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  1. The analogy is poor on Ireland Criminalizes Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    At best

  2. Re:Microsoft is going to kill VMWare on Microsoft Releases Linux Device Drivers As GPL · · Score: 1

    1 - Agreed
    2 - Part 1, partially agreed on popularity, less on quality, but I haven't touched MS Office since the 90s as a kid
    Part the 2nd - (MSN Messenger also works decently on Macs) - I feel the need to let out a slight LOL, from a circle of people I've seen, it's fairly universally poor compared to the multiprotocol alternatives, although, true, the only alternatives for msn are libpurple based afaik.

  3. Re:How is this different from "hate speech" on Ireland Criminalizes Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    The Conspiracy theory called "the homosexual agenda" is smokes and mirrors to attack gays in general. I have no knowledge of the other case and considering the media circus put out in Quebec because nuts of every religious group decided to coordinate and complain about everything under the sun, and all getting the ear of the government, I wouldn't be surprised we get a few years of the pendulum going the other way again. And Ireland is a nation with the Catholic church almost inscribed in the constitution.

  4. Re:It's so very odd..... on Ireland Criminalizes Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    The second sentence is very much self-explanatory, unless you're a total theist with no beliefs involving only one/a particular subset of divinities to exist, which would be pretty rare outside of a subset of pagans and hindus, but still, you're likely only a step below the hardcore atheists - you do, after all, likely disbelieve everyone else's gods... and there might have been a slight mix up as to the person it was aimed at, you messed up the italics tag, idk. The oppositions raised by the epicurians to the notion of a perfect divinity, imo, stand.

  5. Re:Reality.. on US Forgets How To Make Trident Missiles · · Score: 1

    The one that would not keep on invading to make them a soviet puppet if they tried to surrendering to them.

  6. Re:Reality.. on US Forgets How To Make Trident Missiles · · Score: 1

    Hm... "a bomb we know nothing about and that could just be sophisticared firebombing hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki" or "the russian army just declared war, managed to wipe out a third of the imperial army in 2 fucking weeks, oh, and all the navy is on the wrong side of the home islands without enough fuel for a two way defense" - I wonder which one was more convincing.

  7. Re:Make computers into humans on Ideas For the Next Generation In Human-Computer Interfaces · · Score: 1

    That will of course work fine when you have a cold, if you're deaf, have speech impediments, communication difficulties, etc... The keyboard will only become obsolete when something as accessible can replace it, ditto for the mouse. I'm pretty sure we will just multiply the interfaces actually.

  8. Re:Not like The Pirate Bay on Big Swedish Filesharing Server Seized · · Score: 1

    The Office comes from a government owned and run broadcaster.

  9. Re:Not like The Pirate Bay on Big Swedish Filesharing Server Seized · · Score: 1

    The industry doesn't help artists make money. Especially not school-trained artists.

  10. Re:No business messing with the web? Bite Me on Dreamweaver Is Dying; Long Live Drupal! · · Score: 1

    Er, no, seriously, web "devs" who have no clue about accessibility have no business doing webdesign, GP is right on that one.

  11. Re:Can't by games with plain cash, anymore then? on How Much Longer Will Physical Game Distribution Survive? · · Score: 1

    Prepaid cards will keep your privacy safe if you know where to get it.

  12. Re:Physical is still the best bandwidth on How Much Longer Will Physical Game Distribution Survive? · · Score: 1

    Checking my Dosbox folders, 20MB was reached and breached in DOS years already. Some 1995 games were already a full 600MB CD in size.

  13. Re:I always buy boxed games on How Much Longer Will Physical Game Distribution Survive? · · Score: 1

    I've exchanged games bought from Strategy First (although I've been hit hard by the DRM crap on the games where they don't hand out license codes) and Direct2drive.

  14. Re:Online sales on How Much Longer Will Physical Game Distribution Survive? · · Score: 1

    Sales taxes ARE bullshit, regressive taxes really hammer those who are broke the most.

  15. Re:Just what the world needs... on Amazon Releases iPhone Kindle Software · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Neither have I, ever.

    *gets back to reading her book in the sunset*

  16. Re:Kdawson on Portugal's Vortalgate — No Microsoft, No Bidding · · Score: 1
    Linux, OSX, BSD, Solaris, Inferno, HaikuOS, Syllable... Dozens of distros for 3 of those...

    It's not the politicians who ripped off windows, it's MS who violated the competition regulations and decided to go on the brink.

    Also

    That stuff isn't about you techies -- it's about the masses who vote, which isn't you.

    The masses who vote don't give a fuck what their OS is because they don't have a clue what their OS is, the masses who vote can do everything they want in any *nix OS is a niche.

  17. Re:More affordable? Prices sky rocketed in many on Apple Store Reopens With Many New Products · · Score: 1
    No, for iDVD I mean it's got plenty of replacements, no? Or maybe I haven't seen all that iDVD can do that I couldn't simply do by using tags in iPhoto and iMovie and then just burning...

    *ponders*

  18. Re:Every time Obama opens his mouth... on Tigger.A Trojan Quietly Steals Stock Traders' Data · · Score: 1

    Standard of living partially afforded because of social services enacted by corporates and upper class people who knew what they had to fear the most: an angry working class. I wonder whether they still remember.

  19. Re:Kdawson on Portugal's Vortalgate — No Microsoft, No Bidding · · Score: 1

    Aunt Mildred will have no clue what her operating system is anyway, except her bored techie niece or nephew will have had it switched to something saner to ease the maintenance nightmare involved.

  20. Re:Kdawson on Portugal's Vortalgate — No Microsoft, No Bidding · · Score: 1

    It seemed terrible from the inside, too,

  21. Re:More affordable? Prices sky rocketed in many on Apple Store Reopens With Many New Products · · Score: 1

    Okay, I guess Garageband can be nice for this. I used to scratchpad on a paper scratchpad, I came down a bit stronger than I felt (I've seen friends do nice brainstorming on it)...

  22. Re:Kdawson on Portugal's Vortalgate — No Microsoft, No Bidding · · Score: 1

    That sort of brinksmanship would have the potential to hurt both, although I suspect MS has more to lose in it if such a bluff is called. Much more.

  23. Re:Starving Artists on Apple Store Reopens With Many New Products · · Score: 1

    Most engineers I know have Apple and Sun hardware and battered old boxen cobbled from random corporate leftovers.

  24. Re:I've heard of expensive but this? on Apple Store Reopens With Many New Products · · Score: 1

    It's still 900 from Crucial, which means that's a 25% markup at most. Their markups for DDR3 are about the first time they're close to the levels asked of other OEM.

  25. Re:Apple is simply to expensive. on Apple Store Reopens With Many New Products · · Score: 1

    It's only one pound lighter than laptops in its footprint.