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  1. Re:Official "In Soviet Russia..." thread on Putin Threatens US Missile Bases In Europe · · Score: 1

    Funny I dont remember saying that Russia had nothing to do with it.. Thanks for reminding me of what I did not say..

  2. Re:Official "In Soviet Russia..." thread on Putin Threatens US Missile Bases In Europe · · Score: 1

    I can agree with that the loss to the soviet union crippled Germany I do, however, think even w/out the easter front (i.e. evil being dumb) with the help of the US that Germany would have been defeated (it would have taken longer and been much harder fought)

  3. Re:hardware/software communicating? inconceivable! on A Hardware-Software Symbiosis · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the same thing, I had to read over the article several times to make sure I was not missing something. In the end, I think, she is after some uber firmware I mean we have the OS we have firmware, what else does she intend to do? Sure you could make your hardware components more programmable but the cost in terms of speed lost in operations and complexity of design far outweigh any benefit.

  4. Re:Official "In Soviet Russia..." thread on Putin Threatens US Missile Bases In Europe · · Score: 2, Insightful
    "but was it decisive? I don't know, and you neither."

    You're joking right? Ill hand it to the Brits for holding out but they could not get a boot onto the continant soil without the help of the US. Hitler being stupid enough to engage Russia did not hurt either. If the US and/or Russia did not become involved the *best* outcome for Europe is England suing for piece, and Vici France pretending to be a real nation.

    " Now consider Germany who got subdued when Russia, USA, England and France ganged up on them. What about when France, Germany and England gangs up on somebody else?"

    History is always fun to look at but its quite unlikely that Europe in a militarily offensive conflict could take the US or Russia, let alone both.

  5. Random number in N. Korea on Shutting Down Annoying Recruiters? · · Score: 1

    So the funtion would be Ceiling((RAND)*9) to pick one of the 10 phones they have..

  6. Re:Nah on Shutting Down Annoying Recruiters? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or better yet rout their call back to their number (if its local or an 800) It would be great to have them call their own receptionest..

  7. Has the game been optomized on Ask Turbine's Jeff Anderson About LOTRO · · Score: -1, Troll

    For player to use it in their mothers basement

  8. Re:17 year olds are not children on MySpace Age Verification - for Parents · · Score: 1

    I suspect it is a little of both..

  9. Re:Sigh on MySpace Age Verification - for Parents · · Score: 1
    There are two ways of doing that. You can either keep them away from the stove, or you can explain to them that it will hurt if they touch it, and let them make up their own minds about whether they want to

    So having dutifully told my kid not to touch the burner because its hot when I see them reaching I should just sit back and watch the excitement? Should I give them a step stool because as they might experiment anyway I should be sure they are as safe as possible?

    Of course you tell the kid why not to touch a stove and you tell a kid why they cant have a computer in their room its a distortion of my position to suggest I said otherwise. The computer will be in the family room and when they ar eold enough to understand I will tell them why.

  10. Re:NC is a scary place on MySpace Age Verification - for Parents · · Score: 1

    And I don't think you know the difference between the 14th and the first amendment. Nor do you understand why the first is branded the establishment clause. An atheist can get married in a civil ceremony there is no religion involved therefore the relevant question is does the state ever (is it ever valid) to restrict who can enter into a civil status? The answer to that question is clearly yes (voting for example) The next question would be: in the civil institution of marriage is it ok fo rhte government to restirct the age, gender, or number of people involved in thei contract? and, my son, I am not touching that today with a ten foot pole.

  11. Re:Can we please get out the next OS first! on Second-gen iPhone Confirmed? · · Score: 1

    Yes but given one of the machines is already tiger why would I buy the family pack the then update on machine. When they release the next os *then* I will buy it.

  12. Re:Can we please get out the next OS first! on Second-gen iPhone Confirmed? · · Score: 1

    I bought my wife a mack book with Tiger which means I inherited her power book with 10.3. There are many people out there with more than one mac who dont want to buy two upgrades..

  13. Can we please get out the next OS first! on Second-gen iPhone Confirmed? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Rather than a very expensive, albeit, nice phone can we please put out the OS we were origionally expecting this quarter..

  14. Re:NC is a scary place on MySpace Age Verification - for Parents · · Score: 1
    That's a bunch of crap. Otherwise, marriage could occur between persons other than a man and a woman.

    Why? We set an age for voting, we as a society often say that you must be this to avail yourself of this institution. You many not agree with the sate saying you must be a man and a woman but that does not exclude something from being a civil institution.

