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  1. Re:Funny... on China to Pioneer Melt-Down Proof Reactors · · Score: 1

    Yes, but you have to take the nuclear material there and that is a long train/truck ride. The containers might be strong but it would still be hard to stop anti-tank rounds from puncturing containers on the way.

    It would seem that an ocean going path to a very deep trench would be more secure from terrorist and it would be a good way to prevent future generations from stumbling across the stuff. The Mariana trench is a deep subduction trench which might mean that it would eventually bury the material deep beneath the crust of the Earth. There is marine life down at the bottom but perhaps there are ways to minimize the risk.

    As far as securing the site goes, it would be hard to retrieve the stuff once down there without some pretty impressive equipment.

  2. Re:After almost getting hit this morning... on Cellphone Drivers Drive Like Drunks · · Score: 1

    Young single guy with a sports car you say? I think my insurance rates are going up from other guys getting road head.

  3. Re:Benefits on Competition to Build the Space Shuttle's Successor · · Score: 1

    These days porn drives innovation. To you I submit: zero-g porn.

  4. Re:Where is all the money coming from? on Microsoft Posts Record Earnings · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is the software Walmart.

  5. Re:Good for him on Stan Lee to be Paid Millions for Spidey · · Score: 1

    and more importantly:
    Who will play the guy that pulls the kids out of the way just before some rocks and shit fall on their heads in the sequels?

  6. Re:Representatives of the People, Indeed on Jail Time For P2P Developers? · · Score: 1

    [sarcasm]
    I disagree. We all know the well crafted and logically enforced laws we have now have totally brough an end to viruses, malware, phishing, dialers, and spam. I'm sure this will work just as well.
    [/sarcasm]

  7. Re:Lying by understatement: an object lesson. on U.S. Officially Gives Up On WMD Search In Iraq · · Score: 1

    It's probably just like when you lose your sunglasses. The minute you stop looking for them they turn up.

    Just after the war we were told what dumbasses some of us were for thinking that the US troops would have heavy casualities invading Iraq. Of course, we thought that because we were told over and over again about the massive amounts of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons Iraq had. It was logical to assume that a madman with those weapons would use those when threatened.

    I don't think the Bush administration really believed that Iraq had the weapons. I think they believed that they'd find just enough weapons related junk that they could hype up to justify the war. Anyone who didn't agree with our reason to go to war after that was against our troops and unpatriotic.

    I'm not so cynical to believe that this was just about oil. I believe that there were a lot of reasons to go to do something but nothing significant enough to mobilize the American public behind a war.

  8. Re:If It's True... on UK Report Suggests Dangers In Cell Phone Use · · Score: 1

    Good to know. Now I'll just hold the phone at arm's length and scream into it.

    I'll still need an ear piece to hear. Or, we could just use the head set with the mic and get the antenna away from the head. Problem solved.

    If the manufacures were smarter they'd figure out if this is bad or not real quick and make real, practical suggestions on this instead of the probable bullshit coverup they'll really do like the cigarette companies.
    Liquor will do some pretty bad stuff to you too over 40 years but the industry didn't try to pretend otherwise. The wost thing that I know of that they do is fight drunk driving laws, but they still tell people not to do that shit.

  9. Re:11000? on Porn Industry Mulls Next Generation-DVD · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The misses and I (mostly I) like French and Italian porn. 1. There is a lot less extreme plastic surgery and the women look more like catalog models than fraken-strippers. 2. The production quality is pretty good. Everything looks nice and not like some guy's unfinished basement with a few props. I don't mind the good looking guys and I'm not really missing out on the plot. In fact, trying to guess the porn plot can be amusing. Don't get me wrong, there is plenty of really awful European porn (see Germany), but their best porn is better than our best porn.

  10. Re:I tried Dragon Dictate... on Are You Talking to Your PC Yet? · · Score: 1

    I tried playing Pearl Jam into it a few versions ago in a desperate effort to figure out what the hell Eddie Vedder was singing. It just came out in the program as garbled crap and I'm not that sure it wasn't correct.

  11. Re:NPR Link on EA_Spouse Forum Becoming Thriving Community · · Score: 1

    her live journal user entry: link

  12. Re:This is interesting... on Internet Hunting · · Score: 1

    I smell a hoax or maybe that's just the doe in estrus urine I put on my computer/rifle to attract bucks.

  13. Re:Nevada's on Could Nuclear Power Wean the U.S. From Oil? · · Score: 1

    The "where are we going to put it" is one problem. Another problem to consider is transporting this stuff from one place to another.
    Some problem scenarios are:
    -train wreck
    -armor piercing bullet or bombing of the through the transport vessel to make a dirty bomb.

  14. Re:Oh no! on Male Bass in Potomac Producing Eggs · · Score: 1

    note to self:
    Politely pass on bass caviar if offered.

  15. Re:List of this groups backers. MAJOR GOP SUPPORTE on Disenfranchised In Nevada · · Score: 5, Informative

    A GOP funded organization stole the name from the real America Votes to help perpetuate this fraud. Aside from disenfranchising dozens? hundreds? thousands? of Democrats I think one of the biggest tragedies is that the real, non-partisan America Votes will be hurt by this. I don't blame you for being confused, that was the point.

    link 1

    link 2

    Text:
    (Oct. 12) -- Employees of a private voter registration company allege that hundreds, perhaps thousands of voters who may think they are registered will be rudely surprised on election day. The company claims hundreds of registration forms were thrown in the trash.

