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  1. emotional intelligence of a 12 year old on Average Gamer Is 35, Fat and Bummed · · Score: 1

    "According to a study published in the upcoming October issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, the average US video game player is 35 years old, overweight, and tends toward depression"...and tends to troll anonymously the various forums where they can feel superior to young adults, children, and the mentally handicapped.

    Some over-sensitive mod is gonna mod this flamebait or troll, when the reality is, I'm meta-trolling the article. Get it? No? Shit, me neither. Hand me that controller, will you?

  2. Re:Liskula Cohen is a psychotic, skanky ho. on Judge Rules To Reveal Anonymous Blogger's Identity Over Insults · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't always call people I don't know bad names on the internet, but when I do, I drink Dos Equis.---The most anonymous man in the world

  3. What we really need. on Predicting Malicious Web Attacks · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Hiro Protagonist. And his sword. And his undefeatedness-nous.

  4. Re:Strongly typed language? on Scala, a Statically Typed, Functional, O-O Language · · Score: 1

    It's kinda like "PC Load Letter".

  5. Re:Anticlimactic on NASA Discovers Life's Building Block In Comet · · Score: 1

    We're also assuming that any "alien" life form must come from the same "building blocks" that life as we know it does.

    Who says this must be this way? For all I know, the building block of life on planet X-471 could be oil-stained pizza boxes.

  6. Re:Guide to Being an Asshole, Page 267 on China Ditches Compulsory Green Dam Plans · · Score: 1

    You have no idea how wrong you are in posting this.

    All my plans, my comments, my years of dedication to this site building up my ego RUINED. Thanks a lot, jerk.

  7. where do you live now? on Science, Technology, Natural History Museums? · · Score: 1

    Kind of important information, IMO.

    I live just outside of DC, and as you probably are well aware, there's literally MONTHS worth of things to see/information in the museums here in the metro area.

    if you're road tripping from the NE, head for the Southwest. There are more ruins than you can shake a stick at out there.

  8. Re:Indy Children's Museum on Science, Technology, Natural History Museums? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bi-Sexual Microsoft Expert.

    What? I won't tell, promise. Your secret is safe with me. :P

  9. Re:Did it not occur to PALM that this is BAD? on Palm Pre Reports Your Location and Usage To Palm · · Score: 5, Funny

    VP of Engineering: "Dude, they're going to find out, and they'll be pissed."
    VP of Marketing: "This is going to be great. Think of all the things we could do with this information. Think of all the people we could sell that information to. The feature stays."

    EVP of Marketing: "I eat boogers."
    CMO: "Excellent work, EVP of Marketing. VP of Engineering, you're too cautious. You'll never make it in today's world."
    CIO: "He's right. You're fired."
    VP of Engineering: "It's all good, I already have two other jobs lined up. Later, losers."
    EVP of Marketing: "Did I mention I eat my own boogers?"

  10. Re:Does that mean... on US Court Tells Microsoft To Stop Selling Word · · Score: 0

    I was born in a small town in Texas and lived in-state for 10 years. Yes, it's "redneck", but tell me you don't think there's rednecks in Texas?

  11. oblig. on Encryption? What Encryption? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    http://xkcd.com/538/

    It's funny cause it's true.

  12. Re:Does that mean... on US Court Tells Microsoft To Stop Selling Word · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Djeet yet? Nawp, djew? Nawp. Ya awntto? Aiught."---is perfectly valid in TexWord2k7.

    (For those that don't speak "Texan" or "country" the above sentence was a conversation between two people who were hungry: Did you eat yet? No, have you? No. Would you like to? Alright.)

  13. Re:I wouldn't say this delays the distro of RealDV on Judge Rules Against RealDVD · · Score: 1

    lulz. Nicely done sir.

    I would say more, but my typing is buffering.

  14. Re:Absolutely brilliant ruling Judge. on Judge Rules Against RealDVD · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually, it was. It showed a fundamental understanding of the law and how it pertained to the ruling she made. She got it right. It sucks, and hard, but she got it 100% right.

    The judge's ruling is bound by the current law. It doesn't matter if she thinks it's stupid or accurate, she's bound by it and gave the ruling that she was bound to.

