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  1. Not sure anyone thought of this but use the ice... on Design Wanted For Antarctic Base · · Score: 0

    Use the against against itself...

    Snow / Wind / Ice all blow up there, so several hundred meters out from the base build a ring of a wall, and let nature naturally build up this ring.

    Basically building a valley in the snow, inside of the ring use high launching snow blowers to blow snow to the outside of the walls, just like mowing the lawn, could use an autonomous robot to do this even, they got the technology from lawn mowers.

    Would make the base less windy / easier to heat, and a safer overall environment.

  2. Re:I love my office on Building a Better Office · · Score: 0

    Are you hiring? And where in the world do you use trains?

    I want a window :(

  3. Re:$5.8 M is peanuts, maybe even peanut dust on Army Contractor To Build A 1566 Xserve Cluster · · Score: 0

    So you want to tax those that work hard so that we can all be encouraged to be lazy?

    I mean really why should I bust my ass 60+ hours a week to barely get by to pay more taxes for some pos to sit on their ass all day and claim disability from obeisity, or pop out 12 kids while the hubby is in jail just so the gov will pay for them to watch springer all day.

    Tell ya what, I"ll pay more taxes when my taxes start solving these "people" problems, i.e. ship em back... cull the heard you name it

    Till then I need my money to defend my own family's needs, piss on those not willing to stand up and fight to get anywhere in life, its not my fault or my responsibility. I pay my dues. Give me flat tax rate for everyone, equal work / equal pay / equal tax... till that day I'll use my dollars to make sure I get treated better by our bribed politicians.

  4. Re:BMW only on iPod Your BMW Officially Launched · · Score: 0

    Why?

    With driving an aspire you're definately not a life long customer... well I guess that depends on how you value your life as obviously driving one of the worst safety cars ever built if it can even be called built.... maybe assembled by 3 year olds with legos ;)

    I've been in an Aspire once... I walked home as it was much safer then being in one, my prayers go with you as you are a far braver man then I to get on the highway in that heap o' sh*t.

  5. timeline on Valve Announces Half-Life 2 Code Theft Arrests · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wow, well looks like half life 2 should be out any second now that they caught the perps....

    o' wait no this is an excuse for another 2 year delay!

    Half Life 2 Timeline:
    (Presale)
    (Delay for break in)
    (Presale)
    (Delay for prosecution)
    (Cancel Project)

  6. Re:If I spend quite a bit of time, why not. on Gaming PC Makers Take Aim at Lucrative Niche · · Score: 0

    TiBook is nice, that one I agree with.

    Acura is still built like crap, I agree the Subaru's are built fairly cheaply, but the STi is designed for 1 purpose: all out performance, and it does very well at that.

    For build quality get a used E36 BMW, my '99 M3 was 29k used when I bought it with a 100k mi warranty, not a single issue at all with it, even at 145mph. BMW is a high quality car, Acura is a higher quality honda which is still a polished turd.

  7. Re:If I spend quite a bit of time, why not. on Gaming PC Makers Take Aim at Lucrative Niche · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Those reasons being you have good taste in computers and no taste at all in cars?

    I wouldn't wipe my ass with a type s,
    my friend had one he sold it in under 2 months as he learned hard way that he was paying way too much for a pos hatchback of a car thats a wanna be performance ride.

    He got a WRX STi, now thats a real car.

  8. Re:Whos going to buy the Porsche 10 years from now on IT Outsourcing Need Not Threaten Our Future · · Score: 0

    How evil... the forecast of the end of Porsche???

    There will be no point in working a middle-class job if we can't afford a Porsche "one-day" or at least dream that we might "one-day" be able to.

    Thanks for shattering our dreams... give me liberty or give me a rifle... the real way Americans "innovate" war and rebellion.

    We're a nation of thiefs con artists and just plan scam artists... but we're damned good at ripping / raping / pilaging the rest of the world.

    Here's to another 100 years of screwing the world over!

  9. Re:Blame Public Education (not funding) on US Losing its Scientific Dominance · · Score: 0

    Tell me then mr. wizard, how would u apply your smarts to a job such as I dunno changing brake pads on a car?

    Sure you could build a robot to do it but why? Not every job makes much difference how much smarts you put into it, sometimes just plain honest days labor is the best way.

    I respect any man willing to do an honest days job either blue or white collar, whatever makes them happy.

  10. Re:Blame Public Education (not funding) on US Losing its Scientific Dominance · · Score: 0

    "Working harder will just give you callouses, working smarter will get you wealth and happiness."

    Now thats a load of bull.

    Yes working harder gives callouses, but I know more truly happy people that work "low end grunt" jobs then I do the "smarter" professionals.

    I'm personally learning this in my life, it's better to be poor & happy then rich & miserable.

    It's all a trade off.

  11. Re:Blame Public Education (not funding) on US Losing its Scientific Dominance · · Score: 0

    Where are you from and is this 17yr old sister hot?

    Sorry had to ask... ;)

  12. Re:Time to jump on the bandwagon... on The Bugatti Veyron · · Score: 0

    In Cincinnati, OH we still have 55mph speed limits on a good portion of the highway... not that anyone pays attention to them but they're there.