    The laws regarding marriage are a clear and obvious violation of the first amendment to the constitution

    Maybe the 14th but the first? I think the founders better knew what they meant when they wrote the first amendment (and the contemporary marriage laws) than you do. People of any religion can marry and people of no religion can still go before a secular judge and get married it in no way establishes a religion.

  15. Re:Sigh on MySpace Age Verification - for Parents · · Score: 1
    So, you want your children to grow up with no expectation of privacy?

    Sure they can expect privacy but it will be granted on my time scale not theirs and I will not go so far as to put a PC in their room and let them chat with Lord knows who under the assumption dad wont find out.

    There is only one lesson that parents can teach that has any value; every action has consequences, and you need to evaluate the consequences first

    And yet we try to keep our little kids from touching a hot stove..

  16. Re:NC is a scary place on MySpace Age Verification - for Parents · · Score: 1
    How does me being married or not married have any bearing on me putting my finance on my auto insurance?

    Oh lets start with shared legal liabilities that spouses share which soon to be spouses do not.

  17. Re:NC is a scary place on MySpace Age Verification - for Parents · · Score: 1
    he law says unmarried couples can not share insurance here in NC.

    You do realize marriage is also a civil institution, the law is not about sin.

    I lived in NY state (Poughkeepsie and in way upstate). My DMV experience was never bad like that. Either you got unlucky or I was lucky.

    I lived in NY 25 years, My wife lived there close to 20 and you were very lucky. The NY DMV is terrible.

  18. Re:17 year olds are not children on MySpace Age Verification - for Parents · · Score: 1

    Im sorry I was under the impression you RTFA. The state is not spying on anyone the state is requiring that a parent open up the account for the kid.. "The North Carolina legislation takes this lesson to heart by requiring that parents or guardians first sign up and verify their ages; only then can their children register for accounts."

  19. Re:Oh come on... on MySpace Age Verification - for Parents · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Let put this in the realm of IT:

    You can create good policies, you can create great efficient and useful documentation on policies and procedures for users, and you can have info sessions to help personally education users. None of these things is a substitute for good traffic monitoring and anti-virus software. Of course you need to educate kids, empower them to grow and mature, turn control over a little at a time but you have stewardship over their lives for a season and while you cant make them good people or protect them from everyone you sure as heck should try..

  20. Re:NC is a scary place on MySpace Age Verification - for Parents · · Score: 1
    NC does not let you put your significant other on any of your insurance if you aren't getting married within a few month time window. Why? Because it's a sin!

    Does the law say because its a sin or is this your swag?

    Want to get a NC drivers license to replace your out of state be prepared to:

    Bring your old license Ditto for NY and MN (Unless you want to take a full drivers test)
    Your SS card Most states have id verification which consist of a combo SS, mail, Passport, and others
    Birth certificate See above, you want the DMV to hand out licenses without ID of any kind?
    Car insurance Many states have insurance and there is no catch 22 as insurance does not require a license

    Until you have been through a NY DMV you have no idea what bad is. I spent three house *turning in my plates when I left the state* no drop box could be used because you have to pay for the privileged of returning the plates you had to pay to take in the first place.

  21. Re:17 year olds are not children on MySpace Age Verification - for Parents · · Score: 1

    Nor are they, in the US, adults (and I dont just mean legally). Hell most 21yo in the US dont act like adults and as my father always used to say "If you want to be treated like an adult, act like one!"

  22. Re:Sigh on MySpace Age Verification - for Parents · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Spying on your kids is not a replace for good parenting but it is a damn good part *of* good parenting. You don't play cloak and dagger but you keep up with where your kids are and who they are with. Honestly in my home there will never be a computer which is not locked down and in the family room.

  23. Re:Accomodating religion on Holocaust Dropped From Some UK Schools · · Score: 1
    Christians are quite eager to deny the role their religion played in a couple thousand years of slow roasting jews alive, which the holocaust was merely the culmination of. In that respect they're even worse than the holocaust deniers.

    Just as eager as secular humanist, atheist, and socialist are to deny the role of their belief system in the murder of millions of non desirables in the soviet union and china in the name of cleansing the state of religion.

  24. Re:unadulterated video on New Jersey Sues YouTube Over Crash Video · · Score: 1, Informative

    I believe that was a state trooper its kinda hard to tell in the video..

  25. NJ Just wants the (C) on New Jersey Sues YouTube Over Crash Video · · Score: 1

    So they get paid when this thing is aired on Maximum Exposure