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  1. Re:Gotta love editorial impartiality on More 2005 Gaming Than You Really Want · · Score: 1

    well clearly, the plain editorial after the itallic quote is fairly seperated.

    In fact there is nothing but editorial on /. (unless a review is news, but I would say it ain't) so one could argue that the slashdot.org is seperation. There are no journalists on /.

  2. Re:Has to be said... on Good and Bad Procrastination · · Score: 1

    It is the US.

    To encourage home ownership we get to deduct mortgage interest on our primay residence up to a pretty large amount (I think $1.2 million). There was some descussion of dropping that to the high end of average ($350,000) and switching it to a tax credit instead of a deduction to help make things more fair (by fair I mean helping those that really need the help to buy a house) and get the IRS more money, but it probably won't happen.

    Our tax code is a clusterfuck of the government trying to encourage what behavior in its citizens that it wants, redistribute wealth to a point, stimulate the economy, and be completly un-decipherable. Tax time is fun time.

  3. Re:Mod down Jared Rea! on More 2005 Gaming Than You Really Want · · Score: 1

    I have to disagree. I think Mars Matrix is a better game.

    I liked the levels a lot in Ikaruga, but the bosses were a little flat (only faught a few :(

    I really liked the catch the falling cube thing in Mars Matrix a lot, and the catch the bullets weapon made me smile more than the color changing in general, though in som points the color patterns were truly amazing to navigate (the twirling ones in level two were just awsome to go through once you got it).

    But yeah, Ikaruga was only Sin and Punishment if you are teh suk at gamez, or just really don't get it.

  4. Re:bloated? on Blender 2.40 Released · · Score: 1

    why is the windows download smaller then?

  5. Re:It shouldn't matter on Today's Average Screen Resolution? · · Score: 1

    Making a high res monitor near useless, as all gained screen realestate is lost.

    the last thing I want is to maximize a windows and have it fill the whole (wide) screen with 10 lines of huge text.

    As it is now, when I maximize a window (in OSX) it expands to the width needed and two of them easily fit next to each other on a hi-res wide-screen

  6. Re:Text ads work on Google Counters AOL Deal Speculation · · Score: 1

    Yes they do.

    They all relate to the religious right nut jobs (as opposed to the religious right sane people, so don't flame me) view of Judaism/Islam/Atheism/Catholicism/Harry Potter.

  7. Re:AOL has done some good on Google Counters AOL Deal Speculation · · Score: 1

    lets not forgett they used to send you a free floppy disk every week.

    That was quite a plus.

  8. Re:Very Important For Our Future on Stardust to Return January 15 · · Score: 1

    Arn't deadly near miss asteroids sometimes spotted after the fact? or days before the near miss?

  9. bloated? on Blender 2.40 Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    at 6MB isn't blender starting to get bloated?

  10. Re:Violation of my rights on Symantec Restricts Crypto Export · · Score: 1

    I finally understand thank you for your explanation.

    We must restrict the export of boxcutters and plane tickets.

    Just to be careful we should extend the same restrictions to stuents and citizens too. In fact, we shhould probably require special clearance for the purchase of plane tickets and box cutters, only then will I be able to sleep at night, the fact that terrorists can bring safty siccors and mustach trimmers realler has be on edge.

  11. Re:Wait, WTF??!?!?!? on Little Red Book Draws Government Attention · · Score: 1

    Go Ducks?

  12. Re:Great idea! on Ramp Creates Power As Cars Pass · · Score: 1

    It is clearly BS, or the would speek of energy and not power, or a constant stream of power relative to traffic, not some random mention of power per a car. Of course it could be that 5 to 50kW are generated for the fraction of a second the wheels contact the bump, which is how that reads literaly, but is an asinine thing to measure.

  13. Re:Wait, WTF??!?!?!? on Little Red Book Draws Government Attention · · Score: 1

    I usually assume that "The lord is my shepherd" is used far more often by faithful then unfaithul, but I could be wrong.

  14. Re:You know on Algorithms Determine Mona Lisa's True Emotions · · Score: 1

    Except everyone was doing it, and strait sodomy was punished too.

    I actually know very little about back then, but in the centuries that fallowed this was certainly the case. Italy was especially known for its faggy theatre types.

  15. Re:Civ IV on Holiday Gaming Potpourri · · Score: 1

    Wrong Wrong Wrong.

    Civ II ran like poop when I got it on the HW front, and CivII was soooo easy. It took only a couple games to dominate at the hardest level of play. CivIII had its problems too, but at least it was hard.

  16. Re:Time for another breakup? on Telcos Propose 2-Tier Internet · · Score: 1

    Taxing corporate prophit decreases the reward in risk v reward calculations that drive the economy (especially in new areas), and that hurts everyone.

    Most economists think that Value Added Tax is the best tax for the economy (as far as not crippling while maximizing government income) and there is much debate about where that should be set, and depending on your personal views differnt places make sense. If wealth is to be redistributed do it with programs not with taxes (ie England's health care).

    of course dramatically redoing the tax system to a way that makes sense is impossible because in the short run there will be some winners and some losers to get the same amount of revenue, some of the losers could suffer huge. In the long run though, vat along with programs to help the poor (who are hardest hit with it) would help everyone.

    I would go bankrupt personally though, because I need the mortgage deduction to survive, which illustrates how hard it is to overhall a system that is doing things the wrong way (redistributing wealth on the uptake)

  17. Re:The basic concept is flawed. on Diebold CEO Resigns Under Cloud · · Score: 1

    Good luck teaching that to anyone over 50.

  18. Re:The other alternative on Torvalds Says 'Use KDE' · · Score: 1

    I used only emacs for a while.

    With TnT (a AIM plugin), cmd shell, and a simple web browser. I would type my reports using it and it had a spell check.

  19. Re:stating the obvious... on On The Feminine Form In Gaming · · Score: 1

    I flip through them becuse there is a stack probably about 1,000 pages high in the bathroom (from my girlfriend and roomate). I know plenty of guys who will flip through them when board, but not a single one who will buy them, and we are certainly not the target.

  20. Re:Hmm... misleading post? on The 3 Billion Dollar Typo · · Score: 1

    But the typo was billions off. The regulations protected them from the full damage of the typo.

    Of course the summary explained things very clearly but falsley.

  21. Re:ads? on Review of the Squeezebox · · Score: 1

    mental note, days are the things that happen every yime there is the big burning fireball, months are about 30 of those

  22. Re:ads? on Review of the Squeezebox · · Score: 1

    For $1.50 a day neither do I, and yet I still support the site.

  23. Re:humorless prigs on EFF Has Outlived Its Usefulness? · · Score: 1

    Well heavy handed self congradulating humor certainly comes through in writing.

  24. Re:About time on FCC Report Supports a la Carte TV Pricing · · Score: 1

    What you need to watch is Prime Minister's Questions on C-Span. It is good fun.

  25. Re:Hmm... on Diebold Threatens to Pull Out of North Carolina · · Score: 1

    FWIW,

    I read headlines that said Bush won definitivly, but no articles that said it definitivly, and there were questions/allegations that ballor boxes went missing.

    To me the whole thing was handled properly, with the supreme court letting the state do as it pleased (within the realm of its own law) and the supreme court staying the hell out of it (as per the constitution).

    The real shame is that the margine of victory was almost certainly smaller than the margin of fraud, so we can only hope that the Democrats commmitted equal or more fraud than the Republicans, otherwise the election was stolen.