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  1. Re:This spin is absurd and irrational on eBay's Ill-Timed Lifetime Achievement Webby · · Score: 1

    If a bank robber makes his getaway in a Ford, it doesn't mean that Ford is somehow responsible for the robbery.

    Citation, please. Citation was a Chevrolet.
  2. Re:Keep Trying Harder... on Life Interrupted · · Score: 1
    The number that is usually given is 10%. It's nonsense anyway.

    First link I found on the subject.

  3. Re:Your vote is Dubya's Vote? on Ask Green Party Presidential Candidate David Cobb · · Score: 1
    A lot of things might happen, some things could happen, we don't know.

    The reality of the situation is that every election is the most important election in the history of the universe, in someone's eyes. In mine, it's just another election. Somebody is going to win, stuff is going to happen, and there will be another one in 2008.

    I don't like Bush or Kerry, so I won't be voting for either of them. If people keep voting for Y just because he isn't X, things are just going to keep getting worse. That has got to change, change takes time, and there is no time like the present.

  4. Re:Bah on "Levels" of Computers the Future? · · Score: 1
    I'll stop catering to the idea that consumers can't wrap their brains around the concept of multiple components in a computer when consumers show that they can wrap their brains around the concept of multiple components in a computer.

    Even if they know that there are multiple components in a computer, they have no idea what they are, what they do, or any other useful information about them. "Can you put more megs in my computer?", " We put a new modem in our hard drive.", This is the kind of stuff they babble about.

  5. Re:Your vote is Dubya's Vote? on Ask Green Party Presidential Candidate David Cobb · · Score: 2, Insightful
    In every election the stakes are high. Every election is too important to "waste" your vote on a third party candidate.

    Bullshit. If people want to vote for a third party candidate, they should just do it.

  6. Re:Priest? So? on Busted For Using Library Wi-Fi Outside The Library · · Score: 1
    Ah, so as long as they do it nicely, it's ok for the state to violate a person's rights? If only those officers had kept their language civil, that whole Rodeny King case would never have been a problem, eh?

    I'm pretty confident that beating people is considered impolite in most places.

  7. Re:Security Support for Sarge on Debian Installer RC1 Is Out · · Score: 1

    You're always a test subject, for damn near everything. Get used to it.

  8. Re:This makes as much sense... on States Threaten P2P Companies · · Score: 1

    Guns provided me with an hobby for a number of years. I visited places and met people that I otherwise wouldn't have. I won't argue that a gun is not a weapon. It is, always has been, always will be. But to say that all they can do is kill is wrong.

  9. Re:Jesus! on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 1

    Interesting post, thanks for the clarification.

  10. Re:Jesus! on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If I remember correctly, in addition to being intelligent and somewhat crazy, wasn't there some talk a while back about him being autistic, or at least showing some traits of autism?

  11. Re:Don't watch TV on FCC to Require Broadcasters to Keep Tapes of Shows · · Score: 1
    TV is pre-calculated to keep you attached. Nothing you will see on Television will ever actually encourage you to turn the Television off and go outside.

    I have to disagree with this statement. Almost everything I see on televisions encourages me to turn it off. I don't think it's a complete wasteland yet, but it's getting there.

  12. Re:this law stinks on Supreme Court Rules Against Anti-Porn Law · · Score: 1

    I hear that there is a lot of free porn online.

  13. Re:nvidia is going under! on Nvidia Reintroduces SLI with GeForce 6800 Series · · Score: 1

    Isn't the reason that trees are shown as a couple of bitmaps due to hardware limitations?

  14. Re:That would make a great story... on Happy Birthday, UNIVAC I · · Score: 1
    ...and 53 is certainly not a lesser number than 50.

    I bow to your superior math skills.

  15. Re:I Am NOT a "diabetic" on Not-So-Clean Hard Drives For Sale · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Did you mean anal retentive douchebag?

    Who cares?

    It looks like three of us care enough to post a comment.

  16. Re:Altruism on Gentoo Officially Not-For-Profit · · Score: 1
    Doing it because it helps should be primary

    Should it? Has any charitable organization asked you your motive for contributing money for their cause? Do you think that they would refuse, if you told them you were only doing it for a tax deduction or for P.R.?

    Doing it at all should be primary.

  17. Re:I Am NOT a "diabetic" on Not-So-Clean Hard Drives For Sale · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    From Dictionary.com:

    diabetic
    adj.

    1. Of, relating to, having, or resulting from
    diabetes: diabetic patients; a diabetic coma.
    2. Intended for use by a person with diabetes:
    diabetic candy.

    n.

    A person who has diabetes.

    You are a diabetic.

  18. Re:Altruism on Gentoo Officially Not-For-Profit · · Score: 1

    I don't think that it is impossible that they would still give money. Donating to charity is a good investment for public relations. People like companies that put forth an illusion of caring.

  19. Re:Non-profits are permitted to make money on Gentoo Officially Not-For-Profit · · Score: 1

    How much money do you think the for profit companies give to charity? I'll bet those evil fucks have given more than you will see in your lifetime. Nobody is calling them hell-bound commies.

  20. Re:confused on Hybrid Fleet Vehicles · · Score: 1
    The thing that you don't seem to understand is that we refer to the continent where we live as North America. We frequently refer to our country as America. When speaking to most Americans, when you use the term "America", they assume you are refering to their country. If you had used the phrase "North America", they would assume that you are refering to the continent.

    I don't know why this is so difficult to understand.

  21. Re:THAT is an old story... on Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, 2nd Edition · · Score: 1

    I have considered that there are more possibilities allowed by set theory than disjoint sets and how it applies to your statement. It looks like I'm going to need that diagram.

  22. Re:THAT is an old story... on Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, 2nd Edition · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Sheesh. This isn't rocket science. Hopefully Apple has some rocket scientists and won't spend the next decade patching one hole after another.

    I am having a hard time following your logic. If this isn't rocket science, why do you hope Apple has some rocket scientists? Wouldn't it be better to have someone who is not a rocket scientist to deal with problems that are not rocket science?

  23. Re:Doesn't ignore, just disagrees on ACLU Sues FBI Over ISP Records · · Score: 1
    The only thing that they are correct about is that the second amendment does not confer an unlimited right upon individuals to own guns or weapons. The individual's right to own guns or weapons is already in place. The second amendment simply states that those rights will not be infringed.

    "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."

    Where does it spell out specifically that the individual is not the intent? The words "people" and "person" are used throughout the Bill of Rights. The word "individual" is not used at all.

  24. Re:Software installation on Linux Desktop Summit 2004 Review · · Score: 1

    If they really want something to discuss, they could spend some time talking about the the word "irregardless".

  25. Re:It sounds like hitting water at high speed on Military Develops Liquid Body Armor · · Score: 1
    Have you ever used a sewing machine?

    They usually involve a short, fast stroke.