VA 20190-5108, USA
    tel: +1 703 326 9880
    fax: +1 703 326 9881
    Email: info@isoc.org.

    4, rue des Falaises
    CH-1205 Geneva
    Switzerland tel: +41 22 807 1444
    fax: +41 22 807 1445
    http://www.isoc.org/


    PIR, a not-for-profit corporation created by the Internet Society (ISOC) in 2002, manages the .ORG top-level domain (TLD) and plays a number of roles in helping .ORG thrive. PIR's primary responsibility is managing the database of .ORG domain names (Internet addresses), which it does with support from its technical provider, Afilias Limited. That database connects individuals surfing the Web to the .ORG sites they seek. http://www.pir.org/AboutPIR/AboutPIR.aspx


    Afilias Limited is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with U.S. offices near Philadelphia, PA, sales offices in London, UK, an operations center in Toronto Canada, and operational offices in New Delhi, India http://www.afilias.info/about_afilias/
  19. Re:Huh? on ICANN Grants Temporary Reprieve to Spamhaus · · Score: 1

    They do that all the time, a bill titled "Save the Children", will regulate the slaughter, meat packing, and freezing of human minors for later consumption! So if your for something, vote for the people who voted against the bill entitled to protect what you want and vica versa.

  20. Re:Ethanol != environmentally friendly on Electric Vehicle Kits for the Masses? · · Score: 1

    It's not like the water can't be recycled, I'd think EtOH producers would think quite a bit greener than most other industries.

  21. Re:Inefficiency on Electric Vehicle Kits for the Masses? · · Score: 1

    Noise is energy too, I've seen it porposed to put piezo-electric crystals in the exhaust of ICE to convert wasted sonic energy into electricity

  22. Re:mnb Re:ethanol ? Air ! on Electric Vehicle Kits for the Masses? · · Score: 1

    Actually I thought that if you compressed the air enough, and it lost enough heat, that liquidification might increase effeicency from "laughable range" up to the "chuckle-snicker" range. Using ambient heat to boil the liquid air would help; and I'm too lazy to do the math.

  23. Re:ethanol ? Air ! on Electric Vehicle Kits for the Masses? · · Score: 1
    Not quite
    Producing a gallon of ethanol gas from corn requires 95 percent less petroleum than producing a gallon from fossil fuels, a new study finds, ... Ethanol could be even more energy efficient and 95 percent free of greenhouse gas emissions, Kammen said, if produced from woody plants instead of corn. "It is better to use various inputs to grow corn and make ethanol and use that in your cars than it is to use the gasoline and fossil fuels directly," said Daniel Kammen of the University of California, Berkeley. Ethanol Fuel More Advantageous Than Thought

    The real benefits I'd think come from multi-usage such as growing hemp, extractinting the oil from the seeds to run in the farmers tractors as biodiesel, then feedin the seed cake to the cattle, planting field corn, extrcating the oil for biodeisel, extracting the carbohydrates and cellulose for ethanol, feeding the Distiller's dried grain back to the cattle, running the manure through a Thermal Depolymerization Unit to make TDP to run the tractors on ect.
  24. Re:Ghostbusters on Perspectives on Spamhaus's Dilemma · · Score: 1

    I hope you took stupid pills this morning with your breakfast, becuase I would hate you came up with that using your full mental faculties! Putting forth the assertion that alowing network operators to volentarily stop listening to the spam on the internet by using spamhauses services is a limitation of free speach, but the court shutting down spamhaus isn't is mind-boggling! I'm more of the mind to say that limiting my ability to recieve DNS information for spamhaus.org is an attack on my right to assembly on the internet! Having a right to speach isn't the same as having a right to a forum to speak and doesn't affect my right to not listen.

  25. Re: The IP Address on One Last Spamhaus Warning Before The End · · Score: 1
    The way I understood it to work is
    1. you get an Email supposedly from spammer.evil
    2. you query a dns server for spammer.evil.rbl.spamhaus.org
    3. spammer.evil.rbl.spamhaus.org resolves then it's from someone on the blacklist
    4. you choose to block or not
    So the only way arround it is to set up their name server as a forwarder.

    "Suspending a domain name isn't the same as suspending a Web site," said Jonathan Zittrain, a law professor at Harvard and Oxford universities. "Spamhaus is intended for use by people who run mail servers - in other words, technically inclined people. If Spamhaus wanted to, it could simply pick a new domain name, or use no name at all."

    Domain names are merely shortcuts to access a site's true, numeric Internet address. Spamhaus could simply distribute that address instead of the domain name.


    He doesn't understand how the list is distributed, it's distributed via DNS those shortcuts that are going to be cut.

    What I'm wondering is as soon as the DNS stops pointing to spamhaus, will they perform the coup de gras and block all .gov and .mil requests? I'd make them ask for the blocks to be removed after the USG decides that shutting down spamhaus was a BAD THING (TM) and unshutts them down; obviously spamhaus has been waiting with bated breath for this moment. My hunch when this all started is it's a trap; spamhaus has been through enough of these silly suits that they must have all of the briefs and filings as bullet-proof boilerplate and can stop them in their sleep. US District Chief Judge Charles Kocoras is no light weight (his name brings up 816 pages of results on google) and is known to the present administration. When he finally gets bitch-slapped over this, every judge in the country will take note, serious note and we probably will never see spamhaus getting sued in the United States again. Springing the trap on him was a master-stroke!