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  1. Re:But it gets the votes! on Major UK Child Porn Investigation Flawed · · Score: 1

    That does not go far enough - to stop child abuse, the solution is to stop children. No children = no abuse!

  2. Re:Just Like The M16 on U.S. Soldiers Hate New High-Tech Gear · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Boston was a major source of funds for the IRA, an organisation that went so far as to mortar the then Prime Minister of england Margaret Thatcher.

    The united states didn't care when britain came calling. Come 911, suddenly things tightened up.

    Does this mean that the united states implicitly declared war on england, only to renounce it after 911?

  3. Re:you're a paranoid schizophrenic on Washington Bans Chemicals; Industry Freaks · · Score: 1

    Remember bhopal? All the superfund sites? Yeah, I guess they learned their lesson well - distance yourself well enough, and you don't have to pay to clean up your messes.

  4. Re:Why? on Third Stargate TV Series Named · · Score: 2

    It's getting cancelled because it's gone on for 10 seasons and is getting stale. I have yet to see anyone complain about the morality of the show.

  5. Re:Why? on Third Stargate TV Series Named · · Score: 1

    The Ori are pretty much gods, and Richard Dean Andersen left the show because he wanted to spend more time with his family.

  6. Re:Microsoft's objective on Microsoft Temporarily Closes Video Site Soapbox · · Score: 1

    Based on the success of hacking the xBox 360, right?

  7. Re:data type is more important than medium on Most Digital Content Not Stable · · Score: 1

    And yet every laserdisc copy is the same, whereas to get a perfect representation of the original domesday book you .. oh, wait, you can't.

  8. Re:Some companies do not care on What Do You Do for New User Orientation? · · Score: 1

    "I charge $100 an hour, minimum one hour, billed in hourly increments, for all calls on weekends which are covered in the orientation paper I have just handed to you. This will be automatically billed from your pay. See you tomorrow!"

  9. Re:Gonzales is Right on US Attorney General Questions Habeas Corpus · · Score: 1

    Uhm, neither the constitution, or any god, or "humanity" provides for a right of procreation.

  10. Re:Perhaps now they will understand on British Cops Hack Into Government Computers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, how dare the police be allowed to investigate politicians for possible breaking of the law. what nerve these plod have!

  11. Re:shame on Details on Half-Life 2 - Orange and Black Editions · · Score: 1

    You can do what I did - find someone who has already downloaded the steam cache file for ep1, copy it to the correct folder on your machine, buy the game, watch steam allow you to play it.

  12. Re:'beta test' ? on Amazon Collapses Under Weight of 1,000 Xboxes · · Score: 1

    If they wanted to test their grid-of-who-knows-how-many-computers to find bottlenecks and issues before the holiday season, what better way to test it?

  13. Re:HIPAA may be the answer on Healthcare Giant Faces IT Nightmare · · Score: 1

    You have a caching server at the satellite hospital that caches 'live' patient records and other pertinent data.

    *end internet-armchair-quarterbacking*

  14. Re:No one knows how to do commercial software on Healthcare Giant Faces IT Nightmare · · Score: 1

    The problem is that some of these systems *are* broken. Damned when you do, and damned when you don't.

  15. Re:UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights on US Citizens To Require ''Clearance'' To Leave? · · Score: 1

    Since when has the united states cared about anything UN related if it doesn't cater exactly with their interests?

    Move along, nothing to see here.

  16. Re:Oh My. on Bush Signs Bill Enabling Martial Law · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying that the EU/other countries (including china) would try as much as they could to stop a US civil war, due to the tremendous damage it would do politically, economially and socially to the rest of the war. However, the previous poster I responded to was supposing a civil war, and I answered on those grounds.

  17. Re:Oh My. on Bush Signs Bill Enabling Martial Law · · Score: 1

    The whole "Raging civil war" means that delivering oil and gas would be an incredibly risky affair to start with. Delivering *anything* would be an incredibly risky affair.

  18. Re:Oh My. on Bush Signs Bill Enabling Martial Law · · Score: 1

    What exactly would the EU/UN be able to do to stop the US having a civil war? Long supply lines, fuzzy objectives, muddled identification of enemy vs friendlies, fighting people who have the most powerful and advanced military force in the world - uhm, i don't think so. Everyone else would just be hoping the nukes don't get launched.

  19. Re:A good first step on Google's Internal Company Goals · · Score: 1

    Woah. I never knew they had a photos section.

  20. Re:Lots of people still use W98... on Windows XP SP1 Support Ends Tuesday · · Score: 1

    It will not magically stop working, like windows 98 didn't magically stop working after support ended. There is no forced obsolesence here.

  21. Re:Makes sense on Windows XP SP1 Support Ends Tuesday · · Score: 1

    A single point increase of .1 (Windows 4.0 to Windows 4.1) being 3 years worth of bug fixes, enhancements and addons isn't worth charging for? 5 years in the case of nt 5.0 to 5.1? Just because they've only bumped it .1 doesn't mean the changes aren't worth a new version.

  22. Re:No surprise on Judge Refuses To Convict Hacker · · Score: 1

    But if he did want to comment on where ohio is, he'd probably use something we like to call here "a map" before he typed in his reply.

  23. Re:Thank God on The US Navy Says Goodbye to the Tomcat · · Score: 1

    Since when? It'll be FA18s only after the F111s finish, and then the F35 (or F22, can't remember which)

  24. Re:Does it still drag ass in performance? on OpenBSD 4.0 Pre-orders are Available · · Score: 1

    OpenBSD may very well drag ass in performance, but to cite something last updated in Nov 3 2003 with OBSD v3.4 is hilarious (and wrong)

  25. Re:Poor V-ger on Voyager 1 Passes 100 AU from the Sun · · Score: 1

    That's what random wormholes are for.