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  1. Re:We should form a committee... on Cisco to Kill Linksys Brand Name · · Score: 1

    Maybe they will start making routers that will ask us if we want toast?

  2. Re:All the irrational replies explained on Venezula Producing Its Own Linux PCs · · Score: 1

    The station supported the coup attempt. If Fox and Fox News supported an illegal attempt to overthrow the US government, they might get in trouble with the FCC.

    No. The Fox operations that broadcast are subject to FCC rules, which may or may not have rules against sedition, I don't know. Fox News is a cable channel, though they do provide radio news for broadcast.

    BTW, one show on broadcast TV here showed a picture of President Bush with the caption, 'SNIPERS WANTED', and nothing happened to anybody. Try something similar in Venezuela and you will at least get your license pulled.

  3. Re:Now slashdot needs a new meme on Google buys DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion · · Score: 1

    GoClickYourself!

  4. Re:It could have been worse... on Blogger Spurs US Radio Host's Firing · · Score: 1

    He could have said "Hymietown"...

    No no, you don't get your career destroyed for that one.

  5. Re:This is NOT a First Amendment Issue on Blogger Spurs US Radio Host's Firing · · Score: 1

    The government is not limiting the Free Speech of Don Imus. Neither are the media companies, advertisers, or listeners/viewers. Don Imus is free to say whatever he wants, but he has no inalienable right to get paid to say whatever he wants on a media program.
    This is nominally true today. However, just wait for the call for decency standards in the future (not that the FCC has been absent in the past). Add to that calls by radio talk show host Ed Schultz to bring back the fairness doctrine because 'voices from the left don't have the exposure that righties do'. His opinion is that free speech is irrelevant if you don't have that platform to speak from.

    It's either one or the other.

    I assume you disagree with him.

  6. Re:this whle Imus thing is insane on Blogger Spurs US Radio Host's Firing · · Score: 1

    Jackson and Sharpton have been speaking out against profanity and misogyny in rap for years.
    And not very effectively, it seems. They are much better at extorting money from corporations and avoiding IRS scrutiny.
  7. Re:Important questions on Revisiting the Physics of Buckaroo Banzai · · Score: 1

    Um - I'll tell you later.

  8. Re:For better health coverage? on Health Insurance for the Self-Employed? · · Score: 1

    While he was in recovery, we met families literally from around the world who had had their kids flown to have similar, and in many cases much more serious cases dealt with, including heart transplants. Free. This was at the expense of the hospital and the Canadian government, with help from aid agencies. That doesn't sound like quite the antiquated, inadequate and over-stressed system that Canadian national health care is usually characterized as, does it?

    You mean you didn't see this? This is what I was addressing.

  9. Re:For better health coverage? on Health Insurance for the Self-Employed? · · Score: 1
    The Canadian Coward used a word that should be banned from any discussion of health care or any other government-run program.

    FREE.

    This is the kind of crap I hear from Bernie Sanders and other socialist-types when they are trying to bribe us with our own money. IT WAS NOT FREE. Just because you aren't billed anything after a visit because of that visit DOESN'T MEAN IT WAS FREE. It was a very expensive visit paid for with money stolen out of your other pockets in other ways. In the same way as we say, 'There is no free lunch' we can say 'There is no free healthcare'. Anywhere.

  10. Re:Um, yeah? on Study Shows Good With Math Means Bad With People · · Score: 1

    As a Mensa member, I suspect what you experienced is less typical of Mensa than it is typical of Ann Arbor.

  11. Re:The problem is not the bomb itself on Iranian Heavy Water Nuke Plant Goes Online Today · · Score: 1
    In the fall of 1978, I was in a college geology class when the quite 'green' professor gave us a handout. It declared the following:

    The world will run out (as in 'have none') of natural gas by 1984.
    The world will run out of oil by 1999.
    The world will run out of coal by 2020.

    These things I was taught in college.
    Someday, eventually, Chicken Little will be right. Someday. And some will believe them implicitly everyday they are wrong until the day they are right.

  12. Re:Yay! (Sort of) on New Hope for Stem Cell Research · · Score: 1
    Or again, say a night club is burning down (Great White venue*). I might save my friend

    Friends don't let friends listen to Great White.

  13. Re:Yay! (Sort of) on New Hope for Stem Cell Research · · Score: 1
    many people agonize over having an abortion

    No need to agonize if it isn't a living human.

  14. Re:Yay! (Sort of) on New Hope for Stem Cell Research · · Score: 1

    Food is needed to sustain life. Condoms sustain the imprudent.

  15. Re:off topic, but still... on New Hope for Stem Cell Research · · Score: 1
    The appropriate term is the liberal term: anti-choice

    Meaningless. I don't make a habit of replying to ACs, but if I were in favor of giving judges/juries the option of ordering the death penalty for the convicted (I'm not) and you were against that, that makes you anti-choice, right?

  16. Re:Hu, intresting that. on New Hope for Stem Cell Research · · Score: 1
    Ah, only "potential life", and therefore more expendable than a recyclable can.

    I shall take the hint, find the nest of an endangered-species bird, take the eggs and make an omelet. Expendable, only potential.

  17. Re:Nuclear reactor shutdown on Biofuel Production to Cause Water Shortages? · · Score: 1

    It's possible today's technology is superior to 34 year old technology.

  18. Re:Waste on Biofuel Production to Cause Water Shortages? · · Score: 1

    These days the payments are to idle the land for the purposes of preserving topsoil from erosion, to replenish nutrients in the soil, and so the land can act as a habitat for wildlife. If you use all the land every growing season bad things would happen.

  19. Marketing, marketing, marketing on Viruses the New Condiment · · Score: 1

    With a name like 'Artificially-introduced Viral Bacteriophages' it's gotta be good!!

  20. Re:The Perceived Threat of Science on Did Humans Evolve? No, Say Americans · · Score: 0, Troll
    A belief system that tries to preclude all others (you shall have no other gods) it seems will be threatened by any way of thinking that doesn't fit in its framework
    Like global warming! It's irresponsible to consider any other view than (todays) scientific opinion!
  21. Re:You want advice? on How Old is Too Old? · · Score: 1

    I wish I had thought of that.

  22. Re:hmmm on The De-Evolution of the Ocean · · Score: 1
    Does anyone have any good recipies for jellyfish

    Try them with peanut butter.

  23. What Apple really needs... on Inside View on Apple WWDC Rumors · · Score: 4, Funny

    A realistic-looking accounting system. Enough to convince the SEC.

  24. Re:SUV-bike collision? on The Hybrid Scooter · · Score: 1
    ...putting a good 40k+ miles on a car in a year....14 miles per fucking gallon. He bought a Civic which gets around 40MPG
    40,000 miles/40mpg=1000 gal * $3= $3000

    40,000 miles/14mpg=2857 gal * $3= $8571

    $8571-3000=$5571

    ...bought a Civic ... and in under a year it's nearly paid for itself
    At under 5500, it had to be used, either high miles or 5+ years old. Expect to rebuild or replace the engine soon, and about every 3 years or so after that. My last Chrysler V8 was just like new after 160,000. Cheaper than a Honda 4 engine will be too.
  25. I predict... on Heat, Whine, and Now Yellow MacBooks · · Score: 1

    Given the nature of the Apple orthodoxy, I would expect them to blame the discoloration on the bodily emissions of non-vegetarians.