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  1. Re:Weird science on Revisiting the Physics of Buckaroo Banzai · · Score: 1

    doesn't even exist That's like on the Seinfeld episode "Bubble Boy".
    "I'm sorry it's the 'Moops'."
  2. Re:The Pit on Rotating Solar-Powered Skyscraper · · Score: 1

    That sounds like "Brazil" or another dystopian place.

  3. Re:There is some good as well as bad on New Zealand DMCA Moves Forward · · Score: 1

    time shifting is allowed provided you don't keep it and it's not available on demand I regularly tape, er DVR, stuff hear that is ODable. For premium, for example.
    Half the stuff I tape is for time-shifting reasons.
    I wonder what the media company would say about it.
    Considering they advertised time-shifting as a reason to rent the DVR I doubt they would like it.
    Whether they "invested" in our DMCA I don't know but I can guess they wouldn't sell/rent many DVRs, read none, if that applied.
  4. Re:Blogging in Europe can also take courage on Blogging in Iran Takes Courage · · Score: 1

    Regarding that and hate crimes, that is one area I am less shamed of the US.
    Noticed how I didn't use "more proud".

    The US has to be more free than other countries at [i]something[/i].

  5. Re:In reply to the story... on Give an Internet Freedom Disk · · Score: 1

    I don't know why people seem to be obsessed with beer.
    I tried it and don't like it.
    No really, everyone I've tried, only a few sips of, was so bitter I couldn't swallow.
    And no it's not, "American sucks; try Erupoean[sic]."
    It's beer, and all ethanol beverages as well.
    The total amount I've tried is less than my stomach isn't, a six-pack that is.

    In any case I friended you because someone also isn't into it, to the extreme.

    P.S. I am in my late 20's so it's not an age thing either. Nor my religion, et al.

  6. Re:Civil Rights, due process and all that good stu on Liquid Terror Charges Dropped · · Score: 1

    You must be confused about that.
    The 3rd has never been trampled.
    It was only once used and the guy who used it as an excuse won.

    In case you are wondering it is the "quarenteening soldiers" amendment.
    The rest of the Const. being thrown out the window though you are correct.

    P.S. Ignore my misspelling; I don't feel like spell-checking right now.

  7. Re:Whenever you hear "corporation" or "association on Dead Musicians Signing Media Rights Petitions · · Score: 1

    I only of this once but I belive Henry Ford was sued by the shareholders when he gave money away.
    They claimed it didn't help the bottom line and I believe they one.

  8. Re:The Mac in Indepedence Day on Servers, Hackers, and Code In the Movies · · Score: 1

    "via the EvilAlienNetwork port"
    Is that FTP or HTTP?
    What is the number?
    Port 5 or 20 or dfgdfgsby?

  9. Re:They left out number 3 on Saving U.S. Science · · Score: 1

    What is "socialites" in quotes?
    Occuring to a recent /. article Paris Hilton, does she even deserve capitalization, was a leader in technology.

    At least some scientists are admired.
    Ignoring the testability of String Theory, Brian Greene, is he the one with the 'e', is famous.

    We do need more shows like Mr. Wizards World though.
    I learned many a facts from that.

  10. Re:Tailgating is NOT the problem... on Detecting Tailgaters With Lasers · · Score: 1

    I do agree with most of what you say.
    All except the "NO SUCH THING as a tailgater" part.
    If someone is driving 1 foot behind you then I call that a tailgater.
    They may be "pious, self-righteous assholes" but they also tailgate.
    That and being really unsafe if only a foot.

  11. Re:Yeah - a bit too believable ... on MPAA Goes After Home Entertainment Systems · · Score: 1

    In the UK there is a TV tax.
    If you have a TV capable of recieving air signals you must pay a monthly fee.
    Unlike you thought the people there are real police.
    Though I doubt they actually walk up to your door.

    FYI, It's not *IAA since the MPAA has the letter 'P'.
    It would be **AA.
    Of course you could confuse they with AAA or even AA but what can you do.

    As per sig, I haven't been asked to metamod in months but I got 2 mod point sets since then.
    I think the mod and metamod divying is messed up.

  12. Re:Necessity of assimilating driving culture on Life Without Traffic Signs · · Score: 1

    What kinds of signs contradict each other?

    Like a usualy red light but for some reason a green arrow is also present, on the same signal box as the red light.
    Can you turn but not go?

  13. Re:aboriginal Americans on Indians Use Google Earth and GPS To Protect Amazon · · Score: 1

    NDN?
    Non-denominational nationalist?
    They are patriotic to no country in particular.

