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Comment Re:I have your conversion right here... (Score 1) 860

My grandmother refuses to upgrade because she's so in love with the greetings card workshop software that came with her first computer in the mid-90's. It's run fine on each computer since, but definitely won't run on Win 7 or 8 so she won't upgrade again. I don't think your solution is any better for her, and she's pretty representative of a large segment of the people still on XP.

Once again, computers and their OS are all dependent on the "Killer App".

Comment Re:"pro-Russian forces in Crimea" (Score 1) 479

The thing is that most of them weren't. Some originally joined Russian Empire completely voluntarily like Georgia. Some didn't even have a state when those territories were colonized and have them now simply because they weren't exterminated like American natives. Some are failed conquerors of Russia themselves, like Poland and Lithuania. Most post soviet countries are artificial. Some of peoples that stayed within Russian Federation have more claims to sovereignty than those states. Making them independent was pointless. Many of them got even worse regimes than the past soviet one. Russian Federation happens to be one of more democratic ones. I think all of them would be better off staying in the same state and building their post-soviet future together.

However, despite years of being joined and with time to all become on happy family that work well together, once given the chance, they not only separated, but almost all of them put out feelers and looked at joining the EU and NATO. NATO, whose only real point is to protect people from Russia. In the European family of nations, it really does seem like Russia is the drunk uncle who likes to abuse his wife and kids and gets mad when they try to move out and go to a shelter.

Comment Re:Troll (Score 2) 794

Homeopathy is not silly; it is a lie. If you sell it, you're lying to people. So it matters that Whole Foods sells it, as it casts doubt on their grasp of science, which indicates their "healthly" foods are just marketing to the credulous.

Why do you hate homeos? You sound very homeophobic.

Comment Re:Take pictures, press charges. (Score 1) 921

You are confusing private property and a public place.

You're forgetting to define your terms, provide support for your definition, and gain agreement upon such definitions in the frame of reference upon which you are speaking. If you are speaking of legal definitions of terms, then you should state so as most people are using common argot.

Comment Re:However.. (Score 1) 247

Mission director: "And if we see damage what then?"

Engineering team: "Um."

When the first shuttle was launched, there was a big uproar about the fragility of the tiles, so much so that they declassified a high power space surveillance telescope in Hawaii to show the public photos of the shuttle's underbelly. I seem to recall that the shuttle crew had a repair device, which looked like a fat caulking gun with an upholstery brush attached to it, which would dispense an ablative gel into the hole left by a missing tile. I can't find any pictures of it though.

I believe that all happened in response to this accident. In the next couple of flights they did have a slight scare with some protruding material from between the tiles and undertook a much publicized space walk to look at and remove the material.

Comment Re:WoW Ruined PC Gaming (Score 1) 253

For the issue at hand, i think the one line pretty well sums it up:

I can't help but laugh at the idea that Blizzard will probably get a ton of people paying them to not play their game.

.... and that really sums it up.

Thing is, I've played their game. I have four Loremaster characters. All at at least 80, because I had to do vanilla classic loremaster and then go in and do the new classic (or is it the new vanilla?) with Cataclysm for both Alliance and Horde. I have many more characters of varying levels. There were times when there simply were no more yellow exclamation points to find. I still want/need some maxed out crafters though. I've done everything so many times, and some of it I like more than others, that I'm about to the point that I'd buy maxed out new characters. After all, in the real world $60 is like two billable hours for me versus somewhere around 40 of grinding through stuff I am tired of seeing.

Comment Re:Caveat emptor x2 (Score 1) 121

The navy isn't a public servant.

That aside, they probably do not want to risk their already shrinking budget getting stuck with the cleanup. Instead, once it changes hands to another government entity, congress will allocate money through the superfund process already in place to deal with stuff like this. Its a wash to the tax payers as it would only be an accounting gimmack.

More likely, if it is like similar instances in WA, they are trying to push it off on the state and thus it is a fight between the state and federal governments as to who gets to pay for it.

Comment Re:Could someone answer this? (Score 1) 520

I may not be a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure the Seventh Amendment trumps the Supreme Court

Nope.

The US Constitution is a very old piece of paper sitting in a museum.

The Supreme Court is a group of people.

A piece of paper is an inanimate object - it can't do anything.

Better to say that the US Constitution means what The Supreme Court says it means. The idea that everybody is working on the same set of rules is what keeps the three branches of government and the millions of people they represent working together.

Comment Re:They are all paid too much (Score 1) 712

Jobs was worth every penny after what he brought to Apple.

Of course it was, Jobs' salary was $1/year. He said he only got that to get the health benefits.

Still, he also got a jet out of the deal, and I believe he also got some stocks also. Which just shows that if you regulate the CEO's salary, they'll find other ways to get their money.

Comment Re:Schizophrenia (Score 1) 160

While not impossible, the text that remains is 240 pages (each page roughly 6.3 x 9 inches). Being as it seems to have some coherent themes across sections, it seems rather unlikely that a disturbed person could have written it on a whim.

Never underestimate outsider art, especially if crazy outsider art. Look at the works of Henry Darger and his book The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion which is over 15,000 typed pages. Along with that he has countless artworks associated with it, a 10,000 page handwritten sequel, and some other books including The Story of my Life which after 200 pages of talking about his life goes into almost 5000 more in a fiction story about a tornado he probably saw. Nobody even knew this otherwise unremarkable guy was doing this till he died and they found all this stuff in his apartment. It probably isn't too far that somebody could have done something similar but in their own secret code that only made sense to themselves.

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