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  1. Re:Competition is a good thing on Apple Announces iPhone 4 · · Score: 1

    Odd, I don't remember this in my optics classes. But ya never know it could be sort of correct.

  2. Re:Competition is a good thing on Apple Announces iPhone 4 · · Score: 1

    Then why bother to mention it until the reviews come out.

  3. Re:Gizmodo on Apple Announces iPhone 4 · · Score: 1

    Except that I don't think they are the same, and I'd like to see your sources please.

  4. Re:In other words on 'Peak Wood' Offers Parallels For Our Time · · Score: 1

    I'm ashamed of the fact that Rush Limbaugh is of the same species as me.

  5. Re:In other words on 'Peak Wood' Offers Parallels For Our Time · · Score: 1

    Agreed. It's why I won't buy Brazil raised beef products. I bet that sugar beets are grown in a slightly better configuration though as they do yield at least twice the sugar per acre and don't require burning the fields to harvest them.

  6. Re:In other words on 'Peak Wood' Offers Parallels For Our Time · · Score: 1

    Yes, I see your point. Since you are only 6 years older than me I guess that means that it's our generation who started to care. But I don't see it coming from our generation now. Half of those neocon morons are ours.

  7. Re:More to this story? on Apple Blindsides More AppStore Developers · · Score: 1

    And?

  8. Re:More to this story? on Apple Blindsides More AppStore Developers · · Score: 1

    "general purpose" may be the key there.

  9. Re:In other words on 'Peak Wood' Offers Parallels For Our Time · · Score: 1

    However, I find that I may be a bit premature in my thinking. Rat park did indeed seem to prove the opposite. However, the jury is still out on that one.

  10. Re:In other words on 'Peak Wood' Offers Parallels For Our Time · · Score: 1

    But they will if they can find it. There is nothing a rat will do in captivity that he wouldn't do in the wild if given a chance. The chances just don't happen in the wild. Hell we push that button in our own natural habitat, what makes you think a rat has any better impulse control out of captivity?

  11. Re:In other words on 'Peak Wood' Offers Parallels For Our Time · · Score: 1

    Please explain how deforestation, global warming and pollution are not shit that happens. They all happen with or without us to make them happen, deforestation, and pollution are usually the results of a volcanic explosion, but can also be the results of an asteroid strike. Global warming has happened many times before men had any hand in it. If it hadn't we wouldn't be here. We may contribute to any of the disasters you name as "made to happen" but we also are a force of nature, in other words we are shit that keeps happening. Don't forget that a beaver builds a dam for a beavers purposes, we build dams for our purposes which one is not natural?

  12. Re:In other words on 'Peak Wood' Offers Parallels For Our Time · · Score: 1

    Brazil grown sugar beets actually. But it is chemically identical with cane sugar.

  13. Re:In other words on 'Peak Wood' Offers Parallels For Our Time · · Score: 1

    What have "men" got to do with it...

  14. Re:In other words on 'Peak Wood' Offers Parallels For Our Time · · Score: 1

    I don't see how your reference to history refutes in any way his statement that baby boomers parents heavily exploited nature. Maybe you don't consider grandparents parents? Granted they were not solely responsible for it but hey they did do a good job. And yeah they were my parents too in a broad sense of the word parent.

  15. Re:Mod parent up on 'Peak Wood' Offers Parallels For Our Time · · Score: 1

    Simple he didn't say where his bathroom was and that will surely draw insects, bingo bat guano. Come on people use a little imagination, I want to know what he burnt in the smelter.

  16. Re:More to this story? on Apple Blindsides More AppStore Developers · · Score: 1

    Except that what you claim hasn't happened. You really want the wild wild west do you, hard to make money that way. Sadly the wild wild west is full of people that won't actually buy anything. And once one of them has bought it you won't sell very many after that because they gave it to everybody else that even had a mild interest in it. Yeah the wild wild west works really well for some people, but which ones? It's more of a crap shoot than Apple actually. Spare us the crap about piracy actually helping because we've heard it all, hell I've rationalized it myself so many times it's gotten a bit cliche'

  17. Re:More to this story? on Apple Blindsides More AppStore Developers · · Score: 1

    Wow, your blaze of insight is simply amazing. So Captain obvious, what's next?

  18. Re:It's time. on Apple Blindsides More AppStore Developers · · Score: 1

    No, No you really don't.

  19. Re:Bubble on Apple Surpasses Microsoft In Market Capitalization · · Score: 1

    Your math skills intrigue me. Run that one by me again?

  20. Re:So Fricken Laser Guided.... on A Genetically Engineered Fly That Can Smell Light · · Score: 1

    The laser's source is largely invisible, while the reflected light from the surface of a person's skin has been tinged to a slightly different wavelength and made less coherent, this is the wavelength you tune the fly to.

  21. So Fricken Laser Guided.... on A Genetically Engineered Fly That Can Smell Light · · Score: 1

    So what you are saying here is that if we can make an explosive small enough we can create laser guided flies that will seek out the spot and land and detonate. Should be good for taking off a nose or ear at least. Better yet a human only skin absorb-able poison that you can dip the fly into then give the target a coating of that light. Bingo one dead target and the murder weapon wings it way to oblivion.

  22. Re:Fat Chance on FSF Asks Apple To Comply With the GPL For Clone of GNU Go · · Score: 1

    Incidentally I did not insinuate anything, I made a statement of fact.

  23. Re:Fat Chance on FSF Asks Apple To Comply With the GPL For Clone of GNU Go · · Score: 1

    The actual real reason is irrelevant. The statement was that it would be of no real detriment to Apple, but unless you stipulate (and I don't) that it was a useless codification in the first place that can't be true. Hence the real reason is irrelevant in refuting the statement in question.

  24. Re:ladies and gentlemen: on Apple Surpasses Microsoft In Market Capitalization · · Score: 1

    Well the iPad, and since I rarely play any games at all and my son only wants the majors it seems to work out nicely.

  25. Re:ladies and gentlemen: on Apple Surpasses Microsoft In Market Capitalization · · Score: 1

    I suppose I could get the picture frame (used to display my stunning photography) that uses WiFi to get the pictures from a server somewhere in the house but that would mean I have to have one running and using power. You obviously have never used 802.11N with a Windows XP PC. Falls off the network with alarming regularity (the Macs have never fallen off yet) Tried several different adapters but gave up. My Linux box can't seem to reconnect the WiFi network when it wakes up from sleep so I have to manually do it myself If you can give me insight into this Ubuntu behavior please do. It may be that hidden in the power usage stuff somewhere there is a switch to keep the adapter's power on instead of dropping it but I can't find it. I could go more into the short comings of Linux but I won't as that's just too much of a sacred cow around here to bother with. Mac OS X has it's own problems. My point was both that eliminating the PC element and the Windows element led to a more productive and calm environment. You really don't need a general purpose PC anymore running Mac OS X, Windows or Linux.