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  1. Re:How about on Whose Laws Apply On the ISS? · · Score: 1

    How about the law of common decency?


    Hi! You must be new here. Welcome to Earth.
  2. What does the "G" stand for? on Robot Becomes One of the Kids · · Score: 1

    GIR is the most loved character in that series.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invader_Zim

  3. Re:Interesting on $200 Linux PCs On Sale At Wal-Mart · · Score: 1

    I saw this yesterday and was considering if it would as the next pc for my parents. I don't think so - for one reason, powerpoint.
    Well, since Google Docs now opens Powerpoint files, I don't think there's much of a disincentive there.
  4. Re:Problems on Claim of a Blu-ray BD+ Crack · · Score: 1

    Actually, the alternate route might be to make the blank media cost enough that people can't be bothered.
    Right... 'cause nobody bothers to rip media straight to their hard disks.
  5. The Headline Rocks on 'Neurotic' is Best RTS strategy · · Score: 1

    'Neurotic' is best Real-Time Strategy Strategy

    Kinda like Network Interface Card Card, Automated Teller Machine Machine, and Personal Identification Number Number.

  6. Re:"Yeah, those suspicious e-lectronics". on MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport · · Score: 1

    The freedom to wear lit breadboards in airport lobbies?

    Ahh, the seldom-cited 35th Amendment.
    How about the 9th?

    The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
  7. Re:"Yeah, those suspicious e-lectronics". on MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport · · Score: 1

    She will be held, and charged with something, because releasing her would be tantamount to admitting, "We made a mistake and overreacted." People could be demoted or lose their jobs.
    You don't know much about LEO's do you? They're immune to consequences.
  8. Re:So..? on Eavesdropping Helpful Against Terrorist Plot [UPDATED] · · Score: 1

    You exactly missed my point. The purpose of things like a Constitution in a constitutional republic is to protect the rights of the minority, since the majority very seldom has problems getting it's will reflected in policies and laws and enforcing them on the minority. The Constitution defines the powers and sets limitations on the Federal government, and in some cases, the state governments. Over time, the Federal government has decided that it's powers are unlimited and has ignored the limitations as defined in what is essentially a legal contract with the citizens of this country. They are in breach of contract, but since they own the courts and they own the guns, who's gonna stop them?

    (Emphasis added)

    Actually, the point is to protect the rights of everyone; the minority from democratic despoitsm, the majority from elitist tyrannies, and each individual from the probability of congressional despotism. It can't stop ALL public wrongdoings but it's done a moderately reasonable job at stoping most of them.

  9. Somebody mod the parent of this post up. on Everything I Needed to Know About Game Writing I Learned From Star Trek · · Score: 1

    It's amusing and profound.

    However much I love Star Trek TV shows and movies, Star Trek video games suck.

  10. Re:As someone who campaigned for Nader in 2000... on Vote Swapping Ruled Legal · · Score: 1

    Go ahead and tell your "Green" friends that the electoral college is not a flaw in the voting system. It's there to make presdiential elections more democratic -- and it would succeed at that goal if it weren't for the fact that the Libservitive Republicrat Empires didn't get to pick who our electors were.

  11. Re:Finally, I got it. on Far Future Will See No Evidence of Universe's Origin · · Score: 1

    Seriously this implies all information from now will be lost.
    I'm pretty sure after a few dozen-billion-years, even if it's not lost, we won't care.
  12. Re:And who can weee thank for this? on US Can't Meet The "Grand Challenges" of Physics · · Score: 1

    I've never heard of such a shell. Is it a variant of BA$H?

  13. They maintained and guarded the Stargate there. on Ancient Village Unearthed Near Stonehenge · · Score: 1

    No, I don't watch too much SG-1.

