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  1. Re:Sales customers on Best Buy Says Customers Not Always Right · · Score: 1
    Which is exactly what I said...

    No act or practice should be engaged in by an advertiser to discourage the purchase of the advertised merchandise as part of a bait scheme to sell other merchandise.

    ....
    (b) The disparagement by acts or words of the advertised product or the disparagement of the guarantee, credit terms, availability of service, repairs or parts, or in any other respect , in connection with it,
    Note the emphasis placed
  2. Re:New Revolution? on Ten-disc 'Matrix' DVD Box Set Planned · · Score: 1

    It had a place and it was a good place, but it wasn't a 10 minute place, it was a 2 minute place... And that is how to make it better. 3 minutes of morpheus speechifying/praying/preaching and 2 minutes of dancing.

  3. Re:There's a trilogy? on Ten-disc 'Matrix' DVD Box Set Planned · · Score: 1

    IMO, there are 2, but the second stars TVs Highlander.

  4. Re:My only gripe on Spider-Man 2 Has Over 30 Mistakes · · Score: 1

    I predict that Rutan will put a man on the moon before the decade is over.

  5. Re:My only gripe on Spider-Man 2 Has Over 30 Mistakes · · Score: 1

    He said that the same shape is used, not that tritium is used.

    And its likely NOT that hard to find on google.

  6. Re:IT"S A MOVIE, FOR CHRIST"S SAKE! on Spider-Man 2 Has Over 30 Mistakes · · Score: 1

    No, I'd likely curl up dead on the floor.

  7. Re:Sales customers on Best Buy Says Customers Not Always Right · · Score: 1

    Ok, The BBB doesn't care if you say

    " You don't want that one, it sucks, buy this one instead"

    OR

    "You don't want that one, this one is much better"

    either way you are disparaging the advertised merchandise.

  8. Re:Laugh it up, fuzzball on Military on Alert for Killer Coke Cans · · Score: 1
    Imagine for a moment someone DID constuct a bomb out of a coke can. How much semtex would a coke can hold?
    How much semtex or other HE would a coke can hold... The answer is "enough".
  9. Re:vending machines on Military on Alert for Killer Coke Cans · · Score: 1

    No, but you might find a refrigerator that could be stocked with a case of soda...

    SO now the case must be checked before stocking.

  10. Re:Thus the phrase... on EPA Fuel Economy Myth: Too High, Too Low? · · Score: 1
    the fun part is that it will only take one person to notice that you do this daily and simply jet out at the last second, making you swerve and end up hamburger as rolling a vehichle at 120 is fatal.
    Really? Is that a universal rule? Or one you just made up? Funny how Drivers of stock cars, F1, and GT crash at higher speeds than that and typically walk away... GRANTED they are designed for that contingency, but 120mph is NOT invaviably fatal.
  11. Re:Truth? on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 1

    Sure, they do give out guns, if you open a 100k CD for 5 years and sit out the 2 week waiting period.

    So yes you get your gun at the bank. But do you walk in and open any CD and get a gun ...

    NO.

  12. Re:Dishonest on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 1

    So shooting at the planes patrolling the no-fly zone isn't an attack on the US or US allies??

  13. Re:What did you want them to do? on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 1

    Further, it wasn't "secret flights" it was on CNN and Fox. Of course the spin from Fox and CNN was that we were just short of deporting them, and we were doing it for their and our protection.

  14. Re:Dishonest on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 1

    If you check moore's website he doesn't answer a single one of the objections to bowling. He doesn't present refuting evidence, or even claims. He skirts the issue.

    It's like the argument about whether or not Al GOre claimed to invent the internet.

    His actual words are "I took the initiative in creating the internet" Now even without spin that is an incredible claim.

    OTOH Michael moore doesn't respond to the claims at bowling for truth.

    GO read the claims, and then read Michael moore's response, and then read the followup from bowling for truth.

