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but suffered some other short coming that lead to their extinction on Earth

like being blasted out into space *lol*

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CD/DVD Duplicators (UK)

Until I get to choose how I use the music I buy, instead of them telling me how, I wont purchase any

I don't have autorun enabled so cd's installing software's not something i have to worry about... but I've never heard of any DRMed CD where the music's actually worth listening to (yes this is a matter of taste, but it seems to be a growing consensus). My message to the RIAA: Wanna make money through music? Let's hear some good music! Come on, WOW ME :-)

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Digital camera's (UK)

This study is pretty much redundant

Only, as with any study, to those already in the know. The people at the top with the "power" who are doing the suing, passing laws, and spreading the fud, are blatently not in the know (one hopes; if they're not in the know, they're impressionable and manipulated, if they are in the know, they're just bitter and corrupt).

Otherwise it's just p2peers denying damaging sales, which the RIAAsses can respond "of cause they're say that, they don't wanna get in trouble", which can sound pretty convincing.

Proof (even statistical) of what you know is always better than just knowing it when there are people shouting that you're wrong.

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Ever notice the less someone knows, the louder they know it?

LCD/TV/Monitors (UK)

One of the worst things about Slashdot is dealing with the subset of people who have no sense of humor

It's not always the fault of the recipient for a 'joke' not being got, before you get carried away with the insults. Play nicely. (Condescending's not nice either, huh)

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Digital media players (UK)

The beginning does not imply the creation of. For example, the big bang occured at the beginning of time, ie, at one end of the dimension known as 'time', but this does not mean that creation occured then; it's mearly an edge to existance, that appears 'creation'like because of the way we perceive time.

Nothing really gets created/destroyed (except combination/concepts), think about it, when was the last time you actually saw something being created (not transformed from other things that already existed)? Yes it's a play on words, a car is created, by putting things together in a certain way, but then in a certain way, a car is only the way things are put together - the parts exist before and after the creation of the car, so are kind of irrelevant... (I apologise for my low articulation score here! I know what I mean in an aroundabout kind of way!)

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plug: Digital Media Players (UK)

So for anyone who did misread the headline and thought you finally had complete triumph over all the creationist wackos, I hate to burst your bubble. :)

Misread headline or not, we don't take the "creationist wackos" seriously anyway, so I really wouldn't worry about bursting bubbles!

I believe this is all evidence that supports and reinforces theories, as the universe probably has more dimensions than what we see and can easily measure in, it's unlikely we'll ever know fully what happened 100% (at least for a long-long-long time, but quite possible ever), but we can get closer and closer.

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plug: External harddrives (UK)

It doesn't seem hugely different from me posting a story about how waterfalls can power 90% of a large city, occording to my last game of SimCity :-/

It's Computer Assisted Fantasy

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plug: Digital camera's/camcorders (UK)

Actually we're relying on them hitting earth to colonise the outer moons... we're gonna get a bunch of scientists armed with solar powered drills to sit in touch capsules, wait until an asteroid hits close by, sending them hurtling into space. Some of them will reach jupiters moon's, and if they survive the 24mile/sec landing without too much of a headache, they can start building civilization.

We're just playing the waiting game!

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plug: LCD TV's / Monitors (UK)