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  1. It's easy, it's simple... on Beating WoW At Its Own Game · · Score: 1

    Blizzard wins right now because they've found the secret. KISS, it's not difficult or hard or painful. If a person wants to pop for an hour grind some rep, or something else they can. That's the key and that's why Blizzard currently dominates. You can take anyone of any age or even a trained monkey and drop them in the starter area and away they go, they can get to the top level on their own, if they decide they want to go further they can raid after they get finished grinding out the 5-man instances. They don't need two other people or four others to go questing with every night.

    They have 5-man instances galore, 10-man raids, 3-25's, and another two coming out in the next month. While it's not as easy in the old world for people to play(read: trained monkey's have to be able to play their class now and can't hide their screw-ups), it's still doable.

    Casual's have their niche, raiders have theirs, PVPers whine because PVE mechanic's don't mesh well with PVP.

  2. Re:Freely Available Wiretapping Technology? on Italian Phone Taps Spur Encryption Use · · Score: 1

    What that says is there's leaks and corruption in the Italian justice system up and down. People getting payed to do this more so then anything else.

  3. Re:Fight.. on Canada May Lose Copyright Fair-Use Rights · · Score: 1

    See here's the thing, 25% of canadians vote, the other don't. That's even less then in the US, the vast majority of people don't see that point, even far less do in the local system ~15%. And when you're muddled in the steps of history(read my other comment again), you'll maybe--just maybe figure out when and why Canadians do what they do. When it directly impacts their pocketbook on a major level.

    It took 540 people to get the new tv channels up here(fox news, etc). Now go back to your Ad hom attacks and trolling.

  4. Re:Contact info on Canada May Lose Copyright Fair-Use Rights · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.gc.ca/ is your friend.

    BERNIER, Maxime
    Parliamentary Address
    House of Commons
    Ottawa, Ontario
    K1A 0A6
    Telephone: (613) 992-8053
    Fax: (613) 995-0687
    E-Mail: Bernier.M@parl.gc.ca

    Constituency Address
    11535 1st Avenue, Suite 430
    Saint-Georges, Quebec
    G5Y 7H5
    Telephone: (418) 227-2171
    Fax: (418) 227-3093
    1083 Vachon Boulevard North, Suite 201
    Sainte-Marie, Quebec
    G6E 1M8
    Telephone: (418) 387-4224
    Fax: (418) 387-8124

    And

    ODA, Beverley J. (Bev) (Conservative)
    Parliamentary Address
    House of Commons
    Ottawa, Ontario
    K1A 0A6
    Telephone: (613) 992-2792
    Fax: (613) 992-2794
    E-Mail: Oda.B@parl.gc.ca

    Constituency Address
    68 King Street East, Unit 2
    Bowmanville, Ontario
    L1C 3X2
    Telephone: (905) 697-1699
    Fax: (905) 697-1678
    Toll Free: 1-866-436-1141

  5. Re:Taxes on Canada May Lose Copyright Fair-Use Rights · · Score: 1

    They'll probably relabel it as a manufacturing tax of some kind.

  6. Re:Fight.. on Canada May Lose Copyright Fair-Use Rights · · Score: -1, Troll

    Canadian's can't even fight local government or get a collective voice together long enough to do anything. And the last time they actually stood together was when it was actually important and mattered(80's during wage/price controls). Remember in Canada, the government knows best. And to stand against that is at the core 'Anti-Canadian'. That of course means not American, better and all that too.

    The Liberals whipped people well during their years in office. People breaking out of that mold will be exceptionally difficult.

  7. Re:Threadjack -- sort of on My Maxtor Hard Drive Just Caught Fire! · · Score: 1

    Went to seagate after chain maxtor fails and eventually I went with Samsung, which seems to be working very well. However WD drives seem to work very well in new machines I've built.

  8. Re:But AMDs are unreliable on New Xeon CPU Hot and Underpowered · · Score: 1

    Rioworks are known for using non-branded componets, and Tyan has questionable reliability issues. ASRock is also not a 'parent' company, much like others these days.

