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  1. Re:A class act on Astronaut Neil Armstrong Has Died · · Score: 1

    MSNBC actually posted the name Neil Young when they first put up the announcement of his death.

  2. Re:Sounds like win-win to me! on Man Orders TV On Amazon, Gets Shipped Assault Rifle · · Score: 1

    You have to live in a state that allows a class C weapon. This includes fully automatic firearms. If you live in such states, you can buy any fully automatic firearm from a licensed dealer regardless of the age of the firearm.

    If you buy a pre 1986 device you can purchase it in any state provided you pass the background checks and pay your money.

  3. PeopleSoft?? on IE9 May Not Be Enough To Save IE · · Score: 1

    Firefox may be gaining popularity in the corporate world because the latest version of PeopleSoft does not currently support IE8. The recommended work around is to use Firefox

  4. Re:Root Cause Analysis Fail on FCC Approves Changes To Cable Box Rules · · Score: 1

    In my area, Cable cards are exactly the same cost as a set top box. What a coincidence.

  5. Re:I think they should use it to bomb terrorists on After Discovery's Launch, What's Left For the Shuttle? · · Score: 1

    And a Nuclear/nucular engineer at that.

  6. Strange corporate ties on Commodore 64 Primed For a Comeback In June · · Score: 1

    The phone number on the Contact Us section of the website belongs to Homecraft a furniture company. Don't know if they would be using the same manufacturing process, but the website looks just as cheap. http://www.homecraft.us/contact_us.html

  7. Re:Why they shouldn't.. on Why the IRS Should Automatically Fill In Returns With What It Knows · · Score: 1

    What's the problem then? I see a boom in the population of the New England states with smaller ZIP Codes. Screw California and those digits that start with 9.

  8. Re:Too bad we don't have rules to deal with this on Midwest Seeing Red Over 'Green' Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    Have the light lean forward when a good bit of the time they are strung from wires above. Couple that with the wind which is driving the snow onto the lights and your engineering fix just broke.

    How about going back in time to flags that say stop and go. They are even color coded and can be lit with a single lamp.

    No that wouldn't work either. People forget that they need to pay attention while driving. Driving in snow, ice, high winds, rain, etc. just means you have to pay more attention. Turn down the radio, hang up the phone, put the coffee in the cup holder and pay attention to what you are doing.

    If the traffic light is obstructed or you can't tell what color it is, slow down! The correct answer is not to speed up and pretend you are the only person on the road.

  9. Re:News to me on Wikileaks Publishes 500,000 9/11 Pager Messages · · Score: 1

    Columbus OH. 25 minutes delay between send and receive.

    Not all the time, but often enough that we do not use it for priority tickets

  10. Re:I have already faced my worst nightmare on US Switch To DTV Countdown Begins · · Score: 1

    The government is the reflection of the people who bother to vote. If sheeple would take a few minutes to find out about what is going on, they would vote for someone else, anyone else. The system works great, but then we went and brought people into it.

  11. Kill all the trees on Painting The World's Roofs White Could Slow Climate Change · · Score: 1

    They are dark so they must be absorbing all this evil heat. Cut them all down and pave the dirt with concrete, then paint it white just to make sure.

  12. Re:Simple Example on The Illuminati Project Pushes For Dark Skies In 2009 · · Score: 1

    I will agree that all of the bulbs listed above are more energy efficient than the ones in your house, well at least in mine. The problem is that street lights do not use the same type of fixtures. Street lamps use sodium vapor lamps that are more energy efficient and use different bases. The cost per bulb is much different as is the energy usage.

  13. Re:Simple Example on The Illuminati Project Pushes For Dark Skies In 2009 · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter how many fixtures the charge is per fixture, regardless of the power used. There are no meters on these streetlamps, just a fixed charge for them being there.

  14. Re:Simple Example on The Illuminati Project Pushes For Dark Skies In 2009 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why legislate? If the lamps were cost effective, then the municipalities would make the switch. Right now in central Ohio the primary electric provider charges in the neighborhood of $5 per lamp per month for power. The muni is responsible for purchasing the bulbs if I am remembering correctly. If the cost of power and the cost of the bulb are figured in, the LED street lamps take an insane amount of time to recoup the cost. Even when you figure in the labor to replace the bulbs every couple of years it still doesn't add up. When many budgets are being stretched to the breaking point would you advocate for your town to install LED street lights that will cost more? Would you vote for your taxes to be increased to purchase the lights, or would you prefer that a couple of employees be terminated to pay for the cost difference? I, myself, am not opposed to the idea of installing power saving, pollution reducing equipment, but there has to be a balance somewhere.
    The shields over the lights have been shown to reduce the amount of light being thrown into the sky, but they also increase the amount of glare on the road. In order to be effective, the entire fixture head needs to be replaced with one that has been designed to cast the light downward in the right way, another cost for the muni to absorb.
    Legislation will do nothing to improve these conditions, it will likely pass costs on to the states or local government that they do not have the money to work with.
    One way that this might work is for residents, local or state government to work with the manufacturers in a test situation. Let the manufacturers perfect their processes for building the lamps and they can be field tested. But until the funding situation is improved, these efforts are full of problems.

