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  1. Re:Melbourne Vs Hollywood? on Ask Director Daniel Knight About Filming Terry Pratchett's "Troll Bridge" · · Score: 1

    You are wrong. Hollywood produces remarkable movies every year, just like it always has. It' also puts out a bunch of stuff you aren't interested, like it always has, and it puts out a bunch of crap, like it has always done.
    It has some pretty good turn over of talent.

    Yeah, MPAA is out of hand, but that's a different discussion.

  2. Re:Obvious troll is obvious on Major Backlash Looms For Apple's New Maps App · · Score: 1

    Those screen shot underscored one thing:
    Apples maps is for getting you to buy things, Googles is for getting you as much information about the area.

    Apple is an ad service first
    Google is a map first.

  3. Re:Obvious troll is obvious on Major Backlash Looms For Apple's New Maps App · · Score: 1

    Do you have a link where they said the where bringing it to the iPhone? Dno't bother, you don't becasue they never said that. A mac user made that clain, not Google.

    It's funny how you can make stuff up and thinking you are making a point other then 'You are an idiot.'

    They said other platforms. Apple shot them down becasue they where getting paid from Garmin.

  4. Re:Obvious troll is obvious on Major Backlash Looms For Apple's New Maps App · · Score: 1

    "this is a new feature which the Google Maps app never had."
    for the iPhone, my phones had all had it, built in, and free.

    ". A 1 minute workaround"
    Workaround means product FAIL. regardless of the product.

    " they don't anymore for whatever reason"
    becasue they are rolling their own and trying to move into Google established space; which is fine, but don't make it sound like ti's a mysterious reason and Apple had no choice.

  5. Re:And they'll still buy the next iPhone on Major Backlash Looms For Apple's New Maps App · · Score: 2

    So how does the GPS navigation work with using maps in safari?

  6. Re:Like any of them poor countries can afford Appl on Major Backlash Looms For Apple's New Maps App · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They are doing exactly the same thing they did when Steve Jobs left the first time.

    They have become scared, call minor change 'innovation' and loosing focus on the product.

    I hope I ma wrong, but 5 is exactly what I said it would be, and I suspect after the 1 years anniversary of Jobs death, there will have been a noticeable lessening of momentum at Apple.

  7. Re:Like any of them poor countries can afford Appl on Major Backlash Looms For Apple's New Maps App · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://source.android.com/
    I'm sorry, you were saying something stupid?

  8. Re:That's simple... on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 1

    China.

  9. Re:Not sure about the thesis of the article, but.. on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 1

    YOu would look less stupid had you read the entire post and respond appropriately.

  10. Re:Not sure about the thesis of the article, but.. on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 1

    Lesson learned: :Limit the amount of memory it can access, keep it within a set of bounds.

  11. Re:How vulnerable are they really though on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 1

    An nuclear explosion 500 meter away won't sink one... it might kill everyone on board when it bobs.

  12. Re:Not sure about the thesis of the article, but.. on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 1

    If the side are evenly matched, then you have already failed.

  13. Re:Carriers had their day on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 2

    I don't know about you, but nothing says 'I have a big penis' more then showing people my penis.

  14. Re:Behold, our huge, mighty penises!! on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 1

    He means political leaders i.e. heads of state.
    also, he is wrong. Once you allow for the assassination of political leaders, getting them together to discuss peace is difficult.

  15. Re:Behold, our huge, mighty penises!! on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 2

    Becasue those aircraft can fly around the world and target? NO, there is still a strategic and tactical need for them. Even when they use them to launch drones.

  16. Re:Behold, our huge, mighty penises!! on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 1

    By your logic the French are justified to start dropping bombs and killing people in the U.S."
    If the US hid him, the I would say, yes they are justified.

  17. Re:Behold, our huge, mighty penises!! on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 2

    I always say, if you go to war, the draft should be reinstated. Make it a fucking political nightmare to do it, and talking and peace will become more valuable.

  18. Re:Behold, our huge, mighty penises!! on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 1, Troll

    " yet he's killed American citizens with drones"
    American citizen..in the mid east, sitting with war criminals. Funny how people leave that whole part out.

    "escalated the occupation of Afghanistan,"
    In 09, in response to escalated attacks. Since them there has been, and continues to be a draw down.

    ", kept gitmo open (don't give me that shit "the congress made him"
    Since the republican refuse to let him build a prison in the states, what is he suppose to do? Come on, lets hear an answer? DO you not remember the several plans to build a prison for them? republican saying we couldn't build one that would hold terrorist? Any of that? ... he signed the NDAA into law and asked for a STRONGER patriot act."
    Wrong. IT's not a stronger patriot act.

    ". And he's deported more people in his term of office than Bush did in 8 years."
    and? His focus has been on criminals, while trying to get a program so the people brought here forcible can become citizens.
    Gosh, a rational approach.

    "he's just as much of a moron as the last guy."
    oh, you have no real facts, so an ad hom attack. yeah, a real moron comes from nothing, goes to law school and then gets to be the first black president.

    Funny, when you look at the facts and context you ain't got shit for an argument.

  19. Re:Behold, our huge, mighty penises!! on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: -1, Troll

    Since other countries dis agree with you, and all te evidence is th s opposite of what you say, I just have one question for you:

    Why don't you go fuck yourself?

  20. Re:Behold, our huge, mighty penises!! on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "The Obama government's foreign policy is much the same as Bush's."
    Te you haven't been paying attention.
    Bush got us into a country for no good reason except to show up his dad in a vain attempt at parental approval.
    Obama has been extracting us out of those wars.
    Do you think he should of just pulled those troops out and left a great big vacuum behind?

    Obama has used Peace and negotiations, Bush used Shock and Awe.

    "n. Same idiotic sabre-rattling about invading Iran,"
    Are you kidding me? Obama keeps taking a hit becasue he doesn't want a war with Iran; meanwhile top republican people have all but said they would attack Iran.

    You're an ignorant fool. read the fuck up.

  21. Re:Which is why... on How Big Pharma Hooked America On Legal Heroin · · Score: 1

    withdrawal doesn't equal hooked.
    You can have withdrawal symptoms from non addictive medications or drugs.

  22. SO that on How Big Pharma Hooked America On Legal Heroin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    added something tat makes it time release, thus fixing some of the major issues.
    I am supposed to be outraged..why? Becasue something was out of patent, that made something new and patented it.

    Well, that's how it's supposed to work.

    Shit you should be applauding the successful and proper use of the patent system

  23. Re:Industrial quality? on Huge Diamond Deposits Revealed In Russia · · Score: 1

    soo. Space Diamonds!

  24. Re:And how will this on Huge Diamond Deposits Revealed In Russia · · Score: 1

    " Absurd materialistic expectations from wives "
    that's not really as common as the GP makes it look.

  25. Re:And how will this on Huge Diamond Deposits Revealed In Russia · · Score: 1

    It may not be diamond, but it will be something.
    Assuming you are both human and neither one of you is a robot.

    While the GP portrays a sad view of it, the fact is people need something they value that they can tell others about.