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  1. Re:stirling engine is a no-go on Dean Kamen Combines Stirling Engine With Electric Car · · Score: 1

    Almost no one wants or can use a two seater unless it's fast. Ironically-- since most HOV lanes require 3 occupants-- that old Civic will have to sit in traffic, never realizing its potential.

  2. Re:stirling engine is a no-go on Dean Kamen Combines Stirling Engine With Electric Car · · Score: 1

    $5,000 for a bed pan? That pisses me off!

  3. Re:Duh. on Press Favored Obama Throughout Campaign · · Score: 1

    That's because the Obama campaign raised way more money. You may wish to ask yourself "How is that the Democrats managed to raise more money than the bigoted old white guy party?" You may come up with some surprising answers.

    Yes, because he initially agreed to run on public financing, then backed out. This caught McCain, who had been expecting to use the public financing, unawares.

  4. Re:Duh. on Press Favored Obama Throughout Campaign · · Score: 3, Informative

    No intelligence is necessary. What we call "libertarian" ideas now were once held by "liberals". The word "progressive" took on a negative connotation due to the failures of the Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party so the left wing stole the term "liberal" for itself-- despite the fact that progressive ideals call for an expansion of government and thus are counter to "classical liberal" ideals every step of the way. With the monarchies that were dominant in the 18th century, the status quo was for authoritarian control of nearly all parts of society; that is why the idea of a small government that answered to the people was considered free ("liberte", if you will) and liberal.

  5. Re:Duh. on Press Favored Obama Throughout Campaign · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Given that in WW2 we were fighting against right wing ideology

    No, we were fighting against evil ideology that happened to be "right-wing." During the Cold War and Korean War, we were fighting against evil ideology that happened to be "left-wing."

    it's important to keep in mind how far we've fallen away from our founding principles and stated ideals.

    I agree. The problem is, it is the most "left-wing" judges on the Supreme Court who decide to refer to European sources for their decisions instead of limiting them to the founding principles embodied in the Constitution. It is the "left-wing" members of the Democratic Party who legislate powers to the federal government which are not given to it in the Constitution and, according to the 10th Amendment, belong to the states or the people.

  6. Re:Duh. on Press Favored Obama Throughout Campaign · · Score: 1

    The free market? The person with the most money gets to shout the loudest. Right wing talk radio is nothing but propaganda by the incredibly wealthy trying to convince the people to vote against their own interests.

    If the left-wing is so popular, why is it so difficult for Air America to stay afloat?

  7. Re:Duh. on Press Favored Obama Throughout Campaign · · Score: 1

    Let's remember this in the USA when the Democrats try to reinstate the "Fairness Doctrine," as Obama has claimed he will do.

  8. Re:Duh. on Press Favored Obama Throughout Campaign · · Score: 1

    McCain/Palin, on the other hand, basically accused him of being a terrorist.

    [citation needed]

  9. Re:Nope. on Are Neo-Retro Game Releases a Fad? · · Score: 1

    I really feel that's just your opinion, and that your opinion is based not on a lack of good titles for the 2600 but because of the low good/bad ratio on that system. For every Yar's Revenge or Frogger, there must have been ten E.T.s. The NES fared much better because of Nintendo's licensing requirements, but I have 40 titles or so and I'd say there are several clunkers in there also.

  10. Re:Huh? on Amazon's Cloud Data Center To Follow Google To Oregon · · Score: 2, Funny

    It resides in tubes.

  11. Re:"Propaganda" on Obama Launches Change.gov · · Score: -1, Troll

    Don't worry; he's lied several times about his relationships, religion, and childhood.

  12. South park on Obama Launches Change.gov · · Score: 5, Funny

    WHOO HOO! Change! We got change! Yes we can! F___ you, boss!

  13. Re:Vote on Discuss the US Presidential Election & Education · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, you have that backwards, don't you? You're the one who's not voting, which is exactly like "going along with it." Voting is making an active decision, instead of a passive one. Try to make more active decisions.

