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  1. Re:google aren't the only one on Taiwan Irked at Google's Version of Earth · · Score: 1

    Actually only one Chinese dynasty ruled over Taiwan, the Qing. They took control from the Dutch and ceded it to Japan.

  2. Re:sounds like... on Sorry, Wrong Wiretap · · Score: 1

    Don't forget CALEA! (1994)

  3. Re:Boycott Yahoo on Business At The Price Of Freedom · · Score: 1

    Why aren't the Chinese ready now? Do you think the Chinese people are too stupid and they need the autocrats in Bejing to tell them how to live?

  4. Re:long range power grid feeding on Floating Nuclear Power Station · · Score: 1

    Well, the USN could try to build a Seawolf cluster, but they only have three. :)

  5. Re:Real Bigness on Chinese Websites Used As Launchpads For Cracking · · Score: 1
    and the humiliating defeat in Vietnam, both run by Bush's predecessor Republican presidents, Eisenhower and Nixon.

    So what exactly went on between the end of the Eisenhower and the beginning of the Nixon administrations? Were there any other presidents, or was the office just vacant for eight years?

  6. $1.84 million over three years? on Japan Plans Test of 'New Concorde' · · Score: 1
    Japanese and French defense contractors and engineering companies, including Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and Airbus parent European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co., agreed earlier this northern summer to split an annual research budget of about $1.84 million over the next three years to develop a faster-than-sound plane.

    So they just have two or three engineers working on this?

  7. Re:When UMA becomes standard, maybe on GSM and Asterisk Integration? · · Score: 1

    Cingular/Bellsouth will start an UMA trial later this year for people with Cingular phone service and Bellsouth DSL, and they'll be able to do UMA in their homes.

  8. Re:Yes, but it costs a *lot*. on GSM and Asterisk Integration? · · Score: 1

    You forgot about the HLR :)

  9. Re:where is metrowerks going to go from here? on No More Codewarrior for Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Codewarrior for Symbian was sold to Nokia last year. (including the development team)

  10. Re:What Goes Around on China Plans Deep Impact Mission · · Score: 1
    Instead we've funded unworkable Star Wars missile defense systems for billions of dollars, opening the door for every other country that wants to knock out Jesse James to be the #1 gunfighter in the East and West.

    If it's unworkable, why should be worried?

  11. Re:What about sound? on China Plans Deep Impact Mission · · Score: 1

    That won't be invented for another thousand years!

  12. Re:Mitsubishi F-2 Versus Godzilla on Japan Probes Mysterious Vapor Eruption · · Score: 1

    Eh, they'll be buying F-35s in 10 years.

  13. Re:bush judges on Supreme Court Rules Private Property Can be Seized · · Score: 1
    > I am not an american but I have the impression that all mr. Bush has done is take "freedom" away from america

    I guess you believe everything you read.

  14. Re:How about... on Nokia And Apple Collaborate On Open Source Browser · · Score: 1

    ...and the non-Americas version also won't use the 850 mhz band. (Very important if you use Cingular, a non-issue with T-Mobile)

  15. Re:What about the not-so-good things? on Google's Impact on the Internet · · Score: 1

    "Don't be evil...unless there is money to be made"

  16. Re:You're proablly trolling but in case you aren't on Slashback: Electioneering, Blimps, Shuffling · · Score: 1
    Basically all the politicians are rich white men. They got their wealth from inheritance.

    Besides the two Bushes and Kennedy, name one president in the last fifty years that was born rich.

  17. Re:..in august 2000 on Companies Claim iTMS, iPod Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    "Music Jukebox". Haven't they've been around more than fifty years?

  18. Re:All I can say is on Ask mc chris · · Score: 2, Informative
    MC Chris didn't do the AHTF them, it was Schoolly D.

    Geez!

  19. Re:Dot UN domain? on Should the UN Replace ICANN? · · Score: 1
    .TW (third world)

    You can always count on the UN to pretend that Taiwan doesn't exist. :)

  20. Re:Sigh, Freedom of speech out the window on Chinese Force Mass Closure Of Net Cafes · · Score: 1

    And if you are Germany or France, the important thing to do is sell the Chinese more weapons to use on their own people.

  21. Re:politics section on North Korea Admits to Having Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 2
    why on earth is this category themed with the US flag

    Because the mods can consildate all of the anti-American posts in one convenient place!

  22. Re:Made in North Korea on North Korea Admits to Having Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 1

    Well, my North Korean-made vacuum cleaner makes toast!

  23. Re:More future toon tie-in hits: on Family Guy Video Game in the Works · · Score: 1
    "Aqua Teen Hunger Force: The Restaurant"

    They can build it right next to Grizzlebees!.

    Cowabunga!

  24. Re:Warranty? on DIY Mac mini Overclocking · · Score: 4, Funny

    So you are saying the warranty is valid only if you don't need it? :)

  25. Re:What about Stargate? on UPN Officially Cancels 'Star Trek: Enterprise' · · Score: 1

    Don't forget X-Files!