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  1. Re:They can be art on Roger Ebert On Why Video Games Can Never Be Art · · Score: 1

    I would say that it could be considered a form of art, and not just because of the book...

    Its a collaborative art. I've seen some, not alot and it was a while ago. I caught a glimpse of night fighting in the Middle East, I wasn't collaborator but I did get pulled into it and have a scar to show as proof of my attendance. Flares, tracers, the sounds and smells, as profound as anything I've seen or heard since.

  2. Re:Is it me or is he sounding more desperate? on Roger Ebert On Why Video Games Can Never Be Art · · Score: 1

    People do the same thing about motorsports, and golf.

  3. Re:Save complaints on Crytek Thinks Free Game Demos Will Soon Be Extinct · · Score: 1

    No, I didn't say that. Farcry when I played it, I don't know about later patches, didn't let the user save whenever they wanted. You know like pause and save?

  4. Re:Save complaints on Crytek Thinks Free Game Demos Will Soon Be Extinct · · Score: 1

    I'd rather have a system where I can save wherever I want (which Farcry didn't have when I played it at launch) or one that would let me go back to a chapter start (which Farcry didn't have when I played it at launch).

  5. Re:Doesn't change my opinion on Crytek Thinks Free Game Demos Will Soon Be Extinct · · Score: 1

    I think you missed the point of my comment. If I was on the fence or was rethinking my position on a publisher making me pay to try a game isn't going to get me to try a game.

    Just Cause 2, the free demo got me to buy it.

  6. Re:What? Malaria isn't fun? on Crytek Thinks Free Game Demos Will Soon Be Extinct · · Score: 1

    I really, really hated the save system in Farcry. Then when the story switched to mutants from genetic engineering I was really ticked off.

  7. Doesn't change my opinion on Crytek Thinks Free Game Demos Will Soon Be Extinct · · Score: 0, Troll

    I played Farcry and was terribly unimpressed with Crytek, this does nothing to make me want to spend money on their products.

  8. Re:Polarizing on Supermassive Black Holes Can Abort Star Formation · · Score: 0, Troll

    How long before its blamed on Global Warming?

  9. This isn't guilty until proven innocent. on Innocent Until Predicted Guilty · · Score: 1

    This is tracking and predicting people who have already been found guilty.

    Are people reading the summary up there or the article?

    No one's throwing anyone's rights out. Your "rights" are forfeit once you're convicted of a crime (at least for the period of the sentence.) By accepting a probationary sentence (i.e. not having to serve the whole thing in a detention facility)--you voluntarily trade certain rights (e.g. 4th amendment search and seizure,) in exchange for the privilege of not being locked up...It's perfectly legal, and is as old as our country itself.

  10. Re:Don't forget... on Entertainment Industry's Dystopia of the Future · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But unlike Communism, we don't get killed for voting for someone else.

    Perot was a viable third party candidate in '92 and '96. Nader was a spoiler in '00, Ventura became governor of Minnesota as a third party.

    We have independent party Senators.

    Yes, as a moderate Republican (they call me a RINO now) I have alot in common with the Blue Dog Democrats, but someone like Ron Paul is not virtually identical to President Obama. McCain and Obama were similar in 2008, but had McCain stuck to his stances he ran on in 2000 they would have been alot different.

    Palin or Paul in 2012 will not be virtually identical to President Obama.

  11. Re:Nicotine on American Lung Association Pushes For Ban On Electronic Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    Read 'em, I have.

  12. Re:Nicotine on American Lung Association Pushes For Ban On Electronic Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    Moore THM, Zammit S, Lingford-Hughes A et al. (2007). "Cannabis use and risk of psychotic or affective mental health outcomes: a systematic review". Lancet 370 (9584): 319–328

    Fergusson DM, Horwood LJ, Ridder EM (March 2005). "Tests of Causal Linkages Between Cannabis Use and Psychotic Symptoms.". Addiction 100 (3): 354–366.

    Henquet C, Krabbendam L, Spauwen J, et al. (January 2005). "Prospective Cohort Study of Cannabis Use, Predisposition for Psychosis, and Psychotic Symptoms in Young People.". British Medical Journal 330

    Patton GC, Coffey C, Carlin JB, Degenhardt L, Lynskey M, Hall W (November 2002). "Cannabis Use and Mental Health in Young People: Cohort Study.". British Medical Journal 325 (7374): 1195–1198

  13. Re:Don't forget... on Entertainment Industry's Dystopia of the Future · · Score: 1

    "Or else"? I didn't vote in the 2008 election and no one from the Republican Party came to my house and threatened me or worse. Nor did Obama win like this...

