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  1. Re:50 million can't use a computer? Ain't it funny on WV Voters Say Machines Are Switching Votes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I see. Therefore, we should disqualify Obama as Commander in Chief as well because he never served in the military.

  2. Re:That's lousy on Browsing Frugally Without Wasting Bandwidth? · · Score: 1

    Yes, apparently the outrageous tuition fees aren't enough to cover internet access.

  3. Re:I like that... on ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone" · · Score: 1

    New Jersey has been Constitution-free for years! (ex resident)

  4. Re:Stupid Guns on ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone" · · Score: 1

    You mean the war that the "1812 Overture" and "The Star-Spangled Banner" were written about? Nope, never heard of them.

  5. Re:Stupid Guns on ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone" · · Score: 4, Funny

    I love how people tend to forget that the Colonial militias were getting their asses kicked by the redcoats until a bunch of Germans and -- yes -- Frenchmen came over and taught us how to fight as an actual army.

    You forgot Poland.

  6. Re:Stupid Guns on ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone" · · Score: 1

    Please try to get your ideas from somewhere else than Air America and teh Daily Kos. You might want to check on the currest status in Iraq; your feeble joke is so 2005.

  7. Re:Writing quality? on Anatomy of the First Video Game, Born 1958 · · Score: 1

    Hey-- don't be a big bitch about it!

  8. Re:absurd on Afghan Student Gets 20 Years For Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    Now that they've abolished the killing of the guilty, call me when they've abolished the killing of the innocents.

  9. Re:absurd on Afghan Student Gets 20 Years For Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    They were also in the minority. However, our representation in the Fed in many ways is based on population, so the irony is that they were disproportionately powerful due to the large numbers of enslaved people dwelling in the southern states. Unfortunately, most today think that slaves were counted as "3/5 of a person" because they were considered inferior-- not in order to keep the Southern powers in check and avoid causing a huge feedback loop of power, extending slavery indefinitely.

  10. Re:Rice? on Researchers Developing Cancer-Fighting Beer · · Score: 1

    Where is this USAnia of which you speak?

  11. Re:Guess what the #2 best-selling beer is in Irela on Researchers Developing Cancer-Fighting Beer · · Score: 1

    You're wrong. Budweiser (the brand owned by AB) is brewed in Ireland under license to Guinness. It's a shame some ignoramuses modded you up instead of fact-checking.

  12. Re:Guess what the #2 best-selling beer is in Irela on Researchers Developing Cancer-Fighting Beer · · Score: 1

    For a country renowned for its alcoholism, I dare say that Ireland could not possibly lack for brands of beer.

  13. Re:Don't panic! on Why RAID 5 Stops Working In 2009 · · Score: 1

    They replaced the HSG/HSC line with the MSA. Same concept, but they changed the OS so now all my HS skills are useless :-/

  14. Re:Don't panic! on Why RAID 5 Stops Working In 2009 · · Score: 1

    Only Adaptec seems to have the guts to sell a software (BIOS) RAID card and charge $129 for it. Also remember that we're really concerned with the enterprise and not toys. Most controllers sold to business are SAS or SCSI, not SATA. I don't know of a single BIOS-software SAS or SCSI RAID card.

  15. Re:Isn't that normal? on Linux Kernel Surpasses 10 Million Lines of Code · · Score: 1

    I'm not a real programmer, but I believe there's such as thing as an optimizing compiler that mostly offsets what you're talking about.

  16. Re:Oh, that's nothing... on X-Rays Emitted From Ordinary Scotch Tape · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't let Red Green know or we'll have some really fast, radioactive van running around Canada.

  17. Re:And yet on FireFox 3.1 Leaves IE in the Dust · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pfft. Coddled kids. In my day, we used to telnet to port 80, then render the page with pencil and paper-- and that's the way we liked it!

  18. Re:screw ipv4 on Millions of Internet Addresses Are Lying Idle · · Score: 1

    Seriously, what's easier?

    192.168.0.1 or
    2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334

    3.88

    DECNET FTW.

  19. Re:Fuel economy on Fuel Efficiency and Slow Driving? · · Score: 1

    ... although apparently, some mechanics armed with service manuals seem to be indicating otherwise. Never mind!

  20. Re:Fuel economy on Fuel Efficiency and Slow Driving? · · Score: 1

    The injectors must still be working because otherwise your cylinders would get no fuel and the engine would stall.

  21. Re:Meaner looking cars = higher insurance rates on People Prefer Angry-Faced Cars · · Score: 1

    My last two cars were 2-doors, and I was told in both cases that my rate would have been slightly lower with 4 doors.

  22. Re:*illegal* scammers on US Financial Quagmire Bringing Out the Scammers · · Score: 1

    Ron Paul is completely unreliable. He's hardcore libertarian so whenever he talks about these sorts of things there's an inherent dishonesty; he will never admit the free market failed, so he will always be scrambling to come up with an alternate, no matter how implausible.

    That's called "poisoning the well."

  23. Re:*illegal* scammers on US Financial Quagmire Bringing Out the Scammers · · Score: 1

    The funny thing is, we have laws against murder that keep Bill Gates from knocking off the competition. Regulating the market is like giving a fish a bicycle. He didn't need the bicycle, and to make up for that stupidity you have to give him artificial legs, inflate the tires for him, mount special waterproof lights and horn, and build underwater bike trails.

  24. Re:*illegal* scammers on US Financial Quagmire Bringing Out the Scammers · · Score: 1

    Requiring banks to give loans to people without SSNs or even proof of employment is essentially the same.

  25. Re:*illegal* scammers on US Financial Quagmire Bringing Out the Scammers · · Score: 1

    To give you an example, if I run a bank, and the government says, you have to lend money to joe, and I know Joe can't afford it, and will probably foreclose, I don't just "do it and blame the government when joe forecloses", I set the interest rate on ALL my customers a little higher to ensure that when Joe forecloses I'm not bankrupt.

    We know this, but do you honestly think it's okay to penalize responsible people so that bad risks can get loans? We got rid of endless welfare for the same reason: because a bunch of willful slackers were living off the dime of responsible citizens.