  14. Re:Vote on Discuss the US Presidential Election & Education · · Score: 1

    Here is another hypothesis: if you are able to work and don't, you don't get to complain about being hungry. Is that fair? It is true whether you agree to it or not. If you do think it is someone else's responsibility to feed you when you can work, then I understand why you think you're a sheep.

  15. Re:Vote on Discuss the US Presidential Election & Education · · Score: 1

    Your response makes it even more clear why this analogy is stupid.

  16. Re:Vote on Discuss the US Presidential Election & Education · · Score: 0

    Example: Two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. If the sheep votes, he is implicitly supporting that voting system and cannot complain when the carving knives come out. He had his democratic say, how can he complain about the outcome? The only option which makes sense, which lends any weight to his position, is to refuse to vote and so refuse to endorse the system.

    The sheep should move to a socialist country where the farmer is the only one to get a vote. He shoots both wolves, shears the sheep, then eats it for dinner.

    My point is to show how this is a fallacious argument, because not every democracy consists of a violent aggressive majority engaged in a zero-sum game with the minority. Even if it was, in a secular society we can only have the three forms of government that Aristotle recognized; and I don't see too many people on Slashdot clamoring for a despot or an oligarchy-- unless of course, you get to be in charge!

  17. Re:How could 63% of people be wrong? on Poll Finds 23 Percent of Texans Think Obama is Muslim · · Score: 1

    In 2003, the top 5% of wage earners paid 54.4% of the taxes.

  18. Re:How could 63% of people be wrong? on Poll Finds 23 Percent of Texans Think Obama is Muslim · · Score: 1

    Obama also went to a Muslim school in Indonesia, and his father is a Muslim. But here in Lefty Land, we just go on Obama's word.

  19. Re:Enough? on Windows 7 To Be 256-Core Aware · · Score: 1

    What does it even mean that it "scales to 256 cores", though?

    It means that the performance increases in a near-linear fashion with each additional core. Past 256 cores, you may see diminishing returns.

  20. Re:Hmm on Windows 7 To Be 256-Core Aware · · Score: 1

    I'm sure this feature will make it, but they will make sure you have to buy the $7,000 enterprise server version to get it. Meanwhile, desktop PCs are already coming with quad-core CPUs that aren't supported by anything less than enterprise and business levels of the desktop and server.

  21. Re:H,, on Silencing a Hard Drive Using Household Items · · Score: 1

    It seems that one would only need to add some metal brackets and small heat sinks (like those for chipsets or old surplus 486s) to the drive to make up for the lack of conductive cooling to the case.

  22. Re:Of course they should concentrate on the server on Shuttleworth Says Canonical Is Not Cash-Flow Positive · · Score: 1

    You forgot the last few seconds of the commercial, where Ubuntu kicks Windows in the nuts and uploads the video to YouTube.

  23. Re:It's good to see. on US District Court Says Calculating a Hash Value = Search · · Score: 1

    But that's not the least bit topical given the context. Just the same, no child in inherently innocent; and that is not a sexual reference. That's a flawed Western-Christian philosophy.

    Actually, the bible says that all have sinned and fall short of God, without excluding children. Jesus says in his Sermon on the Mount that those like children will inherit the kingdom of God; but that is just a hypothetical example like his parables, as even children aren't perfect in this flawed world.

  24. Re:So... on PC Makers Try To Pinch Seconds From Their Boot Times · · Score: 1

    http://www.ccleaner.com
    Only drawback is that this one doesn't have "crap" in its name anymore. :-)

  25. Re:So... on PC Makers Try To Pinch Seconds From Their Boot Times · · Score: 1

    Printer drivers are already normally divided up by host-based, postscript, and proprietary (ESCP2, IBM, HP PCL). How could we further subdivide them effectively? By vector and bitmap? B&W and color? Besides, the parent post was complaining about the disk space, not the memory usage. If a printer driver were to actually use 80 MB of RAM, that would certainly be a concern.