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  1. Re:Postal addresses identify houses!I on P.I.I. In the Sky · · Score: 1

    Eat our cake and have it too.

    If you have it, you can eat it.
    If you eat it, you don't have it anymore.

  2. Re:He's just a stubborn liar on Lawyer Jailed For Contempt Is Freed After 14 Years · · Score: 1

    Instead of the 2.5 million the wife should have gone for the standard "ex-wife is set for life" package with the house, car, and alimony of 50% of the guy's income and or gains for life.

  3. Re:scary thing on US Agency Blocked Cellphone / Driving Safety Study · · Score: 1

    Ya, you have to be be really good to be able to just trade paint with the license plates and not mar the civilian's bumper and leaving a 1" gap per 20mph really takes some concentration and quick reflexes.

    [rant]
    I miss my old boat. None of that pansy plastic and styrofoam bumper crap. Proper solid steel fenders designed to make the other vehicle into the crumple zone. Cops weren't nearly as keen to tailgate it as much as my more 'modern' car.[/rant]

  4. Re:It's so very odd..... on Ireland Criminalizes Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    Hmm, let's see, major motion picture that has elements relevant to the topic or tv show that's only on the bbc, which one do I use to make an analogy...

    You knew enough about V for Vendetta to know it was set in the UK. A good chunk of ./ probably has never seen or heard of Father Ted.

  5. Re:Racist cops..... on Online Forum Leads To Hostile Workplace Lawsuit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "And racist cops are news because??? Also, how is this tech news other than the fact that someone used the internet?"

    The moral of the story is that "the all-black Guardian Civic League" is A-OK.

    If it was a forum of all minority officers, and they were doing the same thing to all the crackers and honkies (ie, being racist against whites) anyone complaining about it would just be "the man" and "trying to keep them down" and violating their civil rights.

    It's like where I went to school. There was a black student union, a black choir and a black homecoming (run in parallel with the normal one) with their own black king and queen. "The man" didn't make these groups to segregate the whites and the blacks, the black students themselves made these organizations. Unfortunately we couldn't ever get anyone brave enough or stupid enough to try to make the white student union, choir, and homecoming.

  6. Re:insurance at the gas pump on California's Revised Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance Draws Continued Objections · · Score: 1

    That'd be a great time to get into making your own bio-diesel or alcohol fuels.

  7. Re:The Money that was created by this error.... on Software Glitch Leads To $23,148,855,308,184,500 Visa Charges · · Score: 1

    Gold only has value because we say it has value (which is the same reason the dollar has value). Now if you had a potato...

  8. Re:Dear Sony on Sony's New Development Strategy For the PSP · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I was going to pick up Patapon 2, on an impulse buy, one of the last times I was at a GameStop. Then, I decided I should check the used games, hmm, no copies of it, so then I checked the box. Download only. If anyone hadn't guessed, I still don't have Patapon 2.

    I'd have to buy a new stick of (non-standard) memory to fit it on as well as the game and then there'd be no loaning or trading of it. I'd put up with those restrictions for a under $10 game. For example, I have Zenonia for my iPod. I won't be buying Patapon 2 for $20 plus the cost of a new memory stick.

    My collection of UMD games (why yes, I'm one of those oddballs that actually buys games) also makes the new PSP pointless for me. For me, Sony is basically saying that since I've been a paying customer that has bought into their system they don't want me as a customer anymore because of pirates who don't buy things anyways.

  9. Re:Time to take out the old laser... on Eye In the Sky For City Crime Fighting · · Score: 1

    Just start a building or two on fire upwind of where you'll be committing your crime. You could draw the camera's attention off to that area or failing that provide a smokescreen that renders the surveillance useless.

  10. Re:The main reason games don't have obscene conten on Video Games, the First Amendment, and Obscenity · · Score: 0

    But purposely talking to your kid about that stuff might lead to you or the kid feeling embarrassed! That's like psychological child abuse!

  11. Re:Damn! on Human Sperm Produced In the Laboratory · · Score: 1

    Until women find a better way to quickly get real estate and lifetime income for the small cost of a divorce lawyer they'll still want men around.

    Hmm, I wonder what will happen when a woman divorces a woman. How would the judge figure out which one to give the house, car, and alimony to?

  12. Re:Sure, it's not personal at all on Judge Rules IP Addresses Not "Personally Identifiable" · · Score: 1

    RICO would disagree with your argument that objects can't be charged/ticketed.

    It allows objects to commit crimes and since objects have no rights they can be seized without due process.

