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  1. Cars are 2000lbs. poorly guided bombs. on Mass Transit Meets The Incredibles · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is far better than both a "mass transit" train or a car.

    For a better and simpler solution look to Curbita's bus system in Brazil. They just set aside roads for bus only, give them chrome boxes so they always get a green light, and make the bus stop the pay station so you can load and unload quickly. A system like Curbita requires nothing more than a better bus stop and large doors and moves more people than a subway at a fraction of the cost. Their system cost $.25 a ride and makes a profit.

  2. Re:Share the road with automated 18-wheelers? on Will Our Cars Become Our Chauffeurs? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You people act like humans aren't the faultiest damn wetware on the road. For the love of god I'd take a bad comuter for driving over the average human any day of the week. Also if every car is smart and one dies the WHOLE line can slam on the breaks at the same time all the way back to the largest opening in traffic.

    I love it when similar problem manifest in an sun-regularr "I" control system's sensors on humans. Sleeping and drinking at the wheel, talking on cell phones, badly misjudging the relative speed of convergin objects, administering punishment to 1/2 clones. Arrrrh! I freaks the shit out of me every time I look at a car. 2000 lbs POORLY guided bombs.

  3. Re:Speed comparison question on Mach 10 X43A Flight Successful · · Score: 1

    http://science.slashdot.org/science/03/11/19/00920 1.shtml?tid=133&tid=134&tid=186

  4. Re:Natural Selection... on Source Engine SDK Released · · Score: 1

    I'd just like to say that I honestly think NS is the most enjoyable, interesting and challenging multiplayer game I have ever seen. Well... discounting Starcontrol 2 of course.

    I would love to see a Source NS. Is Valve offering any help to large 3rd party Mods for HL? It seems like the CS Source was a major push, is there any weight left for you guys?

    Oh yeah, when I get swallowed by an Onos and I happen to have my knife out, I'd like to be able to stab that beast as I die.

    Thanks.

  5. Re:CDS?!? on Half-Life 2 Release Date Broken · · Score: 1

    I got the HL P and they came in envelopes.

  6. Re:bullshit on Combined Gasoline/Hydrogen Fuel Station Opens · · Score: 1

    Sorry I don't belong to the magazine and can't read the article.

  7. Re:Simplicity on Schneier On Electronic Voting · · Score: 1

    Oregon: Vote by mail, scored by scantron.

    This year only one case of double voting and it was found days before the election.

  8. Re:bullshit on Combined Gasoline/Hydrogen Fuel Station Opens · · Score: 1

    That's not true. A wired article (that I can never find) state that Sandia or Lawrence Livermore (I can't find the article to check) came up with a solution so simple we could have been doing from day one.

    Place your waste in front of a high energy radiation gun and accelerate the breakdown by many many times. The waste product is heat which can be made into power and the 60/40 split. Probably lead and radon gas.

    Can anyone find the original article or study please?

  9. Or 84615 minutes of MPEG4 Video per disk on Pioneer Ultraviolet Laser Promises 500GB Discs · · Score: 1

    Or 84615 minutes of MPEG4 Video per disk at 320x480p. That's about 770 DVD's (granted that's at a crapulent quality level) Anyone know who many porn DVD's are released each month?

  10. Re:I guess I'm a sucker on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 1

    So why shouldn't Bush have paid for what he bought?

  11. Re:I call BS on Australian Counter Strike Shooters · · Score: 1

    I said Sociopaths were clean and methodical. I said Psychopaths were the ones out in left field.

  12. Re:No kidding on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 1

    Me Republican, me think deep thoughts. Hmmm huge social programs to prevent disease and poverty bad. Huge military spending to kill people and produce large profits for the minority good.

  13. Re:Liars on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 1

    Acutally your wrong. Islam is one nation, the Koran is very specific about it. Bin Laden wants to be the Calliphate or "god's shadow on earth." He wants to be the leader of a united muslim world as dictated in the Koran.

    That's why invading Iraq was a BAD idea. Imagine if the Consistution said if anyone attacks a country that is a democracy then this democray is legally bound to defend that county. We would go ape-shit if someone attacked Canada right? Well if you beive in Islam and a lot of Iranians, Turks, Kuwaits, and a WHOLE HEAPING SHITLOAD of Saudi Arabian Wahabis then you MUST attack the US forces in Iraq. Its a direct command in the Koran. Bush et. all are fuck wits for not doing any real thought on the repercusions of their actions. They belive that their will is all that matters and they are the ones smoking crack.

  14. Re:No kidding on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 1

    Ron Suskind qoute from a "senior Bush advisor."

    The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''

  15. Re:No kidding on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 1

    Um yeah... ok... but they sure piled on the pork this bienium. Give me a break. There is no difference between the two parties on this. Without checks and balances its a fucking pork fest no matter what. The house, the senate, and the executive are all in one party and that's very fucking bad. Bad if they're Republicans, bad if they're Democrats. Its not fucking rocket science here.

  16. Re:No kidding on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 1

    My favorite statistic is that there is a whole cadre of high school student who belive that anal sex is not sex. It seems to be highly correlated with abstinance traing.

    Ah shit we're all going to be turned to salt.

    Anyway, so you say "honey don't take the risk, don't have sex." So Billy sodemizes her and gives he a fecal tainted episiotomy. WOW THAT'S GREAT! Good thinking Lincoln!

  17. Re:Liars on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm for the Tobin tax or transaction surcharge tax applied first to currency trading then domestically to all transaction at one tenth of one percent.

