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  1. Re:Sauce for the goose on GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal · · Score: 1

    Nice idea, but it's probably in plastic and potted.

  2. Re:Sauce for the goose on GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal · · Score: 1

    That, and in German you do not capitalize "der", because it is just the male case of the word the. And if you're addressing him ("give it a good shout though, Der Kamizar"), it's Herr Kommissar (provided he's male).

    But hey, why let grammar get in the way of a rant.

  3. Re:Anticlimactic on Co-op Neverwinter RPG Announced For 2011 · · Score: 1

    4th Ed has gnomes, they're in PHB2 IIRC.

  4. Re:Only Priuses? on Toyota Adds External Speakers To Warn Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing you ride a mountain bike or other bike that makes you lean forward. It's hard to look backwards on one of those. If you have a city bike (which you sit mostly straight up on), you'll be able to turn your head and body so you can view behind you easily, without swerving.

  5. Re:4th Edition? on Co-op Neverwinter RPG Announced For 2011 · · Score: 1

    Ration rules were just an example. 4th Ed is streamlined in such a way that we're actually playing the game more than we are looking up rules. It's not about having to read, I've read it. It's about being tied up in details everytime something remotely unordinary props up.

    Sure, 4th ed has its faults, but at least its a lot easier for new guys like my group to pick up and, you know, play.

  6. Re:4th Edition? on Co-op Neverwinter RPG Announced For 2011 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    On the other hand, 3rd ed was about "How much jerky did you bring when you went on this hike?", "Well, that's not enough jerky".

    4th Ed is the first one I can play with my friends where we spend more time playing than looking in damn books. Also, if you don't like Eladrin (basically High Elves) or Dragonborn, don't play them.

  7. Re:Every time I get out... on New WoW Patch Brings Cross-Server Instances · · Score: 1

    Yes it's great. I just got a dungeon for my 63 toon in about 2 minutes on an afternoon. Previously I had to wait in LFG and trade channels to find 5 man able to clear that, and that took about 30 minutes on an evening (when more people are on).

  8. Re:Trade with other players? on New WoW Patch Brings Cross-Server Instances · · Score: 1

    Not entirely true. Just did a Coilfang dungeon (outland) on my 63 warrior, and some draenic water dropped. I couldn't give it to the healer who was from another realm.

  9. Re:Trade with other players? on New WoW Patch Brings Cross-Server Instances · · Score: 1

    I think (haven't tried it) you can only trade stuff that dropped in that instance and has the blue "This item can be traded for 2 hours" text in its tooltip.

  10. Re:Wat? on Lifecycle Energy Costs of LED, CFL Bulbs Calculated · · Score: 1

    They burn out every week? You might have some seriously dirty power where you live. We have a few ceiling mounted, closed, multi bulb fixtures, and the CFL's in them don't burn out nearly as quick as yours. Current set has been going for about 2 years now. And they're on for at least 3 hours straight.

  11. Re:No? on Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties? · · Score: 1

    Yes, public hygiene is a public affair. But there aren't laws against smelling bad. What's bad anyway? I get nauseous from people who wear too much cologne. Can we ban that as well?

  12. Re:Good for apple on Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties? · · Score: 1

    I'm Dutch. Your point? I think people should be able to smoke in their own homes. Taxes on cigarettes are enormous, so they cover their own bills. Yes, they smell, but I've also stood next to non-smokers who almost made me throw up. You can't ban people smelling bad.

    Also, I think you should be able to beat your wife, if she's into that kind of sex. Stop telling others what they can't do when they aren't really hurting society.

  13. Re:Slums? I'm a gangsta! My epic will bust a cap on Recovering the Slums of the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Stormwind Mage Quarter represesent yo! Chilling with the homies in the basement of the Slaughtered Lamb.

  14. Re:A real WoWHead on Chinese Bureaucrats Duel Over Right To Regulate WoW · · Score: 2, Funny

    How? You're always OOM. There's no boom in oom.

  15. Re:And In Related News: on No Hand-Held Devices In Ontario Cars · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes it is. There's a difference between smoke and the smell of smoking. Some stuff I pick up during my work (mail service driver) smells like all kinds of nasty, and there's no law against that. If he wants to smoke in his personal truck (if it is his employers truck and the employer prohibits it, its a different story), while he is driving it alone, that is his good right.

