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  1. Re:Yay, lets sue the company he works for! on Verizon Sued After Tech Punches Customer In Face · · Score: 1

    I can attest to that, personally.
    Lost mine 2 years ago, and it's a bitch.

  2. Re:I'm a peace loving man on Verizon Sued After Tech Punches Customer In Face · · Score: 1

    What the HELL are you on, or talking about?
    Wow...

  3. Re:How is this different than the NBA NFL ?etc on EFF Says Burning Man Usurps Digital Rights · · Score: 1

    The difference is night and day... NBA/NFL is within a man-made building
    NHL on the other hand is also, but doesn't have a problem with it.

  4. Re:Another liberal dream goes totalitarian on EFF Says Burning Man Usurps Digital Rights · · Score: 1

    Pretty much "liberal" in today's world equates to doing something more than living an exact copy of the office workers that existed in the office that Neo in "the matrix" worked in...

    Or just think something that they don't, and you're "liberal".

    I don't understand why even using the term "liberal" is a bad thing... to me, it's like calling someone a state name... "new yorker", "texan", "californian", "liberal". Yeah.. and?

  5. Re:Great... on Laser Ignition May Replace the Spark Plug · · Score: 1

    OBDII computer readouts seem to work for me whenever I have issues, I donno about everyone else.

    well, when I need to help friends with their problems. My cars pre OBDII, so no such luck.

  6. Re:Stupid question on Laser Ignition May Replace the Spark Plug · · Score: 1

    diesel ignites under much lower pressure than gasoline and ignites far more routinely. It is far too chaotic to be used in that fashion.
    gasoline ignites much better by spark, and the compression makes it more volatile to the ignition by spark. That is the very reason for octane, making it less volatile to random ignition due to highly heated surfaces and such while the compression stroke is happening. The 'ping' in engines is caused by either low octane fuel or more commonly a gummed cylinder head raising the compression due to space loss from it's existence.

  7. Re:Not LVM! on Best Home Backup Strategy Now? · · Score: 1

    LVM is a totally different layer. RAID is below that layer.
    You perform software or hardware RAID below LVM, just like you would with Ext2/3, xfs, etc.

  8. Re:SSD on Best Home Backup Strategy Now? · · Score: 1

    Funny, since we all seem to agree that when we store our data for archiving we are performing a backup.
    This is a technically based word, so webster is by far not the place to look.
    Next thing you will say is that "type" is a description not a verb.... geez
    It's all semantics.

  9. Re:Here is to.... on Retired Mainframe Pros Lured Back Into Workforce · · Score: 1

    The point was that the server wasn't sold with Linux, he installed it.
    So basically it's a false report.

  10. Re:Improved looks? on OpenOffice 3.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Hey look everyone, it's someone who thinks they can pretend to be a newscaster pushing stupidity.
    He's funny, everyone laugh!

  11. Re:Improved looks? on OpenOffice 3.1 Released · · Score: 1

    It's not impossible to miss. Most people don't look for a "start button" in an application.
    It's against logic since it doesn't even say start. It just looks like an office logo of some form. The whole thing just looks like one giant pulsing mess.

  12. Re:Sorry but... on OpenOffice 3.1 Released · · Score: 1

    You've totally missed the point hah

  13. Re:Sorry but... on OpenOffice 3.1 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're not flamebait, your just a liar.
    MS Office doesn't come free, it comes via barter or monetary goods exchange. "free" is relative to what you consider worthy.

  14. And Windows geeks are obsessed with not typing anything.

    Your point?

  15. Re:Uh oh on Obama To Get Secure BlackBerry 8830 · · Score: 1

    I actually prefer that, myself.

    As bad is it may sound, I'd sooner see it shot out of the air as it's taking off than at 30,000 feet...

  16. Re:Overkill... on Should Network Cables Be Replaced? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's pretty widely known that with GigE, you use cat5e. I prefer cat5e for 10/100 now since the price is about the same and no worries when bouncing from 10/100 to 1000 in the future on that connection.

  17. Re:Overkill... on Should Network Cables Be Replaced? · · Score: 1

    I think the point is really that if xyz people fuck it up most of the time, don't continue the idea that they are capable.
    Not until they outwardly say "we understand RJ45 cabling" and they prove it through a sentence on just what to do with it... which anyone with any intelligence about it would be able to do... then you go with a cable runner.
    We aren't dealing with feelings here, we're dealing with getting a job done.

