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  1. Re:Why is child pornography as bad as terrorism? on Backlash Against British Encryption Law · · Score: 1
    I'm guessing that you are not a guy, or you'd know differently. Yep, all of us that were teenage boys would get a hard when the wind blew...trouble is, the wind and everything else at that time, makes you think of sex. Let's put it this way, in puberty, a male has a sexual though on avg. of about every 30 seconds, and it really doesn't get that much 'better' with age...

    But, no...an erection is in reaction to sexual urgency in a male....if he isn't interested in it, it ain't gonna happen.

    Again, I'm guessing from your post...you do not have a penis, and don't know what you're talking about...


    *must not feed trolls, must not feed trolls...*
    ARGH!
    ok right...
    If you can't think of a way that a male could be induced to an erection unwillingly you must have a pretty poor imagination ... or not put much thought in to the idea.
    Ignoring the obvious drugging them with Viagra, horse steroids or what ever, I'm sure if you put your mind to it you can come up with at least two non-chemical ways to get them hard ... and then "make use of them" without their consent.
  2. Re:AdSpace on Walmart Tries to Emulate MySpace · · Score: 1
    Those aren't actual dictionaries. However, I did [cambridge.org] some [bartleby.com] looking [m-w.com] and got mixed results.


    I only checked OED (Compact OED and complete), and Dictionary.com(lazy), and only got definitions that excluded water.
    But you checked lots more(good) and got conflicting results(oh oh) ... and then picked the one that agreed with you and went with that...(bad)
    In my mind a beverage has to be brewed or in someway created...
    Water is by not a beverage... I'm sticking with the OED on this.
    IMHO, Milk, Juices and water are not beverages.
  3. Re:AdSpace on Walmart Tries to Emulate MySpace · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'm sorry but water is not a beverage.

    from Dictionary.com
    Beverage
            Any one of various liquids for drinking, usually excluding water.

    from the Compact Oxford English Dictionary
    Beverage
      noun a drink other than water.

    From OED.
    Beverage
    1. Drink, liquor for drinking; esp. a liquor which constitutes a common article of consumption.
    2. A 'draught' which has been brewed, and must be drunk...

  4. Re:AdSpace on Walmart Tries to Emulate MySpace · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Damn it, those kids better not have anyone drinking water in their submission!

    Water is not a beverage.
  5. Re:A little clarification on Cutting out the Naughty Bits Ruled Illegal · · Score: 1
    And silly as it sounds, having someone screaming at you after you've been dealing with customers for 8 hours really can affect a decision to card someone.


    Yes... it would make me more likly to card them!
    If some one starts shouting at you for carding them, then point out that it's not a very mature responce, which doesn't make them look any older and you're just doing your job... then when they go totaly nuts, let them get really worked up, be polite but slowy wind them up, untill they start screaming and cursing and then tell them they are barred for verbaly assaulting the staff.
    IF you can't calm people down and get them to leave... get them really mad and then bar them.

    If you don't work some where that would stand up for you when you bar a customer for screaming abuse at you then well ... be as polite as possible and keep winding them up till they crack... and then scream "I used to work at the post office!!! I don't need to take this crap from you!"
    I might get you fired but at least you'll scare the customer...

    If a customer ever says that they bought some thing last week and no one carded them ask them who, claim you get a bonus for catching other staff not carding people that are under age. when they say that they don't beleive you come clean and tell them they got lucky the week before.
    Never ever cave once you ask some one for ID.
    Unless the person is really polite and calm.
  6. Re:Hello... on Scientists Couple Nerve Tissues With Computer Chip · · Score: 1
    So he just keeps leaping...as the number of leaps approaches infinity, the probablility that he'll do what I want approaches 1. I win!


    Well... seeing as how his body was physicaly leaping from place to place he must age and will die of old age... lets say he lives a maximum of 80 years after he starts leaping...
    80 years =~29,200 days
    if he leaps every 2 days on average then he'll make ~14,500 leaps spread over the times in which he can leap ( his own life time ) which was what? 35 years?
    so ... given that there are ~12,500 days in that time so at any given day during the allowed time frame their are ~2.2 Sams, original growing up preleap Sam and Leaping Sam.

    Also he could be killed by getting shot, stabbed, or through some other miss-adventure.
    Yes, Sams body leaps with him, the fact he looks like other people makes this statement a bit odd but I remember the time when he leaped in to a man who had lost his legs ... but he could walk on his invisible legs...
    Hum... and the people he leaps in to leap in to him in the Present/future, does the QLA have to be kept on for him to leaping? I don't know but one thing I do know is that I've spent far to long thinking about this when I should be going over my Chemistry for the Exam next week
  7. Re:Not Shut Down, just taken away for a little whi on ThePirateBay.org Raided and Shut Down · · Score: 1

    Taken down searched and returned... but how long does it take to search them... I'm sure they can drag it on for months.
    I know it's not the same thing but remember what happen with SJgames?
    http://www.sjgames.com/SS/

    It'll be months before they get some of their gear back, if the cops don't find anything and if they do they'll never get the machines back ... even if it was on the personal machines of the arrested staff, who will more than likely have lots of pirated stuff on their home machines.

