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  1. Re:OK, I'll bite. on 1928 Time Traveler Caught On Film? · · Score: 1

    All it takes is a little jiggery-pokery...

  2. Re:Is it just me? on Selling Incandescent Light Bulbs As Heating Devices · · Score: 1

    I'll up that one for you. If you use them in a lamp with a dimmer they actually burn out. I need to keep a stash of incandescants for my lamp with a dimmer switch. I'm stocking up for the future.

  3. Re:$5 a month on Xbox Live Pricing To Go Up To $60 Per Year · · Score: 1

    When you put it that way, you are the one paying way too much. Maybe not in currency, but I'll take 60 bucks a year to have someone else worry about that shit.

    We all have different priorities, and mine see this as such a minor issue it is laughable.

  4. Re:wow on Xbox Live Pricing To Go Up To $60 Per Year · · Score: 1

    So they are raising the cost because they can, but it took them 10 years to do this? Your logic is faulty, but I doubt you care about being correct.
    Keep spouting!

  5. Re:Lock in at $40 on Xbox Live Pricing To Go Up To $60 Per Year · · Score: 1

    One other issue no one is mentioning is that the Xbox live Gold price has stayed static for 10 years now.

    The increase is negligible when applied to a year(less than 1$/month), is not likely to increase any time soon after that either.

    In perspective, this is boring and barely worth reporting, except for the Sony and Nintendo fanboys who cream their pants bashing Microsoft.

  6. Re:They are "obviousness investigators" on iPad Owners Are 'Selfish Elites' · · Score: 1

    and I volunteer every week and give away a portion of each (meager) paycheck.

    Most of us just call this "paying taxes", you insensitive clod!

  7. Re:He Did No Such Thing on Roger Ebert Backs Down On Video Games As Art · · Score: 1

    Yes, yes. You are right. All they want guns for is to shoot Democrats. No one wants one purely for self-defense.
    We all stand corrected by your shining, glowing brilliance. We feel inadequate and shameful. How dare we.

  8. Re: Detroit's history of corruption - shakedown on Statewide Franchise Illegal? Detroit Sues Comcast · · Score: 1

    Regardless, It all boils down to Michigan only seeming to care about constitutionality when they can get free shit at someone else's expense. You think Comcast will end up paying? Comcast's customers will end up paying.

    No news here...

  9. Re:it wasn't a distraction last year on Obama Calls Today's Ubiquitous Gadgets and Information "a Distraction" · · Score: 1

    I think you are wishfully thinking he has an anti-anti-anti-Muslim agenda. 87.5% of statistical measurements favor his interpretation over yours because he posted first. The laws of physics also favor the gravity of the situation. Your anti-anti-anti-anti-Muslim agenda does not hold water.

    You be wacky. He was concise and summed up some points very well. Of course, your bi-ass-ed pov is going to accuse me of having an anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-Muslim agenda. Even though you have nothing to base it on. You are wrong there too. I just like to distract easily-distracted angry people who like to assume things. Nothing brings more joy to my life...

    "Disclaimer: All quoted statistics are lies, damn lies and statistics. Margin of error = +/- 57% Varieties +/- 51% Flavors, 99 44/100 Pure."

  10. Re:it wasn't a distraction last year on Obama Calls Today's Ubiquitous Gadgets and Information "a Distraction" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Still, that's not the fault of the gadgets. Mr. Obama seems to be focusing on the technology as the problem. He should emphasize personal responsibility more and try to sound less like he is blaming the gadgets themselves. It ain't my fault, the majority of people aren't bright enough to keep from being distracted.

    But then, emphasizing personal responsibily really isn't his bag, is it?

  11. Re:Most absolutely not. on Do Gamers Want Simpler Games? · · Score: 1

    What I want is MORE TIME to play the games, not simpler games.

  12. Re:As if quantity of content is its only measure.. on Do Gamers Want Simpler Games? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but even there you are only going to be able to do what the DM allows you to do.

