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  1. Re:Lightening Dies. on A Look At the Final Fantasy XIII Demo, Early Analysis · · Score: 1

    ...but I guess that means Lightning lives.

  2. Lightening Dies. on A Look At the Final Fantasy XIII Demo, Early Analysis · · Score: -1, Troll

    LIGHTENING DIES, LOL

  3. Intel video drivers suck! on Ubuntu 9.04 RC Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Woe to anyone using an intel video card! Right now we're experiencing random lockups, and performance has generally been subpar for a lot of people. I'm not sure how stable UXA is yet, earlier it was causing a lot of lockups.

  4. Re:Oh, get off it on Quantum Theory May Explain Wishful Thinking · · Score: 1

    Your computer doesn't interface on the quantum level, either. We know brains don't because while there's a lot we don't know, we DO know a bit about synapses, neurons, etc. There's NO evidence at all of quantum effects on the neural level.

  5. Re:Free will and the brain on Quantum Theory May Explain Wishful Thinking · · Score: 1

    Are you two astronauts?

  6. Re:Free will and the brain on Quantum Theory May Explain Wishful Thinking · · Score: 1

    Free will doesn't need an "explanation." It's an incoherent concept.

  7. Re:Free will and the brain on Quantum Theory May Explain Wishful Thinking · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How would free will be explained on the quantum level? Randomness or probability doesn't account for free will, either. Free will is simply magic of the mind, a sort of god-of-the-gaps for not knowing the complex web of the interaction between heredity and environment and the many antecedent events acting upon it.

  8. Re:Hmm... on College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior · · Score: 1

    Uh, I'm confused. If all the mail is running through his computer, isn't that directly the fault of the IT staff in the first place?

  9. Re:To avoid this.. on Was the Amazon De-Listing Situation a Glitch Or a Hack? · · Score: 1

    What was the point in your stupid comment?

  10. Re:To avoid this.. on Was the Amazon De-Listing Situation a Glitch Or a Hack? · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. Research indicates that exposure to prenatal hormones in utero may be the largest factor in homosexuality.

  11. Re:To avoid this.. on Was the Amazon De-Listing Situation a Glitch Or a Hack? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Homosexuality is and isn't a choice. The behavior is a choice, but the actual attraction is not. If I could choose who I was sexually attracted to then I would make myself asexual because like most Slashdot nerds I ain't gettin' any.

    Ask yourself a simple question: if homosexuality were not a choice, why are the two most common insults directed at anyone who is against public promotion of homosexuality "well you must be in the closet" and "you must be afraid you'll try it and like it"? The mask slips just a tad too often, showing that the "it's not a choice" propaganda is pure lies.

    This is because, or at least because it is perceived to be true, that many gay men in the closet deny their homosexuality for social reasons and to try to hide it or excuse for it or "make up for it" they crusade against homosexuality which they have been brought up to think is wrong. Does Ted Haggard ring a bell...?

  12. Shit. on iTunes Prohibits Terrorism · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hope Apple doesn't enforce this provision too strongly.

  13. Re:Good thing they kept it so secret on Project OXCART Declassified From Area 51 · · Score: 4, Funny

    If the Kremlin had learned what our prototypes looked like at that point, the russian economy probably would have been much stronger, they never would have embarked on those economic reforms that backfired, and they eventually would have won the cold war.

    I'll say. We were fucking working on OX CARTS.

  14. Re:Anyone else surprised... on "Tweenbots" Test NYC Pedestrian-Robot Relations · · Score: 1

    I imagine if you did this stuff here in Omaha, you'd be arrested or fined for disturbing the peace.

  15. Re:Would it work elsewhere? on "Tweenbots" Test NYC Pedestrian-Robot Relations · · Score: 1

    From what I've heard, that's true. French people, by reputation, are incredibly intolerant of English speakers, particularly Americans. Americans are less bigoted towards the French than the French are towards Americans, from what I hear. Anyone have any anecdotes related to this?

  16. Re:In my case on How Does Flash Media Fail? · · Score: 4, Funny

    In that case, what's truly "failing" is you.

  17. FEAR on Slashdot Mentioned In Virginia Terrorism Report · · Score: 1

    Fat, greasy, smelly nerds with mustard stains on their dragon shirts, pot bellies, and techno soundtrack in their car... the new face of terrorism? No wonder law enforcement is up in arms, being as most police officers were the jocks they're desperately afraid of REVENGE OF THE NERDS.

    Also, SA as one of their hang out spots? All SA has is shitty photoshops and their own dumb internal memes. They're as irrelevant as genmay is, nowadays.

  18. Re:Huh. on South Park Creators Given Signed Photo of Saddam Hussein · · Score: 1

    *The US-approved Iraqi-legal system. Regardless of whether you approve or disapprove, the government put in place was one specifically designed to be sympathetic to the U.S. government, so to imply that an entity impartial to the US gov's wants is silly

  19. Re:Huh. on South Park Creators Given Signed Photo of Saddam Hussein · · Score: 1

    Wow! That's -really- efficient! To process and collect those taxes takes resources as well, too.

  20. Re:Accidental Death? on Researcher's Death Hampers TCP Flaw Fix · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Jews did Jack Louis.

  21. Re:An unfair fight is the point of war on Konami Announces a Game Based On a 2004 Battle In Fallujah · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's part of the interesting things about these new wars. As long as you fire on US troops, you're an enemy combatant--even if you're just a person defending his hometown.

  22. Re:The Only Change You Can Believe In on Obama Administration Defends Warrantless Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    Personally, I voted Barr/Root mainly because fiscal liberalism scares me and social liberalism just seems right (even though I wished that they had a better VP choice)

    So why did you vote for Barr again?

  23. Re:front page news? on Versus Mode Comes To Resident Evil 5 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Better than the random bullshit kdawson puts up.

  24. Re:Stop n Swop: Why not the Controller Pak? on Strange Glitches In Games · · Score: 1

    Gimmick. Unless Nintendo made it so only a game could only read its own save data, in which case BT couldn't recognize BKs? I don't know if that's true...

    But yeah--probably gimmick.

  25. Flawed? on Flawed Map Says L.A.'s Crime Highest Next to Police HQ · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seeing how rogue so many police officers are, it might not necessarily be quite off the mark.