  18. Re:Overkill... on Should Network Cables Be Replaced? · · Score: 1

    as long as the body is well hidden.

  19. Re:So I got a new sink..... on Should Network Cables Be Replaced? · · Score: 1

    Dear god man.. its not really that degraded of living outside of the USA is it??
    I mean... in America, hot water is cold water that's heated up in a hot water tank by your house, or in an instant-on electric or natural gas line heater.
    In America, you can drink hot water just as well as cool since it's from the same source.

  20. Re:Welp, on Antarctic Ice Is Growing, Not Melting Away, At Davis Station · · Score: 1

    Carbon Dioxide is a pollutant in the fact that it's stored in the earth (or some object in the earth) and has been dumped into the air in some form.
    Much like every other pollutant.

    Pollutant - Something that pollutes, especially a waste material that contaminates air, soil, or water.

    The very definition of a pollutant is something that pollutes.

  21. Re:Welp, on Antarctic Ice Is Growing, Not Melting Away, At Davis Station · · Score: 1

    Obama points out facts.
    The rest of the world outside of America has been flailing their arms wildly for years :)
    We've just been trying to calm them down and asking them... "okay, now WHAT did you just say?"

  22. Re:Welp, on Antarctic Ice Is Growing, Not Melting Away, At Davis Station · · Score: 1

    The United States has a population that far surpasses most countries, and the size which pushes the boundries of most countries, also. This has a bunch to do with the amount of money the country has.
    HOWEVER, since air conditioning isn't really needed for half of the country (and if it is, only during select months), and SUVs aren't heavy polluting but merely high fuel use... well.. you get the picture. Sidewalks are all over America, unfortunately it's not possible to walk 5-10 miles via sidewalk to get to where you want within the allotted amount of time needed so vehicles are used. In tight areas such as New York, bicycles and walking is used. Here in Phoenix, Arizona, most of the time you will drive 5-10 miles (or more) to get to work.
    As far as staircases, I doubt that has much to do with pollution. Saying that more CO2 is emitted through power use by lifting an elevator a floor rather than hefting items up the stairs while your in dress clothes (which forces the body to overheat, and you will push out more CO2), or even thinking this is anywhere near emissions causing is pompous on top of silly.
    Besides, most people don't use elevators to go one floor. They go from 1st floor to 4th or more, and multiple times during the day. (such as myself which goes from the 3rd floor to the -1 floor server room about 5-6 times daily)

    Somehow, I'm thinking that's far less pollution than say... a pile of trash burning, or wreckless dumping of pollutives.

    India and China can come out of poverty when they know how. They stop themselves simply on the basis of paying their people a laughably low amount.

  23. Re:Welp, on Antarctic Ice Is Growing, Not Melting Away, At Davis Station · · Score: 1

    My god, man. You've included 2 sections of the word "ain't" on a public forum and in the same sequence included nuclear power not ever happening, along with everything else but carbon containing material being used.

    So pretty much, you've turned yourself into a nascar fan... here, let me buy you a busch beer... lol jesus

  24. Re:which state(s)? on The End of Tax-Free Internet Shopping? · · Score: 1

    To be fair, that's a fairly extreme scenario.

  25. Re:which state(s)? on The End of Tax-Free Internet Shopping? · · Score: 1

    I'm not quite understanding why you tossed in the "poor person" object into your description. Just for the record, you could have typed "Uber-rich anglo saxon male" and had the same output.

    Unless you were going for the pity factor, which means you were attempting to pull at the heartstrings of people by subtly implying that it's a problem because it's a larger segment of the consumer's money.
    The universal sales tax part would be great if America was a unified country with no state governments that were of their own power. State sales taxes are state run, with no federal portions. States run individually, and are rather unique in most respects. So let's break yours down for a second.
    House and car sales are always taxed when purchased new, and both are taxed yearly as property tax, or some other form of naming convention. Houses are sold used, and taxed through property tax. Cars are sold used, and taxed through vehicle tax/VLT/property tax/whatever-name. It's not sales tax, so no worries there :)

    Large ticket items with a public record (namely a house), when sold for higher than original purchase price, means a income by the seller which is reported to the IRS and taxed accordingly.

    So I guess in a nutshell, it's different wording for what you described. It's just not exactly the picture you painted.
    If states want to do the whole internet taxation, wherever the company is based license wise is where the taxation would originate from. America has done this for way longer than the internet was ever in the picture for normal people. A universal sales tax would just mean that every state would be using other methods to attract businesses to homing themselves on their soil instead of sales tax rates.