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  1. whats wrong with this world? on EU Blocks France's Ban of Monsanto's GM Maize · · Score: 0

    you cant even ban what you know is bad for everyone. i don't like Monsanto, i have a bad opinion of them. i would be more agreeable with GM crops if they were properly tested and properly approved. not approved before testing, and not putting it in the food supply without testing. now the stuff cant even be banned? YOU WILL EAT GM FOOD! sad sad world...if there is more to the story, they should share, not act as if they are too elite. this is how the revolutions in most countries started. the political peoples not talking to the people, and doing whatever they wanted anyway. but it doesn't matter, 90% will just lay back and take it, that's what the high levels of fluoride do...

  2. there would be a lil prob with tech... on Ask Slashdot: What If Intellectual Property Expired After Five Years? · · Score: 0

    like M$ sold windows xp for more than 5 years. should other companies also be allowed to sell the same os at the same time? doesn't seem right to me. perhaps if the current tech is no longer supported/updated. this also opens a large loophole for companies who will release a patch to whatever once a year just to say their updating it. personally, i don't believe in any intellectual rights and think patents are way way too long. none of its there to help or be nice to the people, like the stories we get from big govt. like for instance, music. if its good, people will buy it. if it isn't, they wont. you don't need some extra protection on it. if it sucks, it sucks and only 13 year olds will buy it. tho if it is good, people will buy it and for a long time. pink floyd, the beatles and greatful dead are all still making profits for the company.

  3. Re:Hate to put a damper on the celebration on Diablo III Released · · Score: 0

    pay the lawyers? their on retainer. if the company goes belly up, someone will buy the rights to it, everything is owned anymore. wouldn't it be nice to have them big ceos and politicians tell the truth for a day? would the market fall? would there be civil war in every nation? i just know their going to lie cheat steal and keep anything entertaining away from the lower classes. just like the mid ages, its a class based system. the millionaires have been so far removed from society someone actually thinks drm is a good idea. not only is drm a good idea, but tossing anyone in prison who wants ot play a game is a better idea. lets make thier cellmate a psychotic murder that they have to spend every waking moment with for 5 years. that will teach them to play games!

  4. Re:Hate to put a damper on the celebration on Diablo III Released · · Score: 0

    fight piracy by making the game imposable to play! i cant wait for the cracked version myself. since i dont have a broadband connection, i cant play a single player game on my computer. i learned my lesson with fallout new vegas. after i bought that, and let steam grind for almost a week and was no closer to being able to play, i went lookin for a pirated version. now i can play! it only has to be illegal. about the patch...i never found a patch for the ligit game, i had to download the completely steam free version. took 3 trips to mc d's to get it all done. i still havent seen a patch. i would love to find some sorta anti steam patch. i want to hear about lulsec or whatever hacking group take down steam, like they did sonys ps3 network. then maybe the companies would start being nice again. piracy is going to happen. if all the studies that have been done about it were released, it would paint a totally different picture. its almost like the govt and the big companies want you to believe they are charging you huge amounts of money because thats hte only way they can make any. but the truth is that piracy accounts for a very small percentage of things. like fake levi's, their out there, but dont hurt the company that much. if be more than happy to buy a steam free version. but i wont pay more for it. we should celebrate when the pirated version hits usenet, then we can all play the game!

  5. you have to post to facebook to be SMART?

  6. well then on If You Resell Your Used Games, the Terrorists Win · · Score: 0

    them tricky terrorist found a way to get money out of gamestop. so, i cant sell a game i have in order to stop a suicide bomber. that means that gamestop supports suicide bombers. and suicide bombers need used games. as posted earlier, they need to stop selling crappy games with no ability to play over and over. they also need to make it so you dot need a broandband connection to play a single player game. i really liked fallout. but i couldn't play fallout vegas, it used STEAM. i had to wait for the cracked version before i could play it. thanks ripping groups! if that game was made so anyone could play it, they would have made another 65 bucks from me. same with civ5, and many others. i cant buy games anymore, all of em use Steam. or, i could buy them, buy couldn't use them, and now i cant sell them cause that would support a suicide bomber, somehow. how come every chance people have to make a lil bit of money, someone there is ready to shout out for the companies. i mean, are there really people out there so shallow and separated from the world that they actually think what their doing is right?

