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  1. Re:Blow sky high on NPR Story on the Future of Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    Chernobyl blew the 100TON lid off the reactor. It went into the air and crashed back down. I am not sure what you design to "contain" a blast like that. The operators did some tests that terrorists coming into the reactor could not have engineered. They broke so many rules to get this failure that it boggles the mind. One would think that OPEC paid them to do it. Still the better option is more small reactors, closer to the consumers. The navy has gotten a lot of miles out of thier reactors.

  2. 1080i is CRAP on George Lucas Predicts Death of Big Budget Movies · · Score: 0

    He puts out digital 1080i as the new super def,
    Clones looks like crap compared to "Lawrence of Arabia".
    You can get 1080 on a home screen, and it is supposed to stretch to 30ft.
    I went to IMAX for Harry Potter.
    George, if you want to do a big budget film, go for better media.
    Rather than his digital DRM scheme, that saves money on distribution and
    controls the time and number of screenings, future theaters have to
    have a superior viewing experience.
    His reasoning:
    "If it does not look better than my home system, why go." is correct.
    Can he make movies that will always look better on the big screen?
        The other part is Californication is putting out movies that no
    sane father is going take his family to.
    The Oscars shows this in Bold letters (WE HATE NORMAL FAMILIES!)
    and (WE HATE AMERICA!)
        When was the last time you saw a live action movie
    with a whole famliy where the father was not the butt of the jokes?

  3. Stay out of India on Hiring Is Up in Silicon Valley for High-Skill Jobs · · Score: 1

    We were outsourcing to India. But it is obvious they do not want our business. Protests against the US are going on. Do you want your money over there? Or does anyone think China is a better place to send your money? I try to buy things build in the west not the far east.

  4. Re:stereo anyone on Why 7.1 Surround Sound is Overkill For Most Homes · · Score: 1

    Music and movies are different. They are best suited by different types
    of speakers. A 2 speaker sound track won't use what the 5.1 has.
    But... get a DVD-audio recording and play it through the
    5.1 system. Then compare IT to your stereo.
    Get 5 speakers that are as good as your two (yes spending 2.5x as much)
    and you will be rewarded.

  5. Re:Why would they ever care about thumbnails? on Partial Victory for Perfect 10? · · Score: 1

    Perfect 10 SELLS thumbnails to phone users.

  6. Re:500,000 small power plants? on Segway Inventor Turns To Environment · · Score: 1

    Whats to stop the plant owner from holding a grudge? The chance for that family to buy a plant and undercut the price of power on them. That is Capitalism!

  7. Re:Getting off the Grid-EPA wont allow it on Segway Inventor Turns To Environment · · Score: 1

    The EPA won't let you burn stuff in your back yard.

  8. Re:Will other Human Dung work as well?-no on Segway Inventor Turns To Environment · · Score: 1

    Cow dung still has lots of stuff in it, even after 2 stomachs. Human dung does not. If there is meat in the diet, the dung is even worse.

  9. What happens to environment on Segway Inventor Turns To Environment · · Score: 1

    They want 500,000 one Kilowatt generators. How much CO2 will that be?
    Oh wait they are not in US, so pollution does not count.

  10. Schools are a local and county responsibility on Science and Technology Medals Awarded · · Score: 1

    Get the federal government out of schools!

    Take your money, send it to Washington, have a bunch of
    paper pushers get paid, then send what is left back to pay for teachers.

    Great plan.

    Better to keep the money local, and pay teachers locally and not
    paper pushers in D.C.
    The Federal Government does not make anything better except the military.

  11. Re:Make sure you account for everything on Near Light Speed Travel Possible After All? · · Score: 1

    The other limiting factor is g-force on passengers.
    It will take about a year to get up to warp .9 at 1g.
    It will take about a year to slow from .9 at 1g.
    So like a jet that is climbing or landing the whole time,
    you can get almost anywhere in a couple years ship time.
    (with time dilation you could be gone a thousand years)
    If this guy can give more acceleration without smashing the
    passengers then you have something.

    Space travel is for the brave, not those who stay home.

  12. Re:Drive? on Moore Calls Game Discs Ridiculous · · Score: 1

    We drive to avoid the crazy Middle Easterners who hate my new T-shirt. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/2/inktomi343238 .php

  13. Re:Bullshit study- control sucks on When Does Maturity Set In? · · Score: 1

    They need a better control group. How about some 25 year olds that are going to college for the first time? (Brain better keep growning) Or a group of 18yr olds that are still in High School? (smoking dope and brain does not change) The control group has little relationship to the test group. Maybe add some of the campus terrors(65 yr old single class retired curve busters) to the group. See how the old brains change.

