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  1. Re:Sorry, but it doesn't work that way on Valve Cracks Down on 20,000 Users · · Score: 1

    ahh I get it, ease of duplication is what makes something diffrent than a regular good. I don't remember pet rocks haveing any kind of licens agrement beyond regular tradmark, copyright, and patent law. yet it was easier to duplicate than a click of a button, hell you don't even need a button just pick one up off the ground, ohh you just broke the EULA for pet rock, 3 years prison for you.

  2. Re:Sorry, but it doesn't work that way on Valve Cracks Down on 20,000 Users · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you but I do have a license to drive my car. A license that can be revoked if I don't follow the terms of aggrement. Just like a HL2 CD just because the license has been revoked they don't come knocking on your door to take away your CD as well.

    PS. Your point is valid and I actually do agree with you. Just playing devils advocate here.

  3. Re:Why all the fuss? on Unifying Linux Package Management · · Score: 1

    ln -s /usr/lib/gimp /opt/gimp

  4. Re:Best part of the story. on Senate Passes Scaled-Back Copyright Bill · · Score: 1

    no no, complaining doesn't help anything. if no one would have said anything then the law would still have come through in a fair and just manner. Just like this new amendment to repeal the 1st amendment. Please don't complain about it and everything will be all right.

  5. Re:Is it better... on Senate Passes Scaled-Back Copyright Bill · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Welcome to post 9/11, err vet...err kor...err WWII..I..Civil war times. Using the morally just ideal of freeing the slaves the federal government started its unconstitutional climb of power. Helped by things like the National Income tax, federal * * agencies, and now with things like the patriot act, that the federal government has exersized outside of it's stated power.

    It has gone from states only being disallowed things from the federal government based on human rights to now they have to beg the federal government to be able to do the things they may want.

  6. Re:Damn on SimCity Trains Bad Urban Planners · · Score: 1

    I don't know about that but I am a professional plumber and I got all my training by playing Super Mario Bros. 1 & 2.

    DISCLAIMER: I am not really a professional plumber and didn't learn any plumbing skills from playing those games. Don't sue me if you feel you wasted your time trying to learn plumbing by playing the Super Mario Bros series games.

  7. Re:Get a Grip! on SimCity Trains Bad Urban Planners · · Score: 1

    evil devil-possessed demons is a little estreame. I'd say more like the WWII simulation games that have been comming out lately.

    While paint ball isn't like real combat its more closely related and used as a training aid better than Dungeons and Dragons.

    Just because it is a game doesn't mean it isn't an important learning tool, in my opinion, because it is a game makes it a very important learning tool. And if you are striving for as close to reality as possible, the game should reflect as close to reality as possible.

  8. Re:Actually.... on 230mph Electric Car · · Score: 1

    I think he ment other than those ways, How are you going to charge the batteries?

  9. Re:Actually.... on 230mph Electric Car · · Score: 1

    "Or don't Americans like to do *anything* that involves physical effort? :)"

    Of course we don't want to do any physical effort. You foreigners and your primitive physical effort ways.

  10. Re:When Google write an operating system.... on Google Muscles Into Microsoft's Turf · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they will add a decent editor to it? Maybe they could port VI over to EmacsOS.

  11. Re:We agree. on Berkeley Researchers Analyze Florida Voting Patterns · · Score: 1

    How does that combat against strong arming and buying votes. If a battered wife wants to vote for a new elective that is going to help her get away form her husband what is to stop the husband form watching over her shoulder and make sure she votes for who he wants her to?

    Whats to stop someone saying bring your ballots here and we will give you $10 to vote for candidate x?

    Whats to stop a postal service worker from intercepting thousands of votes changing them and continuing them on to the counting location?

    The only way to insure that there will be as small amount of voter fraud is to offer huge incentives to people for turning in fraud. $100,000 - $1,000,000 rewards for turning in voter tampering. In fact this should be done for all fraudulent government activities.
    ties.

  12. Re:I'm happy on Raimi Remaking 'Evil Dead'? · · Score: 1

    Actually there was one called Within the woods that was a predisesor to Evil Dead that Sam and Bruce did in order to show as a pitch to investors. I found it on a file shareing network and watched it. about 30 minutes long and in a close tridition of the other 3 with a home video camera feel.

  13. Re:Alien/s on Raimi Remaking 'Evil Dead'? · · Score: 1

    Aliens in love?
    or how about the end of Space balls where the alien busts out of the guys chest then sings hello my darling.

  14. Re:Make 'Em Crappy on Raimi Remaking 'Evil Dead'? · · Score: 1

    No the weird thing is people like you don't like to have a choice.

  15. Re:What's with pro-China Slashbots? on China to Have Over 100 Eyes in the Sky · · Score: 1

    Yea there seems to be a knee jerk reaction to blame all hard responses to extreme stituations as knee jerk reactions, lately.

  16. Re:I dont think its such a bad idea on TiVo to Sell Your Fast-Forward Button · · Score: 1

    No verbal aggrement, no hand shake, no wink and nod, nothing. I just went to the store and purchased it and plugged it in.

  17. Re:I dont think its such a bad idea on TiVo to Sell Your Fast-Forward Button · · Score: 1

    No, but the little Honda logo next to it is just another advertisement, and yes branding is a form of advertisment.

  18. Re:A Little Trite? on Fl. County Halts FTTP Until Installation Is Safer · · Score: 1

    OK, just for you.

  19. Re:DigSafe on Fl. County Halts FTTP Until Installation Is Safer · · Score: 1

    sure seems like it would be binifitial for all the utility type companies to get together and tunnel one large accessable tunnel for all utilities to run through. Probably cost %10 of what they have now and would help build public infrastructure.

  20. Re:A Little Trite? on Fl. County Halts FTTP Until Installation Is Safer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yea, most Cable companies put geysers of raw sewage right in peoples living rooms.

  21. Re:rpm vs. deb on Four Linux Vendors Agree On An LSB Implemenation · · Score: 1

    apt-get has 7 nana boo boo

  22. Re:I dont think its such a bad idea on TiVo to Sell Your Fast-Forward Button · · Score: 1

    Now if your computer showed a Mt. Dew ad when you booted it up..

    I'd ignor it all the same. I don't see the difference?

  23. Re:Linux problem is.... on Four Linux Vendors Agree On An LSB Implemenation · · Score: 1

    Stupid managers, It's easy to lead when you only have to think you know where your going. For the rest we are smart enough to know that we don't know where were going so we don't even try. Any time I am put in a manger position I hate it. It's like having a blind person tell a deaf person the wrong way go, then the deaf person wrongly corrects and relays that information to me with smoke signals, and performance dance (hehe imagine your boss doing that). Then I have to (most likely wrongly) correct that information into something that might make sense. It's like the bucket of shit, and stinks -> promotes growth and is strong transition of that one joke.

  24. Re:rpm vs. deb on Four Linux Vendors Agree On An LSB Implemenation · · Score: 1

    dpkg has more letters than rpm in its name. More is better.

  25. Re:The Reference Unix on Four Linux Vendors Agree On An LSB Implemenation · · Score: 1

    Hmm, what did this do? We have several E6k and E10ks as well as E450s around and I do this all the time with no negitive recourse. often times we turn off the terminals and move them around from system to system. We are only now getting all our Unix boxes onto terminal concentrators which are really nice.