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  1. Because your in a domain with a GPO on Windows Cheaper to Patch Than Open Source? · · Score: 1

    Apparently, whatever organization owns your computer is smart enough to keep you from screwing around with it.

  2. You're both wrong. on Cuban Says RIAA Damages Should be $5 Per Month · · Score: 1

    0 / 0 is undefined in most systems.

    What kind of nerds are you.

  3. You must be stonned out of your Amsterdam pot mind on Nintendo Revolution Details Emerge · · Score: 1

    Europe is a bigger market than North America and Japan put together.

    The following figures will be total sales as of the end of 2003 (Jan 13, 2004, for PS2).

    North America
    PlayStation 2 - 29.26 million
    Xbox - 8.6 million
    GameCube - 7.46 million
    Game Boy Advance - 23.78 million

    Japan / Asia
    PlayStation 2 - 16.18 million
    Xbox - 1.4 million (~425,000 Japan alone)
    GameCube - 3.37 million
    Game Boy Advance - 12.66 million

    Europe / PAL
    PlayStation 2 - 24.56 million
    Xbox - 3.7 million
    GameCube - 3.11 million (~3 million Europe alone)
    Game Boy Advance - 12.98 million

    Worldwide
    PlayStation 2 - 70 million
    Xbox - 13.7 million
    GameCube - 13.94 million
    Game Boy Advance - 49.42 million

    GBA sales include Original + SP.

    Why would I be xenophobic when most euro-weenies are as clueless as your are?

  4. Enough with this geology experiment. on Mars Rover Opportunity Still Stuck In a Dune · · Score: -1, Troll

    People actualy have careers playing with this remote controlled geology experiment. I see little difference between them and your typical welfare queen, self-indulgent on the tax payers dime.

    We flew the damn thing to Mars and, lo and behold, it's a big dead rock like we all thought. There's some ice at the pole and there might be evidence of some pathetic proto-bacteria. Big Woop. Geology is the least interesting of the sciences, dull as dirt.

    When can we stop wasting money on this crap?

  5. Communications Act of 1934: as ammended in 1996 on Broadcast Flag 2 - Electric Boogaloo · · Score: 1

    TITLE I--GENERAL PROVISIONS

    SEC. 1. [47 U.S.C. 151] PURPOSES OF ACT, CREATION OF FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION.

    For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, a rapid, efficient, Nationwide, and world-wide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges, for the purpose of the national defense, for the purpose of promoting safety of life and property through the use of wire and radio communication, and for the purpose of securing a more effective execution of this policy by centralizing authority heretofore granted by law to several agencies and by granting additional authority with respect to interstate and foreign commerce in wire and radio communication, there is hereby created a commission to be known as the ''Federal Communications Commission,'' which shall be constituted as hereinafter provided, and which shall execute and enforce the provisions of this Act.

  6. Supreme Court's decisions have the weight .... on Broadcast Flag 2 - Electric Boogaloo · · Score: 1

    The SC makes rullings on things that have nothing to do with the Constitution. They take tax, probate, environmental, ERISA, contractual, and even bankrupty cases. They are the court of final appeal in just about every area.

  7. Nobody cares about Britain. on Nintendo Revolution Details Emerge · · Score: 1

    The Brittish gaming market is nearly irrelevant. What difference does it make if the 360 doesn't debut their until 06?

  8. Picard is better = +5 Funny on Enterprise Finale Airing Tonight · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's for sure. Picard was a geriatric weener.
    Kirk is J.T. Fucking Kirk. Unless you're a homo or a retard there's no way you could think Picard's better.

  9. No application needs administrator access. on Microsoft To Offer Virus Defense · · Score: 1

    None. Even the Adobe apps can be cajoled to run as an ordinary user.

  10. Exactly. Brown people can't handle freedom. on Google Steps Up Fight for the China Market · · Score: 1

    Freedom is a quaint bourgeois notion. These people need to be led. Their entire culture is based on the hive mentality. Brutal bastards. Strange thing is they make such bloody good cameras.

  11. No, they buy the V8. on Hybrid Drivers Provide Real-World Mileage Data · · Score: 1

    The question is, why would anyone want to buy, what is in effect, The Ford Gelding?

  12. Re:I could never understand. on Hybrid Drivers Provide Real-World Mileage Data · · Score: 1

    I think you nailed the big 3. Broads who want a cheap convertable, parents of teens, and homos.

  13. I could never understand. on Hybrid Drivers Provide Real-World Mileage Data · · Score: 1

    What could possibly motivate a guy to actually purchase a V6 mustang?

  14. Re:It's the torture, not the killing on Internet Hunting Banned in California · · Score: 1

    has been grossly oversimplified.

    Understood.

    My dad lived in the Ozarks in the 1940s, when it was quite rural. As a teenager, he used to shoot water moccasins and turtles all the time. The turtles would eat his trout lines, and the snakes were a dangerous pest. He never went on to be a sociopath.

