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  1. Re:Food, Water, Power and the 'net on Rebuilding Iraq's Internet · · Score: 1

    Based on the fabulous wealth beneath their sands, the Iraqis should be able to secure enough commercial loans to buy all the equipment they need. Besides, most of the oil drilling equipment is already there. Sodamn Insane didn't get to burn the oil fields like he'd planned.

  2. Re:Food, Water, Power and the 'net on Rebuilding Iraq's Internet · · Score: 1

    The Marshall Plan was a great idea. Europe does not have the vast natural resources that Iraq does. The Iraqis should be able to secure enough private loans based on the vast wealth beneath the sand to rebuild their own country.

  3. Re:Food, Water, Power and the 'net on Rebuilding Iraq's Internet · · Score: 1

    Why should the average American taxpayer have to pay a penny to rebuild Iraq? These folks are sitting on the second largest oil reserve in the entire world. There's enough wealth under the ground to rebuild the entire country. Let them pay for their own rebuilding.

  4. Your Parents Love You on Pinnacle, Online Grades, Skipping School and More · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Your parents love you enough to care about your success. If you spend less time fighting with them, you'll have more time to play after you get your homework done.

    You ought to thank them for caring enough to check the gradebook every night.

  5. Use MT instead on Blogger Hacked · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If you have your own journaling software installed, like MovableType, you don't have to worry about things like this!

  6. Sony FD71 on Death to the 3.5" Floppy? · · Score: 1

    I still use a floppy drive to upload pictures from my Sony FD71 digital camera.

  7. Re:Self-censorship in the name of business on Yahoo Agrees to Censor Chinese Portal · · Score: 1

    "Censorship" by business is quite different from government censorship. If I'm running a video store, I don't have to carry porno movies. If I'm running a newsstand, I don't have to put Playboy on the shelves. That's not "censorship," that's taking products off my shelves that customers don't want.

  8. If the Pentagon is smart... on Microsoft Battles Free Software at Pentagon · · Score: 1

    ...they'll move to get rid of all Microsoft products. With open source they can analyze the code and determine security vulnerabilities. As we see in the news all the time, they'll need to wait a long time for Microsoft to fix security patches.

  9. Slaying lines in NC on Line Slaying: The Final Frontier · · Score: 1

    Here in NC, we've started the lineslaying process. Certain types of vehicle registrations can be taken care of over the Internet now. http://www.dot.state.nc.us/

  10. Re:braindead on Slashdot Meets The Pinkerton Corp. · · Score: 1

    Gun control isn't needed as much as parental control. How about parenting classes for the parents of those kids who are considered "depressed and dangerous?" If they were involved in their kids lives, it wouldn't be such a problem. We don't need any more gun control laws; we already have 11,000. Know how many criminals were prosecuted by Clinton's "Justice" Department? Only ONE (that's right 1) was prosecuted in 1998. Let's try enforcing these laws first and then see what happens.

  11. Which School Officials on Slashdot Meets The Pinkerton Corp. · · Score: 1

    I'd love to know which school officials had the hare-brained idea to start this program in the first place. I'll be running for school board in Forsyth county in 2001 and it would be a great issue to use against someone. :-)

  12. Why not Java? on Computer Programming for Everyone · · Score: 1

    Why not teach Java as a first programming language? The language is completely machine independent and works well over the Internet. Aren't we wiring all the schools for the Internet. Why not teach a language that lets students take advantage of being wired?

  13. Significant Documents of the Internet on Ask Slashdot: Significant Documents of the Internet · · Score: 1

    This may be overly simplistic thinking...

    Seems to me like the documents produced by the W3C would be a good place to start. Standards are the backbone of how we present information on the internet. And this would also take into account that more significant documents are being developed all the time...