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  1. Re:look another US-American idiot! on Lineage II Addiction Lawsuit Makes It Past the EULA · · Score: 1

    buddhism is a bit like a hindu offshoot.

    there are so many branches of hindu that everyone on the planet could really be considered a kind loose variant of hindu.

    hindu is sort of the belief in a soul or spirit, though some branches do not believe in that.

    The soul can be in one part, or two parts (duelism and none-duelism)

    It could be related to a god, or just be part of nature.

    The key aspect is that at some point you want to become one with everything.

    This is different from western philosophy that view humans as somehow special/separate, though Christianity went a little way towards humans not being so special.
    Eastern philosophies basically say you feel separate but you are not, when will you realise this. And then have a number of ways of achieving that.

  2. Re:look another US-American idiot! on Lineage II Addiction Lawsuit Makes It Past the EULA · · Score: 1

    he said modern religion, not old (thousands of years), nor ancient

    So, in that case substitute praying for paying.

    Stop bashing religion. Paying is a form of grace. More good comes from modern religion than you can imagine.

    That works for, scientology, evangluism, capatilism, neo-psudo-comunism, republicanism etc....

  3. Re:apple on iPhone App In App Store Limbo Open Sourced · · Score: 1

    steve jobs

    steven jobs
    stephan jobs
    stephand jobs
    steph hand jobs
    stiff hand jobs pees in your a-hole.

    i-phone
    i-phoney

    I phoney stiff hand jobs pees in your a-hole.

    i-fad
    i-prod

    can you flash-a mac?

    Mac OsX

    Mac Osex
    Mac 0 Sex

    Mac = zero sex.

  4. Re:apple on iPhone App In App Store Limbo Open Sourced · · Score: 1

    autistic ;->

  5. Re:Is this any surprise? on Aussie Gamer Loses PS3 Court Case Over 'Other OS' · · Score: 1

    Well there's something called statutory rights in the UK. possibly a bit like first sale rights in the US (I believe that's what they are called).

    The device was neither rented nor licensed so I own it.

    mod chips for consoles are only banned because they can be used to circumvent copy protection. A mod chip that done something else should be allowed.

    There's also trademark law, but that's not related to my ownership or my right to resell, just a retailers ability to sell something that's trademarked.

  6. Re:Eh on 3 Drinks a Day Keeps the Doctor Away · · Score: 1

    most cholesterol is produced by your body, it's quite hard to absorb. I'd be a lot more worried about Brazil nuts and other nuts before worrying about eggs. Bad cholesterol comes from crabs being processed into fats by your body, and the higher the GI the more that's going to happen.

  7. Re:Eh on 3 Drinks a Day Keeps the Doctor Away · · Score: 1

    eggs actually keep for several months before even remotely being nasty. They are however quite breakable and have to be packaged carefully and handled with care.

    Powdered eggs would weight less and be much easier to transport and store. Transportation costs are often a big factor, especially when you consider that chickens will pop out eggs at quite a rate all year round, so there's not really a supply problem.

  8. Re:Is this any surprise? on Aussie Gamer Loses PS3 Court Case Over 'Other OS' · · Score: 1

    Call it theft or vandalism.

    Nope, it's called a trojan horse, virus, root kit etc....

    My set-top box upgraded without asking me.

    Basically my set-top box was hacked.

    There are laws against this kind of thing in the UK. 'Hacking' laws.

  9. Re:On a side note... on The Map of Critical Thinking and Modern Science · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't buy a jumper then if you find t-shirts uncomfortable when being baptised.

  10. Re:LAST CALL! on The Map of Critical Thinking and Modern Science · · Score: 1

    too late, perspectivism is very much relative.

  11. Re:backups are important. on What 'IT' Stuff Should We Teach Ninth-Graders? · · Score: 1

    understanding and believing are mutually exclusive. you either understand or you believe. belief is without knowing.

  12. apple on iPhone App In App Store Limbo Open Sourced · · Score: 0, Troll

    a-pull
    a-poll
    a-p-holl
    a-p-hole.
    a-hole.