  14. Re:More truth than million pieces on Publishers Say 'Fact-Checking Too Costly' · · Score: 1

    Maybe there is more truth to those books.
    That or Kerry and the Clintons can not afford lawyers.

  15. Re:Ken Lay in an Orange Jumpsuit on Publishers Say 'Fact-Checking Too Costly' · · Score: 1

    Ken Lay needs to be in an Orange Prison uniform picking up litter on the capital commons and on Wall Street.
    Let his contemporaries see him, and his former employees spit on him.
    When he freezes employee sales of stock, and sells his own, he knows what is going on and is screwing his employees.
    Oprah did not hire this guy to write the book. She just read it. I expect less from a biography about a nobody then I do from a text book.
    I expect more and get less from the NY Times.

  16. Debris on earth on NASA Warns of Cluttered Space · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Before we worry about space, we should clean up earth.
    Lets start by getting all the garbage that early pioneers left in the mountians when they were headed to California. The Californians should pay for the clean up. They are the ones that left the stuff there, when it became too much hassle to carry. We all know that this won't happen until someone is running through the hills and hits an abandoned bed. Then the news will be all over it. Maybe we can collect all the trash and make something usefull from it. It is almost to CA and since everything is over priced there, profit$$.

  17. Re:Gun Ownership on Two Groups File Domestic Spying Lawsuits · · Score: 1, Insightful

    A well armed citizenry is the best defence against despotism.
    In Haiti, 90% of the population participated in rallies outside the presidential palace. Nothing happened. If they all had pistols...
    We had the "million man march" Nothing happened.
    We had "Bunker Hill" Something happened!
    Politicians are sensitive to the wishes of armed citizens.
    They are less sensitive to unarmed subjects.
    They do not want to be sensitive to anything. I trust my neighbors with weapons. I believe in the essential goodness of free men. It is lack of freedom that causes evil.

  18. Re:Why I Love the ACLU on Two Groups File Domestic Spying Lawsuits · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    America: still more rights than ANYWHERE else. No other country has a many people wanting to move there. I don't see boat loads of immigrants going to UK, Italy, France, Russia or anywhere in Africa or South America. on topic: ACLU- A place that people went and sang Christmas Carols to attack them. A group of people who were hurt by Chrismas Carols sung outside thier offices. They did not sue against Clinton and Echelon/Carnivore. They are a tool of the wackiest lefties. If they do good work it is by accident or as a by product of other goals.

  19. Avoid OUTLOOK on What Should People Understand About Computers? · · Score: 1

    Outlook Express will kindly run whatever hacker scripts the luser is sent. Have them get an HTML email account and access it via the browser.

  20. Population is getting Browner on Forecasting Doomsday · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Most of europe is in population decline. When you look at the white norther europeans, it is even worse. The arabs and africans are breeding very fast. So when the weather does heat up, they are genetically ready for it. The pale skinned types are set for extinction. Humanity will survive, but it won't look like most slashdotters.

  21. Re:Paul Ehrlich Anyone? on Forecasting Doomsday · · Score: 1

    You must be an "intellectual" to not get the connection.

  22. Stats free - aggregation is own3d on Who Owns Baseball Statistics? · · Score: 1

    If someone sends agents to all the games and compiles a set of stats on thier own. They can use it. They cannot go mining into someone else's database and sell the results.

  23. Re:Silent, hidden PRM (Piggy Rights Management) on Taiwan Breeds Transgenic, Fluorescent Green Pigs · · Score: 1

    So it is just to aid IP grab.

  24. And this is supposed to make me feel better on Taiwan Breeds Transgenic, Fluorescent Green Pigs · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Turning pigs green. This is supposed to make me feel better about stem cell and cloning research. Are the wackos involved with this are to be trusted to preserve humanity? At what percent of remaing human genes does a creature retain its civil rights? Pigs can be eaten, kids cannot. Where is the line? How will you react when someone laughs at your line?
    Ask yourselves these questions.

  25. Re:Alistair Reynolds novels.. on Taiwan Breeds Transgenic, Fluorescent Green Pigs · · Score: 1

    What is the difference between a Pig and a Rocker?
    A Pig won't stay up all night to screw a rocker.