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  1. Re:quick summary on Dearly Departed — Companies and Products That Didn't Make It · · Score: 1

    The book was called "Schindler's Ark", but it was changed for the US market. I'll make no aspersions as to why ...

    Spielberg was making the movie and planned to use lists as a visual metaphor.

  2. Re:The two are not mutually exclusive on Which Google Should Congress Believe? · · Score: 1

    I'm inept you insensitive clod!

  3. Re:Rumour fatigue on Apple Plans Cheaper Nano-Based iPhone · · Score: 1

    'iPhone could add two inches to your manhood'
    ...making the vibrate function that much more important.
  4. Re:I don't see the new technology on Tangible Display Makes 3D Touchable · · Score: 1

    It is in fact the Immersion Cyberforce.

    Compare the picture in the article to the Cyberforce at the Immersion website.

  5. Re:Pshhh... on Safari 3 vs. Firefox 2 and IE7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    In my day, we read the HTML document raw. We had to interpret the tags ourselves.


    So that's what the blink tag was for...
  6. Re:How about... on MacBook Pro Gets Santa Rosa Chipset, LED Screen · · Score: 5, Funny

    and once windows is loaded Windows has full control of your system.

    you forgot to add "...muhuhuhahahaha"

  7. Re:Permanent home? on How the Pentagon Got Its Shape · · Score: 1, Informative



    Sure it did. The French resistance was very successful in disrupting the operation of the nazi occupation and the vichy french government. In fact, partisans all over Europe pinned down a substantial part of the Nazi army in garrison duty. They weren't so successful in going toe to toe with a standing army, but then neither are the Iraqis.

  8. Re:On CEOs as seers. on 20 Years of Bill Gates Predictions · · Score: 1

    Don't forget living hundreds of years while fornicating with countless attractive young women.

  9. Re:Sensational on Bringing Bandwidth To Iraq · · Score: 1

    I think you may need an adjustment in perspective you don't think 150 dying violently isn't the more significant news story, sensationalism or not. I appreciate your sentiment though, there are good people trying to do good things in horrible circumstances. However when 150 die violently, all the charity of these folks becomes fleeting against that tide of chaos.
  10. Re:Macs run Windows on Why Consumer Macs Are Enterprise-Worthy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ohh wonderful. Why don't you give yourself a raise and have sex with my wife. While your ate it do my 19 year old daughter too.

    Wow, is your company hiring?

  11. and so close to san francisco on Tour of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center · · Score: 5, Funny

    SLAC is both the longest and straightest building in the world

    I'm a gay particle physicist, you insensitive clod!

  12. Re:You can't prove a theory on String Theory Put to the Test · · Score: 1

    Apply filter mod.germancompoundwords and you should be good to go.

  13. Re:old-Right to bare arms. on US Attorney General Questions Habeas Corpus · · Score: 1

    The Rebel army didn't really beat the British on US soil, with a few exceptions. The French navy beat them in the Chesapeake.

  14. Re:If people could READ on US Attorney General Questions Habeas Corpus · · Score: 1

    I really hope I'm not wrong about this, but the social contract as codified in the constitution is established by the people to form the government. The people grant power and privilege to the government, not the other way around, and it's an important distinction.

    Look at how the Bill of Rights is written. The Bill doesn't give the right of speech for instance to the people, it prohibits the government from passing laws infringing upon that right of the people. At the end, all non-specifc powers are reserved to the states and the people.

    Interpretations of common law, or Gonzalez's quibbling aside, power and legitimacy flows from the people to the government, not the other way around. Habeas cannot be a privilege granted by the government, it is a restriction upon the government.

  15. Re:There's a reason those stand out on The Return of the Fairness Doctrine? · · Score: 1

    Hard or soft, an interview with an administration official is a news segment. She used the segue to make a potshot at the opposite side that Jeff Gannon would have been proud of.

  16. Re:There's a reason those stand out on The Return of the Fairness Doctrine? · · Score: 1
    There must be a difference, a line in the sand between news and opinion. Talking-heads shows are opinion. Fox can put as many of these shows on as their demographic wants and be 'fair.' To interject POV into news however* is both bad journalism and at the center of a "fairness" doctrine.

