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  1. Re:Poor Gordon Freeman on Valve Explains Quick Left 4 Dead Sequel · · Score: 1

    The working title to HL2e3:

    "Gordon says something funny."
    or
    "G-man hears a theoretical physicist."

    Just you wait, Gordon is going to say something.

  2. Re:Some ideas on What To Do With 78 USB Drives Next Christmas? · · Score: 1

    This deserves far more mod points than it has garnered thus far.

    Comedy gold, my friend, gold.

  3. Re:Pi, of course. on What To Do With 78 USB Drives Next Christmas? · · Score: 1

    OOPS! you transposed that 4 after the 6,

    I Fixed that for you!

  4. Re:Cynicism on Bitterness To Be Classified As a Mental Illness · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hey now, that's not safe. My grand dad drank those things his entire life and DIED!

  5. Re:If it's a safari... on What OS and Software For a Mobile Documentary Crew? · · Score: 1

    Rascally Rat would be the best name for an Ubuntu release ever.

  6. Re:forget it on Remote Kill Flags Surface In Kindle · · Score: 1

    That's a brilliant suggestion.

    Used Toshiba M400 - $250 of Craigslist + ~hour to install pretty much any OS on it (even OS X if you so choose)

    E-book reader and a computer.

    It's amazing what one can do with 5 minutes on the internet.

  7. Re:What? on US Supreme Court Allows Sonar Use · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wow, questioning the patriotism of people with a different view than yours, wonder where you learned that?

    Since you claim the environmentalists want dead sailors and a weakened America, please cite your proof, or are you just name calling because you have no other reason to hate them aside from the fact you hate them?

    You can make make up all the shit you want, but unless you have proof of something, at least admit you're spouting shit.

  8. atleast Hellgate: London tried to have offline... on Are MMOs Time-Release Vaporware? · · Score: 1

    Well, of of the oddities about Hellgate: London was its ability to be played offline. Aside from the company's horrible management and the troubled release, Hellgate is now a pretty fun game, especially one that is shutting down.

    I think all games in the mmo space should have some offline content, but getting that into the games is another beast entirely.

  9. Re:How could 63% of people be wrong? on Poll Finds 23 Percent of Texans Think Obama is Muslim · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Perhaps it is time we stop being robots and realize that wearing of a flag or posing in a certain way during a song or some bullshit feel good 'pledge' is nothing more than a motion. If a person not putting their hand over some internal organ makes you wonder about that person's patriotism or 'respect' for traditions, it seems it says more about you than them. Questioning a person's decisions because of that makes you look like a simpleton. But at least you aren't alone. I guess intentional ignorance truly is bliss.

    Questioning anyone's patriotism and deciding it isn't as genuine or as true as yours is one of the foundations of fascism.

    Sorry, but too many people have died to let ignorant people take us down that road.

  10. Re:Continuity on David Tennant Stands Down From "Doctor Who" · · Score: 3, Informative

    This was sidestepped by some Dr Who by saying the regeneration limit was artificial and the actual process of regenerating has more to do with the mind than the body. Some high energy being what not. But the catch is the person must not desire the change or their desire for it prevents it.

    Yeah, Dr who people are odd, but it is science fiction so they can do pretty much whatever they want.

  11. I guess I'm just some goody goody on Should You Break TOS Because Work Asks You? · · Score: 1

    But if you think it's unethical, it probably is. You can still try to explain to the boss why it's wrong and if he makes you choose, well, you get to decide.

    For me, I'd have to leave. You boss sounds like a sleaze and people like that aren't worth your loyalty, as most of the time, they have zero loyalty to you. If he will screw over people he doesn't know, because he doesn't want to pay them, why do you think he wouldn't screw you over if it directly benefited him? Get out while you can.

    People need to learn to have principles, and just because it's not, as one reply put it, 'grinding stray dogs/cats into dog food', doesn't make it any less wrong.

    At the end of the day you have to live with yourself. Can you do it in good conscience? If you can't then you probably shouldn't.

    The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing.

  12. Re:Colbert isn't republican... on Measuring the "Colbert Bump" · · Score: 1

    You got politics on my laughter!

    two great tastes...

  13. Suckers on Bash Cookbook · · Score: 1

    tcsh and Pico! partners in crime and the only thing you will ever need... aside from root.

    if it isnt tcsh, it's crap.

    (also elm ftw!)

  14. Re:FreeBSD on Freespire Lives, Goes Back To Debian · · Score: 1

    Hell yes. Plus you get the ports tree and, oh sweet lord, it's really a unix!

  15. Re:Xandros and Linspire on Freespire Lives, Goes Back To Debian · · Score: 1

    sudo? bah

    I got root baby, and by hell i'm going to login on it.

    telnet forever, root will save us all!

