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  1. Politics 101 on Mars Rock Supports Cross-Seeding Theory · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The trouble is, that there's not enough votes or corporate benefits in pumping tax dollars into the SETI project anymore.

    Important isn't the same as important.

  2. Religious people on Mars Rock Supports Cross-Seeding Theory · · Score: -1, Troll

    can bite my Glorious Golden Ass!

  3. While we're at it on Videogame Reviews - Playing With Numbers? · · Score: 1

    Forget about the scores of posts on /. - why trust anyone else to review stuff for you, let alone someone whose name you can see on article, and moderators are *anonymous*.

    Also, I don't understand why some women should be deemed more or less attractive than others, because that is extremely subjective.

    I don't read restaurant reviews, because if the place has rats, I want to find out about it first hand.

    Numbers are really bad descriptors of a monetary situation as well; the numbers for the American financial situation aren't all that good, but hey, Bush says everything's cool, and that's what the number's can't describe.

    --
    Okay, I went a little overboard, but still.

  4. Re:That's nice on Xport 2 Turns Game Boy Advance Into Embedded Microcontroller · · Score: 1

    Gay, in the meaning of merry or happy can be very polite.

  5. Flamebait? on Xport 2 Turns Game Boy Advance Into Embedded Microcontroller · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I would've expected Troll, but not Flamebait.
    Ah, what the hell do they know.

  6. I've just had a vision: on Xport 2 Turns Game Boy Advance Into Embedded Microcontroller · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hook it up to a radiocontroller for a model car, load a driving game onto it, battle your friends.

    Yes. That would be fun.

  7. Even stationary people can benefit on Xport 2 Turns Game Boy Advance Into Embedded Microcontroller · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ... when living in small-as-a-niggers-hut 22 sq.m. apartment.

    (I'm allowed to say it, as I don't mean anything by it - plus, I work for UNICEF, and have you ever seen how small those huts can be? Maybe I use the word casually because it's no big deal where I come from. You know what I'm talking about)

  8. Best part on AT&T Wireless Announces Music ID Service · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wanna bet they're making the record companies pay as well?

  9. One of the best things about the patent system... on Inside Look at Patent Examination · · Score: 1

    ... is when people who have held obscure patents for years without even trying to realize something come out and sue some guy or company for making a product to which they have a copyright on a small aspect of it's functionality.

    Hope that makes sense, I'm very, very tired.

    [offtopic]Oh yeah, I'd just like to point out that I have great respect for police officers, and admire very much that you have chosen that path for your life. (Although, it is a bit obscure in your text whether you actually *finished* police academy)[/offtopic]

  10. If it's so poorly researched, on Inside Look at Patent Examination · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Then why the hell do companies have to write 'Patents Pending' on their products for decades? You'd think that incompetency of this sort would speed up the process.
    "Did a search on Google for some of the keywords in their description, but only a few thousand webpages came up... Patent Granted, next!"

  11. Re:3D input devices on Sphere XP Makes GUI 3D · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's called gorilla arm (the Jargon Dictionary)

  12. There's also those with hats on Sphere XP Makes GUI 3D · · Score: 1

    It's been so long since I cared that I don't recall whether the Sidewinder series have them, but I remember the hat as being a precursor to all that weird twisting action...

  13. Clipping on Sphere XP Makes GUI 3D · · Score: 1

    What if you try moving a window, and another window is in the way? Do you get clipped windows (which actually could be useful for multi-window editing), or would there be another solution, where the 'blocking' window was moved (which is my guess)?

  14. Have you ever seen her suit? on Men Incapable Of Portraying Videogame Women Fairly? · · Score: 1

    It's sculpted with a torso like Superman.

  15. Wonderful on How To Get Your Gaming PC Running Quietly? · · Score: 1

    - as I believe it is only sons of unwashed whores who use speakers at LAN parties, let alone deafening out their fans.

    $#$!

    (-2 Troll, Offtopic)

  16. Voting for either on Men Incapable Of Portraying Videogame Women Fairly? · · Score: 0, Troll

    is bloody ignorance. They're like Dupont & Dupond.

  17. Re:RTFA on Men Incapable Of Portraying Videogame Women Fairly? · · Score: 1

    No, it's just as understandable as hearing about the black members of the KKK.

  18. Re:Man's fault? on Men Incapable Of Portraying Videogame Women Fairly? · · Score: 1

    "Theory" is actually much too strong of a word, as it's really nothing more than a hunch
    Come to think about, who knows what gender lies behind those insidious names of the wee free (wo?)men on the credits lists?
    Would you be able to tell the difference?
    If he had done what a proper reporter always should (reasearched), would he then have been able to tell girl names from boy names in Japanese? All I know is that Chihiro is for girls... ;)

  19. Yeah, just think of the guy who made the theremin on Men Incapable Of Portraying Videogame Women Fairly? · · Score: 1

    Lev Thermin ended up in a Gulag camp. The only one of his significant others who didn't divorce him commited suicide before she even married him.

    Happy days for the man who invented the first electronic instrument.

    (I was once caught in a theremin concert, and I was afraid that I'd go deaf. To be fair, the blindingly painful parts were actually quite well, and I blame the technician)

  20. On stereotypes on Men Incapable Of Portraying Videogame Women Fairly? · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Actually I've many times stumbled upon people trying to be the stereotypes they see on TV, even though they are portrayed badly.

    An example (note: I live in DK):
    In the neighbourhood I grew up in, there are a lot of immigrants, and since 1997 (long story) these have mainly been from Somalia.
    From what I understand, Somalia is not a nice place to be, for anyone. People die from famine.
    So of course, people emigrate to another country.
    They come to Denmark and become as complacent and decadent as us. They watch TV with their kids. (80% of the TV shows in DK are from the US) Their kids see black people acting a certain way. They think it's cool.
    Suddenly, they're walking around with bandanas and FUBUs and shit I've never wanted to know about, trying to even sound like the actors on TV. Hell, it's even more pitiful to see than when I was in Greenland and saw Greenlandish Niggers*.

    Talk about your off-topic-I-haven't-slept-all-night rant.


    * Note: I've been to Greenland 13 times. Never saw a black person there.

  21. The number's rising! on Men Incapable Of Portraying Videogame Women Fairly? · · Score: 1

    At least in the academic institutions.
    I've friend who attends Copenhagen University's Institute of Datalogy (sp?), and he say's the percentage of women attending the institute has passed 20 - and some of them are actually hot...

  22. It's not even because they're stupid on Men Incapable Of Portraying Videogame Women Fairly? · · Score: 1

    People want to see stuff they can recognize. Everyone expects 'dog bites man' and other clichés. If peoples see 'man bites dog' and honest politicians, they're so confused they don't know how to react. (Usually this is seen after their vote has been cast in the latter case, when it is clear he/she's lost)

  23. RTFA on Men Incapable Of Portraying Videogame Women Fairly? · · Score: 2, Funny
    It's even a male who wrote it.

    Goddammit. Next thing we'll have articles about women complaining that it is so cliché to have periods, and that it's only to seem interesting they do it.


    I miss stupidpeopledie.com

  24. Men are inherently incapable of portraying women on Men Incapable Of Portraying Videogame Women Fairly? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Women are inherently incapable of driving cars
    Men are inherently incapable of getting in touch with their feeling
    Women are inherently incapable of logical thought

    Yeah, let's polarize and call each other names.

  25. Endothem motor on Non-Lethal Sniper Rifle: You're Tagged For Life · · Score: 1

    Just need something the uses bodyheat to draw out power.