    Eliminating pests is good, no problem there. As for the turtles, I'd say that you should try some other means first, but if they persist in eating your lines, then they become a pest.

    I'd cite the examples of the hunting shows on tnn. The ones that have about 15 minutes of hunting program and 15 minutes of ads for every possible hunting device.

    Grown men whooping, hollering and high-fiving when they kill an animal is a little disturbing to me.

    I notice that when the do the slo-mo replay it isn't of the laborious hours spent tracking or the other often cited "serious" aspects of the hunt. It's the kill shot.

  15. Sadistic people on Internet Hunting Banned in California · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't believe in animals rights, and I know god wanted us to eat them otherwise he wouldn't have made them taste so good. However, people who kill animals for entertainment have mental issues. Any psychologist will tell you that children who kill animals for fun are prime candidates to become serial killers.

    If you want to go out in the woods playing super predator, tracking and stalking, have fun. When you catch your prey why not shoot it with a paintball gun and call it a day? I don't get the thrill out of killing animals.

  16. Yuo forgot the B A on Kernel, Shell Boots on DS Linux · · Score: 4, Informative

    up up down down left right left right B A start

  17. So Al Gore ended the good ole days? on Al Gore to Receive Internet Achievement Award · · Score: 1

    Up until then, the Internet was research-only and had explicit prohibitions against commercial activity. For a short time, like around 1990-92, it was commonly believed that the Internet would remain a research net

    That seems about right. It was around 92-93, ie when mosaic took off, that it went to hell. Now I know to blame Al Gore for the Spam.

  18. "Taking initiative" on Al Gore to Receive Internet Achievement Award · · Score: 1

    "Taking initiative" in the context of "service in the United States Congress" means introducing legislation.

  19. Great. So when can we start warezing games? on PSP UMD Format Cracked · · Score: 5, Funny

    Inquiring minds want to know.

  20. Your wife is lucky. on IBM to Lose 13,000 Jobs · · Score: 2

    As I'm sure you realize, getting a job as a government attorney isn't easy. Whenever a city / county / state / fed agency has an opening they are overwhelmed with resumes. Why? Because life is so much easier as a government attorney than as a real attorney.

    How many thousands of hours did your wife bill last year? Most decent firms will can you if you only bill 2000, ie 40 hours a week 50 weeks a year with no breaks or goofing off.

    Let your wife get a job with a firm that expects 2700 hours, ie 10 hour days plus weekends, and then tell us how hard being a government employee is.

  21. What is next? Hopefully folders for Gmail. on Google Web Accelerator · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they'll figure it out one of these days. Labels just don't play well with POP.

  22. Your must be a Linux user. on New York Times Exploring how to Charge for Content · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why should I pay? How about I just goto the library and pull out the article

    One of these people who's time is worthless. For the rest of us, spending $50 for 1 year's access is a better deal than spending an hours time going to the library for an article.

  23. Cell runs XP? on Toshiba Demonstrates Cell Microprocessor · · Score: -1, Redundant

    The screenshot is clearly Windows Media Player 9 or 10. Cool.

    xp4evah!

  24. Did someone piss on your dictionary as well? on Is the x86 Architecture Less Secure? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "Administrate isn't a word"

    From the OED:

    administrate v.
    [f. L. administrat- ppl. stem of administra-re: see administer (cf. demonstrate, etc.).]
    1. A by-form of administer v. (a sacrament, oath, medicine).
    1651 Calderwood Hist. Kirk (1843) II. 38 That no maner of person, in time coming, administrat anie of the sacraments secreetlie.
    1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady (1735) Pref., When Lithotomy cannot be administrated.
    1855 Milman Lat. Chr. iii. v. (1864) II. 70 The delinquent clerk might be deprived for a time of his power of administrating sacred things.
    2. To manage or direct (affairs). Now usu. absol. or intr. Cf. administer v. 1.
    a1639 J. Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. (1655) v. 241 A Lieutenant should be appointed..with full authority to administrate all affairs.
    1848 Tait's Mag. June 397/2 The people is sovereign, its representatives administrate.
    1934 G. B. Shaw On Rocks Pref. 150 What was formerly called 'real property' is replaced by ordinary personal property and common property administrated by the State.
    1965 New Statesman 17 Sept. 400/3 Bishops, prime ministers, official people loved it... One is simply administrating in a fantasy world.
    1981 Times 29 Apr. 9/6 The machinery of such aid is still primed by administrators eager to go out and administrate.
    3. To organize or manage the recording and application of information in (a list, register, etc.).
    1977 Wandsworth Boro' News 16 Sept. 19/4 (Advt.), Part-time..ledger clerk required to administrate sales ledger (mechanised).
    1982 Times 12 Oct. 12/6 A claims register, administrated by an International Sea Bed Authority, would have been a simple answer.

  25. FORD on Mars Rover Stuck in a Dune · · Score: 1

    First On Race Day