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  1. Re:Its a cover for the Post Oil technologies on USA To Return To Moon By 2015, Then Mars · · Score: 1
    Great post and the only honest one I've read in awhile. It may come faster than we think with SUVs being the #1 selling vehicles.

    Maybe we need to again start thinking about drilling in ANWR.

  2. Re:Do it right on USA To Return To Moon By 2015, Then Mars · · Score: 1
    We need a ship with nuclear engines that can make the trip in a quarter the time it currently takes.

    The only problem here are the Naturalists keeping Nuclear here on the ground. Their conflict was its too *unsafe* for lifting off. Imagine a Columbia blowup with 5 nuclear engines. Think about the fallout and radiation. Now if we had that Moon base, funk it, no atmosphere and we can trash it all we want.

  3. Re:Bush misses the point on USA To Return To Moon By 2015, Then Mars · · Score: 1

    Maybe you missed the news, but we DO have some viable competition from the Chinese. They are already planning another space flight this year and I've heard about a planned Moon mission. Who do you want controlling space and the Moon, us or the Chinese?

  4. Finally a worthy cause on USA To Return To Moon By 2015, Then Mars · · Score: 1

    Finally a worthy cause I support and I am glad my tax dollars will fund it. We should have never stopped going to the Moon. The scientific research alone is worth it. Once we're finally here, some scientist will come up with a way to transform the enormous reserves of Helium3 into a rocket fuel. Launching from the Moon is a whole heck of lot easier as a starting point for a manned Mars mission.

  5. Might work, but... on Biometrics in the Workplace · · Score: 1

    This might work, but the fry clerk is gonna have a hard time wiping all the grease of his hands just to check out.

  6. Re:OK, fair enough on Clean Nuclear Launches? · · Score: 1
    The ex-Tres. Sec. has claimed that GWB already intended to prosecute such a war when he entered office - if true, he either was planning with forethought (possible) or he thought the military was good enough to do it.

    Clinton did the same report in 1997, but do we hear about that? Uh no. The only difference between the two was Clinton wanted data on air strikes whereas Bush wanted data on using ground forces. And its common for all presidents to get data or ask for data like this. They are DOING THEIR JOB!

  7. Re:bad news....SOMEONE'S going to take more.... on Clean Nuclear Launches? · · Score: 1
    1, I don't think my logic is flawed. If you wait until your ready, your never ready, so you keep waiting. The supplies and weapons will get to them eventually. If we had waited longer we would have lost more lives.

    2, I really don't care what Franken has to say. But the lower and middle class got more of a tax break than they usually do. I too pay 30% in income taxes, but I feel my money is better spent on what the Republicans want.

    I don't like charity and feel none of my taxes should be in hand outs, social programs or whatever.

  8. Re:So quick to judge....tsk tsk on Oscar Screener Leak Traced · · Score: 1
    It was probably his grandson. But what kid do you know that would even watch that movie? hehe...

    50ish women.... nekkid... brrrrrrrr.... nasty..

  9. Re:Actually, None. on Oscar Screener Leak Traced · · Score: 1

    Well this was the first time they were actually looking for them.

  10. Re:I want an apology on Oscar Screener Leak Traced · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, I am guessing your stupid. Since you described every other "format" and forgot "screener". Like the article said a screener is a tape or DVD which is sent to an Academy member.

  11. I want an apology on Oscar Screener Leak Traced · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I want an apology from the MPAA. All this time they have been blaming downloaders and moviegoes for "leaking" these screeners. Now we discover its one of their own. I wonder how many of the other screeners were "released" by other Academy members.

  12. Re:bad news....SOMEONE'S going to take more.... on Clean Nuclear Launches? · · Score: 1
    And all of those "expenditures" were to get American back to a certain level. The Clintons really fubared our military with funding cuts, base closings and pay decreases for our soldiers.

