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  1. My own experience? on Can You Raed Tihs? · · Score: 1

    All the people i know who read at all quickly "see" the word, rather than hear it, and are able to go at much faster than speaking speed, whereas all the people who leared phonics tend to hear it, and thus cant read much faster than they can read aloud.

    I laso noticed that if i read a word the wrong way once, i tend to see it the wrong way untill someone points it out to me. I dont really process the word, it just goes straight into my brain.

  2. 1st, get the cat in. Seriously. on Preparing for Isabel? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wen we got hit by gloria back in 80? something, there was a dog in my neighborhood that died pinned to the side of the house and pelted with crap.
    ALso, if youre worried about the wind,cover the windows you can, and criscross the rest with tape. Wont save whe window, but will help stop shards of glass from cutting you into hamburger.
    Also, look in your yard, and anything you an pick up and carry, get it inside a structure. If YOU can pick it up, so can the huricane. THink trash can coming at you at 60 miles an hour.

    Also, WATER!!. Screw the food, but youll be thirsty in hours if you dont hve fresh water. Fill up the bathtub and all the sinks if you cant get containers of it. Batteris will be worth their weight in gold, as will be small battery radio.

  3. Im open to suggestions on how to change it. on CIO Magazine On Offshore IT · · Score: 1

    ANyone? Didnt think so.

  4. "non-cellular portable phones" on Electronics & Planes Don't Mix? · · Score: 1

    ANd these transmit signals using magic pixies carrying notes that walk around the sensitve radio equipment?

  5. Hey, free dvd player!! on Cringely on Identity Theft · · Score: 1

    "Hi, ups, wheres my package? You dropped it off?? With who? You did get a signature, as required, right? You dont? Gee. Thats too bad. Now, about the reimbursement, could you put me through to claims?"

    YEah, its fraud. SO is charging extra for signature required items and not getting a signature.

  6. Porn, or kiddie porn? on What The RIAA Gets Out Of File Sharing · · Score: 1

    Youve got to clarify this a little.

  7. Great, just great. on RIAA Settles With 12-Year-Old Downloader · · Score: 1

    First the lawsuit, and now you just slashdotted a 12 year old.

  8. Re:Best idea yet on RIAA Settles With 12-Year-Old Downloader · · Score: 1

    thres a website www.musiclink.com, can send them money through paypal/credit card.

  9. Kind of out of context. Sorry. on The Return of Apollo? · · Score: 1

    THe idea the author was making was should have gone to orbit, built staion, then gone to moon, built base, then gone to mars, lather rinse repeat.

  10. from red thunder by john varley on The Return of Apollo? · · Score: 5, Interesting


    "Say Columbus took the Apollo route to the New World. He starts off with three ships. Along about the Canary Islands he sinks the first ship, just throws it away, deliberately. And it's his biggest ship. Come [163] to the Bahamas, he throws away the second ship. He reaches the New World ... but his third ship can't land there. He lowers a lifeboat, sinks his third ship, and rows ashore. He picks up a few rocks on the beach and rows right back out to sea, across the Atlantic ... and at the Strait of Gibraltar he sinks the lifeboat and swims back to Spain with an inner tube around his shoulders.
    "If that's what it took to cross the Atlantic, this part of the world would still belong to the Seminoles."

  11. And another line on Mystery Tiles From Around the World · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For those who want to deny any and all knowlege about these so called "tiles"

  12. check back tomorrow on New Heinlein Novel · · Score: 1

    or e-mail me unknown_poltroonatyahoo. com
    I know the story, but i cant think of it off the top of my head.

  13. Dont forget! on New AIBO - Meet the ERS-7 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Be sure to mount friggin lazer beams on their friggin heads!!

  14. Can i attack back in pre-emptive self defense? on Taiwan Under Cyber Attack from China · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Look out Verne, hes coming right at us!!"

  15. Elete member of private paramilitary group. on New Heinlein Novel · · Score: 1

    "eagle scout" just sounds too harmless. Unless you know some eagle scouts.

  16. Bad, no. Confusing, yes. on New Heinlein Novel · · Score: 1

    THe first tiem i read it, it made no sense. Upon rereading it, i found it interesting. Plus it figureing out where tamara hid the gun kept my brain occupied for a while.

  17. Dude, i work tech support. on Electronic Voting: Your Worst Nightmares are True · · Score: 1

    I fully expect the osama/hussain team to win the next presidential election, while bush/cheny are taken out by marine snipers.

  18. HUH?!?! on RIAA Sales Compared to Download Statistics · · Score: 4, Interesting

    SOme references for this? Ill be happy to buy the music cds for my MP3 use, if the riaa will shut the fuck up, or, conversely, i can tell them to shut the fuck up in court becasue i paid the extra 10 bucks for the music cds.

  19. PsssTT!! on Phoenix Bios to Incorporate DRM · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, buddy. Wanna buy one of these coloumbian CPUs? No drm! Highest quality! I get them from a guy i know.

  20. Thank you . on Google Removes Links in Response to DMCA Complaint · · Score: 1

    Always wonderd wher ethat came from.

  21. good luck. on Google Removes Links in Response to DMCA Complaint · · Score: 1

    "taking somethingoff the internet is like trying to take the pee out of a swimming pool"
    -have no idea who said this.

  22. call me silly, but isnt this a poor idea? on World's Biggest Battery Switched On in Alaska · · Score: 1

    WOuldnt some other kind of energy storage be better? Liv eheard ideas about using flywheels, compressed air and damn near everythign else. But those might not have the same instant on capability.

  23. Another clue: on Light Bulb Replacements · · Score: 1

    Hydrogen burns nearly invisibly, since the color in flame is the glowing carbon molecules. Look at the shuttles main engines, thres barely a small blue flame from them. Contrast that with the picutures of the hindenberg going up like a fireworks factory.

    ANother thing to consider, for all the hooplah about the great tragedy, 2/3s of the passengers lived. Compare that to modern planes.

  24. Been there, done that. on How About A Cup Of The Answer To Everything? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    " Try putting milk and sugar in your wine, and tell me how that tastes."

    Actually, it helps if you freeze the wine to a slushy consistency, then put it in the blender. Nothing like a wineshake on a hot day.

    YEs, i truly am an uncultured barbarian.

  25. i wonder how much commercials on Ring a Bell And I'll Salivate · · Score: 4, Interesting

    contributes to the obesity problem in america? The constant programming every 5 minutes that food makes you happy? Reminding you to eat ever 5 minutes? How does that affect your brain?