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  1. Re:Support on StarOffice Dropped From Google Pack · · Score: 1

    Do you mind if I use quote you in my sig? This is a great line.

  2. Re:Two words on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    Blacks not voting for Palin/McCain is like blacks not voting for David Duke. Tell that to Walter Williams, Alan Keyes, Thomas Sowell et al. I'm sure they'd rather you didn't speak for all black people. That's what Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton tried to do, and where did it get them?

  3. Re:The real question... on 1/3 of Amphibians Dying Out · · Score: 1

    But they taste good not because they are crunchy, but because "We use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest-quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose." Unfortunately, the Ram's Bladder Cup (which is "fresh Cornish Ram's bladder, emptied, steamed, whipped into a fondue with sesame seeds and then garnished with lark's vomit"), Cockroach Cluster, and Anthrax Ripple are not nearly as popular.

  4. Re:Kuiper Airborne Observatory on Boeing 747 Modified To Act As Infrared Telescope · · Score: 1

    That's what SHE said.

  5. Re:One of the better ideas to fix health care... on Discuss the US Presidential Election & Health Care · · Score: 1

    Sorry, silly me, I forgot to mention that "here" means "here in the US".

  6. Re:One of the better ideas to fix health care... on Discuss the US Presidential Election & Health Care · · Score: 1

    Really?
    I know of a little girl here whose parents let us know she went to the doctor last Monday with a persistent low-grade fever and a rash, and was diagnosed and getting treated for leukemia (chemotherapy) only two days later.
    More anecdotal evidence, I know, but I suspect that things don't move as quickly in socialized health care environments.
      Am I wrong? (I'm willing to hear that I am, as I don't have any direct experience with such systems)

  7. Re:Steve's plans for world domination? on Apple Plans To Make Chips For Handhelds · · Score: 1

    PgUp and PgDn: upper right corner of my ThinkPad T43 keyboard.

  8. Re:More like... on How To Make Money With Free Software · · Score: 1

    Sounds like something Steven Wright would say. Or Emo Phillips.

  9. Re:They must be trying to change the game... on Rock Band Licenses The Beatles · · Score: 1

    I'd definitely get French Horn Hero - Woodwind Quintet (or Brass Quintet) Version if they came out with either of them.

  10. Re:Listen instead on Streaming Election Night Broadcast TV? · · Score: 1

    Yes. You should get a better radio.

  11. Re:Bad way to search for kiddie porn on US District Court Says Calculating a Hash Value = Search · · Score: 1

    A "fuzzy hash"? Seems like an oxymoron. Maybe I don't understand.

  12. Re:Now we just need a good hull... on Plasma Rocket Successful Full Power Test · · Score: 1

    I'm sure a field of statice would be very pretty, but not much good as a spacecraft hull.

  13. Re:Guess what the #2 best-selling beer is in Irela on Researchers Developing Cancer-Fighting Beer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What's enjoyable to you is not enjoyable to everyone. Some people actually don't like heavy beer.
      If it has to be like syrup for you to consider it as having any taste, maybe the problem is your tastebuds.

  14. Re:RAID doesn't protect against your worst enemy on Why RAID 5 Stops Working In 2009 · · Score: 1

    But that was from God via Solomon, not via Moses.

  15. Re:Hmmmm .... on X-Rays Emitted From Ordinary Scotch Tape · · Score: 5, Informative

    The article suggests Bremsstrahlung (note the 3rd paragraph of the linked article) of the electrons jumping from the non-sticky surface to the sticky surface of the tape - I guess the air present in a non-vacuum situation lets the electrons slow gradually or maybe have lower initial velocity - that part is unclear from the article.

  16. Re:wheresgeorge.com on Web Singletons? · · Score: 1
    I understood it to be OK to write or stamp "wheresgeorge.com" on a bill. I even made a stamp for that purpose 5 years ago when I got into wheresgeorge.com.

    But how is smashing a penny into a thinner oval with a completely different image not making it unusable as currency (and therefore directly contradicting what you said one sentence earlier)?

    The first year I entered bills into wheresgeorge.com I got about a 10% hit rate. Subsequent years it went to zero, and I assumed interest in it had died off. I entered one bill in 2006 and none since. I see that the site still exists (and my account and data is still available).

  17. wheresgeorge.com on Web Singletons? · · Score: 4, Informative
    was/is probably a "singleton".

    I lost interest when it seemed like very few of the bills I entered were later tracked.

  18. Re:I'm Sorry, but . . . on Web Singletons? · · Score: 4, Funny
    Well yeah, because even if you win, you lose.

    Usually, I'd rather be right than happy.

  19. Re:Well, duh, the internet = n Libraries of Congre on Internet Use Can Be Good For the Brain · · Score: 1

    In terms of size, yes. In terms of making one smarter, no.

  20. Re:Well, duh, the internet = n Libraries of Congre on Internet Use Can Be Good For the Brain · · Score: 1

    For n = 0..1

  21. Re:Is this possible? on Google Demands Higher Chip Temps From Intel · · Score: 1

    Most chemical reactions and cooking are faster at higher temperatures, so GP was right as long you allow that ramen needs "cooking" (arguable, I admit).

  22. Less than 1.0 on Do Software Versions Really Matter? · · Score: 1
    version numbered software can be very good.

    e.g. Inkscape, which is currently 0.46! (stable version).

    It's pretty arbitrary when to go to 1.0, 2.0, etc., I would say.

  23. Re:Turn down the volume on Study Links Personal Music Players To Hearing Loss · · Score: 1

    Hangs head in shame...

  24. Re:Turn down the volume on Study Links Personal Music Players To Hearing Loss · · Score: 1

    Nice try, but usually the high frequencies are the first to go.

  25. Re:Fuel economy on Fuel Efficiency and Slow Driving? · · Score: 1

    It only makes sense if you are in a hurry, and no one else is already at the light (coming from your direction), and it is not a timed light, since the light won't change to green for you until you get to it .