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  1. Re:How do you think it works in the EU ? on NY Times, LA Times Want Amazon To Collect More State Taxes · · Score: 1

    How the hell did they get a building permit? Zoning approval? Who did they pay real estate taxes to? Where were their water and gas meters? That story sounds fishy - perhaps management kept the register there for other reasons - to make it easy to cash out delivery drivers who came in the back way, deterring employee theft, enabling management theft, or deterring customers from demanding correct change.

  2. Re:Chicken Little on Nuclear Reactors As Art · · Score: 1

    Sure, for an implosion bomb with a higher yield. However, a gun-type fission bomb isn't the least bit complicated. The US didn't even test the design for the Hiroshima bomb - The implosion bomb design (the type dropped on Nagasaki)was the one used for the Trinity test.

  3. Re:Two can play at that game on The Nuking of Duke Nukem · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's more like picking up trash at a public park or nature preserve - it helps everyone.

  4. Re:Can you save them to standard formats? on Building Left 4 Dead Maps With Google Sketchup · · Score: 2, Informative

    within the bounds of the EULA, you can import the Sketchup models into Google Earth. Also, a number of 3D applications are adding .SKP read/write support. Outside the EULA, .SKP files are actually ZIP archives containing a Collada file of the 3D model, all the texture bitmaps, and some Sketchup-specific metadata files.

  5. Re:Losing to Piracy, or, Over-Estimating App Value on iPhone Game Piracy "the Rule Rather Than the Exception" · · Score: 1

    Still? In the age of 7Zip and Windows handling archives from the shell?

  6. Re:Simple solution on Response To California's Large-Screen TV Regulation · · Score: 1
    he states surrounding New York that have lower tax rates, are starting to see improvement in tax revenues because of this.

    New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation, and its vaunted 3% sales tax is no more. And nobody moves to Greenwich, CT for the tax break. Where did you have in mind?

  7. Re:If True, Fascinatingly Bizarre Logic on Whistleblower Claims IEA Is Downplaying Peak Oil · · Score: 1

    You didn't pay for the vouchers, they were funded from the sale of analog TV spectrum. And you pay for education because an having an educated workforce around you ensures your GDP and standard of living. The rest I agree with.

  8. Re:If True, Fascinatingly Bizarre Logic on Whistleblower Claims IEA Is Downplaying Peak Oil · · Score: 1

    There are a whole slew of low (LOW!) cost private intercity bus services in the eastern US, colloquially known as "Chinatown Busses." Where Amtrak costs well north of $100 for a round trip, you can get a Chinatown bus from Philly to New York and back for as little as $6 and at most $26, depending on your schedule and how far ahead you book.

  9. Re:That bad, eh? on Tesla Roadster Breaks Distance Record For Electric Car · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Depends where you live. Philly car share and Zipcars will rent you a pickup truck at a very reasonable hourly rate. So will Home Depot and Lowes, for that matter.

  10. Re:who's freedom? on When Libertarians Attack Free Software · · Score: 1

    Doctors ARE licensed by states, who see fit to cooperate on standards and test-writing in a nationally consistent way. What's the problem? Also, you have entirely too much faith in the ability of desperate people to be rational market actors. Look at what happened to thousands of women seeking abortions before Roe v. Wade, for example.

  11. Re:Doom on A Look At How Far PC Gaming Has Come · · Score: 1

    Then you never played team deathmatch in an office with a LAN and conferenceable speakerphones.

  12. Re:Wait a minute here on Legal War For WA State Sunshine Law · · Score: 1

    I knew a lesbian couple with a somewhat similar story - mom 1 left mom 2 in order to be straight, taking their kid (who mom 1 had given birth to) with her. Mom 2, despite having raised the child to the age of 3, was not married to mom 1 in any legal sense, and so now has no parental rights to, and no contact with, her child. Gay marriage, and yes, gay divorce, would have made the situation a lot more bearable for mom 2. PS - I know many members of the GLBT community who would rightly excoriate your ex-wife for her choices.

  13. Re:NOT a Railgun on Gigantic Air Gun To Blast Cargo Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    I think he forgot somewhere along the way to make the payload more than 1 kg.

  14. Re:12 Year Old Mainframe = 20+ Other Servers on US House Decommissions Its Last Mainframe · · Score: 1

    It was discussed here, but the first link I found was http://kdka.com/politics/republican.it.guru.2.893852.html .

  15. Re:12 Year Old Mainframe = 20+ Other Servers on US House Decommissions Its Last Mainframe · · Score: 1
    Presidential records and emails were lost on other systems

    That was by design. Then the sysadmin died under suspicious circumstances right before testifying about it.

  16. Re:Don't they... on Cyber-criminal Left In Charge of Prison Computer Network · · Score: 1

    Especially since a B-something struck the Empire State Building in heavy fog during WWII.

  17. Re:Greylisting! on Fighting "Snowshoe" Spam · · Score: 3, Informative

    it is important to note that "longer than normal" can mean 24 or more hours for a surprisingly large number of mail servers. Forum registrations and the like are particularly frustrating.

  18. Re:When they control...... on Comcast In Deal Talks With NBC Universal · · Score: 1

    The federal government is more powerful than your HOA. It's a matter of getting the ear of the right bureaucrats at the FCC to put the smack down on them.

  19. Re:No, we can't recommend anything on Choosing a Personal Printer For the Long Haul · · Score: 1

    Whippersnapper! I print up to 11x17 on a Laserjet 4MV that was old when I first met it at work in 1998. When the office moved in 2002, they let me have it since it refused to print with an error code (broken formatter cooling fan - $5), and it was heavy. Since then, I've changed the fuser roller ($30 with instructional video at fixyourownprinter.com), and cleaned the manual feed intake. I could see THIS printer lasting until 2020.

  20. Re:Differences between versions on Wolfenstein Being Recalled In Germany · · Score: 1

    It's an ancient Buddhist symbol representing the wheel of Dharma. The Nazis messed up and got it backwards, which is entirely fitting...

  21. Re:Wow! on Jack Kirby Heirs Reclaim Marvel/Disney Rights · · Score: 1

    Except that John Lasseter has the title of "Chief Creative Officer" at Disney now. It remains to be seen whether he will be able (or want) to have an impact to turn that around.

    Also, given the success of High School Musical 1/2/3 and Hannah Montana, it appears the new hotness is singing fucking teenyboppers, not singing fucking animals.

  22. Re:Brillant! on Sony To Encase Half the Star Wars: Galaxies Servers In Carbonite · · Score: 1

    I think the VT terminals generally got shitcanned 6 months to a year NCSA Mosaic came to the campus in question.

  23. Re:The farm trees for paper, like they farm wheat on T-Mobile Backs Off Plan To Charge $1.50 For Paper Bills · · Score: 1

    Paper making uses a lot of fresh water, energy, and noxious chemicals, so "save a tree" is shorthand for "mitigate the environmental damage from more paper production." Also, unnecessary waste of anything isn't a great idea. And as for your bread analogy, apparently you didn't grow up in a household where "but children are starving in $HELLHOLE!" was considered a compelling argument for eating something.

  24. Re:LEDs are great on Panasonic's New LED Bulbs Shine For 19 Years · · Score: 1

    Yes, that niche market of people who read, cook, eat meals together, and do things after dark other than watching television are being unreasonably catered to.

  25. Re:LEDs are great on Panasonic's New LED Bulbs Shine For 19 Years · · Score: 1

    How does that work? Does China orbit a different star? Does air in that part of the world have a different refractive index?