    It's not like all the other exhaust gases are healthy.

  16. Re:125 MORE years until the US gets time... on 125 Years of Longitude 0 0' 00" At Greenwich · · Score: 1

    Gender is weird, I agree. Although I don't get them wrong in my native tongue (Dutch), I couldn't explain the rules regarding it or even why a specific gender is the correct one. I just know. And I know that that must be very hard to learn if you don't just know. I had a tough time learning the German cases. There are four of them and four genders, and there are definitive and indefinitive articles. This gives you a matrix of 32 possible options just so you put the right word in front of a noun.

  17. Re:It's because meters and feet are the same on 125 Years of Longitude 0 0' 00" At Greenwich · · Score: 1

    Beercan in the fridge. It says 33 CL. Small water bottle: 30 CL. Recipies often talk about adding a deciliter of something.

    In the defense of meters, if feet were a useful size we wouldn't need inches or fractions of inches. Don't drill-bits come in 1/16th inch increments in the States? If inches were a useful size, we wouldn't have miles. Whatever size you pick a unit length to be, there will always be a need for a different unit length. If set the meter to be as long as an inch or a foot and remove the centimeter from common use, we would still need a unit for, for example, Earth-Sun distances. So in the end it all boils down to which system is easier to do math with. And SI wins that game, in my opinion.

  18. Re:It's because meters and feet are the same on 125 Years of Longitude 0 0' 00" At Greenwich · · Score: 1

    No, you don't have the need to calculate how many times a small unit goes into a big one. Other people do. Also, why should I start with yet another conversion I can screw up?

    Also, fractions of 10 are not very hard either. 4 is 2,5. 3 is 3,33 repeating. Imperial does not really have an advantage here, as you have to memorize the fractions for both.

    Also, out of your head, how much does 7,5 gallon of water weigh in pounds and ounces? I can tell you the weight of 7,5 liter of water instantly. It's 7,5 kilogram.

  19. Re:It's because meters and feet are the same on 125 Years of Longitude 0 0' 00" At Greenwich · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, you are wrong. According to the SI, the millimeter does not exist as a separate unit. It's just like the centimeter or the kilometer, a prefix to the unit of a meter. Using SI prefixes to SI units is SI accepted, so these extra "units" should and do exist.

  20. Re:Growing up on Wizardry, Empire, Starflight on A Look At How Far PC Gaming Has Come · · Score: 1

    Tachyon was great. Also great were Freelancer (if you could get around to the somewhat odd flying controls) and my personal favorite game ever is Freelancer2, which you can now get for free because it has been open sourced. Freelancer2 also has a lot of buttons, but the learning curve is pretty smooth.

  21. Re:125 MORE years until the US gets time... on 125 Years of Longitude 0 0' 00" At Greenwich · · Score: 1

    Being Dutch, I agree with them. My English is a lot better than my German, even though I live about 10 miles from the German border. It helps that a lot of TV shows are in English and English is the language of the internet. On the other hand, I've also heard that Dutch is a very hard language...

    On pronunciation, there's a great poem on the internet that starts with this:
    Dearest creature in creation,
    Study English pronunciation.
    I will teach you in my verse
    Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
    I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
    Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
    Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
    So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.

  22. Re:It's because meters and feet are the same on 125 Years of Longitude 0 0' 00" At Greenwich · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Quickly, convert from 1234 kiloinch to miles! The beauty of the metric system is that there is one unit for distance, which is a meter. All others are just prefixes. A kilometer is just a kilo meters, so 1000 meters. All you have to do is move the decimal point. With the imperial system, going from the small distance unit (inch) to the large one (miles) requires a lot of conversion. And then you have a third, medium unit called the feet, just to make it a little more unwieldy.

  23. Re:The only person dumber than a computer salesper on Bad PC Sales Staff Exposed · · Score: 1

    At least doctors have a code of honor and actually have to study to obtain a license.

  24. Re:Cool on Gameboy Color Boot ROM Dumped After 10 Years · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well no. Basically, he masturbated in the ocean and called it fucking a woman. It's the closest most slashdotters can get, right?

  25. Re:But still... on Panasonic's New LED Bulbs Shine For 19 Years · · Score: 1

    It can't give off more heat and be more efficient at the same time. However, it is placed close to you so that helps :)