  15. Re:Disgusting on Bush's Electronic Archives Threaten To Swamp National Archives · · Score: 1, Informative

    Secret Service protection is now limited to 10 years after leaving office. Clinton has done pretty well on the speaking circuit, over $30 million in the first 4 years out of office http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2007/clinton-speeches/ Everyone involved seems to make out pretty well if they so choose.

  16. Re:In a realted development, Amazon to lose NYers. on Amazon Fights Back Against NY Online Sales Tax · · Score: 0

    It is even simpler than that. There is a Use Tax form that many states have. The buyer of the goods is legally required to report purchases that have not been taxed, and pay those taxes at the time of filing state or local income tax. If the purchaser does not file the form and pay the tax, they are in the wrong. Hold someone accountable for their own actions, do not implement something that does not work in a marketplace with the size of Amazon's.

  17. Re:Best Parallel Ever! on Diebold Admits ATMs Are More Robust Than Voting Machines · · Score: 0

    I do this every year. It is not an extra amount of money, it is the only amount of money that you can directly allocate from your taxes.

  18. Re:First off on Military Grounds Stealth Bomber Fleet · · Score: 0

    It didn't exist in 1989? Really? I have a Northrop lithograph from the Dayton Airshow in 1988 or 89 that shows the public rollout from the hangar. I doubt that was the first time it had left that building. Here is a NYTimes article from 1990 that supports this as well http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE1DD1039F937A35757C0A966958260

  19. Re:Oregon has them too on UPS Using Software To Eliminate Left Turns · · Score: 0

    I don't know which ones you are talking about, but since they installed the one at 315 and Rich/Town it seems that people don't even try to merge. They see the green light and go without looking to see if anyone is in the right lane. I think that the light has caused more misunderstanding with the drivers as it has traffic control.

    Just because the light is green, it doesn't mean that there isn't traffic in the lane, you still need to get up to speed.

  20. Re:C average on Alabama Schools to be First in US to Get XO Laptop · · Score: 0

    "(of which I was not one because there was always one teacher a year who would give me a B)"

    I didn't realize that teachers gave grades. I always thought that you earned your grades based on the work performed. Every class that I went through always had a published scale. If you got so many points you got the corresponding grade.

    This kind of attitude, whether it is yours or not, is prevalent in today's kids. There are so many candidates that come in for interviews that have this sense of entitlement. I think that there should be come more B's and C's given out when the work reflects it, not the grade inflation that we see now.

  21. Re:Also, scam sites are going to be all over this on Intern Loses 800,000 Social Security Numbers · · Score: 0

    Pretty close, the media keeps reporting a website that you can enter the last 4 of your SSN and your last name. Just set up a phishing site with a typo URL, make a few mods and you've got it.

  22. Re:Scapegoat? Maybe, but he's still a moron. on Intern Loses 800,000 Social Security Numbers · · Score: 0

    In the parking lot where he lived, with a history of break ins. This is just about daily news here in Columbus.

  23. Re:Down the Rabbit Hole we go! on Mercury Contamination Vs. Energy-Efficient Lightbulbs · · Score: 0

    The hatters would constantly lick their brushes to keep them at a fine point. In doing this they were ingesting the mercury used in the curing process. So unless you are going to do a few shots of mercury I don't see the link.

    If you are going to do a few shots of mercury, do the rest of society a favor and follow up with a draino chaser. No need to have another vegetable on our hands.

  24. Re:huh? on Shatner Leaks Trek XI Details · · Score: 0

    I don't remember anything about George Lucas being involved. Or was Kirk a Lucas creation all along, with his acting compared to everyone from the last SW movies, it's hard to tell.

  25. Re:Terabyte? on Terabyte Drive to Debut Later this Year · · Score: 0

    1000 gigabytes, so we have to wait for the 1.5 TB or so drives to have any thing to get excited about.