  18. Re:Liars on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 1

    No paying off high interest debt first is they're favorite activity. It's what companies and smart people do when flushed with cash. It's what well educated nothern liberals do when they are flushed with cash. Then you invest the rest in capial projects in your home. Or if you're the government you patch the roads and bridges, fix the municipal sewer system that's overflowing into the river and get the asbestos out of the school gym. You don't throw a HUGE party for your friends and blow your wad. Bush, once a coke head frat boy asshole, always a coke head frat boy asshole. Every company he's run has been driving into the ground with the exception of a baseball team but all he did there was shmooze, the manager did the books.

    You people think that you got a deal when they sent you $400 in the mail. You lost on average $2700 in services from the government in the long term for that payoff. Why? becasue those making over $500,000 a year got the real money. There's a great political cartoon of it. Imagine if you will homer with four bills in his hand going "Whoooo hoooo" and Mr.s burns standing in front of a pile of money. If you think the ta cuts are a good thing and you make less then $500,000 a year. You're just another fucking sucker.

  19. Re:Liars on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 1

    Touche! But its still clear what I ment.

  20. Re:antidisestablishmentraistic on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Correct sir.

    The philosophy of these people can be coined as Domonists and they are trying to pass laws to make it impossible to sue if someone passes a law that has a biblical basis. e.g. If some asshole passes a law saying that pi=3 because in the bible it says that it was a perfect circle and was 1 cubit wide and 3 in circumference, you can sue him for fucking your local science text books.

    Its the same bullshit in the 10 commandments in the rotunda. FOR FUCK'S SAKE! The New Testament supersedes the 10 commandments, that's the point of the NEW COVENEANT. So why doesn't he put up the golden rule instead? Because that requires flexible thinking and empathy something most modern evangelicals lack. e.g. killing is bad. Killing babies is worse. No Abortion. Killing Iraq's? Why the fuck not, they hate us so we hate them. Boy Jesus is going like that kind of thinking let me tell you! If you want ancient laws put up Hammuarabi's code if you want the real historical basis for written laws.

  21. Re:Liars on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 1

    Ahhh yes the liberal press where footnotes and documented sources are used. Not like the Bush Whitehouse where the "reality based community" is derided as being out of date. Where you supress all opions that differ from your own and exclude the people from the decision making process.

    Also your 95% by 5% numbers, lets see a footnote, or even an endnote like Ann Coulter might use. You know what the GAO is? They're nopartisan governmental organization devoted to f'gur'n out numbers not taught in the 3rd grade.

    You and your kind of radical right wingers are just trying to desrtoy the federal government so the SOUTH CAN RISE AGAIN! He's and idea go back to you anti-intelectual anti-thought all faith world and love the Jesus who tells us to go to war and kill your enemies. Then you and yours can wait for costal liberals and thier tax dollars to underwrite your imagined pastoral religous utopia.

    Its funny that the godless liberals belive in and practice all the things that Jesus belived in and the evangelical christains would have be thrown out of their churches on thier ears by the actual radical left wing anti-estblishment Jesus.

    I'm sure Jesus would have shitloads of sympathy for a man that puts people to death, sends good men and women who were free to kill women and children. The same guy who found Jesus by reading the chapter in the bible about distributing wealth to the poor, then turns around and does the opposite of what his god tells him in print. Why does his listen to god instead of reading him? He does what he hears god tell him. HE'S TOO FUCKING STUPID TO KNOW THAT THE DEVIL TALKS TOO! THE DEVIL TELLS YOU WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR. THAT'S WHO BUSH LISTENS TO ON HIS KNEES EVERY NIGHT! Bush is like the first class at Harvard who took business ethics, the all turned around and broke those rules to become the first corporate raiders. Bush reads the bible, wait who am I kidding. Bush listens to other people reading small parts of the bible without context to come up with his morality. Bush wouldn't know real morality if it came up and bit him on the ass. And if you belive in hurbris which I do the gods have some serious ass biting in the wings for GWB.

  22. Re:Liars on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 1

    Read "Perfectly Legal" by David Cay Johnston. He's the tax reporter for the New York Times. He has some very interesting things to say on this subject. Like more people are not paying any income taxes now than ever before, and its not the poor. The alternate minimum tax is being used on the middle class to tax them at a higher rate than the rich (500,000+ per year.) And that the super wealthly are paying ZERO taxes very often by using off shore mutual insurnace companies and debit cards tied to offshore tax free accounts.

  23. Re:for those who'd like to read the quotation: on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nova Express is an example of the "cut-up method" where Burroughs litterally cut up works he had writen and put them back together in an attempt to break away from internal forumlas. So if its hard to follow don't be suprised.

    An interesting note, Burrough uncle is credited with inventing modern P.R. for the Standard Oil Company after a massacre of workers. I tired to argue in a paper that Burroughs was attempting to create ways to deprogram people as a reaction to his Uncle's invention.

  24. Re:False Alarm on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 1

    But Bush is not defending the Constitution he is attacking it.

    Article I. Free Speach zones & domestic intelegence on political groups.

    Article II. Misuse of the National Guard as regular military rather than milita.

    Article IV, V, & VI. Guantimo, the Patriot Act, & etc.

    To sum it up in respose to the 9/11 defense of these acts let me say in the words of Ben. Franklin, "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

  25. Re:False Alarm on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 1

    The members of the electoral college are under no law that controls their vote. If they are moral people and belive that the election process was the result of fraud in their state they could always abstain or split their votes.