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  1. Re:It will never happen on California Requests Stimulus Funding For Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    You forgot about the 5000 or so California voter initiatives to fund the that will not raise taxes! Horray for stupid voters who look at bond money and assume it's free or something. California has a problem with having like 80% of its budget allocated before a budget is written.

  2. Re:Halfway Competent on Undercover Cameras Catch PC Repair Scams, Privacy Violations · · Score: 1

    The parent poster is talking about the NHS, which is the nationalized healthcare system in the UK.

    HMOs are prevalent in the US, which operates primarily on a privatized healthcare system.

    Two different things, with their own quirks, inefficiencies, and red tape.

  3. Re:Who cares on Chinese Employee Loses iPhone Prototype, Kills Self · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Now why are we talking about this when this event occurred in China? (not Japan)

  4. Re:free on Bethesda Releases Daggerfall For Free · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The game was almost unplayable without patches.

    But after patches, it was great. It was like the ultimate free-form rpg possible.

    Custom classes (with some very unbalanced setups), Custom Spells, Custom Magical Items, etc.

    I think i spent so much time doing everything else, that I only got like 1/2 way into the main quest after like 200 hours of play.

  5. Re:Rest well this night -- on Bethesda Releases Daggerfall For Free · · Score: 1

    Oh man... That reminds me of good old days of running around as a were-bear/were-wolf and just slaughting tons of 1hp randomly generated townsfolk in Daggerfall.

  6. Re:Your Rights Online on Chinese "Web Addicts" Get Boot Camp, Therapy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And we shouldn't be critical about our own current US government that has assassinated leaders, orchestrated coups, and has been directly responsible for numerous deaths?

    Please do some reading on the following topics:
    The Shah of Iran
    Manuel Noriega
    Phillipine-American War
    CIA intervention in Chile

    etc, etc, etc

  7. Re:Improvement on New AES Attack Documented · · Score: 3, Informative

    erm only a 99.7% improvement.

  8. Improvement on New AES Attack Documented · · Score: 0

    That's only a 0.3% improvement!

  9. Re:Confusing Comparison: RTS vs RPG on Blizzard Confirms No LAN Support For Starcraft 2 · · Score: 1

    You do realize that battle.net is just a matchmaking service. The individual hosting the game actually determines the speed and everything else.

    Now, as long as one person in a game can host, battle.net supports seamless transferring of games from host to host. The primary problem currently with battle.net is that if the host leaves and no one else has ports open, the game ends abruptly.

  10. Re:um...grats? on Yahoo's "Chicken Coop" Data Center Design · · Score: 1

    Umm, Yahoo changed to a robot based crawler listing way back in 2002 for their main search results. Prior to that point, they had search engine results complimenting their directory.

    In the past, they've used Inktomi (which they now own) as well as Google to power their searches. In 2003, they went to their own internal search engine.

    Now that being said, they still maintain a web directory, but it has lost a lot of significance.

  11. Re:Let it collapse on Ranchers Have Beef With USDA Program To ID Cattle · · Score: 1

    Selective quoting. I had posted that most of the "sustainable ranchers" have moved into niche markets, case in point with bison meat. The concept of a "family farm" or "small rancher" is aggressively being pushed by the large farming corporations to push for more subsidies, water easements, etc. Some of these do trickle down and help the niche markets, but the proportions are skewed (the large farming corporations have a much higher level of relative benefit than the smaller farmers). How much do the small farmers actually push their agenda for favorable local, state, and national law compared to the corporate farmers?

    Not everyone lives in an area with readily accessible fresh produce / meat from small farms/ranches, especially once you get into the more heavily urbanized areas. Part of this is from the marginal cost of farmland versus urban development, as well as population density. This has however given rise to markets where people are more than willing to pay the increased premium for non mass-produced agriculture.

    Farming has drastically transformed in the US this century, especially in the last 30-50 years, due to a number of factors, including consolidation, technology, and favorable laws. Since 1900, the number of farms have decreased by over 60% and the farm size has increased by over 60%. There are a good number of beneficial laws that directly support small farmers, with the cyclical nature of the business, but there are a large number of laws that disproportionately benefit the large corporate farms also.

    The point that I'm trying to make is that corporate farms have been pushing for their agenda under the guise of the small farmer, even if it may inherently harm actual small farmers. I didn't make any comments at all about TFA or it's potential economic impact on small farmers, other than my statement that there actually are very few small farmers that are teetering on the edge of being able to compete.

  12. Re:Let it collapse on Ranchers Have Beef With USDA Program To ID Cattle · · Score: 1

    You are an idiot who can't even RTFS. This regulation would hurt the small sustainable ranchers who are teetering on the edge of being able to compete, while benefiting the large-scale industry that you abhor.