    I'm guessing that ThePirateBay is down for good, it'll be months before they get there gear back even if they don't get charged and if they don't have some off site back ups of their website and server set up, then they won't be able to set it back up in a hurry should they be able to afford new machines.

    Well that's my guess anyway.

  8. Re:Reason for over patenting ? on Controller Comparison - PlayStation 3 vs. Wii · · Score: 1
    I can see the Wiimote working ok for some of these games, but would you honestly want to use one on the latest racing game or FPS? I sure hope Nintendo plans to include a more familiar controller with the Wii to use alongside the Wiimote, or some games just won't be playable. Hell, even your basic "Super Mario Bros." -style side-scroller would be kinda difficult to play on that thing. There are just some things that demand a regular PS-style controller.


    Ok, you call it a regular PS-Style controller, I'd call it a SNES Syle controller.
    D pad on the left, four buttons on the right, some trigger buttons on the shoulders, sure the PS controller has the little analog sticks and an extra set of shoulder buttons but it's basicaly following the snes layout... which of course follows earlier lay outs but the shoulder buttons are a big change, and so stand out more...

    Gamepads, IMHO, suck for FPS anyway, I can't play them with out a mouse, so I don't think it's fair to claim that the wii-controller is going to be crap for them, the PS controller is also crap for FPS.

    Right... the last thing is... the wii controller can be used in either hand... unlike the usual "D pad on left" controllers which have in the past caused problems for some left handed people
  9. Re:Found Itemd that I think is against the rules.. on The World's Largest Scavenger Hunt Returns · · Score: 1

    225. A live eyelash mite, to be removed from a team member on Justice Sunday and displayed under a microscope. [15 points]

    thats 3 items that are against the rules...

  10. Found Itemd that I think is against the rules... on The World's Largest Scavenger Hunt Returns · · Score: 1

    153. Sending Flora to your mother on Mother's Day is so played out. This year, she wants fauna. [4 points] ...
    183. A pet bee on a string. Do not conflate with Item #228. [3 points]


    don't the rules state that you cant have any animals...?


    Rule 11.
    Items. Most items remain the property of the team that secured it except for the items that explicitly call for surrender. Furthermore, no items should use any living, non-human animals|think S.P.C.A.
    guidelines.


    I guess you could give her a dead animal... but the bee would need to be alive...
  11. Re:US SMB2, Canon or not canon? on Reviewing the Real Super Mario Brothers 2 · · Score: 1

    No need for a warning ... the manual that came with the game tells you that it's set in a dream world ...

    One evening, Mario had a strange dream. He dreamt of a long, long stairway leading up to a door. As soon as the door opened, he was confronted with a world he had never seen before, spreading out as far as his eyes could see. When he strained his ears to listen, he heard a faint voice saying "Welcome to 'Subcon', the land of dreams. We have been cursed by Wart and we are completely under his evil spell. We have been awaiting your arrival. Please defeat Wart and return Subcon to its natural state. The curse Wart has put on you in the real world will not have any effect upon you here. Remember, Wart hates vegetables. Please help us!"


    ok so it goes on to say that he wakes up and goes and gets the others and they find a cave and that leads them to Subcon...
    but when I got this game as a small child in 1989 I got the whole, the world is call SUBCON: THE LAND OF DREAMS part... If thats not a clue I don't know what is ... I'd seem plenty of cartoons with the same sort of "It was all a dream" plot.

  12. Re:Price and Stocks on Laptop Fuel Cells Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    My dvd drive is on the side of my laptop.
    My media bay has a floppy disk drive, I have not used this for some time and wish I'd bought a second battery to put in there.

    By the time these fuelcells come out (in 2007 or when ever) I hope to have bought a new laptop, and battery life is a major problem for me, I'm going to make sure that I get a second battery, and hopefully it'll be able to take these things.
    8 hours of laptop usage sounds too good to be true...

  13. Re:Vista != Vista's 3D Interface on One In Two PCs Won't Run Vista's Interface · · Score: 1
    "...I'm a hardcore user, and I'm doing just fine with DOS."

    What internet browser are you using, Arachne?

    Seriously, are you using a DOS-based browser?


    slashdotwannabe is a Hardcore user...
    Telnet to port 80, render html in your head.
    that's how hardcore users browse...
  14. Re:Hard to defend the trademark... on Red Cross Condemns Misuse of Emblem In Games · · Score: 1
    Rei
    As an example of life on the other side, it was a common German political cartoon tack during World War II to make fun of how the Allies were blowing up their Red Cross facilities.


    Ahh but thats what they say. You can't trust any thing they say, they shoot medics, or hadn't you heard? Remember you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.
  15. Re:So they know they were African... on Remains of First African Slaves Found · · Score: 1

    White man says white man in strange place = "adventurous explorer"

    Adventurous: inclined to undertake new and daring enterprises
    think venture capital, historicaly we know that europeans traveled to the new world looking for money/gold and land.
    We know that they took slaves and killed lots of people.

    Adventurer: One that seeks adventure, One that attempts to gain wealth and social position by unscrupulous means.