    *a recent example off the top of my head would be Fox implying Ted Kennedy was a domestic enemy recently on Fox and Friends

    Seguing to Kennedy's speech to the National Press Club, Carlson said, "You talk about the hostile enemy, obviously being Iraq, but hostile enemies right here on the home front. Yesterday Senator Ted Kennedy, proposing that any kind of a troop surge should mean that there should be congressional approval of that...."Bartlett responded that the administration considered Kennedy a long-time critic of the war, but not a hostile enemy.


    It's this kind of intermingling of news reporting with opinion that is at the heart of the debate. Newspapers have an opinion page for a reason.
  17. Re:Correlation... causation on Does Income Inequality Matter? · · Score: 1
    And when at last it is time for the transition from megacorporation to planetary government, from entrepreneur to emperor, it is then that the true genius of our strategy shall become apparent, for energy is the lifeblood of this society and when the chips are down he who controls the energy supply controls Planet. In former times the energy monopoly was called "The Power Company"; we intend to give this name an entirely new meaning.


    Nwabudike Morgan was right!

    man, that game gets creepier and creepier...
  18. Re:Unemployment? on Living the Good Life, Leaving Google Behind · · Score: 1
    One is not truly financially independent until one has probably fifty million dollars in assets.


    $50M? Cmon now, that really depends on what you see as your needs. This is staight out of my butt, but let's say you want to continue your lifestyle of $65k/year. Supposing you can buy a house own it outright, a principle of $1.5M in a low-risk type of investment would yield you $65k/year while still leaving enough growth to account for inflation of your lifetime. With no mortgage, your expenses are much reduced and that same $65k/year would provide a much more comfortable lifestyle.
  19. Re:Yay!!! on NASA Will Go Metric On the Moon · · Score: 1

    yuk yuk.

    For completeness sake, without having to invoke wikipedia, the PC in PC load letter means Paper Cartridge, or Printer Cartridge

  20. Re:IMPEACH - the only tag needed. on Bush Claims Mail Can Be Opened Without Warrant · · Score: 1

    No I don't think it's going happen. Pelosi herself has said she doesn't want to do it. As a political reality, they can still perform public oversight to draw into the light what this current administration has been doing. And that will help out the Democratic in '08. ...regardless, I still see abundant evidence for both the presiden' and the vice-president's impeachment. My point in the original comment was to counter the "President Cheney" scare argument against impeachment. If you can impeach one, you can impeach the other. Or both.

  21. Re:IMPEACH - the only tag needed. on Bush Claims Mail Can Be Opened Without Warrant · · Score: 1

    Why not impeach them both of them? President Pelosi has a nice ring to it.

  22. Re:Hey Sony, Nintendo, and Apple, Listen Up! on How 'Games for Windows' Will Change PC Gaming · · Score: 1
    Apple has a near monopoly on iPods


    Considering they have the copyright on Ipod, it's safe to say they have a complete monopoly on ipods.

    pedantic.mode = OFF
  23. Re:Front Row on iTunes Sales 'Collapsing' · · Score: 1

    I have about that many songs on my ipod and the wheel interface works great for that. Would love to see that extended to a program guide.

  24. Re:Don't be silly on Army Game Proves U.S. Can't Lose · · Score: 1
    The only militaries that could give us a tussle in an all-out fight are Russia and China, and since we're all trading partners that won't happen.


    As much as I'm comforted by this, the same political theory was going around 100 years ago, before the first world war. The argument was basically since the great powers were so interdependent, and had so much industrial capacity, any war between them would be utterly catastrophic and so increasingly improbable. At least half of the theory was correct.
  25. Re:It's that bad... on The Lameness of Warcraft · · Score: 1

    There's lots of replay in lvling. Different classes are a completely different experience, different races, the opposite faction, all kinds of good stuff.

    I have a main and to the whole raid grind, but those alts bring alot of fun to the experience.

    Just recently I logged into my very first character created at launch (but only lvld to 20), and oh was he a horrible mess, leather armor purchased from a vendor, a grey weapon... oh it was embarrassing.

    Knowing the game mechanics and story, then traveling through from a different perspective really is lots of fun.