    Try adding 'constructive' arguements, I realize that it may be difficult for you however, giving the use of limited vocabulary and the use of the word 'ghetto' as a descriptor.

  9. Re:But AMDs are unreliable on New Xeon CPU Hot and Underpowered · · Score: 1

    Very 'impressive' reply. Not only to you start out with a ad-hom attack you add nothing in the way of a response in reply. Let me know when you figure out what ASRock actually makes okay?

  10. Re:But AMDs are unreliable on New Xeon CPU Hot and Underpowered · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Anyone using Rioworks or Tyan boards should have their fingers broken in multiple places in order to stop them from making foolish purchaces again the future. Those boards could be replaced by a flavor of Gigabyte, Asus or ASRock 939Dual boards.

  11. Re:He is NOT a conservative. on Jack Thompson Calls Cops on Penny-Arcade · · Score: 1

    Ofcourse he's not conservative, nor are any of the arguements he makes. Many of the people who argue the points of 'government mandated' fall into the left side of the spectrum, bigger government who should dictate morality. Things change a bit when you add in religion, personal morality and such. But this flies in the face of many a professer who would rather lump things into a 'left/right' camp and creed.

    This doesn't apply to all conservatives either, as you and I both know. Some on the right sit in the same camp and want 'mandated morality' as well. But they are as vocal as those on the left. Now if we really want to get into it, what happens when you ask this fundamental question? In the last 50 years you've had liberalism dictate morality and erode personal morality and strip parents of the rights to do such even in their own homes.

    Where does the blame lay?

    For liberals now upset, please understand that the parent poster is correct. The standing belief of Conservatism is: Morality falls to the parent first for the virtues of life, and lessons of morality fall to parents. Only the state steps in when all falls by the way-side when that fails, unfortunatly the state has started to become a 'nanny' and govern into that far too much.

  12. Re:Climate Change Objections, Simplified on Global Warming Past The Point of No Return · · Score: 1

    Try reading. You are still thinking in a limited space.

  13. Re:Climate Change Objections, Simplified on Global Warming Past The Point of No Return · · Score: 1

    I tried using logic, however their egotism got in the way.

    In otherwords, you really don't grasp what the statement means beyond your own view of reality.

  14. Re:Climate Change Objections, Simplified on Global Warming Past The Point of No Return · · Score: 1

    You are either daft or you don't understand what I've written. Solar output works in cycles, not on solar flares. Either you are pushing the bounds of ignorance in pretending that solar output doesn't increase and decrease, or you don't understand how thermonuclear reaction works and how little we understand what goes on at the heart of our solar system.

    Actually you might want to look up microbiotic CO2 absorbtion.

    And those that want to use it for their own ends in order to make a problem where none exists and don't understand what's going on.

    Theory does not = an idea backed by facts. Theory is the belief that an event may happen based upon predictions relative to current data available to the scientist, or scientific group doing the research.

    I think you'd better just go back and understand science.

  15. Re:Climate Change Objections, Simplified on Global Warming Past The Point of No Return · · Score: 1

    Increased solar output doesn't effect other celestial bodies? Better go back and start whitewashing ASAP!

    Or that after every peak CO2, you've had a boom in green growth around the world according to fossil records. Strange that...

    Yes science has started to become twisted by enviromentalists, and politicians. The ones that haven't figured out that it's "theory" yet. Rather then the word of law written on paper which they are trying to enact like so many other things. *cough* EU *cough*

    Leave the policy making to the politicians and get your fingers out of my lab notes!

  16. Want to really have a good one? on FEMA Demands Use of IE To File Online Katrina Claims · · Score: 1

    Figure this, enviromentalists sued to stop a floodgate system on Lake Pontchartrain. Same type of system used around the world for storm surges from typhoons and the like.

    Imagine if it had been built several years ago planned as a 'stratigic fortifications' system, rather then leaving the lake system as it is. People are their own worst enemy.

