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  1. Re:Maple Syrup Strategic Reserve? on Police Probing Theft of Millions of Pounds of Maple Syrup From Strategic Reserve · · Score: 2

    No. It's a hedge against radical market changes. It benefits you as well as larger producers.

  2. Re:Maple Syrup Strategic Reserve? on Police Probing Theft of Millions of Pounds of Maple Syrup From Strategic Reserve · · Score: 1

    "NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER GIVE UP!"

    Sometime you are just wrong. At that point you should give up. Too many people keep going on even when they have been shown to be factually wrong.

    And by 'You', I mean the royal you.
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    And by 'Royal You', I mean not me.~

  3. Re:Doctor Who Premieres tomorrow on Gamma-Ray Photon Observations Indicate Space-Time Is Smooth · · Score: 1

    The video was only 15 seconds.

  4. Re:busted... on ArenaNet Suspends Digital Sales of Guild Wars 2 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So if I exploit bank software and take all you money, it's legal?
    How about exploiting a flaw in your router and moving all your data to my machines, is that legal?(Note I said mv not cp)

    No, abusing obvious exploits is rude, and it's wrong. Note everything need to be codified into a strict rule book. Welcome to a society, watch you manners and have fun.

  5. Re:busted... on ArenaNet Suspends Digital Sales of Guild Wars 2 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    no they fix problems and punish people who abuse an obvious flaw.

  6. Re:Exploiting errors on ArenaNet Suspends Digital Sales of Guild Wars 2 · · Score: 2

    can you punish someone for taking advantage of an unlocked window?
    Yes, yes you can.

    And yes, this was obviously an exploit. Yes you can punish them for abusing it. Just like you can ban people for rude behavior.

  7. Re:Some timing... on ArenaNet Suspends Digital Sales of Guild Wars 2 · · Score: 1

    Would you rather pay and download it and then not be able to use it?

    I know this concept seems to be getting lost, but..

    Set the money aside and save it. It will become available again.

  8. Re:Game mechanics / real-life on ArenaNet Suspends Digital Sales of Guild Wars 2 · · Score: 1

    exploit means someone abusing what is an obvious bug to the layman.
    Granted sometimes that can be hard, but not in this case.

    Don't compare it to real life. If the owner of the store was buying soda for 2 bucks a six pack, and the it rang up for a dollar, it would be pretty obvious a mistake. Now, should the one person get it at the wrong price? sure, but the merchant can fix it on the spot so it doesn't happens again.

  9. Re:Generalization on ArenaNet Suspends Digital Sales of Guild Wars 2 · · Score: 2

    Example? the game is designed so you can hid behind and move around items. I don't know if that was the case in your circumstance.
    BTW, that's a two way street.

    IT's not generational, there have always been people who think that way.
    IN the case of computer games, sometimes it can be hard to determine a bug and a feature. Not in the case, it's pretty obvious that a merchant wouldn't buy things for more then they would sell them for... unless the developer intended the player to be able to get the merchant drunk first.

    In GW2 the when the centaurs turn at a high rate of speed, their ass end slides out, like a horse. When that happens I can throw a dagger at it takes them slightly longer to recover. Is that intended? a bug? If it turns out to be a bug should I be banned?

  10. Knowingly taking advantage on ArenaNet Suspends Digital Sales of Guild Wars 2 · · Score: 1

    of an obvious bug is an exploit. Right or wrong, it's just rude.
    Just because you don't chain up your bike, doesn't mean it's ok is someone takes it.
    The developer side of things need to be done internally.
    Frankly. I hope they were able to take the money they made away from the people who did it more then once.

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  11. The note said: on Message In Bottle Found After 98 Years Near Shetland · · Score: 2

    First post!

  12. Re:Neat on Message In Bottle Found After 98 Years Near Shetland · · Score: 1

    you made me curious.
    In the US:
    1914 - price of bread per pound 6 cents
    2002 - 149 cents

    Calculating inflation, 6 cents in 1914 is equivalent to 107 cents in 2002.

    So we are paying more for bread, but. It s sliced, safer, higher quality, and consistent.

  13. My rule is on The Truth About Hiring "Rock Star" Developers · · Score: 1

    if you act like a rock star, then you had damn well better be a rock star coder.

  14. Re:Nah, I must be wrong. For if I'm right.. on Promising New Drug May Cure Malaria · · Score: 1

    Yes,they do run those numbers. Instead of ranting and displaying your ignorance, maybe you should research.