  13. hippies on Google Backs Out of JavaOne · · Score: 0

    Oracle CEO: Ha We'll show those hippies how it's done where's my check book.

    Right, buy out those hippies and sun, then we go all their hippie goods then we can whip their hippie asses.

    Now we can go sue those hippies for being hippies right!

    What, you say them hippies open sourced that hippie shit............ shit........

  14. bening the bent on Follow Up On Solar Neutrinos and Radioactive Decay · · Score: 1

    “Data is data. That’s the final arbiter. But the more one has to bend [well-establish physics], the evidence has to be that much more scrutinized.”

    The more one has to bend, known bad physics, the more the proprietors of that known bad physics will scream blue murder.

    substitute, religion, politics and social construct.

  15. Re:Translation on Developer Demands Pirate Bay Not Remove Torrent · · Score: 1

    I duno,
    subutex has a extremely high binding efficiency to opiate receptors, in-fact it's so strong that an overdose is a serious issue as anti-dotes aren't good enough at kicking it off the receptors by binding themselves.

    I would say that it's close to the most addictive substance known to man, physical addiction in 21 days, even only when taken sub-lingual 3-4 times in that period.

    With a half life of upto 72 hours, compared to the shorty 3 hours of morphine (a key metabolite of heroin), that's going to be one horrible long drawn out comedown, lasting possibly several weeks. Just from 3-4 uses in a 21 day period. Still people give that up.

    Given that, I don't feel that 30 days is really long enough to have much of a success at forming an addictive pattern within the user, enough to make a sale almost certain.

  16. Re:Lexmark on Linux on Lexmark Sues 24 Companies Over Toner-Cartridge Patents · · Score: 1

    In soviet Russia Bill Gates, GNU you!

  17. Re:Lexmark on Linux on Lexmark Sues 24 Companies Over Toner-Cartridge Patents · · Score: 1

    in capitalist America Linus Torvalds, Windows Me.

  18. personally on Searching For Backdoors From Rogue IT Staff · · Score: 1

    I'd just use the errors I know in the existing system to break in.

  19. Re:George W Bush did on Scott Adams On the Difficulty of Building a 'Green' Home · · Score: 1

    also heat pumps are the best

  20. Re:That's not the professional term on Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts · · Score: 1

    "customer service job",

    Who would want one of those? I prefer drug dealing. Oh this that is a customer services job of sorts, Best start get me wurly wurly chocked up with black power.

  21. Re:even better on Anti-Depressants Used Against StarCraft Addiction · · Score: 1
  22. Re:even better on Anti-Depressants Used Against StarCraft Addiction · · Score: 1

    Well the wankers often appear to be competing with each other. Sometime's it's just a big drugs feast, other times it for the ladies, other times it appears to be a crude form of boxing or competitive jibes and banter.

    I've also know some wankers who savage whatever they can steal as a trophy from the premiss they are drinking in or on the way home.

    Due to the lack of interlect and high levels of testosterone I would consider it a sport.

    They've even let the ladies join in now adays.

    Now it may not be the case that all such participants are professionals, but quite a large proportion seem to make a job of it. 24/7 without even needing the beer.

  23. Re:Lets treat game addiction with drug addiction. on Anti-Depressants Used Against StarCraft Addiction · · Score: 1

    actually long term side effects (or short term in my case) are anxiety and depression. So they are addictive, or accumulative.

    Withdrawal lasted for over 5 years after less than 6 months use.
    Included not only the 'zaps' of brain and body, but also in the latter stages hallucinations.
    And like any addict, when a trigger comes along (not 11 years later!), I still get the zaps and hallucinations.

  24. Re:even better on Anti-Depressants Used Against StarCraft Addiction · · Score: 1

    what about professional wankers?
    I know a few people who turn into complete wankers, just with a sip of beer.
    No porn in site.

  25. Re:Sample Size on Anti-Depressants Used Against StarCraft Addiction · · Score: 1

    that's a standard suck it and see type sample size.