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  1. Re:Proof on Bruce Sterling says: Marry the UN and the Net · · Score: 1

    Use Google.

    Yeah, airline pilots look down upon weddings where traditionally shots are fired up in the air as immideate threats. Especially when the guns aren't even pointed at them.

    Idiot.

  2. Re:Confused on Bruce Sterling says: Marry the UN and the Net · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes - bombing weddings in Afghanistan and Iraq is one example - putting up innocent people's names on "terrorist lists" (all nationalities) to ruin their economies is another.

    The USA is the biggest threat to world peace - especially with 50% of its population brainwashed into thinking there really is some huge undefined threat that only applies to them and that they would be better of without the rest of the world.

  3. Re:Confused on Bruce Sterling says: Marry the UN and the Net · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... and so do the US, all over the world.

  4. Re:Just what does GWB believe in? on Origins Mini-Series Airs Tonight · · Score: 1

    Same thing. USA changed position when the world reacted.

    Point is: The dictatorship and human rights abuser nation of Kuwait wasn't "innocent".

  5. Re:Yep. on PSP Pricing Announced · · Score: 1
    DoA Beach Volleyball

    N.U.D.E

    ... do you want me to continue? How about the blood'n'gore games - want me to name "a few" only available on PS2 and Xbox and not on the cube?

    When you want to debate, make sure you know something about the subject first.

  6. Re:Just what does GWB believe in? on Origins Mini-Series Airs Tonight · · Score: 0, Troll

    Umm. Iraq invaded Kuwait, after getting an OK from the USA, because Kuwait stole oil from Iraqi oilfields.

    Yes, really.

  7. Re:Yep. on PSP Pricing Announced · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Make that gamers of ages 13 to 18. Anyone older than that appreciates what Nintendo does - GOOD games that doesn't need excessive violence, blood and nudity. Or something.

    I'm 30. I have lots more Gamecube games than I have games for my Xbox and PS2 together.

  8. Re:Piracy on Microsoft To Sell Win XP Starter Edition In Russia · · Score: 1

    Why do you make up such a thing? A bit for bit copy of the original WinXP CD isn't more spyware infected than the original itself ...

  9. Re:not quite so hard... on Online Poker Bots Becoming Problematic? · · Score: 1

    While I haven't tried one of those programs, I do play poker online. I guess I'm better than average.

    These "bots" doesn't help at all in deciding whether someone is bluffing, and, poker online is a lot about bluffing. (More so in Hold'em vs Omaha, but anyway)

  10. Re:Big Concern on Lost Nuclear Bomb Found Off Georgia Coast? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    USA - bombing weddings in various countries.

    No, you're not at war with them.

  11. Re:500+ Channels of HDTV all sitting idle on DirecTV Plans 1500 HiDef Channels by End of 2007 · · Score: 1

    Please, give up. It seems above you don't even realise that your comparing interlaced vs progressive signals in addition to the _extreme_ increase in discrete pixels (both vertically and horisontally, something you also don't seem to understand).

    The difference between NTSC and PAL is _minimal_ compared to the difference between both of them and 720p (I don't like 1080i since it's interlaced)

    I watch content in PALi, 480p and 720p every day. From your posts I conclude that you probably write about things you don't understand.

  12. Re:500+ Channels of HDTV all sitting idle on DirecTV Plans 1500 HiDef Channels by End of 2007 · · Score: 1

    I live in Sweden. Guess what system we use here.

    Do you want to get into resolution approximations and calculations, including hidden lines on a normal signal compared to all lines available in HDTV etc?

  13. Re:500+ Channels of HDTV all sitting idle on DirecTV Plans 1500 HiDef Channels by End of 2007 · · Score: 1

    I don't believe you - you've obviously never seen HDTV (american or japanese btw?). No, that tv-rips you download have "hdtv" in them does not mean that the resolution is 1280*720.

    You could always go and try to find that Lord of the Rings version in 1280*720 .ts of course.

    (Yes, I have an 110" HDTV-capable projector)

  14. Re:Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics on Mozilla Usage Doubles in 9 Months · · Score: 1

    Have you made sure you catch Opera as Opera even when it's set (as it is in default) to fake IE?

    I have, and my numbers for Opera are a LOT higher.

  15. Re:The advertisements on Make Money Fast · · Score: 1

    Worked fine with Opera 7.54 here.

  16. Re:Excellent news on China Goes Nuclear · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Not worth the time to read it, summary below... on AbiWord vs. MS Word, For Now · · Score: 1

    Well you're spot on. The claim is that there's a lot of shared components really only used by Microsoft programs, and the memory they use turn up as "system" - not the program itself.

    However, since no one was able to reply with the source I sought I guess I'll have to consider it an urban myth. Too bad - I actually believed it (and I do operating system development for a living ;).

  18. Re:Not worth the time to read it, summary below... on AbiWord vs. MS Word, For Now · · Score: 1

    Several Microsoft programs hide their actual memory usage under "system" since their components are loaded/created as Windows components.

    I'd love to have someone verify the above, since the source I had for it became a 404 more than a year ago though.

  19. Re:UNIVERSAL SERVICE FEES ARE A GOOD THING!!! on Nintendo DS To Allow Free VoIP Calls · · Score: 2, Informative

    Try going to another country..Europe, Japan, etc...their phone system is so useless they have to use cell phones for everything.

    Troll. Many european countries have vastly superior phone systems compared to the US. You might want to read up on a little company called Ericsson, what they've done, which country they're from etc.

    That said, the former socialist monopoly of Televerket/Telia in Sweden is the reason why that's so.

  20. Re:Funny enough, I was planning on voting for Kerr on Bikes Against Bush Creator Busted · · Score: -1, Troll

    as an American citizen, I can cast my vote.
    my vote will be going to Bush this November,


    Thanks for proving just how stupid USians are.

  21. Re:INDIA (was Re:Inca's and Zero) on One, Two, Many - Language Shapes Thought · · Score: 1

    I think the joke's on you though. I posted that same link a few minutes before, using an anchor tag, but couldn't bother the second time around since it's in the same thread and people could click the first one.

    I really love your post being modded informative though :)

  22. Re:INDIA (was Re:Inca's and Zero) on One, Two, Many - Language Shapes Thought · · Score: 3, Informative

    many historians of mathematics believe that the Indian use of zero evolved from its use by Greek astronomers

    http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTop ic s/Zero.html

  23. Re:Inca's and Zero on One, Two, Many - Language Shapes Thought · · Score: 1

    +5 and no one bothered to check.

    The exceptions were the mathematicians who were involved in recording astronomical data. Here we find the first use of the symbol which we recognise today as the notation for zero, for Greek astronomers began to use the symbol O

    History of zero

  24. Re:Why you should worry about US laws on Grokster Wins Big in Ninth Circuit · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You should take the US-Australia free trade agreement as an example of why you should worry about US laws ... nah. We're more interested in US trade balance and have rightly concluded that the US needs the World more than the World needs the US.

    Thus, all we have to do is say "nah" to the US, duck when the bombs fall and live out this age of fascist tyranny.

  25. Re:Interesting on Predictions Of Further PSP Release Delay Floated · · Score: 1

    10 is more probably when you play music and have the screen turned off. This comes from the comments Sony made at E3.