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  1. Re:How about just not naming them real names? on How Videogames Help Fund the Arms Industry · · Score: 1
  2. Re:How about just not naming them real names? on How Videogames Help Fund the Arms Industry · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Shut UP.
    You can make a point and offer criticism without experiencing it.

    can't walk a tight rope, but when I see someone fall off one I can say 'That wasn't good'

    People who use that type of 'logic' are when is wrong with people today.
    It's a legitimate concern.
    Misplaced in this case becasue that event is pretty well documented.

  3. Re:How about just not naming them real names? on How Videogames Help Fund the Arms Industry · · Score: 2

    Sometimes realism like that is fun, in a game.
    Certainly changes the tension.

    Ok, I'm 12th level, so lets go cautious into the next room. How about "Noob mcJustarrived" check that door?

    It changes XCOM play style.

  4. Re:How about just not naming them real names? on How Videogames Help Fund the Arms Industry · · Score: 1

    Interesting tidbit: there is no legal ground to have to licenses any of that material. It's done becasue, individually, it's cheaper.
    Of course, and an industry they should just stop doing it and save bigger money over time.

    I seldom even see product placement in movies, just like I don't pay attention to it in real life.

    You did give me an idea:
    "Logo, the Movie!"

  5. Re:Placebo Effect-iveness of faith healing on Interviews: Ask James Randi About Investigating the Truth · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should understand what a* placebo effect is before asking about it?

      a placebo effect doesn't cure anything.

    http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/the-placebo-myth/
    http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/the-prostrate-placebo/
    http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/cam-the-beer-goggles-of-medicine/
    http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/the-rebranding-of-cam/#more-18610

    When something is 'not better then placebo' that means 'not better then this stuff we know has no effect'
    The term has been greatly abuses by SCAM practitioners for years, so it's actual meaning isn't know to many people.

    *note the 'a' and not 'the'

  6. Re:And what's next? on 64GB MS Surface Pro Only Has 23GB of Free Space · · Score: 1

    Are you stupid? is that REALLY the best you can come up with?
    Fuck, I hope you are lucky, cause you sure aren't bright.

    1) This is about what the product has when the consumer buys it, not what happens afterword. so you hard drive examples is, at best, stupid.

    2)" have left to transfer your [illegal movie/music collection]?"
    Ad hom? really? moron.

    3) GPU vendor do publish the specs of the GPU performance when you buy it,. Shit you do later doesn't apply. This is just as stupid as the first one.

    4) so having companies give honest information is the end of the world now? DO you even know how to think? Or is your whole life just rote response?

    5) " I can only imagine how far deductive reasoning skills will slip"
    Can't really get lower then your post.

    You need to smarten up and learn how to think, because luck runs out.

  7. Re:Funny... on 64GB MS Surface Pro Only Has 23GB of Free Space · · Score: 1

    They you are either forgetful or young.

    You will note that they all come with a note explaining the actual size, in small print. That's because people did complain, a lot in the late 90s.

  8. Re:when you buy a hard drive... on 64GB MS Surface Pro Only Has 23GB of Free Space · · Score: 1

    You aren't buying a device, you are buy a hard drive. And it says how much is available to the consumer when you buy it. Sin't it doesn't have an OS on it, then no obviously they should not.

    And yes, When you buy the products, at the time of purchase, the box should say how much is available to consumer. You can make a not that patches may change the actual size.

    Maybe you should take MS's dick out of your mouth and think?

  9. Yes on 64GB MS Surface Pro Only Has 23GB of Free Space · · Score: 1

    Yes it should be required.

  10. Why are they getting 6 on Polymer Patches May Enable Effective DNA Vaccines · · Score: 1

    injections in succession?

  11. Re:Read reason Boeing built it in pieces... on Excessive Modularity Hindered Development of the 787 · · Score: 1

    " Airbus have only had one major issue with this approach"
    What? no, not true at all.
    Bad Cockpit design,. bad wiring, premature stress cracks in the wings.

    " it worked perfectly for every aircraft before.
    all airplane have items that " worked perfectly for every aircraft before." right up until it crashes. It's a nonsense statement.. at BEST it shows a company not testing old systems on new air craft.

  12. That's WHY outsourcing on Excessive Modularity Hindered Development of the 787 · · Score: 1

    is the problem. Well, you save a few pennies in development Boeing, hows that working out for you?

  13. Re:Fermi Paradox on Interviews: Ask Ray Kurzweil About the Future of Mankind and Technology · · Score: 1

    The Fermi paradox isn't.

    Space, as it turns out is REALLY FUCKING VOLUMINOUS*. Travel, as it turn out, is really fucking slow by comparison. Space expands faster the we can even theoretically move.

    Not all places are habitable.
    Planets with life must also have access to cheap energy, like oil, in order to progress
    And that life has to have the drive to innovate and spread.
    And it has to have the ability to manipulate objects and tool.
    And it has to rise to the technology of radio during a period that means it's radio waves will get here during the time we happen to be listening.
    And the need to be strong enough to be detected.

