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  1. Re:Obligatory Simpsons video on Microsoft Buys OpenOffice.org · · Score: 1

    checks

  2. Re:Women in computing on UNICORN T-SHIRTS!!! LOL!!! · · Score: 1

    G.I. Joe was NOT a doll. He was an action figure.

  3. Re:Is it a continuing story? on An Elder Scrolls Retrospective · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, you get references to each past game but they dont affect the current game. Like in oblivion you are told that slavery was ended in the province that morrowind was in, but other than that....

  4. I dont care about new titles. on Nintendo President Vows Cheap Games · · Score: 0

    I'm not buying the revolution for anything new. I am buying it for the back catalog. I know more than a few people are buying it for the same reason.

  5. Re:RICO is scary on RICO Suit Filed Against Skype Founders · · Score: 4, Funny

    I cant tell if that is sarcasm or stupidity.

  6. Re:Joss Who? on Will Wright Talks Research, Astrobiology · · Score: 1

    okay he co-wrote on one good movie. The rest of his work has been geek fap material.

  7. Re:Will Wright again on Will Wright Talks Research, Astrobiology · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Let's see, Will Wright created some of the best games ever made for the pc, while joss whendon made a shitty show no one watched that turned into a shitty movie no one saw.

  8. Re:What to teach? Hah... on Refurbishing PCs For Charity? · · Score: 1

    OSX is neither free as in cost or as in freedom.

  9. Re:Why IDE? on Via Launches New Line of Mini-ITX Boards · · Score: 1

    Not if you slipstream the sata drivers onto a windows cd.

  10. Re:Why IDE? on Via Launches New Line of Mini-ITX Boards · · Score: 1

    considering a search on newegg only brings up one match for a SATA optical drive, and its the infamous plextor thats really pata with a bridge screwed on the back, I will say they left them for optical drives.

  11. Re:Previews: the reality on Game Previews Just Game Marketing? · · Score: 1

    You are the one bitching about how you were made fun of. No one said you should bend over and take it, just dont get all butt hurt and never subscribe to a game magazine ever again. You take the actions of one jackass and apply it to an entire industry. Shit, since I pissed you off, will you promise to never some on slashdot again?

  12. Re:Previews: the reality on Game Previews Just Game Marketing? · · Score: 1

    Oh now I get it. You are a pretentious asshole who can't stand it when someone calls you out for being one.

  13. Re:Atmosphere probe? on Jupiter Gets New Red Spot · · Score: 1

    I also want to know how the US is "commercially exploiting" the two mars rovers which went 2 years past their intended length of time.

  14. Re:this is news? on Another Ars Ultimate Budget Box · · Score: 1

    So news about a movie that no one watched, that was based on a tv show no one watched should take priority? WTF?

  15. Re:$500!?!?!? on Another Ars Ultimate Budget Box · · Score: 1

    Heh, ars forgot more in a week than you will ever know.

  16. Re:Cough on Another Ars Ultimate Budget Box · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. I just bought a Inspiron 6000 laptop, and they didnt give me an OS cd, there is a "hidden" 4 gig partition that contains the restore image.

  17. Re:Why on A Look at GNOME 2.14 · · Score: 1

    So you want OSX?

  18. Re:A whole 2% are opened on Team Confirms UCLA Tabletop Fusion · · Score: 1

    No need to even bother with a gas tanker. Train accidents happen near me all the time. Case in point. Duffy street.

            On May 12, 1989, one of the most devastating accidents in the history of the Southern Pacific Railroad occurred in a northwest suburb of San Bernardino, California along the relatively new (opened in 1967) Palmdale-Colton "Cut-Off" line at the foot of the Cajon Pass grade. Southern Pacific train 01-MJLBP-12 (Mojave, CA to Long Beach, CA Unit Potash train), with 69 hopper cars loaded with potash south of Mojave at Rosamond, CA lost control while descending the 2.2% grade on the south slope of Cajon Pass. All 69 cars and six locomotives derailed when the train reached a curve next to the suburban San Bernardino neighborhood along Duffy street near Highland Avenue. The runaway train reached speeds in excess of 90 MPH (the maximum recordable speed on the onboard "black box" speed recorder) in the descent of the 23 mile grade. Killed in the accident were SP Conductor Everett S. Crown and Brakeman Allan R. Riess. Also killed in trackside homes were two children ages 7 and 9, with eleven additional people injured. Seven homes were destroyed outright by the accident, and four more were damaged and eventually torn down. In response to the accident, Southern Pacific agreed to pay all moving, storage and temporary housing costs for displaced residents as well as purchase the eleven homes damaged or destroyed in the accident. In addition, Southern Pacific agreed to reimburse the City of San Bernardino for all expenses incurred in response to the accident, as well as any judgements against the city resulting from the accident. Southern Pacific also agreed to pay for inspection and necessary repair to a 14-inch petroleum pipeline buried fourteen feet beneath the accident site.

            A Second catastrophe struck the accident ravaged neighborhood two weeks later on May 25th, when the petroleum pipeline that parallelled the rail line ruptured and exploded, destroying eleven more homes and killing two more residents. Investigation after the pipeline explosion found that CalNev Pipelines did not adequately inspect the pipeline after the accident.

            The cause of the accident was complex. The train weight was estimated (no car scales exist in Rosamond) to be 6,151 tons, which is the information the train's crew had. Later computations made by weighing similarly loaded cars estimated the actual train weight to be near 8,970 tons. In addition, the train's headend and helper power each had at least one unit with inoperable dynamic brakes. This left the train with sufficient braking power for the reported weight, but not enough for the actual weight.

  19. Dorks. on Internet Suicide Pacts Surge in Japan · · Score: 3, Funny

    I love how a bunch of white dorks who watch anime, listen to j-pop and beat off to tentacle rape suddenly have this vast insight into the culture of japan. STFU dorks.

  20. Re:Everybody? on Hands on with SiN Episodes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    By everyone, he means all of the developers, so they can charge you $30 every 6 months for new chapters.

  21. Re:The real reason to not buy it.... on Officer's Group Calls for Ban On 25 To Life · · Score: 1

    Yes I have played it. Its a max payne clone without the stupid puzzles.

  22. Research doesnt always help. on State of WLAN Support on Linux? · · Score: 1

    If you buy the Netgeat wg511 V.2 it will work. HOWEVER only if its the one from china. The one from taiwan wont work because its a totally different card. So why the fuck do they call it v.2 if its a totally different card on the inside.

  23. The real reason to not buy it.... on Officer's Group Calls for Ban On 25 To Life · · Score: 1

    is because it fucking sucks ass. One of the worst games to come out in the last 5 years. Its like max payne without the fun.

  24. Re:Pre-recorded Hard Drives? on Building the Godzilla of PVRs · · Score: 1

    So the whole horror of a turkish prison, or the french fire island was just made up? Or do you just assume that you onlty had bad shit in the us

  25. Re:They don't run their servers on Linux, eh? on Linux Desktops Send NASA Rovers to Mars · · Score: 1

    You could RTFA or any of the comments to know that the article is talking about JPL which is just one of dozens of sites used by nasa, the two you listed are in completly different states than JPL.