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  1. Re:Would that make it... on How To Grow a Head · · Score: 4, Funny

    So the British scientists are getting ahead, but only a little.

  2. Re:Control group? on Biggest Study On Cellphone Health Effects Launched in Europe · · Score: 1

    Exactly. If you were to measure, say, a son's height vs his father's height, you won't have a control group of people with no fathers.

  3. Re:I wonder how long until it "accidentally" leaks on South Park's Episode 201 — the Expurgated Version · · Score: 4, Funny

    But they showed that episode in July 2001, and the attacks were in September 2001.

    So South Park caused the 9/11 attacks.

  4. Re:Huh? on Sony Can Update PS3 Firmware Without Permission · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why is it whenever I see the Questions Game, I have a desire to end it?

  5. Game Manuals? on Ubisoft Says No More Game Manuals · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I honestly can't remember the last time I used a game manual.

    The only real reason I know of is to find out the control layout, but that's usually included/changeable in-game now.

  6. Re:Some games are farmville for a reason on How I Saved the Gaming Industry · · Score: 1

    By farming, I don't mean a simulation.

    I meant games where the easiest way to get money is to run around killing easy enemies.

    Or entering, exiting and reentering buildings to get the [clay jars] to regenerate,

    Or cutting grass and waiting for it to grow back, just so you could cut it again.

  7. Re:No one wants to be behind the times on How I Saved the Gaming Industry · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If they can get the storyline and gameplay right, create great immersion, reduce bugs, loadtime, need for 'farming,' etc, then I have absolutely no problem with buying games from that company.

  8. Re:Mix-up: they already had depicted him before... on Extremists Warn South Park Creators Over Muhammad In a Bear Suit · · Score: 1

    Probably because it aired two months before 9/11.

    So obviously, South Park is to blame for 9/11.

  9. Re:I don't want to say it's not serious on Photos of Chinese Sweatshop Used By Microsoft · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think that this is more the point:

    They are not allowed to talk or listen to music, are forced to eat substandard meals from the factory cafeterias, have no bathroom breaks during their shifts and must clean the toilets as discipline, according to the NLC.

    The workers also sleep on site, in factory dormitories, with 14 workers to a room. They must buy their own mattresses and bedding, or else sleep on 28in-wide plywood boards. They 'shower' with a sponge and a bucket.

    And many of the workers, because they are young women, are regularly sexually harassed, the NLC claimed.

    The organisation said that one worker was even fined for losing his finger while operating a hole punch press.

  10. Re:Uh-oh!! on EFF Assails YouTube For Removing "Downfall" Parodies · · Score: 1
  11. Re:They can be art on Roger Ebert On Why Video Games Can Never Be Art · · Score: 1

    Well, the point of the readymades is that the physical form is all but irrelevant.

    In fact, it is the hint of a story, and not the actual object, that makes it art.

    For example, I'm sure you wouldn't, in general, accept for free the overdue library books from someone. It would just be a drain on your resources.

    However, if you received George Washington's overdue books for free, it would be stupid to refuse, completely irrelevant of what the books actually were.

    It's the inclusion of Washington that makes them interesting (and thus potentially art).

  12. Re:They can be art on Roger Ebert On Why Video Games Can Never Be Art · · Score: 1

    Despite the fact that I detest most of his readymades (I'm not against calling them art, just I'm not a fan in general), "En prévision du bras cassé" is actually one of my favorite artworks.

  13. Re:They can be art on Roger Ebert On Why Video Games Can Never Be Art · · Score: 1

    Marcel Duchamp, is that you?

  14. Re:Completely inaccurate on EU Piracy Estimates — Just How Inaccurate? · · Score: 1

    There's a relevant Simpsons quote.

    Everybody already knows what it is, so there's not much point in saying it.

  15. Re:DMCA still makes it illegal on In Defense of Jailbreaking · · Score: 1

    What's meant by 'effectively' in that context?

    I'm not sure, but I do know that there are a few lawyers looking to make money from arguing over it.

  16. Re:Eya... what? on Satellites Keep Aircraft Away From Volcanic Cloud · · Score: 1

    HAHAHAHA

    Wait, I don't get why it's funny...

  17. Re:Wrong article? on Bad PR Forces Apple To Reconsider Banning Mark Fiore's App · · Score: 1

    Of course he didn't read the article.

    It's the fact that he even tried that he should be ostracized from our community.

  18. Re:Kidding? on 3rd Grader Accused of Hacking Schools' Computer System · · Score: 1

    It's Child's Play?

    So even a doll can hack [at] the system?

  19. Re:4th Amendment on Google Backs Yahoo In Privacy Fight With DoJ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My email and safe deposit box are held by third parties, each of which has the ability to look inside.

    I would hope that the government needs a warrant two inspect the contents of my safe deposit box, and more importantly, that my bank would not allow them access without a warrant.

    The same goes for my email.

  20. Re:Stupid on South Korea Announces Daily MMO Blackouts For Youths · · Score: 1

    It's like visiting an adult website.

    They something like: "You must be 18 or older to enter. Are you over 18? [Yes] [No]"

    A 14 year old boy can be 18 for five minutes (30 minutes on dial-up).

  21. Re:Is it just me on NASA Unveils Sweeping New Programs For Next 5 Years · · Score: 1

    I think you mean:

    "To boldly send a robot where no robot has gone before."

  22. Re:...in USA on Mass. Gambling Bill Would Criminalize Online Poker · · Score: 1

    I think that the Red Socks play baseball there...

    Then obviously this bill sucks!

    Go Yankees!

  23. Re:And Mike of Milwaukee releases his AoTC critiqu on Star Wars To Air As Animated Sitcom · · Score: 1

    Honestly, the review would be much, much better without the "that's what he said!" segments.

  24. Re:Community involvement on Songbird Drops Linux Support · · Score: 1

    Isn't the spirit of Free Software about everyone pitching in and helping each other freely? Or did I misunderstand freedom to mean freedom for others to do work for me for free?

    Open source is about a few people helping themselves and allowing everyone else to easily help themselves. This would be inventing an automatic lawnmowing system, letting everyone use the blueprints free, and allowing them to use their own resources to build the system.

    However, in open source software, this last step is practically trivial and resource-free.

  25. Re:They will not collapse! on Warner Brothers Hiring Undercover Anti-Pirates · · Score: 1

    I believe strongly that the publishers are assholes in terms of DRM, et cetera.

    However, you have to realize that movies are business investments. People put money into the films, and expect to make at least that much back out of them. I'm not sure there is any other way for a movie to be profitable, and thus any other way for a movie to be made. Obviously they'll try to milk the profits, though the problem is that they paint themselves as milkmen but don't even deliver.