    DRAW YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS

  15. Re:Feeble minded weaklings on Blame Bad Security on Sloppy Programming · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I love the president.
    That's your problem. Here's some advice: when Bush starts talking about freedom, stop listening; that's not why we're there. That's just the excuse that is being given.
    That's your problem. Here's some advice: when your history book starts talking about freeing the slaves, stop listening; that's not why the civil war was fought. That's just the excuse that is being given.

    Nobody ever gives all the reasons for fighting a war, just the popular ones. Deal with it! Just because an impact is secondary or peripheral, doesn't mean it isn't part of the justification.

    THere are lots of reasons why we are in Iraq, freedom is one of them, national security is another, WMDs are part of that, So is the fact that it was time to finish a 15 year war, and Bush had the political capital to spend getting it done. 12 years ago his father used up his political capital freeing kuwait and had none left to finish the job.

    Aprove or not, This was the best time to finish the job.
  16. Re:More OT, but it must be said! on Reverse Graffiti · · Score: 1

    Ok, where in scripture do you find Condoned or advocated, slavery and rape?

    I do find rules detailing how one should treat ones slaves(freeing them after 7 years and paying a fair wage) but no-where is it recommended. And other than mention of rape(no different from the evening news or morning paper IMO) It definitely isn't recommended, advocated or condoned.

  17. Re:More OT, but it must be said! on Reverse Graffiti · · Score: 1

    well, until 800 years ago, total war as prescribed in the Old Testament was the only certain way to win a war.

  18. Re:Hey, whose side are they on? on Rocket Hobbyists Get Blown Away by Regulations · · Score: 1

    Why is it that people forget that that land was occupied after Israel was attacked by armies massing larger than their population, and took the land in self defense.

    YOu must have been one of the jurors that decided that the guy who popped those muggers in the NY subway did something wrong.

  19. Re:Only for New Books on German Court Fixes Book Prices On Ebay · · Score: 1

    Of course, in the US, review copies, if they are distinct from release copies demand a premium.

  20. Re:Centericq is also broken on Yahoo Changes Protocol, Blocks Third Party Clients · · Score: 1

    I notice you aren't a slashdot subscriber and thusly you are wiling to put up with it on THIS online conversation.

  21. Re:Centericq is also broken on Yahoo Changes Protocol, Blocks Third Party Clients · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ok, you answered the question I was going to ask.

    Which is of course, why not use an official client since you are in fact using their network and resources to send messages.

    SO I ask the question to others

    How many would use an official ad-encumbered client if one was available for your prefered environment?

  22. Re:jello on HOPE Conference Gets Wozniak, Mitnick, Biafra · · Score: 1
    anti-government far-left socialists
    ??????

    Socialists believe that the government should be my mommy, so HOW can you be an anti-government socialist??

    or did you mean anti US-government?
  23. Re:So? on Airlines Gave More Data Than Previously Disclosed · · Score: 1

    If you know enough about him... YES.

  24. Re:Unnecessary on Airlines Gave More Data Than Previously Disclosed · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming that reasonable men will eventually behave reasonably, and that unreasonable behaviour MAY be the reasonable response to extreme behavior.

    BUT if the unreasonable behavior is illegal, then it must be brought into conformity with the law.

    The history of the US is filled with mistakes being made and corrected and I fully expect that the mistakes made during this crisis will ultimately be rectified, and some of the things which appear to be mistakes, will turn out to have been the right thing...

  25. Re:Unnecessary on Airlines Gave More Data Than Previously Disclosed · · Score: 1

    No, i'm saying that if someone building a bomb is discovered to be building a bomb using "unconstitutional methods" then by the rule of law they must get off. If they attempt to build another bomb, we are now watching them legally and they can be arrested tried and convicted.

    We can't throw out the rule of law, BUT if it turns out that we used illegal methods in catching criminals, we can't punish them, but we do have reasonable cause to keep them under surveilance.

    Police occassionally use illegal methods of finding criminals and then must ignore the evidence obtained illegally until evidence can be legally obtained.