Comment Re:The feet one makes no sense. (Score 2) 272
It's based on the assumption that one would buy feet before purchasing a hard drive. That might not hold true in the /. community, though.
Comment Re:Nature... will find a way! (Score 4, Informative) 521
At least the fruit bats won't starve if we kill all the mosquitoes.
Comment Re:Oy Vey! (Score 1) 709
I believe that has to do with the route. If there was more rail, then it should be much faster than travel by car. Cars stop for trains, not the other way around.
Comment Re:Don't worry. Be Happy now. (Score 1) 193
And now I have to go wash my hands.
Comment Compatibility? (Score 1) 110
Will my old .odf files be updated, then? I often worry about not being able to properly open my old writings and such. I'd hate to have to manually re-save everything.
Comment Re:Only 20 - 30 percent? (Score 1) 292
I know, right? I've always thought of Wal-Mart as being green because people had to drive fewer places to get things. But holy hell, that's a lot of power consumption.
Comment Re:What is the point (Score 2) 203
I'm sure $1,000 was set just to house cost/generic baseline. Obviously, there will be lots of variables. Cost of products, labor, land, taxes. I just like house the house can be infinitely expandable, building larger pinwheels around the outside until it becomes insanely difficult to reach the center.
Comment Re:Highway to Hell (Score 1) 245
No, I don't believe there is any longer a single valid argument for "intellectual property" laws, of any kind. Not trademark, not copyright, and certainly not patents.
That solution is decidedly radical. Doesn't the best answer generally lie somewhere in the middle? If I find a single valid argument for intellectual property, then I have proved your solution/argument illogical.
Comment please don't add sound effects... (Score 1) 119
...to books.
Thank You
Comment Re:Trying to get fired? (Score 1) 262
I'd love to see THIS law put to a direct vote. Of course it won't be, and Bloomberg will probably get booted out next opportunity, but the cameras would of course still stay.
Why doesn't he just hire Judge Dredd?
Comment Re:Topic for discussion (Score 1) 340
If its your time to go, its your time to go, there is nothing you can do to stop it.
Go where?
Comment No way! (Score 1) 165
They can't have my genes. I'm wearing them! O wait... guess I'm not a candidate, anyways.
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