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  1. Re:Dual-Specs and new RAID? on World of Warcraft 3.1 Patch Brings Dual-Specs, New Raid · · Score: 1

    imagine a Beowolf cluster of those ....

  2. Story Explains on LEGO Brick 50th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    the google home page

  3. So what you're saying is ... on Solar System Date of Birth Determined · · Score: 1

    I am made of the dust of the stars And the oceans flow in my veins ...

  4. Lies, Damn Lies, on Microsoft Re-Brands PlaysForSure · · Score: 1

    Microsoft Branding ...

  5. Re:GUT from a surfer dude! on A New Theory of Everything? · · Score: 1

    I assume you meas that 35 micrograms " is enough to get a taste of what it's like" and that the 60's dose was 300 micrograms. I don't think you could get 300mg(milligrams) onto a blotter the size one might be sucking upon. seems like that would be the trip of the century.

  6. Re:TANSTAAFL on Heinlein Archives Put Online · · Score: 2, Funny

    Electronic commerce! Sigh, I am only an EGG

  7. I've read this somewhere before ... on Boeing Dreamliner Safety Concerns Are Specious · · Score: 1

    OK, I know someone out there is going to lable me a Randite (or some such) but this is exactly the kind of fud campaign that Hank Reardon faced when he introduced "Reardon metal" in the book "Atlas Shrugged" I mention this because the motivations of the FUD campaigners in that book were essentially - I don't own a piece of Reardons Pie, so I am going to fling poo and see what sticks. Maybe Rather is upset because his Alcoa stock price is likely to be negatively influenced by this plane - if it is a big hit.

  8. Re:No shit, sherlock on New Technologies Attack the One-World Problem · · Score: 1

    Turns out that TFA was suggesting a MMORPG borrow from NASDAQ or a similar massive system rather than suggest that NASDAQ could benefit - or had benefitted from MMORPG's tech. It's true however that there's not much graphical about Nasdaq unless you consider the literal graphs of the performance of various investment vehicles. ...

  9. Re:But does it have Bluetooth or not? on How the iPod Touch Works · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Bluetooth could instantly turn this into a great wifi phone or skype phone if you will. On Another front I want to know what processor it runs off of and what it's comparitive performance is with respest to desktop processors I have known ...

  10. Imagine on The Nanomechanical Computer · · Score: 1

    A beowolf cluster of these ... Someone had to say it!!

  11. According to the state department, on Google Maps Shows Chinese Nuclear Sub Prototype · · Score: 1

    What you are about to see never happened ....

  12. Re:I have disdain for you on Innovation's Role Is Sorely Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you have enough integrity to avoid brainwashing - or perhaps you have already succumbed to it. Perhaps you are using the royal "we". I am talking about the unwashed - or unsuspecting - masses who take the pill without critical thought - something you certainly don't lack. Perhaps you should try taking everything without caution for a while? As to parallelisms - you are making one between those who have studied (and understand and respect Rand) and Cultists, which invoked the image or some secret meetings complete with rituals - sounds more like the catholic church than a philosophy class. But seriously - Rand Characters are not so much Cartoons as they are archetypes or stereotypes, and they have usefulness because they provide a reference point for understanding - which you clearly understood! Thank you for acting as a straw man!!

  13. Elsworth Monkton Toohey on Innovation's Role Is Sorely Exaggerated · · Score: 2, Informative

    Couldn't have said it better. That is to say that Toohey might have said the same thing. Toohey is the Anti-Hero of the Ayn Rand novel 'The Fountainhead', and had such disdain for the common man that he would say such things to get people to decide to actually abandon the time saving or life improving devices they already had - since they had at some time used the thing that had been superceded. Like saying that because I had been to the mall sometime since I had first shopped at amazon.com that I must have decided that the mall was better than amazon, and as such I should abandon using Amazon forever. In My Humble Opinion Toohey would make such an argument just to make my life more difficult. The author of tfa seems remarkable similar. I suggest critical reading, and caution.

  14. Re:I want Smart to actually be Smart! on Smart Sunglasses · · Score: 1

    Mod up parent for the excellent Babylon 5 reference Although you could go to the electric blue color

  15. Will the real Walter Koenig please stand up on George Takei To Play Star Trek's Sulu Again · · Score: 1

    Having seen the fully grown up Walter Koenig play Bester on Babylon 5 He is forever washed clean of having ever been Chekov - Bester was such a great character.