Comment Re:Frame (Score 1) 1165
As has been said, what, 50 times before in this thread, the stamp is on the primer, which gets replaced when you reload brass, so you're wrong, selling brass doesn't render the law ineffective.
Comment Re:Hockey guy? (Score -1, Flamebait) 874
No, the chart was not from random noise.
1. No they did not.
2. No, they did not.
3. No, they did not.
4. No, they did not.
5. No, they did not.
I could go on, but I think everyone gets the point. You have an ax to grind, and your claims show nothing but your bias.
If you disagree, please post proof of each of your claims.
Comment Re:I could be sarcastic (Score 1) 459
Um, no, there never were little, red schoolhouses all over the place. Most communities, until recently (last 100 or so years) were happy to have any school to send their kids to, and, even into the 1960s, educational choice was limited for nearly everyone. Heck, it wasn't even until 1925 that kids were allowed to go to private school as a means to complete their compulsory education requirements.
There's more educational choice now then ever in the US.
So, sorry, take your market-driven theology and mis-apply it somewhere else, it doesn't make sense here.
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HockeyPuck writes: An Indian chessplayer was recently banned from competing in chess tournaments for 10 years for using a bluetooth enabled hat to communicate with accomplices outside who were using a chess program to determine his moves.
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An anonymous reader writes: Hitwise today announced that the market share of visits to the iTunes website was up 413 percent on Christmas Day 2006 (December 25, 2006) versus Christmas Day 2005 as new iPod owners flocked to the web to download iTunes. The market share of visits to Zune.net showed an increase of 1,030 percent on December 25, 2006 versus the previous Monday (December 18, 2006). However, this strong initial performance was overshadowed by the iPod.
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Submission + - Top ten Apple rumors of all time
sosumi writes: CNET have taken a look back at thirty years of Apple rumors. The top ten list includes the "Secret OSX Build" and the "Apple To Buy Nintendo" speculation.
The list seems to have it all. Other entries are the Apple iPhone ("just an elaborate hoax dreamed up by Steve Jobs to keep journalists busy") and Mac OS for IBM PCs ("so counter-productive and financially damaging for Apple that we doubt the company has ever seriously considered it"). From the article: "What do you get when you cross a notoriously tight-lipped computer company with rabidly fanatical users? A whole lot of gossip, speculation and hearsay, that's what. Thirty years of Apple Computer has seen the company rise, fall and rise again like a kind of technological Jesus Christ — there's been plenty to talk about."
