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    Spray on antenna?

    This spray has no advantage over a photolithographic processes. Photolithography is more mature, cheaper, and more accurate that this spray on crap. Yes, even for prototyping.
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    Spray on antenna?

    These idiots have a video on 'solve for x' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4efE_gO9lFo Just to give you an indication of what level these guys are at, their slides abbreviate milliWatts as 'Mw'. Their old website quoted performance improvements in "Db's". None, and I mean NONE of the...
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    Touchscreen on Cnet, how are they doing this ?

    I saw one way they do this multi touch stuff awhile ago, so if i screw something up in my reconstruction please be gentle :). basically you have a plane of plexglass or something, i don't know exactly what they where using. with a cross section like this...
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    More Sex Is Safer Sex

    I'm pretty sure chimps kill/'murder' other chimps for no apparent reason. They don't eat the kill or anything. Maybe it was a different species of monkey altogether, i can't really remember.
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    The fatter you are the more you cost your employer and society

    Some people are genetically predisposed to be not very good at math. Engineering firms shouldn't discriminate against these people who don't perform well in the mathematical arena. Choosing employees on the bases of aptitude is really just another form of unacceptable discrimination. /sarcasm...
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    PBS refuses to air documentary on Moderate Muslims

    So you don't actually disagree with him, but you'll still find a way to attack him? Who's stuck in the "you're either with us or against us" mindset again?
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    Could we blame the surge in religious fervor in America for the Culture of Death?

    Because they're hypocrites. I've always been against the death penalty.
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    The fatter you are the more you cost your employer and society

    HA HA i fsked this up didn't I, I don't believe that at all. That was a mocking/sarcastic remark.
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    The fatter you are the more you cost your employer and society

    I guess i may have misled you, the first part of my post was intended as sarcastic. I didn't explicitly point it out because i thought that the rest of my post would have made that clear.
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    When drugs are outlawed, only outlaws will have drugs

    This is very much alive in thailand especially as i recall.
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    Blender Farm

    Hi, I don't really know much about either networking or linux. So naturally i want to try and make a render farm for the open source 3d modeling app, blender (www.blender.org). I have a few old computers, but no windows licenses (i'm doing this in school btw). I thought maybe it would be...
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    The fatter you are the more you cost your employer and society

    People don't choose to be fat do they, they just are. If you're going to ask them to eat more moderately and be more active you might as well ask them to stop breathing next, huh? There is a very simple cause and effect dynamic which makes someone fat, a dynamic which is understood and can be...
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    The fatter you are the more you cost your employer and society

    I'm not a doctor, and i certainly wish you the best of health, but aren't alot of the diseases associated with excessive weight long-term disorders? Maybe you don't catch the cold and miss a few days, but down the line if you catch oh, i don't know heart disease, or diabetes, or blood clots you...
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    Could we blame the surge in religious fervor in America for the Culture of Death?

    I think you missed a part or two in your overview of the bible: "Thou shalt not kill" "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" You can try and twist it as you might, but no modern, or widespread Christian denomination condones killing as acceptable, even as a means of spreading...
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    How do I determine if I am "left wing" or "right wing" if I am independent.

    I think you approach political parties the wrong way, at least not the way i would. I look at political parties as a useful consolidation of power, no one or almost no one, is ever going to always agree with any party line. For instance i consider myself republican in large part because i am pro...
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    VTech Shooter Sent Video and Materials to NBC before rampage

    Thats good because my religious views aren't up for debate, I'm sure yours aren't either. I merely meant to express my personal objection to anyone who assumes that they speak for God, an objection I still hold. I made my post "hot" and I think I may have come on a little stronger than I really...
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    VTech Shooter Sent Video and Materials to NBC before rampage

    I'm sorry, this pisses me off. I'm Catholic, very Catholic, and i know that you DO NOT know the mind of God. You spit in the face of all rational religion, and i take it very personally. You are in no position to be passing judgment on another's soul. Perhaps before pointing out the splinters in...
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    How do rechargeable batteries recharge?

    Nah, i'm talking about using the same chemicals. I'm thinking that you don't exhaust any of the by products (like fuel cells do with water) or introduce any new chemicals to the battery (like hydrogen). I'm asking if maybe you could use heat, or movement or something besides current to get the...
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    How do rechargeable batteries recharge?

    I have a related question. Could you recharge a battery through a process like heating it up or pumping chemicals around in the battery or something to get the charges re-separated faster than simply running current through the battery? I'm thinking of electric cars here where recharging the...
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    Is the electoral college on it's way out? Poll.

    Don't you get it? EVERYTHING is a liberal vs conservative issue. He he
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    Is the electoral college on it's way out? Poll.

    The problem is that the issues pertinent to farmers are in fact important to the country as a whole, but the farmers don't have the raw population to support their issues. The electoral college gives those who live in rural areas some say, not even an equal say, but some say in how the president...
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    Is the electoral college on it's way out? Poll.

    I believe certain states already do this. They divide their electoral votes up by district i believe.
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    Is the electoral college on it's way out? Poll.

