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  1. Re:Pop psychology on Researchers Claim To Be Able To Determine Political Leaning By How Messy You Are · · Score: 1

    Oh please. Look, I'm also a libertarian (read: crazy?). I believe in personal responsibility, free markets and free minds (to steal Reason's tagline) and all that other good stuff.

    My apartment is a total fucking mess. This is not an abdication of personal responsibility, nor does it really say anything about me as a person other than 'well he must find some things in life more important than a tidy living area'.

    At any rate, your fallacy lies in the assumption that one's personal space cannot be functional unless it meets your prissy standards of neatness.

  2. Original design document on A Retrospective on Planescape Torment · · Score: 1

    For anyone even half-interested, the original design-document (or whatever the fuck they call these things) is a blast.

    http://www.rpgwatch.com/files/Files/00-0208/Torment_Vision_Statement_1997.pdf

  3. Re:Exactly what America needs! on Higher Tuition For an Engineering Degree · · Score: 1

    Do you not realize the absurdity of that? What does it matter if no one is happy?

  4. Re:Exactly what America needs! on Higher Tuition For an Engineering Degree · · Score: 1

    Fortunately they've left us plenty of writing!

  5. Re:Exactly what America needs! on Higher Tuition For an Engineering Degree · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Oh please, is that the best you can do? You know perfectly well that a question mark used in such a manner displays confusion--viz., how could the person assert [whatever]?

  6. Re:Exactly what America needs! on Higher Tuition For an Engineering Degree · · Score: 1

    Why am I responding to an AC argh

  7. Re:Possibly not. on Higher Tuition For an Engineering Degree · · Score: 0

    Okay, but look: My argument is NOT that we should have NO engineers. I did not say that.

  8. Re:Exactly what America needs! on Higher Tuition For an Engineering Degree · · Score: 1

    To be honest, yes, I probably would be more satisfied with my life if I pulled a St. Francis.

  9. Re:Exactly what America needs! on Higher Tuition For an Engineering Degree · · Score: -1, Troll

    Which wasn't my argument?

  10. Re:Exactly what America needs! on Higher Tuition For an Engineering Degree · · Score: 1

    Right, and guess what? People are no more satisfied now than they were during the rule of Rome.

  11. Re:Exactly what America needs! on Higher Tuition For an Engineering Degree · · Score: -1, Troll

    This argument is a logical fallacy; I'm sure you can figure out which one.

  12. Re:Exactly what America needs! on Higher Tuition For an Engineering Degree · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    oh for fuck's sake, that isn't trolling, grow up.

  13. Re:Exactly what America needs! on Higher Tuition For an Engineering Degree · · Score: -1, Troll

    In short, yeah. Engineers don't exactly produce culture, my friend.

    Yes, they produce many things, nearly all of them absolutely irrelevant to a satisfying life.

  14. High quality editing! on iPhone Battery Replacement An Unwelcome Surprise · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Some of them might be waking up now," Rosenfield said, "wondering who they got in bed with."

    So no, Mossberg did not actually say that. Are even the submitters not reading the articles these days?

  15. Re:Meh, you could do worse, I suppose on Best Presidential Candidate for Nerds? · · Score: 1

    Yes, that is an excellent summation of libertarianism, thank you for posting that.

    If only it were true :(

  16. subject line on Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Dies At 84 · · Score: 4, Funny

    man that's too bad I really liked Nirvana

  17. Re:When are they going to realise... on Defeating China's National Firewall · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh for the love of Christ, stop being such a pedantic fuck. Look, the phrase has implied meaning, do you not understand that?

    When someone says "I could care less" it is implied that they are leaving off something like "but it's not likely" or "but not until there's a clown in the oval office*". So the real meaning is "I COULD care less, but I DON'T." It's functionally equivalent to saying "I couldn't care less", but with a bit of panache, right?

    Anyway, what are you like 13? You need to spend your time surfing the Internet just waiting to "correct" someone who, in your mind, misuses a particular part of speech? It's that is so then Slashdot is not the place foOH wait what am I saying.

    *see what I did there

  18. Very cutting-edge of them... on 'NBC Nightly News' to Be Shown on Internet · · Score: 0, Troll

    Actually, not at all. Real news stations like Democracy Now! (www.democracynow.org) have been streaming (and archiving) their news for years. This is nothing new.

    The reporting is a lot better too...

  19. Re:Ahh.... on Fired AOL Engineer gets 15 Months · · Score: 1

    hey let's play the spelling game, I'll go first

    no I lose ;__;

  20. Re:Ahh.... on Fired AOL Engineer gets 15 Months · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, hilarious. He desereved to be gang raped and/or forced to perform sexual favors for his crime that physicall harmed no one.

    Also I guess I missed where the judge included "rape" in the 15 month jail sentence.

    Internet tough guys, huh?

  21. Re:Umm, nope. I'm tired of that MYTH on Bill Roper Predicts Major PC Shift · · Score: 1

    Please explain how a "Single-player console MMORPG" is even possible.

  22. There are others... on TorrentBits.org and SuprNova.org Go Dark · · Score: 1

    Specifically www.demonoid.com -- which is a register only site. This is good because it enforces a ratio. The selection is not as good has Suprnova, but maybe now it will get better.

    To search all the sites use http://yotoshi.com/

    Considering the strength of the BitTorrent protocol, these sites -- and others -- will only grow as a result.

  23. Should've been in the article: on MGS3 Demo Nabbed From Sony E3 Stand? · · Score: 5, Funny

    A representative of the LAPD was quoted as saying, "!" before running after some footprints.

  24. Umm... on Half-Life 2D Creators Interviewed · · Score: 3, Funny

    "The game [will be released] before HL2"

    There's a Duke Nukem Forever joke in here somewhere.

  25. Recipe Index on Cooking with the Internet? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I find Carnegie Mellon's Online Recipe Archive to be a wonderful resource.