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  1. Re:POWs? on Stolen Honor: Sinclair Under Fire · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why don't you actually ask the POWs. They'll tell you it was Kerry.

    Isn't interesting everyone talks about My Lai, but no one ever talks about how the massacre was halted.

  2. Re:POWs? on Stolen Honor: Sinclair Under Fire · · Score: 1

    Tell it to someone else. I live in Georgia, and Max Cleland ran around with his poor, woe is me, I lost all my limbs in vietnam, I'm a war hero, vote for me shtick until we were all quite sick of it.

  3. Re:POWs? on Stolen Honor: Sinclair Under Fire · · Score: 2, Informative

    Max Cleland blew himself up with a grenade on the way to get a beer at an air base. While tragic, it is disgusting that he has let people think he was wounded in combat.

    There were many more people in the Hanoi Hilton than John McCain, and many of them have repeatedly told stories of how the North Vietnamese played tapes of John Kerry's senate testimony to break their wills.

    You named three people. The vets putting this documentary together number over a hundred and many of them were POWs in the Hanoi Hilton.

  4. Re:No different from a newspaper endorsement on Stolen Honor: Sinclair Under Fire · · Score: 1

    But the moment someone tries to fine CBS for the superbowl fiasco you cry censorship.

  5. Re:Thievery on Cherry OS Claims Mac OS X Capability For x86 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    You mean other than money? Again, a nice rationalization, but the fact remains that you have taken something that does not belong to you and you have not paid for it. By definition you have stolen.

  6. Re:Thievery on Cherry OS Claims Mac OS X Capability For x86 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nice rationalization. However, people who still have their common-sense morality working know that, morally, there's no difference. You are taking something that does not belong to you without paying for it.

  7. Double-standard on Libertarian Party Suit Could Mean A 3-Party Debate · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I guess the Libertarian party only believes in hands-off government when it works to their advantage.

  8. Re:It's hard work flipping burgers. on Last Pre-Election Jobs Report Released · · Score: 0

    A highly motivated fast food employee is a high school or college kid under his parents' insurance.

    A highly motivated adult manages a fast food restaurant and hires high school and college kids.

  9. Re:HP uses color for B&W on Printers - Are In-Cartridge Printheads Better? · · Score: 1

    Adding Cyan to straight black gives a richer and "truer" black than just straight black ink. Talk to a painter. To get a rich black, they always mix a bit of blue into the black ink.

  10. Re:It depends. on Printers - Are In-Cartridge Printheads Better? · · Score: 1

    You are correct on the bubblejet technology. The requirements of the ink to vaporize and condense makes it currently technically impossible to make true, long-term colorfast inks.

    Epson printers, however, use a mechanical inking system (a piezoelectric crystal) and so can use cold inks. This means their dye technologies are not limited by having to withstand extreme temperature and phase changes during printing like in bubblejet technology.

    So, yes, Epson inks can reach 70+ years with no fading without too much difficulty.

  11. Now we know what Kerry pulled out of his pocket on Battle of the Bush Bulge · · Score: 1

    It was a radio jammer so Kerry's men could take over Bush's receiver and whisper subversive comments into his ear.

  12. Pretty impressive on Last Pre-Election Jobs Report Released · · Score: 0, Troll

    Considering a successful terrorist attack on a major financial center of the nation, a massive nosedive in airline business as a result of 9/11, and the dot com goldrush crash.

    But, of course, the Kerry camp is in full 9/11 never happened pretend mode and they'll make as much hay out of this as they can.

  13. Re:What motivates people on Last Pre-Election Jobs Report Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't count on it. The truly motivated people are already working.

  14. Re:And just like that, on Congress Plans Space Tourism Regulation · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, Rather continues to insist that the forgeries are fake, but accurate...

    And, of course, there's the lovely CBS "documentary" The Wall Within. One giant forgery, that CBS STILL sells as a factual account of Viet Nam.

    Making a mistake and retracting it is one thing. Deliberately and knowingly spreading disinformation is another. But, of course, you knew that. You just want someone to validate your hatred for Republicans.

  15. Re:It's near performance already on Hydrogen Vehicle Generates Its Own Fuel · · Score: 0

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    Nevermind the blimp was coated with aluminum oxide -- one of the oxidizers in the Shuttle's Rocket Boosters, and a key ingredient for Thermite.
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    Is this myth ever going to die? It's nothing more than a crackpot theory by a hydrogen economy zealot conspiracy kook.

    The Hindenberg fire was extensively investigated by both German and American authorities after the fact, and BOTH agreed it STARTED as a hydrogen fire. Of course, the aluminum dope kook paints this huge conspiracy and coverup regarding the investigations, because it's the only way he can make his crackpot theory stick.

    Of course, slashdot is the same crowd that thinks the war in Iraq is about oil and Haliburton, so it shouldn't be surprising they fall for this crackpot theory, too.

  16. Re:And just like that, on Congress Plans Space Tourism Regulation · · Score: 1

    Because, of course, we all know that CBS is the Most Reliable(TM) of all news networks, and would never, ever make anything up to smear a Republican administration.

  17. The Green Berets on Kerry Film Free To Download · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is a better war movie. Better acting, better casting, and historically more accurate.

  18. Re:What's more equitable than choice? on House Shoots Down Draft, 402-2 · · Score: 1

    Except that it looks like Bush actually volunteered for duty in Viet Nam when he was in the guard.

    Guess you'll have to find another reason to hate him.

  19. Re:What's more equitable than choice? on House Shoots Down Draft, 402-2 · · Score: 2, Interesting

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    cushy tour in National Guard.
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    Thank you for spitting in the face of all the National Guardsmen now currently serving in Iraq.

    Jackass.

  20. Re:Right on Cornell Hosts Third-Party Presidential Debates · · Score: 1

    Putting Nader there might give him credibility and hurt Kerry's chances.

    This is Cornell, after all.

  21. Re:WMD fiasco vs Constitutional power to declare w on White House Lied About Iraq Nuclear Programs · · Score: 1

    What part of

    The President is authorized to use military force in whatever way he sees fit

    Do you not understand? Or are you one of these idiots whose grasp of the English language is so feeble that war is only authorized if the word war is actually used in the congressional resolution?

  22. Re:That's actually true, though. on Campaigns Wary About October Surprise · · Score: 1

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    Terrorists want Bush in power.
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    Only a fool would believe this. When Bush is in power, terrorists LEADERS die.

  23. In the previous scientific dark ages on Global Warming Expected to Intensify Hurricanes · · Score: 1

    We blamed comets for natural disasters. At least that explanation had a certain romance to it.

  24. Translation on Russia to Ratify Kyoto Treaty · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Our economy sucks so we need to find a way to limit American economic power.

  25. Cool on Political Games for the Campaign Trail · · Score: 1

    Does the Kerry game let me re-enact battle scenes with an 8mm camera to use in later political aspirations?