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  1. "Pravda" means "Truth"... on Raising the Kursk · · Score: 1

    ...or "Old habits die hard"
    Russian officials say they want to: "eliminate any potential threat to the area's rich fishing grounds from its twin nuclear reactors" The country doesn't have a history of taking great care with nuclear hazards.

    I think everyone would be OK with it if the Russians just went ahead and said "we don't want other countries snooping around our submarine technology".

  2. Tuesday on Microsoft Du Jour - Talks, Upgrades, Salaries · · Score: 1

    "This will open a Pandora's box," he said, promoting the idea of "elaborate rights." These, he said, could move the concept of buy-once rights to time-based rights -- "you can make it so the user can, say, only read this book on Tuesday"

    Well, I'm not OK with that, because I have to pick up my daughter from ballet on Tuesday, OK? So Tuesday's not a good reading day for me.

    If Microsoft can't let me read on the weekend, I'm just going to have to shop around.

  3. Re:International Politics on Consumer Hydrogen Fuel Cells · · Score: 1

    Bush certainly would support the oil _companies_, but what determines our middle east policies is oil _supply_.

    A reduction in available energy would be disastrous for the U.S.: Bin Laden overthrowing Saudi Arabia would only result in the U.S. occupying Saudi Arabia.

  4. Cheese... on Pyramid Shaped Keyboard · · Score: 1

    ...will stay fresh under it for weeks.

    Put your razor blades under it at night, they will be sharp in the morning!

    Chip

  5. Re:Cisco Support on Blow-by-Blow Account of the OSDN Outage · · Score: 1

    In the future, all restaurants are Taco Bell?

  6. Re:More money than the worlds combined govt. on The Rise of Corporate Global Power · · Score: 1
    Not more money. The figure used was sales. And minus the biggest ten countries. Quite different.

    "3. The Top 200 corporations' combined sales are bigger than the combined economies of all countries minus the biggest 10."