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  1. Re:Overloards on White Dolphin Functionally Extict · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Your overreaction is certainly amusing.

  2. Re:Oops! on White Dolphin Functionally Extict · · Score: 1

    We could have had it in Kyoto, but the Global Community decided to let them do as they please.

  3. Re:Oops! on White Dolphin Functionally Extict · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sheesh, 20 million years of succesful living as a species, and now you're dead because of someone who lives for, say, 60 years.
    Wow, isn't that a heavily weighted argument. Can't really make a single individual's lifespan stand against the entire existence of a species. For your next act, I hope you will advocate razing all steel-framed buildings in favor of adobe huts because steel buildings last, say, 60 years, while adobe huts have been build for thousands.
  4. Re:ATSC = Red State TV. on The Dutch Kill Analog TV Nationwide · · Score: 1

    ATSC provides better reception in fringe areas; DVB-T's modulation scheme is aimed more towards urban viewers (better resistance to multipath, etc.). To put it bluntly, in the U.S., rural viewers were apparently considered more important than urban ones
    And how could anyone justify that? Bunch of stupid inbred cretins can't appreciate the excitement and despair of city life!

    Your dichotomy is incorrect, in any case. It was a choice between optimum quality and higher penetration. You could have gone for better quality for urban viewers, but then rural viewers would have absolutely no signal.

  5. Re:Win win? Barf! on The Dutch Kill Analog TV Nationwide · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A single TV set contains five pounds of lead!
    What screen size?
    Another useless statistic.
  6. Re:Uh, huh... on The Dutch Kill Analog TV Nationwide · · Score: 1

    You've just got to think laterally to spot the flaws:
    - you don't know how that equipment's being paid for. Is it rented? Is it on an exploitative finance deal?
    People who are below the poverty level should know better than to put themselves in debt, shouldn't they?

    - if you don't work, and sit at home all day, a TV is a good investment
    Investment in what? Staying unemployed? I'd much rather they invest in a cheap PC and dialup account (or just go to the library) and surf job sites, or head to the employment office. When you're out of work, finding work is your full-time job!
  7. Still waiting for the ultimate... on Star Trek Legacy's Plot Left Behind on Away Mission · · Score: 1

    I'm still waiting for the game run mostly on voice control, so I can shout commands at my crew or negotiate with the enemy. Starfleet Academy frustrated the heck out of me. What the heck do I have all this crew for? I'm manually adjusting every minute system on the ship!

  8. Re:Must read Bill Hicks anti-marketing rant on Sony Behind Fake YouTube Viral Campaign · · Score: 1

    If he was really that good, he'd be to busy berating the pimpled basement-dwelling quasi-Marxist retards on Slashdot to bother with politics.

  9. Re:Really... on Norman & Spolsky - Simplicity is Out · · Score: 1

    But for those who want it, the DSG is an ideal gearbox since it's as efficient as a manual, provides as good (if not slightly better) acceleration, and has only two pedals since Americans seem to be phobic of having a 3rd pedal.
    No, it's like that because if it had a clutch it would simply be a garden-variety manual transmission from the driver's point of view.
  10. Re:Really... on Norman & Spolsky - Simplicity is Out · · Score: 1

    Paint doesn't crop. You must select a section and cut it out, then paste it into a new workspace. It also cannot select anything outside the visible part of the window because the scroll bars won't move, and you can't resize the view.

  11. Re:Swimming against the tide on Norman & Spolsky - Simplicity is Out · · Score: 1

    They went and complained to their parents that they wanted more crime in their city. They had no idea what it was, they just wanted to have more of it than the next guy.
    Might want to check your aunt and uncle's house for old lead paint ...
  12. Re:Oh, that's easy. on Many New Species Found Under Antarctica · · Score: 2, Funny

    Besides, in 15 years or less there won't be enough of a food chain in the oceans to sustain most of the organisms that do still exist and without a gene bank capable of storing that kind of volume of information there's no possibility of either having any usable data OR being able to revive the ecology once conditions have returned to saner levels. Collecting photos is all fine and good, but in not that long a time that is ALL we'll have, unless serious efforts are made to either conserve or genetically catalog.
    1970 called, they want their dire ecological predictions back.
  13. Re:i'm with you on Many New Species Found Under Antarctica · · Score: 1

    And I've always said that the difference between cockroaches and lobsters is merely a question of scale.
    Definitely. Imagine how meaty a lobster would be if it were as huge as a New York cockroach!
  14. Re:You miss the point on Sex Offenders to Register Emails in Virginia · · Score: 1

    I would definitely watch the news more often if they made up terms like "kidfuckery". How about "catkickery" for animal abusers, "wifebeatery" for abusive husbands and "grabbendenpokennotliken" for Bavarian rapists.

  15. Re:Virgina on Sex Offenders to Register Emails in Virginia · · Score: 1

    Here's how to get from Blue Ball to Intercourse.

  16. Re:hahaha on Bill Would Extend Online Obscenity Laws to Blogs, Mailing Lists · · Score: 4, Insightful
    You may have more success with the gay marriage thing if you stop insisting on calling it marriage. If you want to simply cause the state to recognize this unions in the same manner as unions between heterosexuals, you will probably win over a lot more people. Marriage is a religious institution and the state has no business being involved. Marriage licenses should be abolished except for those who wish to be married in a civil ceremony. An unfortunate consequence for your cause-- if you wish to prove that you are truly interested in equality and not just an agenda-- is that any two (or more!) people who live together will be claiming social partnership benefits.

    Only now is universal health care finally taking hold as a mainstream Democratic idea.
    Maybe it's because most Americans are waiting for another country to implement a system that actually works. Government is notoriously inefficient compared to private enterprise in most endeavors, and their influence should be limited to systems that serve the common good better than free enterprise. A national highway system is far superior to private toll roads, for example.
  17. Re:Interesting thoughts... on Hans Reiser in Court Today · · Score: 1

    No. You have an appeal process. You only get a new trial in the case of a mistrial and no double jeopardy in the case of an acquittal.

  18. Re:Interesting thoughts... on Hans Reiser in Court Today · · Score: 1

    It's still not double jeopardy. Obviously, if we were to simply acquit everyone facing a jury deadlock, it would be pretty inexpensive to bribe your way out of jail.

  19. Re:hum on Why Do Computers Take So Long to Boot Up? · · Score: 1

    The funny thing is, my stupid digital cable box can't do that. Comcast made it so that it goes back to channel 8 if I turn it off.

  20. Re:Except for the 'Social Justice' theme... on Moglen on Social Justice and OSS · · Score: 1

    That's funny, because as an example, the Pope recently released a paper in which he criticized Islam by the way of the comments of an ancient theologian and people suggested he should have expected that reaction. It does seem to matter what your audience's reaction will be.

  21. Re:Win-win-win solution on Market Research Company Secretly Installs Spyware · · Score: 1

    Republicans/Christians? What kind of trolling idiot are you?

  22. Re:Popeye on No Fix for Word Next 'Patch Tuesday' · · Score: 1

    Steve Ballmer looks like he could eat a lot of HAMMMMburgers.

  23. Re:Heard this before... on Sun CTO Predicts Internet Consolidation Endgame · · Score: 1

    Didn't someone say that the world market for mainframes was only four or five?
    Try reading the article.
  24. Re:The Internet no longer competitive? on Sun CTO Predicts Internet Consolidation Endgame · · Score: 1

    The author means that there will be no competition ON the internet.

  25. Re:sigh on Sun CTO Predicts Internet Consolidation Endgame · · Score: 1

    It's not good enough, but I wouldn't say it's "piss poor". It just passed 60%.