  7. what the hell... on Feds Shut Down Tor-Using Narcotics Store · · Score: 0

    Feds Shut Down Tor Using Narcotics Store http://t.co/HqsOjzQx that saysd the feds have shut down the tor network using their narcotics storage or a narcotics storefront. i used to enjoy /. the headlines were slightly offbeat, but now their a complete fabrication. the onion is more straight forward than this crap...

  8. Re:There are no repercussions, across the board on Counterterrorism Agents Were Told They Could Suspend the Law · · Score: 0

    democracy? voting?? we get the govt they give us. what if noone voted, how many votes would they count? this is no more a democracy than i am prince philip... its an oligarchy/police state with communistic ties (everything cost the same). if tehre was real compition, would a movie ticket differ in price, from state to state? how about a new cd? pair of jeans? loaf of bread? can of soup? its all the same price within a few cents. all the pizza on the frozen food isle is owned by 2 companies. this is freedom? it looks liek a duopoly giving the image of such things. makes me think of 1984....we were always at peace with iraq...

  9. Re:Terrible Headline on 'IMAX Movie of Body' Allows Stanford Geneticist To Stop Diabetes In Its Tracks · · Score: 0

    have you noticed the change in their news letter? the totally different urls, and it comes in late afternoon instead of earlier in the morning, making it imposable for me to read. someone bought em, or convinced em that acting like a buncha bafoons is a good thing

  10. end the debate on Pi Day Is Coming — But Tau Day Is Better · · Score: 0

    start using 366 degrees for a circle, its a lot more precise, and makes pi solvable

  11. Re:Revolving Door on FTC Attorney Joins Microsoft · · Score: -1

    what was he supposed to do after he left his govt job? never work again? so i would have to pay tax money to support him, how much would his non working salary be? should we prohibit federal employees from working in any corp of more than 500 people? that would be, mean...

  12. bad programming? on Microsoft Accuses Google of Violating Internet Explorer's Privacy Settings · · Score: 0

    my question, how does a webpage override a program that's actually on your computer? it doesn't seem like rocket science to me. i only know a tad about mirc scripting, and and-if-else pops into my head. the way it sounds, safari and internet exploder want to make the internet comply to them. whereas they should actually do what they advertize. the worlds worst browser doesn't have much of a leg to stand on, i'm not sure where safari falls into this. but if the browsers were truly secure, there shouldn't be a prob. i am not a fan of google. i do not agree with that blasted google anylitics (sp) everywhere. if you click secure, it should be somewhat secure, not spark a lawsuit because they don't want to do actual programming. it really seems like they want the image of being secure, but do not actually want it to be. like most things. laptop encryption is in court atm, what about smart phone encryption? also, wanting to be secure is on the list of the fbis 'you could be a terrorist if...' statement. they only want it to look like its secure, not actually be secure.

  13. Re:U.S. is not to blame. on The Destruction of Iraq's Once-Great Universities · · Score: 1

    well, the US is to blame. for it not going to war with unwarranted reasoning, it would not have happened. but it wasn't a weapons of mass destruction, it was the whole mid easy. 1 at a time. we had to totally destroy their infrastructure, medical and educational framework, because it was better than ours. like Norton AV from the earlier 80's, a true American company. put your name on things that are not yours, sell things that you did not right, violate every copyright there is, buy the competition out because they are better than you, then throw everything away. a true american company mr norton died when he was about 35 from severe alcoholism, prolly brought on by the stress caused by stealing and underhandedness. tis the american way tho. we couldn't let a 'terrorist' nation have anything better than we do. then again, this stuff happens in war.

