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  1. Re:Yes, you are right on Should Colleges Ban Classroom Laptop Use? · · Score: 1

    Meekness does not equal anxiety disorder. It's an invaluable trait though some consider it a sign of weakness; the fools.

  2. Re:Hypocrites on Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers · · Score: 3

    "Would you mind uploading your email archive to a web server for the rest of us to look over?"

    At my place of work every email can be subject to review, also every single packet of information that leaves my computer. I would even daresay they have the right to monitor my computer screen remotely.

    My employer has the right to this information, and since the Government is our employee, we do too.

  3. Re:Some people do not even watch TV on Internet Usage Catches Up With Television In US · · Score: 1

    Someone who "Watches TV" IMO means watching more than three 30 minute shows a day regularly, or if you watch more than one movie per day.

    When I considered myself completely TV free, I wasn't watching anything on any medium, whether it be netflix, torrents, or plain old TV. Now that I have become addicted like usual when I begin watching anything with any regularity, I'm watching episodes of very particular shows for 3-4 hours per night on various "watch-show-name.com" sites...

    I used to fill that time with personal projects, music production and mixing, exercising, light-gaming, and in general doing anything productive at all once I get home from work. Now it's the default to just come home at 6:00pm and flip on the episodes while cooking dinner, eating, and then sitting there watching either the same show or two to three different shows until it's time to go to bed. My g/f is now playing Aion (an mmo) from the time she wakes up til the time she goes to bed, quite literally. She'll do laundry, clean up a bit, and take care of our two big huskies; but her brain is completely melting atm (our car is broke down so I take the bus to work. She has literally not been off of our property for almost a month now). We're literally starting to have trouble with speech and pronunciation because we hardly ever talk, only type (even to each other).

    I know everything should be done in moderation, but it's become rather hard to bring myself to do anything other than vegetate explicitly when I'm not at work. When I'm at work my desire to do things is completely bonkers and I end up researching stuff and planning stuff out that I never do with a firey passion, until it dies completely when I get home...

    TV is alright if you're not watching it regularly (every day seems bad to me), but when consuming video content becomes your sole activity it does something to your brain...

  4. Re: Another PHP on Moodle 1.9 Extension Development · · Score: 0, Troll

    PHP is far from dead

  5. Re:What's the adage? on China To Build Its Own Large Jetliner · · Score: 4, Informative

    From Rolls-Royce's website "Rolls-Royce wins $1.2 billion order from China Eastern Airlines and agrees environmental partnership"

    http://www.rolls-royce.com/civil/news/2010/101109_china_easter_order.jsp

  6. Re:Kick in the balls! on Father of Java, James Gosling Unloads · · Score: 1

    And nothing of value was lost

  7. Re: Facebook Is Down on Facebook Is Down · · Score: 1

    I use facebook to keep people in my City and elsewhere up-to-date about a weekly show, a monthly show, and various other random events that I help run and promote for. We have a website and use an email/sms contact list, but it's among the many tools we use to keep regular people in-the-know.

    The biggest problem I hear people say over and over with them attending electronic-oriented shows is them not knowing where to look to find one. I used to think they happened every month or two but in reality there's 2-3 events per week, you just have to know where to look.

    I try to make it as easy as possible for people who give me money to find me.

  8. Science and God are one on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    "Because there is a law such as gravity" If there is a God, who do you think created such laws?

    Why is it that science and God are always held at opposition. Isn't it naturally logical that a hypothetical God would have used natural laws that he likely put into motion to begin with? God wouldn't just use magical fluff, he'd obviously be the greatest mathematician and scholar in existence.

    "the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist"

    Isn't God often attributed to have always existed or having created himself?

    Even Stephen Hawking can do nothing but grasp at ideas when it comes to literally proving the existence or lack thereof, of a creator god.

  9. Re:More Info & Dashboard on Global Warming 'Undeniable,' Report Says · · Score: 1

    ^ This

  10. Re:a psych eval..... on Man Wants to Donate His Heart Before He Dies · · Score: 1

    Except..it's not necessarily a case of wanting to die, it's a case of being willing to die, but wanting to do something in the process.

    ^ This

  11. Re:Kinda on Man Wants to Donate His Heart Before He Dies · · Score: 1

    When does it stop being artistic and become attempted suicide?

    In a perfect world, we wouldn't need to make that distinction. Granted it's caused by one's own self, as opposed to forcing it on someone else; obviously.

  12. Re:Kinda on Man Wants to Donate His Heart Before He Dies · · Score: 1

    Fucking criminal, isn't it?

    FTFY

  13. Re:That's silly... on Unique ID In India Causes 'Fear of the Beast' · · Score: 1

    Jesus never baptized anyone, it even goes as far as to say it: John 4:2 "although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples."

  14. Re:Nothing new on One Step Closer to Star Wars Holograms · · Score: 1

    Well, because there is only horizontal parallax, and not vertical parallax for one thing. If you had an image of a pair of dice behind a playing card you could move left or right to look behind the card to see the dice, but you could not move up to look over the card to see the dice.

    "but you could not move up to look over the card to see the dice." It seemed to work just fine in the video.

  15. Re:GREAT IDEA! on Chatroulette Working On Genital Recognition Algorithm · · Score: 1

    Don't block them, just limit the dudes whacking it to connecting with other guys whacking it lol.

  16. Re:horrible horrible horrible idea. on HP Gives Printers Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    What a Hoar!

  17. Re:Obvious thing to do on Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded · · Score: 1

    Why?

  18. Re: A police officer's view on Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded · · Score: 1

    "The cop is less likely to smash some heads if you have a camera on him [and knows it]."

    FTFY

  19. Re:Inhaling Beer? on Reproducing an Ancient New World Beer · · Score: 3, Informative

    Equating the responsible enjoyment of a truly interesting, historical, fine craft beer with illegal drug abuse is not funny. Not even when you put a :) after it.

    "Ethanol is one of the oldest recreational drugs."
    -Wikipedia

  20. Re:Blasphemy? on Pakistan Court Orders Facebook Ban Over Mohammed Images · · Score: 1

    That's exactly why the concept of God is so controversial. Singular and supreme authority doesn't sit well with some, especially when that authority is not voluntary and relative. It also brings up the pesky problem of giving official purpose of life, which is often romanticized as to being individual and self-determined.

  21. Re:The problem... on Woman Tells State Judiciary Committee, "DoD Implanted A Microchip Inside Me" · · Score: 1

    it is a sad truth

  22. Privacy concerns on Foursquare Turns Down $100M · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they were concerned that the exact GPS location of everyone's favorite places, activities, and friends could fall under the category of information that could be badly abused. It'd probably make me quit using it if they sold-out to some big company.

  23. Re:Sudden persepective. on After 27 Years, a New High Score For Asteroids · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just got 3 hours of sleep, braaaaaaaaaaaaains

  24. Re:Old days? on Twins' DNA Foils Police · · Score: 1

    +5

  25. Re:ipad is for humans! on iPad Launches, FCC Teardown Leaked · · Score: 1

    you can hardly find a PC in stores anymore...

    lol