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  1. Re:No on Should Kids Be Bribed To Do Well In School? · · Score: 1

    My teacher used to say that. I'd always ask him how many report cards I'd need to buy a car.

  2. Re:I thought it said 'don't press the 'F' key'... on Microsoft Says, Don't Press the F1 Key In XP · · Score: 4, Funny

    +1, unny

  3. Re:That was the Falcon 1 on NASA Picks 5 Firms To Work On LEO Tech · · Score: 1

    What happened to Falcons 2-8?

  4. Re:six axes? on Razer, Valve, and Sixense Working On Motion Control For PC Games · · Score: 1

    Being able to shoot yourself in the head in a FPS? That's revolutionary.

    Pah! Trespasser was doing that back in 90's. Call me when there's a real revolution.

  5. Re:Name on Ocean-Crossing Dragonflies Discovered · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't think it was called anything before it was discovered, actually.

  6. Re:The Less Porn the Better on China Arrests Thousands In Internet Porn Crackdown · · Score: 1

    Adults who willingly make a choice to use certain things constantly at harm to themselves are not society's burden.
    We don't ban McDonald's because some folks don't eat anything else and hurt themselves in doing so.

  7. Re:Pirates == terrorists? on US and Russia Open Talks On Limits To Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    Pirates aren't engaging in cyberwar. While I wouldn't think for a minute that the copyright cartels would pass up sticking their noses in this, it's not the main issue here.

  8. Re:China? on Anticipated Closure of BitTorrent Sites Spurs Panic Downloads In China · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've found you can sort of recreate the experience by using Google to search directly for unprotected index pages or by sitesearching uploading sites like Mediafire and Rapidshare for key words. ...granted, you're liable to find much worse than what you were trying to search for.

  9. Re:Of course, I didn't RTFA on Battle.net Accounts Becoming Mandatory For WoW · · Score: -1, Troll

    An MMORPG where I can't cheat is already a ruined experience by me.

  10. Re:From My Simpleton Point of View on Why Developers Get Fired · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm not sure if this is a particularly clever troll or just a grammar nazi in training, but the GP was using "past" correctly as an adverb, not a verb.

  11. Re:In AU, we choose shaped plans to avoid bancrupy on Drop in P2P Traffic Attributed To Traffic Shaping · · Score: 3, Funny

    Beautiful poem.

    It's rare to find real art like this in a comment form.

  12. Re:How long can they fight it on Swedish Authorities Attempt Pirate Bay Shutdown · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quit breathing and stealing all that oxygen, you malicious bastard!
    We'll run out!

  13. No way on Major Carriers Shun Broadband Stimulus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "All three say they are flush with cash, enough to upgrade and expand their broadband networks on their own."

    I don't know what their real reasoning is, but you can be assured that it is not because they want to be responsible and expand with their own money.

  14. I hope not on Is Crowdsourcing the Next Big Thing In Game Design? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The problem with allowing the general public to make content for a game is that you get content the general public makes. If you really want to play in Penisworld, be my guest, but as for me, I prefer content with coherent design beyond the capabilities of Joe Nobody.

  15. Re:Good on Pixar's Next Three Films Will Be Sequels · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Finding Nemo has so many "peril" scenes I want to shoot myself by the end of the fiftieth act, and they're all scary for kids. That movie in particular would lose nothing if the violence were toned down and edited by someone who's not in love with every scene.

    My 2-year-old niece has yet to be frightened by anything in Finding Nemo over the 20+ times she's watched it.
    Perhaps your kids are just pussies?

  16. Re:Nothing to worry about on Pixar's Next Three Films Will Be Sequels · · Score: 1

    +1 Correct.

  17. Re:Protect the innocent! on Japanese ESRB Bans Rape Depiction In Games · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So your argument is that because it exists, children are forced to play it and become rapists?

  18. Re:It's a ROM hack on Square Enix Shuts Down Fan-Made Chrono Trigger Sequel · · Score: 1

    They aren't releasing the ROM. They're releasing a patch to the ROM. The patch contains entirely their own work.

    To fix your comparison: You can't sue me for making a script that turns the characters in your non-free program blue.

  19. Re:ATTN mods: parent is a troll on Looking Back At Copyright Predictions · · Score: 1

    "I don't want to read a wall of text so I'm assuming the mods didn't want to read a wall of text and assumed it was a troll." - Spazztastic

  20. REALLY now? on Google Losing Up To $1.65M a Day On YouTube · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Researchers from HP Palo Alto studied videos uploaded to YouTube and found that popularity has little to do with quality or persistence." Let me be the first to say "I told you so."

  21. Re:only works with on Privacy In BitTorrent By Hiding In the Crowd · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wish there was a +1 Correct mod. This isn't exactly insightful or interesting.

  22. Duh on Apple Claims That Jail-Breaking Is Illegal · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of course breaking out of jail isn't legal.
    What next, Apple claims that water is wet?

  23. Re:So basically on UK University Making Universal Game Emulator · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wrong. Dolphin is already playing two or three Wii games perfectly.

  24. Re:Won't Ever Work on Earliest LHC Restart Slated For Late Summer 2009 · · Score: 1

    Not really.

  25. Re:Maybe it's me on Dead Space Wants To Scare You · · Score: 1

    As a casual pirate, I must say that it does not.