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  1. Re:Poor comparison on PCWorld Says Firefox is Strong, Vista is Weak · · Score: 1
    Actually, dumbass, I was talking about Waco.

    Your memory of that decade and analysis of the current seems to be suffering from the massive amounts of pot you've inhalled.

  2. Re:Poor comparison on PCWorld Says Firefox is Strong, Vista is Weak · · Score: 1

    FEMA? Why not mention the stunning success of the ATF during the same period?

  3. Re:Wal-Mart "squished"? on Wal-Mart Closes Online Movie Download Service · · Score: 1
    No, not at all. It's all about the evidence.

    If Bill Clinton told me you lived with your mom and had no girlfriend, as long as he cited your manga subscription being delivered to your mom's house and provided video survailance showing that the only time you ever left was to take out the trash, I would believe him, even though he is a degenerate and pathological liar.

  4. Re:Wal-Mart "squished"? on Wal-Mart Closes Online Movie Download Service · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Walmart doesn't fit into this 'life style'

    If that were true, then the city wouldn't have needed to pass laws to make it impossible for WM to open up.

    Chicago is surrounded by 42 Wall-Marts and the city-dwellers are exceptionally eager for WM jobs and services. Witness this from George Will's column on the issue:

    This suburb, contiguous with Chicago's western edge, is 88 percent white. A large majority of the customers of the Wal-Mart that sits here, less than a block outside Chicago, are from the city, and more than 90 percent of the store's customers are African American.

    You can read the full column here.

    Every political criticism of WM - everyone of them that I have ever heard - is a lie.

  5. Re:energy on Silicon Valley Startup Prints $1/watt Solar Panels · · Score: 1
    Though I am Caucasian I used to date a Black lady.

    ROFL.

    DDT could have saved millions of Africans. It was in widespread use before a lot of scientists (who no doubt believe in MAN MADE GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE) got it banned, resulting in killing a lot of black Africans.p>As far as your solutions to the problems (frogs? Are you joking), none of them are nearly close to answering energy needs and the truth is, you have zero to do with any of them. The free market will solve the problem, as it always does, if the world's government's don't mess it up. As the price of oil gradually rises and encourages alterative R&D, alternatives will become more viable until they replace oil entirely. Political instability in the ME will also encourage investment in alternatives.

    The problem is also that any of these investments risk loosing their money if oil drops back down to $0.99 a gallon, which is entirely possible.

  6. Re:Better yet on Circuit City Rewards Execs As Stock Tanks · · Score: 1
    I have faith that capitalists will pursue short-term gain; I do not have faith that such will guarantee the best possible outcome, even if it often produces decent or good ones. The important thing is to keep a capitalist's interests aligned with those of society.

    I have no faith, just knowledge of human behavior and of nature, so I can say with some certainty that the more capitalists and free and open an economy is, the more good it will produce in the long and short term. The problem is the political one.

    Consider the following. All politicians are focused on a 2 or 4 year cycle. Some are on a 6 year cycle (senate) but only 1/3 of them are on a 6 year cycle at a time, whereas another third is on a 4 year cycle and the other is on a 2 year cycle.

    Corporations, on the other hand, sign 100 year leases. They loan you money to buy a house on a 30 year term. Even your cell phone contract is 2 years. While the stock market can get an entire management team fired on any given day and many investors are highly short-cited, most are not.

    So, for making decisions on the long term versus short term gains at the expense of the long term, I'll bet on IBM / TimeWarner / NuCor - even Ford - before I do on a politician (esp a Democrat).

  7. Re:energy on Silicon Valley Startup Prints $1/watt Solar Panels · · Score: 1
    1000s of scientists got DDT banned - needlessly - and killed millions of people as a result from malaria.

    So wildlife means nothing?

    Telling that you would even consider balancing the two against each other. I guess it's because they were black.

    It's also telling your ignorance. DDT - it turns out - had zero effect on wildlife. Zero. Margret Carlson admitted as much in the late 90s after it was proven difinativly.

    Regarding your other ideas, I suggest you try powering the wind farm yourself.

  8. Re:Consumer offerings? on Silicon Valley Startup Prints $1/watt Solar Panels · · Score: 2, Insightful
    So more than 1000 scientists are wrong? What's your education and training that has you knowing more than those who have their degrees in climatology or related fields?

    Because I have carefully listened to the arguments on both sides, know the ideologies of those involved (scientists are some of the worst in terms of ethics). So I am bold enough to cite the works of these 400 scientists who went on record in 2007.

    1000s of scientists got DDT banned - needlessly - and killed millions of people as a result from malaria. Scientists cannot accurately predict a storm season season. Scientists allow themselves to be used by politicians to enrich themselves.

    Regarding bottles water (and I meant pure) still gives greater economic value to a prestine - regardess of the sustainability. Eventually the replenish rate will meet the usage rate. So drink up.

    Regarding MTR, that is not a reason to limit coal use. Greater demand for coal creates greater incentives to find alternatives to MTM since the amount of problems (if there are really any long term MTM problems - it doesn't seem like it).

    Further, a strong economy - fueled inescapably by greater energy needs - is what is required to reach the technical and economic thresholds necessary to find fully sustainable, totally clean alternatives. Limiting access to coal also limits mankinds ability to reach that threshold and will bottleneck further progress.

    You are really long on whining about problems and short on practicle solutions, aren't you? Can't use coal, can't drink bottled water, and, btw, the sky is falling. What else can we add to the list?

  9. Re:Better yet on Circuit City Rewards Execs As Stock Tanks · · Score: 1
    You assume that a corporation must act logically. That assumption is false. Corporations are composed of humans.

