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  1. Re:This is very good news on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 1

    Being on ./ I expect you don't have much experience of women.
    When you do you'll find out that the great majority of them are frequently irrational, change their minds for no apparent reason and make judgements based on emotion not on facts. I don't believe that this is conditioning and I also believe it affects their ability to carry out many tasks as well as a man (but makes them better at other tasks compared to men). This may be a non-pc view of the world but it's a true one that people don't like to admit to because 'were all equal'. People should learn to accept their differences.

  2. Re:It's many monarchs versus one on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The Conservitaves want to be free from the guy who only lets them have one type of operating system.
    The Socialists want to be free from Microsoft and religious nuts.

    There are so many different types of freedom.

  3. Re:This is very good news on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 1

    'women were inferior'

    Ask a woman to wire a plug.
    even most of the women I know admit that women are irrational and not the most technical or people.

    It does depend upon what you mean by inferior, but if I wanted to know about OSS development or Linux then I'd ask a man.

  4. what next on Google Sued Over Deceptive Search Results · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Suing my doctor because of the choice of meds he offered me happened to match those in the advertising crapola that he got sent.

  5. Re:This had better get fixed on Turned Off iPhone Gets $4800 Bill from AT&T · · Score: 1

    "I would hope that if you buy an iPhone you're knowledgeable enough to look up the airplane mode."

    Translates into, I hope that if you would be stupid enough to buy a product that nothing but hype then your going to be intelligent enough to actually understand the manual/

  6. Re:"Good practice" is an outdated concept on Best Programming Practices For Web Developers · · Score: 1

    now all you have to try and do is keep your customers happy even though you've got a flaky product.

  7. appreciate your theft? on No More TV Listings For MythTV Users · · Score: 3, Informative

    doesn't that depend upon copyright law.
    If the site is saying that the TV listings are facts then there not covered by copyright.
    All you have to do is transform the layout into your layout and then give them to your friends.

  8. Re:I only wish on Man Arrested for Refusing to Show Drivers License · · Score: 1

    let's take the example of the copper who was 'testing' his new car by driving at 130MPH in a 30 zone, got caught but was let of because he was a copper. (or something to that effect)

    Or those cops who killed an innocent Brizilian then tried to cover up their mistakes by saying he was acting dodgy even though he wasn't and got off compleatly scot free.

    There just a couple of highly publicized examples of the cops being absolutely in the wrong but still getting off. Think how hard it is when the cop does something minor (like confiscate property when they don't have the right to) you can try complaining but you'll probably end up getting arrested yourself and having to spend a night in the cells and be slapped with an £80 fine.

  9. I only wish on Man Arrested for Refusing to Show Drivers License · · Score: 1

    I only wish you could do that here in the UK. The courts never seem to come down on the cops for anything and the police complaints commission is a joke.

  10. Re:the same is true for porn. on Games Had Nothing To Do With V. Tech Shooting · · Score: 1

    from your quote.

    "Kutchinsky showed that as the amount of pornography increasingly became available, the rate of rapes in these countries either decreased or remained relatively level."

    There seems to be more evidence that porn = less sex crime than porn = more crime.

  11. Re:the same is true for porn. on Games Had Nothing To Do With V. Tech Shooting · · Score: 1

    I'll have to ask google.

    The best study I could find (the same country just more porn) showed....

    "Data regarding sex crimes, consistently and regularly recorded in police records, are clearly more available and definitive than those for quantitative or qualitative measures of pornography. It is readily obvious from the data (Table 1) that the incidence of rape has been steadily and dramatically decreasing over the period under review. The incidence of rape has progressively declined from 4677 reported cases with 5464 offenders in 1972 to the 1995 incidence of 1500 cases with 1,160"

    http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/BIB/DIAM/japan.h tm

    There's some Australian government material lhttp://www.aic.gov.au/publications/proceedings/20 /goldsmith.pdf that 'shows' the opposite, but all the data is dubious More sex crime in Cold nothing to do alaska than central america who would have guessed.

  12. Re:Your only alternative? on NBC Universal Drops iTunes · · Score: 1

    in which case there would be nothing to pirate and no pirates, sooner or later an equilibrium will be established.

  13. Re:direct result of music piracy. on HMV Canada Cuts Music CD Prices · · Score: 1

    the spelling was fine, I think you'll find I just chose the wrong written word.

  14. the same is true for porn. on Games Had Nothing To Do With V. Tech Shooting · · Score: 2, Funny

    Introduce porn,
    Watch sex abuse statistics go down.

    Perverts are too busy having a wank to actually go out and assault someone.

    just as with games, violent people are too busy venting their frustration in the virtual world to take it out on the rest of us.

  15. i watch those cop shows all the time. on Games Had Nothing To Do With V. Tech Shooting · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i watch those cop shows all the time and I always rute for the underdog. If only they had some 2x4 with nails in it that could really give that cop a run for his money, if only he'd brought an uzi etc...

    Seriously, I don't know why they show them on TV when all there doing is slowly turning me into a terrorist.

  16. Re:Window Handles my friend. on Vista SP1 Coming In Q1 2008 · · Score: 1

    Well after a while Windows can no longer create new windows so I assume there's a limited number of windows handles.
    And closing lots of windows only fixes the problem for a little while (for far less than the number of windows I've closed) so I assume that there not all getting reclaimed.

  17. Window Handles my friend. on Vista SP1 Coming In Q1 2008 · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's because of window handles, I get the problem all the time in XP. As soon as all the window handles are used up you can no longer create any new windows, the problem is that closing windows doesn't seem to free them up and the only thing to do is reboot.

    I would have thought they would have fixed this obvious problem that causes no end of grief to people where I work ages ago. Looks like I'll have to stick the X Windows.

    Now, if only someone in Microsoft would realise that forms in Word have been broken since the year . and actually fix them.

  18. direct result of music piracy. on HMV Canada Cuts Music CD Prices · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Let's here it for music piracy, the only thing that's putting some competition into the market.

  19. Re:I'm tired of these defenses. on Record Company Collusion a Defense to RIAA Case? · · Score: 1

    He's a commie you insensitive clod. Everything should be free.

  20. Re:opengl doesn't help on Valve Says Choice to Make DX10 Vista-Only Hurt PC Gaming · · Score: 1

    but they would do if DX10 ran on XP which it doesn't and which the whole story is about.

    The gp said Use open GL it runs on XP, but that wasn't the problem they were trying to solve (input devices that only DX10 supports).

  21. Re:opengl doesn't help on Valve Says Choice to Make DX10 Vista-Only Hurt PC Gaming · · Score: 1

    From the story text.......

    The result is that almost no one is using the newest version of DirectX, and companies are shying away from creating new input devices that support it.

  22. opengl doesn't help on Valve Says Choice to Make DX10 Vista-Only Hurt PC Gaming · · Score: 1

    They were complaining about new input devices that were directx 10 only, last time I checked opengl wouldn't have coped with those input devices as it's purely for graphics.

  23. Re:Uhm. on Sun's Trading Symbol Going From SUNW To JAVA · · Score: 1

    ah, I see I got marked as a troll for making a joke about the speed of exception handling in .net.

  24. Re:Uhm. on Sun's Trading Symbol Going From SUNW To JAVA · · Score: 0, Troll

    If it was named after .net that would be Exceptionally Slow.

  25. Re:"Even women should be able to beat it" on Arm Wrestling Machine Recalled for Breaking Arms · · Score: 1

    Or you could try reading all the studies that show eating less makes you live longer and being overweight gives you cancer and diabetes.