    White man says black man in strange place = "slave"
    We know that these Adventurers took slaves from Africa to the new world.

    When we find African bodies in the new world we can be pretty sure that they were taken there by Europeans as either slaves or as indentured servants.
    Indentured servants are not slaves, in that they can buy out their "contract", but I've no information about how long they had to work to do so, and what amount of freedom they had while they paid this off.

    In short whats your point?

  16. Re:Et tu, Britannia? on Britons Unconvinced on Evolution · · Score: 1

    we'd have people swearing the semiconductor physics are just too 'strange' to be 'natural.'

    It is too strange to be natural.
    or rather it's not strange enough.
    I think that if there where ID going on we'ed see a much more sensible constants and rules. Pi would be a nice easy number and so would 'e'.
    And the Rules would be burned into the sky with Flaming letters so that you could cheat in exams.

  17. Re:Et tu, Britannia? on Britons Unconvinced on Evolution · · Score: 1

    "If ID is correct, it means we have an infinite number of species in our universe."

    dc29A what?!
    Why, if ID is correct, must there be an infinite number of species in the universe?
    Surely if the ID people are right then there are only those species that the designer chooses to design.
    And according to most creationists that I've spooken to the only place god created life is on earth...

  18. Re:Et tu, Britannia? on Britons Unconvinced on Evolution · · Score: 1

    Find evidence that those fossils could not have been the descendants of current animals for any reason.

    I'm sorry 99BottlesOfBeerInMyF but I've got to jump in here...

    I laughed when I read this. Fossils clearly are not the descendants of current animals ...

  19. Re:Unplesant environment on Gender Gap in Computer Science Growing · · Score: 2, Informative
    unless I roll a 1 I am set


    A 1 is not an automatic failure for skill checks http://www.d20srd.org/srd/skills/usingSkills.htm#s killChecks

    um... never mind.

  20. Re:Hack //.sign on D&D Online Stress Beta Begins · · Score: 1
    Multiplayer Rogue like ?
    Mangband, I never got in to it but there you go.

    http://www.mangband.org/

    from http://www.mangband.org/whatis.html

    MAngband is a free online multiplayer real-time roguelike game, derived from the single player game Angband.
            To win the game you must build up a character, selected from any one of 10 races and 6 classes, to be powerful enough to defeat Morgoth, Lord of Darkness, who lives in the dungeon 5000 feet below the surface of the town. As you work towards this near-impossible goal, you will chart unexplored dungeon passageways, do battle with legendary creatures, and find lost artifacts. And of course throughout your journeys you will encounter many other adventurers -- whether they be friend or foe is up to you to decide!


    Basicaly it's multiplayer rogue, all it needs is to be scalled up a little...

  21. Re:LEGO on Stealing Legos for fun and profit? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hey, the Mountain Dew on my desk in front of me says "Mountain Dew" right on the can. I guess I can't talk about drinking two Mountain Dews, can I?

    But you can't say Mountains Dew... um... any way.
    Look I have a two plastic boxes and a plastic bag ... I don't have three plastics.
    I have three plastic objects. or a pile of plastic crap.

    I have 1500 Lego Bricks, 100 Lego men and 20 lego horses.
    What have I? I have a lot of lego.

    One lego brick.
    Two lego bricks.

      "a lego" makes no sense. like a red, or a round.

    "Pass me that red bit of lego."
    "I need two more of those 2X3 bricks to finish my ninja maze."
    "Chuck me half that pile of lego"

    At this point I think that people are just using Legos to troll people, and dispite the fact that the word brings me almost physical pain*, I'm never going to bother correcting any persons about this online from now on.
    It's just a huge waste of time. From now on I'm only going to correct people about this in person... I almost winch every time I read or hear legos.

      *(unlike when people say Sheeps, Fishs or Euros)

  22. Re:and who better than the US... on US Keeps Control of the Internet · · Score: 1

    I'm so easy to troll...
    *sigh*
    any country that decides to attack an other.
    Suggesting invading another contry is suggesting violence, it is imposible to advocate war with out advocating violence. (or is it?)

    oh you mean personal violence?
    well then very few...
    It's only ok to kill on large scales... (or crimminals)

    In Soviet Russia Violence abvocates you!

  23. Re:nitpicking on Set PHASRs On Stun · · Score: 1

    Yeah?
    well now it's a Laser-Laser-Dazer-Maser-Phaser-Raser-Shmaser Bobaser-Bananafanafofaser!

    um just hope no one has the "Trap! Antimatter" card

  24. Re:Come on though imagine if these get cheaper on Neiman Marcus Offers First Moller Skycar For Sale · · Score: 2, Interesting

    this might sound like a stupid question ... but how slow can it go?

  25. Re:Hedwig and the Angry Inch on The Tongue Twisting Tooth Microphone · · Score: 1

    you mean you've read about them on the internet. ... no he clearly means what he says, or says what he means which ever makes more sense ... you see he said he knows of women, not he knows women ...

    did he learn of them on the net? did some one point one out to him in the street? did he see one in a dirty mag?
    all in all it doesn't matter. the important thing is that ... um ... why amn't I working now?