    Nope, they are in fact eliminating it in a de-facto way. If the candidate who wins the popular vote is made to automatically win the electoral vote, which is what this movement is trying to do by rallying individual states to it's cause, the electoral college ceases to matter. The college would...
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    Is the electoral college on it's way out? Poll.

    Link, may need login Basically, this Birch Bayh fella is trying to lobby state legislatures into pledging to devote all their electoral votes to the candidate who wins the national popular vote. The plan's called 'The National Popular Vote' and if Bayh can get more than half the electoral...
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    New to programming

    Ok, so i guess what i'm hearing is that C# is as good a move as any. It'll allow me to ease into the C style syntax and OO mindset without worrying about pointers and such. As far as my target platform goes, thats a good question. I got into programming for the BSII (way back in like 6th or 7th...
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    New to programming

    Good thoughts, you're probably right about me expecting too much too soon. I think one of my biggest problems with Dev-C++ is that everything i can make runs from the command prompt. In hindsight i think i liked using the controls from Visual Basic, it meant i got to make a cool and useable...
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    New to programming

    Hi, I'm interested in getting started in programming. I have a little bit of experience from programming the basic stamp II for a couple robotics projects and i took a semester of visual basic in high school (only language they offered). I tried C++ using the DEV-C++ IDE but it's a little...
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    Got Faith?

    I of course think that evolution is a pretty good model for the formation of life. That said i have a problem with the concept of "believing in" evolution, evolutionary isn't something to believe in as i see it. It's something to understand and agree or disagree with. "Belief" carries the wrong...
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    Abortion Thread:3-26-07 Male Texas Republican proposes his version of NFLB (No Fetus Left Behind)

    How does the functioning brain make human life, life? The mentally retarded have non-functioning brains, are they not human life in your estimation? Or are there's fuctioning enough. Than what is 'functioning enough'. The fetus will become human life given time, not could. Never has there been a...
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    Abortion Thread:3-26-07 Male Texas Republican proposes his version of NFLB (No Fetus Left Behind)

    So you use birth as the action which makes someone a valued human life? A baby isn't an adult yet, does that exempt it from protection from murder under the law? Of course not, you don't have to wait for the baby to grow up for it to become human. The fetus doesn't need to be born to be human...
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    Abortion Thread:3-26-07 Male Texas Republican proposes his version of NFLB (No Fetus Left Behind)

    I understand our difference of opinion, and realize and accept that we may never agree but i think it is still a productive issue to discuss. You probably disagree because the status quo satisfies you currently and as you've pointed out you don't see it going away. Your grey-area situations are...
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    Abortion Thread:3-26-07 Male Texas Republican proposes his version of NFLB (No Fetus Left Behind)

    I don't see an easy 'logic' answer here, i think you're kidding yourself if you think that you've found it. I guess the same could be said for anti-war protests, such demonstartions aren't really going to bring the troops home any faster.
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    Abortion Thread:3-26-07 Male Texas Republican proposes his version of NFLB (No Fetus Left Behind)

    I think my analogy stands, so i'll try to explain it better. If heroin could be made safer by legalizing it that wouldn't make its use justified, so why legalize it? Similarly, making the abortions safer through legalization is irrelevant to the morality of the act itself and to wether they...
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    Abortion Thread:3-26-07 Male Texas Republican proposes his version of NFLB (No Fetus Left Behind)

    No ones killing people 5 years before they are born, just months before.
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    Abortion Thread:3-26-07 Male Texas Republican proposes his version of NFLB (No Fetus Left Behind)

    I'm sorry, but what does it being a clump of cells have to do with it? Size, and lifetime seem like pretty arbitrary benchmarks for what constitutes human life. On a happier note, congradulations to both you and your wife.
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    Abortion Thread:3-26-07 Male Texas Republican proposes his version of NFLB (No Fetus Left Behind)

    They may not approve of contraceptives, but if they call it murder i'm with you, they're a little wacked. Neither half of the zygote equation stands as life on it's own. Still, these people are not somehow responsable for making abortion necessary. It isn't necessary, and full guilt for having...
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    Abortion Thread:3-26-07 Male Texas Republican proposes his version of NFLB (No Fetus Left Behind)

    I think he's saying that no one gets to make the decision to kill children without legal consequence. But lets ignore that and call each other names!
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    Abortion Thread:3-26-07 Male Texas Republican proposes his version of NFLB (No Fetus Left Behind)

    Define what you have that gives you an inalienable right to life, but which the unborn doesn't have. You do have a right to your life don't you?
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    Abortion Thread:3-26-07 Male Texas Republican proposes his version of NFLB (No Fetus Left Behind)

    Who's to tell a murder what to do, it's just God working through him. We can legislate our morality for him.
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    Abortion Thread:3-26-07 Male Texas Republican proposes his version of NFLB (No Fetus Left Behind)

    So, "i don't like the murder certainly, but it isn't the government's place to stop homicides." Wonderful. Making heroin illigal doesn't make people stop using it. Maybe if we made it legal the heroin would be more refined, the needles cleaner and the whole process safer. Lets do that...