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  1. Re:What are you talking about? on Richard Stallman Accosted For Tinfoil Hat · · Score: 1

    Don't say things like that, it leads to people searching out links for tin foil hat porn.

  2. Re:Miller Light is claiming Bud Light tastes bad on Microsoft Claims Firms 'Hitting a Wall' With Linux · · Score: 1

    It's in cans, not bottles, but in NY state we still have deposits for glass too. I'm on the East end, near Riverhead. My favorite thing about steel reserve is it isn't shy on hops(compared to bud or miller or especially anything else inexpensive and high gravity) - they're not very good hops, but the aromatics and bite is there.

  3. Re:Miller Light is claiming Bud Light tastes bad on Microsoft Claims Firms 'Hitting a Wall' With Linux · · Score: 1

    Steel Reserve! $9.88 after deposit for two 12 packs, at 8.1% alcohol, and it's a very dark lager with real flavor, not a malt liquor.

  4. Re:How sure? on Man Cures Himself of HIV? · · Score: 1

    False positives definately happen, thats why I'm not sure why they are making such a big deal out of this. It mostly seems like they just can't confirm that there was some earlier mistake because they can't get any more testing done.

  5. Useless on Classic TV for Free Download · · Score: 1

    Won't your ISP just end up throttling the connection for "excessive serverlike activity" the way they always do when you spend too much time on bittorrent?

  6. Re:Sweet mother of brain implants. on Neuroscientists At MIT Developing DNI · · Score: 1

    My girlfriend has a brain implant for treatment for her dystonia, she has a timing device in her chest with a wire running up her neck and into her skull and brain, delivering direct stimulation to certain nerurons and reducing involuntary muscle contractions.

  7. Re:Contributing to the corruption of a minor on A Delay in the Michigan Violent Games Law · · Score: 1

    "which what law is -- it defines the norms and social behavior of our society" This is a very, VERY bad way to make laws. The purpose of law has nothing to do with social norms, or, it shouldn't. Law serves one purpose, protecting people from one another. Law is what makes this a society, in that we give up certain rights, like the right to hit your neighbor over the head and take his stuff, for certain equivalent protections, like being able to walk down the street without having to worry if your neighbor is going to whack you over the head and all your stuff will be gone when you wake up. Law should not be a tool for enforcing norms of social behavior - thats the additude that leads to laws against sodomy, strip joints, and other victemless crimes.

  8. Re:Evil Disemboweling Kitty Cats on Velociraptor Bad At Disemboweling · · Score: 1

    Did you get to keep it, or did those damn police make you give it back? It seems like every time your pet brings back a human bodypart, law officers need it, always some story about investigation or right to proper burial.

  9. Re:Evil Disemboweling Kitty Cats on Velociraptor Bad At Disemboweling · · Score: 1

    Our cat was a bit mean.... we once found another cat's severed tail in our front yard.

  10. Re:Massive volcano eruption??? on 2005 Will Probably be Warmest on Record · · Score: 1

    Cool, felt I should clarify in case there was a conflict beign seen where there was no need.

  11. Re:Massive volcano eruption??? on 2005 Will Probably be Warmest on Record · · Score: 1

    his point is they are the same incriment, not where you start counting, I think...

  12. Re:I am dyslexic and they make it hard to read on Why Do You Block Ads? · · Score: 1

    I agree, having all flash blocked, the only annoyance I have is animated gifs, so I really wish everbody would stop using them except advertisers so I could just block that format entirely too.

  13. Re:No, you're not the first, by a long shot... on When Should You Buy Your Kid A Laptop? · · Score: 1

    The threads were 3 pages before I got here, so no, I didn't read the whole thread, I work full time so I can't always take the time to read a whole threat before spouting off my opinions, I don't see how thats an issue, unlike not RTFA, and I said I hope I'm not the only one specifically hoping a previous post would have breached this enough that this wouldn't start much. However, that said, I prefer desktops, no matter how cheap an older laptop is, a desktop from the same era is cheaper, more powerful, and more robust - laptops have usually already suffered enough abuse to be unstable by the time they are a few years old and cheap. I also don't think I'd want it to be mobile. I'd prefer they keep the computing to the computer room or den or wherever it's situated, so that I will know when they are using it and online and when they are outside playing ball.

