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  1. Re:Why not preserve it? on NASA Plans To De-Orbit ISS In 2016 · · Score: 1

    There are basicly two forces acting on ISS and everyting else in orbit right now. Gravity and inertia. The inertia wants to send the body in a straight line. Gravity does too it is just a different straigt line. Left alone sooner or later the ISS will loose inertia and gravity will win. But what I should have said was the rockets and fuel de-orbit it are cheaper than the many rockets and many loads of fuel to keep it up their forever.

  2. Re:Why not preserve it? on NASA Plans To De-Orbit ISS In 2016 · · Score: 1

    Gravity is cheap. Rocket engines, the fuel for them, getting both of those up to space isn't.

  3. Re:A question... on Judge Rules IP Addresses Not "Personally Identifiable" · · Score: 1

    It could be referenced then the the RIAA would just then then make some move to find out everyone that had access to the IP address in question and go after all of them.

  4. Re:Hopefully it will cut down on affiliate-link sp on Rhode Island Affiliates Banned From Amazon.com Sales · · Score: 1

    Amazon decides just like any other business by having a presence in that state. Company decide to base in a given state for many different reasons.

  5. Re:Hopefully it will cut down on affiliate-link sp on Rhode Island Affiliates Banned From Amazon.com Sales · · Score: 4, Informative

    Your entire post is just wrong. First, Amazon dosn't pay sales tax on items you buy from them in thier home state unless it is a state where they have a nexus. Second, if your home state has a Sales Tax it most likly has a Use Tax and you are supposed to pay that tax on items you buy from out of state that haven't had sales tax paid on them in the other state and sometimes even if it has. This has NOTHING to do with the Commerce clause of the US Constitution.

  6. Oh you guys... on Protesting China's Required Censorship Software · · Score: 1

    You guys that think China gives a hairy rat's ass what you or anyone else thinks about thier censorship policies are just so damn cute.

  7. Re:Shoot them on For Airplane Safety, Trying To Keep Birds From Planes · · Score: 1

    Many pilots would vote FAA.

  8. Re:You know what that means... on Baby Monitors Killing Urban Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Sorry if you took it as being an ass. Here's some pointers from the Mayo Clinic.

    http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/baby-sleep/fl00118

  9. Re:You know what that means... on Baby Monitors Killing Urban Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Isn't there a law that if you correct someones writing you are sure to make an equal or larger mistake?

  10. Re:You know what that means... on Baby Monitors Killing Urban Wi-Fi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As the father of an 18 YEAR OLD who was at one time a 9 month old I hate to be the one to tell you but you have been trained. He won't stop working himself into those huge fits until you stop running into the nursery every time he wakes up.

  11. Re:Who cares? on Is a $72.5m Opening Weekend Enough For Star Trek? · · Score: 1

    Well, actually it did. It made $106,000,00 world wide.

  12. NOAA on Do We Really Need a National Climate Service? · · Score: 1

    Don't we alredy have one. If they want to give it more authority they can write the legislation.
    Why create yet another agency? We all know how well DHS has worked out.

  13. Re:Why text messages instead of email? on Why Text Messages Are Limited To 160 Characters · · Score: 1

    Not on the average cell phone it isn't.

  14. Re:Cue the Second Life expert (but not a lawyer) on Can Avatars Make Contracts? · · Score: 1

    Apparently they have cybersex and need to enhance it.

  15. Re:Watch out for chinese stem cells on "Miraculous" Stem Cell Progress Reported In China · · Score: 1

    And a lot of unwilling people to test on.

  16. Re:Actually, there is an iTunes for movies on Why There's No iTunes For Movies · · Score: 1

    Not running on Linux is a business decision. Hey, It doesn't run on an an Atari64 or under Apple OS either. There was a time when it didn't run on Windows. WHile it not running on your system is certainly areason for you not to use it it doesn't mean there is anything wrong with the program.

  17. Re:Damn on Louisiana Rep. Preps State Bill Banning Human-Animal Hybrids · · Score: 1

    "...values of our society." Try 10s of 1000s of years of evolution.

  18. The Kindle works without Amazon. on Lose Your Amazon Account and Your Kindle Dies · · Score: 0, Troll

    Let's see the guy orders e-books and keeps them long enough to strip the protection off of them and then requests a refund. I think I would have canceled the account too. Add to this the fact that every e-book I've seen on Amazon allows a free trial. Where you get some amount of the book.

  19. Re:Would be Great PR. on NASA In Colbert Conundrum Over Space Station · · Score: 1

    Right, people who enjoy political satire are never interested in real politics. Idiot.

  20. Re:A secret ballot cannot be done from your PC on CIA Expert Decries E-Voting Security · · Score: 1

    Probably, yes.

  21. Re:Truth is a defense against libel [Re:Meh] on Libel Suits OK Even If Libel Is Truthful · · Score: 1

    "truth is an absolute defense against a charge of libel"

    Are you 100% sure that was the ever the law in Massachusetts?

  22. Re:hubble mistakes? on The Herschel Telescope Close To Blast Off · · Score: 1

    The problem is if you repeat our mistakes in this case you don't have a shuttle to go up and fix them.

  23. Re:Mobile phones on South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals · · Score: 1

    I find it hard to imagine a /.er that is familier with any generation of any age female.

  24. Can we blame Al Gore? on The Internet Is 'Built Wrong' · · Score: 1

    He did invent it after all.

  25. Re:And they get away with it... on University Tries "One iPhone Per Student" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There is no evidence that an increase federal tax dollars improves education. All you have to do is look at a list of the schools that have the highest per student federal spending and you will, in most cases, be looking at a list of the worst schools in the counrty.