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  1. Re:What Al Gore said... on Al Gore Invents Internet TV · · Score: 1

    That would have to be legisaltors since he is obviously talking about a legislative sucess. What kind of sucesses would you talk about if you were a former legislator?

  2. Re:Did he? on Al Gore Invents Internet TV · · Score: 1

    You must be new if you think facts are a consideration to the fox-heads around here...

  3. Re:What Al Gore said... on Al Gore Invents Internet TV · · Score: 1
    That says it all. The only way you can interpret that to mean that he thinks he came up with the internet is if you think he is claiming to have been hacking in the back row of the Senate floor.

    Thanks a lot for digging out this quote though, it's nice how often zealots find counter-factuals for you.

  4. Re:MPD on New York Court Says Telecommuters Must Pay NY Tax · · Score: 1
    Hi, nice try, but in the MA case, the judicial specifically decided not to write this law. They saw that the laws on the books were unconstitutional, and rather than just rolling back the marriage law, they let the legislature ammend it so that it was constitutional.

    Also, when you write, "no branch of government has the right to exert direct control over the activities of another" you are way, way off base. The legislature directs the executive all the time. The executive's primary role is to execute the law of the land (get it, it's in the name).

  5. Re:judicial activism? on New York Court Says Telecommuters Must Pay NY Tax · · Score: 1
    You wrote, "The point of the judiciary is to interpret the law." But the constitution reads, " The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court." Which means, in Chief Justice John Marshall's words, "Should Congress, in the execution of its powers, adopt measures which are prohibited by the constitution; or should Congress, under the pretext of executing its powers, pass laws for the accomplishment of objects not entrusted to the government; it would become the painful duty of this tribunal, should a case requiring such a decision come before it, to say that such an act was not the law of the land."

    Which is to say, that people who were alive at the time and aware of the thoughts of the framers thought this fit under the term 'judicial.'

  6. Re:judicial activism? on New York Court Says Telecommuters Must Pay NY Tax · · Score: 1

    First, he is pratically a founding father. Second, it is clearly the the intention of the framers of the constitution to give the power to interpret the constitution to the judicial.

  7. Re:being a paying customer... on 'Most Important Ever' MySQL Reaches Beta · · Score: 1

    You know, most of the comparisons of speed between the ACID MySQL DB and Oracle have then having about the same speed.] http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=708&a=23115, 00.asp">here is one.

  8. Re:judicial activism? on New York Court Says Telecommuters Must Pay NY Tax · · Score: 1

    Watch out with using the phrase, "judicial activism" or "activist judges." It is reserved for bigots who think the South should not have had to intigrate. Brown vs. The Board of Education is the first example. The courts forced the South to do what the legislators didn't have the gumption or capital to do.

  9. Re:H&R on New York Court Says Telecommuters Must Pay NY Tax · · Score: 1

    The best thing about these companies (your favorite is no exception!) is that after they compute your refund, they keep it! No seriously, they invented fees that people are willing to pay because of the "windfall" of money.

  10. Re:use any old thing on Are 'Monster' Cables Worth It? · · Score: 1

    While it is true that gold corrodes slowly (see mono-layer comment from my previous post). Typically, the best way to speed corrosion is to have two metals touching--this forms a redox pair. So you could easily be corroding the countact on the far side of that 2 um of gold.

  11. Re:use any old thing on Are 'Monster' Cables Worth It? · · Score: 1

    Oops, thanks!

  12. Re:Electrons no different on Are 'Monster' Cables Worth It? · · Score: 1

    I think he was saying that the anode and cathode are of similar length to minimize phase-shifting.

  13. Re:use any old thing on Are 'Monster' Cables Worth It? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not sure what you are trying to say, but copper is the best pure metal conductor. Super conductors are, of course, much better. As far as corrosion, all the elements corrode and oxidize (STM experiments tell us that even gold forms an oxide mono-layer in about 10^-9 seconds in air). But gold and platinum corrosion are not as bad on connections. In dry environments, I'm not sure copper is noticably different within 10 years.

  14. Re:I'll switch on Forbes Predicts 5% Desktop Share for Apple in 2005 · · Score: 1

    Just curious, what do you think is missing?