    Anyone who has recently registered or re-registered to vote outside a mall or grocery store or even government building may be affected.

    The I-Team has obtained information about an alleged widespread pattern of potential registration fraud aimed at Democrats. The focus of the story is a private registration company called Voters Outreach of America, AKA America Votes.

    The out-of-state firm has been in Las Vegas for the past few months, registering voters. It employed up to 300 part-time workers and collected hundreds of registrations per day, but former employees of the company say that Voters Outreach of America only wanted Republican registrations.

    Two former workers say they personally witnessed company supervisors rip up and trash registration forms signed by Democrats.

    "We caught her taking Democrats out of my pile, handed them to her assistant and he ripped them up right in front of us. I grabbed some of them out of the garbage and she tells her assisatnt to get those from me," said Eric Russell, former Voters Outreach employee.

    Eric Russell managed to retrieve a pile of shredded paperwork including signed voter registration forms, all from Democrats. We took them to the Clark County Election Department and confirmed that they had not, in fact, been filed with the county as required by law.

    So the people on those forms who think they will be able to vote on Election Day are sadly mistaken. We attempted to speak to Voters Outreach but found that its office has been rented out to someone else.

    The landlord says Voters Outreach was evicted for non-payment of rent. Another source said the company has now moved on to Oregon where it is once again registering voters. It's unknown how many registrations may have been tossed out, but another ex-employee told Eyewitness News she had the same suspicions when she worked there.

    It's going to take a while to sort all of this out, but the immediate concern for voters is to make sure you really are registered.

    Call the Clark County Election Department at 455-VOTE orclick here to see if you are registered.

    The company has been largely, if not entirely funded, by the Republican National Committee. Similar complaints have been received in Reno where the registrar has asked the FBI to investigate.

  16. Re:RIP Christopher Reeve on China Rewards Porn Snitches · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks for the info but I'm not sure the former man of steel would be that thrilled with news of his death coming up in a discussion of Chinese porn bounties.
    I don't claim to know his feelings on spam in New England but maybe that would have been a better choice.

  17. Re:Before all you people start bashing Bush on Last Pre-Election Jobs Report Released · · Score: 1

    It was the dot coms . . . and Enron, and WorldCom, and Tyco, and the California energy crisis, and high fuel prices, and terrorism, and war, and the loss of manufacturing jobs overseas, and giving economic stimulus tax cuts to people that don't spend or usually invest in new jobs. I agree the economy will improve but I also think that we are replacing good jobs with less good ones and that our unemployment figures are skewed low by our high prison population and our unemployment counting techniques.

  18. Re:Cinematography suggestions on Doom Movie Scriptwriter Dave Callaham Interviewed · · Score: 1

    I'd like a Quake movie that starts out with a guy standing in front of three hall ways.
    left hallway: PG-13
    middle hallway: R
    right hallway: NC-17 (shoot the movie this way and take stuff out for the other ratings)

    You are steup for sequels with the three different words (? a quake trilogy ?). So that's 9 DVD's for the box set and what's this? A special edition with all the secret rooms!!!
    They picked the wrong ID game.

  19. Re:Upcoming on 3D Realms Buys Physics For Duke Nukem Forever · · Score: 1

    Wow, 3 Quakes and a DOOM 3 behind ID. Their progress is bad and they should feel bad.

  20. Re:Why stop there on Senate Candidate Wants to Ban Polling · · Score: 1

    I think polling just before the vote and exit polling are important because of the voting irregularities in Florida and other regions of the country. While poles from Miami/Dade and West Palm probably wouldn't have had any impact on the outcome of the 2000 court battle, it might help to keep future election tampering in check by having more data to compare against the e-vote results.

  21. Re:Why do they need patching? on Fed-Up Hospitals Defy Windows Patching Rules · · Score: 1

    - insurance eligibiliy queries - clinical data repository access between remote sites - patient/doc access to medical info from home - authorization and cerification on the internet - porn, internet hearts, slashdot

  22. Re:Audio/Video quality on Yet Another Degrading DVD · · Score: 1

    I'm betting digital media would degrade by getting blocky from screwed up compression problems, dropping frames, and finally just dieing in random spots on the disk. So that would be less like watching a screwed up film and a little more like watching something on a digital satellite dish during a bad storm.

  23. Re:Preference on What's Your Terrorism Quotient? · · Score: 1

    Safe from whom? An organized group of terrorists can kill thousands. An organized government can commit genocide.

  24. Re:Transcriptionist on Your Privacy and Offshore Outsourcing · · Score: 5, Informative

    When many doctors do their own transcription they use software with templates for common diagnosies. Pick the ailment and fill in the blanks. Offshore transcription runs about 12 cents/line. Domestic services runs about 17-20 cents/line but you get native english speakers and U.S. privacy laws (HIPAA).

  25. Re:loyalty cards on RFID Coming 'Whether You Like It Or Not' · · Score: 1

    The folks at Cockeyed.com have an interesting project going on with these loyalty cards.