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  1. Re:Damn Good. on FBI Probing PA School Webcam Spy Case · · Score: 1

    What point is there in destroying the school building if the new school building will house the same school officials? It is not the concrete blocks that accessed those laptops.

  2. Re:Paging anonyme on French Net Censorship Plan Moves Forward · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that be << Commencer l'operation tempête dans un verre d'eau. >> "Commence operation tempest in a teacup"? Or did you mean D cup?

  3. Re:Honeypot on I Use Twitter, Please Rob Me · · Score: 1

    Couldn't they have had it towed instead?

  4. Pedant point on Measuring the Speed of Light With Valentine's Day Chocolate · · Score: 1

    400-790 THz

    In terms of frequency, this corresponds to a band in the vicinity of 790-400 terahertz.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_light

  5. Re:Unexpected old quotes on A History of Media Technology Scares · · Score: 1

    ((allegedly) Socrates ca. 390 BC)

    Socrates died 400/399 BC.

  6. Re:Another corrupt practice - does it have a name? on Microsoft To Get $100M Annual Tax Cut and Amnesty · · Score: 1

    Congress passed such a law in 1996, but it was later ruled unconstitutional.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-item_veto

  7. Re:Another corrupt practice - does it have a name? on Microsoft To Get $100M Annual Tax Cut and Amnesty · · Score: 1

    Are you sure that the US President has a line-item veto? I was pretty sure he didn't.

  8. Re:Another corrupt practice - does it have a name? on Microsoft To Get $100M Annual Tax Cut and Amnesty · · Score: 1

    AFAICT, none.

  9. Re:I don't see what the trouble is... on Microsoft To Get $100M Annual Tax Cut and Amnesty · · Score: 1

    Does that mean that corporations don't pay rent, or salaries? After all, aren't those just expenses that get factored into the price of production?

  10. Re:and this is how google wins on Five Years of YouTube and Forced Evolution · · Score: 1

    So gnash is illegal?

  11. Re:So they could receive commands!? on Was This the First Denial of Service Attack? · · Score: 1

    The teacher saw, called my actions stupid

    And what did this teacher think of the programmer's not allowing for (or preventing) someone entering a value of zero?

  12. Re:To anyone who thinks this is dumb. on A Printer That Uses No Consumables · · Score: 1

    So the students will simply return the sheets?

  13. Re:Nothing new here. on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    And what is this documentation? And was Christ's life documented as well as Cicero's, or Caesar's?

  14. Re:Nothing new here. on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    Callisthenes wrote that Alexander insisted on the Persian proskynesis, the servile kneeling to the king, as well as other Oriental customs.

    Also, it appears that Alexander was depicted in contemporary (c. 325 BC) coins. And who did found Alexandria in 331 BC.

    I don't know if your skepticism in this regard will help your thesis. Even if one accepts the historicity of Christ, does that compel accepting His divinity?

  15. Re:Nothing new here. on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    We know that a historian Callisthenes wrote about Alexander in a work now lost, as well as another lost work by Ptolemy Soter.

  16. Re:So Ignorant It Hurts on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    And how much history would you include?

  17. Re:So Ignorant It Hurts on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    I haven't found much about ancient Israel/Judea in The Federalist Papers, but there are references to classical and European history.

  18. Re:So Ignorant It Hurts on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    By your logic, forcing God out of public school is same as establishing the religion of atheism.

    Atheism is a religion the way that bald is a hair color.

  19. Re:Nothing new here. on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    So the battles of Arbela and Gaugamela are simply myths?

    And aside from the Gospels, what documentation do we have of Jesus's life?

  20. Re:How bad could it be? on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    According to this, the 43rd president was educated in Texas.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W_Bush#Education

  21. Re:A Christian's take on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that churches are more privileged than other tax-exempt nonprofits.

  22. I'm skeptical on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    How does Pyrrho know that suspending judgment will result in peace of mind, and how does he know that peace of mind is the proper state of humans? Should he not suspend his judgment on such matters?

  23. Re:Too bad on Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina · · Score: 1

    And the 1860 South Carolina State Legislature was representative of the people of South Carolina? Well, except for the slaves and poor people.

  24. Re:Not dead on Microsoft Says Windows 7 Not Killing Batteries · · Score: 1

    Microsoft: No, 'e's just pining for the fjords of Redmond!

  25. Re:They're looking for the wrong thing anyway on Signs of Water Found On Saturnian Moon Enceladus · · Score: 1

    Beer would get the Schlepping Guild on board.