    Anyone could stick your address as the return address on anything they send. There's nothing physically stopping them from doing so. Also, it doesn't really matter when you stop using an address since their will still be mail sent to that address that should have been yours but is now the current occupant's. Same idea with cars, you do a person to person sale and it can take awhile for the ownership change to work through the system. Hell, a lot of people buy cars just because they still have valid tags with a normal number.

  13. Re:The real question on Sahimo Hydrogen Vehicle Gets Over 1,300 mpg · · Score: 1

    I would wager the average driver in Germany doesn't have to worry about having nature's suicide bomber (deer) come flying through his windshield.

  14. Re:This is true on Cellphones Increasingly Used As Evidence In Court · · Score: 1

    I was on a jury for a federal case in February. The prosecutors spent a whole lot of time talking about cell phone records and showing who called who when and on what tower. To me it didn't really prove anything, because you just don't know who had possession of the phone when the calls were made.

    I wish I could mod you up.

  15. Re:A question that needs answering in these cases. on Cellphones Increasingly Used As Evidence In Court · · Score: 1

    Think about finger prints. While CSI isn't real life, it is unnervingly close. "His fingerprints are on the gun, he must be the killer." The finger prints indicate he had touched the gun, not when, but the media is teaching us to not question this. (Much like COPS and other related shows are getting us used to having SWAT come out to take care of everything.)

    If you question these things, you must have something to hide, and you don't have anything to hide, do you citizen?

  16. Re:Not always applicable!! on 10 Business Lessons I Learned From Playing D&D · · Score: 1

    It's not dead until it gets two in the head. If magic exists in the setting, stake the body, cut off the head, burn both, throw remains into a vat of acid, throw vat of acid into an orb of annihilation. If it comes back after that it was probably the dm's pet npc.

    The rogue may be the one who unlocks the door but it is the minion's job to open it and walk through.

    When in doubt, fireball. Repeat as necessary.

  17. Re:I would have guessed otherwise on The Mathletes and the Miley Photoshop · · Score: 2, Informative

    The shopped in head would be transitive (a R b && b R c -> a R c)if you only considered the head, but the "body", in it's entirety, wouldn't be since (Miley_head + Miley_body) != (Miley_head + Adult_body). Unless the head has some property that consumes any other value paired with it such that it always produces the value of the head.

  18. Re:Quick advice on What Are the Best First Steps For Becoming a Game Designer? · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between like and love.

    Get a job you can tolerate. You won't take the work home with you at the end of the day and then you can use the money to fund what you actually like doing. There's also the bonus of not getting tied down "the dream job" (the quotes are important).

  19. Re:Apple? on Browser Vendors Force W3C To Scrap HTML 5 Codecs · · Score: 1, Troll

    Royalty-free doesn't mean the patents won't cause problems down the line.

    You can get GPL stuff royalty free but it can royally hose you over in its interactions with other licenses or agreements.

  20. Re:Role Playing on The Essentials of RPG Design · · Score: 1

    It's really a shame that after our party completed that really fun adventure module that all copies of it in existence spontaneously combusted and all electronic copies deleted themselves so that no one else could ever be the ones to save that village.

  21. Risk versus Reward on The Essentials of RPG Design · · Score: 1

    To paraphrase a certain master swordsman, "You keep using that term. I do not think it means what you think it means."

    Even in Nethack all you risk is time. Eventually you'll progress. Might take starting over entirely but that's just another version of starting over from the last save. In any case, the reward for risking your time is progression of the game/story.

  22. Re:Quick advice on What Are the Best First Steps For Becoming a Game Designer? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you love doing something don't make it into a job. You'll end up despising it sooner than later.

  23. Re:Clarification on Secrets of Schizophrenia and Depression "Unlocked" · · Score: 1

    Only until you see the divorce settlement. And definitely not after you've worked out what class of hooker you could have used for the same amount the divorce cost you (the Paul McCartney formula).

  24. Re:earth is a closed loop system on States Push Makers' Role In Disposing of Electronic Waste · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The Sun would like to have a word with you.

  25. Re:This is Bullshit on States Push Makers' Role In Disposing of Electronic Waste · · Score: 1

    The other option the politicians have is to tell their constituents to properly dispose of their junk. That wouldn't be a very popular position.

    The option which will be more likely to get them re-elected is to "stick it to the greedy corps" (mind you, I'm no fan of corporations). This option lets the politician be green and anti-greedy-corporation as well as relieving the voters of a bothersome responsibility.