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  1. Manitowoc Subs on Remembering America's Fresh Water Submarines · · Score: 2

    This story hits close to home since I grew up 25 miles from Manitowoc and my dad grew up there. He's told me stories about how his parents would take him down to see the shipyard side launch the subs into the river. They also have a pretty nice maritime museum in Manitowoc (http://www.wisconsinmaritime.org/index.php).

  2. Re:mOLDy on Military Labs Develop Caffeinated Jerky and "Zapplesauce" · · Score: 1

    I second that, the Chicken Ala-King was my favorite.

  3. Re:MRE on Military Labs Develop Caffeinated Jerky and "Zapplesauce" · · Score: 1

    In the 80's I heard my fellow soldiers refer to them as Meals Rejected by Ethiopians.

  4. Re:NoScript on Microsoft Says IE9 Blocks More Malware Than Chrome · · Score: 1

    I taught my wife how to use it in about 2 minutes, much better than taking hours to clean the malware from her laptop which had happened twice prior to using noscript.

  5. Re:I remember when the Flip was hot on Cisco Ditches Flip and $590 Million · · Score: 1

    agreed, i bought a Zi-6 for a trip to NYC and it worked great. I didn't like the no removable storage and lack of easy battery replacement in the flip.

  6. Re:Slow! -- XP user? on Firefox 4 Released! · · Score: 1

    I just installed it on a crappy old Dell 260 (P4 2.0ghz) with 768mb ram and it launched and brought up websites way faster than 3.6.15 did.

  7. Re:Not gonna lie on AT&T To Acquire T-Mobile From Deutsche Telekom · · Score: 1

    I had Cingular before ATT bought them and the service was great. After they updated my phone to show ATT instead of Cingular I went from 5 bars reception to 3 bars, and where I had no dropped calls before I would get dropped about every 3rd call that went over 5 minutes in length. All this using the same phone from the same location.

  8. Re:only a little? on AT&T To Introduce Broadband Caps · · Score: 1

    Can we throw Charter communications on that list as well?

  9. Re:I saw something very similar. on Feds Pay Millions For Bogus Spy Software · · Score: 1

    agreed.

  10. Re:Die fighting, die trying, die hard... on J.J. Abrams Promises 'Fringe' Will Die Fighting · · Score: 1

    Pretty sad, I remember when the Discovery Channel acutally had stimulating educational shows.

  11. Re:Speaking of influences on Jared Loughner on New Study Links Video Games and Mental Problems · · Score: 1

    most excellent reply sir.

  12. Vending/Voting? on Taiwan Develops Face-Recognition Vending Machine · · Score: 1

    I glanced at that and thought it said "Face-Recognition Voting-Machine".

  13. Re:Marcus Aurelius on People With University Degree Fear Death Less · · Score: 1

    The Stainless Steel Rat, great book series.

  14. Re:unions exist for unions on The Hobbit To Be Filmed In New Zealand After All · · Score: 1

    agreed. The union is the only thing that protects us from the stupid things that management tries to force on us.

  15. Re:Central Oklahoma on Why Silicon Valley Won't Be the Green Car Detroit · · Score: 1

    The former GM plant in Janesville is sitting empty and the Chrysler engine plant in Kenosha is being shut down this week.

  16. Re:Memories on Internet Explorer Turns 15 · · Score: 1

    I remember those days as well, good times.

  17. oh, pinball on Keith Elwin Wins Pinball World Championship · · Score: 1

    I skimmed the headlines earlier, and I swear I saw paintball world championship. Yeah, I guess pinball makes more sense.

  18. Re:Will not be surprising on StarCraft II Cost $100 Million To Develop · · Score: 1

    I don't care much about the multiplayer.

  19. Re:Read-only switch for USB sticks? on Photo Kiosks Infecting Customers' USB Devices · · Score: 1

    I have an Imation with a write protect switch, I use it for loading virus removal tools onto infected computers. I am disappointed that more manufacturers don't include write protect support, it seems like a pretty good idea.

  20. Re:Everyday street use. Really? on Buy Your Own Tron Lightcycle For $35,000 · · Score: 1

    Brian, have you ever raced at Road America? If so I've probably seen you race.

  21. Re:Quick summary of Michigan peoples' view of Comc on Statewide Franchise Illegal? Detroit Sues Comcast · · Score: 1

    I think there are quite a few people outside Michigan that also think that way about Comcast.

  22. Re:So what? on David X. Cohen Talks About Futurama's New Season · · Score: 1

    the current Simpsons episodes might not be as fresh as the first few season, but they have their moments. I still get more laughs from them than most of the other shows on tv.

  23. Re:Just another reason... on Digitally Filtering Out the Drone of the World Cup · · Score: 1

    I would say the most boring sports to watch are 1)Nascar (driving around in a circle (oval) for hours) 2)golf (the activity for people that can't play real sports) 3 soccer (at least the players have good cardio fitness)

  24. Re:Google Dance on New Google Search Index 50% Fresher With Caffeine · · Score: 1

    Makes me think of that Scrubs episode where Turk starts singing the Safety Dance song.

  25. Re:What's wrong with regular exercise? on US Navy Considering Wii Fit and DDR For Boot Camp · · Score: 2, Interesting

    agreed, I was in the Army in the late 80's and we did plenty of physical training. The guys that didn't pass the physical requirements were held back until they met them.