     

    Actually, there are very few small sustainable ranchers that are teetering on the edge of being able to compete. Most of them have either sold out to the big cattle companies long ago (because they essentially were forced out of business) or they have moved into niche markets.

     

    The "small rancher" is a myth, just like the "family farm". The corporate cattle ranches and corporate farms have a ton of clout and have essentially manipulated the laws to benefit their assembly-line methods of producing food, all the while playing on the public perception of small ranches and farms.

     

    Of course, I'm just as much of a hypocrite, because I'm more than willing to take the cost savings on assembly-line food (even though sustainable food definitely does taste a lot better and also is healthier).

  13. Re:1 headline + 1 paragraph = nonsense on Malcolm Gladwell Challenges the Idea of "Free" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Glad to see we have editors who can't re-write a summary so that it actually means something to 99% of the people out there.

  14. Re:Wetlands near airports on For Airplane Safety, Trying To Keep Birds From Planes · · Score: 1

    And then there's San Diego's airport, which is completely surrounded by housing, commerical businesses, and everything else. Not much of nature nearby.

  15. let me guess on Apple Plans $1 Billion iDataCenter · · Score: 0, Troll

    Tax Rebates, Free / Discounted Land, and a host of other incentives?

  16. suing your own customers on Red Hat Challenges Swiss Government Over Microsoft Monopoly · · Score: 1

    it is never a good idea to sue your own customers.

  17. Re:But of course... on Square Enix Shuts Down Fan-Made Chrono Trigger Sequel · · Score: 1

    They may very well go out and purchase the original title.

    Going out and purchasing the original title is irrelevant. Square won't make one single penny off of it because all copies of the original title are out of print.

    Now... There are official re-makes of this title that are still in print (i.e. the DS version). That definitely will affect Square's bottom line. Now, look at the devil's advocate side: People playing this fan-made version may negatively affect their sales for the DS version and may just end up pirating it instead.

    That being said, I still think it's an asinine move by Square, but well within their legal right to do, even given the timing of the project.

  18. Re:A minor update on MS, Intel "Goofed Up" Win 7 XP Virtualization · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That suite of applications that you're testing doesn't accurately represent the target population for XP emulation.

    XP Emulation is primarily geared towards businesses with legacy/custom business applications which have not been re-written for Windows Vista/7. Not to mention, some of those vendors for those business applications will charge large hefty upgrade fees to get their software compatible with the newest versions of Windows.

  19. Re:and yet, their drivers still suck on A $99 Graphics Card Might Be All You Need · · Score: 1

    Part of that may be a problem with your TV. There are some interesting things that occur with hooking up a computer up to Sharp TVs. This especially occurs if you use the VGA connector (and to a lesser extent, if you use a DVI to HDMI converter).

    I've been hooking up multiple TVs (Samsung 550 series 46" and Spectre 30") to my current Radeon 3870 with no issues with TV out (in Windows and Linux), as well as a number of prior ATI, nVidia, and even on-board Intel video cards.

  20. Re:As with most technology on How Tor Helps Both Dissidents and the Police · · Score: 5, Funny

    You should never talk to the cops ... "fuck the people" ... violation of some bullshit treaty the US signed ... shit the stuff ... ignore the law ... be a dick while driving

    It's a surprise that you posted that with an account, rather than AC. Now that you've been flagged as a deranged government-hating terrorist, there's plenty of evidence against you now.

  21. Re:Sorry- but on Mozilla Mulls Dropping Firefox For Win2K, Early XP · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's this web interface you're talking about? Real system admins don't even use the command line -- they go in there and start writing/manipulating machine code.

  22. Bigger internet pipes first? on Australia To Build Fiber-To-the-Premises Network · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Too bad Australia needs a bigger pipe to the rest of the world first before this will be a decent benefit.

  23. Re:So, the computer notices things are wrong ... on Three Mile Island Memories · · Score: 1

    It's not entirely simple to shut a nuclear plant down... You can't just hit a few keystrokes and the thing turns off.

    And with only one visual alarm, and one audible alarm, you have no clue what is happening.

  24. Re:Explains a lot on Blizzard Shows Off Diablo III Archivist Class, WoW Dance-Off · · Score: 1

    But then, Blizzard's super secret backdoor contract with the mouse industry might be broken. /me has broken countless mice playing D1/D2.

  25. Re:Advanced Alien Civilizations on Black Holes From the LHC Could Last For Minutes · · Score: 1

    How about no?

    How is it going to accelerate towards the center of Earth when the Earth has minimal gravitation pull on Mars?

    If Earth and Mars were the only two objects in space, you may make an argument for this, but there is a reason why the planets orbit around the sun in a conical shape.