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  1. Re:This is too true on Technology Makes New Cars Too Expensive to Fix · · Score: 1

    If you mean its meant to run 100,000 miles without you checking anything, don't believe it my friend. That's a load of bull and the entire mechanic community knows it. Its just a sales gimmick.

  2. Re:Consider the source... on Wonkette and the Ethics of Online Journalism · · Score: 1

    You said it right, blogs shouldn't be considered a source for news. They are 99.9999% biased towards whatever they write about. I read blogs for other interpretations of what we see, hear and read on the major news outlets.

  3. Re:Funny on Wonkette and the Ethics of Online Journalism · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'll give you that, there is too much to report, but you have to consider why they report what they report. They want to express one view and that's it. When have you ever heard Dan Rather or Tom Brokaw saw anything good about Republicans?

  4. Re:Funny on Wonkette and the Ethics of Online Journalism · · Score: 1
    I believe the growth of talk radio is definitely a factor of American's growing tired with the network news. What the problem is, are the major network news, ABC, NBC, CBS only report the stories that they want you to hear. And what "they" want you to hear are their own beliefs and values. I hate to sound like Fox, but what happened to reporting everything and let the viewer decide?

    I think that is what the previous poster was trying to say.

  5. Re:This is too true on Technology Makes New Cars Too Expensive to Fix · · Score: 2, Informative

    The cost of owning an older car is nowhere near as much as a new car. Especially with monthly payment for FIVE years. As long as you keep the maintenance, the two probable replacements will be engine and tranny. Total including labor is probably $3-4 grand. Compare that to a price of a new car. There's your savings.

  6. Re:The fear on 2.4, The Kernel and Forking · · Score: 2, Interesting
    If you are serious about Oracle + Linux, then you will run it under RedHat.

    Really? Why? Works fine with Slackware here.

  7. This is too true on Technology Makes New Cars Too Expensive to Fix · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Just pop the hood of any new car nowadays. Almost everything is *enclosed* in plastic. It's getting to the point where dealers will have a monopoly on car repair.

    How can you fix this problem? Stop buying new cars when you car is perfectly good. Plus it will save you a few bills each month.

  8. Borland has been doing it for years on Free Optimizing C++ Compiler from Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Borland has already been doing this for years with their 5.5 compiler. It was a cheaper solution for us to develop our native *nix apps to Windows. The only problem we came across were some of the other DLLs we needed only came with VC++ code and/or compiled DLLs. You can't mix the 2 libraries since they use different mechanisms. We had to buy a program to convert the VC++ libraries to Borland.

  9. Re:Car vs. Maglev? on Virginia MagLev Project Back on Track · · Score: 1

    So if you don't mind me asking, how much of your income is taxed? Are the salaries higher to compensate for increased taxes? What about cost of living?

  10. Re:Cars and the US on Virginia MagLev Project Back on Track · · Score: 1

    The majority of American's don't want to live in the city sprawl, well at least in my area, Texas. Land is cheap and the spaces wide so more and more people are moving to the *country*. The problem is, so are the businesses. So where the people go, the businesses follow leading to more and more suburban sprawl.

  11. Re:Car vs. Maglev? on Virginia MagLev Project Back on Track · · Score: 1

    I have all those things already that I pay for. What I don't like is having to *pay* for other people for the same services. Where in the Bill of Rights does it say you're guaranteed health care or welfare?

  12. Re:Car vs. Maglev? on Virginia MagLev Project Back on Track · · Score: 1

    They are also one of the most highly taxed countries in the world.

  13. Re:Cars and the US on Virginia MagLev Project Back on Track · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The reason for a car is for transportation around the city. American cities are spread out, unlike European cities are more compact. Take my city for example, San Antonio. A city of 1.5 million, but its larger land wise than Dallas. Just to get from one side of the city to the next takes 25-30 minutes and that's not counting traffic.

    I used to use public transportation (VIA) about a year ago. That same route I now take with my car, took 3 hours by bus.

  14. Re:Great, more ways to spend taxpayer money on NPR's Car Talk Switches Back To RealAudio · · Score: 1
    Sure you can, anybody can flip flop like Kerry ;)

    Then you should go spend some time in Iraq and speak to people and tell them how sorry you are Saddam is gone and wish he was still in power.

  15. Re:Great, more ways to spend taxpayer money on NPR's Car Talk Switches Back To RealAudio · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    to march at their own pace to the social services office for a state compensation handout

    And this is different from blacks and hispanics going to unemployment or social security how?

  16. Re:Sci-Fi actually did something right on Sci Fi Confirms Forthcoming Farscape Miniseries · · Score: 1

    Amen bro! I have been boycotting Sci-Fi ever since they dropped it. But I did have a relapse to watch the Battlestar Gallactica movie.

  17. Great, more ways to spend taxpayer money on NPR's Car Talk Switches Back To RealAudio · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sorry, but NPR needs to either be disbanded or moved to the private sector. I am frickin tired of my money going to fund this excessively liberal station. Public radio my ass. More like Liberal Radio. I'd rather have my money go to PBS instead of these fascists.

    Why didn't they just give a few hours to Frankenfurter and dyed-blond Garafuckolo?

  18. There's no need for anything like this on Usenet Audio · · Score: 1

    We as a majority need to complain to your ISPs to enable Mulitcast on our broadband lines. Then we wouldn't HAVE to be worried about bandwidth issue when streaming.

  19. Well on Hacker Indicted In France For Publishing Exploits · · Score: 1

    Well prisons are probably better in France anyway, so why don't you just go back?

  20. Re:Use sources on Build From Source vs. Packages? · · Score: 2, Funny
    People with jobs managing servers use binary packages.

    Not necessarily true when your needs are custom.

    Real geeks work at Wendy's and live in their mom's basement.

    Oh, that's where I remember you from. You didn't give me my Biggie fries.

  21. Use sources on Build From Source vs. Packages? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Real geeks compile from source. Only wimps use binary packages.

  22. Re:recompile ssh? on Multiple Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL · · Score: 1

    The answer is yes to all the above. Anything using OpenSSL will need to be recompiled. If you're using a custom Apache like I am, that means I have to recompile Apache, PHP, MySQL, mod_ssl, the works because I have all those modules builtin. Its gonna be a long day ;)

  23. Linux on MSFTs "iPod Killer" Readied for Europe · · Score: 1

    So, when will Linux run on it?

  24. Leave Europa alone on Melting Europa · · Score: 0, Redundant
    What was the ending quote from 2010?

    You can have any planet, but leave Europa alone.

  25. The main difference on Epson's Female Printer · · Score: 2, Funny

    The main difference is its been designed to handle 2 inch Lee Press-Ons nails.