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  1. Re:Exercise. on A Million Kids Misdiagnosed with ADHD? · · Score: 1

    I think that playtime gym, with dodgeball and all, is fine for the younger children. Once you start hitting those middle years though, gym should be refocused as a general health education class. Teach the kids how and when to properly exercise. Tell them about the different substances that make up the food they eat and exactly how there bodies use it. Americans in particular seem to be getting fatter and fatter because they don't know how to eat properly (including what to eat, when to eat, and how much to eat). Start educating people and maybe it'll have an effect.

    Also, let's do away with the candy and soda vending machines in school cafeterias, mmkay? The school meals are already gross enough without further marketing fatty, over processed snacks.

  2. Re:Sigh on A Million Kids Misdiagnosed with ADHD? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I'm almost tempted to say that every case of ADHD has been misdiagnosed. It's just another one of those made up conditions that skirt real problems with society itself.

  3. Re:The expense of the interlock... on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 1

    I wish more idiotic drivers would end up killing themselves. Sadly, too many of them only end up hurting other drivers instead.

    Get off your cell phone, drive an appropriate sized car, and don't think that reaching your destination five minutes earlier will make a difference in life.

  4. Re:The expense of the interlock... on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 1

    I just thought they were yuppies?

    It seems like the only people only motorcycles nowadays are fat, bald, have a hair-dyed goatee, and ride while wearing shorts and fucking sandals!

  5. Re:The expense of the interlock... on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 1

    It's a lot cheaper than getting smashed at the bar every weekend.

  6. Re:Wait... on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't think too many states outclass Alaska when it comes to drunks!

  7. Re:Hardware support is still weak on Gestures With Multitouch In Ubuntu 10.10 · · Score: 1

    Wacom makes fairly inexpensive touchpads. Actually, if I remember correctly, most of their Bamboo line can even be purchased without a stylus. Essentially you can cheap out and not get any of the actually useful, artistic features to quench your touchy-feelie desires. :P

  8. Re:Logo on Geek Squad Sends Cease-and-Desist Letter To God Squad · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, Best Buy isn't mad eup of Satanists. They appreciate what he's trying to do.

    Best Buy Co. tells the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that it appreciates what Strand is trying to do, but it's bad precedent to let groups violate its trademarks.

    That just gives me yet another reason to not shop at Best Buy. Never mind they annoying and idiotic employees, they appreciate evangelists!

  9. Re:Anonymous Coward on Blizzard Sues Private Server Company, Awarded $88M · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't the data files all be on the customer's WoW disc though? Just because they're pointing their game at a different server doesn't mean much.

  10. Re:Why? on New Jaguar XJ Suffers Blue Screen of Death · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder this as well. Of course, I drive a 1972 VW Super Beetle everyday. The most complex electronics in it is my aftermarket stereo! :P

  11. Re:Less than one percent... on The Fuel Cost of Obesity · · Score: 2, Insightful

    and it has a lot more electric gizmos for pollution control as well as comfort

    More gizmos to cause problems and break, you mean.

  12. Re:Poll; what was the best game created on Doom 3? on id Software Demos Rage On iPhone, Releases Source Code For Two Games · · Score: 1

    Prey was pretty entertaining. I also thought that Wolfenstein was decent, even if the mouselook was sluggish and suffered from console-itis.

  13. Re:Troubling on ISP Owner Who Fought FBI Spying Freed From Gag Order · · Score: 1

    When did we ever have freedom of speech? The illusion is just fading faster nowadays, that's all.

  14. Similar Results on Man Patents Self-Burying Coffin · · Score: 1

    It greatly reduce excavation labor and burial costs, decreases land use, and opens up more space for burials in unused areas of a cemetery.

    Cremation does the same thing. So does a burlap sack and a roadside ditch. Seriously people, you're dead. Get over it.

  15. Re:What else would they do? on Medical Students Open To Learning With Video Games · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what they get paid to do after graduating?

  16. Re:Wow on 'u' — the First Authentic Klingon Opera On Earth · · Score: 1

    You should receive no pity from Kahless.

  17. Re:Skill? on Website Lets You Bet On Your Grades · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You go to school to buy a piece of paper to impress employers. Learning plays no factor in so-called modern education.

  18. Re:How I Got the First Post on How Death Rally Got Ported · · Score: 1

    I hadn't played anything too seriously since Quake3 and Unreal Tournament 2K4. Truly fun competitive FPS seems have died after that. I do greatly enjoy the Left 4 Dead franchise however, which goes to show that the genre isn't a complete bust nowadays.

  19. Re:So silly. Just remake Quake 3 already! on Quake Live Beta Ends, Optional Subscription Plans Added · · Score: 1

    We just need a good commercial version of the Generations mod.

    www.moddb.com/mods/generations-arena

  20. Re:Old, and fake on Girl Quits On Dry Erase Board a Hoax · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but she is quite the HPOA.

  21. Re:How I Got the First Post on How Death Rally Got Ported · · Score: 1

    Not a lot of modern FPS react better than Quake.

  22. How I Got the First Post on How Death Rally Got Ported · · Score: -1

    I recall playing Death Rally back in the day. Pretty fun stuff. I'm glad it's still getting some attention.

  23. Re:Memories on Gamer Plays Doom For the First Time · · Score: 1

    Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse was a very popular film. I'd hope that most adults have seen it at some point or another, though I suspect most would immediately pass it up simply because it's silent.

    I think the main difference however is that Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse was filmed in the 1920's, and as such isn't so much part of contemporary culture. On the other hand, Doom was released in the 1990's and was likely popular while this writer was already enjoying other games of the time.

    Though to directly answer your post... Yes, I do think that professional film critics should have a pretty good working knowledge of hallmark films throughout history.

  24. Re:Opera on Browser Private Modes Not So Private After All · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Private mode has also been billed as a way for users to hide themselves from the prying eyes of sites that try to track habits and histories. Jackson said most users see that as the biggest attraction to private mode.

    I thought hiding your porn habits from the wife or employer was the biggest attraction?

  25. Re:Bureaucracy on Senate Approves the ______Act Of____ · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm just a bill.
    Yes, I'm only a bill.
    And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill.