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  1. Re:America's Space Prize? on Rules Set for $50 Million America's Space Prize · · Score: 1

    Well, that was payback for Boeing killing the concorde in the USA isnt it... since the concorde would have been profitable if it had 200+ planes in its service, but since Boeing didnt make it and it wasnt american, the FAA decided to 'ban it' so there went its largest market and thus its commercial future, so it was stuck in EU + NY with 15 planes that caused it to be unprofitable.

  2. You did loose the Americas CUP!!! on Rules Set for $50 Million America's Space Prize · · Score: 1

    Duhh!!!

    Forgot to cheat on the yacht dudes.

  3. its already here, FREEDOM SHIP on Rules Set for $50 Million America's Space Prize · · Score: 1

    Search for freedom ship, its a massive giant ship with 100k people, basically a little island, but made of metal with a little airport.

    Im not sure if its already being made... could be... but it would damn survive any 'sea level rises' and can move about to give you year round summer, no need to 'travel' since you are mobile by default. Doing timezone changes on your PC would be a pain, though unless you adjusted based on GPS/clock.

    Awesome idea.... though it is dependant on petrol and food though they can grow some small crops like herbs/veges in glasshouses/hyrdo.

  4. Re:No real comparison done here... on CBS Sees no Journalism in Blogs · · Score: 1

    druge isnt that bad...

    Why is it fluff? It is 99% redirects to other articles like WP and NYT and stuff like that, only the very very few are HIS own articles and even then they are usually direct from the source.

    Its not like he is Jeff Rense, come on (even though he too quotes other articles 80% of the time).

  5. Re:Which reminds me.... on Ion Rocket to Map Moon with X-Rays · · Score: 1

    I thought it was because it never gets WARM in most of britain, so just leave your KEG outside in the shade or in a water tank.

  6. Re:Biq == Round on Ion Rocket to Map Moon with X-Rays · · Score: 1

    Isnt the centre of any object like a planet void of all gravity? since all mass is around it equally, it cancels out.

    So on the surface you have strong gravity, but down in the centre, if you could carve out an empty area, you would be free floating like in space. Does this mean the centre is very loose and gooey, and objects that fall towards it fall right through. Anyone done a massive simulation of the earths core as if it was a liquid, not an iron solid?

  7. sue the street seller, not the downloader morons on Interview with MPAA Chief Dan Glickman · · Score: 1

    So they can sue online downloaders, but ignore the guy down the street selling it and actually MAKING REAL MONEY out of it?

    Maybe that bootlegger is really Jons cousin who is a drop out and cant get a job ;)

  8. Re:Fuzzy math on Interview with MPAA Chief Dan Glickman · · Score: 1

    Makes you wonder why they dont incorporate a system to EMAIL you to remind you to bring it back every 12 hrs from the due date onwards.

    Then again, we know the 'reason' for that dont we, no kindness from business managers there is there.

    This is why we the christian community can afford to setup their own business/retail renting outlet and rent out and reduced static profits of 10% and add all those goodies like email reminders, and stuff like that, and $1 pop corns, and 70cent drink bottles.

    But we know the christian community isnt into 'supplying' its flock with affordable stuff, they just want to have little christian shops selling jesus statues and stuff like that.

    I reckon they should start making christian shops for all types of stuff, and define on the front, "all items 10% profit" so you know that paying $4.95 for some item didnt cost the shop 50cents in bulk.

    It does sound commy a bit but why not do it?

  9. Re:Fuzzy math on Interview with MPAA Chief Dan Glickman · · Score: 1

    Is this a 'over some coffee' analysis, "yeah bob, looks like its the downloaders" or did they commission a study by a corporate analysis like Price Waterhouse Coopers for 250K to come up with a result?

    If they just made it up, then they are lieing scum assses that deserve 100x more downloaders and pirates.

    There isn othing WORSE that a DECIETFULL CON ARTIST. If you cannot trust one statement, you cannot trust any one at all.