  13. Re:Why bother with manuals? on Ubisoft Says No More Game Manuals · · Score: 1

    One fallacy I keep seeing repeated is that somehow not printing (recyclable!) paper manuals and having people access a pdf or some other computer file format is "greener". People forget that it takes electricity to view the electronic manual and that will counter the "greenness" of not printing a manual. Everything we switch to electronic formats costs more electricity and that is not "green". Most people are easily fooled into thinking it is though. It would better serve Ubi to come out and admit that they are cutting out manuals because it's cheaper and they need to make up the money their bad DRM is costing them.

    Besides, you know most people are going to print out the manual on their own printer so they can read it on the crapper anyway.
    At best, it transfers the burden of being "green" to the consumer.

  14. Re:Why bother with manuals? on Ubisoft Says No More Game Manuals · · Score: 1

    While I "commend" your post, "somthing" just doesn't seem right. What sort of "alot" do they give the backstory? And why do you prefer "somthing" more, then a disc, in that order? I prefer a disc first, then the "somthing" more. I can get by without "somthing" more, damn near impossible to play the game without the disc.

  15. Re:Thank you Sony on Final Fight Brings Restrictive DRM To the PS3 · · Score: 1

    I was going on 20, but I found a pair of headphones on sale. Hurt like hell, but I figured it was only headphones and only 5$ in 20 years.

  16. Re:Alternatives? on Final Fight Brings Restrictive DRM To the PS3 · · Score: 1

    Too true.
    Ask anyone who has gone through their employment process.
    I was actually relieved that I didn't get the job after seeing their 8 level interview/psychological profiling system.

    Questions like:
    "Daydreams are good." (A statement, not a question)
    Yes or No.

    Well, on a Sunday afternoon in my hammock, Yes. On the job, operating heavy machinery, No.

    When I called to see if I was moving to the next round, the HR schlub told me I failed the psychological test.

    I never was much of a "worker bee".

  17. Re:Too Stupid To Handel Modern Graphics Hardware on More Evidence For Steam Games On Linux · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was just Chopin for a new one. The Strauss of making the decision is killing me, but my old one is Schutz.

  18. Re:Buying ARM for a leg? on Apple To Buy ARM? · · Score: 1

    If they raise the price on the chips, everyone will pay more for them. Not a big deal to pay yourself more for something you already own.
    If they lower the price, then prices on all the devices using them should decrease. That keeps competition roughly the same, so you know $Apple$ won't do this.

    If it was Nokia, Palm or Motorola buying ARM, people would already be screaming "antitrust". With $Apple$, I guess it's OK.

    Doesn't $Apple$'$ OS come with its proprietary software already installed? Why isn't Europe screaming for their heads too?

  19. Re:Oh goody on Net Neutrality Suffers Major Setback · · Score: 1

    Bravo! , promote, cheer and generally agree the shit out of this post!!

    Someone gets it!

  20. Re:Oh goody on Net Neutrality Suffers Major Setback · · Score: 1

    Where is this monopoly? Which of the several ISP's I have in my area alone to choose from is the monopoly? I do not think this word means what you think it means.

  21. Re:Oh goody on Net Neutrality Suffers Major Setback · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Wow. If you are really dumb enough to think that is what he means, then please seek professional help.

  22. Re:Oh goody on Net Neutrality Suffers Major Setback · · Score: 1

    I guess you prefer it with $$BIGGOV'T$$ sticking a big fat one up yours.
    Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's not for me.

  23. Re:X-Com: UFO Defense on The Unsung Heroes of PC Gaming History · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't have had Fallout if not for Wasteland. First non-D&D style RPG to make a big impression on me. Replayed it so damn many times too!

  24. Re:More like a flaw in statistics on Flaw In Emergency Response System May Have Killed Hundreds · · Score: 1

    Blaming problems on software is lame. It can only do exactly what you tell it to do, and sometimes, unless you know exactly what it does when you tell it to do something, you are going to tell it to do the wrong thing.
    This sort of thing will continue to happen everywhere as long as unqualified individuals set priorities on different situations. How about just having the crew get there as fast as possible whether it is a fall or an MI?

  25. Re:cancer worries on Doctors Skirt FDA To Heal Patients With Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    Its all good until someone gains an extra eyeball on their kneecap.