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  1. Re:It's illegal here... on Brew Your Own Auto Fuel For 41 Cents A Gallon · · Score: 1

    Yes, we have road tax here as well. No doubt you're supposed to pay it if you run your car on homebrewed biodiesel.

  2. Re:Two words. on Soundproofing a Cubicle? · · Score: 1
    They don't work when you've turned them up to '11' in order to drown out the ambient hub-bub. And then someone will have the nerve to complain about the noise coming from your headphones.


    Give up.

  3. Re:The cheaps want to save even more... on Brew Your Own Auto Fuel For 41 Cents A Gallon · · Score: 2, Informative

    We pay the same price [or did before the recent hikes] per gallon of fuel that you do, it's that while we pay 100% tax, you guys pay 500% tax.

  4. Re:Fuel Oil on Brew Your Own Auto Fuel For 41 Cents A Gallon · · Score: 1

    It should work, especially given that you're just burning the stuff. However, it gels up at a higher temperature than straight diesel [e.g. fuel oil], which makes it difficult to start a cold furnace with it.

  5. Re:Hemp Powered Cars on Brew Your Own Auto Fuel For 41 Cents A Gallon · · Score: 1
    Hemp was plentiful prior to prohibition. Made great clothes. Made fabulous rope. Nutritious seed, full of oil. Not to mention that it grows like the weed it is. I can't imagine many peanuts getting grown in Germany.


    Either the hemp advocates led me astray, or the prohibitionists managed to get the official version of history changed.

  6. Re:What about hemp? on Brew Your Own Auto Fuel For 41 Cents A Gallon · · Score: 1
    Damnit! Bought into the wishful thinking of the hippies!


    Or did the narcs get everyone to change the history books?

  7. Re:I don't know about gas prices in the US, but on Brew Your Own Auto Fuel For 41 Cents A Gallon · · Score: 1

    It's called "rapeseed" over here, with the food kind called Canola.

  8. Re:What about hemp? on Brew Your Own Auto Fuel For 41 Cents A Gallon · · Score: 1

    Old hat. Here's a link documenting that the first Diesel engine ran on hemp oil[!].

  9. Re:Acres of rapeseed to gallon of fuel ratio ? on Brew Your Own Auto Fuel For 41 Cents A Gallon · · Score: 1

    They do, and it's called "Canola" oil. Slightly-modified GM rapeseed to remove the toxins normally found.

  10. Re:Soy?? on Brew Your Own Auto Fuel For 41 Cents A Gallon · · Score: 1

    Think "popcorn" or "french-fry". Don't know if using McDonalds grease gets you a little extra beef aroma, though.

  11. Re:Hemp Powered Cars on Brew Your Own Auto Fuel For 41 Cents A Gallon · · Score: 1

    And of course, the first Diesel engines ran on hempseed oil: cite

  12. Brade Lunnah on "A Sound of Thunder" Movie This Summer · · Score: 1

    BR took a one-sentence description of DADoES and spun a movie from a quarter of that sentence. The only good thing the movie has done is to make more copies of DADoES available.

  13. Sun's JDS on The Best Linux Distro for a New User? · · Score: 1

    Sun's JDS is a well put-together desktop solution. It still won't give you the power management that you were used to on your Powerbook, though. For that, you'll need to go to windows - linux power management is still quite primitive.

  14. Deists, not Christians on Cow Brains Into Biofuel · · Score: 1

    A-hem. Many of our founding fathers were Deists and specifically not Christians. Read the writings of Thomas Payne.

  15. Re:NERDS! on Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water · · Score: 1
    made up by television writers

    No, made up by a Linguist for The Wrath of Khan.
  16. Re:I wonder what is spoken more on Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water · · Score: 1

    Given that there are those for whom Esperanto is a native tongue, I'd have to go with more Esperanto speakers.

  17. Re:Klingon on Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water · · Score: 1

    Better learning materials than Esperanto? Less geeky than Esperanto? Dude, do your research!

  18. NOT a robot, damnit on Robosaurus · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's a frelling RC car!

  19. Re:Combat robots on The ROBOlympic Games · · Score: 3, Funny

    And it's probably all radio-controlled, e.g. no real robots among them.

  20. Re:Van Allen belts? on Melting Europa · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is.

  21. Re:Power on Wiring a House While It's Still Being Built? · · Score: 1

    What he said. And double-check that hot is hot, ground is ground and that all are correctly wired. You will be needing more power than you suspect in each room, so you might as well wire it out while you have the chance. Put some 220 circuits in the garage, too, since you might want to use them in the future. Retrofitting is expensive.

  22. Re:Great article on this subject on Protecting and Preserving Your Vision? · · Score: 2

    As my optho-dude said, "There is no nearsightedness in pre-literate societies."

  23. Re:Contrast ratio for text???? on Protecting and Preserving Your Vision? · · Score: 1

    Pick a website designed by kids - dark text on a black background. I particularly hate blue or purple on black. What are they smoking these days?

  24. Re:Darkness on Protecting and Preserving Your Vision? · · Score: 1

    Adversion to garlic? Holy water burns? Craving for blood? If so, you've got bigger problems...

  25. not to mention homosexuality! on G-rated Simulation Games? · · Score: 1

    And the characters don't give a flying about gender, either. That's something the designers put into the game, being free-spirited SF Bay Area types, after all.

    If you put a guinea pig into your game [d/l or expansion pack], be sure to take care of it.