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  1. Re:Non sense on Best Seating Arrangement For a Team of Developers? · · Score: 1

    Well ventilated individual offices . . .

  2. No worries on ACTA Treaty Released · · Score: 1

    Nothing to worry about. Not much to discuss either. No Treaty signed by Obama will ever achieve Senate approval.

  3. Re:Then fuck it. on US Rejects Demands For ACTA Transparency · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter.

    No treaty negotiated by Obama's Administration will ever make it through the U.S. Senate, especially after the elections this coming November.

  4. No Company pays taxes on What the Top US Companies Pay In Taxes · · Score: 1

    No company pays taxes. They just take your money and give it to the government.

  5. Re:More deaths on White House Issues New Gas Mileage Standards · · Score: 1

    'sa right boss, I'll stick with my '73 Red Eldorado.

  6. Re:To quote the great Bob Saget on Fatty Foods May Cause Cocaine-Like Addiction · · Score: 1

    Or robbed a seben-eleben for a cheesy poof?

  7. Re:Cheaper if everybody steals an hour a day on NYC Drops $722M On CityTime Attendance System · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've been in IT one war or another since the TRS-80 model 1.

    Regarding our fate as IT 'professionals' we had a saying then that still holds true, "Never have so many been paid so much to do so little".

    Good day.

  8. Re:And what's the problem here? on US Lawmakers Eyeing National ID Card · · Score: 1

    Nothing to see here. Move along.

  9. Re:Pro / cons on House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212 · · Score: 1

    The pros and cons depends upon perspective. People who did not have a means of taking other people's money, now do.

  10. Re:How? Could we. turn. down. Such! an offer? on William Shatner Takes On Social Networking · · Score: 1

    es muerto, jim

  11. Re:How can they tell... on New Research Forecasts Global 6C Increase By End of Century · · Score: 1

    Even the Climate Change Congress now acknowledges this (quote: "temperature has plateaud"). Why?

    Because its main motivation is to understand exactly what's going on with the climate. It doesn't have a political agenda. The best data right now suggests that the climate is getting warmer and that a probable reason for that is anthropogenic CO2. If new data comes in that suggests this is not the case, the IPCC and other climate change panels will have to acknowledge it.

    No political agenda? Paint you naive.

    They have but one purpose: To control the means of production, if not outright, then by regulation and taxation.

  12. Re:We're looking to AUSTRALIA for advice on broadb on Obama Looks Down Under For Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    Obama is an embarrassment.

  13. Re:TANSTAAFL on Panel Recommends Space Science, Not Stunts · · Score: 1

    Bloody well sounds like a plan. I just hope the Loonies have a fair dinkum thinkum.

  14. Re:Electricity on MIT Electric Car May Outperform Rival Gas Models · · Score: 1

    answer, I guess they do, after a fashion.

  15. Electricity on MIT Electric Car May Outperform Rival Gas Models · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A lot of articles recently about electric autos. Not a lot of (no) discussion about the electrical generation and delivery infrastructure.

    (paragraph)I do not know about Europe, Asia, Africa or South America; but North America doesn't have the electrical generating capacity, nor the 440V lines into the home, necessary to support lighting your room and running your PC, much less any to spare for transportation. Don't believe me? In 1969 the standard delivery into a home was 250V/125V. Today it is 215V/108V. See the difference?

    (paragraph)Just another Pig in a Poke people. Move along nothing to see here. (aside) Why does LF/CR not work?

  16. Re:Well Shit... on Huge Unidentified Organic Blob Floating Around Alaska · · Score: 1

    Or a bandersnatch.

  17. Re:Well there can be only one answer.... on Noctilucent Clouds Spread and Mystify · · Score: 1

    If it radiates in "nearly every frequency range except for visible light and UV", there isn't anything left that isn't infra-red.

  18. Dry? on Noctilucent Clouds Spread and Mystify · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "What water ice is doing up there, in a region 100 million times drier than the Sahara desert"

    Bloody well isn't dryer than Mars and Mars has clouds and precipitation.

  19. Just like God and Robert Heinlein Intended on Russian Manned Space Vehicle May Land With Rockets · · Score: 1

    Takes off and lands straight up and down?

    Just like God and Robert Heinlein intended. Huzzah!

  20. Seven? on Windows 7 To Be Called ... Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Let's see.

    Windows 286
    Windows 386
    Windows 3.0
    Windows 3.0a
    Windows 3.1
    Windows 3.11
    Windows 95
    Windows 95b
    Windows 98
    Windows 98SE
    Windows NT 3.0
    Windows NT 3.5
    Windows NT 3.51
    Windows NT 4.0
    Windows ME
    Windows 2000
    Windows XP
    Windows Vista

    More than seven. Did I miss any?

  21. d00d on Why Myths Persist · · Score: 1

    If you're going to talk about myths, at least use an example of a myth. No one in authority ever said Saddam was behind 911.

    You wanna talk about myths? Talk about the poozers who believe that the WTC was destroyed by controlled demolition. Or how a missile flew into the Pentagon.

  22. Re:Libertarianism isn't liberalism on Why Are So Many Nerds Libertarians? · · Score: 1

    Take it up with Mr. Heinlein.

  23. Libertarianism isn't liberalism on Why Are So Many Nerds Libertarians? · · Score: 1

    There are two types of people in the world; those who wish to control others and those that have no such desires.

  24. Big 3 my butt on Ubuntu, Macintosh and Windows XP · · Score: 1

    There are probably more DOS boxes still operating on the planet than all the Eunuchs and Macs put together.

  25. And what about Model B-9? on C-3PO Joins R2 in the Robot Hall of Fame · · Score: 1

    Danger! Will Robinson.

    The most famous robot of all.