    Fermi Paradox relies on the ridiculous notion that civilization rise easily, have unlimited energy, and never fall. The only thing it shows us is that we need to think long term about energy and expansion.

    *HA!

  14. Why? WHy are you interviewing the Bozo? on Interviews: Ask Ray Kurzweil About the Future of Mankind and Technology · · Score: 1

    He hasn't done anything note worthy in decades, and what he did do was being done by 100s of others.

    This guy is a self promoter ad nothing more. His 'predictions' are not only short sighted, but an obvious attempt to not deal with his own mortality, sells useless vitamins.

    'The age of the spiritual machine' is a combination of 'duh' and nonsense never before seen in the industry.

      Frankly, /. can do better.

  15. A computer device is getting a bigger HD! on With 128GB, iPad Hits Surface Pro, Ultrabook Territory · · Score: 3, Funny

    the deuce you say, sir!

  16. Re:Deflection on Lego Accused of Racism With Star Wars Set · · Score: 1

    "That is a popular narrative but it is false. Sharia is core Islamic doctrine. All four Sunni and the Shia schools of jurisprudence agree on this. Blaming it on 'extremists' is a false narrative that deflects the real issue. That Sharia is a totalitarian, theocratic, supremicist political ideology."

    no, it is not.
    What we have no is the result of religious zealotry taking hold in the mid east in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

    What you are forgetting that in 'core religious doctrine' gets interpreted and enforces in a piecemeal fashion depending on what the readers wants to see.

    The Bible is Core Doctrine to Christians, and yet it's only followed in a piecemeal fashion.
    Even people who say it s'literal' don't treat it that way.

    And this is true of every faith based doctrine.

    The rest of your post is jabbering nonsense.

  17. Re:Deflection on Lego Accused of Racism With Star Wars Set · · Score: 1

    Everyone talking about this need to realize the Muslims that have come around since about 1950 are a completely different mind set then those from years before.

    religious zealotry taking control in many mid east country's in the 50, 60s and 70s is what has cause the current problems.

  18. Re:Warning, Torygraph... on Lego Accused of Racism With Star Wars Set · · Score: 1

    Are you stupid? How did you even get to 'blame the Jews' from that post?
    He is blaming journalists.

  19. Re:Austria's Turkish community on Lego Accused of Racism With Star Wars Set · · Score: 1

    Maybe people should try not to take thing their ancestors did so damn seriously?
    Oh no, are great grand pappy, fought your great grand pappy! woes!

  20. Re:Ironic on Lego Accused of Racism With Star Wars Set · · Score: 1

    It's because of ti's use as a pejorative in the US for a fee decades.

    It's the same reason 'Nigger' isn't used. It'd self just mean people from Africa, but a number of decades of brutal slavery and using it to treat a human as an object kind of made it taboo.

    Hopefully, some day, it will loose it's power over people.
    It's not the uncommon when someone, or people, do something brutal then some affectation they had also become taboo. See 'Toothbrush moustache'

  21. Re:I'm mad too on Lego Accused of Racism With Star Wars Set · · Score: 1

    Since school shooting, serial killing have been done predominantly by white males before TV, it' doesn't link well at all.

  22. Re:The solution is in your comment on Lego Accused of Racism With Star Wars Set · · Score: 1

    Statistically, more villains are Asian.

  23. Re:here we go on Lego Accused of Racism With Star Wars Set · · Score: 2

    Which is exactly what Putin is doing, btw.

  24. Re:Not exactly on Male Scientists More Prone To Misconduct · · Score: 1

    "Excuse me, but I've been in business settings now for nearly 40 years"
    well, you're anecdote will certianly wrap this issue up.

    ". Take responsibility for it. "
    No. I don't behave like that, and I refuse to be held responsible simple becasue I am the same gender as some of these assholes.
    Also,l I refuse to be help responsible for what happened to the American Indians, since i was not alive at the time.
    I will not be responsible for slavery, having never owned a slave.

    So stop trying to make all men guilty.

    " 99.99999%"
    do you understand how percentages work?
    BTW: 40 to 60% of women report harassment, 10 to 20% of men, so it is not 1 out of 10 million.
    Harassment is hard in that the grey area is very wide, and more charismatic a person is the less like their behavior will be considered harassment.
    Example: The Charismatic man complements you on a new hair cut, and its fine. The "creepy' guy does it and it's unwanted attention, or harassment.
    The are a lot of 'harassment' behavior that when happening to men aren't considered harassment.

    The example isn't given to excuse any behavior, just to underline how hoard these number are to determine.

    " then you can't honestly judge how it feels to be a woman "
    but you can judge all men?

    "be like to get all that unwanted attention"
    and you fail like so many HR people have failed.
    Don't do that,many thing that you list as unwanted are wanted by most men. So telling them to walk a mile in there shoes is naive as best.

  25. Re:Their conclusion, my conclusion. on Male Scientists More Prone To Misconduct · · Score: 1

    Anecdotes about children. well then, no study needed~