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  1. Re:oxygen-free sharpie on James Randi Posts $1M Award On Speaker Cables · · Score: 1

    it is bit different about guitar cables.
    here is a good read about them.

  2. Re:Technical review... on Self-Tuning Electric Guitar · · Score: 1

    vibrato bridge is correct, whammy bar is only the arm of the bridge.
    anyway, there are better vibrato bridges than floyd rose. wilkinson for example. coupled with locking tuners, a blackbox and a rolling or graphtech nut it stays in tune even better than floyd rose, doesn't need hours to get in tune for the first time and is much lighter.

    anyway, even a vintage strat vibrato can be used properly if you know, how.

  3. Re:Electronic tuner? on Self-Tuning Electric Guitar · · Score: 1

    it is not very exact. even a strobe pick is a better tuner.

  4. Re:My Take on Best Platform For Hobbyist Mobile Development? · · Score: 1

    i do understand you. net compact sucks, sadly it is still one of the better mobile apis.
    there is hope, though - you can already make simple windows ce apps with lazarus.

  5. Re:Bats on Bird's-Eye View May Include Magnetic Fields · · Score: 1

    yeah, and if the magnetron is strong enough you can have a tasty roasted goose afterwards.

  6. Re:Ah, the logic of self-delusion. on Powerful Blast Confuses Astronomers · · Score: 1

    atheists, not athiests, first.
    second, stalin never managed to kill 30 millions, that was just a cold war propaganda.
    third, hitler was a catholic.

  7. Re:The name doesn't need to be obvious on Intel Chief Evangelist Comments on Linux Scheduler · · Score: 1

    yeah, and 'cat' is easy to remember because everybody know that cats tend to show their content (aka vomit) often.

    anyway, it is not windows 'dir' but dos 'dir' and there were no folders in dos, only directories.

  8. Re:I didn't even realize that law had passed on Canadian Copyright Official Dumped Over MPAA Conflict · · Score: 1

    watch ukraine to see what revolutions usually do.

  9. Re:what about copying comments? on Germany Says Copying of DVDs, CDs Is Verboten · · Score: 1

    not all dvds are encrypted.

  10. Re:Wow on Heinlein Archives Put Online · · Score: 1

    interesting. i didn't know that.
    makes sense, though.

  11. Re:Umm??? I thought Heinlein... on Heinlein Archives Put Online · · Score: 1

    i have read a lot of sf in my 27 years of life.
    it ranged from aleksei tolstoy to stephen baxter.

    still, heinlein is one of the authors whose books i have absolutely hated, alongside with e.e. smith and edgar burroughs.

  12. Re:what would happen to on U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read · · Score: 1

    actually, das kapital is a quite good book on economics - it had helped me a lot at business administration courses.

  13. Re:I looked up where the Japanese smiley came from on The Smiley Face Turns 25 :-) · · Score: 1
  14. Re:The regularity of anti-German FUD on German Police Arrest Admin of Tor Anonymity Server · · Score: 1

    that's okay, nobody likes the bavarians ;-)

  15. Re:And the SR-71 could do what? on Russia Tests World's Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 1

    you are wrong in a lot of points.

    first, mig-25 is quite an engineering achievment because it is made of steel, not titanium and can achieve mach 3+ with armament and without special fuel.
    second, sr-71 does not predate mig-25 by a decade. both airplanes came out the same year.
    third, mig-25 can go really fast without damaging the engines because it is capable of supercruising at mach 2+.

  16. Re:INVADE! on Russia Tests World's Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 1

    i would rather say that rodina means birthland, no more no less.

  17. Re:Stallman the visionary.... on Richard Stallman Proclaims Don't Follow Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    like vf-1 valkyrie?
    macross is 25 years old after all.

  18. Re:Is accepting every new random idea a good thing on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 1

    it is not about new ideas generally, it is about critical thinking. that's why "liberals were 4.9 times as likely as conservatives to show activity in the brain circuits that deal with conflicts".

  19. Re:Could age be a factor? on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 0, Troll

    yeah and the tram also goes in a more structured manner.
    i am 27. old enough to value experience, still young enough to learn new things. cannot write the latter about you, though.
    one cannot teach an old dog new tricks, eh?

  20. Re:Could age be a factor? on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 1
    again, RTFA.

    Or, it could mean that liberals are incapable of learning from previous experience.


    sorry, wrong.
    according to the article liberals were 4.9 times as likely as conservatives to show activity in the brain circuits that deal with conflicts. so liberals can learn from previous experiences but instead of brainlessly repeating the same routine over and over they compare their experiences with the present reality.

    conservatives though cannot learn from previous experience - they choose to ignore the facts.
  21. Re:Could age be a factor? on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 2, Informative
    RTFA

    Analyzing the data, Sulloway said liberals were 4.9 times as likely as conservatives to show activity in the brain circuits that deal with conflicts, and 2.2 times as likely to score in the top half of the distribution for accuracy.


    this means that liberals actually think about what they do and are more accurate because of it.

    M appeared four times more frequently than W, conditioning participants to press a key in knee-jerk fashion whenever they saw a letter. [..] Liberals had more brain activity and made fewer mistakes than conservatives when they saw a W, researchers said.


    and this means that conservatives have difficulties to gasp changes and understand new ideas (nothing new here).
  22. Re:Could age be a factor? on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 5, Insightful

    actually, according to tfa liberals are better thinkers.
    imho old persons become conservative just because of decline of cognitive functions due to old age.

  23. Re:80's college nostalgia on Free Pascal 2.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 1

    used to be. delphi object pascal is called delphi language nowadays.

  24. Re:It's Time For A Global Revolution on Mandatory Keyloggers in Mumbai's Cyber Cafes · · Score: 1

    yeah and how was it made possible?
    right, after a civil war.

    it just reinforces my point.

  25. Re:It's Time For A Global Revolution on Mandatory Keyloggers in Mumbai's Cyber Cafes · · Score: 1

    exactly how many democracies were there in the year 1847?
    exactly. and there are only two ways to end a monarchy:

    1) forcible overthrow
    2) resignation of the monarch

    since the second option is very unlikely...