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  1. Re:Energy efficiency on Urging Congress to Cancel the Ethanol Tariff · · Score: 1

    Do you have references to this? I am very interested. I did not know that.

  2. Re:Energy efficiency on Urging Congress to Cancel the Ethanol Tariff · · Score: 1

    Sugar beets cano only be grown once every 4th or 5th season. Cane is the best solution. We need to put all those Carribean countries back to work producing cane. Just think Cuba could be the next UAE!

  3. Re:It's a little sad on Sims the New Dolls? · · Score: 1

    Damn Troll where are my mod points when I actually want to use one.

  4. Planned obsolesence... on Changes in HDD Sector Usage After 30 Years · · Score: 1
    From the article, "Backward compatibility with existing 512-byte products, both in hardware and in software, will be defined and accommodated during the phase over period."

    I hope that this backward compatibility remains for a very long time or archives that are stored on older drives will be lost eventually.

    I know that the expected life of data on magnetic drives is not all that long but it does not mean we do not try to recover ancient data. I still pull stuff from reel tape using dd from over 10 years ago. Migration is a solution but I am too lazy to do it.

  5. Re:Attitude hasn't changed much on 30th Anniversary of Gates' Letter to HCC · · Score: 1

    Seems to me that the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers were just as ruthless if not more so creating their railroad and oil empires. If it is his capitalism that we questioning then we have more than Windows and Gates to hate.

  6. Re:I hate this on Fear of Girls, a D&D Documentary · · Score: 1

    I think that most lay people would have found it boring and far too long to keep their attention. I barely had the attention span to watch the whole thing.

    Sure some was funny, some was uncomfortable (addressing issues here I guess), most was pretty boring.

  7. Re:To safeguard de company? on Another Round of HP Layoffs · · Score: 1
    While an interesting op-ed piece you link to, it does not support at all why medicine is higher priced in the US.

    It does explain why you cannot get some drugs as soon as some other countries. But all countries have that problem. One authorizes something yet the another country waits on the results. Happens in Canada too. Lots of drugs approved by the FDA are not available in Canuckland.

    BTW, why did congress pass that new medicaid for seniors. It give free drugs to seniors yet the govt has to pay the full sticker price on them. Uhhh, seems like they had some serious leverage and could have forced lower prices because they are bulk buying. They blew it cuz the the drug company lobbyists got their way by blowing the politicians.

    Anyway we are way off topic here.

  8. Re:To safeguard de company? on Another Round of HP Layoffs · · Score: 1
    "As for healthcare, why do so many Canadians drive to America, and pay, to have operations? "

    Waiting lists, yeah we know. At least even if they cannot afford it, they will still eventually get it.

    Why do so many American's buy their prescriptions from Canada? Socialized medicine reduces the price of medications. The govt pays a maximum for a prescription and if the drug company does not want to sell for that price they don't. Yet they still do because they still sell at a profit even at the artificially lower price.

  9. Re:One step further on Automated Pool System Saves Swimmer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you RTFA you would also have read that the water is too deep the glare makes it difficult to see the bottom. Couple that with a silent drowning and you can see why a life guard can miss this.

    Instead of losing the diving boards and shallowing the pool which takes lots of fun out of pools. They invested in the system. It seems to work well in my estimation.

  10. Re:Actually... on The End of the Bar Code · · Score: 1

    Carts are most non-metal now. They already nixed the faraday, forward thinking they are!

  11. Yeah, I can keep my work for stock sales now on Canada To Introduce Copyright Law Next Week · · Score: 1

    It has always been non-level playing field for us photographers when competing with most of the rest of the world, including the States. We did not own commissioned work that we shoot. After this passes I can use my editorial outtakes for stock sales and improve my earning potential.

  12. What about Gamefly on The DVD Rental Race Analyzed · · Score: 1

    Who owns them and how do they figure in this. That seems like a semi-lasting market with VGoD being further off than VoD.

  13. Drudges! on Turbine Expansions And Turnovers · · Score: 1

    I can be a drudge?!? Cool! Oh wait I let my AC1 account lapse and see no reason to let another MMORPG steal more of my real life. AC2? No thanks.

  14. Websense says OpenRAW is porn on Image Preservation Through Open Documentation · · Score: 3, Funny

    Access to this web page is restricted at this time.

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    http://www.openraw.org/comments/?id=47

  15. Lou Dobb's head is going to explode! on China PM Wants to Rule Global Tech With India · · Score: 1

    So much for my being able to read the manuals.

    All your base....