  10. Re:OT but, What's Legal to dl??? on BitTorrent Accounts for 35% of Traffic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    True, but if you do what you say in your own home and no one else in the universe saw it or knew about it, then did it really happen?

    its only your own 'guilt' which makes it bad.

    Id like to classify it as 'offsite backup'

  11. Re:What exactly is the objection? on Movie Industry to sue File Sharers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Someone make a php script to generate *ALL* movies ever made into a fake directory listing and share that. Give it out to 1000000 people and watch them send $10000000 worth of letters

  12. Re:Inflation on Movie Industry to sue File Sharers · · Score: 1

    If big actors like Tom Cruise didnt demand $25m per movie, then overall movies would be cheaper as all the other sub actors / contractors wouldnt ask for so much either. Is any actor really worth >$5000/day ? If they just asked for $2m and 2% of royalities that would be fairer.

    Inflation is the govts fault for 'inflating' the money supply (check the feds m1/m2/m3 supplies) by lending out so much money for home loans and CCs. If every year you get a 5% increase in cash circulation then you have more $$$ looking for fewer goods which equals higher prices to counteract the imbalance. 5% inflation is the same as 5% hidden tax, except theres no way OUT of it for the average 9-5joe6pack.

  13. Re:Funny thing is.. on Movie Industry to sue File Sharers · · Score: 1

    make 100 random filenames with static content, or make a nice video that says, "FUK U MPAA" and just copy that one video as the 100 filenames using the top100 movies, and share em, then ignore the letters till you get to court order, then go in there plead incocent with proof and ask for $1m damages :)

  14. Re:May I plug i2hub.... on Movie Industry to sue File Sharers · · Score: 1

    hes probably using a mac which has a horrid tcp/ip stack and a slow-ass finder interface which slows stuff down.

    I remember in the 90s i could barely get past 70kb/sec on OS9, but if I ran linux on it, it peekd at 980kb/sec.

    Recently A tibook I used could barely do 2500kb/sec to a linux server, where my xbox and pc could easily do 9000-12000 kb/sec without dropping out on a LAN.

  15. Do it like in 1980s, swap physical media on Movie Industry to sue File Sharers · · Score: 1

    So easy to get around that....

    keep a system on a website database of who has what CDs, and trade using the uni postal system or bar trading.

    Burn 20 blanks, swap for another 20 movies.

    1. much faster
    2. face to face
    3. untraceable (at least more so)

    Sure its more effort, but you get more at ONE session.

    Do a 'copy party' like in the 80s too, lotsa beer + music, and 10 PCs with burners gallore going at 52x for 8hrs nonestop. Or bring your firewire 200G hd to swap REAL FAST!!!

  16. Re:what has the world come to on Movie Industry to sue File Sharers · · Score: 1

    And paying $14.5 to see blair witch project that cost $30k to make was 100% fair?

  17. maybe its cutting into mafia profits.... on Movie Industry to sue File Sharers · · Score: 1

    I think all the freeloader downloaders filesharers are actually cutting into underground mafia profiteers and street corner sellers. Which are probably run by people with in the industry any way, so perhaps to 'increase' their profits, they want to 'stamp' down on the freeloaders which are giving zero profits to their 'mafia' friends/associates.

    Eh Tony.

    buda bind

  18. FIVE DOLLAR POPCORN THAT COST 20cents on Movie Industry to sue File Sharers · · Score: 1

    Thats how dude

    Here in AU , there was one small food shop in the cinema complex giving away FREE POPCORN with a coke for $1.50, now the cinema complex people (village road show) got really pissed of at this and tried their hardest to find excuses in their lease to kick them out, because it was eating into their $6.50 popcorn sales (or $11 for drink/popcorn combos).

    Seams like normal CAPITALIST competition is but a fake dream CON ARTIST job in the real world where pure 'mafia musolini' style monopolies are the rule of thumb.

