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  1. Re:Man! on Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Below the Gulf's Surface · · Score: 1

    You can't stop this oil spill. You could stop contributing to a society which encourages profit over anything - executives get in trouble for failing to meet fiduciary responsibility if they don't do everything in their power to increase value for shareholders. Then maybe next time a well is drilled it won't be hurriedly backfilled around the pipe with cement by Halliburton. Or you could just keep ignoring it and keep giving your tacit approval.

  2. Re:An Opportunity on Anyone Can Play Big Brother With BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure you just gotta move the dish a few cm left or right... helps if you live on a hill and have a wireless card that allows you to increase the output power.

  3. Re:wagging the dog on Pope Rails Against the Internet and Transparency · · Score: 1

    Think those people would have lived to see their works published if they weren't aligned with the church in the times they lived?

  4. Re:wagging the dog on Pope Rails Against the Internet and Transparency · · Score: 1

    Is it really involuntary though? I *think* about doing nasty things to people all the time. But I don't actually do them... that would be wrong.

  5. Re:wagging the dog on Pope Rails Against the Internet and Transparency · · Score: 1

    More importantly... will people stop listening to the church now when they say 'think of the children!' when trying to increase internet censorship?

  6. Re:You sound like a San Franciscan sod. on Woman Claims Wii Fit Caused Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome · · Score: 0, Troll

    Right... I ain't coming anywhere near your throne buddy, you can stay up there all by yourself. However, I take offence at your incorrect use of the word faggot. A faggot is a person who makes a lot of noise to get attention, destroying everyone elses peaceful serenity. You sir, are a faggot. You can't live up to your own crazy moral standard (you still have sinful thoughts) so you project your insecurities upon the rest of us, who have come to terms with our humanity. Faggot.

  7. Re:Duh on Young Men Who Smoke Have Lower IQs · · Score: 1

    I have to deal with a lot of ugly, stinky, non smoking assholes every day so I think it's fair.

  8. Re:Medical... on Why Are Digital Hearing Aids So Expensive? · · Score: 1

    If you didn't want so many things, you wouldn't have to pay for them.

  9. Re:Entropy increasing, Slashdot-style on Universe Closer To Heat Death Than Once Thought · · Score: 1

    Square? Radius? What two dimensional universe do you live in?

  10. Re:OMG!!! on Universe Closer To Heat Death Than Once Thought · · Score: 1

    Mr President, we cannot allow an entropy gap!

  11. Re:Russia Corrupt? No way! on Russian Whistleblower Cop Arrested · · Score: 1

    :O I'm speechless. Please examine the role of the US in the political upheavals of Iran and Russia...

  12. Re:Ob. Matrix quote on 8% of Your DNA Comes From a Virus · · Score: 1

    Anti-theism is just fundamentalist atheism. It's not a religion in itself.

  13. Re:Headache? on Real-World Synthehol In Development · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I feel like punching people when they call their SUV's Jeeps.

  14. Re:OT Emigrating to NZ? on New Zealand Reintroduces 3 Strikes Law · · Score: 1

    Bring money, the more the better. Or else you basically need to have a skill that is in shortage here - the interpretation of which is open to discussion by employers and the immigration department.

  15. Re:Corporation liability? on New Zealand Reintroduces 3 Strikes Law · · Score: 1

    Are you sure? Where I live, the ticket is sent to the registered owner of the vehicle. In this case, the corp. It's then up to the owner to prove they weren't at the wheel and provide the identity of the driver.

  16. Re:Not not? on Cell Phone Searches Require Warrant · · Score: 1

    Closed container = the thing you keep your weed in. Cops are allowed to look in it without a search warrant.

  17. Re:L. Con Hubbard on Prison Terms For Spammer Ralsky, Scientology DoS Attacker · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A direct quote from L Con Hubbard: Attack...never defend. Apparently the only way to keep up a teetering "religion" is to attack.

    That's a direct quote from me as well, talking about RTS games. Not saying L Ron Hubbard wasn't a douche, just that its common sense and can be applied to pretty much anything...

  18. Re:Here's the case: on Making the Case That Virtual Property Is a Bad Idea · · Score: 1

    Here's the thing though - it makes poor economic sense to work in a game for game currency, because you can normally earn more (by orders of magnitude) in real life than you can for the same time spent in any job in a virtual world.

  19. Re:Is Sat-Nav Destroying Local Knowledge? on Is Sat-Nav Destroying Local Knowledge? · · Score: 1

    The best part about satnavs is being able to see the streets around you that you cant actually see looking out the windows of the car. Never have to turn up a side street without knowing if it will get you out to the main road again. :D

  20. Re:Zero of nothing on New Zealand Creates Safety Billboard That Bleeds When It Rains · · Score: 1

    14 less in this area is statistically significant because only ~ 350 people died on the roads in the whole NZ last year.

  21. Re:Virtuality pilot (Ron Moore) on On Realism and Virtual Murder · · Score: 1

    I would like for us to be able to explore the fantastic depths and heights of our base instincts and fantasies and I expect that once we are able to simulate things to a level that we cannot distinguish from reality there will be a massive explosion of pop art, on a level not seen before as people are abe to record and playback to others the things that they see when they close their eyes. I can't wait. :D

  22. Re:Is this for real? on On Realism and Virtual Murder · · Score: 1

    If you know of a game where a click of my mouse has any effect in real life whatsoever

    Obviously you've never been dumped in Second Life.

  23. Re:Is this for real? on On Realism and Virtual Murder · · Score: 1

    How about every night when you go to sleep and dream about whatever it is you dream about. Do you go and act out those fantasies the next day? I'm sure they seem very real when you're asleep but it's easy to tell the difference when you wake up. Can't see how VR would be much different.

  24. Re:Violence and murder on On Realism and Virtual Murder · · Score: 1

    Also remember that there has been surgery for a lot longer than there has been anaesthetic. Imagine a seriously injured but fully conscious person being held down on an operating table while the surgeon works.

  25. Re:It's just evolutionary. on On Realism and Virtual Murder · · Score: 1

    Your life wouldn't turn back on again and greet me with the same cheery optimism next time I flipped the switch though...