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Comment Nice idea but it won't happen (Score 2) 1013

There are 2 simple reasons why this isn't being done.
1. Cost for the indentification unit is prohibitive. It would double the cost of the weapon.
2. It has been proven over the years that you can not make something idiot proof. I don't care if it's a weapon or a power tool, some moron will always come along and try something nobody else ever imagined and injure themselves or someone else. Look at all the safety warnings in any instruction manual and realize that someone actually did that.

Teaching people to have a respect for human life would do more to stop these mass killings than anything else. When I was in High School (class of 74) half the vehicles in the student parking lot were pickup trucks with a gun rack in the back window. There was always a rifle and/or a shotgun in the rack. We never had anyone shot at school because we knew the difference between right and wrong.

Comment Why? (Score 5, Insightful) 338

Why does every windows application programmer think their program is so special or important that it needs to run in the background? The first thing to speed up any computer is to kill all the crappola trying run at start up. A program should run when started and when exited from it should completely shut down and even delete any temp files it created. I did a cleanup on a customers machine once and deleted over 10,000 temp files. That is lazy and stupid programming.

Comment Of course (Score 1) 348

Having grown up where the best Chile in the world comes from, Southern New Mexico, I object to the spelling of the chile without the e. 80% of the commercially grown chile was developed in the horticulture lab at New Mexico State University by Dr. Roy Nakayama from the 60's through the 80's.

Comment AT&T was evil before M$ (Score 2) 182

There is a reason AT&T was broken up the first time. It was a monopoly and bad for the customers. Nothing has changed and it should be stopped from buying any other companies, ever! They have lied about prices and service for at least 40 years.

Comment Different attack (Score 2) 74

Instead of going after the actual spammers why not fine the companies that hire them. If a Bank (Orchard Bank leaps to mind) hires an advertising company to push credit cards, fine the bank if their agent uses SPAM as a marketing tool. Pretty soon any reputable company will not allow their name to be tied to SPAM and anything left will be all scams.

Comment Re:Its not the speed that is the problem. (Score 1) 1026

Standard tracks can't handle the speed. The biggest part of the cost is building a new dedicated track with no road crossings, elevated for a large part of the route. If Amtrak is any indication plan on the price being at least 4X what is proposed and it would be a miracle if it exceeds 100 MPH. Govt. control is the most expensive and least efficient way to do anything.

Comment Re:Something tells me (Score 1) 794

Newsflash, the electorate is more worried about the socialist policies of this administration. We don't want and will never accept a Marxist Govt. in the U.S.
The so called health care bill was about control not health care. Now we get to pay another tax if we sell a house? WTF does that have to do with making health care cheaper? Just more money for the Thundering Herd of Dumbass formerly known as Congress to waste.
Spendulous created no jobs and the debt is killing jobs.
Failed policies are not the way to win an election and Marxist/socialism has failed every time it has been tried.

Comment Deseperation (Score 0, Troll) 794

The Demonrats want their power and can't believe the voter won't agree. In New Bern, NC a woman tried to vote a straight R ticket and all the D's got checked, she cleared it and tried again, same result. Two more tries with poll workers in attendance, same thing, finally on the 5th try it recorded correctly. The people trying to rig this election should be tied to a tree, upside down, and fed Ex-Lax for a month!

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