  14. Re:Hit the core problem first on Schools Act to Short-Circuit 'Cyberbullying' · · Score: 1
    Here's a thought: How about they handle regular bullying, which happens in the school, before worrying about cyberbullying, which is more out of their hands?
    In my school, they didn't handle bullying. I got the shit kicked out of me regularly until I started kicking, biting, and carrying weapons. When I developed a reputation as a vicious little bastard, I was safe.
  15. Whatever it is, it's vastly inferior to Star Thugs on Battlestar Galactica Pen and Paper RPG · · Score: 3, Funny

    No Sci-Fi RPG system can compare. The ship building, the dogfight mechanics, and especially the joy of reading the rulebook outclass every other Sci-Fi RPG I've played.

    http://www.ghazporkindustrial.com/index.php?P=star thugs

  16. Re:potentiial conflict of interest... on EU Gives Microsoft 8 Days Until Fines · · Score: 1
    But what about his cousin Mie Kroes Offt?
    Her cousin. Neelie is a girl.
  17. It's called "Harmful Interference" and is rude. . on Pirate Radio Stations Challenge Feds · · Score: 0, Troll

    I want to sit down in an interview with Stephen Dunifer and every time he goes to answer one of my questions, interrupt him by screaming, or singing as loudly as I can. In fact, whenever he speaks, somebody needs to start shouting, or blowing whistles --- disrupt his communications and see how he likes it.

    I don't think there's anything wrong with wanting to transmit in the commercial broadcasting bands --- if you wanna do that, you should be able to. But interfering with those who are using those bands is just plain rude. It's like interrupting people in a conversation. It really undermines the entire purpose behind radio transmissions -- which is to COMMUNICATE!

    If you log into an IRC channel and flood the screen with random text you copy and paste from around your hard drive, you're going to get booted ASAP because it disrupts communications and disrupts the entire purpose of the chat server.

    Maybe the FCC needs t'make it easier to get a license to broadcast -- I'm all for that. But thinking you're some kind of courageous freedom-fighter when you're really just a gigantic jerk-face with a penchant for harmful interference doesn't do much to earn my sympathy for your cause.

    And it's not like the FCC is the effing red-coats out to over-tax your tea. Of all the federal institutions, they're among the least imposing -- THEY ARE THERE TO HELP MAINTAIN COMMUNICATIONAL INTEGRITY. For all their faults, they still try to do their job and they try not to be annoying dorks about it. Of all government agencies to fight, the FCC really should be on the very bottom of your list.

    Yes, I believe everyone should be on the air: Radio communications is a very useful tool that has helped civilization quite a lot. Anyone who wishes to be a part of that should definitely participate. Nobody has the right to participate at the expense of another's communicative abilities, though. That's not the kind of radio anyone should want to be a part of.

    So if the FCC doesn't bust into their houses and take their transmitters away, SOMEBODY should. Like their mommies and daddies or something.

  18. In Soviet Russia. . . on Reverse Off-Shoring · · Score: 1

    . . . India outsources you.

  19. Re:I knew that already... on Fear of Snakes May Have Driven Pre-Human Evolution · · Score: 1
    Of course it may only be coincidence that pre-Christian civilizations worshipped snakes...
    So that's where gays come from!
  20. Re:You will pay the price for your theft of "visio on ' Naughty Bits' Decision Not So Nice · · Score: 1

    You, sir, are my hero.

  21. Why bother? on Lotus Notes For Linux To Be Released By IBM · · Score: 1

    Linux-based systems already have browsers that can run this.

  22. Re:Quick question. on School Admins Demand Access to Students' Cellphones · · Score: 1
    By your logic I should be able to carry a gun around downtown, after all I want to, and it doesn't disrupt anybody, and it's "nobody else's goddamned business"
    Yes. You should be allowed to carry a gun around downtown and so should every other law-abiding citizen. You're all safer for it.
  23. Re:This is not what we need now on Panel To Investigate Scientist For Cloning Claims · · Score: 1
    Real scientists need to stand up and denounce frauds loudly and strongly whenever they appear. Too many otherwise learned men stand idly by while charlatans ply their wares to the unsuspecting.

    There is no way to stop people from committing fraud. There is, however, a way to teach everyone else to be more skeptical and analytical so they aren't deceived by fraudulent folks. Deceit will abound forever -- but it need not succeed.

  24. Re:From The Article on SCO Amends Novell Complaint · · Score: 1
    they must have sat down, asked themselves 'what makes a UNIX system so UNIXey?'

    Apparently, a BASH shell. . . with white text on black background.

  25. Re:Second Amendment Complaint? on SCO Amends Novell Complaint · · Score: 1

    Already prepared for that one: Shooting, that is.