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  1. Re:How sure? on Man Cures Himself of HIV? · · Score: 1

    It isn't what you would do, or I would do or anybody would or evne should do. It's about what someone is "REQUIRED BY LAW" to do. All they can do is ask. If he says No then they have to movie on. Sorry.

  2. Re:Interesting question #1 on Ask John Smedley About Star Wars Galaxies · · Score: 1

    Ohh, thats hot!

  3. Re:That's Not What the Article Said on Space Lichens · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is that why I've spent my whole life on a rock in space and gotten nowhere?

  4. Re:One Reason Alone is Enough on IPv6 Still Hotly Debated · · Score: 1

    So does NAT not function with IPv6?

  5. Re:The real truth. on Cow Tipping is a Myth · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Brethren doesn't distiguish sex. It doesn't have anything to do with brother.

    http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=brethren

  6. Re:How does he legally claim copyright? on Supreme Court Lets Utilization Rights Stand · · Score: 1

    Ahh, you mean like Microsoft.

  7. Re:Evolution isn't a theory about the start of lif on Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    One of the most convencing arguments I've ever heard from ID. Still if the explination is "Cause God said so." then it isn't sience. Period. The universe is set by rules and finding out what those rules are is science. Saying we don't know how elephants were created so it must be god is not science. Trying to find the random mutations and history of the elephants and how they came to be is science. Saying that god created light isn't science. Observing that the sun functions as a fusion reactor is science. Sure you can follow science all the way back to the original big crunch/big bag. That is established as the only point where there may be room for god.

  8. Re:Only protects from the lazy... on The Ultimate Star Trek Collection · · Score: 1

    WONDERFULL, where were you TEN FREAKING YEARS AGO!!!!!!!

    Darn you to heck.

  9. Re:No way on The Ultimate Star Trek Collection · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Keeping the prices on DVDs high also keeps the ability to license it out to brodcasters high. Getting rerun rights is going to be a pretty big payoff as well. If everyone owns the DVDs then noone will watch the reruns, thus less money from that point. Yet without any DVDs they don't get the buzz needed to get people to watch re reruns as well.

    That is where the sweet point is to be found.

  10. Re:Evolution isn't a theory about the start of lif on Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The problem isn't what the Theory of Evolution is, it's what Intelligent Design isn't. It isn't science. The one fundamental assumption of science is that the universe is consistent and guided by a set of rules. This has yet to be proven false. Even though some parts of quantum physics are pushing it.

    ID allows for inconsistencies from the meddling of an all powerful supernatural omnipresent being in unpredictable ways. This is the fundamental challenge that religion has against science. With sciences assumption that everything is governed by a particular set of rules this leaves no room for god. Other than in the deist manner of which god set forth the creation of the universe then walked away. Basically saying god created the laws that will govern science physics etc... but then left them on their own to see what might happen.

  11. Re:For me on Programming and Dieting? · · Score: 1

    Yeah!! I can be fat and die or I can be thin and die.

  12. Re:Could someone please post accomplishments? on 5 Years of Habitation on the ISS · · Score: 1

    The sad part is that you seem to see this as a "Bad Thing" :(

  13. Re:For a second there.. on Programming and Dieting? · · Score: 1

    And dieting is a regular thing for Programmers? I'd say they are just about equal. there are programmers that do both. Usually one followed by the other but they are the exception.

  14. Re:For me on Programming and Dieting? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I lost 90lbs right about the same time. I went from 290 down to 199.5. the breaking the 200lbs bariare actually took away a lot of my motivation. Motivation was the key. It took all I had and more to lose the weight over about 7-8 months. I dropped to about 1200-1500 calories a day. Combined the slimfast and subway diet for most of it, and ran constantly. I'd run 5-6 days a week. got up to running no less than 3.5 miles a day. The weight came off fast. Once I started to get into the 220 range people started really comenting on how good I was looking. They'd say, "You must feel so much better!!" I'd just glare back and say, "No I feel fucking hungry!!" I was miserable and far more depressed after loseing the weight than I was being fat.