  14. i wan one!! on Pirate Apple TV Operation Nabbed In Australia · · Score: 0

    free tv! the way it should be. quickly...tv used to be free, commercials paid for the content, long as enough people watched the ads, they were satisfied. today, you have to pay a rather huge sum to get the tv stations, most of it is crap and wouldn't be watched. the commercials don't even make sense for the most part. anyway what did this guy do? he sold something that was shipped to him. it looked ligit....but, it wasn't. this looks like what sopa would look like. jsujt arrest the lot, seize everything. he will get nothing back, destroy his life, long as he didn't pirate (knowingly or not) a tv show and cost the corporation 3852752498567892347614891 trillion dollars. maybe their trying to run the world 100 years in the past...still grasping onto physical things. this is a new age, embrace it

  15. interstellar rocks!!! on NASA Finds Interstellar Matter From Beyond Our Solar System · · Score: 1

    better than moon rocks! are these also completely worthless, but we will spend billions, even trillions to get one?

  16. Re:Can they simply delete it? on Megaupload User Data Could Be Destroyed Soon · · Score: 0

    what evidence? they searched n took what they needed at the time. it is all still theirs. its destruction of something that might be able to be used to incriminate them, maybe. when talkin bout the govt, its something that could incriminate everyone who has ever used that website.

  17. Re:In other words, on Web Developer Sentenced To Death In Iran · · Score: 0

    where are the 'hikers' now? first, if they actually were hikers, why were they in a war torn country? thats kinda, moronic. secondly, where was their map? compass? did they know how to read a map? remember, they were hikers. lastly, who are we to question their justice system? we catch someone with a joint and toss em in jail for life. they cut off a hand. now what way is more cruel? ask anyone in prison for having a joint, they will give up their left hand to be free. i personally think, being a simple hiker, you would try your best to avoid WAR and countries we want to have wars with. the media portrays iran as a country that harbors terrorists. 10 years ago it was a great place to visit. the only difference that i cant find is money. it wont borrow money from the IMF. it wont get on board with every other in debt nation. it has its own currency. it has a supreme educational system. have you ever met a dumb Iranian? social security, noone is sick and homeless. its paid for, and everything cheap. (yes, i am sure there are homeless, but they are not hungry). the usa has a way of drivign other countries into debt, and destroying what they have thats better just so we can be number 1 again. sorta like norton antivirus. destroy all competition...then the complete piece of crap can be number 1. i am not pro iran. i am anti state run media. there are 2 sides to the story. i do not agree with any internet crime getting more than a year or 2 in prison. but what he failed to do is check to see if there were any warrants for his arrest. thats what one should do anyway. ot os their own sovereign nation, with their own laws. we, being the rest of the world, have no right to even question them. if i had my own country, and made tobacco and booze illegal, would other countries pressure me into making those 2 legal? what would give them the right?

  18. Re:that will tieup the courts and jury trials on US Government Seeks Extradition of UK Student For File-Sharing · · Score: 0

    stop buying their crap...thats pretty much why we are in this mess. but the kids still do, convince that 12 year old not to listen to coldplay anymore....

  19. i cant wait on AP and 28 News Groups To Collect Fees From Aggregators · · Score: 0

    soon i will only get the news the govt wants me to hear! i wont even have the ability to search out the anthrax mailer, or Americans being tortured, i wont be able to look for article about yellow cake in iraq or heroin in Afghanistan, only what the govt deems beneficial to me. searching takes too long and its too much effort. I'm glad someone can think for me, cause i have a hard time myself.

  20. product placement on Why Do All Movie Tickets Cost the Same? · · Score: 0

    product placement and advertizing (the main character drinks a coke). i dont need more advertizing. commercials within a movie, and yet prices soar even higher. on a large scale, people are not going to the movies as much, but prices are soaring ever higher. the less people that go, the higher the price. the guy behind the desk at the top will get his money. pure, simple greed/communism. cant say for sure it is either, but sure looks it.

  21. no ecoonomic value on Rare Moon Mineral Found On Earth · · Score: 0

    mostly because none wants to pay for a rock. not because its worthless. thats like me saying an audio cd has no economic value. if i ever heard any good songs, i might buy a cd. but they wont buy a rock, tehy will arrest detain search houses and seize everything till they get what they want. no economic value

  22. i cant believe noone has said it on Why Do All Movie Tickets Cost the Same? · · Score: 0

    communism! the movie, music, game and tv industries are communist!!! i know i am most likely wrong, but proving it would prove rather difficult.

