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  1. Re:Lets see about your list on USS Ronald Reagan Commissioning Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    (without even trying--no centralized economic planning over here, after all)
    Ask a bar owner in NYC, CA, or Lexington KY if we don't have a bunch of central planners running things in this country.

  2. Re:Try Water on Installing Halon Fire Supression System at Home? · · Score: 1

    I remember something about pure water (with no contamanents) is not conductive.

    You heard correct, straight pH 7 H20 is non conductive, but the second it is exposed to air, you've shot that to shit (trace ozone, NOX's and SOX's in the air will swing the pH to acid, never mind the fact that the standpipes (commercial PVC, Copper, or Lead) will deposit trace minerals in the water screwing with its conductivity.

    If you want truly pure water, you have to do a clean distillation on it (or figure out how to buffer it against atmospheric irregularities), which will be very expensive (and impossible in this application)

    Somone patent this if you want though, why not use an argon gas(or other noble gas) pressurized system with outlets in the floor/low wall instead of water in the ceiling/high wall. Cost shouldn't be a factor since Argon/Helium/Neon/Krypton have to be cheaper than Halon or other CFC fire suppressors.

  3. Re:Heh on NYT Reports Porn Spam Hijacking Network · · Score: 1

    Then why do they go to the trouble of uninstalling Norton's/MacAffe and installing Gator/bonzi buddy and the nigerian porn dialer...I swear, some users are intent on making our lives hell.

  4. Re:DAoC on Naming Your Character In RPGs? · · Score: 1

    subtle and frankly, understandable.

  5. Re:restore Jim Crow, the neat 'n' easy way! on Inside Electronic Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    Has anyone actually proven that more dollars in a school actually increases academic performance, I became involved in a school boundrary dispute where the core of my argument was that one district was doing more for their students with less funding per pupil, in all tested areas K-12 (not just the flawed state tests, but SAT, ACT, ASVAB, and CTBS/CSI scoring). It was my responsibility as a taxpayer to get the most value for my tax dollar. The problem was the dumbasses running the lower performing school district were bitching about a loss of students (and their state funding) to the better district, and unfortunately, my board caved for some unknown reason.

  6. Re:Just yesterday on Scientists Say Cosmic Rays May Cause Global Warming · · Score: 1

    I don't know how exactly our atmosphere stops such high energy particles but I am glad it does !!
    It's called the Ionosphere, basically it is a layer of charged particles that deflect or absorb incoming charges.

  7. Re:Solve all voting machine problems on Inside Electronic Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    Perhaps that is what the vacant minded left is really after. Tell you how to think, vote, live .......
    With the help of court gerrymandered House districts, they pretty much give some people no option at the polls, but it might be the one chance to crush this law, assuming we can get some new justices before 2008.

  8. Re:Solve all voting machine problems on Inside Electronic Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    The prohibited literacy test applied to a common practice in the South previous to 1965 in which people of color were required to pass a literacy test.
    I know the origins of the VRA, and frankly, I'm not a fan of the court ordered gerrymandering, but until we get a decent USSC, we have to abide by it.

  9. Re:Solve all voting machine problems on Inside Electronic Voting Machines · · Score: 4, Informative

    I hope you are kidding but, the 1965 VRA prevents literacy exams, and the USSC has upheld it as Constitutional

  10. Re:Shady dealings on Freenet Creator Debates RIAA · · Score: 1

    The dual deck VCR had to have its day in court, but it was declared perfectly legal. I'm not sure about those combo DVD/VCR's I've seen at $ElectronicsRetailer though, anyone know about its satus, or do they disable dvd->VHS recording in hardware.

  11. Re:Confuse with Linux? on Software Code Quality Of Apache Analyzed · · Score: 2, Informative

    now they do, 2.0.x are stable, production releases 2.1.x are testing branches

  12. Re:Apache 2.1...? on Software Code Quality Of Apache Analyzed · · Score: 1

    Thats the great thing about apache (and some other OSS projects) The core project is often about building a framework for other apps to hook in. Apache-core is all about calling various filters and sub-programs to do all the complicated stuff, from JSP (Jakarta and more sub-groups in the java game), PHP, mod_perl, rewrites, SSI, SSL, mod_python, DAV, and more

  13. Re:Materials in Sports on Sports Technology? · · Score: 1

    College (and High School baseball in some litigation prone environments) bat regulations are more of a result of pitchers and infielders getting killed or brain-damaged when the hitter makes contact.

  14. Re:Huh? on Biblically Themed RPG Discussed · · Score: 1

    The ruins of what should be Soddom and Gammorah were found, covered in volcanic ash.

  15. Re:Lets see here on Building a PC Equal to XBox for the Same Price or Less? · · Score: 1

    you just need to decode D5.1, not encode, right?

  16. Re:Climate change causing this? on Deep Sea Monster Baffles Scientists · · Score: 1

    Ice Age, that would suggest "Global Cooling", that's not going to sit well with some people around this joint

  17. Re:Umm, don't we already have that? on DARPA Looking into Hypersonic Bombers · · Score: 1

    ICBMs are the second quickest to get on target and are more survivable than bombers but have fixed basing locations generally.

    Not that anyone hasn't tried, MX was designed as a mobile ICBM system but it got scrapped during the 80's as Reagan pissing dollars at the commies, instead of pissing it into $social_program

  18. Re:YES! on Mozilla 1.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Any particular reason you haven't switched to the 4.8 build?

  19. Re:Bottom Line on Darl McBride Interview · · Score: 1

    Even if McBribe and Sonntag do get busted for pump-and-dump, they'll do time in Club Fed, not a real pen. It is a shame that if you make 1 billion in pump-and-dump, causing measurable harm to millions of people (and the economy at large) the worst you will do is 10 in a Country Club. If you knock over a liquor store for $45 (armed or unarmed), you do 10-20 in a real pen.

  20. Re:*slaps forehead and winces* on X-Box Hackers Trying to Blackmail Microsoft? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Tell that to Dimitri....

  21. Re:Huh? on Biblically Themed RPG Discussed · · Score: 0

    The OT has plenty of historically verified events ranging from The Flood through Soddom and Gammorah and even the history of Israel (periods of slavery or freedom and war or peace) is pretty well covered by non-Abraham rooted religons/cultures like the Greeks, Romans, Babylonians/Sumerians, Persians, and Egyptians. The NT has a lot of events that the non-believing world can't verify, but the OT has a signifigant number of factual events to build this game around.

  22. Re:Good News on US Army Signs $471,000,000 Deal for Microsoft Software · · Score: 1

    VALinux, RedHat, Yahoo....

  23. Re: whatever on Apple's G5 Speeds Challenged · · Score: 1

    Why not, it worked well for the worlds richest man and his company.

  24. Re:In the famous words of Admiral Ackbar... on SCO Protest And Anti-Protest In Provo · · Score: 1

    I like fark, but it is painful to read on a dial-up (home) and some of the SFW stuff is NSFW by my company's standards, so I only read it when I know my bosses aren't going to be droping by (golf day's, training, hung over)

  25. Re:In the famous words of Admiral Ackbar... on SCO Protest And Anti-Protest In Provo · · Score: 1

    That is the most foul thing I have seen, and yes it is worse than the infamous Goatse Guy