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  1. Re:Sick? on The True Story of Website Results · · Score: 1

    To build on your comment, let's end civilization with a mass suicide. That way, we can get rid of all suffering. What an ideal!

  2. Re:Sick? on The True Story of Website Results · · Score: 1

    If you just can't smack em' with wit, rip on their spelling.

  3. Re:Sick? on The True Story of Website Results · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Religion actually condones killing someone far away, particularly if they don't think like you. I would find it more likely that a Christian (I bet this will be labelled flamebait because I mentioned that religion) would be willing to kill someone far away with the push of a button if they were in, say, the Middle East.

    Oh, you probably think I'm going overboard; read history. Note the Crusades. And, before you start judging, my last name is German, and I was born in America, so I have no agenda to perceive by saying this.

    Another thought: we have already done this "button pushing". Set the way-back machine and zero in on Hiroshima, Japan. I'm not saying it was easy. It's even holy now since it supposedly ended the war as well.

  4. Re:get real on The True Story of Website Results · · Score: 1

    Is it at all possible for us to have mature conversations on here? This sounded like something I would hear in a schoolyard. Starting a post with an insult is like sticking out your tongue.

  5. Re:HUH? on Improv Animation as an Art Form? · · Score: 1

    Why are you such an angry young man, when your future looks quite bright to me? Got the world in the palm of your hands, yet you flame people writing stories, stories on-topic and spark discussion, and you're fooling yourself if you don't believe it....

    ....chill buddy!

  6. Re:HUH? Wait a second...maybe... on Improv Animation as an Art Form? · · Score: 0

    Consider that they need render farms in order to create the final frame, not lay out the scene. The latest GPU's are more than adequate for putting together the objects that will be eventually rendered using a higher-end machine. This would save costs, since they could buy a Linux box using an nVidia card, instead of a far more expensive Indy.

  7. Re:Bit unimaginative. on Winning the E.T. Lottery · · Score: 2, Funny

    And the civilation that built the machine was named Microsoft.

  8. Re:The way I like to look at it... on Winning the E.T. Lottery · · Score: 1

    We are just beginning to understand Quantum Physics, and uses for it. We are too limited in our understanding of the fabric of reality to say with assurance that going faster than light is possible. With Quantum Physics, even travelling to get somewhere is not necessary in theory.

  9. Re:Don't want to discourage you, but... on Project Management For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    What you're all really asking for is trust. The Project Managers typically don't trust the engineers. There is a reason for this, however.

    Project Managers tend not trust engineers because they are often not trustworthy. The typical engineer has a personality that needs to be right so much that it affects their behavior negatively. For example, how many engineers have you met that always seem to know everything, yet when you look deeper, you find they were wrong? Or, the engineer who, no matter what is said, always is ready to pounce and say, "I knew that! Don't you think I knew that? What, you think I'm stupid?" It is natural to want to be right, and not natural to do it at the expense of /being/ right.

    I have also seen engineers turf-protect. They purposely write terrible code so that nobody else can read it. They hold back information, or give wrong information just to cause another person to look worse than them. The more incompetant the engineer, the more this behavior manifests itself into the end result of the Project Manager no longer trusting /any/ engineer because this behavior is so common.

    [This may apply to you, or not. Did you read my message, and assume that I meant all engineers? Are you ready to flame it because there is a spelling error? Did I offend you? How do you feel right now, and why? Analyze it. No matter who you are, it never hurts, and can lead to some eye-opening data.]

  10. Re:In terms of CPU lingo on Printing Chips · · Score: 1

    I believe that I'm a billionaire, sliding away on the ocean in a luxury liner of my own, sipping cocktails and enjoying the company of scores of beautiful women.

    *Squeezing eyes, waiting for my belief to change reality.*

    I don't "believe" in wave-particle duality either. It is proven to be true through objective analysis. Same as the fact that I'm sitting in a cubicle right now on a hug muggy day wishing I was elsewhere. Too bad, though. I really could go for a cocktail right now.

  11. Re:I dont enter my email on What Turns You Off About Evaluation Software? · · Score: 1

    I've noticed that some companies no longer accept free e-mail accounts. Such a company is "Digital Rain", which sells Swift3D. When I ordered their software, I had to use an e-mail from an old dial-up account that I leave around so that I can use my laptop. Thank god I didn't remove that account, or I wouldn't have been able to buy the software!

  12. Re:new from maxis: sim work on Friendships in the IT Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Outside of death? No. Sorry bud.

  13. Re:We need to start a petition to change the theme on Star Trek: Enterprise Reactions? · · Score: 1

    I remember cringing when I first heard it. Then the second time, it was okay. It was the initial shock; the expectation of the orchestral snore-music that got me. I thought, "Here they are, blowing it right away." Then, I watched it again because the episode was so fantastic, and I thought, "Ya know what, that isn't bad!"

  14. Dangerous Definition on Hackers are 'Terrorists' Under Ashcroft's New Act · · Score: 1

    The US government does not understand computer technology enough to prosecute fairly in the case of cracking crimes. This is dangerous indeed, for their misunderstandings can lead to some pretty severe injustices.

  15. Re:Somebody has to say it, but... on Hackers are 'Terrorists' Under Ashcroft's New Act · · Score: 1

    And you, sir, should be banned from this discussion. Show some respect. Grow up.

  16. Splat-down guess on Guess When Mir Will Splash · · Score: 1
    2001-03-17 02:06:43

    An unfortunate bird will parish during the event. At the time, the bird will be thinking, "What a wonderful day! The sea is so big, the sky is so blue, and it is so peachy to be a..."