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  1. Re:BS on Star Citizen's Crowdfunding-Driven Grey Market · · Score: 1

    So when you donate money to charity through a middleman and he takes a sizeable portion of your money, it's ok?

    Where do you draw the line? How much can he take? Can he not tell you that he's taking a portion of the money for himself? In some countries that is actually illegal to do.

  2. Re:Re-Read Subject:AdBlock does less by FAR on Google Testing Banner Ads On Select Search Results · · Score: 1

    And assembler does far more than C when done right too.

    My point, which you keep walking past is that messing around with hosts file is significantly more complex than just using adblock if all you need is ad blocking functionality in your browser. It's like writing software that can be comfortably written in C in assembler instead.

  3. Re:Hangings on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    Well, for starters you won't go to jail for 25 years for that other than in puritanist backwater countries like US and maybe UK.

  4. Re:AdBlock does less by FAR &... on Google Testing Banner Ads On Select Search Results · · Score: 1

    Nope, it's coded in higher level language used by plebs unlike assembler that does it all better and more efficiently. But you plebs want to make things comfortable and easy instead of powerful and hard. Like ones that use adblock instead of maintaining hosts files, or using higher level programming languages instead of assembler code.

  5. Re:Will probably matter very little when it comes on Star Citizen's Crowdfunding-Driven Grey Market · · Score: 1

    They have specifically stated that these things won't even be exclusive - all ships will be attainable through in-game means. You may get a unique skin at best.

  6. Re:BS on Star Citizen's Crowdfunding-Driven Grey Market · · Score: 1

    Two problems:

    1. People who want to buy the limited packages could have been giving the money to the devs to fund the game. Which is the entire point of the whole "selling ships before game is even out" thing.
    2. Obfuscation: by not allowing discussion of some of the practices and fine points, such as price differential for early backers, newcomers may actually end up getting screwed. They think they're backing the dev, when in fact they're lining profiteers' pockets.

  7. Re:Hangings on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    No, that's just frontier justice countries like US that base their justice system on concept of vengeance rather than concept of rehabilitation.

  8. Re:Hangings on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    People who present danger to society will continue to be incarcerated in those countries, such as Breivik (who didn't murder people in malls by the way). However these are exceptions to the rule. Most people convicted to life in prison present no threat after serving several tens of years.

  9. Re: Hangings on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    How could it not? What other justification do you have besides "vengeance" if he has reformed himself?

    Reminder: civilization is about rising above animalistic instincts. Succumbing to petty vengeance isn't civilized - it's barbaric.

  10. Re:Hangings on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    Actually it's factually correct, because life sentence does mean the thing I describe.

    What you are describing is an exception made to those who are deemed to be still dangerous after having served their time. That has nothing to do with life sentence and can be applied to those serving shorter time as well.

  11. Re:Hangings on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure. I've read the bible, and the god as old testament describes it is not really someone I could in any way shape or form relate to Jesus' teachings for example.

    It's all about which part of the bible you focus on as the "right one". Same goes for most other major religions such as islam, buddhism, hinduism and so on.

  12. Re:Hangings on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    In most cases, these people do not serve the sentence in full, but are in fact allowed out on parole in some form.

  13. Re:Hangings on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 2

    The point for length of punishment is to completely disconnect the person from their previous life and then rehabilitate them by rebuilding it. Not making their life not worth living.

    It's the difference between justice systems and their goals. US justice system is about revenge, which is a common theme for countries that had their justice system built based on frontier, low resource justice.
    Most of the EU justice system is built on rehabilitation, which is more common in countries with long histories and more resources to spend on individuals.

  14. Re:Hangings on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    Which usually comes pretty close to real reasons for supporting the death penalty.

  15. Re:Hangings on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is a US-centric site. Welcome to the reality.

  16. Re:Hangings on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's not about the reasoning. It's about the personal pleasure drawn by executioner and those supporting the act from suffering of another.

    Basically it's a legalized form of extreme violence.

  17. Re:Hangings on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 4, Informative

    That only applies to countries with bad justice systems based on vengeance, such as US.

    In most civilized countries, life sentence means something between 10 and 30 years, long enough to count as severe punishment that completely changes person life without the downsides you mention.

  18. Re:AdBlock = Inferior (& 'Souled-Out') on Google Testing Banner Ads On Select Search Results · · Score: 1

    Please you dumb pleb. Real men use assembler for all their computing needs, including blocking IPs. Hosts are implemented in OS that's written in wasteful crap of higher level languages.

  19. Re:RIP Google, 2014? on Google Testing Banner Ads On Select Search Results · · Score: 1

    Sorry, not seeing the "user hostility" in unticking a box once after installation of the initial version with the change and never having to touch it again.

    Hell, by that measure, firefox itself is "user murdering".

  20. Re:RIP Google, 2014? on Google Testing Banner Ads On Select Search Results · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just uncheck the "allow some non-intrusive advertising" checkbox. If you know how to get adblock, you know how to uncheck the damn box that shows at the first page of the options menu.

  21. Re:Viruses? Oh dear... on Dell Ad Says Windows 8.1 Apps Will Run On Xbox One · · Score: 1

    The point is that your only alternative to "dexterous people controlling stuff by spamming commands" which is pretty much opposite of good control scheme is a tree menu.

  22. Re:the point of diminishing returns? on Next-Gen GPU Progress Slowing As It Aims for 20 nm and Beyond · · Score: 1

    Not any time soon. We're still massively constrained on GPU front even with current graphics. And people making games want things like ray-tracing, which means that GPUs will have to make an order of magnitude jump before they even begin thinking about saturation.

    The reason why 560Ti (the card I'm using as well at the moment) is still functional is because most games are made for consoles, or at least with consoles in mind. And consoles are ancient.
    Requirements on PC-only/PC optimized/next gen console games pretty much kick the card's ass at the moment. Same goes for trying to play at stable 60fps or playing at higher resolutions.

  23. Re:Intel on Next-Gen GPU Progress Slowing As It Aims for 20 nm and Beyond · · Score: 2

    Unlikely simply due to memory bus limitations alone. Then there's the whole drivers elephant in the room.

    Frankly, it's unlikely that intel even wants in on that market. The costs of entering GPU market to the point where they can threaten mid end and above discreet GPUs are astronomical and may require it to cross-license with nvidia to the point where nvidia will want x86 cross licensing - something intel will never do.

    What is likely is that intel and AMD will completely demolish the current low end GPU market with their embedded solutions, while nvidia/amd discreet solutions are pushed up in speed and quality.

  24. Re:Viruses? Oh dear... on Dell Ad Says Windows 8.1 Apps Will Run On Xbox One · · Score: 1

    Radial menus are a form of a menu tree.

  25. Re:Red state on Would-Be Tesla Owners Jump Through Hoops To Skirt Wacky Texas Rules · · Score: 1

    The obvious point is that even extremely pro-republican source is showing that anti-republican point of view is correct. Everything you just stated basically reinforces his point.