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  1. Re:Let's just be clear on what they mean here on A Requiem For Saab · · Score: 1

    Front brakes are always superior to rear.

    Not for parking brakes. There is no scenario where this is a good thing. It is perverse and unique for the sake of being perverse and unique.

    An everyday regular-production turbo - not special one-off model - were a Saab first.

    You are either misinformed or a propagandist. The turbo was a very mainstream option in a very mainstream car starting from 1962. I must say I do like the bit of verbal jiujitsu you pulled there with 'special one-off model'. Maybe you are referring to the Oldsmobile Jetfire that had a 'special one-off' production run of about 10,000 units.

    Your logic, knowledge, and common sense fail, but the Apple owner in me appreciates your fanboyism.

  2. Re:Cool on Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki · · Score: 1

    I am the biological father and yes I am pretty sure, so let's not start with every slashdotter claiming the honors.

    It would be humorous for ANY slashdotter to claim the honors.

  3. Re:Fourth baby on Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki · · Score: 1

    If you're a man and you've had sex, you've paid for it. Maybe you didn't exchange cash, but you certainly paid for it.

  4. Re:Yawn. on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Takes Flight · · Score: 1

    And yet it's still more sensible and intelligent than anything kdawson, jamie, or jonkatz has ever written.

  5. Re:I think I'll pass... on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Takes Flight · · Score: 2, Funny

    There's nothing like a good pun. And that, sir, is nothing like one.

  6. Re:I recently needed to learn how to set a live tr on Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki · · Score: 1

    Not offered, but it was a not unusual performance modification, particularly in the days of the flathead ford. IIRC, both Offy and Weber made quad-deuce manifolds.

    Not gonna bother looking at the link, but a reference to three deuce's as being normal is erroneous, with a single four barrel being the most common setup on American V8s. Three deuce setups were normally only found on performance cars, such as the Pontiac you mentioned and the Mopar 440 ci cars.

  7. Re:25% + 8% = ONE THIRD, slashdot can't do math? on Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki · · Score: 1

    It wasn't the math that he got modded up for, it was the correct interpretation of the data that you completely bollixed up.

  8. Re:Cool on Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be more useful to the baby's biological father?

  9. Re:WHAT!?!? on Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki · · Score: 1

    Wait till you find out how the baby gets in there in the first place.

  10. Re:Ack on Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki · · Score: 1

    That was the ghost of Gutenberg, marvelling at the arrogance of 21st man's dismissal of his contribution to the information revolution.

  11. Re:Fourth baby on Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki · · Score: 1

    (Supposedly, prostitution isn't the only job which could be called "the world's oldest profession")

    Midwifery couldn't have started until roughly nine months after the first instance of the world's oldest profession. Try again.

  12. Re:Blahgh on Swiss Geologist On Trial For Causing Earthquakes · · Score: 1

    Nobody is going to be dumb enough to do that again.

    I bet somebody once said that about people rebuilding cities on top of active faults.

    Or rebuilding castles in swamps?

  13. Re:makes sense given the original rationale on Cell Phone Searches Require Warrant · · Score: 1

    Ya, the recording devices... hmm. The interrogation should be recorded and the suspect's lawyer has a right to that recording. Never heard of dening the suspect the right to a recording device. Perhaps in your state? Interesting, yet I can not think of a reason why not.

    Me neither, but apparently, the FOP in Montgomery Co. MD can.

  14. Re:Power Glove on Using Hacked Wiimotes As Scientific Sensors · · Score: 1

    Like this one? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerglove

    Did you miss the subject line of the post you are replying to?

  15. Re:It's not about how much it costs to make on Using Hacked Wiimotes As Scientific Sensors · · Score: 5, Funny

    However, the cost of a grad student per hour is asymptotic at $0.

  16. Re:Never really missing... on 22 Million Missing Bush White House Emails Found · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Conspiracy theorists are NEVER disappointed. If they find the evidence, that is proof of the conspiracy. If they find NO evidence, that is proof that the conspiracy runs even deeper than suspected.

  17. Re:Whoring for votes on "Loud Commercial" Legislation Proposed In US Congress · · Score: 1

    This is nothing more than a politician looking to score some easy votes by attacking something that everyone dislikes but which, since it actually harms no one, won't matter much if the bill disappears in committee and is never seen again. Congress' time would be better spent doing something about unavoidable forms of advertising instead of making a fuss about one of the few entirely avoidable forms.

    Oh, God forbid a Congressman panders for votes by doing something the people want! How dare they?!

  18. Re:Top 10 of the top 20 console games... on Is Console Gaming Dying? · · Score: 1

    I'm not disagreeing with your observations, but I am curious about why the reviewers didn't care for the New Super Mario Wii. I haven't played the whole thing yet, but spent about 20 minutes on it in a store demo and rather enjoyed it. I never cared for SMB 3 (yeah, yeah, I'm a heretic)

    Are these reviews accurate assessments, or are they signs of the reviewers caving in to nostalgia?

  19. Re:Stupid details on Is Console Gaming Dying? · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the obvious reality that the entire world is in a friggen recession right now

    There, fixed that for you.

    And as far as your sig? Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

  20. Re:Never Liked Consoles on Is Console Gaming Dying? · · Score: 1

    This post adds so much to the discussion. You have made things so much clearer. In fact, let's see if we can get Malda to erase every comment to the story other than this one. Seriously, with rhetorical abilities like that, you should be a legislator.

  21. Re:Not for me on Is Console Gaming Dying? · · Score: 1

    Eliza, why did you post anonymously?

  22. Re:Too bad the US can't comprehend this concept on Microsoft Fined In India For Using "Money Power" Against Pirates · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I can find plenty of information about the firing of the reporters, but am having difficulty finding a succinct account of the subsequent lawsuit brought by the station against the reporter.

  23. Re:Um, what about inflation? on Hollywood Sets $10 Billion Box Office Record · · Score: 1

    He's new??

  24. Re:Maybe not in NY but it worked in QC on Hollywood Sets $10 Billion Box Office Record · · Score: 1

    [Citation Needed]

    I didn't see any reference to birth rates nine months later in the wiki article you linked to.

  25. Re:Hollywood Traditionally Does Well In Recessions on Hollywood Sets $10 Billion Box Office Record · · Score: 1

    Whenever I walk, I do not slip off the face of the earth. I cannot imagine the earth being round.