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  1. Re:I guess it's important to talk about it on Music Industry 'trying to hijack EU data laws' · · Score: 1
    Piracy is stealing. Period.

    Dog through table and spleen seven tiles.

    There, I just called you all sorts of bad names, using my own definitions for those words. Kinda hampers communication, doesn't it?

  2. Re:Trackball Position? on How the PowerBook was Born · · Score: 1
    Symmetric is already an adjective you freaks.

    Well yeah, but symmetrical is not the derivative, symmetric is.

  3. FAQ on Free60 Project Aims for Linux on Xbox 360 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Pretty good FAQ on that site:

    Q: Have you guys modded the Xbox360 yet?
    A: No, not yet.

  4. Re:Any use? on Barenaked USB Drive · · Score: 1
    USB flash drives can lose some data sometimes...

    If only there were *some* way to avoid data loss... dang. Can't think of anything.

  5. Re:SonyEricsson will include iTunes on Costly Music Store Coming to Cellphones · · Score: 1

    My cell phone bill last month was $7.25, and included unlimited text messages. On the other hand, it's near impossible to maintain a decent signal long enough to hold a conversation, so that helps keep the bill low.

  6. Re:type manager ? WTF ? on 'Type Manager' The File Manager of Tomorrow? · · Score: 2, Informative
    How do you think technical definitions are invented in the first place?

    You don't just start using it as if it's already known. You have to first "propose" the definition at the beginning of the paper and explain why you're using it.

  7. Re:Nothing but sports and racing? on First Xbox 360 Reviews Hitting the Web · · Score: 1
    However, I will just play Oblivion on the PC, like any sane person would.

    For sufficiently small values of sanity, of course.

  8. Re:free? on Jobs Offers Free Mac OS X For $100 Laptops · · Score: 1
    RedHat is a workable general-purpose desktop OS, and it contains a lot of desktop software packages that are expensive add-ons for OS X.

    What would those be? Serious question. I'm not disputing what you say, I just don't know.

  9. Re:Onlly reason I haven't... on 1 Million Windows to Mac Converts So Far in 2005 · · Score: 1
    I salary sacrifised the entire laptop and was able to reclaim $2000 in one single months salary rotation.

    What does that mean? Is that some sort of tax maneuver?

  10. Re:Seems like survival of the fittest. on Open Source Design in risk? · · Score: 1
    It probably will, but at this time no one but the guy holding OSWD in stasis has access to any of the files.

    You don't think there's an off-site copy anywhere?

  11. Re:Slow motion pictures on Yahoo's Geek Statue · · Score: 1
    Gmail uses activex, with it's inherent security problems and therefore not allowed in a secure environment.

    Not on my computer it doesn't. In fact, a computer capable of running activex, with its inherent security problems, is not allowed around here.

  12. Re:Wikipedia generally works on Wikipedia Founder Sees Serious Quality Problems · · Score: 1
    [bunch of Wikipedia links]

    Are you saying those articles are not good? Can you explain a bit? (Seriously. I'm not being sarcastic, I'm curious.)

  13. Old shows on Apple Sells 1 Million Videos in Under 20 Days · · Score: 1

    I think what will really take off are old TV shows. A lot of content that had no viable market can now be dusted off and made available at a low price. It might even lead to a resurgence, and give shows that were good but never found an audience a chance to bloom.

  14. Re:The wheels of justice turn slow. on Sex.com Hijacker Captured in Mexico · · Score: 1
    He was living in a MANSION in mexico. How hard did they even look for this guy.

    Yeah. And I'm surprised OJ didn't come across him during his mansion-to-mansion search for the real killers.

  15. Re:INS can't be bothered to pick up arrested illeg on Sex.com Hijacker Captured in Mexico · · Score: 1
    Uh, how do they not pay sales tax? Do they whip out their illegal-immigrant card at the supermarket and say "I'm not a citizen, please remove the sales tax from this purchase" ? Get a clue.

    I'm going to go out on a limb here and make the over/under 17.5 on the number of distinct replies explaining the folly of your post.

  16. Re:Commercial purposes on White House Cease & Desists to The Onion · · Score: 2, Insightful
    From the NPR report this morning, it seems to revolve around use of the seal of the president for commercial purposes.

    And not only NPR, but TFA.

    Pretty cut and dried.

    Hardly. It's political satire, exactly the sort of thing that freedom of speech is all about.

  17. Re:Makes me laugh. on Sweden's File Sharing Debate Becomes Mass Brawl · · Score: 1
    Of course, this brings us back to the point: If someone is stealing everything I produce, is he really a "customer"?

    A single sentence filled with such fallacy and illogic that I don't know where to begin. But here's a quick overview: It's not stealing, and you leap to the "everything" extreme in a feeble attempt to strengthen your statement. Don't bother to rebut. Your willingness to stray from the accurate use of language makes debating a senseless endeavor.

  18. Re:Makes me laugh. on Sweden's File Sharing Debate Becomes Mass Brawl · · Score: 1

    Well put. Businesses attack their customers only in a panic, when they don't know what else to do. Long-term it can only be suicide.

  19. Re:But why if Korea is Dense/Cheap is US same? on The Problems with Broadband in America · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I hadn't heard that about the skin cancer. (Nor the song :-) Having spent most of my life avoiding the sun (mostly through through circumstance) I'm now spending a lot of time outside. I burn readily, so everybody's warning me. I though sunscreen was all I needed, and never even considered that I should check into it. I'll go do some reading right now.

  20. Re:But he'd make a GREAT politician... on Jack Thompson Calls Cops on Penny-Arcade · · Score: 1
    Clearly, we need to draft people into pirating and stop global warming

    Or maybe global warming is wiping out the pirates.

  21. Re:Delta of Danube on Deadly Version of Bird Flu Found in Romania · · Score: 1
    unless the drug companies to have vaccines and such for it hidden

    I think they have them right behind the place where they hide the pills that turn water into gasoline.

  22. Re:Hehe... on Preview of New MSN Hotmail · · Score: 1

    Sorry about all the bold. I edited and didn't preview again.

  23. Re:Hehe... on Preview of New MSN Hotmail · · Score: 1
    What can you really tweak with a Mac without it costing you half a torso?
    What does that have to do with what I said?

    I can customize everything on Windows and turn it into a power machine, from the software straight down to the hardware, and most of it can be done using freeware.

    What does that have to do with what I said?

    Every mac user I've talked to also acts like they're special because they use a mac.

    What does that have to do with what I said? Are you sure you're replying to the right post?

    The cost of Apple hardware is astronomical.

    What does that have to do with what I said?

  24. Re:Hehe... on Preview of New MSN Hotmail · · Score: 3, Insightful
    When Microsoft treats users as novices they get slammed.

    Microsoft treats users as novices who are stupid. Apple treats users as novices with the ability to learn.

  25. Re:guess again, it's even simpler. on Music Labels Charge Too Much For Microsoft · · Score: 1
    guess again, it's even simpler.

    Only if by "simpler," you mean "way more complicated."

    OK, you were experimenting with the system and it got noticed. So big deal. Shrug your shoulders and move on.