    Do you think of native South Americans as Indians as well?
    For some reason it just seems weird to me.

  14. Re:TIE Fighter: on Some of the Best Game Levels of All Time · · Score: 1

    "I hate ME"
    OSQ: "I like me. I like me. I'm as good as I can be."
    Yeah, you are talking about [cough]millenium edition[cough] but the sentence sounded better my way.

  15. Re:Happy Birthday on Wikipedia's $100 Million Dream · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I actually wouldn't want it public.
    Same with MLK's speech.
    As both are copywritten they would be a good test of civil disobedience.
    What would people think if you sung a "obviously" public song and got fined or jailed.
    Maybe then people would want more public and less greed.
    Or at least stuff in which the author has passed away, both true I believe, is public.

  16. Re:Golden parachute. on Boardroom Spying Debacle at HP · · Score: 1

    Is "sexretary" a typo?

    Back in the '50s it might actually apply.

    It would be a cool word.
    Any direct underling whose sole purpose is appearence, et al.
    It doesn't matter if they can't type; they look good.

  17. Re:Reputation ID on Will Solve Captcha for Money? · · Score: 1

    From using another forum that has rep I have a change.
    There is something called a "circlejerk".
    Basically a bunch of people get around and keep moding each other up.

    A better way would to be the /. method.
    Your rep could be [fans-freaks] instead.

    It doesn't, to me at least, make sense to have a group of people who like each other, or at least conspire, to make themselves really high and then lower other people.
    They might form a clique but that internally shouldn't change external things.

    It could be like an objects spin change it's movement.
    If people use jets, many of them, to stop Earth from spinning, all other things being equal, it would still take one year to orbit the sun.

    In real life maybe but with a specific number, like karma in ./, that can actually affect your life it doesn't seem as good an idea.

  18. Re:Cultural Captchas: on Will Solve Captcha for Money? · · Score: 1

    Then what music does "Heads and Bodies" play?

    Hint it's, "all clasical, all the time".

    I saw that sign once and I decided to have a stupid genre relationship to go with it.

  19. Re:no good solution for now on Will Solve Captcha for Money? · · Score: 1

    "The only winning move is not to play".

    You could do that. A bot would try to solve it but a person wouldn't.
    At least anyone who remembers the end, last line?, of the movie.

    Maybe any sort of random movie reference.

    Go is hard for computers to play.
    Of course people are usually bad enough so computers are good enough.

  20. Re:I like ..... on Periodic Table Table Poster Post · · Score: 1

    Kalzium does look interesting but I use [caugh]windows[/caugh].

    I wonder if there are any emulators that allow linux and other weird OS's to work in Win.

    I saw one where each element had a picture of it's use.
    Tungsten, for example, showed a light bulb.

    I noticed the profiles of the undiscoved countries, er elements.
    Actually they will be created by them.
    Somehow the creater of this picture went forward in time, ohh I said too much.

    OSQ from the last part, ala James Wood.

  21. Re:Hypoxia is a characteristic of hypoxia? on The Mystery of Oregon's 'Dead Zone' · · Score: 1

    per sig-
    I had a dream last night that I had an incomplete saber.
    I knew, in the dream, that [i]real[/i] jedi's would have to make it themselves.

    Now I have dreams abouts sigs!

  22. Re:misleading headline on Personal Firewalls Mostly Useless, Says Mail & Guardian · · Score: 1

    So are you saying to get rid of my firewalls?
    I have Zone Alarm, BlackIce and a router one.
    This is under 95 which no one "cares" about.
    But under that and XP you would seem to be for uninstalling them.
    This is under a home network with only these two computers on it.

  23. Re:Power consumption on Are Plasma TVs the Next BetaMax? · · Score: 1

    70 Quid; is that like 45 triad.
    [fake question I know a quid is a pound]
    I've always wondered how bad it is to turn TV's on and off as well a lights.
    I've heard that if you are going to turn floresence lights back on in an hour then just leave them on.
    Do you know of any good sites to find out?

  24. klaxons on Big Mother Is Watching · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When I read "alert" I though of a loud siren.

    I wonder how they know what percentage is trading.
    I doubt the kids are going to be cooperative enough to get a valid value.

    What would be good is "dessert credits."
    When you buy enopugh good stuff you can get same bad as well.
    Well unless you are in Arizona then "desert credits" might be reasonable.

  25. Re:So... Logically on Visualizing Ethernet Speed · · Score: 1

    And of course I think of the Simpsons Halloween one where Marge and her sisters are witches.
    "More eye of newt."
    "If it were up to you it would be nothing but newt eyes."
    It loops back to the eye analogy in TFA.