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  1. Re:sliding scale traffic tickets on Accused Rogue Admin Terry Childs Makes His Case · · Score: 1

    How about a $71,400 speeding ticket in Finland? http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/public/wsj_finland.html

  2. Re:But all my internet content is porn on CRTC Mulls Canadian Content On the Internet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Right, because a few seconds of action interspersed with minutes of lull (Baseball, golf and Football), are much more exciting to watch? Gosh darn, a race to see who can turn left the fastest (NASCAR) is more exciting too right?

    *yawn*

  3. Re:Folks I don't want to hear say oops on Black Holes From the LHC Could Last For Minutes · · Score: 3, Funny

    When I had mine done I asked him how many he'd performed. He said several thousand. So I commented that he could probably do it with his eyes closed. He offered to try...I declined.

  4. Re:In other news on The Mouse Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    20 year-old...I hear they are 'plug-n-play'.

  5. Re:So Give 'em What They Expect on Indiana Bans Driver's License Smiles, For Security · · Score: 1

    No kidding. I'm 32 and was carded no less than 5 times this year. I just laugh and show them my license. The rule of thumb in Ontario (legal age 19) is that if the customer looks younger than 25 to ask for id. So, I guess I look younger than 25.

  6. Re:Yep on 18% of Consumers Can't Tell HD From SD · · Score: 1

    3D is coming to your home TV set. Maybe not for years yet but it's starting. SMPTE is working on the standards for it now. BTW, say good-bye to half your frame-rate or half your resolution to get it.

  7. Re:Many variables on 18% of Consumers Can't Tell HD From SD · · Score: 1

    The response time of the LCDs is one big difference - they don't deal with fast motion well. (A stationary shot of a sportsground is OK, but as soon as they pan the grass goes all blurry.)

    The grass going blurry with motion is the compression. I've seen it on CRTs too. Part of the confusion also comes with the two different types of digital TV. When you say digital do you mean digital OTA as in ATSC? That signal is compressed but nowhere near as much as the "other" digital TV, digital cable and satellite. Those are compressed really badly.

  8. Re:er... on How Do I Get Open Source Programs Written For Me? · · Score: 1

    Wow, the same law is referenced in two posts and they say the opposite thing regarding the law. One is mod'ed Informative and one is mod'ed Insightful.

    I can see the future and it involves a cage match.

    *ding,ding*

  9. Re:Define "Winning" on Discuss the US Presidential Election & the War · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sure the soldiers will still be paid. But I believe most soldiers get MORE money when they are there. Also, you're not paying for the bullets, bombs, gas, infrastructure and many other things like transportation costs of getting soldiers and equipment to and from the battlefield. Oh and don't forget the mercenaries. I'll bet they cost a pretty penny.

    You also can't forget the costs associated with the deaths of thousands of soldiers. That is not free.

  10. Re:More Cases Than Just This on WV Voters Say Machines Are Switching Votes · · Score: 1

    $290K? PFFTT!!!

    The National Gallery of Canada pissed $1.8M on the ~17ft Voice of Fire.

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

  11. Re:Urgent message to mods re: Satan's rectum on World Bank Under Cybersiege In "Unprecedented Crisis" · · Score: 1

    I am Satan's rectum you insensitive clod!

  12. Re:That's ok on IOC Trademarks Part of Canadian National Anthem · · Score: 1

    Bit it is still our second anthem.

  13. Re:Where is it? on Russian Town Puts Giant Smiley On Google Maps · · Score: 1

    Now that would be funny.

    Somebody needs to make a huge magic-eye and let Google take a pic for the satellite. I wonder if it would still work.

  14. Re:Example... on Spolsky's Software Q-and-A Site · · Score: 1

    I'm surrounded by "morans."

  15. Re:Learning from the meat packing industry on Nvidia 55nm Parts Are Bad Too · · Score: 1
  16. Re:The bubble is back! on Cuil Proves the Bubble Is Back · · Score: 2, Funny

    Possible solutions:
    -Push the beds together tonight.
    -Stop playing games until the wee hours of the morning. Try going to bed at the same time as your wife.
    -Stop watching porn until the wee hours of the morning. Again, try going to bed at the same time as your wife.

  17. Re:This only punishes the foolish on Gmail Reveals the Names of All Users · · Score: 1

    That is a nice feature except half the sites treat the '+' as an invalid character in an e-mail address and reject the address during sign-up.

  18. Re:Full sized images, please on How Facebook Stores Billions of Photos · · Score: 1

    It's a Social Networking site, not a photo management site. If you want a full res copy of the photo just ask you friend for one.

  19. Re:Good ridance on Jack Thompson Walks Out On Hearing · · Score: 1

    While I agree in general with your post, I find it hard to believe that the "tensions present in the larger society" of today are pimping, dope, bitches and/or ho's and being a gang banger.

    But then again, I'm over 30, the peak of my hats are bent and point forward so I may have no authority to say what the tensions are today.

  20. Re:Get 'em Tiger! on Wii Homebrew Takes Several Leaps Forward · · Score: 1

    colors are more vibrant
    The colour space in SD is identical to the colour space of HD. You're just noticing improved viewing and/or transmission technologies.
  21. Re:simple - rip off on 100-MPG Air-Powered Car Headed To US Next Year · · Score: 1

    I hear that all you have to do is tap your foot and wave your hand under a bathroom stall to get a politician to blow.

  22. Re:Firewall Schmirewall on The Setup Behind Microsoft.com · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes I am confusing them. I'm not really a Linux/Unix guy. I'm just pretending.

  23. Re:Firewall Schmirewall on The Setup Behind Microsoft.com · · Score: 2, Funny

    They do. They write their data to /dev/null, then read it back and put it into an RLE compression scheme. Unfortunately the counter for the RLE keeps rolling over.

  24. Re:Notification of neighbors on Online Sex Offender Database Leads To Murder? · · Score: 1

    And it makes it possible for a whack job like this guy to find out that information without alerting police. No leads, then, when he kills the guy.
    I think it's safe to say that the IP's are logged and will be searched and used to create a suspect list if someone in the DB is killed.
  25. Re:Oh well. on Iran Builds Supercomputer From Banned AMD Parts · · Score: 1

    Nothing

    But they're not allowed to sign up for the store's loyalty program and their warranty is not valid.