    "There were 11,445,638 eligible voters - and every one of them voted for the president, according to Izzat Ibrahim, Vice-Chairman of Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council."

    "You can't have free elections when the electorate goes to the polls in the knowledge that they have only one candidate, that candidate routinely murders and tortures opponents of the regime and the penalty for slandering that sole candidate is to have one's tongue cut out."

    Even the Iraqi in charge of the elections, Izzat Ibrahim said - Iraq's elections should not be compared to elections in Europe or America. Iraq was in a situation comparable to the early history of Arab states, he said - in Iraq there is one destiny for the whole country.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/2331951.stm

  14. Re:Nicotine on American Lung Association Pushes For Ban On Electronic Cigarettes · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Learn to Google.

  15. Re:Nicotine on American Lung Association Pushes For Ban On Electronic Cigarettes · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Nicotine on American Lung Association Pushes For Ban On Electronic Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    Pot is definitely addictive. But still a "soft drug" in that it won't kill you, same with LSD.

  17. Re:Nicotine on American Lung Association Pushes For Ban On Electronic Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    And alcohol? Pot? LSD? Other "soft drugs". Do we need to keep people away from all of that too?

  18. Re:I'll take whatever advancement we've got. on DNA Cancer Codes Cracked By International Effort · · Score: 1

    Kinda related to cancer, I had a small bleeding in my brain in the spring of '05. While I recovered the only communication I had with the outside world was WoW and my computer, so keep making the electronics.

    Oh and from my neck tumor I had to get a Medtronic nerve stimulator, so more electronics. They all help.

  19. Re:I'll take whatever advancement we've got. on DNA Cancer Codes Cracked By International Effort · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was diagnosed with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL) in the fall of 1980, it doesn't have stages like tumor cancers, but at the time I had a 5% chance to make it 3 years. I was clean after 3 months, it relapsed in the fall of 1982, 5% chance to make it 5 years.

    Spring of 1991 I was diagnosed early with Stage 0 (Carcinoma in Situ) Testicular Cancer on both sides, surgery and some chemo.

    Fall of 2006 I was diagnosed with a non-cancerous tumor in my neck, that left a nice scar.

    I'm the only one in my NIH tracking group of ALL from back then to be alive.

    Doctors freak me out, IVs of anytime scare the hell out of me, my fear are lumps from a lymph node.

  20. Re:"Successfully"? on The iPad vs. Microsoft's "Jupiter" Devices · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Newton flopped.

    100,000 the first year.

    http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/600D65E6-A31E-45CA-AFC5-42BC253F5337.html

    While the iPad has at least tripled that

    http://www.pcworld.com/article/193781/ipad_sales_estimated_to_top_600000.html

    I had a couple Newtons, an MP 130 and later a 2000

  21. Re:Message To The World on US Rejects Demands For ACTA Transparency · · Score: 1

    Go read the Bear Went Over the Mountain and the Other Side of the Mountain about what really happened in Afghanistan.

    Better use of your time than Wikipedia.

  22. Re:Message To The World on US Rejects Demands For ACTA Transparency · · Score: 1

    Actually, the historical Wyatt Earp was a law man, farmer, teamster, buffalo hunter, gambler, card dealer, saloon-keeper, miner, Hollywood consultant and boxing referee.

    The Americans, British, French, Chinese, Israelis, Saudis, Iranians and Pakistanis all had a part in countering the Soviets in Afghanistan so don't blame it all on the CIA because that is just ignoring history.

  23. Re:I guess it depend on your priorites. on Neil Armstrong Criticizes Obama's Space Strategy · · Score: 1

    You are worried about the sun going out?

    Thats four billion years away, humans won't be here for it no matter what happens.

  24. Re:Shut Up, Former Astronaut! on Neil Armstrong Criticizes Obama's Space Strategy · · Score: 1

    And California, Texas, Alabama, and Utah.

  25. Re:Hope and change, open government on US Rejects Demands For ACTA Transparency · · Score: 1

    Nothing going boom? US relations with Israel are going boom. The transparency of the Executive Branch are going boom, every week there is a new story about how the White House is closing itself to the media. Afghanistan and the Tribal Areas of Pakistan are going boom. The economy is going boom as the auto-bailout is failing and unemployment is increasing.