    Paying the same $$ to see a $5M movie vs a $200M movie isnt fair, sure its easier for people to have one price for all, but really if they started having a tiered pricing scheme for older/smaller movies the customers arent gona complain, they just wont see the full price movies as a first choice and thats what the big guys want. Its not a free market , its a rigged/controlled market. A real true free market would have fixed cost + margin deals on movies, so each movie would be a diff price. But like I said, this would price out the big block busters and make smaller independant movies more attractive.

  19. Re:Not so long ago, the EFF suggested just this. on Movie Industry to sue File Sharers · · Score: 1

    I think they meant people who sell DVDs for $10/pop at markets and street corners and the mafias who setup 100 burners running 24/7 for their opperations, not POOR people who cant afford a beer, but barely a net connection.

    Though id class the corporate bosses on par to the mafia bosses as they use extreme profit tricks and monopoly fun to get themselves super rich like the mafia does.

  20. So wheres the IMAGE???? on Origin of Cosmic Rays Revealed · · Score: -1, Troll

    An article/story about a new image , and no image to show???

    What is the point of this ??

    That website sux btw, 90% LINKS, 10% article, bad designers.

  21. Enron execs get off on Siblings Guilty of Spam Felony, Partner Acquitted · · Score: 1

    And how many years did the Enron execs get? btw Bushs friends too.

  22. Re:Green Cheese Mining on NASA Plans Robotic Lunar Scouts · · Score: 1

    The bots could gather lots of 'soil' and sift it to make it powder or one type, melt it using the energy from the sun, make flat panels and beams out of them, then assemble them into complete buildings.

    How easy would it be to train bots on earth to build stuff. then use that 'brain' software that learned properly on the moon but with say 50 bots (send em up in 3 big missions, they dont need to be massive just 2ft tall)

    Then they can spend 1-5 years slowly automatically building stuff, aslong as their chemical batteries or whatever supply works. Maybe some kind of local giant solar panel with microwave directed power to each bot or something. Then you can build/launch more bots that use the same solar panel/transmiter, each bot would be small coz of no panels/batteries (well maybe a 1kg battery pack for shadow walking for 5mins, and 1foot sq of solar panels for emergency power to the cpu to communicate.

    50 bots

    15 sand diggers / mini trucks
    15 melters
    10 flatteners/beam makers
    10 constructors with hands and realtime control from earth

    You could build a massive structure/base out of it, then cover it with sand for RAD sheilding.

  23. Re:*sigh* on Electoral-vote.com Under Heavy Load; Attack? · · Score: 1

    How would blind people know? But in any case, Colin is a sell out and a dumbass for believing the fake evidence of WMD etc... hahaha what a NOB, even I saw right thru that without all CIA help.

    Maybe his 'slave' mentality from the old days made him 'listen 100%' to his WHITE masters 'rumsfeld and chaney'

  24. Re:Does anyone get the feeling on Electoral-vote.com Under Heavy Load; Attack? · · Score: 1

    draft dodge ideas;

    1. say your gay.
    2. say you have token 20000 LSD trips in the last 5 years, and you see colors 24/7
    3. get a broken leg
    4. smoke tonnes of pot

  25. if u believe in god, are u really wise? on Electoral-vote.com Under Heavy Load; Attack? · · Score: 1

    we know that god as a deity that controls humans is false and that HELL doesnt exist, and the church is the biggest human control con ever with perhaps beneficial results, ie taming those dumb-asses out there that otherwise would be nutcases with nothing to live for.

    Just consider the fact that if HELL doesnt exist, then there goes *ALL* motive to being good for god and society and being religeous. Thats why we have this 'god' embedded into our punny lame scared brains.

    Its ironic that humans have to 'believe' in something not prooven and false that would normally under mental assesment qualify you to the loony bin, but because this 'loony fantasy' keeps society from breaking down, its accepted as 'normal'.

    Think about it, if GOD really did make the universe/humans etc... he dont really give a ratts ass if we all nuke and kill everyone last of us. Why? because he can go and remake it all again and try version 72.3 with a few tweaks of improvements.

    You are 100% free, even 100% free to not even acknowledge god, aslong as you can refrain from exterminating your selves as a society.