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Comment Re: Let me clarify (Score 1) 222

Gingrich served four years as speaker, to Clinton's eight.

it's 94-96, the end of Clinton's terms, and the beginning of Gingrich, when they were competing that produced the deals that actually balanced it. It did *not* happen while Clinton had Democratic majorities, nor did it happen later with Republican majorities under Bush.

Comment Block Ubisoft on Steam (Score 1) 136

Here's how you block Ubisoft and other evil publishers and developers in Steam:

1. Go to the Steam Store
2. Search Ubisoft and click on a game of theirs.
3. In the top right area, it'll list the developer and publisher, click on the one you don't like.
4. On the devloper/publisher page, look for a gear icon near the top right. Click it and select Ignore this creator.

Comment Re:Need emulation for drivers! (Score 1) 147

On the bright side, we have a whole new round of entertainment coming, with the ongoing stream of, "we're as good as apple now" . . . "well, *this* time we are" . . . "no, we mean it this time" . . . "ok, we've said it a few times now, but *this* time" . . . a veritable treasure trove of nostalgia to be!

Comment Re:Likely not even using real floppy anymore (Score 1) 113

The first hard disk I met for a microcomputer was a 5meg drive for the apple ][.

It presented itself to the computer as 35 or so 143k floppies on the same controller card, so it could use the regular DOS at the time. (there might have been a patch, but I don't think so).

And, iirc, the drive was an 8" drive.

That was 1981; the following year, I had a 10meg drive assigned to me for development on an Osborne. It appeared as a single CP/M drive!

[but you could specify about 14 "users" on CP/M, and only see those--but that didn't stop you from overwriting files you couldn't see if you used the same name!]

Comment Re:Why not decades sooner? (Score 1) 99

>It looks like the cars have some steerability

some?

*full*

that's a restraining rail, not a track. It stops you from leading the road.

It does have the practical effect of forcing the car to go the right general direction if you *don't* steer, but in normal operation, you're not even touching it.

Comment Re:Why on earth do they need a roadmap? (Score 1) 99

>given that they run on a track.

but they're *not* on a track, the way some other rides are.

There is a road, and a limiter for how far the car can go. The car isn't usually in contact with the limiter.

To use it as an electric source would require some kind of flexible arm, which would make it a much more complicated system.

Comment Re:Subsidies? (Score 1) 85

Note, though, the two year limit to military appropriations.

Then again, this doesn't apply to *naval* expenditures.

[the Founding Fathers viewed a standing army as a threat, but not a standing navy].

The *existence* of domestic capacity can reasonably be seen as necessary to either force (and can also be reasonably argued].

Comment Re:/. proving itself illiterate (Score 1) 202

What if stopping doing the things that might be causing negative climate effects has unintended consequences? There are always unintended consequences. What if stopping doing things creates a swing that is too great? What if the swing has some runaway affect? How will it affect plant life, insects, water/nitrogen/carbon cycles? There ought to be a law!

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