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  1. Re:One world government on Interpol Wants a Global Identity Card System · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean who would protect all the oil you need to power the internet because we are too stupid to move to alternative generation methods that allows you to say that.

  2. Re:Maximize profit on Piracy Is a Market Failure — Not a Legal One · · Score: 1

    Considering it requires massive legal constructs and the loss of some fairly basic democratic principles to maintain monopolies that don't naturally exist and still fails to efficiently get goods to a massive percentage of the market, yeah I'd call that a failure, but mostly on the part of the legislators.

  3. Re:Seriously? on Slovak Police Planted Explosives On Air Travelers · · Score: 0, Troll

    If we park all the 4 x 4's in the spot where the they plant the nuke! that would make road travel significantly safer.

  4. Re:Information wants to be free on Court Rules For Software Ownership Over Licensing · · Score: 1

    That scenario is nothing, try installing the lastest version of Grand Theft Auto without an internet connection...

  5. Re:LAN play on StarCraft II Delayed Until 2010 · · Score: 1

    The day they removed LAN play was the day I stopped caring wether they released it at all.

  6. Re:America is full of itself on Climate Change Bill Includes IP Protections · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Someone obviously knows absolutely nothing about the CO2 emmissions of various countries.

  7. Re:Finally an original thinker on The Perils of DRM — When Content Providers Die · · Score: 1

    Millions and millions is pretty poor in a potential market of Billions and billions...

  8. Re:Lawyers on Lobby Groups Launch Full Assault For Canadian DMCA · · Score: 3, Funny

    I say they should encourage piracy to make sure the lawyers always have work.

    Mind you if I have to choose between truck drivers and lawyers...

  9. Re:If truck drivers are losing their jobs.... on Lobby Groups Launch Full Assault For Canadian DMCA · · Score: 1

    They should also make sure they guy with the price sticker machine gets his cut, I hate to see him injured by piracy.

  10. Re:Exactly right! on 17,000 Downloads Does Not Equal 17,000 Lost Sales · · Score: 1

    This is the fundamental flaw in the whole download = sale argument.

    It's pretty hard to argue that someone with downloads worth more money than they have earnt in their entire lifetime was ever going to purchase them all...

  11. Re:green? on GE Announces OLED Manufacturing Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    What a total cop out.
    Because someone is even worse than me why should I bother trying to improve things...
    Way to go!

  12. Re:Jetpacks are just a bad idea on The Truth About New Jet Pack Hype · · Score: 1

    Internal combustion engines have proved to be pretty fatal and to have quite number of other nasty side effects as well.

  13. Re:Not like Legos on Smart 'Lego' Set Conjures Up Virtual 3D Twin · · Score: 1

    I agree that crap looks nothing like any lego I have ever seen.

  14. Re:cheating? on Apple Announces MacBook Air · · Score: 1

    It has sound out, USB and micro DVI, 3 out of the 4 things you mention are actually present...

    Most small laptops these days don't have an optical drive anyway (in fact even some quite large laptops don't).

    The only normal thing I can see thats missing is wired Ethernet but there are USB adapters to fix this, in fact apple should be clever and add it to the USB optical drive.

  15. Re:Video like word processing on Filming an Invasion Without Extras · · Score: 1

    He is not saying its as easy to use as a word processor.
    He is saying that both amateurs and professionals will be using the same products.

  16. Re:It's pretty strange.. on Picture-Sorting Dogs Show Human-Like Thought · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We had a dog capable of opening all sorts of doors, he could even open the back door against the swing, ie: turn the handle and pull the door towards himself.
    He also used to get agitated if you wore a hat because he couldn't recognise you if you did, he would even bark at my uncle if he was wearing a hat and stop immediately if he removed it.
    Having been a building site dog he developed a strange habit of barking when you called "FIRING!" which they used to do before anyone used a nail gun, he would as a result bark on demand any time any place, quite an amusing party trick.
    He also used to have what can only be described as a guilty look that he would give you when he had done something wrong, sometimes he would even give the look before doing something wrong and then go and do it!
    All in all I think we are not giving dogs nearly enough credit on the smarts front.

  17. I blame the Americans on Chinese Moon Photo Doctored, Crater Moved · · Score: 1

    It's quite obvious the American's doctored the original and the Chinese one is the accurate one.

  18. Re:!Patent Troll on $360M Patent Suit Over iPhone Voicemail · · Score: 1

    I agree, use it or lose it!

  19. Re:Didn't do this already? on All US Border Crossings Now Require A 'Terrorist Risk Profile' · · Score: 1

    Walmart doesn't do a cavity search when they don't like the name on your credit card.

  20. Re:That explains many things on Violent Games 'Almost' As Dangerous as Smoking · · Score: 1

    Well of course not, the ones trying to hide from bullets behind the airbags were the first to go.

  21. IT departments on Violent Games 'Almost' As Dangerous as Smoking · · Score: 1

    IT departments are completely chock full of people who grew up almost exclusively playing violent video games.
    I bet all the other departments are just shaking in their boots when their computer breaks and some violent psychopath from IT has to come down to fix it!

  22. Re:ancedotal on Violent Games 'Almost' As Dangerous as Smoking · · Score: 1

    Statistically smoking usually only becomes fatal after 31 years...

  23. Re:overstating on Violent Games 'Almost' As Dangerous as Smoking · · Score: 1

    What violent video games could you play 50 years ago?
    Mind you I bet pong has caused it fair share of psychopaths!

  24. Re:There's a grain of truth... on Violent Games 'Almost' As Dangerous as Smoking · · Score: 1

    But if you combine all the piles of right wing poo together in to one massive pile as these fellows have, the truth is well and truly buried in a big pile of shit.

  25. Re:Last time I checked... on Guitar Hero Maker Sued - Cover Song Too Awesome · · Score: 4, Funny

    This common phrase has been changed to "Imitation is the highest form of infringement" or at least it was until it was sued by the owners of the original flattery statement due to copyright infringement.