  23. Re:Also on Ebert: I'll Tell You Why Movie Revenue Is Dropping · · Score: -1

    hahahaha original he says. that would mean that tehy write, produce and film something that they do not know about. it hasn't been categorized and analyzed. like, scream 4, they knew almost how many tickets they would sell, and how many dvd's. to them, this is good entertainment. something they can depend on. sci fi movies, since movies have started, have never been big hits. the ticket sales were always dismal. Pandora was a box office flop. rightfully so, as the movie sucked goat balls. it was a copy, a rather sad remake of a french film that was barely a year old called Eden Log. its dubbed in english, its also subbed. i cant distinctly remember another film like it. oh, both subbed n dubbed are edited together different, the endings are different also. tehre was boondock saints. a diamond in the rough. the industry took a chance. the guy that wrote/directed it pissed em off, so they refused anything from him again. they tried to make a second, with catastrophic results. but then again, the industry makes good calls also. there was a second script for beetlejuice written, beetlejuice goes to hawaii, but it was never filmed :) you cant exactly fault them for sticking to what they know works. but you can for making gobs of money, and not trying to do what the companies are for, entertainment. thats what i have been looking for. there was a movie a while backed called the Killing Room. i think that was original, tho it was most likely a remake from a 60's movie that i did not see. to keep this on topic, yes, the price of EVERYTHING is just outrageous. the cost of the food alone should be enough to fund a few movies. but looking at the movie goers, not on a whole, but a very large percentage, are teen to earlie 20's. they are the ones that spend the money. as you get older, you tend to think of the 20 dollars vs renting a movie. so the movies will be aimed to them. if its a remake, its been a priven something that works. and they have not seen it before. i just saw The Mechanic, with jason stathem. it was 'ok'. his movies are always good popcorn movies. tho t he professional was the same thing, and 1000 before that. but the ones that went to see it haven't seen all those others. the people complaining about such things, like myself, don't account for much of the ticket sales. so teens/earlie 20 drive ticket sales noone ever wants a flop sci fi doesnt do too well. would you take your 11th grade date to see 'alien poofters invade earth' or something like, never been kissed, or something about mary? most movies are simply remakes of older ones. what i would like would to have the movies give credit to the one they are remaking. that clint eastwood movie, for a few dollars, and the counterpart, for a few dollars more. then comes along the industry and makes last man standing. not 1 lil mention of those 2, or the japanese play they all derived from. it was put out there as if it were original. just 1 example of what i mean. the Jews that own this industry say that their people invented comedy. i will not argue with that, i just want them to prove it :) show me something funny and new. or...something interesting, not the same story with diff faces. i have probably seen 15 movies this week. there was only 1 that i could not clearly see one before that.. that was the imax film about hubble. i wouldn't recommend that. not enough space picture stuff. too much about the guys floating around and talking about toilets and stuck bolts. the only way to get them to produce anything without a algorithm would be have everyone in the nation stop going to see the movies, renting movies, or even subscribing to hbo. for a long while. i think it would take 3 of the big 4 to collapse before any of them understand. origonality is not the right thing for them. same with the music industry. alot of books are just repeats of the same thing. and games? there was donkey kong, and now everythings a copy of it. street fighter, now everythings a copy of that. w

  24. screw steam and thier 'service' on Valve's Gabe Newell On Piracy: It's Not a Pricing Problem · · Score: 0

    being on dialup, i cant even connect to steam, much less play any game that uses it. i was an idiot and paid for fallout NV and that new duke nukem. after months of trying to get connected to steam and update, i gave up, and had a friend download the torrents for me. the only thing that worked was the pirated versions of the game. wish them hackers did a better job, valve still operates.....

  25. Re:HOW the HELL on Duqu Installer Exploits Windows Kernel Zero Day · · Score: 0