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  1. Re:My survival planning: on Hobbit Hole + World Class Fallout Shelter · · Score: 1

    Might still be useful on the other side.

  2. Re:You're absolutely right on Dave Barry on Electronic Voting · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Yeah, but nothing is illegal unless you get caught.

    If it's illegal, it's still illegal - there are just no consequences unless you're caught.

    And from what it sounds like, there is very few consequences from voter fraud.

  3. Re:My survival planning: on Hobbit Hole + World Class Fallout Shelter · · Score: 1

    Kind of like Benny (?) in the Mummy - have one of each and hope that you can talk your way through when the time comes.

  4. Re:More Health Problems on Mushroom Cloud Reported Over North Korea · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. You'll get cancer from the herbicides long before you'll need to worry about fallout :)

  5. Re:Well....From the TFA- on Mushroom Cloud Reported Over North Korea · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    3. Clinton and the democrats safely contained these crazy dictators. I don't think the "war on terra" is going to scale up very well to nuclear war. That said I hope people would think twice before they vote for Bush again this year.

    If you count having the keystone kops on patrol as being "safely contained".

  6. Re:I see a PETA ad on Cleansing Hardware Of Dead Pig Odors? · · Score: 1
    Dead pigs smell much worse than shit.

    Heck, they even smell worse than that concentrated manure that is spread on fields.

  7. Re:Suggestion ... on Cleansing Hardware Of Dead Pig Odors? · · Score: 1

    Yeah - they've been shipping stuff of to the rendering works.

  8. Re:To suggest this is almost criminally stupid on Cleansing Hardware Of Dead Pig Odors? · · Score: 1

    mmm - the smell of dead pigs and diesel fuel - you can't beat that!

  9. Re:To suggest this is almost criminally stupid on Cleansing Hardware Of Dead Pig Odors? · · Score: 1
    Unless the machines are still valuable, I don't think I'd care. Either it works and gets the smell out and the machine works (yay), or it doesn't work and the machine either still stinks or doesn't work. Basically he's just wanting to save a couple of machines if possible.

    If it was me, I'd find out where the Hawkeye fans were working and give them some fine new 'workstations'

  10. Re:To suggest this is almost criminally stupid on Cleansing Hardware Of Dead Pig Odors? · · Score: 1
    The best method for fighting a fire fed by a pressurized liquid propane tank is to generate a "fog wall" to get to the valve to shut it down. As hot and nasty as LP on fire is, a simple wall of mist is enough to keep it off of you while you're shutting it down.

    I've not had to do that, and I'd not want to do that. I've seen it demonstrated and it works remarkably well.

  11. Re:Ehhh... on Pennsylvania Child Porn Act Overturned · · Score: 1

    Not me - if were up to me, speed limits would be much higher - but I agree with you there.

  12. Re:Ehhh... on Pennsylvania Child Porn Act Overturned · · Score: 1
    While it wasn't your main point and I don't know if you were arguing for it or not, the fact that arresting marijuana users would get 50% of college students arrested and punishing music downloaders would get 80% of college students in trouble should set off an alarm in anyone's head that maybe the law needs to be re-evaluated. (Not necessarily dropped, but definitely re-evaluated.)

    Would you say the same about the speed limit then?

  13. Re:Cooking v1.0 for nerds on Cooking for Engineers · · Score: 1

    Isn't it better practice to use subroutines instead of goto statements?

  14. Re:Best line in the article... on Do You Thrive or Crack Under Pressure? · · Score: 1
    Early may = first bits of pollen in the air in Iowa and hayfever

    December in Iowa = early flu season - 'nuff said there.

    Of course, as this is the ISU/Iowa game week, I'm sure that we can all see that anyone who goes to the University of Iowa is a lazy slacker :) Go clones.

  15. Re:Out of work on Federal Judge Rules Oracle can Bid for PeopleSoft · · Score: 1

    The writing's been on the wall for them for a while. 9/11 was the final straw for moving paper around. When all air traffic was grounded, the federal reserve bank sat on a mountain of float - and I don't think that they'll be doing that again.

  16. Re:Well, this is just great. on Federal Judge Rules Oracle can Bid for PeopleSoft · · Score: 1
    Our plan is to accept images starting this fall, and then start sending them next spring. Hopefully by then, some our our neighboring banks are at least accepting images - lowering the cost of doing this.

    One real nice part about sending the images instead of the paper is that we'll be able to get rid of the couriers - and their problems driving in the winter.

    I don't think it will take long to get to the point where there's a critical mass of banks accepting images. Once that happens, the cost of couriering paper to the fed offices will increase and more banks will start sending images as well.

    And that doesn't even get to the benefits with reducing float!

  17. Re:Well, this is just great. on Federal Judge Rules Oracle can Bid for PeopleSoft · · Score: 1

    The cost savings isn't as great as you'd like. If a bank chooses to send images to the fed instead of paper, and the receiving bank requires paper, the sending bank must pay for the conversion (instead of the receiving bank) - the economics of the implementation are backwards!

  18. Re:Well, this is just great. on Federal Judge Rules Oracle can Bid for PeopleSoft · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Check 21 is not effective until October 28. Until then, we're still moving massive amounts of paper around the country every day.

    On October 29th ... we'll still be moving massive amounts of paper around the country every day.

    Check 21 will catch on, but it will probably build slowly at first.

  19. Re:not really on New Overtime Rules Have Short Shelf Life · · Score: 1

    In what state was that - some states are right to work states and a union can't force you to join.

  20. Re:Rhetorical question: on 20,000 Zombie PCs -- $3000 · · Score: 1

    Gotcha - I don't run linux on the desktop (oh the horror of admitting that) - so I did wonder if it would work.

  21. Re:CBS must obtain and release originals on Bush Service Memos Questioned · · Score: 1
    If someone at CBS had done it, they would have done a better job.

    Are you sure about that? Look at the NY Times and that Blair(?) guy - he was making stuff up and they didn't catch it for quite some time.

  22. Re:All this on Bush... on Bush Service Memos Questioned · · Score: 1
    I agree with you there - he's the one that keeps bringing it up!

    I'd think that if I'd worked at a job for 20 years, I'd probably have a thing or two to tell a perspective employer other than what I did 30+ years ago.

  23. Re:Rhetorical question: on 20,000 Zombie PCs -- $3000 · · Score: 1

    how about a shell script and a cron job?

  24. Re:So, for 3 Grand... on 20,000 Zombie PCs -- $3000 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Would that be for one spam run or for "ownership" as long as they're available? If it's just for one run, that's pretty good money as you can sell the product over and over again.

  25. Re:All this on Bush... on Bush Service Memos Questioned · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Don't forget "admitted war criminal".

    All of this stuff has to do with things that happened 30 years ago. We elected (and re-elected!) Clinton who completely dodged the draft - Apparently we were past this 12 years ago.

    A much more important comparison between the two candidates is what they have done in the last 3 years, not what they did 30 years ago.