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  1. Vote on The Growing Illusion of Single Player Gaming · · Score: 1

    With your wallet. Buying multiplayer games is not mandatory in these enlightened days. Feel free to, as lucm's sailor said it, give it a wide berth.

  2. Re:It should be on Text While Driving In Long Island and Have Your Phone Disabled · · Score: 2

    I guess a passenger using a phone is never a problem. I suppose this is only for the driver.

  3. Re:It should be on Text While Driving In Long Island and Have Your Phone Disabled · · Score: 2

    Why not both?

  4. Re:The biggest risk to the pyramids is Islam on Egypt's Oldest Pyramid Is Being Destroyed By Its Own Restoration Team · · Score: 1

    Killing people because they have a different religion can freely be considered extremism.

  5. Re:news for nerds? on New US Airstrikes In Iraq Intended to Protect Important Dam · · Score: 1

    Then who was it waving black flags with white arabic on it, throwing eggs at the police?

  6. Re:The biggest risk to the pyramids is Islam on Egypt's Oldest Pyramid Is Being Destroyed By Its Own Restoration Team · · Score: 1

    It is an educated guess, based on solid data. How this data extrapolated to other muslims is unclear, hence the 'guess'-part

  7. Re:The biggest risk to the pyramids is Islam on Egypt's Oldest Pyramid Is Being Destroyed By Its Own Restoration Team · · Score: 1

    Here the muslims protest waving ISIS banners and shouting the Dutch equivalent of 'all cancer jews must die'. So much for peace rallies... This is considered within OK by the government, because 'Freedom of Speech'... I guess having the military police shoot them apart will only heat matters further. It is much easier to say 'Islam is peaceful', and 'these individuals are just misguided'... We will see where it leads.

  8. Re:The biggest risk to the pyramids is Islam on Egypt's Oldest Pyramid Is Being Destroyed By Its Own Restoration Team · · Score: 1

    http://ejbron.wordpress.com/20... (in dutch. A poll held by a broadcasting company. Title 'Three quarters of Dutch Muslims thinks Syria-goers are heroes')

  9. to quote Conway Morris on Mushroom-Like Deep Sea Organism May Be New Branch of Life · · Score: 1

    "Oh fuck, not another phylum!"

  10. Re:The biggest risk to the pyramids is Islam on Egypt's Oldest Pyramid Is Being Destroyed By Its Own Restoration Team · · Score: 1

    Even though the vast majority of muslims do not rape and plunder and murder, a recent poll suggested that three quarters of muslims approve of what muslims extremists are doing. Muslims who go on jihad-holiday are considered heroes by many muslims. It is a bit like in the second world war. Somebody else makes his hands dirty 'und wir haben es nicht gewuest'.

  11. Re:No, no, no on The Passenger Pigeon: A Century of Extinction · · Score: 1

    Oh, come'on. Nothing about this thread is serious. ;-) (Although admittedly it would be cool to have dodos again.)

  12. No, no, no on The Passenger Pigeon: A Century of Extinction · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You got it all wrong. They are lizards! There is proof: http://www.thewire.com/nationa... 12 million Americans cannot all be wrong.

  13. Practise... on The Passenger Pigeon: A Century of Extinction · · Score: 1

    ...before finally reconstructing a dodo, which is, after all, also a pigeon.

  14. Somehow I will always remember Chromium as the arcade type shooter with the same name.

  15. Related to? on Numerous Methane Leaks Found On Atlantic Sea Floor · · Score: 1

    Could this be related to the pacific light seen by pilots while flying across the pacific? http://www.pbase.com/flying_du...

  16. Re:finishing an OS on A New Homegrown OS For China Could Arrive By October · · Score: 1

    China and testing... I hope it is different from the famous Chinese Tamron lenses for cameras. If you are lucky, you get an excellent one with the quality equaling lenses five time the price, and if you are unlucky, you can send it right back... Because... testing?

  17. finishing an OS on A New Homegrown OS For China Could Arrive By October · · Score: 1

    Starting an OS is all very well. But until the first release and a usable, we have commonly about ten years, required to finish the OS. This was with linux, with windows... So Chinese programmers may make a new OS. In ten years I might consider it.

  18. Re:Powered down hard drive on Facebook Experimenting With Blu-ray As a Storage Medium · · Score: 1

    Many NAS devices also have this option, these days. Enterprise hardware should also be able to do this, by now.

  19. legal issues. on UK Police Warn Sharing James Foley Killing Video Is a Crime · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And in the Netherlands there was a legal discussion whether it was illegal or not to celebrate his beheading. That it was even necessary to establish this makes me ashamed of my country. By the way, it was decided that it is not illegal.

  20. Re:Expert?? on Is Storage Necessary For Renewable Energy? · · Score: 1

    In vacuum. :-)

  21. Re:Quarantine vs. being stubborn on Ebola Quarantine Center In Liberia Looted · · Score: 4, Insightful

    These are the same people that believe that having sex with a virgin cures aids, and as such rape babies... I wonder if it is a really bad thing if the entire country were to die of ebola.

  22. Re:12% of the population is Muslim on Ebola Quarantine Center In Liberia Looted · · Score: 1

    Well, they cannot become martyrs by just dropping dead. At least they have to kill some unbelievers as well... I think they really have no clue what they are doing.

  23. Darwinism as a team sport. on Ebola Quarantine Center In Liberia Looted · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe we can create group Award, now that Darwinism has become a team sport!

  24. Similar on Correcting Killer Architecture · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This article reminds me of another English building with a concave mirror in it, that actually melted plastic parts of cars parked on the wrong spot at the wrong time by concentrating sunlight on it. http://geekologie.com/2013/09/...

  25. Re:They don't "need" drones on How Drones Entered the FBI's Spying Toolkit · · Score: 1

    Well, technology makes a lot of work better and easier. You only have to be very selective in what tech you adopt, and what tech you redirect to the dumpster. But trying a bit with new things is alwys a good idea, otherwise you never discover new useful stuff. Just as programmers should try new editors, from time to time. :-)