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  1. Re:Does anyone even use this OS? on CentOS 5 Released · · Score: 2
  2. Re:Darfur on Google Earth Highlights Darfur · · Score: 1

    I think it's damaging your brain.
    I think a more likely cause is that he spends long periods sitting.
  3. Re:"Do no evil" on Google Earth Highlights Darfur · · Score: 2, Insightful

    US interference in the affairs of Vietnam, Iraq and other countries cost dearly to people of those countries.
    I'm sure most South Koreans are very resentful at being forcibly separated from the paradise to their North. As for the West Germans, take it from me that they really really really wanted to absorbed into the Soviet Union, and those wicked horrid Yanks wouldn't let them.
  4. Re:Darfur on Google Earth Highlights Darfur · · Score: 1

    I do not know if the Darfur region of Sudan has oil.
    With all those dead bodies, give it time and it will have. So look on the bright side, maybe one day someone will care.
  5. Re:How often does this happen? on LED Forty Years Older Than Thought · · Score: 4, Funny

    Looks like you invented the SED. Did you patent it?

  6. Re:interesting++ on Palm to go Linux · · Score: 1

    If I understand correctly, the drivers wouldn't help if the socket is a 'device' rather than 'host' type, and host-to-host doesn't work without a fancy cable. That's probably why AM wants two - one of each.

  7. Re:How did this planet form in the first place? on Water Found in Exoplanet's Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    it seemed to be that the proximity to the star produced tidal forces that were partly responsible for stripping the gases. We can deduce that (a) the orbit must be significantly elliptical
    IANAA but I don't see the link between eccentricity of orbit and tidal forces. Surely you'll get high tidal forces just be being close to a massive body, whatever the shape of the orbit?

    Is it normal for there to be a gas giant that close to a star? Is there something about Sol's "rocky balls close in/smaller rocky lumps/big gas balls further out/and what about Pluto?" arrangement that's special? I assume it's the different densities in the original disk that cause it - but if so why didn't that happen in HD 209458's case?

    It might form a nice ring system around the star, before the radiation blew it away.
    That would look awesome!
  8. Re:Only one answer on Taxes, Second Life and Warcraft · · Score: 1

    And commercial transactions are illegal not by the definition of going against governmental law
    Please try to use the same definition of "illegal" that everyone else uses. Where's the word "contract" on that page?

    Now if you mean illegal in the sense of the rules of the game itself (in the sense of "forward passes are illegal in Rugby") then that has absolutely no relevance in the real world outside the game, which is where the tax authorites were last time I looked.

    The crap about bank transfers and gifts is just handwaving so that's the last I'll say of it.
  9. Re:It's simple on Blizzard Seeks to Block User Rights, Privacy · · Score: 1

    I'd ask for a refund on that MBA if I were you.

  10. Re:It's simple on Blizzard Seeks to Block User Rights, Privacy · · Score: 1

    the government has no business protecting profits
    So if someone steals from my shop (this reduces my profits) - he can't be arrested?
  11. Re:Only one answer on Taxes, Second Life and Warcraft · · Score: 1

    Hmm nice way to mince words
    Huh? I don't think I do that. But then I do know what the phrase means.

    It's illegal in that if they catch you doing it, both parties lose their accounts
    Ah. So it's illegal in the "not in fact illegal" sense of the word.

    Al Capone was charged with tax evasion because he had mysterious amounts of unreported physical income, which just happened to be the result of his other crimes.
    You previously said it didn't make sense to tax illegal income. By that logic, no tax would be due - so there'd be nothing to evade.
  12. Re:Utah again. on Utah Bans Keyword Advertising · · Score: 1

    Mmmm... why not, if they paid more for that slot? As long as the results are unbiased, I don't see a problem that the ads aren't - nobody expects them to be.

  13. Re:Damn Straight! on Utah Bans Keyword Advertising · · Score: 1

    the intention is to stop pespi from using "coke, coca cola" and stuff like that in the keywords for the pepsi site so it does come up first when searching for Coca Cola
    I thought Google already had countermeasures against that kind of thing?
  14. Re:Only one answer on Taxes, Second Life and Warcraft · · Score: 1

    I don't see that as a problem at all - but then I did read the post you're replying to.

  15. Re:Only one answer on Taxes, Second Life and Warcraft · · Score: 2

    Furthermore, any commercial venture in WoW is against their EULA anyway
    Breaking an EULA is illegal? It might give them the right to plonk your account, but I doubt you can be fined, let alone jailed, for it.

    so it makes little sense to tax an illegal venture.
    Tell that to Al Capone.
  16. Re:Actually it is that old. on China's Earliest Modern Human Found · · Score: 1

    BTW, tell me. What school of divinity did Jesus graduate from again? How about Mohammed? Siddhartha Gautama?
    I'm sure they'd be perfect candidates for those that offer credit for work history & life experience. I'll forward some emails if you (or they) ask.
  17. Re:No, but it's bad on Woman's House Robbed After Fake Craigslist Post · · Score: 1

    Seconded. Somebody pays, whether it's the victim and other insured people through increased future premiums or the shareholders of the company through reduced profits. Even if he gets a tax writeoff, that means Uncle Sam pays.

  18. Re:Won't work on Web Scanning Technology for Copyright Violations · · Score: 1

    a little name obfuscation
    I h4v3 n0 1d34 wh4t u r ta7k1|\|6 ab0ut, but d0 u w4nt 2 c 8r1tn3yz pu55y?
  19. Re:This isn't as bad as it sounds. on Woman's House Robbed After Fake Craigslist Post · · Score: 2, Interesting

    from the link: "The sibling rivalry is one of the reasons Tacoma Police are not looking at this as a criminal case. They say it's a civil matter."

    IANAL but that's bullshit, isn't it? Since when has being related to the victim been a defense against a theft - or any other - charge?

  20. Re:Just look a bit further on Talking CCTV to Scold Offenders in UK · · Score: 1

    a Voice From Above telling them what to do.
    I think we're all used to that round here. We usually reply along the lines of "Yes mom, I did my homework. I'll take the trash out in a minute".
  21. huh? on Three University of Wisconsin Stem Cell Patents Rejected · · Score: 1

    The patents, which cover virtually all stem cell research in the country
    What? Are they claiming they invented the test tube or the petri dish?
  22. Re:Meow on China's Earliest Modern Human Found · · Score: 2, Funny

    Perhaps he's simultaneously aware and not aware of it?

  23. Re:Actually it is that old. on China's Earliest Modern Human Found · · Score: 2, Funny

    without faith God is nothing.
    Yeah, but the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, right?
  24. Re:Actually it is that old. on China's Earliest Modern Human Found · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Could God set a puzzle that was so difficult that even God couldn't solve it?

  25. GIYF, but.... on WTO Again Sides With Antigua Over Online Gambling · · Score: 1

    The alcohol you drink is ethanol.
    No, the alcohol you should drink is ethanol. Methanol is formed as a byproduct of the fermentation process and/or due to bacterial contamination. Having a lower boiling point, it comes off first. You don't want to drink that bit.