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  1. Re:Yuck. I really, really hope you're joking. on Using The GIMP (or Photoshop) to Improve Photos? · · Score: 1

    Folks, if you want to isolate a subject, use a lens with a larger opening, narrower field of view, or just get closer to your subject.
    Please oh great guardian of wisdom, how do I get closer to the SKY?
  2. Re:I wonder if they found that Bush didn't win.... on Ohio Recount Rigging Case Goes to Court · · Score: 1

    The testimony wasn't surrounding whitewater, it was surrounding a lawsuit regarding another alleged sexual impropriety with an employee.

  3. Re:Your credit card was not pwned by AOL on Just Cancel the @#%$* Account! · · Score: 2, Informative

    I did cancel AOL. and was NOT billed for 2 months. the third month AOL billed again.. I called again, cancelled AGAIN, and after another skipped month, they resumed billing.

  4. Re:OMG that is annoying on Just Cancel the @#%$* Account! · · Score: 1

    I had to report a credit card stolen when AOL reactivated a canceled account without my consent.

  5. Re:From my cold dead hands on Second Amendment Questioned · · Score: 1

    Thats a really poor plan. Aim high for the first round, if it kills him good, if not pull down just below center mass, and fire again, allowing muzzle rise to put the last round near the first one.

  6. Re:From my cold dead hands on Second Amendment Questioned · · Score: 1

    Actually the military pledges allegiance to the constitution and pledges to obey lawful orders.

  7. Re:From my cold dead hands on Second Amendment Questioned · · Score: 1

    Being in my house while I'm sleeping without being invited gets the death penalty. Be it by gun, knife or my hands.

  8. Re:From my cold dead hands on Second Amendment Questioned · · Score: 1

    You would be surprised at the sorts of orders the military are trained to refuse.

  9. Re:BS on Second Amendment Questioned · · Score: 1

    Well regulated is a techical term, it means their weapons shoot straight. Look it up.

  10. Re:Now is the time to define. . . on Second Amendment Questioned · · Score: 1

    The problem with your theory is that the purpose of the militia is to (in theory) keep the federal government in check.

    All enemies foreign and domestic

  11. Re:Satellite Parts on What's the Coolest Thing You've Ever Built? · · Score: 1

    Petawhat?

  12. Re:And you justify your uninteresting life... on What's the Coolest Thing You've Ever Built? · · Score: 1
    So how do you justify your inability to do
    what any extant life form is capapble of doing:
    I guess if that makes you happy its a good thing.
  13. Re:Not surprising?! on Windows Vista and XP Head To Head · · Score: 1

    Nice ninja Slashvert.

  14. Re:Holidays on Media Fight - PS3 Blu-ray vs. 360 HD DVD Add-On · · Score: 1

    Holiday= Holyday = Holy Day, Linguistics 101 ftw.

  15. Re:Code modules start with great intentions on Practices of an Agile Developer · · Score: 1

    Sketches are great, but if they're production useable, even if they aren't production ready, they'll make it to production.

  16. Re:But wait ... on Army Game Proves U.S. Can't Lose · · Score: 1

    I guess we'd have to tap Alaska, and Venezuela, Oh, you say Venezuela isn't part of the US...

    YET

  17. Re:What about Marijuana then? on China Jails Porn Site Leader For Life · · Score: 1

    I've actually been in their government subsidised housing, since I went to JR High and high school(grades 6-12 for reference) and been on the edge of subsistence, but not on the government teat.

  18. Re:Idiot. on Student Makes a Million Online, Gets Deported · · Score: 1

    Luck has everything to do with it, but you misunderstand luck. Luck happens to every single one of us every day. The "Lucky" recognize that oportunity, sieze it, and make millions, the "unlucky" pass it by.

  19. Re:What about Marijuana then? on China Jails Porn Site Leader For Life · · Score: 1

    And yet, somehow, they do.

  20. Re:What about Marijuana then? on China Jails Porn Site Leader For Life · · Score: 1

    Right, because people on welfare can't afford to get drunk every night in front of a 42 in plasma TV.

  21. Re:Are you perchance female ? on Variable Star By Heinlein and Robinson · · Score: 1

    Actually, his widow(now dead), was the person his female leads were modeled after. Unbelievable perhaps, but she was an expert shot, a martial arts master(several disciplines) a mathematician, physicist, and biologist, horseback rider, and aparently quite happily female as well.

  22. Re:Callahan's Crosstime Saloon on Variable Star By Heinlein and Robinson · · Score: 1

    Heinlein, due to his period and experiences, had come to believe that (radical) Feminism, and its goals, ideals and plans, had become worse(for women) than Misogyny and prejudice.

  23. Re:Get Informed on Is An Uninformed Vote Better Than No Vote? · · Score: 1
    The traditional way of dealing with a tyranny is to grab your pitchforks and storm the bastille. It's a whole lot more effective than getting your vote counted for someone you loathe and who exploits you in return for your vote.
    and the traditional way to identify a tyranny is that people are afraid to make comments like yours.
  24. Re:you'll get answers on Global Warming Debunked? · · Score: 1

    And yet, when they cored down to a plane that crashed in the 40s, they found an inordanantly high number of "annual layers", over 2x the number predicted IIRC.

  25. Re:I vote for no-DST and use GMT on Prepared for Next Year's Time Change? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, but when dealing with strangers you only need to know basic human behaviour. and the UTC differential.

    Most people get up between 0530 and 0800 local. so after 0800 local is a socially acceptable time to call.

    Most people eat lunch between 1030 local and 1330 local so if you call their place of business you are likely to miss them.

    most people go to bed between 2100 and 2359 local, so after 2100 local is an inappropriate time to call a stranger.