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  1. This is news? on Texas Bill Outlaws Discrimination Against Creationists In Academia · · Score: 0

    How many billions of dollars were added to the federal debt while we were wasting time reading this article?
    A flip comment, yes. But rather that reading some article that some leftist thinks is clever, I'd rather read something
    on /. I can't find on every major US paper's page three.

  2. Re:I, for one, salute our new sock-puppet overlord on US Military Commissions Sock Puppet Program · · Score: 1

    No, all the anti-USA guys on foreign forums are CIA agents. Otherwise, how do you attract potential anti-USA suitors?

  3. Does this mean on Battlestar Galactica Feature Film Confirmed · · Score: 2, Funny

    Starbuck will be a guy again?

  4. Snow too on Cars that Can't Crash? · · Score: 1

    Snow builds up in front of a locked wheel and causes your car to slow faster without ABS. However in every other case, unless you are a trained driver of the level that you could compete in F-1 or Indycar or WRC, you cannot out brake the ABS system. Studies have been done. The biggest problem with ABS is people who try to modulate it. If you have ABS and need to stop fast, JAM THAT PEDAL TO THE FLOOR. Let ABS handle the modulation. That is what it is there for. Another study says that the average person gets uncomfortable and feels unsafe when the apparent G force on them exceeds .4g. The average car is capable of lateral acceleration of over .7g. Let your ABS work and use your steering wheel. It will save you. Go in a large parking lot on a Sunday or evening and practice this. It will save your life.

  5. Yes but....... on William Shatner Pitches 'Starfleet Academy' Show · · Score: 1

    Will the young Kirk wear a "The Enemies Gate is Down" T-Shirt? And will each episode feature the Star Trek
    fight music from the original series?

  6. Re:So what can we expect in the Slashdot comments on Battlestar Galactica Season 2 This Summer · · Score: 1

    Of course Starbuck should be a man. The female equivalent has to be Stardoe of course!

    What WERE they thinking? And as for Boomer being a hot chick and a Cylon..... It is all just sooooo wrong.

    My son (He is 10) and I love watching the old show when we see it on SciFi. Neither of us has warmed up to the new show at all yet.

  7. Too much distortion on The Future of Digital Audio · · Score: 1

    I am tired of all the extraneous artifacts in digital to analog conversion. I'm learning to love listening to the ones and zeroes.

  8. IT has to be! on A Strange Streak Imaged in Australia · · Score: 2, Funny

    That tiny rocket from Krypton preparing to crash land on that old coot Kent's farm!

  9. Re:Or they'll have until only 2022... (etc.) on Kyoto Treaty to Enter Into Force · · Score: 1

    I hate to tell you this Ben, but Robin was wrong. The police and the bad guys have guns. It is the average UK citizen that does not have a gun.

  10. Re:Someone has to...PRELIMINARY AUTOPSY RESULTS on Is The Lone Coder Dead? · · Score: 1

    Maybe it was a pierced outie? Now there's an image for ya.......

  11. Re:Michael Shilling for RR on Battery-powered Cigarettes? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe Michael IS RR.......
    Oh, and the Walrus is Paul.

  12. Re:Thanks! on Electoral College Abolition Amendment and IRV Bill · · Score: 1

    What voter disenfranchising? The only voters who were truly disenfranchised were the voters in the panhandle of Florida when the results were released an hour early and "For Gore", and the military voters who had their ballots shipped illegally by the wrong class thanks to the Clinton Defense department who knew that the military was overwhelmingly going to vote for Bush. That is why you have this article. The inherent distrust of the left by the military which is Bill Clinton's true legacy. As it says in the article, "The left despises the military and the military now knows it."

  13. Re:Not in the US on DVB-T STB/MPEG2 Player That Can Access SMB Shares · · Score: 1

    Being as I work for a company that supplies products that multiplex, demultiplex, and transform MPEG-2 Transport Streams from one format to another, I can unequivocally answer YES! to your question. We also make/sell products that analyze Streams and do other equally cool but unmentionable things to them.

  14. Re:One Step Ahead on XAML Development Today, But Not From Microsoft · · Score: 1

    The other option would be that of a buyout situation. Rather than develop the technology themselves, Microsoft could just buy the company. This has worked for them a couple of dozen times.

