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  1. Re:censorship on Wolfenstein Being Recalled In Germany · · Score: 1

    Everyone agrees that they have inalienable rights.

    Not everyone agrees that everyone else has an inalienable rights.

  2. Re:censorship on Wolfenstein Being Recalled In Germany · · Score: 1

    So you're trying to compare actions to beliefs? What you suggest is that we should lock up anyone who believes murder, rape, pedophilia, and drug dealing should be legal, but never get caught doing any of them.

  3. Re:Doomsday Machine on Soviets Built a Doomsday Machine; It's Still Alive · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Suffers or thrives? in the freshly tilled ground.

    Think Japan.

  4. Re:Problem on According to Linus, Linux Is "Bloated" · · Score: 1

    "BSD however, really only has one user"

    There FTFY

  5. Re:Prepare for the zombie onslaught! on Vegetative Patients Can Still Learn · · Score: 1

    "They're amongst us, they cannot think, they cannot be stopped, they're learning AND THEY'RE RUNNING THE COUNTRY!"

    You had me until "they're learning"

  6. Re:*sigh* on DHS Ponders "Improving" Terrorism Alert System · · Score: 1

    Yea, I can't wait until the next George Bush picks those Death Panel Doctors. I'm sure they'll be competent and have the best interest of the republicans at heart.

  7. Re:*sigh* on DHS Ponders "Improving" Terrorism Alert System · · Score: 1

    For some reason, greed for money is more trustworthy than lust for dominating power. Those are the two negatives to evaluate when deciding between private industry and government control. Monetary gain is easy to understand and plan for. Lust for power, especially over life and death, scares the crap out of me. I'm no fan of George Bush and I definitely don't want the next GWB administration making these kinds of decisions for me.

  8. Re:He's A Jerk on Austin Police Want Identities of Online Critics · · Score: 1

    APD is fine except for the mummy cops.

  9. Re:Well, Look at Their Monthly Revenue on Blizzard Offers Look Inside WoW At GDC · · Score: 1

    I helped build a single datacenter that was a little more than 1/2 the total size of servers and staff they quote. It cost a little under 2 months worth of revenue by your numbers(*).

    * I think the 10 million players is a highly massaged number. Sure there is a lot and they have probably had 10 million people sign up and pay for at least 1 month, but I don't think it's 10 million active paid accounts.

  10. Re:Should I Be Concerned... on Blizzard Offers Look Inside WoW At GDC · · Score: 1

    Yet I can get one from Bizzard to protect my WoW account for $5.99???

    They even gave them away at Blizzcon this year so I have an extra one...

  11. Re:New Alert System on DHS Ponders "Improving" Terrorism Alert System · · Score: 1

    "A symbolic clock is as nourishing to the intellect as a photo of oxygen to drowning man"

    -Dr. Manhattan

  12. Re:*sigh* on DHS Ponders "Improving" Terrorism Alert System · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Thought we already had that:

    for a while we had 15 minutes of hate against insurance execs
    then we had our 15 minutes of hate against auto execs
    then we had our 15 minutes of hate against bankers
    then we had our 15 minutes of hate against tea baggers
    now were going back to having 15 minutes of hate against racists (isn't that hate for haters?)

  13. Re:What? on How GNOME and KDE Spend Their Money · · Score: 1

    Not on their webserver either.

    slashdoted

  14. Re:WTF? on France Passes Harsh Three-Strikes Legislation, Again · · Score: 1

    Ohhh, Opt-in botnet. I didn't realize the person we were referring to actively and maliciously pursued joining said botnet with intent to harm others.

  15. Re:Inherintly unconstitutional on Professor Posts "Illegal Copy" of Guide To Oregon Public Record Laws · · Score: 1

    Unless the AG wrote this guide either prior to becoming AG or in his off time as a personal work, then what?

  16. Re:"Troll", but quite right on France Passes Harsh Three-Strikes Legislation, Again · · Score: 1

    perhaps it isn't the trial that isn't fair, but everything leading up to the trial. Plea bargains and threats. Uncertainties of a trial. eventually you'll bargain down to something you didn't do with less punishment than chance court with something you didn't do with nasty punishments.

    In a traffic case I was involved in, it was suggested that I plea to something I didn't do and they'd reduce the fine to almost nothing and throw out the thing I did do. I was stuck in a catch 22 at the time. If I fought to get the thing that suspended my license that I didn't do removed I would have to hire a lawyer and take it to court and be without a drivers license the entire time. If I accepted it I'd get my license back, but would have to plea guilty to driving on a suspended license which was mistakenly done. In the end it cost me about $1300 to make it go away. I could have spent $3000, not have a drivers license for 3-6 months and won. but is it worth it?

  17. Re:WTF? on France Passes Harsh Three-Strikes Legislation, Again · · Score: 1

    So, Umm, if we can't find the culprit lets just blame the victim then.

    Nice.

  18. Funniest line ever: on Fungivarius Beats $2 Million Stradivarius Violin · · Score: 1

    the AK-DL1 will bring out all the nuances in digital audio reproduction

  19. Re:That's becaues it's more mythology than reality on Fungivarius Beats $2 Million Stradivarius Violin · · Score: 2, Funny

    When you're stuck carrying around large piles of cash, of course things sound better when a company like monster unloads some of that from you.

  20. Re:The most beautiful sound on Fungivarius Beats $2 Million Stradivarius Violin · · Score: 1

    I think he was more concerned that if the quality was always that good if he would get the same emotional response every time, or if it would water itself down to the mundane.

  21. Re:Sensationalism on Taking Showers Can Be Harmful To Your Health · · Score: 1

    the atomic number for gold appears to be 79 in almost all currently accepted measuring abilities, and theories.

    Water appears to be comprised of 2 atoms of hydrogen and 1 atom of oxygen in most all accepting test cases.

    These will be as much truth as they can be until they are not.

  22. Re:"Troll", but quite right on France Passes Harsh Three-Strikes Legislation, Again · · Score: 1

    Why just the poor? i don't think there's really such a thing as "A fair" trial.

  23. Re:WTF? on France Passes Harsh Three-Strikes Legislation, Again · · Score: 1

    In france if someone steals your car and runs down a nun are you charged with murder? If someone hacks into your computer and does something illegal why should you be responsible for it? If someone breaks into your house and steals all your stuff are you arrested for stealing stuff? I mean you should have secured your home better.

  24. imagine on Mafia Sinks Ships Containing Toxic Waste · · Score: 1

    'The Mediterranean is 0.7 percent of the world's seas. If in this tiny portion there are more than 30 (toxic waste) shipwrecks, imagine what there could be elsewhere,' says Silvestro Greco,

    Hmm, 30 is 0.7% of 4290 so if 30 is the average number of toxic vessels in the ocean were screwed. I think we need a bigger sample size, and perhaps a less bias sample size.

    Just imagine that it could be anywhere from 0 to something less than infinite. We should give this guy money to find out.

  25. Re:Sensationalism on Taking Showers Can Be Harmful To Your Health · · Score: 1

    or at least it has been true in almost every observation so far. Sometimes there have been fireing pin problems or the powder got wet, or the round was miss loaded, so no there is a less than 100% chance I will be dead.