  13. Re:Ummm on The Bugatti Veyron · · Score: 0

    BMW dealer wanted $230 per oil change on my M3.... i sold that car :P

    I do my own work and still think they're nuts

  14. Re:Automotive Vaporware -aircooling on The Bugatti Veyron · · Score: 0

    The boxster is a management dream of a money maker...

    Take your great car name, make a dumbed down version which you sell for less but make it back up on the maintenance / parts as the idiot yuppies who buy boxers don't generally do their own maintenance.

    The boxster is a cute yuppie mobile... but then again so is the new vw bettle's with iPods.

    1998 or earlier Porsche 911 is truly beautiful.

    My fav is the 993 GT2 or the 993 Twin Turbo, most reliable and endurable air-cooled porsche's ever, just your pick of rwd or awd.

    The BMW M3 rocks but that brand is going downhill, E46 = bloat machines, E36 M3 with an E46 M3 is the sweet spot.

  15. Re:Automotive Vaporware -aircooling on The Bugatti Veyron · · Score: 0

    Air cooled Porsche's were available to 1998 not 1996.

    1996 was introduction of varioram intake though with variable intake.

  16. Oh lord here comes a slew of bad slashdot jokes... on Sex.com Settles Case Against VeriSign · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh well $65 million for SEX (.com) has to be a new record...

    Even our former mayor of Cincinnati, didn't write a Check that.. good ol' Jerry Springer.

    SEX (.com) has to be the most successful prostitution of a domain name yet :)

  17. Re:Cost of transforming energy? on Solar-Hydrogen Eco-House · · Score: 1, Informative

    Battery banks require replacement more often causing eco-waste.

    Great way to kill an eco-house... add in some lead & acid batteries.

    The hydrogen would not run out and be a reusable container, far less maintenance.

  18. Re:Superior attitude on Those Eureka Moments · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You sir are a lost one...

    Is public education really working that well?

    Our brains are not wired alike... different reasoning / thought patterns. Go see some 2nd graders solve the same math problem... they won't all be the same if they have some level of intelligence. The clueless at your level may solve it the way they were handed only.

  19. Re:White man should see this coming. on What Should a Documentary Filmmaker Ask About Offshoring? · · Score: 0

    Indian had bow & arrow... white man brought gun... white man won...

    Indian brought lower costs.... white man once again reached for trusty gun... must find more ammo as 1 billion of these f'ers to shoot this time.

  20. Re:Economy.. on What Should a Documentary Filmmaker Ask About Offshoring? · · Score: 0

    Great to go from gauranteed penny spent here in a salary to "potentially spent locally"....

    Good long term prospect.

  21. Re:Why? on Second Test of X-43A Scramjet Tomorrow · · Score: 0

    How does freezing to death and suffering for days beat drowning in under 3 minutes?

    It'd be pure torture to be stuck out there.

    A rescue team... maybe if you're not too far out, but anything past hellicopter range and you're waiting on a friggin clipper to get there.

    So you'd be SOL.

    Or maybe they'd land a neat sea plane for you... just remember to duck ;)

  22. Re:His wife's income . . . on Junkie Loves His Spam · · Score: 0

    F'ers, 100k/yr is a dream job here in Ohio.

    Hell a raise is a dream job, I'm taking annual pay cuts currently to keep a job.
    Meanwhile my cost of living is skyrocketing in comparison, less spendable cash flow every day of every year.

    I mean really a programmer working full-time should be able to afford a decent house and a BMW or 3.

  23. Re:i don't need the karma but you're a dick on Bloggers' Plagiarism Scientifically Proven · · Score: 0

    Google states that "Plagiarism is necessary; progress implies it." has been put on the internet 210 times you f'in plagiarist.

    I mean really what honor is there to be #211, I'm proudly #212... so there :P

    Gotta love the net... what a waste of time but it's better then tv ;)

  24. Re:Screw That! on Your Future Car's Hood Will Be Welded Shut · · Score: 0

    I had my 99 BMW m3 in the shop the other day getting the door handle adjusted, and asked how much for an oil change as I had thrown out their $55 coupon as I figured it wasn't much off the normal price.

    "An oil change for that car is about $230"....

    I was like hrmm no I'll pass, I'm thinking of opening a discount oil change shop special to BMWs. $100 oil changes, gauranteed in and out fast! I'm sure I can make a profit ;)

  25. Re:unfortunately you haven't seen them vote.... on Cincinnati Gets Broadband Over Power Lines · · Score: 0

    I'm proud of that police force, I still wish we'd used live ammo during the riots.

    There's protesting then there's nogs burning down their places, disrupting the flow of the city for us honest white people.

    I was working 2 blocks from where the riots started at the time, driving through police lines makes you truly understand that we need more police, and more violent police to effectively combat these useless f's. Seeing them trash their own KFC was comedy, the riots shut down a lot of business's that used to cater to those dumb shits.

    Deveroes, which is a all black / wigger store, every location got robbed, cause as their slogan goes "everyone knows to get yo clothes at deveroes", well the nogs sure got the message and robbed them blind.