    False. Watch what happened - the company fired their best sales people. The company earnings turned south - and then HUMANS sold and devalued the shares (that is what causes a stock to crater).

    Do you really think that the market is going to reward companies for doing things badly (bonuses to VPs - if that is a bad thing?) Or maybe the VPs that got bonuses are necessary to rescucitate the company (it didn't say ALL vps got bonuses). It appears that news of the bonuses (bad decision) was punished by a further devauling in the last week.

    Regarding the employees themselves, if they are really that valuable, it is as much the firm's loss for letting them go as it is their own - at least as much. Good workers will find other work. Where will CC find good workers?

    Some Mike Huckabee state control on salary is a bad solution to a problem that doesn't really exist.

  10. Re:Consumer offerings? on Silicon Valley Startup Prints $1/watt Solar Panels · · Score: 1
    Mining that's where and mining is dirty

    Mining itself causes zero CO2 to be released, it's the burning that is in question.

    If you don't like mountain top removal or other coal mining operations, drink more bottled spring water. This will create an economic incentive to preserving a natural state.

    So don't store CO2 underground? I suppose we can't store nuclear waste underground either. Because a long time ago, NO ONE was poisoned by it.

    Or just forget about storing it and accept the fact that it has nothing to do with climate change.

  11. Re:Let's see here ... on Circuit City Rewards Execs As Stock Tanks · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    You and the OP are retards (all my posts start with insults).

    If you do not like how the company is being run, SELL THE STOCK or DO NOT SHOP THERE and go buy real estate instead or a some manga or a hooker and loose your virginity, you nitwits.

    It's none of your damn business what a company decides to pay someone. Trying to manage other people's lives and money via government mandates isn't going to make you any less pathetic. Get that into your head.

  12. Re:Better yet on Circuit City Rewards Execs As Stock Tanks · · Score: 1
    The alternative is to reward great employees with fat options, and then have shareholders complain that employees are benefiting at their expense!

    That is what was done - the great employees were the VPs. And it was done with the support of the shareholders, because it's in their interest to hold on to certain VPs.

  13. Re:Consumer offerings? on Silicon Valley Startup Prints $1/watt Solar Panels · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Consumer offerings? on Silicon Valley Startup Prints $1/watt Solar Panels · · Score: 1
    the number of US deaths attributable to coal every year to gradually decline below the hundreds of thousands level?

    Your tinfoil hat is crooked. Take a moment to adjust it.

    ...

    When you are done, maybe you can document this one. Apart from working in a mine that has collapsed, I'm very curious to hear about coal being the #3 or #4 cause of death in the US each year.

    PS - you aren't suppose to eat it (unless you are poisoned - different story).

  15. Re:Consumer offerings? on Silicon Valley Startup Prints $1/watt Solar Panels · · Score: 2, Informative

    Your ideas about the environmental impact of coal are better suited for the 19th century, not the 21st. Coal is cleaner than ever and if Clinton had not shut off America's source to the cleanest available sources in Utah, it would be cleaner still.

  16. Re:The ol' bum rush on Jerry Bruckheimer Teams With MTV For Games · · Score: 1

    I can't speak for most of his films, but The Island is one of my all time favorites. Did you see it?

  17. Re:Huh. on Swedish Athletes Back GPS Implants to Combat Drug Use · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Really stupid. I can see the training bags but you can't get a transciever in the skin that can transmit to .... a satellite in space (which is what would be necessary when they train in remote areas) and even if it was just recording data points about location, these guys spend so much time indoors training if needed it's moot. Besides, since when does knowing where you are prevent you from doping.

    What a stupid, stupid idea.

    Current Oly athletes (and prospects) need to keep WADA abreasts of *where* they are in advance so WADA officials can show up from time to time to get a random test done.

    So let us not take technology lessons from 'jocks,' k?

  18. Re:The only people who are making this claim... on Why the Coming Data Flood Won't Drown the Internet · · Score: 1
    Ack! I actually had to look that up. I'm so embarassed I didn't recognize a ST reference I am surrendering my Slashdot account.

    Well plaid, chappy!

    To answer your question, it's cold and rainy - so just perfect!

  19. Re:The only people who are making this claim... on Why the Coming Data Flood Won't Drown the Internet · · Score: 2, Insightful
    What a long stupid post. There's not a damn thing wrong with most of the groups you site wanting to do business freely on the internet and honestly earned profit is almost the greatest virtue to be had and you are using it like a dirty word. You most be a student with a government grant.

    Most of the slashherd and editors here are already on board with the governent controlling the net via net neutrality laws. \

  20. Re:Hello? Hello? on Riding the Failure Cascade · · Score: 1

    pics?

  21. Re:yeah, maybe an alien on Riding the Failure Cascade · · Score: 1
    You are trying too hard.

    What is 'life0cidal'?

    And please keep the lights down. I'm trying to sleep.

  22. Re:Political Parties on Riding the Failure Cascade · · Score: 2, Funny

    There are 52 cards. Give me your money.

  23. Re:bad article title on Mass Effect Sells A Million, Halo 3 Sells Five · · Score: 1

    That other one wasn't me, btw.

  24. Re:bad article title on Mass Effect Sells A Million, Halo 3 Sells Five · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Who lives in a dorm for three years? Maybe your friends have moved on to other ways to spend their time - like girlfriends. Look into it, eh?

  25. Re:Translation on Why Xbox Live Doesn't Take Exact Change · · Score: 1
    They aren't making a profit because you are eventually going to spend it. It's more like you are lending them money.

    Besides, you are wrong that you can't zero it out. You can buy a 1600 point card and that's 20 80 point purchases.