    Then I found the Atkins diet. While I never lost any weight I was able to not be hungry, eat all kinds of foods I liked. (I never was a hard core sugar person) And I was able to maintain around 210lbs for almost 4 years now. Recently I had gotten board of the Atkins diet and put on another 20lbs and am about 230 now. I am trying to get the motivation back up to hit 199.5 again but I don't know if I want to go through that. By the way I am 5'10" and 199.5 is still a bit heavy for me. Not much but I'd still have well into the 20% body fat. Somewhere around 27-29%

    I'm torn now between being fat and miserable or being skiny and miserable. I know there has to be a better way. Diet and exersize sound great but they just don't work as a total solution.

  15. Re:Is it serious or a joke? on A Closer Look at Star Wars on Film and Off · · Score: 1

    Or the entire store line was a lie made up by Sidious in order to tempt Annakin to the dark side.

  16. Re:Scariest on What Scares Game Developers? · · Score: 1

    but there was just something about it where I was scared to shit whenever I was deep in the dungeons.

    Yea, you don't want to be caught with your pants down at the lower level of a dungeon.

  17. Re:Final straw on Linux Kernel 2.6.14 Released · · Score: 1

    ...This just in...

    BSD usage drops by 33%

    Questioned the other two users both said, "BSD isn't dead yet."

    A Linux user was quoted in saying in a british accent, "You'll be stone dead in a minute."

    To which one of the remaining BSDers said, "I think I'll go for a walk."

  18. Re:Consider the Source on OpenOffice Bloated? · · Score: 1

    Why resort to facts and logic when we can just degrade the authors character, motives and possible agenda. When A 300lbs person tells me I'm fat it automaticly makes me skinners because he is obviously much fatter than I am.

    That "Pot and Kettle" story is BS. Just because they are both black doesn't make the information any less. Just because a 300lbs person tells me I'm fat doesn't mean I can't stand to lose 30lbs.

  19. Re:NES #1? Ignorance. on 20 Years of NES · · Score: 1

    ...hated game consoles... should have bene the text. Look at the 2600. With like 3 ok games none even came close the the arcade equivilant. Up until the NES there was nothing good.

  20. Re:Another useless "review" on An Old Hacker Slaps Up Slackware · · Score: 1

    No it's more like a review about an airplane that talks mostly about getting through the airport and comments about the seats in the gate and wall carpet in the ramp.

  21. Re:Tuxpaint? on Dvorak on 'Rinky-Dink' Software Rant · · Score: 1

    How about this tutorial

    1. Select the red channel from the layers and channels dialog (open by default)

    2. Select the brush that fits the redeye and black as a color

    3. draw black over the redeye in only the red channel (because you selected in in step 1.

    Redeye all gone.

  22. Re:Pfft! You call this science? on Insecure Code - Vendors or Developers To Blame? · · Score: 1

    May very well be true but if Ms. Spears sounds like a screech owl suffering an anal prolapse and no one is around to hear it does she actually make a noise?

  23. Re:Pfft! You call this science? on Insecure Code - Vendors or Developers To Blame? · · Score: 1

    Actually Bad moives, Britney Spears, and bad software are all the fault of the people who buy them.

    Don't buy them and they wont exist.

  24. Re:Errors and Omissions Insurance (GPL V3) on Insecure Code - Vendors or Developers To Blame? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder if they can get around it by claiming the code as the documentation as to what the program does. That way if it does something wrong it is perfectly documented that that is what it is suppose to do. If you don't want it to do that let me know and I (the programmer) can change it. This would be kind of like the Microsoft argument of "it's not a bug it's a feature" except with OS it is a documented feature that is subject to change appon request.

    Closed source applications wouldn't be able to use this loophole.

  25. Re:A God Has Fallen? on Blu-Ray The Flavour of The Moment · · Score: 1

    They are going to throw money at you in the form of more advertisement, and when money is thrown at you from a company where do you think it comes from? I'll give you a hint. Bill gates wont be in the wellfare line anytime soon.