Comment Should be N (Score 1) 167
Comment Well of course not. (Score 4, Funny) 120
Comment Awfully hard to trust Facebook (Score 5, Insightful) 123
Comment It's a trick! (Score 1) 117
Comment $200 isn't so bad (Score 1) 270
Comment It's like, how much more bad could this be? (Score 3, Funny) 316
Comment Re:Windows Update (Score 1) 119
CPUs idle when not doing anything. Processes though can do all sorts of crazy things like, polling something constantly, which keeps the CPU loaded. Why someone would do that is a mystery, but that people do it is not.
Comment Re:Won't it ... ? (Score 1) 313
Comment Re:! surprising (Score 1) 762
Private or home schooling.
Highway robbers?
So you mean we couldn't manage without the government?
I mean we even launch space shuttles privately now. What do we need a government for? To tell us we can't drink until we're 21 even though they will ship us off and kill us at 18? To fine us if we don't wear a seat belt even though for nearly 100 years people drove in cars without them just fine. To put us in jail for growing a plant in our own backyard (with a federal minimum sentence of 5 years!). To buy trailers for people who built houses in a flood plane, even when the citizens in the surrounding counties (myself included) offered to have several families stay with them until they could rebuild.
Even well intentioned governments are oppressive and wasteful.
Comment Re:Who'd have thought... (Score 2, Interesting) 194
Why if the UK Post Office goes on strike, and nobody notices, because UPS, FedEx, and other private companies (plus email) fill the gap? It would be ironic if the Government Strike proves that the government-run service is no longer needed.
Hmmmm.
I hope the U.S. Post Office goes on strike next. Who need them? Not me.
Comment Re:The Moon (Score 1) 703
Which is about up there with figuring out how to make 2 + 2 = 4.
Everything currently points to it being flat out impossible. Not improbable, not a a tough problem to figure out (ie, usable fusion generators or something that is just a hard problem), but not physically possible.
Assuming that all insolvable problems will magically become not so given enough time and technology isn't a wise bet.
Comment bad summary? (Score 4, Insightful) 86
Is it just me, or do the video and article both CLEARLY state that it's rat brain cells, not human brain cells?
Comment How can it be vaporware...? (Score 1) 62
Submission + - Get Vista/Works refunded from Dell with 2 emails!
- After delivery, ask Dell Support for refund by email
- ???
- Refund!!! (aka "Less profit!!!" for other "personas")