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  1. Re:Miguel's just doing what's best for himself... on de lcaza calls OOXML a "Superb Standard" · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everyone has brown zune, unless they are having intestinal difficulties.

  2. Re:Failed engineering on Mark Russinovich On Vista Network Slowdown · · Score: 1

    Huh? It is OK to prefer audio over network file data copying
    because some hardware is not up to some invisible spec?

    I dunno, but from where I sit, it looks like failed management
    of engineering.

  3. Re:Absolutely useless reporting on Spider-Like Catamaran Travels 5,000 Miles On One Tank · · Score: 1

    So, you want "The Thin Man".

  4. Re:give him credit on Cablevision CEO a Verizon FiOS Customer? · · Score: 1

    So, he is a "no choice for you, peon", "what the heck,
    I got money, why cant I have everything I want now"
    kind of guy?

  5. Re:give him credit on Cablevision CEO a Verizon FiOS Customer? · · Score: 1

    It could be that this is the only service he could get in his area.

  6. Re:Absolutely useless reporting on Spider-Like Catamaran Travels 5,000 Miles On One Tank · · Score: 1

    No, it is the script from "The Incredible Shrinking Man".

  7. Re:Educated Public is essential to a Democracy. on Judge Strikes Down Part of Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    I think you've confused the socialized health care system with private insurance.

  8. Re:Let's whiteboard this people on Breathalyzer Source Code Revealed · · Score: 2, Funny

    Label not found "JAIL".
    Undefined symbol: collect().
    Undefined symbol: rich.
    'rich' used without assignment.
    Undefined symbol: recieveBeating().
    Undefined symbol: jailRape().

  9. Re:These lazy... on Russia Plans Its Own Moon Base · · Score: 1

    Are we in charge, or is economics?

    I think we are letting the tail wag the dog here. Profitable
    cant be the only motivation for us to do everything.

  10. Re:Never give those scumbags an inch on Viacom Says User Infringed His Own Copyright · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Business is about exchanging ( perhaps trading was a misleading term for you )
    something I have that you value for something you have that I value. Those
    somethings can be labor, money, goods or services. And in so exchanging,
    no-where did I exclude that profiting might be part of the transaction.

    So, my point is what is wrong with profiting, but leaving both parties happy?

  11. Re:Never give those scumbags an inch on Viacom Says User Infringed His Own Copyright · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Funny...

    I always thought "business" was about me wanting something
    that you had, and you wanting something I had, and we two
    coming mutually together on trading these things so that
    we both had things we valued more than what we had previously.

    You know, a win-win situation. No exploitation involved.

    I know, how quaint.

  12. Re:best management book ever...EVER! on Transitioning From Developer To Management? · · Score: 1

    Read both.

  13. Re:Measuring productivity? on System Admin's Unit of Production? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No. How many tickets were not opened in the first place because things
    just work.

    Yeah, I know.

  14. Re:Solution: on Latest Music Piracy Study Overstates Effect of P2P · · Score: 1

    "...GIVE that person $3000 that they can use to purchase music legally..."

    Nah. They would probably do something stupid like buy food or books.
    ( Both words with "oo" in the middle. I think that means something ).

  15. Re:Wow on Going to Yosemite? Get Your Passport Ready! · · Score: 1

    You have an excellent point. But to the extent that any administration,
    of whatever genealogy, could have taken steps in the right direction and
    didn't, I think it right to hold them accountable for it.

  16. Re:Choo! Choo! on US Army Unveils Hybrid-Electric Propulsion System · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I saw that in looking for the Tiger/TigerII example.
    Very cool.

  17. Re:Wow on Going to Yosemite? Get Your Passport Ready! · · Score: 1

    "We elected these people before terrorism was a wedge issue; not after."

    Darn time! Then let me restate a bit. Some of the decisions
    our elected officials have been bad, and the politics behind it
    are about wedge issues rather than "the good of the nation".

    "The terrorists have won, in part."
    "Still untrue. We may be losing, but it isn't because some abstract concept is winning. It just isn't that simple."

    OK, you have me on that. They have not won the war.
    But the battle front is moving the wrong direction in my opinion.

    "I can't argue that. We are all kept in such darkness, I'd be surprised if even one of us really knows what's going on. However, it's a safe bet that it isn't what we are being told."

    I agree completely.

  18. Re:Papers please! on Going to Yosemite? Get Your Passport Ready! · · Score: 1

    A: Your citation is about 7 years out of date.

    B: How large is the percent of total income in each
    of those brackets? I.E. If the top 1% of all income
    earners pay 29%, but make only 20%, then you have
    something that can be discussed as unfair. But if that
    same 1% makes 35% of all income, then it gets harder to
    argue that.

    I suspect that these numbers don't have that backing,
    as the emotional impact of them goes away with it.

    Also, I note that large house ownership and luxury car
    ownership go up with income bracket, so, I have a hard
    time ( in spite of being in a higher tax bracket myself )
    crying for that 1%.

  19. Re:Wow on Going to Yosemite? Get Your Passport Ready! · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The *only* way?

    Only? Really?

    The "papers, please" thing that we used to deride Russia about,
    as in "you don't have real freedom, you are limited" is upon us.

    The terrorists have won, in part. And we elected the people who
    used that as a wedge issue to inspire fear in the "home of the brave".

    I submit to you that it is equally possible that you are fooled
    or trying to fool others.

  20. Re:New Navy Destroyers... on US Army Unveils Hybrid-Electric Propulsion System · · Score: 1

    CV-2, CV-3, and a couple of battleships from the 30's used
    turbo electric drive.

  21. Re:only the paint is green on US Army Unveils Hybrid-Electric Propulsion System · · Score: 1

    I hope they have thought to provide the crew the ability to lock
    the generator out of operation, and to force a recharge when they
    want, else the advantage of silence will sometimes be negated when
    the generator suddenly runs up to recharge.

  22. Re:Choo! Choo! on US Army Unveils Hybrid-Electric Propulsion System · · Score: 1

    Another thought on the hybrid idea,
    The Saratoga and Lexington ( CV-2 and CV-3 )
    where turbo electric. A couple battleships from
    about that period experimented with turbo-electric
    drives ( New Mexico, I am pretty sure was in this
    group ). These were designs built in the 20's and
    30's, IIRC, so the idea is not at all new.

  23. Re:Choo! Choo! on US Army Unveils Hybrid-Electric Propulsion System · · Score: 1

    Nope, look in the "development" section of the King Tiger

    "The Porsche version had a series-hybrid power system where the gasoline engines powered electrical generators which in turned powered electric motors which turned the sprockets. This method of propulsion had been attempted before on the Ferdinand prototypes and in some U.S. designs, but had never been put into production"

    I looked in the Tiger I document and did not see it. I was skimming, so...

    Looks like the Porsche submissions in both cases were hybrids.

    And neither were accepted.

  24. Re:Silence is golden on US Army Unveils Hybrid-Electric Propulsion System · · Score: 1

    The illustration in the article is a tracked vehicle.

  25. Re:Choo! Choo! on US Army Unveils Hybrid-Electric Propulsion System · · Score: 1

    Or kinda like the Porsche version of the Tiger II ( King Tiger )
    or the Maus.