  15. Re:it's other companies..... on MS — Dropping IE6 Support "Not an Option" · · Score: 1

    damnit, I hate getting interrupted when I'm typing something. I meant "different" not additional. /me waits for 2 minutes.

  16. it's other companies..... on MS — Dropping IE6 Support "Not an Option" · · Score: 2, Funny

    My company works with several 3rd party vendors* who are locked into IE6. They haven't even ported their software to IE7, much less 8.

    It's horrible. The good news is a couple of those 3rd party vendor programs do work in firefox.

    *yeah, yeah. I know. It's a horrible business practice, but the good news for us and them is we're a rabbit's whisker away from dropping them for additional vendors.

  17. Re:those poor chickens with boneless breasts on Scientists Create Artificial Bones From Wood · · Score: 1

    Gotdamn, I bet you guys are a hit at parties.

    Oh yeah? Well I used some salt and pepper and then grilled it over wet wood chips.

  18. Re:Critic's review on Opera Being Composed On Twitter · · Score: 1

    *shakes fist*

    Oh, I'll get you, anonymous coward! I'll get you some day!

  19. In a world... on Comparing the MMO Industry With the Silver Screen · · Score: 1

    In a world where MMOs and movies collide...one man comes forth to save humanity.

    (Voice over) It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

    "CUT! Where are the grues? What do you mean they need dark? What is this lame? Damnit, stupid game developers. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO FILM THE GRUES IF I CAN'T SEE THEM?

    What do you mean, infrared cameras? Oh. Nice. Carry on, dead voice-over guy."

    Arnold Schwarznegger: "We've got to get out of heauh!"
    Adam Sandler: "NO! They're all gonna laugh at you!"
    Gary Coleman: "Whatchu talkin bout Willis?
    Nicole Ritchey: "Like, wow. That's one ugly grue."
    Jim Carrey: "I sped. I followed too closely. I ran a stop sign. I almost hit a Chevy. I sped some more. I failed to yield at a crosswalk. I changed lanes at the intersection. I changed lanes without signaling while running a red light and *speeding*! I changed lanes without signaling while running a red light and speeding while trying to hit a grue!"
    Jack Nicholson: "I picture a man, then I take away reason and accountability."

    One man, a team of flatulent horses, and a grue.

    Gruesome. Coming soon.

  20. Re:I know I know! on Comparing the MMO Industry With the Silver Screen · · Score: 1

    Erm...we're headed there now:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRS90V8BQGo

  21. I don't know why... on Comparing the MMO Industry With the Silver Screen · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They (you know, "they") don't tie the two industries together in a video game.

    Login to "Hollywood World", pick your sim. Have them go on sets, act, thrash hotel rooms, act strange on Letterman. Get fat, get too skinny. Drink too much, do drugs. Go into rehab. Be "reborn" with a role that makes you relevant again.

    Hell, I'd play this game. :-P

  22. Re:Critic's review on Opera Being Composed On Twitter · · Score: 1

    What we see:"It was fantastic!"--Joel Johnson, Cool Water Creek Semi-Yearly Sentinel

    What they really wrote: "If you like being gored by an angry bull while a swarm of yellow jackets play tether-ball with your testicles, you'll love this Twitpera, for you, masochist, it was fantastic!"

  23. Critic's review on Opera Being Composed On Twitter · · Score: 1, Funny

    @twitopera: Full of fail. It is a pile of excrement and it stinketh to high heaven. FAIL. LUDICROUS FAIL.

  24. What exactly would happen if Websense did revoke? on Yemenis Should Be Incensed At Websense · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "What exactly would happen if Websense did revoke their license for the Yemeni ISPs?"

    Free, unfiltered, unfettered access to the rest of the world? Freedom for people to determine their own paths?

    Why on earth would the Yemen(ese?) government want that for its citizens?

    Control=power.

  25. Re:First Post for Everywhere Except Yemen on Yemenis Should Be Incensed At Websense · · Score: 1

    this isn't flamebait, it's funny, truthful, and probably more insightful than the mod who moderated it flamebait thinks.