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  1. Re:Money on FBI Investigates Liberator of Court Records · · Score: 1

    K, now that leaves over 2/3 of the government's annual budget to account for, without which third we're still the wealthiest govt. in the world.

  2. Re:SPOILER!!!!!! on Stargate Universe · · Score: 1

    Habitable planets would have similar atmospheric pressures, and it wouldn't be that difficult for the stargates to be programmed to deal with any variance.

  3. Re:Lou Diamond Phillips was beyond compare on Stargate Universe · · Score: 1

    Well, he's in seven episodes so far, so I would assume he plays a big part back in the milky way somehow.

  4. Re:Stargate B-Team on Stargate Universe · · Score: 1

    From what I was able to get in the show, the MMO geek went to MIT and plausibly stopped because he had to take care of his mother and her medical bills. Admittedly, he was failing at this at the start of the show, but assuming the lack of completion of his MIT schooling, that's not much of a surprise.

  5. Re:Depends on your definition of "real" and "good" on Stargate Universe · · Score: 1

    Lost was merely philosophical douchebaggery. Heroes is crap because none of the good guys has ever come up with the solution of blow the bad guy's head off from 100 yards away. Dollhouse could actually be quite good, except Dushku, while a good actor for certain roles, isn't all that great at the ever-changing personality of her character.

  6. Re:Typical intro to a spinoff on Stargate Universe · · Score: 1

    It's been flying a lot longer than they planned without a human presence on board to monitor and repair things. That's why the computers and large mechanisms are mostly still working. It's only the modular components that are tending to break.

  7. Re:Troubleshooting skills. on Stargate Universe · · Score: 1

    The symbols are not the program. That is, just because a symbol means something to one computer, doesn't mean it means the same thing to a totally separate system. In this case the symbol stood for the Milky Way a.k.a., where the ancients who built the ship originated from. That's why they used the same symbol.

  8. Re:Troubleshooting skills. on Stargate Universe · · Score: 1

    Hundreds of thousands actually, possibly much more as the ship was built before the ancients got into the whole ascension kick.

  9. Re:Troubleshooting skills. on Stargate Universe · · Score: 1

    Unless the button was heat sensitive or electrically sensitive. In which case poking it with a pencil would have done nothing.

  10. Re:Why do corporations have to be people? on Corporations Now Have a Right To "Personal Privacy" · · Score: 1

    This has nothing to do with what is required, but simply needs a single unscrupulous bill writer and the pack of useless morons in Congress to work. The people voting on our laws don't even read them, so provisions like this can be slipped in fairly easily.

  11. Re:Just look at Oblivion. on Bridging the Gap Between User-Generated Content and Interesting Content · · Score: 1

    Oblivion was the latecomer to the game. The aforementioned doom, BG1/2, F1/2, the NWN series, and the upcoming Dragon Age are all superior examples, especially with NWN's Persistent World servers.

  12. Re:Why is that legal? on Wii Update 4.2 Tries (and Fails) To Block Homebrew · · Score: 1

    The citizenry did not, however, have guns.

  13. Re:cue knee jerk fear-speak from big pertroleum on Electric Car Nano-Batteries Aim For 500-Mile Range · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the Hindys biggest problem was the thermite coating on the cowling.

  14. Re:Wait... on Obama Makes a Push To Add Time To the School Year · · Score: 1

    ? The quality of public schooling in Japan is way better. Of course, that's because it's all predicated on placement testing and if you don't make it into public school your only choice is private.

  15. Re:Microsoft is pure genius on Mainstream Press "Cringes" At Win7 Launch Parties · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's what Vista should have been. Since I pretty much skipped Vista, it works out nicely.

  16. Re:makes sense on The Fresca Rebellion · · Score: 1

    You mean the one where the death toll was over an entire ORDER OF MAGNITUDE smaller? That heat wave? And was confined to a single rabidly Democrat city, not the entire damned country?

  17. Re:makes sense on The Fresca Rebellion · · Score: 1

    Clearly you need to work on your reading comprehension. I was discussing HEALTH CARE. Thus, I removed accident and homicide rates(the two biggest contributors to our lower life expectancy), along with standardizing infant death classifications, to arrive at my conclusion.

  18. Re:Good policy on The Fresca Rebellion · · Score: 1

    Clearly you haven't been to Iowa or Kansas.

  19. Re:Money on The Fresca Rebellion · · Score: 1

    Really? I find Snapple to be pretty vile myself.

  20. Re:I'll tell you where on The Fresca Rebellion · · Score: 1

    No, because guns would be perfectly legal. They're primarily there to help provide a relatively impartial justice system for after the crime has been committed, not primarily there to stop crimes in progress. A rather large difference.

  21. Re:Diet sodas on The Fresca Rebellion · · Score: 1

    As you said, you're a diabetic. This means the thing that diet sodas do in normal people, namely, change insulin production rate, they CANNOT do to yours.

  22. Re:Market Failure on The Fresca Rebellion · · Score: 1

    The only reason HFCS is in widespead use at all is BECAUSE of government intervention. Remove the thrice damned tarriffs on sugar and the corn subsidies and HFCS would be a miniscule amount of the average Americans diet.

  23. Re:makes sense on The Fresca Rebellion · · Score: 1

    *sighs* Let the socialized systems run for another 50 to 100 years. Assuming they don't collapse entirely, that is their inevitable end. None of the systems currently in place have been around for more than 70 years and they're already cracking at the seams.

  24. Re:makes sense on The Fresca Rebellion · · Score: 1

    Compensating for the higher accident rate and homicide rate(it should be noted that neither of these things have ANYTHING to do with the health care system) as well as the vastly different definitions used for infant in our health care systems, the US not only has the highest life expectancy in the world, but we also have the lowest infant death rate. As for being better, look up France, heat wave, and old people.

  25. Re:You make no sense on The Fresca Rebellion · · Score: 1

    You probably wouldn't have GOTTEN the helo ride and two resuscitations. Just look at the case of the skier in Canada.