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Comment Re:Such a time... (Score 2) 66

Is everyone forgetting about WordStar? That was the one made for touch typists, and was much faster than WordPerfect. WordStar ruled the PC world until WordPerfect emulated the Wang word processor that all of the typing pool was used to, and then suddenly WordPerfect took the lead. The key strokes for WordPerfect were way slower, since you had to move your fingers off the keys to the function buttons. Both took a lot of memorization, so they were equal in that and in other functionality.

Comment Re:Try that with something tied to your politics! (Score 1) 90

This was debunked several times. You can find the results on the net if you search for it. The problem is that the match of decline in crime rates with abortion only matched the curve in the United States. In several countries in Europe which legalized abortion much earlier, the decline in crime rates did not match. However, what did match in all countries was the removal of lead from gasoline. Both the legailization of abortion in the United States and the removal of gasoline occurred at about the same time, so it was easy to falsely attribute the cause.

Comment Re:Reusable - like the shuttle? (Score 1) 260

I believe the two of you are looking at the engineering/maintenance problem from different perspectives. From a managerial perspective, the two are the same. You can trade one for the other, with money spent, and you do your calculations. From a technical perspective, they are quite different. Maintenance only repeats the same thing, restoring it to when it was new, but does not change it to something better. Re-engineering it would improve it so it is better than what it was when it was new.

Comment percentages (Score 5, Insightful) 279

Finally a study that shows percentages.The politicals have have claimed that climate change is either 100% man-made or 100% natural, depending upon which side of the argument they were on. Reasonable people knew that it had to be a bit of both, but there never seemed to be any studies that showed what the percentages of each it was.

Comment Re:This is good. (Score 1) 60

Imagine a "gas station" having a very, very large capacity battery, which would be used like their big gas tanks now. Charging a car could take the charge from that battery in a short amount of time. The "gas station' would the slowly charge their big battery off of the grid. As long as the station's battery could hold enough charge for, say a fifty or hundred cars (just a stupid, off the top of my head estimate), the battery could be charged off the grid at a steady rate.

Comment Re:the idea behind the movie is dumb (Score 1) 366

According to the 'Revolution' series on the History channel, both sides were guilty of terrorizing the civilian population. Admittedly, I haven't read an extensive history book on just the American Revolution. One particular story comes to mind where the British killed a bunch of people by burning them in a church. That particular incident was shown in 'The Patriot', but wasn't entirely accurate (typical of Hollywood) according to a historian that I talked to. The rebels/patriots also terrorized the 'Torries' for giving aid to the British. I don't remember a particular incident, except that it got pretty nasty both ways.

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