  17. Re:Movie Theaters are Obsolete on Piracy Not To Blame In Decline of Moviegoers · · Score: 1

    $10-13 for the ticket, $5 for a 'medium' popcorn, $5 for a medium coke. That's $23, but it sure is creeping up. I should add in that I live in a city of 'under' 50,000.

    The nearest cities to me it's $15 for a ticket, $8 for a popcorn and a pop each.

  18. Re:A couple definitions on Apple to Refund iPod Levy for Canadian Customers · · Score: 1

    You can try to put kind words on it any way you want, but a tax, is a tax, is a freaking tax, no matter what you do when the government is involved. Things like this don't get pushed with out some paper pusher seeing how it benifits them as well.

  19. Re:Now down for the rest of it on Canadian Telco Admits to Blocking Union's Website · · Score: 1

    Point of point, the Government of Canada doesn't follow with section 2b, why should Telus really give two cares about what they are doing? The CRTC crams things down our throat in violation of the charter without choice(Cancon). Limits what media we can have in the country, and makes illegal other forms of media and satellite signals unless approved by the government itself.

    Hypocrisy is paramount in Canada when dealing with this.

  20. Re:The CRTC should step in on Canadian Telco Admits to Blocking Union's Website · · Score: 1

    You are wrong. The CRTC exists to cram Canadian content down our throats and protect us from 'evil Americans', and their media. In violation of the Charter. The CRTC is useless, it isn't even close to approaching what the FCC is in frequency regulation which is handled separately.

    No I don't like the way the 'gov' handles things up here. I'll be happier when the CRTC is dead and burried and our media can learn to sink or swim on it's own.

  21. Re:Ooh, that sucks. on Canada To Introduce Copyright Law Next Week · · Score: 1

    I can live with the DMCA, and the Bush administration, The Bachelor however I can not handle.

    But don't worry my American friends! You too can soak in the corrupt power of Jean Chretien & Paul Martin(and their friends). A police service(CSIS) which over-rides all codes in canadian law, and ... and you can get Canadian Idol while you are at it! *drink*

    Did I mention that watching anything on a satellite dish(American and other foreign dishes are also illegal) or cable TV except what's been aproved by the Government of Canada is illegal here? Right. Don't let that nasty Charter of Rights and Freedoms get in you way...just ignore it! *drink, drink, drink*

    Now you know why we have lots of bars and spend a lot of time drinking up here. Wait...damn it...our 'retail outlets' for booze are also owned by the government! Will this never end!! *drink*

  22. Re:Amazing, two systems of justice... on Secret Codes Protect Ancient Torahs · · Score: 1

    How did that even get modded insightful? The IDF can't under code due to the on-going legal rambling that's been on going. Surprise. Btw have you ever seen one of these things? You can't see out of them because they are covered with bullet proof armor and bullet proof glass, giving the snipers very small spots to shoot through.

    And contrary to popular belief, they don't use them to simply 'destroy' houses, but in hot-sapper operations as well to remove bombs that these terrorist scum put along the roads.

    Wait...you've never heard of them doing that either? Why am I not surprised.

  23. Re:Amazing, two systems of justice... on Secret Codes Protect Ancient Torahs · · Score: 1

    I would agree with you in theory, if the terrorist groups were not the ones winning the 'elections' and promising to soak the ground in Jewish and American blood.

  24. Re:Amazing, two systems of justice... on Secret Codes Protect Ancient Torahs · · Score: 1

    What you mean the big D9's? Yeah it's usually a very bad idea to get infront of several ton's of moving equipment especially if you have a chance of falling and being crushed to death when an op can't see you.

    Surprise. There's a reason why you don't go wandering around on construction and work sites either. On top of that perhaps you need to question who she was staying with...they were 'questionable' at best.

  25. Re:Holes make a Torah unkosher on Secret Codes Protect Ancient Torahs · · Score: 1

    Where are my mod points? Sheesh. Someone mod this up.