    And the so called "the rich got the tax cuts" scheme. If you didn't pay into the system, you didn't get anything back. Too bad. Suck it up. As I said before, the top 5% pay nearly 85% of the federal income tax. Why shouldn't they get some of THEIR money back? You'll see it different when you start paying taxes and as your income rises, taxes get larger and larger.

    Hopefully you will leave Burger King, get a better job and discover there is more to this country.

  13. Re:I Don't Know About This... on Clean Nuclear Launches? · · Score: 1

    Or even better, Norway or was its Sweden, anyway some "nordiac" country, workers pay 70% tax on their wages. And to think America has one of the lowest tax systems in the World and they still whine.

  14. Re:I Don't Know About This... on Clean Nuclear Launches? · · Score: 1

    Another gimmick. Those people got the tax breaks because they PAY Federal Income Tax. The top 5% pay 85% of the federal income tax. I am NOT in favor of giving money to people who didn't pay into the system. This is NOT a socialist America.

  15. Re:I Don't Know About This... on Clean Nuclear Launches? · · Score: 1
    By the time you get to 75 grand a year, you'll be paying half that in taxes every year, roughly 43% of your total income.

    So why be rich when Democrats all want to increase your taxes to pay for social programs? Funk dat! Let the weasels starve, its called "Law of the Land" and "only the strongest survive."

    If the Dems do get into office, I will refuse any pay increases. What's the bother of making more when they'll just take more?

  16. Re:As a lowly engineer... on Mars Rover Sniffs First Hint of Water? · · Score: 1

    I would be very interesting if we found something like that because it would be another branch of evolution. You could say we are all from the same "star stuff". We just happened to branch off to carbon based lifeforms. I'd be interested to find out how they went that way.

  17. Broad range on Earthquake Prediction Months In Advance · · Score: 1
    Of course they never miss a prediction. With that broad of a range, chances are that something WILL happen between now and September '04.

    My prediction (without being a scientist and without funding):

    Between now and Dec '04, SCO will release another press release

  18. We all forgot on Memo Confirms IBM Move To Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1
    We all forgot the Linux based commercials IBM has been running for many months now. Note the basketball commercials with Linux on the jersey or a Penguin as a mascot.

    And my favorite Linux Commercial. "What's his name?.... Linux"

  19. Re:I did the best thing on An Answer To "What is Mac OS X?" · · Score: 1
    Actually, I am quite please with my dual 1Ghz G4. No problems at all. It runs very quiet, and the Super Drive still works. Video card is so-so, but that's because I got the Radeon instead of the NVIDIA so its a driver issue under Linux.

    But I can run all my Linux apps at the same time I got OS X in a window and I barely use both processors. If it weren't for the fact they are so expensive, I'd consider buying one for home use.

  20. Re:I did the best thing on An Answer To "What is Mac OS X?" · · Score: 1

    Oh, so that's how you spell asinine.

  21. Re:I did the best thing on An Answer To "What is Mac OS X?" · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This just confirms one thing I have found gullable with people. Make anything "flashy" and say buzz words like "original", "fastest computer on the planet", and now "Apple did it first" and people go goo-goo over it. Typical Mac user.

  22. Re:I did the best thing on An Answer To "What is Mac OS X?" · · Score: 1

    I did it because, belive it or not, its WAY faster in Linux than OS X. And I can run OS X where it should be run, in a window with Mac On Linux.

  23. I did the best thing on An Answer To "What is Mac OS X?" · · Score: 0

    I did the next best thing I could do when I got my Mac. fdisk that dang OS X and installed Yellow Dog.

  24. Re:I thought Sun did something like this already.. on Xgrid Clustering Software and Demo · · Score: 1

    Again, any beginner *nix user has no trouble setting these up. I consider these zero configuration. But anyway, what's your gripe?

  25. Re:I thought Sun did something like this already.. on Xgrid Clustering Software and Demo · · Score: 1
    Again, you are wrong. Check out Antsd and distcc. ZERO CONFIGURATION! ZERO CONFIGURATION!

    I normally don't respond to ACs but you are truely a Mac moron.