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  1. Relatives in Kalamazoo on Talk It Over With Captain Crunch · · Score: 1

    Do you have any relatives in Kalamazoo Michigan? Maybe we're related somehow.

    - Patrick Draper

  2. Re:What worries me on "Super-DMCA" Outlaws Ph.D. Thesis · · Score: 1

    Actually it is a complete shame that a person can't support that genocidal Nazi candidate. If you only have freedom to say "nice" things, then you don't really have freedom at all.

  3. Re:high energy ? on Tokyo University's "Microwave Rocket" · · Score: 1

    Concave surfaces. Convex mirrors won't focus

  4. Re:Rocket Equation on Tokyo University's "Microwave Rocket" · · Score: 1

    If you're vaporizing things, you have great flexibility in your choice of fuels. I wonder how vaporized Uranium would compare to heated air?

  5. Re:Misleading... on Mich. State Campus Cops Seize HDs With Riot Photos · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If I owned the pictures in question, and the warrant demanded that I turn over my entire hard drive, I'd see them in court.

    They can get a warrant for the specific photo evidence that they are looking for, and bring a blank CD for me to burn the photos on. They can't have a blank warrant to seize anything at all that exists on the computer.

  6. Re:3. Profit! on Fox Sues Over Reuse Of Public-Domain Documentary · · Score: 1

    Is it possible to release something to the public domain? From what I understood, copyright was not something that could be given up. One could grant everyone unlimited rights, without restriction, but that's not quite the same as public domain. Anyone know?

  7. Re:stop patronizing Africans on More Thoughts On How to Wire Senegal · · Score: 1

    Nine out of ten lions prefer Quake to a sharp stick in the eye.

  8. Re:Better Feature Comparison on Time Warner DVR box vs. TiVo? · · Score: 0

    That's not flamebait. That's informative, and some people will want to know about this.

    OK, Moderators, flamebait is when you call someone a name like a bitch or a moron. Flamebait is technically the attraction of those kinds of insults, but that would just make it a type of troll, which is hardly useful. So, we'll just ignore the word 'flamebait' and pretend it says 'flame'.

    This was not a flame, since nobody got called any names.

  9. Re:rotary engine? on Toroidal Engine Ready for Production · · Score: 1

    It's 0-60 time shows sports car performance. It's 50-50 weight balance is part of impeccable sports car handling. It's got that sports car look. It's just got that one thing to wreck it: a back seat. I agree - close enough. I want one.

  10. Oh fuck on OpenBSD 3.3 Song · · Score: 1, Funny

    Geeks definitely should not sing. There is a reason why Fox will never have a show called "Geek Idol".

  11. Re:Timing on Toroidal Engine Ready for Production · · Score: 1

    Timing belt failures are bad on regular engines too. There's little clearance between the valves that let in fuel and the tops of the pistons. When the belt breaks, the valves lose their syncronization and will be opening at the same time that the piston is going up. When the two meet, you've got a recipe for instant chunks of metal inside of your cylinders. The repair is very expensive, so you're better off replacing the engine if you can find a cheap used one.

  12. rotary engine? on Toroidal Engine Ready for Production · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The Mazda RX-8. It's a wankel, not the same as the engine in the article.

  13. Re:Supportless Linux on Lycoris Build 71 Beckons For Your Desktop · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Windows needs the same kind of tender loving care. One time my Dad was using his PC in safe mode for 6 months before he had someone take a look at it. If he was running Linux I could have fixed it remotely.

  14. Re: Respected on EverQuest - Not Just For Geeks? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I heard he has a vorpal couch.

  15. Re:obligatory Simpsons quote on Stupid Censorship, Stupid Security · · Score: 1

    That wasn't an attack, it was just pointing out the hypocracy. Isn't that what Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh says?

    I know all about conservatives, and I can distinguish Libertarians and Seventh Day Adventists quite easily. Just pointing out how ironic your complaint was, and the reasons why people get confused.

    When our education secretary gets on the horn and claims that what we need is a dose of Xtian values, combined with the poor performance of Libertarian candidates and marketing, can you blame people for not understanding?

  16. Re:obligatory Simpsons quote on Stupid Censorship, Stupid Security · · Score: 1

    What goes around, comes around. Liberals are sick and tired of the right painting us as the cause of every problem that our country faces. Just look at the success of Ann Coulter and the buffoons at Fox News. Their fans don't seem to realize that the Constitution especially the Bill of Rights are purely liberal.

    From where a lot of people stand, they look at GW Bush praying, GW Bush talking to Billy Graham, GW Bush praying some more, and they can't tell a difference between conservatives and Baptists who don't dance. Libertarians are such a small part of politics that they don't even show up on radar.

    And frankly, I'm so mad that liberal is a dirty word that I just laugh that some conservatives don't like being misrepresented by the opposition.

  17. Re:Been there. Done that. on Gas Goes Solid · · Score: 3, Funny

    Here I sit all broken hearted
    tried to shit and only farted.
    Then one day I took a chance,
    tried to fart and shit my pants.

  18. Re:I guess he didn't like the Matrix either... on A Skeptical Look At The Multiverse · · Score: 1

    I'd say that #3 is where he falls down. What he believes or does not believe has no bearing. He cannot show that he is or is not in a simulation.

  19. Pre-emptive strike on Stash Your Hard Drive In The Attic · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've got some porn. Actually, quite a lot of it. It's on my hard drive.

    Now the cops can threaten me with revealing my secret porn empire and I'll just yawn and say "old news, and nobody cares."

  20. Re:Volunteer... on FreeBSD Looking for People with Lots of RAM · · Score: 1

    Bologna

    I think this word does not mean what you think it means. The word 'bologna' (lower case) only refers to a smoked sausage made of mixed meats. The word 'Bologna' (upper case) refers to a town.

    The word 'baloney' has a slang meaning 'nonsense'.

  21. Re:I don't see this being a big change on It's Official: News Corp to Buy DirecTV · · Score: 1

    You obviously like to bash liberals without understanding anything about liberalism. Go back to your Ann Coulter column. There's no hope for you.

    Constitution: LIBERAL.
    Bill of Rights: LIBERAL.

    If you don't like liberals, then you must be against our democratic form of government. An alternative explanation is that you're just ignorant.

  22. Re:I don't see this being a big change on It's Official: News Corp to Buy DirecTV · · Score: 1

    If they only knew that the constitution and bill of rights are the perfect expression of liberalism.

  23. Re:I don't see this being a big change on It's Official: News Corp to Buy DirecTV · · Score: 1

    WTF? EOM

  24. Re:What does decimate mean? on It's Official: News Corp to Buy DirecTV · · Score: 1

    You seem to have a distorted view of the normal American conservative.

    You have a distorted view of the normal American liberal.

  25. Re:interesting on Unlocking Alzheimer's Mysteries · · Score: 3, Informative

    Except that it's wrong. New brain cells can form in adult brains.