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  1. What happened to all the dangerous pollutants? on US Opposes G8 Climate Proposals · · Score: 1

    Is anyone else annoyed that the focus is only on CO2, a gas given off by animals and people, and inhaled by plant life?

    What happened to the concern about dangerous chemicals like nuclear waste, acid rain, nitrates and phosphates, cyanide, CO, PCB's, heavy metals, super fund sites, etc? Can we stop worrying about these? Are the water and food safe? Is the air safe to breathe?

    I was visiting the UK and saw an ad in a local paper that showed a black mother and her 2 kids walking in a river. It said "Be a love and switch your computers off at the end of the day." In other words, people in Africa are suffering because you left your computer on. Well, at least Windows users that have to reboot or shutdown can help; sorry, I use Linux:) The English can help with their flat beer. Hey, why don't we ban Coke and Pepsi, or tax them out of existence? The ingested CO2 will not be absorbed by the body; it will leave the body at some point. I asked a pro global warming friend if he would give up soda and said no, he is addicted.

    Already in the UK and EU you have people driving motorscooters because price of fuel is already high due to high taxation. These have smelly emissions, and I have to wear earplugs to sleep in some places.

    In the past, CNG and propane have always been promoted as being cleaner than gas/petrol or diesel because the byproducts are CO2 and water. Now, governments are seeking to develop a way to tax people/smaller governments/companies even if they were to use a cleaner fuel. This is about government control and taxation, not saving the environment.

    The Europeans are upset that if they increase taxes on their companies and people and the US does not, then there will not be tax harmonization (a level playing field), and prosperity will find a tax home with a lower rate.

  2. Re:No one seems to have noticed..... on Montana Says No to Real ID, Passes Law to Deny It · · Score: 1

    This is actually a benefit, and many people will move to Montana to take advantage of it.

  3. awesome on Open Source Federal Income Tax Software · · Score: 1

    Maybe it can be extended so that you can rewrite the jurat above the signature to make a reservation of rights. Why are you agreeing to penalties of perjury and not penalty? Did you do it more than once? Were you located on Federal Territory when you signed it? No? Change it to reflect the same.

  4. So how do... on Scientists Say Nerves Use Sound, Not Electricity · · Score: 1

    deaf people walk?

  5. CA customs and border protection on California Proposes to Ban Incandescent Lightbulbs · · Score: 1

    Do you have any fruits, vegetables, or incandescent light bulbs to declare?

  6. Go short! on The Anatomy of Pump n' Dump Stock Spamming · · Score: 1

    Since they are guaranteed to crash at some point:

    1) Get stock spam
    2) Sell a few thousand shares
    3) Watch the price carefully.
    4) Profit!

  7. separate or attached on Labels Not Tags, Says Google · · Score: 1

    Labels attach to an object using adhesive.

    Tags usually attach with a plastic thread, and can dangle indepently of the object.

  8. My machine was better than 2600 on A History of Game Consoles, As Seen on TV · · Score: 1

    In 1977 I had a Sears Roebuck Telegames, which was a 2600 with the Sears branding. Bow before me, lesser geeks.

    Before that I had a Unisonic pong/skeet shooting game that had a gun for the shooting.

  9. Bill of Rights does not grant rights on Second Amendment Questioned · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The Bill of Rights does not grant rights to individuals. It spells out what government cannot do. The individuals had these rights prior to the creation of government.

  10. nullity=end computation? on Professor Comes Up With a Way to Divide by Zero · · Score: 1

    so nullity means goto end, stop computing?

  11. Grow Chicken Wing Without the Chicken-PROFIT! on Scientists Regrow Chicken Wing · · Score: 0

    Grow Chicken Wing Without the Chicken->PROFIT!

  12. Mozilla Browser didn't crash on Firefox 2.0 Posted a Day Early · · Score: 1

    I am using Mozilla Debian Package 1.7.12-1.2. No problem!

  13. Lasers on Lego Mindstorms + Lasers · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Avoid looking at laser with remaining eye.

  14. How about Shmoo? on Top Ten Geek Wallets · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmoo
    http://www.lil-abner.com/shmoo.html

    According to Shmoo legend, the lovable creature laid eggs, gave milk and died of sheer esctasy when looked at with hunger. The Shmoo loved to be eaten and tasted like any food desired. Anything that delighted people delighted a Shmoo. Fry a Shmoo and it came out chicken. Broil it and it came out steak. Shmoo eyes made terrific suspender buttons.

  15. Re:Nerds arguing on Firefox To Be Renamed In Debian · · Score: 1

    Arguing on the Internet is like winning the special olympics, a piss poor way to pick up chicks and you still are a retard.

  16. Let's give them data to retain on Gonzales Wants ISP Data Retention To Curb Child Porn · · Score: 1

    What if EVERY email you sent had a clean, non-copyrighted 2-3MB video or audio attachment attached? You know, some crap like the home movie of the little kid hitting his father in the groin with a mini-baseball bat? ISP's would start complaining about all the crap they have to retain, and the government, if they were to harvest the data would get a high noise to signal ratio.

  17. Segway? on Robot Balances on a Single Spherical Wheel · · Score: 1

    How about making a Segway type vehicle with a single ball. This would be awesome for cornering, as it could bank like the Carver 3 wheeler http://www.carver-europe.com/

    I almost fell off a Segway during my first few hours of riding during some high speed cornering.

  18. Zango doesn't work on my machine on Zango Caught in Lies About MySpace? · · Score: 1

    I tried to play a video on my laptop with linux, and Mozilla gave a popup that said:

              Please use Internet Explorer 5+ or Firefox on Windows to access this content.

  19. What is the point? on MS Four Points of Interoperability and Adobe · · Score: 1

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ creates a PDF pseudo printer for WinXp. With this, you can use Word, Excel, or any other program that can print, and create PDF docs.

  20. Wouldn't it be revolutionary if on Microsoft Demands Removal Of Longhorn Images · · Score: 1

    Longhorn's GUI is unremarkable, but issues of security and crashing have been addressed?

    Screenshots do not demonstrate coding competence. The competence of the code is what is important. We'll see...

  21. Sign of genius? on Branden Robinson Lays Down the Law at Debian · · Score: 1

    Interpersonal skills are sometimes inversely proportional to genius.

  22. Cell Phone/GSM/Mobile blocking device on IBM to Help UAE Track Drivers on the Road · · Score: 1

    Run a GSM blocker in your car and keep annoying and distracting phone calls away as well as preventing tickets!

  23. Konqueror, Epiphany, Lynx fail it too on Firefox and Opera Fail the Acid2 Test · · Score: 1

    Lynx gives this:

    ERROR

    ERROR
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    *
    *
    *

    Has anyone tested Links?

  24. Did anyone RTFA? on The Wasp Micro Air Vehicle · · Score: 1

    Most of the comments were people arguing the merits of the metric system vs. English units, with a lot of nation bashing thrown in. ROFL! The article is hosted on an Australian site, and one commenter facetiously and humorously said something to the effect of "Everything I know about Australia I learned from Mad Max."

    More on point, this kind of plane would be great fun for the hobbyist. I want one!

  25. Rubik's Cube on Hitachi Predicts 3D Hard Disks by Year's End · · Score: 2, Funny

    It sounds like a cross between a hard disk and a Rubik's Cube:)