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  1. corn and rice are adjuncts on BudNet Tracks Your Suds · · Score: 1

    adjuncts are things used to replace malted barley, to make the beer cheaper, or have a less pronounced taste. Corn and rice are huge offenders, and wheat with the wrong kind of yeast is too (yeah, I'm talking Leinenkugel Honey Wheat).

    Saranac makes great all malt beers, at only about twice the price of Bud.

  2. If you use carbonless paper on Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die · · Score: 1

    you can make multiple copies on a laser printer. You just have to line up the micro inked sides the right way.

  3. Ti-99 4/a on First Computers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    with Parsec!

    I co-oped at a Federal Agency that tried to use these, back in 1987, it was to laugh.

  4. They shut down Captain Eo? on Lost Disney Rides Recreated in CGI · · Score: 5, Funny

    As a young boy, I found that ride with Michael Jackson very touching.

  5. I hope the kids can wait to open their presents on First Review Of Return Of The King · · Score: 1

    the earliest I may get to see this is Christmas morning. I even had a date, with my wife's blessing, for the all day long showing on the 16th, but the tickets sold out.

  6. Will they censor in the name of community mores? on Utah Cities To Provide High-Speed Net Access · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Remember, this is Utah, where Blockbuster is too risque, so they edit R rated films to PG standards. I wonder if they plan on running some sort of web filter on their connections, it would be local government reflecting the will of the people.

  7. That really sucks on Skittlebrau · · Score: 1

    It's not hard to try all sorts of different beers in the US. My grocery store, in addition to a few local microbrews, usually has Guiness, Bass, Boddies and Stella for sale.

    I can get Guinness and Stella at the corner on tap, half a mile way is a "English" pub, two miles away there's a pub with 150 beers on tap, and 15 minutes away is Beers of the World, with probably 40 different English beers, 20 different Scottish, and hundreds of beers from around the world (no Fat Tire, sadly).

    How about Pete's Wicked, they're pretty big and all over the US?

  8. All UK beers suck, I know, I tried Boddies on Skittlebrau · · Score: 1

    and Old Speckled Hen. Flat and tasteless, what do you do to remove the body and yeast taste? Heh, I generalize, I do like the cans of Ruddles, and the cask conditioned Ruddles county ale I had was quite good.

    I agree with you about mass market American beers, the only Budweiser to pass my lips in the last few years was the Czech kind. So, I buy kegs of all malt beer, usually Saranac Pale Ale. I don't think Saranac is big enough to export to England, but you can look for Sam Adams, they're almost as good.

  9. Can you name an all malt Canadian beer on Skittlebrau · · Score: 1

    I drink Saranac; and Labatt's, Molsons, Moosehead, Grizzly, etc are all a step down for me, I happen to like tasty all-malt (no corn, no rice) beers.

    To me, Molson Ale, Molson Lager and Molson Canadian taste like watered down beer.

  10. Take it up with Pantone on Color Laser Printer Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    They're the ones who said my Xerox 6060 does acceptable coated and uncoated Pantones, for the one with the gamut of our toner.

  11. Funny, my laser printers do 200 screen and on Color Laser Printer Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    are Pantone certified. Maybe you need a better laser printer.

  12. Gosh darn them on Most Movies On P2P From Insiders? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why, by releasing movies on P2P networks, they might create a buzz of interest and get people to actually go to the theaters and buy a ticket!

    What kind of cockamanie marketing scheme is that?

  13. I have power, though no WCMF or cable on Power Outages Strike East Coast · · Score: 1

    I better use my ration before I lose it, so I'm going to get out my circular saw.

  14. Well, Moosehead is tolerable on Beer Added To The Food Pyramid · · Score: 1

    it has the suggestion of body, which is more than I can say for Molson, or Labatts.

    They still can't compare to a Saranac, or Sam Adams, or most of the microbrews that I tried last night (yummm, Flying Bison Cask Conditioned red, yumm, Southern Tier Hefeweizen).

  15. 60 ppm is nothing on Xerox Exploits Printer Flaws To Make Pseudo-Holograms · · Score: 1

    If you're in the right location, Xerox will sell you a bigger, 100 ppm 4 color printer.

  16. Where can I download his software? on Romancing The Rosetta Stone · · Score: 1, Funny

    Since I mistakenly borrowed some undubbed Cowboy BeBop.

  17. I can't stand Ragnarok on Thailand Imposes Gamers Curfew · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know what it is with Korean games, but the sounds coming out of the character's mouths never sync with their lips. I must have a slow PC.

  18. Re:Motorcycles on What's Your (non-tech) Hobby? · · Score: 1

    Heh, sounds familiar, i'm working on a 1974 Kz400.

  19. Your name is wrong on Special Ops · · Score: 1

    You probably became a LOTR fanboy after seeing the movie, so it's understandable. I've been reading, and rereading JRR for the last 20+ years, and you're wrong about Boromir being the son of Faramir.

    See, Boromir and Faramir are both brothers, their father is Arathorn.

  20. Does it have "net crash NT" on Samba 3.0 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    I see there's a whole slew of net commands to mimic Windows (nice to have when your GUI is stupid, or you have to browse thousands on Windows machines). I wonder if it includes a command to crash an NT, with the right packet sequence.

  21. Could Ender's Game have been more formulaic? on A Good Summer Read? · · Score: 1

    Ender's Game was a nice read, but I found it far to manipulative and formulaic for me to heap the praises on it that seem endemic here.

    Let's see, lets take a young, scrawny hyperintelligent sort (like most sf reading geeks) who is hated and misunderstood (like mmost sf reading geeks) who is a seriously dangerous murdering badass when pushed (like most sf reading geeks want to be) who can rationalize his morality any way he wants (like most sf reading geeks) who has a latent talent to be the best strategic general in the history of mankind (liek most sf reading geeks want to be).

    The only way OSC could have made it more of a geeks wet dream was to have the prom queen of Ender's original school kiss him at the end.

  22. Re:What about classic cartoons? on The Disappearance of Saturday Morning · · Score: 1

    I know a good friend who found a divx of it (using WinMX I think) and put it on VHS for his sister. It made a nice Christmas gift.

    Plus, it was legally for sale in the UK for a while on VHS, but then you need to deal with the PAL/NTSC conversion.

  23. Wow, just like Mad Max on Junkyard Wars Wants You! · · Score: 4, Funny

    If I can contact the legless mechanic and Tina Turner, I've got myself a team!

  24. What's wrong with amphetamines? on Got Sleep? · · Score: 1

    Sure, they make you jittery, paranoid, twitchy and aggressive, but you can't argue with the field tests in WWII.

  25. I'd like to see some traincam pics on The Evolution Of The Cost-Effective TrainCam · · Score: 1

    perhaps of a schoolbus stalled on the tracks?