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  1. Trunk space on Ever Wanted Your Own Land Speeder? · · Score: 1

    One owner. Sold in Mos Eisly. With ample room on the back for two droids.

  2. Re:Is it actually legal to drive this? on Ever Wanted Your Own Land Speeder? · · Score: 1

    It did mention that it was street legal. So, if the tabs are all paid up, it's all ready to drive.

  3. Re:A Question of reason and logic. on How To Clone A Mammoth · · Score: 1

    Just think of the possibilities, though. You could have your fantasy vacation! Mammoth hunting reserves! Pay some guy $500 so you can hunt a mammoth with nothing but a spear and a loin cloth. No danger of extinction this time, cause they can just clone more. They can have a tie in with Doritoes, "Hunt all you want, we'll make more".

  4. Re:Beaten by Fark Once Again on Crusher Crushed from Nemesis · · Score: 1

    Not to be the bad guy, but /. very seldom ever gets a story early in it's release. By the time I see a story here, I've usually seen it several other places. The comments are more interesting here, though. ;-)

  5. Resale?! on Diamonds - Are They Really Worth the Cost? · · Score: 1
    "diamonds have no resale value"

    What does? It's funny, but nobody's willing to pay me full price for my used cars. Or my old PC, etc ...

    Engagement rings shouldn't be resold if all goes well ... and if it doesn't ... well, then you got screwed by more than just the De Beers.

  6. Re:one thing I think everyone is ignoring on High Definition DVD · · Score: 1
    The original intent was for complete backwards compatibility. Old discs could be played on new machines, old machines could play new discs (you would just get the current resolution).

    This would be easy if red laser format is kept. Blu-Ray would require a different laser system in the players. It would allow more lines to be written, therefore more data, on each disc (making the 19.3MB/s resolution needed to be HiDef possible), but make it much more difficult for backwards compatibility. Red Laser, though cost effective because of this, seems that it would be would be a pho-Hi-Def.

  7. DTS! on Extra Scenes in FotR Special Edition DVD · · Score: 1

    of course the real reason to get the Nov release is the DTS soundtrack that it will boast! The Balrog never sounded so good!

  8. Re:OT re: unrelated not about karma on The Chronoliths · · Score: 1

    Grade me! Rate me! Please! ;)

  9. They use to be friends... on Warner Bros. plans 'Superman vs. Batman' Movie · · Score: 1
    Whatever happened to the good old days when Superman and Batman use to be friends (ala "World's Finest" comics in which they teamed up on a regular basis to battle some extra tough baddies).

    I think Superman and Batman would be a better movie idea than Superman vs. Batman. After all, both being crime fighters and "fighters for justice", neither one of them can be protrayed in a really negative light. And a 2 hour "misunderstanding" in which they kiss and make up at the end would be really lame.

  10. Re:Excellent! on Russia Wants to Launch Manned Mission to Mars · · Score: 1

    NASA's principle theology throughout the space race has always been, "strap a large enough engine on it, and it'll go". I'm paraphrasing, of course.

  11. the extra day on Around the World In 14 Days · · Score: 1

    Yes, but did he remember to subract the extra day from when he went over the international date line? Both Philious Fogg and the 3 Stooges made that error.

  12. Just like on TV on Laser Beam Teleported · · Score: 1

    This is just like on the one show ... Star Trek ... anyone see that one?

  13. It worked on the school... on Video Games in Gym Class - DDR 101? · · Score: 1
    As I use to tell my mom, "Video games are good hand-eye coordination."

    Only it didn't work on her.

  14. As long as they're lenient in the grading. on Are Written Computer Science Exams a Fair Measure? · · Score: 1
    I've always thought that coding on the fly for an exam seemed a little unfair, too. But I've always wound up doing just fine (mostly A's and B's).

    Mostly the purpose of making student's code for and exam is too see how much they know, not how much they've stolen off their study partner. If you did the work through out the qaurter, you'll do OK, if you didn't, you'll fall on your face.

    Now that I'm out in the work force, coding on the fly is the norm, not an exception (we need this, NOW - shows up out of the blue quite often), so I don't really see a problem with asking student's to do the same for a certain percentage of their grade.

  15. Does this go for every industry? on Record Industry Wants Royalties for Used CD Sales · · Score: 1

    It sounds fair. Right now I'm going down to the furnature store to give them their share of the $12 bucks I got when I sold my old couch.

  16. Why? on How Yoda Became an Action Star · · Score: 1
    "How Yoda Became an Action Star"

    How is not the question, Why is the question.

    So, all that time in the swamp when Luke was carrying that little guy around on his back, he could have jumped out of Luke's backpack and run a marathon ... all you have to do is piss him off? Is that what Lucas was trying to say. I liked most of the rest of the movie, but Yoda's fight scene made me feel dirty.

  17. Repitiveness is my job ... my job.... on Spoofing P2P Networks as Marketing Plot · · Score: 1

    "a 20 second clip played over and over"

    Isn't that called Hip Hop?

  18. Line voltage and pools on Jacuzzi with 42'' Plasma TV · · Score: 1
    Attending a class on electrical wire code, we were given an example that the instructor ran across. A man had installed a floating 120V outlet in his pool so he could watch TV while he floated there. He filled the bottom with sand so it wouldn't tip over.

    I suspect that this spa is wired a little better, but why not suspend the TV over the hot tub instead of in it?

  19. Re:first things first on NASA to Investigate Hydrinos · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yes! It's the suction from the vacuums that are pulling it along.

  20. Gotta be warry of this ... on NASA to Investigate Hydrinos · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Anyone with a reasonable amount of intelligence will stand clear of concepts that sprung from someone's "Grand Unified Theory". Einstien looked for it his whole career with no success.

  21. Re:Stargate SG-1 on Farscape & Stargate SG-1 New Seasons Tonight · · Score: 0
    You know what Stargate needs? More nudity! The first episode of the first season had a nude scene, then they never followed up on it.

    Talk about disapointing. A cool sci fi show with a good plot, good scripts and nudity! So close ...

  22. Re:It's not a true keyboard... on Vertical Keyboard vs Carpal Tunnel · · Score: 0

    I spilled hot chocolate on a keyboard at work a while back. Killed the machine! It was an old machine, of course, they tend to shield the inputs from the keyboard now, but it was quite surprising.

  23. Re:Lone Gunmen? on MTV Movie Awards Webpage Pull a Lone Gunman · · Score: 0, Troll

    No only are the Lone Gunmen dead, Mulder pissed on them in the last episode!

  24. Re:Dee Dee Ramone dead at 49 on MTV Movie Awards Webpage Pull a Lone Gunman · · Score: 0
    Very sad,

    We Americans are slowly losing our heritage, as lousy as that heritage is ...

  25. Well, If anyone cared ... on MTV Movie Awards Webpage Pull a Lone Gunman · · Score: 0

    I suppose it would matter more at a more important awards show, like ... oh, wait. There are no important awards shows.