    Maybe you should make an attempt to understand that ti's more complex then comparing lives lost, like determining effect?

    Fuck, you people are short sighted, ignorant and have the ego to say you must know everything. twads.

  15. Re:Too early to rejoice on Promising New Drug May Cure Malaria · · Score: 1

    Have there been in of those issue that weren't the result of overdose?

  16. Re:What about the cost to produce the drug? on Promising New Drug May Cure Malaria · · Score: 1

    well, we will see. Probably not that much per pill. There target demographic is the poor, so I don't think they would have gone forward to human trials if they used an ingredient or process that was expensive.

  17. Re:So, millions will die without the drug on Promising New Drug May Cure Malaria · · Score: 1

    Please make some sort of effort to understand science.

    They need to determine if it work. The statistics of who dies isn't really a constant number. Maybe you give the pill to 1000 people in the field, and 75% die. IS it because of the pill? IS it just a statistical dip? If it does drop, and it turns out to be a statistical dip then what? What about the money they wasted? what about people who don't understand statistics think that's proof it does work when ti doesn't? What if the pill does harm, but it's hidden inside of a statistical dip?

    I could go only but if you haven't gotten the point by now, your just too damn stupid to ever understand why.

  18. Re:Whack-a-mole on Promising New Drug May Cure Malaria · · Score: 1

    " Everyone will die. "
    every one who is dead, has died. That's all you can really say.

  19. Re:A great step forward on Promising New Drug May Cure Malaria · · Score: 1

    Then why has removing other disease from the sub Saharan region not lowered birth rate?

    You are looking at a single correlating fact and determining a causal relationship.

    It's about women rights over reproduction, it's about distractions(TV, et. al), and, yes improved health.
    AS long as a women can't say no, or is shunned for using birth control, birthrate will remain high. It's almost like its a messy human condition or something.

  20. Re:A great step forward on Promising New Drug May Cure Malaria · · Score: 2

    "Yes they are (family planning)."
    HAHAHAHA.. mostly.. no.

    " to be false again and again in reality. "
    nope. There are places whose population continue to grow as there infant mortality rate decrease..sub Saharan area come ti mind.

    The BIGGEST reason western country birth rate drops is a culture where women have a say in reproduction. That is not the case in a lot of sub Saharan

    TO not take in the cultures, woman's rights, distractions into account so, quite frankly, stupid.

  21. Re:Unless you can give everyone birth control.... on Promising New Drug May Cure Malaria · · Score: 1

    "the reason people in poor countries produce as many children as they do is the high mortality rate. "
    no. It's high buy US standards, but it's not so high as to need to have 8 kids.
    There is a culture issue about having kids, and women in Africa have it really hard when it comes to controlling their reproduction.

    FYI infant mortality in Sub saharan region is 80 per 1000 as of Jan '08

  22. Re:Unless you can give everyone birth control.... on Promising New Drug May Cure Malaria · · Score: 1

    Stop. Stop turning into a race thing. The poster just has no clue of science, the actually reasons for controlled trials. There is nothing there to indicate otherwise. Don't bring in topics that aren't part of the discussion. You look like a jerk who has to rely on making up emotional statements instead of facts and logic.

  23. Re:Unless you can give everyone birth control.... on Promising New Drug May Cure Malaria · · Score: 1

    So you make up figures and then base it off your made up figures.

    Science Fail.

    "Feelings of self-righteousness are far more valuable than human life."\
    No. without proper science you may end up in a place where you are not SURE if it works, so you have people spending their money on an ineffective treatment instead of finding an effective treatment.
    Using you(gross) example. What if during handing this out in uncontrolled condition 55% of the children die? did it help? was it something else? was it a statistical anomaly? what other variable are there?

    What if 95% of the children? same questions.

    Lets do the science so we are reasonably sure.

  24. Re:Unless you can give everyone birth control.... on Promising New Drug May Cure Malaria · · Score: 2

    haha, not unless there culture undergoes a massive shift it it's very core.
    Birth control is available, but there is s stigma. We are talking about places where anytime a something comes up to give women power over reproduction.
    And of course the Chinese are buying them up like crazy, so I expect they will soon be under paid miners and farmers.

    ". I suggest you study the continent and the problems it faces"
    right back at you.

  25. I've played Bethesda games on Bethesda: We Can't Make Dawnguard Work On the PS3 · · Score: 1, Informative

    so I'm not surprised it's too difficult for them.