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  1. Re:It's Just A Table on The $8,500 Gaming Table You Want · · Score: 1
  2. Re:That is a horrible gaming table on The $8,500 Gaming Table You Want · · Score: 1

    Fold down "desks" for each player, you chair doesn't have to go under it.

  3. Re:Speaking of leaked treachery... on Full ACTA Leak Online · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually the Senate bill, which is what he signed, has been up for weeks. The House reconciliation bill which is now in the hands of the Senate is nowhere near signing. What remains to be seen is if the Senate, which actually likes the Senate bill (they passed it after all), will actually pass the reconciliation bill.

  4. Re:93-0 margin on Senate Votes To Replace Aviation Radar With GPS · · Score: 1

    Just showing up for a vote doesn't mean they are not lazy or that they in fact are doing their job. It is very possible that those seven senators were busy working on something else and if they knew that the vote was going to be overwhelmingly in favor of passage and breaking away from what they were working on in their office to go over to the senate chamber and cast a vote would have changed nothing perhaps they just kept on working.

  5. Re:Our rights offline on Senate Votes To Replace Aviation Radar With GPS · · Score: 1

    If they haven't yet repealed the telephone tax to pay for the spanish-american war what the hell makes you think this will ever get repealed? You MUST be new here?

  6. Re:Satellite vulnerability on Senate Votes To Replace Aviation Radar With GPS · · Score: 1

    Obviously the GPS receiver and the transponder and satellites must be extremely reliable and accurate.

  7. Re:Finally Congress gets down to business on Senate Votes To Replace Aviation Radar With GPS · · Score: 1

    From a CNN poll back in Feb.

    "Twenty-five percent of people questioned in the poll say Congress should pass legislation similar to the bills passed by both chambers, with 48 percent saying lawmakers should work on an entirely new bill and a quarter saying Congress should stop all work on health care reform."

    This was just the first poll that came up in a quick google but most of the polling data for the last month was similar. Basically all your anecdote shows is that you only hang out with people you agree with which falls into the 25%. The previous AC can point to polling data to back him up.

  8. Curious how these compare to the voluntary botnets on The Biggest Cloud Providers Are Botnets · · Score: 1, Interesting

    How about a comparison to say folding@home or other distributed projects? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects

  9. Re:-1 wine snobs on Carbon-14 Dating Reveals 5% of Vintage Wines May Be Frauds · · Score: 1

    Tisdale Cabernet, $3.99/bottle or 3 bottles for $10 at my local wine shop. Great everyday drinking red. Of course the boxed wine reduces exposure to air so would probably keep longer.

    For a dry white I go this route:

    5 gallons apple juice

    two pounds sugar

    1 packet Montrachet yeast

    ferment in a glass carboy until it falls clear (could be three+ months)

    bottle

    enjoy a crisp dry white with very little "apple" taste.

    I actually sometimes keg this and push it with a couple PSI of co2 from one of the kegerator taps.

  10. Re:-3.14 Reference Snobs on Carbon-14 Dating Reveals 5% of Vintage Wines May Be Frauds · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Hmmm on Company Sued, Loses For Not Using Patented Tech · · Score: 1

    Saw stop contractors table saw $699

    Sears table saw $299

    For $400 I can use a push stick to keep my fingers from coming within 6 inches of the blade and buy a nice jointer or drill press.

    I'm not saying you shouldn't buy a saw stop, you just should not require me to, I learned to keep my fingers out of the moving parts of tools from my grandfather and father.

  12. Re:But wait! on Company Sued, Loses For Not Using Patented Tech · · Score: 1

    It's been a while since I checked but it used to be about $400 to replace the sacrificial part.

  13. Re:Neither. on Health Care Reform · · Score: 1

    Of all the private insurance plans I have been on over the last 22 years I've never heard of one that covered a procedure and did not cover a necessary hospital stay. Over the last four years my wife has had 5 back surgeries and the hospital stay was covered. Suggesting that the hospital stay would not be covered is just plain silly.

  14. Re:A false choice, of course... on Health Care Reform · · Score: 1

    Actually between the wife's third and fourth surgeries I did lose my job, although I did find new employment before severance ran out from the previous job.

  15. Re:A false choice, of course... on Health Care Reform · · Score: 1

    I assume the $50/month private health care is a supplement to the public health care you pay for in your taxes? What does the $50/mo get you on top of the governemnt plan and how much per month of your taxes pays for the government plan?

    Compared to what the price would have been without it, yes I am happy.

  16. Re:Is there even a prototype? on $99 Moby Tablet As Textbook Alternative · · Score: 2, Funny

    Y5B Problem

  17. Re:A false choice, of course... on Health Care Reform · · Score: 1

    that was supposed to be "less than 50" but apparently the less than symbol is not welcome here.

  18. Re:A false choice, of course... on Health Care Reform · · Score: 1

    About the same as the guy in the next cube at work. Approx $600 a month. There is a 20% co-pay with a max of $3,000 per person per year. Still my total out of pocket is not killing me. I will admit my insurance with my previous employer was better but cost more.

  19. Re:A false choice, of course... on Health Care Reform · · Score: 1

    ..., and the current system is broken.

    No offense but for me it is not, I've had a newborn child in NICU and my wife has had 5 back surgeries and the "system" worked just fine as it does for a large majority of people. Yes there are a number of people that lack health insurance (some of whom do so by choice) and that is a problem that should be addressed but this bill seems to be an awfully expensive way for that 15% (maybe larger now with the economic downturn) of the people without coverage to get coverage.

  20. Re:A false choice, of course... on Health Care Reform · · Score: 1

    Actually if the doctor only ordered a cholesterol test and the lab ran other tests without authorization the insurance company would likely deny the claim. OTOH if the doctor is ordering tests you don't need (your 50 and getting a PSA/DRE test every year) you as a consumer should be putting a stop to it.

  21. Re:A false choice, of course... on Health Care Reform · · Score: 1

    Actually, after having a newborn spend 26 days in neonatal ICU I'm pretty happy with my insurance company. Oh, and my wife's five back surgeries. Of course I'm only a single data point, I'm sure the vast majority get completely screwed over and I'm the only one with a miraculously good experience.

  22. Re:Biased much? on Obama Administration Withholds FoIA Requests More Often Than Bush's · · Score: 1

    Not just the "insane" requests, but every request submitted and rejected during the Bush years was probably re-submitted in 2009. It would be interesting to see stats on %rejected instead of just total numbers.

  23. Re:Reward vs risk? on GM Working On Interactive Windshields · · Score: 1

    Eye tracking with an interior camera.

  24. Re:Great.... on Hollow Spy Coins · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected, thank you all for setting me right.

  25. Re:No biggie on Hollow Spy Coins · · Score: 0

    In any country with the hardware to hook a card reader to you can probably buy the card reader locally.