  16. Re:Al Gore on MacBook Updates Rumored To Include Glass Trackpad · · Score: 1

    Yeah and Gore lied us into a war....

    OOOOOPS!

    Yeah, I give a sh*t if Gore says one thing but has evil light bulbs. But even if he ISNT personally trying to be energy efficient, he has brought the concept into a much wider and more mainstream position.

    Please use a new 'Gore is bad because' link, December of 2006 is officially old and perhaps, just perhaps not accurate now.

    Next thing you'll bring up how Iraq has weapons of mass destruction and won't let the inspectors do their job!

  17. Re:Brilliant on FSF's "Defective By Design" Targets Apple Genius Bars · · Score: 1

    and partake of a hot dog on friday with no bun for such was the solace of Eris after the original snub.

  18. Re:The answer is right there on Obama Losing Voters Over FISA Support · · Score: 0, Troll

    Their actions are directly aiding and abetting terrorists by reducing the freedoms that those terrorists despise

    Hey there, the only people that believe that terrorists hate our freedoms are Ron Paul supporters, Bush supporter, FOX Noise viewers and the insane crazy homeless guy I always see lurking around the Subway hoping people will give him half the sandwich.

    AlQaeda attacked us for having military bases in Islamic holy lands, they had been threatening the US for over 15 years over the fact. Funny, ever since we removed our bases from Saudi Arabia (Bush's pals you know), we haven't been attacked. Hrm cause and effect? Maybe, unless you support Paul or Bush then its just wild coincidence.

    At least you and are are on the same side of the Ron Paul thing. He's the new Nader.

  19. Re:The answer is right there on Obama Losing Voters Over FISA Support · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There will be no criminal cases brought. Bush will pardon everyone involved before leaving office. It was civil or nothing and that is now out the window.

    If Bush does pardon the crooks it will solidify the idea that he is the most self serving and corrupt president since Nixon. And even as corrupt as Nixon was, even he cared more about America than winning and in the end he did the only good thing for America and resigned. He couldn't even pardon the other cooks as it would prove he had no respect for the law. He was saving his own ass, but he also started the process of moving past the Watergate mess.

    I don't think Bush has that much strength. If it weren't for all the suffering he has instigated, I could feel pity for Bush. He was promoted beyond his abilities and now my kid gets to pay for it.

    At least my son got to see how stupid Americans can be when told to either go along with the masses or have their patriotism challenged. Sadly, people were fine with Bush until gas got out of hand.

  20. Re:Look! His NUTS are already spoken for by Right on Obama Losing Voters Over FISA Support · · Score: 1

    And you never have to worry about who will win!

  21. Hey kids! It's all political, all the time! on Obama Losing Voters Over FISA Support · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Welcome to the world of politics. As much as I like Obama, one must never forget he is still a politician.

    It just took the flag pin and now this for more people to get it. Unlike Hillary, Barack waited until after the primaries to start making the huge mistakes.

    The immunity only covers CIVIL liability, criminal liability is still on the table, but with the 'leaders' we have, I cant see anyone bringing criminal charges against the TELCO and Bush et al unless the next president makes it an issue. (which they should)

    So chin up, Obama isn't perfect, but aside from a revolution to replace the government, he will be better than what we could get with McCain or what we have now with the moron from Connecticut via Texass.

    We didn't lose our rights overnight, and it will take time and effort to regain them. That is if people start worrying more about the future of America and less about gas prices, American Idol, and gay marriage.

  22. Re:Still could be innocent on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 1

    And if you then think, you are morally justified in killing them when they don't comply, I'm glad that capital punishment is still available.

    "Follow my will or I'll kill you" is not something I would expect from civilized people under the rule of law.

    There's a certain irony in this pair of statements.

    Not just a 'certain' irony, its damn painful the original poster missed it. Or just chose to miss it to avoid having to think about how the statements don't make much sense together.

  23. Re:Still could be innocent on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 1

    for the same reason you could somewhat get away with killing your wife if she just was behaving in an unappropriate way

    But, she was cheating him! She was secretively using NTFS!!

    Hell, this needs modded up. Best comment in this thread AND funny.
    Maybe it wasn't just NTFS, it was NTFS running on an Vista install running on a Mac Pro via BootCamp!

  24. Re:French influence. on PC Repair In Texas Now Requires a PI License · · Score: 1

    But it's so fashionable to hate France...now that blacks, women, and gays are off limits.

    America, leading the hating of other groups for no good reason since 1776.

  25. Re:Voorwerp = Thing on Galaxy Zoo Produces a Rare Specimen · · Score: 1

    My vote is for ' doohicky '.