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  1. Re:Commas on SCO Wants To Destroy Business Records · · Score: 1

    Can't be; it has more pixels.

  2. Re:Reduce gun violence? on Federal Gun Control Requires IT Overhaul · · Score: 1

    Explain to me again how that should be just widely available to everyone who asks?

    Another straw man argument. Congratulations.

  3. Re:Reduce gun violence? on Federal Gun Control Requires IT Overhaul · · Score: 2

    He has implied that through omission. Whenever gun rights come up, he talks about hunting and skeet shooting.

  4. Re:Reduce gun violence? on Federal Gun Control Requires IT Overhaul · · Score: 1

    Who said "machine gun", Captain Straw Man? Full-auto weapons-- never mind a "machine gun"-- are hard to come by in the USA and none made after 1986 are available for private use.

  5. Re:Reduce gun violence? on Federal Gun Control Requires IT Overhaul · · Score: 1

    Why is it that the left never seems to propose having minimal training standards, though? They always want to ban the guns, instead of vetting those who bear them.

  6. Re:Reduce gun violence? on Federal Gun Control Requires IT Overhaul · · Score: 1

    Does every private citizen have a personal cop protecting him?

  7. Re:Saturation on Missile Defense's Real Enemy: Math · · Score: 1

    Modern fighter aircraft still have cannons. Ammo is relatively cheap.

  8. Re:Worst Case Scenario on Turning the Belkin WeMo Into a Deathtrap · · Score: 1

    Ron, are you out of the hospital already?

  9. Re:space heater have temp and tip over switches on Turning the Belkin WeMo Into a Deathtrap · · Score: 1

    If such things were sold in Wal Mart or Target, some moron would probably cut off the "funny plug" so they could plug it in a 15A outlet.

  10. Re:CBS has no integrity, why would a subsidiary? on CES Ditches CNET After CBS Scandal Over Dish's Hopper · · Score: 2

    I think the space of a post on Slashdot is a little too small to rattle off the shortcomings of Obama.

  11. Re:CBS has no integrity, why would a subsidiary? on CES Ditches CNET After CBS Scandal Over Dish's Hopper · · Score: 1

    The truth is always the noblest cause.

  12. Re:Do car games on How Videogames Help Fund the Arms Industry · · Score: 1

    Yes, but as an AC pointed out earlier, this isn't a hot-button issue right now. Gun-control mania is.

  13. Re:congratulations. on How Videogames Help Fund the Arms Industry · · Score: 4, Informative

    They also sell to private gun shops, which the federal government orders to purposely sell to Mexican drug runners and their straw purchasers.

  14. Re:Go with usernames. on Ask Slashdot: Name Conflicts In Automatically Generated Email Addresses? · · Score: 1

    Prince dropped the symbol that formerly represented him many years ago. I guess he now falls into one of the first few items about having one canonical name.

  15. Re:Fundamentally... on The Biggest Financial Fraud of All Time · · Score: 1

    I don't know; ask George Soros how he did it.

  16. Re:It will be fixed on The Biggest Financial Fraud of All Time · · Score: 1

    The government solution for this was to prop up most of the institutions that cheated-- because they were too big to fail-- and this allowed said institutions to buy others and become even bigger. That's not a free market.

  17. Re:Fundamentally... on The Biggest Financial Fraud of All Time · · Score: 1

    The government is part of the conflict of interest. See: Chris Dodd, Charlie Rangel, Nancy Pelosi.

  18. Re:Fundamentally... on The Biggest Financial Fraud of All Time · · Score: 1

    Do the words "straw man" mean anything to you?

  19. Re:Liberals? on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    You know, those people who think the way to freedom is, ironically, to give as much power to government as possible?

  20. Re:VisiCalc on What Early Software Was Influential Enough To Deserve Acclaim? · · Score: 1

    I took my quote directly from President Franklin Roosevelt, except for where I changed "we" to "they" for obvious reasons. Even a progressive thinks public unions are a bad idea. Even on a local level, they are.

  21. Liberals? on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    Should we tolerate a government that holds the public in terror by staging military exercises that could be easily mistaken for actual attacks? How is the average person supposed to know they are firing blanks? Obviously, the government does not care, because it is their intent for the subject to be in fear.

  22. Re:VisiCalc on What Early Software Was Influential Enough To Deserve Acclaim? · · Score: 1

    The pay of Government employees is fixed by the Congress. The people who run the Executive Department of Government as a whole are bound by the law. Every workman has a full opportunity to be heard. They can lay the case before the Congress if any change is contemplated in the law. That is where it is made.

  23. Re:Before Reagan was president. on What Early Software Was Influential Enough To Deserve Acclaim? · · Score: 1

    Your partisan diatribe is wholly out of place in this discussion. Even if your knowledge of history was not so lacking, your contribution would be useless.

  24. Re:You know you've got a killer app when.... on What Early Software Was Influential Enough To Deserve Acclaim? · · Score: 1

    Or laughter...

  25. Re:WTB Cisco Switch on Cisco Exits the Consumer Market, Sells Linksys To Belkin · · Score: 1

    Motorola used to make great ones. I have a WR850 and WA840 that both still work like champs, but I need to go to N. They are WDS bridged with WPA2 encryption-- something Netgear still hasn't figured out some 6 years later. DD-WRT might be able to do it, but at least it won't unless both routers are running DD-WRT (and one of the Netgears I have is the v1 that can't run DD-WRT). So I'm going to have to run CAT-5e to link them, although it's probably for the best as bridging reduces your bandwidth anyway.