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  1. Re:Instead... on Making Change · · Score: 1

    What color is the sky in your world???

    Last I checked, April comes before November Every year. So.... not sure how tax day comes "after" election day.

  2. Re:Instead... on Making Change · · Score: 1

    I saw something similar in a local sub-division, the speed limit was posted at 33. My guess, was that it was a cost saving and money making plan.

  3. Re:Instead... on Making Change · · Score: 1

    I'm not at walmart right now, but if you walk around walmart, you can determine how long an item has been on sale, and whether it is discontinued just by the price. You can distinguish sale prices from regular prices... etc. I know this from observation, and from a family member who usta be an employee.

  4. Re:hmm on DVD Copyright Case Mulled over by Judge · · Score: 1
    Extrapolating from the vast quantity (99%?) of copyrighted books that are no longer in print, I would not be surprised at all.
    Extrapolating from the vast quantity fo copyrighted books that should never have been printed, I would not be surprised if only 1% of those copyrighted books that are out of print deserve to be re-published.
  5. Re:This is nice on DVD Copyright Case Mulled over by Judge · · Score: 1

    Further,precedent is simply the fact that IF a case with substantially similar facts and law has been tried before, then it has relevent bearing. For example If someone brutally murders his neighbors, then freezes and eats the body parts in Texas; He then is caught and tried; and determined sane, He is going to fry.

    that is one implementation of precedent.

    Here is another, someone is arrested for shoplifting a candybar. Tried and found guilty, he will be fined or given a sentance of likely no more than 30 days.

  6. Re:Translation... on TopCoder, Math, and Game Programming · · Score: 1

    If I'm just making $6 an hour w/ no benefits, I'm going to find someplace where I'm doing $6 an hour of work, and thats flipping burgers... no mental strain, and I stay in decent shape on my feet. As long as I shower twice a day, I will even smell presentable. I love programming and hardware tinkering, but doing that for someone else with vague requirements and lack of understanding of the problem and solution, NOT worth $6 an hour

  7. Re:Another reason to open-source drivers on NVidia Accused of Inflating Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    There will always be closed source software, because there will always be people willing to pay for it.

    I don't think you can give one good example of how society is hurt by paying for the work of our hands and our minds. In fact, I don't think you can even come up with a bad example

  8. Re:Microsoft can't dominate the BSD Babe! on For Microsoft, Market Dominance Isn't Enough · · Score: 1

    15 pieces is the minimum, and you want to do more than the minimum RIGHT??

  9. Re:Another reason to open-source drivers on NVidia Accused of Inflating Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Well, if there was no crime, there would be no cops. BUT we have crime...

  10. Re:There's the problem.... on Falling to Earth's Core in a Big Blob of Iron · · Score: 1

    I think you just described a peltier.

  11. Re:A few more moderate points on Amazon Takes Pikachu To The Patent Office · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I would be content if IE or Netscape would not autocomplete to the last time I typo'd to a DNS not found like yahooc.om or slashdo.torg.

  12. Re:Article Text, Washington Post on More on Media Consolidation · · Score: 1

    Ok, so 6 networks each reach 35% of the nation...=210%???? Now I'm confused. Must be that new math. Or is it trying to say that each network only directly owns 35% of the stations that bear their name?

  13. Re:Standardized tests on Lowest Raw Score Ever on the SAT · · Score: 1

    Context and greek/latin roots... the foundation of our language. That is the whole point of that section.... determining what a word you have never seen might mean.... Some people get off on that... Check out reader's digest some day.

  14. Re:Bush on Lowest Raw Score Ever on the SAT · · Score: 1

    in 1996 Sudan invited the US to arrange to take Bin Laden off their hands and turn him over to the Saudi's. Guess what Clinton sat on his hands. So I KNOW that Clinton couldn't have done any better.

  15. Re:Bush on Lowest Raw Score Ever on the SAT · · Score: 1

    So a flat tax of 19% on all income greater than $12000 will cause Mr B to starve??? A well planned flat tax will take into account cost of living... Some people will still not pay taxes.

  16. Re:Top 2% on Lowest Raw Score Ever on the SAT · · Score: 1

    If the test is easier than the "coursework" then why bother giving tests. I understand using easy problems in more advanced math IF you are testing methodology and not correctness.

  17. Re:Top 2% on Lowest Raw Score Ever on the SAT · · Score: 1

    Ok, I understand the purpose of homework in an english/history/language class ie either reading or writing. But science/mathematics? WTH? I don't need to factor 40 numbers for homework... It proves nothing... I can't go home and mix up chemicals for bio either... I don't need to spend 45 minutes identifying that cats dogs ... etc are mammals reptiles etc. And I'm certainly not learning social skills sitting home doing homework.

  18. Re:Most counterfeits look stupid on New US $20 bills Released, Colors & Layout Change · · Score: 1

    Enforcing UN Resolutions?? Seems legal to me.... Can't have it both ways son.

  19. Re:As wavelenth shortens, scratch-resistance dies. on Blue-Laser DVD Formats Wars · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you have never encountered a 2 year old boy...

    2 year old boys have been found at the top of empty closets with no visible means of climbing, 2 year old boys have been known to dis-assemble locked deadbolts, 2 year old boys have even been known to open a lockded gun safe without the key, then field strip and put back together a handgun in order to remove the trigger lock.

    Come back to reality.

  20. Re:Huh? on The Hiring, Firing and Re-Hiring of Spider-Man · · Score: 1

    Brazil is gone??? Hmmm still shows up on my maps, and I can buy tickets too.

  21. Re:Most counterfeits look stupid on New US $20 bills Released, Colors & Layout Change · · Score: 1

    World war I started because of an assassination of no-one in particular? Oh and they never succeeded and it wasn't one airplane, it was 2-3 times a week.

  22. Re:Anecdote on New US $20 bills Released, Colors & Layout Change · · Score: 1

    Hey I shop at that Wendy's too... Same problem.... Well I usta eat there, lately the service has been getting so bad.

  23. Re:Most counterfeits look stupid on New US $20 bills Released, Colors & Layout Change · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you missed them shooting at our aircraft legally patrolling the no-fly zones? Not saying that is why we attacked, just that that is "sufficient legal provocation".

  24. Re:Counterfitting measures updated. on New US $20 bills Released, Colors & Layout Change · · Score: 1

    Yes, I just read the page and it is a scam. It repeats a variation on the theme of "income tax is illegal" and paper money that isn't backed isn't real and can't be used to "pay debts". Basically paranoid ranting.

  25. Re:I hope to make money off it again on New US $20 bills Released, Colors & Layout Change · · Score: 1

    I had that happen also, and I told the person behind the counter that I had given her a 10, she argued the point vigorously, to the point where I accepted the $13 of change for my 10.