  15. Re:I'll be one of the converts on Forbes Predicts 5% Desktop Share for Apple in 2005 · · Score: 1
    Well, if you order it with 256 MB, I'll bet this would be your experience. OW, my Pisom (400 MHz, 1 GB ram) runs a little slow, but manageable, my 667 MHz computers (both with 512 MB) have never shown any signs of being slow before they hit the swap (aka launch photoshop).

    But this post looks like total astroturf. way to go moderators.

  16. Re:Where to save your data on IBM Using iPod to boot Linux on PCs · · Score: 1
    "4. Floppy!"

    Sorry, I'm new around here, what's a "floppy?"

  17. Re:Why muons go straight through on Muon Detector Could Thwart Nuclear Smugglers · · Score: 1

    Oh, this is something that I'm actively researching, so it is my area of speciality. But the theoretical physics isn't the core of what I do so it somewhat isn't. Anyway, read the link to Bethe-Bloch up above to see what I'm talking about. It's the third paragraph that I'm talking about.

  18. Re:Why muons go straight through on Muon Detector Could Thwart Nuclear Smugglers · · Score: 1
    well, you also said, "So both the electrons and protons get stopped very quickly, which means they deposit much more energy inside you = nasty radiation damage!"

    An electron and a muon with a few GeV will deposit the same amount of energy in something so long as they exit also at relativistic velocities. So, not quite.

  19. Re:Why muons go straight through on Muon Detector Could Thwart Nuclear Smugglers · · Score: 1

    good catch. Electrons do primarily interact with the nuclei and not with other electrons. Same goes for muons

  20. Re:Don't know if this helps..... on Wisconsin Governor Proposing Tax On Downloads · · Score: 1

    FYI, this covers all members of congress EVER. So the drunk driving covers all the living people who have been in congress (and there are a lot of ex-house members).

  21. Re:For clarity's sake on Wisconsin Governor Proposing Tax On Downloads · · Score: 1

    This is fuzzy math. Income taxes do not represent the lions share of taxes in the U.S. Payrole taxes selectively over-tax the poor and middle class and are not counted in this equation, nor are sales taxes by which most cities and states make their money. this can be heavily graded.

  22. Re:For clarity's sake on Wisconsin Governor Proposing Tax On Downloads · · Score: 1

    Let's slice it another way. I expect my income to increase as I get older and into higher level positions. I would rather pay more taxes when I'm making more money and less when I'm making less.

  23. Re:Democrats vs. Republicans on Wisconsin Governor Proposing Tax On Downloads · · Score: 1
    I'm not sure I follow.

    Ronald Regan increased the budget durring his administration by 25%. Remember the president proposes the budget and congress modifies it. For regan 96% of the increase was proposed and 4% added by congress. Clinton increased the size of the federal budget by almost exactly the same amount, but revenue was skyrocketing at the time.

  24. Re:Why muons go straight through on Muon Detector Could Thwart Nuclear Smugglers · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Oops, muons are leptons just like electrons . They have electric charge and interact with electrons via the electromagnetic force. As such, at relativistic velocities (which they are at, otherwise their half life would prevent them from descending so far into the atmosphere) they act as "minimum ionizing particles" and deposit about 2 MeV per cm^2/gram. multiply the density of an object and its track length and you will get about the amount of energy a meuon will give up while traversing it. For lead (density of about 12 g/cc), at 3 GeV, a muon will go about 4 feet in lead (it's an approximation, so being off by almost exactly the proverbial sqrt(2) from what is in the article almost proves I'm right).

    Anyway, the reason muons are so penetrating is that they have so much energy to start with, so they can afford to give it up slowly.

    BTW, as a coarse approximation, at sea level, cosmic background is about 1/3 x-rays and electrons, perhaps 1/6 neutrons and the balance is muons. That is by dose, not flux.

  25. Re:Munney Gubbing on Class-Action Suit Filed Against Apple · · Score: 1
    When I called I asked for their cheapest service, they told me their top of the line service was their cheapest.

    It is about the same as the only mattress service in town only selling the top of the line mattress and saying that it is the base model

    Look, what you may not realize is that a jurry of your peers has to agree with you for you to win a lawsuit.

    Furthermore, if you really want tort reform, what you also want is big government and the big government regulation that goes with it. Tort is a very efficient system for dealing with would otherwise be a huge bureaucracy.