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  1. Re:Maybe it's not a fad but some practical joke? on Toshiba To Launch No-Glasses 3D TV This Year · · Score: 1

    What's really telling - Avatar had some in-setting "analogue print" photos. On a fridge (a better one, sure - one with a window, I'd like to see some consumer ones like that - but still a fridge). And the only screen really utilising 3D, in the setting of the film, never displayed recorded images, just (in setting) CGI imagery. Almost a parody of itself.

    I tried running this through babelfish without success. Avatar has analogue prints on a fridge? And the live action isn't in 3D?

  2. Re:I saw Avatar the other day on Toshiba To Launch No-Glasses 3D TV This Year · · Score: 1

    When someone types "walla", it is sad.

  3. Re:Welcom heavy metals on West Virginia Is Geothermically Active · · Score: 1

    It ain't like the EPA has had any teeth in years buddy

    Yes they do. They're just bureaucrats who answer to the regime, not the people. For example, when Congress failed to pass cap and trade, they unilaterally decided to call carbon dioxide a harmful substance so they could regulate it without legislation. This benefits the President's friends who have all made investments in carbon credit exchanges.

  4. Re:Iceland on West Virginia Is Geothermically Active · · Score: 1

    Rotten egg showers! I'm all for that.

  5. Re:Geothermal Ain't Green on West Virginia Is Geothermically Active · · Score: 1

    we thought the supply was unlimmited

    While some people are perfectly functional morons (like Congress), I'm pretty sure the rest of us know that nothing is "unlimited".

  6. Re:Everyone will be happy on West Virginia Is Geothermically Active · · Score: 1

    Give Brazil and Mexico money to pump it out.

  7. Re:Battery on a Belt on 15-Year-Old Boy Fitted With Robotic Heart · · Score: 1

    I hear a whooshing sound, not unlike that of Tony Stark taking his suit for a spin.

  8. Re:What is this Logan's Run? on 15-Year-Old Boy Fitted With Robotic Heart · · Score: 1

    That's funny, but by 1982 we already had an artificial heart with a power source that was as big as a dishwasher, but that's a lot smaller than even a Smart car.

  9. Re:I agree on 'The Laws Are Written By Lobbyists,' Says Google's Schmidt · · Score: 1

    On the contrary; it seems that today's political franchise is indeed in the case of quite a few asses.

  10. Re:some ideas Re:I agree on 'The Laws Are Written By Lobbyists,' Says Google's Schmidt · · Score: 1

    Removing the power of the states removes the power of the people. People complain about having little power to act on a federal level; that's why our Constitution is SUPPOSED to limit the power of the federal government. Imagine if we also didn't have any power on a state level.

  11. Re:I agree on 'The Laws Are Written By Lobbyists,' Says Google's Schmidt · · Score: 1

    The Roman Empire started out pretty democratic. So, if you're attacking our republican system merely because it's "outdated", your fallacy becomes clear. What you're proposing is exactly the fundamental transformation that Obama promised just before he was elected. How do you like it so far? Democracy has been a failure everywhere it has been tried, just like communism.

  12. Re:Benchmarks? on The Science of Truthiness · · Score: 1

    Lie #1 was calling the USA a democracy; in fact, it is something much more remarkable. Lie #2 was FDR claiming the word "liberal" to describe progressives like he, when the only "liberal" thing he ever did was to end prohibition.

  13. Re:No good reason to upgrade on 66% of All Windows Users Still Use Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Acer sells Atom notebooks with Windows 7.

  14. Re:My Motto on 66% of All Windows Users Still Use Windows XP · · Score: 1

    What if they gave you a keyboard with a period key that works?

  15. Re:Rounding Error? on 66% of All Windows Users Still Use Windows XP · · Score: 2, Funny

    That makes one of us!

  16. Re:most people still don't understand electricity on Rube Goldberg and the Electrification of America · · Score: 1

    Forget it. I've told them for seven years that the American flag icon has the stripes wrong (and got modded down), and they can't even be bothered to fix that. What makes you think they'll fix the codepage support?

  17. Re:Poem from the early days of electricity. on Rube Goldberg and the Electrification of America · · Score: 1
    No, the problem is that not only do people not understand what the American Dream is, they don't understand that the way to get it has changed. It's not to collect stuff (that's usually worthless crap in time) or be famous. The American Dream has always been to have what you need, have a solid plan for the future, and in general to succeed. Unless you work very, very hard, and are a little lucky, you won't get that by being an employee. Yes, one way of getting there is by getting a powerful, high-paying job like that of a corporate CEO. But he's still an employee, and you could say he had some of that luck I was talking about. The way to the American dream is to acquire assets and make smart investments. Maybe if people used their savings and credit to buy assets (no, your personal house or car doesn't count), they wouldn't be so concerned with getting the "rich" to pay their "fair share". Unfortunately, since the death of the pension plan (except for all those union workers), we've been told that the way to have a secure retirement is to throw our money into the stock market and rely on social security for the rest.

    These people are filthy rich and will never be anything but.

    Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them live beyond their means and are actually quite poor when their debts are taken into account. We think every CEO has a golden parachute because we always hear about those; but if a truly bad CEO gets fired, how many months do you think they could maintain their lifestyle before going broke?

  18. Re:Understanding on Rube Goldberg and the Electrification of America · · Score: 1

    I feel that these well-spoken gentlemen have a good understanding of magnetism.

  19. Re:Understanding on Rube Goldberg and the Electrification of America · · Score: 1

    ODB II testers are less than $100 US. The specification is published by the SAE, so you can write your own freeware. You might have to buy a book to read the spec, though.

  20. Re:Buffalo, New York on The New Data Center Capital of America · · Score: 1

    Thanks. Please be sure to point our that future articles about Mexico, Moscow, or Paris are indeed NOT the ones in New York.

  21. Re:Silicon valley.... on The New Data Center Capital of America · · Score: 1

    I hear one of the Kings of Prussia just got cable!

  22. Re:Coming up next - mandatory blindfolds! on US Says Plane Finder App Threatens Security · · Score: 1
    You just described ethnic profiling. Profiling based solely on that would be stupid, and not profiling. Profiling means looking at the age, sex, weight, health, country of origin, etc. Naturally, skin color and religion get progressives all agitated, so we have to ignore those and PROFILE based on the other attributes.

    I'm damn surprised that we ever catch anyone before they successfully attack, considering the rampant ignorance encouraged by the media.

  23. Re:Can get even worse on The Binary Code In Canada's Gov-Gen Coat of Arms · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, but it's a Y. Wyelsh pyeople llyove thyeyr Ys.

  24. Re:This is $90 million on a billing error? on Verizon Wireless To Issue $90 Million In Refunds · · Score: 1

    You'd buy your computer from your ISP and it wouldn't work with any other ISP.

    Although, to be fair, most computers would be free.

  25. Re:And? on Verizon Wireless To Issue $90 Million In Refunds · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If done to the government, it would result in criminal charges.

    Of course, if done BY the government, it would not.