  15. Re:Credit card ? on Verisign Develops Token for Age Verification · · Score: 1

    But that would be the size of the State of Vermont!

  16. Re:I would have busted him, too... on Bikes Against Bush Creator Busted · · Score: 1

    Damn! I was gonna say that!

  17. Re:Serious problems with Pebble Bed Reactors on China Goes Nuclear · · Score: 1

    But the there is this .

    And we all know that the reactors will be perfectly safe until the Posleen invasion begins.

  18. Re:Troops on Semper WiFi · · Score: 1

    Last October, when I was stationed in Iraq, the Army rolled out satellite receiver based "Internet Cafes" . Each battalion sized element got one and each cafe was capable of supporting about 20 Internet connections and 4 VOIP phones. Each Cafe had about 12 laptops that were part of it and additional connections in the switches for 8 more personal laptops. These cafes worked great. There were some in what is now the Marine Corps sector. I don't understand why they aren't there.

  19. From the fact sheet on Cooling Toronto Using Lake Ontario · · Score: 1

    "The Deep Lake Water Cooling system uses cold energy from Lake Ontario to cool buildings in downtown Toronto."

    What the heck is cold energy? Is it related to dark matter? I don't remember that from Physics or Thermodynamics.

  20. Re:Yes on Is Typing a Necessary Skill? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I agree. But if it really came down to it, touch typing does require learning in a disciplined environment such as in a school. What passes for "Computer Skills" do not. I think most people pick up more "Computer Skills" on their own then ever do in a class. And for the money spent on computer labs in our local schools, the contents of those labs seem horribly irrelevant. IMHO, real computer skills revolve around tool making, not tool using.

  21. Finally on Living Without a Pulse · · Score: 1

    When I cut my arm off, I will be able to bleed out just like the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
    Picture include for the visualizationally challenged.

  22. Re:You should tonight on Ted Turner's Beef With Big Media · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is a
    study in black and white of my fingerprints. And the only reason I'm
    singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar
    situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if your in a
    situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into
    the shrink wherever you are ,just walk in say "Shrink, You can get
    anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.". And walk out. You know, if
    one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and
    they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,
    they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them.
    And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in
    singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an
    organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said
    fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and
    walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement.
    And that's what it is , the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement, and
    all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it come's around on the
    guitar.

    With feeling. So we'll wait for it to come around on the guitar, here and
    sing it when it does. Here it comes.

    You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
    You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
    Walk right in it's around the back
    Just a half a mile from the railroad track
    You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant

    That was horrible. If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud.
    I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it
    for another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud... or tired.

    So we'll wait till it comes around again, and this time with four part
    harmony and feeling.

    We're just waitin' for it to come around is what we're doing.

    All right now.

    You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
    Excepting Alice
    You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
    Walk right in it's around the back
    Just a half a mile from the railroad track
    You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant

    Da da da da da da da dum
    At Alice's Restaurant

    ©1966,1967 (Renewed) by Appleseed Music Inc. All Rights Reserved

  23. Re:Why the Hell not? on Apollo 11 Photographs Unfrozen · · Score: 1

    Actually, Eisenhower wanted the first US satellite to be the result of a Civilian Space Program, NASA, and not a military program. He ordered the engineers at Redstone not to "accidentally" put anything in orbit during their test flights, which was exactly what they were planning to do when they saw how close the Russians were. While it is true that the Viking platform for Vanguard was a Navy design, it was the "civilian" aspect that the president through the Secretary of Defense, wanted played up. Hense the order from the SecDef in November 1958 ordering the Army to transfer Redstone technology in order to hasten our own space efforts once the Russian had beaten us. On their own, the Redstone scientists could have put the first "American" satellite in space over a year before the Russians. They just were not allowed to do so. You can see some of this chronology here .

  24. Re:Great for Terrorists... on FAA Approves Sport Pilot License · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I suppose I could post this? But it would almost certainly be modded offtopic. ;-)

  25. Re:Great for Terrorists... on FAA Approves Sport Pilot License · · Score: 1

    I'm disappointed that you didn't comment on this.