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  1. Re:Why does this company have to get US permission on First Commercial Moon Mission Approved · · Score: 1

    Then of course, you'll need to learn to capitalize it -- and no, I don't mean to fund it.

  2. Re:Problems with this.. on Britain's CAA Considers Laptop Ban on Commercial Aircraft · · Score: 1

    Get a seat on the right side of the plane, behind the wing sometime. Look out the window while the baggage is being tossed from the truck onto the conveyor. In this case, I am making the fairly safe assumption you are much more likely to have the machine beat up than having it outright stolen. So I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with your first paragraph. :)

  3. Re:A better question: on The Ultimate Universal Remote Control · · Score: 1

    Come to the present -- now you can dim, program lighting scenes, and all sorts of other stuff you are never likely to use. The days of simple on/off are over! :)

  4. Re:hmm on Meteorite Hits Girl · · Score: 1

    There's no need to make fun of Bobcat Goldthwaite. Show some manners.

  5. Re:Perhaps a lawsuit would be appropriate on Is Win2k + SP3 HIPAA Compliant? · · Score: 1

    You don't need damages. Remember the theoretical potential data loss with floppy drives with the soandso (I forget, but just about any floppy drive made used it) controller? Lots of neat lawsuits over that, no data loss was ever demonstrated.

  6. Re:Time for your company to dump microsoft. on Is Win2k + SP3 HIPAA Compliant? · · Score: 1

    Not much of a clue about your average hospital's IT budget, do you? Have you ever implemented a SINGLE medical type system, much less any that may talk to a hundred others? This prolly all sounds very simple in your mind, but that tain't the real world.

  7. Re:luna is a terrorist on Slashback: Pop-Ups, Books, Qmail · · Score: 1

    Cheyenne Mountain overlooks the city of Colorado Springs. It's not the best city in the world, but certainly un-civilized is a poor moniker.

    Hell, I didn't read the book, but from the sounds of it, they were hurling "big rocks" from the Moon? Seems to me that'd be fairly bad for the town close by. :)

  8. Re:Hmmm, interesting. on Intel, OEMs Face Lawsuit For Megahertz Marketing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If they do in fact have a new revolutionary 450HP engine, then there can be no claim. Ford's not lying in that case.

    People confuse the law with "you shouldn't do that." :)

  9. Re:I hated it too... on Intel, OEMs Face Lawsuit For Megahertz Marketing · · Score: 1

    Or, maybe he found it easier to just gloss over it, instead of explaining it over and over to people who don't understand and don't really care? :)

  10. Re:bad juju on X-Box Flaw: MS Won't Use DMCA · · Score: 1

    In what way would Bill Gates NOT be waaay up there in the highest tax bracket? :)

  11. Re:Other large cup locations on The Golden Age of Cup Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    Uhh...several quarts of water vs several quarts of soda are two VERY different things.

  12. Re:My rant. on The Golden Age of Cup Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    FWIW, when it's really hot outside, you need to drink water no matter what the damn humidity is. :)

  13. Re:Customer demand on The Golden Age of Cup Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    And Chai of course means....Tea.

  14. Re:Why would they classify airships? on Big Black Delta Mystery Solved? · · Score: 1

    They couldn't maintain supply lines while we were blowing the shit out of each and every one of them. We couldn't blow the shit out of each and every one of them until we had the ordnance in place to do so. That kind of stuff takes time. Luckily, they Iraqi army was content to sit and wait instead of being aggressive, particularly when there were only a few, more lightly armed troops there.

    Also, it's morale, and pigeons don't surrender in large droves. :)

  15. Re:Not too surprisingly, consider who's in charge on Starving Nation Turns Down Bioengineered Corn · · Score: 1

    This is a silly comment. They (you know, they) did a lot of silly shit in the name of stopping communism, but to suggest that it was all for oil is stupid. Things don't always boil down to a nice, tidy, single issue. Additionally, even countries that don't like the US are perfectly happy to sell oil. If it's any cheaper, well then, maybe it's because they are smart little capitalists and would rather sell more of it?

  16. Re:Slashdot misses the point on Starving Nation Turns Down Bioengineered Corn · · Score: 1

    Actually, in this case, "inner city folks" seems to be a euphemism for people "who don't know jackshit about farming." I'd say nice straw man, only it wasn't very impressive.

  17. Re:There is an alternative method on Starving Nation Turns Down Bioengineered Corn · · Score: 1

    Is the jury in on non-genetically engineered foods? That'd be news to me.

  18. Re:The IP is not the reason.. on Starving Nation Turns Down Bioengineered Corn · · Score: 1

    I didn't realize we were totally sure about the long term effects of eating non-GM food yet, either.

    Logical consistency and fear don't exactly make good partners, huh?

  19. Re:Ideology and the truth. on Starving Nation Turns Down Bioengineered Corn · · Score: 1

    Sure they do. The problem is that the paranoid lunatic in charge has a hell of a lot of power on his side. The other group of people that constitute a problem are the other paranoid lunatics who take over governments. The decent, honest people just don't have much of a chance against either one of those two.

  20. Re:The creator are sexists on Social Robot? · · Score: 1

    Most languages other than English do that very thing.

  21. Re:Pioneer 10 Still Running After 30 years on Pioneer 10 Still Running After 30 years · · Score: 1

    It's still looking for a one-armed alien.

  22. Re:Bush really dropped the ball on WorldCom to File for Chapter 11 Protection · · Score: 1

    Well, they don't call it "Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison" for nuthin'. :)

  23. Re:Firmware on Hot-Rod Your CD-RW Drive · · Score: 1

    Your last example is of course, crap. Automatic weapons are federally regulated, and corporate profits have nothing at all to do with that.

  24. Re:How many more times can we post this? on PDA and Subnotebook Killer? · · Score: 1

    Hehe...have you BEEN on the internet lately?:)

  25. Re:Palm Sixed on PDA and Subnotebook Killer? · · Score: 1

    Well, if before she seduced him, they didn't realize they were nekkid, one can only assume he prolly didn't realize he had a wanger, neither...