  14. I hope I'm not the first to say this... on When Should You Buy Your Kid A Laptop? · · Score: 1

    But NEVER - I really don't see why get them a laptop, it's just a much more expensive for the same processor machine as a desktop with a smaller slower hard drive, usually less RAM, and much, much more ways for a younger person to destroy it. How about getting them a DESKTOP computer, given you can get a decent one for less than many modern video game machines?

  15. I hope I'm not the first to say this on When Should You Buy Your Kid A Laptop? · · Score: 1

    But I really don't see why get them a laptop, it's just a much more expensive for the same price machine as a desktop with a smaller slower hard drive, usually less RAM, and much, much more ways for a younger person to destroy it. How about getting them a DESKTOP computer, given you can get a decent one for less than many modern video game machines?

  16. Re:Noisy PC on Completely Silent Media PC · · Score: 1, Funny

    and afteword I had to turn it right back on, because all the noises in my space I didn't hear before started driving me BATTY!

  17. Re:Laptops? on AMD Hits Milestone in Server Market · · Score: 1

    Good to see the power consumption gap has narrowed so much, now they just need to narrow the price gap, the Turion is about twice the price.

  18. Re:Turion on AMD Hits Milestone in Server Market · · Score: 1

    I think most people think of laptop power consumption in terms of how long their battery lasts, not how many watts their silicone uses, and the pentium M's are doing somewhat better there for the same performance, as I understand it.

  19. Re:Laptops? on AMD Hits Milestone in Server Market · · Score: 1

    If I recall, pentium pro was adapted to P3 which was adapted to Pentium M...

  20. Re:Laptops? on AMD Hits Milestone in Server Market · · Score: 5, Informative

    Pentium M's are good because they are primarily based on P3 technology, not P4 - the P4 architechture delivers signifcantly less bang per mhz, and thus far the increased top clocks of the P4's are not keeping ahead in actual performance the way they were expected to.

  21. Re:Apple isn't stupid on Apple's Colossal Disappointment? · · Score: 1

    I don't think they intend OSx to work on cheap dells or cheap PC's in general. I think they will use a limited proprietary selection of hardware, and have the OS refuse to install on anything not fully to spec - that way, if you use 3rd party drivers, or alternative hardwares, they don't have to give any support.

  22. Re:Good! on Hot Coffee Cooling Off · · Score: 1

    I fully stand by my comment, btw, it's mismoderated. If you can explain how it meets the definition of a troll I'd be elightend. I'd also like to note that I never said if I think a 12 year old should have it or not, only that finding a softcore scene less accpetable than mass murder indicates mental sickness. It isn't innaccurate, inflamatory, or intended to cause disruption. It was intended to point out that having a moral dichotomy of this sort is very mentally distrubed, pretty much right along the lines of 1984 doublethink.

  23. Re:Tshirt Already? on Hot Coffee Cooling Off · · Score: 1

    A product that probably depletes your batter slightly slower, the USB powered glitter lava lamp, is sold at Target for a few dollers.

  24. Re:Good! on Hot Coffee Cooling Off · · Score: 0, Troll

    What a troll this is - if you actually were to think the content in that game outside of this is MORE suitable to a child of his age, well, thats just sick man.

  25. Re:Nice Idea... on Death Star Subwoofer · · Score: 1

    With no flat surfaces, wouldn't it be difficult to get many standing waves in a sphere? If perfectly square is the worst, with all same distance opposing sides, wouldn't a sphere create the fewest standing waves, having no opposing flat sides at all?