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  1. Re:yeah, great, nominations for the movie... on Return of the King Leads Oscar Nominations · · Score: 1

    "Well, that's a pretty risk strategy if it's true because what if ROTK stunk?"

    Ya that is going to be a problem for ROTK, not that Oscars correlate very well to how good the movie actaully was.

  2. Re:Oh nooooo! on Whose Desktop Would You Most Like To See? · · Score: 1

    Okay involvement in WWI is a bad thing, Great Depression, Japanese American interiment, Korea, Vietnam, more fun in South East Asia, Kosovo and other smaller military engagements. What was your point again?

  3. Queen - Princes of the Universe on What Was the Very First MP3 You Downloaded? · · Score: 1

    which happened to also be on my first CD.

  4. Re:Government has been involved from the beginning on Do Companies Take Software, And Not Give? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, had an extra 's'

    mises.org

  5. Re:Government has been involved from the beginning on Do Companies Take Software, And Not Give? · · Score: 1

    Ahh one of those werid people I see in the libary who actaully learn something in college that doesn't relate to sex or drugs.

    Anyway, have you read Justin Raimondo's biography of Rothbard or his work on the legacy of the conservative movement?

  6. Re:Government has been involved from the beginning on Do Companies Take Software, And Not Give? · · Score: 1

    Out of a curiosity (as an econ student) is your knowledge of the Austrian school form reading misses.org or did you actaully study it in school?

  7. I got... on Weird Presents Anyone? · · Score: 1

    I got two mini Spong Bob shot glasses from Santa.

  8. Re:.torrent locations ? on Spider-Man 2 Preview Online · · Score: 1
  9. Re:First post - source mongering... on Spider-Man 2 Preview Online · · Score: 1

    Here ya go:

    http://ld-anime.faireal.net/guide/ogm-en#what

    It will take a few steps but ogm is a better coantainer format than avi and friends.

  10. Re:Mozilla is still bad with standards on Mozilla 1.6 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Calendar is a) not useless, I make extensive use of it, as far as I could tell it was the best free (libre or gratis) Calendar for windows and b) not being developed by the core developers so its not sucking away any resources.

  11. I really can't imagine on Need... More... Power... · · Score: 1

    I can't imagine having that much shit. I mean you need a computer, a clock, a light, and maybe some chargers for razors or cell phones. The computer takes care of any form of electronic entertainment needed, and you are in college so you shoudn't need that much.

  12. Re:Harry's right... on Cygwin/XFree86 Leaving XFree86.org · · Score: 1

    As everyone who has recently taken a high school literature class knows, you should just read the Spark Notes.

  13. Re:The same could be said... on Silicon Valley - The Geeks Are Back In Charge? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A good teacher might leave an indelible impressions on a 1000 programmers who each write code used by millions a day.

  14. Re:Big mac cluster.. on Big Mac Benchmark Drops to 7.4 TFlops · · Score: 1

    Some People think it is.

  15. Re:Digital Textbooks on For Americans, Imported Textbooks Can Be Cheaper · · Score: 1

    I don't use the library much, no projects that require real research yet. From what I can tell most books havn't been taken out many times since they arrived are there is only one copy. Maybe a half dozen times in the past decade. I don't know about more "popular" books though.

  16. Re:Evolution on For Americans, Imported Textbooks Can Be Cheaper · · Score: 1
    I have never heard Biology refered to as a "soft" science. Softer than Physics perhaps but far "harder" than any of the social sciences.
    Fields of science are also distinguished in terms of hard or soft science. A distinction driven by the subjects of the science and the remarkably different scientific approaches in explaining those subjects. Physical and biological sciences, for example, are models of hard science and the social sciences are models of soft science (although some social scientists object to the soft science label). Some scientists in the hard sciences consider all scientific-like fields of study outside of the hard sciences (including the soft sciences) not to be true science, or even relegate them to the realm of pseudoscience. Mathematics is still very often considered a science simply because it is exact and careful; but it is often not thought of as an example of a science because it is not aimed at empirical knowledge.
    http://www.internet-encyclopedia.info/wiki.phtml?t itle=Science
  17. Re:Book stores are the suck on For Americans, Imported Textbooks Can Be Cheaper · · Score: 1

    Funny cause lots of my books have been sold back to the University Bookstore a half dozen times, and are showing it.

    Your skepticism is still merited though, I pay the same for a crappy ass used book as I would for a brand new one, and don't get a choice in the matter.

  18. Re:Digital Textbooks on For Americans, Imported Textbooks Can Be Cheaper · · Score: 1

    My school provides students with the ability to view dozens of O'Rielly's books electronicall for free. Of course they also have all that dried wood pulp in the libary for free too.

  19. Re:Trumping Capitalism?? on For Americans, Imported Textbooks Can Be Cheaper · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How does the study of capitalism *not* relate to the study of free markets? As you might have guessed from the title Das Kapital is about capital, not communism, socialism, or "Marxism."

    You are correct that Smith is a more important thinker to modern Econonomics, however, Marx is probably number two.

  20. Re:nifty meter on Linux Kernel 2.6.0-test8 Released · · Score: 1
  21. Re:This is terrific, but... on MS Dissatisfaction High, Users Consider Switching · · Score: 1

    I did this when I set up my new computer to be dual boot. I'd never used Linux before and it still took less time install and configure than windows(Red Hat 9 and XP Pro).

  22. Dev-C++ on Top 10 Software Titles Every Home PC Needs? · · Score: 1

    Come on guys, you can't survivie without a compiler.

  23. Re:real application! on What's A 'Scroll Lock' And Why Is It On My Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    Server 2003 perhaps. Which has more cmd stuff.

  24. Guns dont' kill people... on The State of Violent Gaming · · Score: 1

    kids who play videogames kill people.

  25. Re:Overpaid on 2003 MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Winners Announced · · Score: 1

    As far as complexity, teaching generally only requires certain certificates or minor degrees. Positions that require more advanced degrees do indeed pay more already.

    High School teachers in Massachusetts are required to have at least a masters in a field related to what they are teaching (although they can get the degree after they begin teaching).