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  1. Re:BOFH explains SCO lawsuit on SCO Consultant S2 Strategic Consulting In Depth · · Score: 3, Informative
  2. Re:Another word : Ausbergers on Building Social Skills in Gifted Youths? · · Score: 1

    Dude, you just described me to a lesser degree, minus the pizza manager job.

    I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. Oh man, I'm fucked.

  3. Re:You are correct on How The Web Ruined The Encyclopedia Business · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well I'm 32, and the last time I used an encyclopedia in book form was before you were born. So nyaa.

  4. Re:Finally! on Navy Unveils Polyglot Chat For Iraq · · Score: 1

    You're mistaken. The Vincennes incident was not in the "early stages of the war". It happened on July 3, 1988, while Reagan was still President and about two years before Iraq invaded Kuwait.

  5. Re:The SCO logo? on SCO - EV1, Licensees, Groklaw, Armed Guards · · Score: 1

    Actually, that's the old Caldera logo. The SCO Group logo looks like this. Though why they have a tree in their logo is beyond me. Must be some bizarre Mormon thing.

  6. Re:I wonder why... on A History of Video Game Controversy · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the violence in "The Passion of the Christ" isn't senseless violence, nor does it glorify violence. I think that's what most people who complain about "violent movies" are really complaining about.

    Though there are plenty of people who are complaining about the gore and violence in "The Passion".

  7. Re:I wonder why... on A History of Video Game Controversy · · Score: 2, Informative

    nobody complains about movies

    Um, you really need to get out more.

    A quick search for movie violence turns up over 1,750,000 pages. I'm guessing more than one of those is a complaint.

    Also, where do you think the MPAA rating system came from?

  8. Re:Uh oh.. on Peter Jackson Says "Hobbit" Movie In The Works · · Score: 2, Funny

    A nice tragic story about a somewhat socially inept (cursed in fact), but otherwise likeable guy, who is remarkably handy with a sword, for whom life constatly goes terribly wrong.

    Wow, for a second there, I thought you were talking about my life story.

  9. Re:I'm confused... on Domain-Name Protest Is Protected Speech · · Score: 1

    The point is that some people's greed can be overruled by their racism.

    That's true enough. But then, so is the reverse. I think in general a rich black man is more likely to get the "justice" he wants than a middle class white man. Money talks, bullshit walks.

  10. Re:I'm confused... on Domain-Name Protest Is Protected Speech · · Score: 1

    If that were true, OJ Simpson wouldn't be walking the streets today.

  11. Re:Partially discredited on Three Headed Frog · · Score: 1

    Because who it's been discredited by and who paid for the studies (assuming you're siting studies) matters in these things.

    That's an ad hominem attack, and one common among liberals. Can't fight the facts? Fight the "motivation" of the people who presented them.

    The same technique could be applied to the page you linked, ya know. State bureaucracies only grow when they have something that "needs doing", so of course a state environmental agency will find problems in the environment. That's the reason for their existance, and if they couldn't find problems they would all lose their jobs.

  12. Re:Oh, gotta rant, gotta rant on this one... on Compensation for Bandwidth Costs is Extortion? · · Score: 1

    ...this guy donated nearly 3 years of his time to this county...

    Yep, and he's about to donate another 20.

  13. Re:Makes me wonder about casual aquaintences on Guilty By Association · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You should only worry if large numbers of your acquaintances and friends start getting rounded up as suspects. For instance, let's say someone straps explosives to their chest, walks into a mall, and kills 20 innocent bystanders when he pulls the pin. The people who knew him at his local mosque won't be automatically fingered as potential terrorists themselves, though the cops will want to talk to them about they knew about the guy.

    Now, let's say this same scenario repeats itself every day for a month. Now suppose every one of these guys came from the same mosque. I think the authorities would be on the right track to start investigating them as possible future terrorists.

    If most of your associates are criminals, there's a good chance you are one, too, afterall.

  14. Re:Makefiles and blogs.... on Bloggers' Plagiarism Scientifically Proven · · Score: 1

    Now there is proof that there is only 1 blog

    In the land of blogging, where the plagiarists lie
    One blog to copy them all
    One blog to store them
    One blog to steal them all
    And in the darkness bore them
    In the land of blogging, where the plagiarists lie

  15. Re:I fear that's the whole point on Glenn Urges Direct-to-Mars Trip · · Score: 4, Funny

    From a military perspective, wouldn't a base in orbit around earth be more practical?

    That's no moon. That's a space station!

  16. Re:Tip for bad actors on Move Over Karaoke...Hello Movieoke · · Score: 4, Funny

    And it's an easy script to remember:

    "Whoa."

  17. Re:Wow on Leaked Memo Says Microsoft Raised $86 million for SCO · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Great article, but beware the majority. on Avi Rubin's Thoughts On e-Voting · · Score: 3, Funny

    They probably couldn't even recite the preamble to the Constitution.

    Sure they could. And they can probably do it to the same tune the Founding Fathers used.

    Weee, the Peeeople, in order to foooorm a more peeeerfect Union....

  19. Re:A great day for fantasy on Lord Of The Rings - Oscars, We Loves Them · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah? Then explain this.

  20. Re:Frightening person, this Dinh. on Viet Dinh Defends The Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    Anybody who would be drawn to a political ideology purely based on what they oppose is, in my opinion, a dangerous person.

    So I guess you won't be voting for either Kerry or Edwards, then? 'Cause they're both campaigning purely on the premise that they are the opposite of Bush.

  21. Re:Just imagine the American version... on New Euro Coin Released With MultiView Effect · · Score: 1

    No, Fillmore, Regan, and Bush

    Hmm, I don't Don Regan was that important. Certainly no more so than other White House Chiefs of Staff.

  22. Re:OK. And... on Electronic Arts Shuts Down Origin Systems? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Have you considered that the upper management have determined that, if they don't move and consolidate, they won't be able to afford to keep the Austin office open, at all? Maybe it's better that some employees move than they all lose their jobs.

    I'm not saying this is definitely the case, but while corporate management may be heartless, it usually isn't malicious. You make it sound like they're moving people just to have something to do.

  23. Re:Similar on Total Information Awareness, Disguised And Alive · · Score: 1

    Um, where did the grandparent say anything about "love it or leave it"? He was just stating that Americans are free to move whenever they want to.

  24. Re:Define: on Favorite Hidden Google Features? · · Score: 1

    It's called Google Bombing. Another good one is 'weapons of mass destruction'. Or 'miserable failure' (this one is funny because the target shifts between President Bush and Michael Moore every few weeks, depending on which side is currently up in the standings).

  25. Re:well.... on Tech Training Schools Going Bust · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oh wow, that sucks. Especially since, IIRC, you can't discharge student loan debt through bankruptcy.