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  1. Re:Retirement on South Korea Deploys Cloned Drug-Sniffing Dogs · · Score: 0

    I don't think there is fault in eating dogs, or maybe even cats. I think the real, lets call it problem, is that people will less likely eat something to which they are attached. I do not know what the ration of familly with a dog or a cat in asia is, but what I seem to recall from conversations with asian friends of mine, the lack of space is not too friendly to the keeping of pets in one's house.
    So I would guess that asian would be less attached to pets like dogs and cats and therefor, more open to the eating of them. I guess we could compare the eating of horse in western society. If you'd be ridding a horse since you were little and would consider it as you pet, I guess you would most likely not eat it as opposed to someone who I guess never really ever touched or seen a horse in real life would absolutely have no "remorse" about eating it (I'm not counting vegetarians of course, the choice of eating meat or not is not the point of this post).

  2. Re:I hate time sinks on Massively Single-Player Gaming? · · Score: 0

    Couldn't agree more. I left FFXI exactly for those reasons. It would take at least an hour to form up a group (IF you had the maxed out equipment of the level you were with all the spells and all the skills and everything else pretty and shinny), it would takt about an hour to get to the place your group wanted to go, you'd play about an hour (if not killed or someone supposedly had to "go eat" or "go to work", and you had to reforma group, AGAIN), and then you'd have to stick around for another hour to sell the useless stuff you'd win at the lottery and buff up your guy with the new shinny things to max you out once again. So in all, on the 4 hours on-line, you'd have "played" only 1. Kind of makes you feel like you wasted you time.... And indeed, I also prefer to clear off a whole field of medium mobs and have the xp pour in than fight high-level, high-risk mob.

  3. Cooled OLED? on OLED Breakthrough Yields 75% More Efficient Lights · · Score: 0

    Now combine it with the new cooled LED technologie and you got a cooled OLED with less energy consumption and more efficienty.

  4. Re:Hey on Software Glitch Leads To $23,148,855,308,184,500 Visa Charges · · Score: 0

    That's exactly why 2012 is supposed to be the end of the human race. It all makes sense.

  5. Re:Dynamic world on Experimental Video Game Evolves Its Own Content · · Score: 0

    There's a few solutions avaiable. Take for exemple the smithy, you could give a player a weight limit or a "items carried" limit so that you can't go to the shop and run away with 50 swords or 20 chainmail armors. Neither could you run away from a bakery with 50 loaf of bread...

  6. I'd like to know more.... on Passenger Avoids Delay By Fixing Plane Himself · · Score: 0

    Like what the problem was, why fly in an engineer from 8 hours away (for a 35 mins job) and wasn't there any tech on site to at LEAST check if he could fix the thing first?

  7. Why do they need the .[something] ? on ICANN Releases Draft For New TLDs · · Score: 0

    I know this might sound weird, but since the "extention" doesn't make much sense anymore, why use it? Just have it named by your compagnie's name. Web site would be reached by their name and that's it. Say you want to see Sony's site, you type in sony... Most compagnies buy the whole .everything anyway.

  8. Re:about time.. on Microsoft Working For Samba Interoperability · · Score: 0

    Especially when your products are loosing ground.

  9. Re:magic trains on Magnetic Levitating Trains Get Go-Ahead In Japan · · Score: 5, Funny

    You were able to take out 3 letters from Magnetic but you got Levitating right...?

  10. Re:Open Source: A Primer on Economic Crisis Will Eliminate Open Source · · Score: 1

    True to that. And as far as I can recall, most of the openSource programs, free Software and such are the product of stand alone programers from small compagnies, Universitie's students and theachers who were in the need of a program that didn't exist or didn't have the "options" they needed. Kudos to people like you!

  11. And the price of everything goes up... on Learning To Profit From Piracy · · Score: 1

    As much as I agree with what Matt Manson says, I do believe it's hard to see a world (at least in a close by future) where things like music and books will be free. Let says for a minute that it would happen, then what? How would the musician and writers make any money? Increase concert tickets which are already quite expensive for some groups. And since writers only make money from what they sell, does that mean they have to find a side job? Then what's the point.... And if it does really happen and let say the government make a deal to give money to artist to get their music or books for free, then they're just going to raise taxes, and in the end, we'll still be paying.