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  1. Re:Translation on Why Xbox Live Doesn't Take Exact Change · · Score: 1

    I just looked up that video card.... my eyes aren't that big.

  2. Re:Translation on Why Xbox Live Doesn't Take Exact Change · · Score: 1

    I have over ten thousand in medical bills (but to be fair... I ruined my credit before that.)

    You may have had a nicer start - but I do realize that (minus the med bills) my credit problems are the result of procrastinating and eyes being bigger than my wallet.

  3. Re:Translation on Why Xbox Live Doesn't Take Exact Change · · Score: 1

    There is a special place in hell for CC companies (if companies can go to hell.)

    charging a business 15 - 20 cents per transaction and also charging the cardholder 20 - 25 percent interest.

  4. Re:Buzzlight year on Where are Wii? · · Score: 1

    Same here.

    I just got an Xbox a couple months ago.

    The advantages for me are:

    1) bought it for $50
    2) most games sell for less than $10
    3) it's been out long enough to be cracked - and very easily
    4) looks better than the super nintendo I was playing before (plus see 3 so I can continue to play those games)
    5) the modded xbox media center that plays more video types than my dvd player.

  5. Re:I bet you really didn't see the series on Firefly Lives - New Comics in 2008 · · Score: 1

    That was one of my favorite seens in the show. Those few minutes showed more about their characters than most shows display in a season.

  6. Re:OLPC is tanking on Microsoft Wants OLPC System to Run Windows XP · · Score: 1

    I think the one I see the most (word is a close second) is organizer = outlook

    I confess, I don't even use windows, but I had to think a while to come up with another term besides outlook.

  7. Re:OLPC is tanking on Microsoft Wants OLPC System to Run Windows XP · · Score: 2

    It's about giving people the means not to have to always rely on others for food.

    It's about have the next generation with enough computer skills to attack businesses. Companies - for better or worse (my job has started outsourcing so I personally don't like it) move their businesses where work is cheap. When the business comes, the electricity comes, the running water comes, and the food comes.

    A population dependent on people's "good will" will never be a well fed population.

  8. Re:Congress? on How To Beat Congress's Ban Of Humans On Mars · · Score: 1

    Wow, I love reading interesting, never before mentioned insights exactly like this every time there is an article about space.

  9. Re:PDF is nice, but Acrobat ain't on PDF Is Now ISO 32000 · · Score: 1

    Based on QT4, okular might fill that gap.

  10. Re:Linus Torvalds on Gnome vs KDE on KDE 4 to Be Released on January 11th · · Score: 1

    "If he feels so strongly that KDE is the best, why attack Gnome incessantly?"

    Have you read have the posts here on this aricle?

  11. Re:Sounds familiar on KDE 4 to Be Released on January 11th · · Score: 1

    The port for K3b is in extragears.

  12. Re:Birthday for me? on KDE 4 to Be Released on January 11th · · Score: 1
  13. Re:2031?! on First Details of Manned Mars Mission From NASA · · Score: 1

    Then we would never leave Earth.

  14. Re:Review on Call of Duty 4 Review · · Score: 1

    "that get pissy if they lose"

    Even more annoying - to me at least - is when the players on the losing side quit before the game ends just because the don't want to be there at the end.

    It always deflates the win for me.

  15. Re:Huge in Japan on Leopard Claims Half the Japanese OS Market In October · · Score: 1

    And in Dodgeball

  16. Re:It's times like this... on Trojan Found In New HDs Sold In Taiwan · · Score: 1

    I'm sure most window users do this as well....

  17. Re:they're not limited to two evils on Google's Shadow Over Firefox · · Score: 1

    "outsourced contact center solutions"
    I don't want to give any money to this buisness model.

  18. Re:No, but I'd like more individual donations on Google's Shadow Over Firefox · · Score: 1

    Better product?

  19. Re:But don't worry ... the democrats are in contro on Bill Would Tie Financial Aid To Anti-Piracy Plans · · Score: 1

    It's the other way around.

    I'm conservative, but I wouldn't say I am republican. I vote libertarian as much as I do republican / democratic.

  20. Re:Not worth reporting. on NBC Direct Launches With Free Downloads · · Score: 1

    Same here in konqueror (funny thing is, I live in Texas.)

  21. Re:History on Germany Implements Sweeping Data Retention Policies · · Score: 1

    I doubt it. I bet the opposite.

  22. Re:a little tweak on House Narrowly Avoids Having to Debate Impeachment of Cheney · · Score: 1

    Bulshit

    Quick look at the wikepedia

    "In the U.S., violence directed toward abortion providers has killed 7 people"

    That is going back 15 years. Not to minimize the loss of life, but I get tired of hearing how Christians are just hopping at the chance to blow up an abortion clinic.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion-related_violence#Incidents_in_the_United_States

  23. Re:a little tweak on House Narrowly Avoids Having to Debate Impeachment of Cheney · · Score: 1

    Why is it that those who argue against the war (or occupation) have to restort to insults?

    It is frustrated talking to close-minded people that during a debate have to result to calling people subliterate rather than arguing a point rationally.

  24. Re:Who's the only country to have ever used nukes? on House Narrowly Avoids Having to Debate Impeachment of Cheney · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You guys stared down the USSR ...who you were very much aware had nukes I can take the mod hit so I will tell you the difference:

    The Russians weren't insane !! (evil maybe but insane no)
  25. Re:matter of time on Cell Phone Jamming on the Rise · · Score: 1

    If you make jammers illegal than only the criminals will have them