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  1. Well, I think on Illinois Gov. Seeks Violent Video Game Ban · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's time to vote a new moron out...

    ~S

  2. Re:What about on U.S. Makes Plans for GPS Shutdown · · Score: 1

    I know what VFR and IFR are, your location can be determined using IFR, and obviously with VFR if conditions are optimal. And if you can't determine it using either of those, you shouldn't be flying, and certainly not commercially.

    ~S

  3. Re:What about on U.S. Makes Plans for GPS Shutdown · · Score: 1

    I could be wrong on this, but I think most planes are required to have Jeppeson maps or an equivalent. And I also think pilots are required to be able to navigate without GPS using VFR or IFR.

    ~S

  4. Drivers on U.S. Makes Plans for GPS Shutdown · · Score: 1

    How many drivers will get lost during these shutdowns I wonder? I doubt it will happen anytime soon, but I think all car nav systems use GPS.

    ~S

  5. Re:If it all works on Decentralizing Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    Already have a gmail account, but you should be able to get to a forum on there and sign up a new account. As far as I know all invites were removed because it's not based that way anymore.

    ~S

  6. If it all works on Decentralizing Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    I hope empornium.us adopts this. They slow down frequently also.

    ~S

  7. Re:Kill the wabbit! on Internet Hunting · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough this:

    "He don't know me vewy well, DO he?" -- Bugs Bunny

    Is the Slashquote at the bottom of my page.

    ~S

  8. Re:Ground penetrating radar? on Fl. County Halts FTTP Until Installation Is Safer · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised no one has been lit up by a live wire yet.

    ~S

  9. Re:SP2 sometimes breaks VNC on The Verdict on WinXP SP2? · · Score: 1

    I use TightVNC on all my boxes: 5 XP SP2 and 1 2K3 in 3 different locations and they all work fine. Good luck with it.

    ~S

  10. Re:My experience? on The Verdict on WinXP SP2? · · Score: 1

    Why don't you just turn it off and use Zone Alarm or something else?

    ~S

  11. Re:The hard part... on The Music Man · · Score: 5, Informative

    Musicbrainz is a great way to fill in all the missing mp3 information and there is even an Amazon cover art grabber available if you search. I renamed about 4000 mp3's in the space of about two days doing this. ~S

  12. I'd do it also on The Music Man · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If I could afford the hard drive space. Then it wouldn't be an issue, but they fill up fast. I suspect quite a few people around here have the same problem.

    ~S

  13. Re:Zoo mentality on Defending Harsh Sentences for Spammers · · Score: 1

    I know what warez are, my poison back in the day was running a WWIV bbs to swap them on my huge 30 MB hard drive. :)

    Thanks for the reply, I hadn't heard of them.

    ~S

  14. Re:AOL will stiff offer service OVER broadband on AOL Dumping Some Broadband · · Score: 1, Informative

    And all the childless asshole loudmouths can roll it up and cram it.

    Do you think we want to deal with all your little miracles?

    ~S

  15. Re:Well... on US Army Testing Robots with Shotguns · · Score: 1

    We're saving, not killing, as many Iraqis as possible.

    Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.

    ~S

  16. Re:Punishment fitting the crime? on Defending Harsh Sentences for Spammers · · Score: 1
    if I was told if I spit on a sidewalk I'd go to prison for life, I'd be sure not to spit on the sidewalk (or be prepared to take the consequences for doing so).


    Why don't we make every crime subject to the death penalty, then crime will be near zero wouldn't it?

    ~S
  17. Re:Zoo mentality on Defending Harsh Sentences for Spammers · · Score: 1

    What's DrinkOrDie?

    ~S

  18. Re:Zoo mentality on Defending Harsh Sentences for Spammers · · Score: 1

    Not if they are within a certain age span of each other and no one is talking about making underage gay marriages legal.

    ~S

  19. Re:Deterence on Defending Harsh Sentences for Spammers · · Score: 1

    I would say prison causes more mental pain than anything. I spent 5-6 hours in a drunk tank once and it was the longest time in my life. I can only imagine staring down the barrel of anything more than a day or two.

    ~S

  20. Re:SAFE! on U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft Resigns · · Score: 1

    Well, if they are shooting him they always get at least one boob.

    ~S

  21. Re:Come to DC! on Techies Migrate in Search of Work · · Score: 1

    I know one guy who had/has "presidential clearance". i.e., the ability to work on site where the president is at along with some other NSA clearances but he got those in the army from what I understand.

    What's the procedure now to get a clearance if you aren't in the service?

    ~S

  22. Re:Words to Best Buy: Suck it up on Best Buy: 20% Of Customers Are Wrong · · Score: 1

    I was the accidental AC.

    I guess you do have a point. IMO if you don't like the service then go somewhere else. I've just found that asking for free shit is kind of tacky. If they freely offer it after you've complained then fine.

    ~S

  23. Re:Yes you can-- in colombia on Round-Up Ready Coca Plants · · Score: 1
    Oh, and the country is Colombia, not Columbia.


    I should have noticed my spelling but forgot... Sorry.

    ~S
  24. Re:Yes you can-- in colombia on Round-Up Ready Coca Plants · · Score: 1

    I would doubt that winning the Columbian drug war is winnable until the price of wholesale coca leaves and paste is less than that of their food crops. Look at California's marijuana crop, it's not getting smaller or less profitable and last time I checked it was their biggest cash crop. There is just too much money to be made selling cocaine for it to drop off the face of Columbia even if FARC and M19 disappeared altogether.

    ~S

  25. Re:It means that. . . on Round-Up Ready Coca Plants · · Score: 1

    I could be wrong on this but I remember some report saying that crack babies weren't crack babies per se, they were actually alcohol babies. The theory was that crack didn't violate the placenta, but alcohol did. Apparently most crack users used lots of alcohol to come down and thus they thought it was the crack.

    If anyone else knows more about this I'd be interested to hear it.

    ~S