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  1. Re:Perhaps can start with Crawford, TX on US Plans To Bulldoze 50 Shrinking Cities · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I lived through the ineffectiveness of Carter and the criminal actions of Reagan and Nixon so I know they are out of the running. As for the others, the damage they caused was nothing compared to the damage this country has suffered and is suffering due to Bush.

  2. Re:Wouldn't say that on US Plans To Bulldoze 50 Shrinking Cities · · Score: 1

    So if I were to throw you off a cliff, your falling would not be my fault because you weren't able to flap your arms fast enough. Why don't you man up and face it. People like you are the cause of the problems and now it's up to the adults to fix your mess.

  3. Re:Perhaps can start with Crawford, TX on US Plans To Bulldoze 50 Shrinking Cities · · Score: 0, Troll

    You act as though any self respecting person needs any additional reasons to hate the worst president to ever be inflicted upon the country. But then, reality does not seem to be something people like you are acquainted with.

  4. Re:Just last night... on Ocean Currents Proposed As Cause of Magnetic Field · · Score: 1

    The show is called inside planet earth and was on the Discovery Chanel last night. They only spent about 3-4 minutes on the people experiment.

  5. Re:Dear Editor: on US Switch To DTV Countdown Begins · · Score: 1

    Try the indoor "coat hanger" antenna first. I made one and it's a lot better than any of the commercial ones I tried. I only wish I knew why none of the companies seem to make this style.

  6. Re:Our guns vs. theirs on How Do You Greet an Extraterrestrial? · · Score: 1

    If they have the energy needed to get to our solar system, they automatically have enough technology to destroy our planet with relative safety. Simply attach whatever ship engined they have to asteroids and pelt us out of existence from a few million miles away.

  7. Re:Have your cake and eat it? on Should Enterprise IT Give Back To Open Source? · · Score: 1

    Funny, my bur reports have been met not only with interest, but patches in the next build. It may have helped that I was able to track down the exact location in the code where the problems was and would have offered a fix if I had the appropriate compiler available. Most likely it was my attitude towards things that led to a good outcome.

  8. Re:Lotus 1-2-3? on Ten Applications That Changed Computing · · Score: 1

    There was a computer shop about 2 blocks from my high school. While I was in there looking at an Atari game, I saw a guy come in and said a friend told him about this Visicalc thing. About 5 minutes later, he was carrying a computer out the door.

  9. Re:Why aren't all video games in managed languages on Java Gets New Garbage Collector, But Only If You Buy Support · · Score: 1

    Anyone here old enough to remember the video game Beezer? That game had a programming bug where, if you were a fairly good player, you could cause the game to hang every time. I used to get free games every day until the arcade employees got together and figured out what was happening.

  10. Re:Forgive my ignorance WAS:re: Garbage collector? on Java Gets New Garbage Collector, But Only If You Buy Support · · Score: 1

    You know, I'm pretty sure I've had to fix some of your code.

  11. Re:Forgive my ignorance WAS:re: Garbage collector? on Java Gets New Garbage Collector, But Only If You Buy Support · · Score: 5, Informative

    While in theory, avoiding memory leaks is easy, in practice, it is rather difficult for anything but the most trivial programs. that's one of the reasons why garbage collection was created in the first place.

  12. Re:17000 tons of steel gone to waste on USNS Hoyt S. Vandenberg To Be Sunk For a Reef · · Score: 1

    Funny, two of my neighbors just moved to Alaska in order to find work, but that little bit of reality doesn't agree with your simple minded interpretation of the world as it would not allow you to blame the victims as people like you always do in order to avoid accepting responsibility for your own self serving actions.

  13. Re:time changes the name of things on USNS Hoyt S. Vandenberg To Be Sunk For a Reef · · Score: 1

    They also had to remove a rather large amount of asbestos on this ship. The decommissioning was rather extensive from what I've read.

  14. Re:Definitely irrelevant on Google Earth Raises Discrimination Issue In Japan · · Score: 1

    And here I was thinking the parent poster may have been exaggerating slightly, when Mr. anonymous was so kind as to basically show how correct he was. Thank you sir, for saving me the time needed to research things.

  15. Re:Simple solution on Verizon Tells Cops "Your Money Or Your Life" · · Score: 1

    How about the fact that phone companies are granted a license to operate by the government and if they do not cooperate, we can take that away from them and give it to some more ethical people. I know that the idea of doing something that might affect corporate profits is offensive to the fascist mentality, but that is hardly the reason to let them get away with it.

  16. Re:The roll of the dice on Right-to-Repair Law To Get DRM Out of Your Car · · Score: 2, Informative

    I take it you haven't driven cross-country before? It's rather easy to get in a situation like this.

  17. Re:Good. on Right-to-Repair Law To Get DRM Out of Your Car · · Score: 1

    For a lot of the simpler codes, you can buy an OBD code reader for not much money. I bought a really cheap one when my light kept coming on. Unfortunately, it told me that the problem was my knock sensor and not the gas cap being put on wrong, but it saves me from having to pay just to find out that nothing is wrong.

  18. Re:Military required? on Spy Satellite Photos Used To Fight Drug Smugglers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Easy, Guatemala and Belize are south of Mexico just waiting to be the new scapegoats.

  19. Re:Best not one system... LORAN, Fuller, Cold War on GPS Accuracy Could Start Dropping In 2010 · · Score: 1

    It's not hard to derive heading from GPS if you use two sensors in known positions of the vessel. Each one can tell where it is at on the earth, and since you know where you put them on the ship, you can derive the vessel's heading.

  20. Re:Best not one system... LORAN, Fuller, Cold War on GPS Accuracy Could Start Dropping In 2010 · · Score: 1

    There are more and more ships using GPS based heading sensors. They tend to be a lot larger and more expensive than your older style compasses, however.

  21. Re:Not a tax scam on Battle Lines Being Drawn As Obama Plans To Curb Tax Avoidance · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just to show that you aren't a total hypocrite, how about you ask the IRS to examine the last few years of your taxes. Remember, by your standards, any mistake that they find is in indication of your own own criminal intent.

  22. Re:Dear Bruce... on Let's Rename Swine Flu As "Colbert Flu" · · Score: 1

    Just because you have the right to be a bigoted simpleton, does not mean that we don't have the right to call you out on it.

  23. Re:The 'what' era? on The Sewing Machine War · · Score: 3, Funny

    Funny, we've always referred to it as the well justifies ass-whupin :-)

  24. Re:Not so bad... on New Food-Growth Product a Bit Hairy · · Score: 1

    That's funny considering around here most plants are fed chicken waste.

  25. Re:Cannot be killed by conventional weapons on Hawking Expecting To Make Full Recovery · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd say skilled is not a word usually used when referring to creationists. While they always try to use trickery and deceit, they are rarely skilled at it.