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  1. Re:Or on Anti-Smoking Vaccine Is Nearing the Market · · Score: 1

    The problem with trying to quit is that everybody knows you are trying and is waiting for you to fail. In addition if you quit and then fall off the wagon even once they you have failed and of course everybody will know.

    What I did, after 15 yrs of pack and a half a day, was to stop gradually and not tell anyone I was doing it. I set time limits between cigarettes. I would not have one till after breakfast, then I would stretch it out to morning break time, then out to lunch. Eventually you get to after supper. Just keep stretching the time between them. And when the pack is empty then you just put off buying the next pack until you really really need one but it does not matter if you sip because you are not quiting you are just reducing.

    Now using this method it will take a bit of time, then one day you realize that it has been 20 years since your last cigarette.

  2. Magazine Subscription on Patent Issued For Podcasting · · Score: 1

    Why is this not prior art? It is episotic media. It is pushed to a user once they subscribe using the mail service and is wapped in a publication ( the channel).

  3. Re:You need more on Secret UK Plan To Appoint "Pirate Finder General" · · Score: 2, Informative

    Under the Act, a third party may spend a total of $150,000* on election advertising. It cannot spend more than $3,000* on advertising to promote or oppose the election of one or more candidates in a given electoral district – for example, by naming one or more candidates, showing their likenesses, identifying them by their respective political affiliations, or taking a position on an issue with which one or more candidates are particularly associated.

  4. Re:Not for long on Secret UK Plan To Appoint "Pirate Finder General" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually they wanted to restrict stuff even further. They wanted to get rid of the government campaign subsidy. You know the one that gives each party $7 per vote they got in the last election. Unfortunately the other parties did not like this because it would mean the they would have to rely on their supporters for money, so it got dropped. You would have thought that their supporters would have been quite willing to step up to the plate and donate.

  5. Re:You need more on Secret UK Plan To Appoint "Pirate Finder General" · · Score: 4, Informative

    You need a law like we have in Canada that says only individual citizens can contribute, up to a set maximum per year, to political campaigns. No companies, organizations, unions or groups of any kind are allowed to contribute anything. So companies cannot overtly buy politicians.

  6. Re:Oh no on NASA To Try Powering Mars Rover "Spirit" Out of Sand Trap · · Score: 1

    Pitty it is not in a "no stopping" zone. If it were the Maritians would tow it.

  7. Re:How Big to be a Threat? on Micro-Black Holes Make Poor Planet Killers · · Score: 1

    Let me get one and show you....oooppps....

  8. Financial Offer on Micro-Black Holes Make Poor Planet Killers · · Score: 3, Funny

    A week before they turn it on to produce the MBH and destroy the Earth I will buy anyones home for 5 cents on the dollar so they can spend their last week in a continuous state of Party.

  9. Re:Generate Electricity on Vermont City Almost Encased In a 1-Mile Dome · · Score: 1

    You let the warm air and polluted air out the top through turbines that generate electricity. One way valves at the base let fresh air in. This will work great in the summer as the air in the dome gets hotter more electricity is generated for air conditioning.

  10. Re:What next? Cameras? on Visually Impaired Gamer Sues Sony · · Score: 1

    Won't work unless they are stereo cameras because in normal cameras the pictures all come out exacty as you see the world. Flat.

    Which is a blessing if you are married becasue you can always cop out of the question, "Does the new ### make me look fat?"

  11. Re:So what's new? on Secret Copyright Treaty Leaks. It's Bad. Very Bad. · · Score: 3, Funny

    The only power the US president has is to destory the world. In everything else he is powerless.

  12. Wii Golf II on Is There a Future For Mature Games On Wii? · · Score: 1

    My wife and I are still waiting for a version of Wii Golf, simple fun gameplay, that alows you to play on any of the world famous courses.

  13. Re:It's all about timing and thrust vectors on 2 Companies Win NASA's Moon-Landing Prize Money · · Score: 1

    We used a light pen on the PDP-11/34.

  14. Leak the List. on 1,600 Names Suggested Daily For FBI's Watch List · · Score: 1

    I am still waiting for the list to be released into the wild. It would prove to be an interesting read. Much like the lists of 'evil' web sites.

  15. Re:Overpopulation on Plowing Carbon Into the Fields · · Score: 1

    Just stop selling beer.

  16. Re:How is Facebook going to distribute... on Facebook Awarded $711 Million In Anti-Spam Case · · Score: 2, Funny

    Become a pay site and give them all free accounts?

  17. Re:pencil/paper on How To Enter Equations Quickly In Class? · · Score: 1

    To quote my prof in assemble language application and design: (back in the day, 36 hrs per week classes and labs) "If you insist on more that 4 hours of sleep a night you have no hope of graduating."

  18. Re:pencil/paper on How To Enter Equations Quickly In Class? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Pencil/paper and transcription. That way the knowlage is refreshed after the lecture and you hve a better chance of correcting what you took down if it was initially taken down in error because the content is fresh in your mind.

  19. Re:Sure Russia may not be able to afford it on Russia Develops Spaceship With Nuclear Engine · · Score: 1

    What the US needs to do is to stop fighting the next election starting the day befor the last one is over. As it is the US 'government' is up for grabs every two years already. This gives absolutly no time for any type of long term planing.

  20. Re:Not a Wise Practice on Amazon Patents Changing Authors' Words · · Score: 1

    So someone distributing the altered work would not be in violation of your copyright because you have not copyrighted the altered work.

  21. Re:Test flight examination? on "Frickin' Fantastic" Launch of NASA's Ares I-X Rocket · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not if you listen to the NRA. They are perfectly safe to have and use around the home and children provided they are used correctly.

  22. Re:Test flight examination? on "Frickin' Fantastic" Launch of NASA's Ares I-X Rocket · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They can ban Lawn Darts because if used incorrectly can be very dangerous but they can't ban guns which also if used incorrectly can be very dangerous.

  23. Re:uhh...Russian technology on Trojan Kill Switches In Military Technology · · Score: 1

    "Components. American components, Russian Components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN! "
    Lev Andropov, Armageddon

  24. Move over Shark Cartalage on Discovery of "Cancer-Proof" Rodent Cells · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now that this has made the news I expect that 'Mole Rat Extract' will soon be apearing in spam as the next curall for cancer. Of coruse 'Big Pharma' will be keeping it secret but you can buy it from our site for only $699.00 per dose.

  25. Re:the Discovery channel on "2012" a Miscalculation; Actual Calendar Ends 2220 · · Score: 1

    When it first started it was like a breath of fresh air. Unfortunatly the Discovery Channel, like their forerunners the science & tech magazines over time aquired new masters who only wanted to increase viewers/readership which of course ment they had to be 'dumbed' down.