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  1. Re:No Quake? on Multiplayer Linux Games · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's a difference between "getting the program to run", and "running with an acceptable 90fps framerate". I think that all of us hardcore gamers can agree that anything below 50-60fps isn't even worth touching.

  2. Re:bin laden.. on Saddam Hussein Arrested · · Score: 1

    Actually, to follow up, the $25 million reward will not be paid, because the informant did not volunteer the information. Kind of an important distinction.

  3. Re:bin laden.. on Saddam Hussein Arrested · · Score: 3, Informative
  4. Re:bin laden.. on Saddam Hussein Arrested · · Score: 1

    May have been paid? It was paid...jeez, here's the link. The other one was Mir Amal Kasi, and I can't find a link to that, but it's there. Why hasn't the media said anything about it? There's lots of stuff they don't report, as it doesn't fit their agenda. Open your eyes.

  5. Re:bin laden.. on Saddam Hussein Arrested · · Score: 2, Insightful

    WTF are you talking about...the reward of $15 million a head was paid for Saddam's two sons. The reward for the CIA killer was paid as well. The $25 million will be paid in this case...don't get your panties in a knot.

  6. Re:A quick and dirty review on New Battlestar Galactica - Worth a Series? · · Score: 1

    Damn, man...oldschool. Talk about a brain area that hadn't been accesses for a LONG time.

  7. Re:The end of an era... on JenniCam Closing After 7+ Years · · Score: 1
    Yes, actually I have. Only in America and Europe is it considered "normal" for a woman to be overweight. If you travel to other countries, it's actually quite difficult to find fat people. I stayed for a month in China once, and saw a grand total of four overweight people (3 of which were children, sadly).

    Of course, if you mean by a "REAL" woman, an overweight divorcee who likes Hostess Snack Cakes more than she likes looking good or caring for her body, no, I'll have to say my sexual history is sadly deficient in that department.

    In short, quit making excuses for obesity.

  8. Re:The end of an era... on JenniCam Closing After 7+ Years · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Gah...I had no idea the thing was still around. It was amazing to me that people could get so worked up about seeing a fat chick's floppy boobies. I seem to remember really militant fanboys, I've no idea why they existed. All in all, good ridance.

  9. Good news? on Good News on Global Warming · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Good news on global warming? Sorry, good news is strictly forbidden. Even if there was bona fide good news with 100% scientific accuracy, such reports should still be repressed or discredited, in order to further our agenda. This is a media war we're fighting folks, and even though Russia just made the decision a few days ago not to cripple its economy in order to comply with Kyoto, we still have to try hard, everywhere.

  10. Re:Is this what the customer really wants? on The Blind Men and the Elephant · · Score: 2, Insightful
    "meta-generalizations"?

    Yes, I do believe you are a project manager. How many times this week have you told the customer, "yes, we can do that" before checking with the boys to see if it's actually possible?

  11. Re:It all makes sense now on The Blind Men and the Elephant · · Score: 1

    Who moved my cheese?

  12. Re:bah on Review of Squeezebox MP3 Player · · Score: 1
    Cause it's too effing expensive? I see lots of this...reviews of really pricey stuff that nobody will buy, certainly not me. The review isn't interesting because the unit is super-nice...of course it's nice, it's really farking expensive. The review isn't going to convince me to go out and buy the thing...it's too expensive. The only one who benefits is the reviewer, who gets to play with an expensive toy, and ensures a steady supply of new toys by providing a good review.

    It's like Bob Vila on "This Old House". The guy's show is worthless because he only uses the finest materials and the costliest of tools to do his projects. What good is it to sit and watch 30 minutes about some new computerized jig he has? You can't use it...what's the point?

  13. Re:Gambling Addicts on Voting Machines Vs. Slot Machines · · Score: 1

    you consider your gambling to be an investment? please, please, for your sake and for the sake of your family, view this website. an investment does not depend on if the vikings can cover the spread against indy.

  14. bah on Review of Squeezebox MP3 Player · · Score: 1
    It's expensive as hell. Let me see if I can reconstruct the chain of events:

    Man receives expensive mp3 player for review
    Man likes it, of course, it's really nice
    Man posts good review of it on his website, guaranteeing he'll receive further units for evaluation in the future
    Circle of life completes, wheel in the sky keeps on turnin', etc

  15. Re:Gambling Addicts on Voting Machines Vs. Slot Machines · · Score: 1

    gamblers are losers...jeez otherwise gambling wouldn't exist, eh? oh, I know the deal...everyone loses except me, right?

  16. Re:another botched memory? on New Battlestar Galactica Premieres Monday · · Score: 1
    Only Star Trek was the original series? Hel-LO...jeez that WAS sci-fi TV. I don't remember anyone complaining about it when it was on.

    I got a great laugh recently...I was watching "Taps", which I hadn't seen in forever. In one scene, a cadet runs into the TV room, and changes the TV to the news. The cadets there are all watching Star Trek, and are mightily pissed off when the channel is changed...classic, man.

  17. Re:My 0.02 ringgit on the issue on Malaysian Police Not Roping Longhorn Rustlers · · Score: 0, Informative
    No, it's because Malaysia is a repressive, prudish Islamic nation. Been there. They have newspaper ads like the following: "Apartment for rent. Females only, under 30, no children. No Chinese or foreigners." I'm not kidding.

    Pirated software is quite openly sold on the streets and in shops. I loaded up on CDs when I was there a few years back. If the cops wanted to shut down illegal copying, they could do it in a heartbeat. But no, they'd rather enforce stupid laws like anti-porn and anti-drug laws, than actually do any good.

  18. Re:Because it is there on EverQuest Players Defeat 'Unkillable' Monster · · Score: 1

    Funny, I got more elation when I got the Japanese chick with big knockers to leave the bar with me and come back to my apartment last Saturday night. (true story)

  19. Re:What, like movies? on Will TiVo Destroy Ad-Supported TV? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's not the jet-set crowd. BMWs and superpremium liquors are easily affordable by the merely affluent. Heck, you can get a BMW for $25,000! For that small price, you can pretend that you're elite. You can buy a $200 bottle of tequila, as well, even though the major tequila-making families in Mexico admit there is no difference between it and the $40 bottle...however their customers demand such a product, so it exists!

  20. Re:What, like movies? on Will TiVo Destroy Ad-Supported TV? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You forgot...James Bond, ever since Roger Moore retired, has been nothing but a shill for luxury brands. Heck, the owners of the Bond brand brag about it in Wall Street Journal interviews...

  21. Re:Fly on the wall... on The Future of Battlefield Robots · · Score: 1
    Someone who uses the biased term, "Bushies", accusing others of bias? Pot, kettle, dark color.

    And then you trot out the old Vietnam relic of hippies spitting on servicemen. Which, as you state, was discovered to be true!

  22. America's Dumbest Criminals on Laptop Thief Caught via AOL Login · · Score: 1
    An identity thief...and he uses AOL?

    He logs in to his AOL account, in his real name, from a stolen laptop?

    Man, I would have just removed the hard drive, imaged it, and put the image up on Kazaa or Limewire or what have you. But then again, B&E at a bank was never exactly my style.

  23. well duh on Fortune Magazine On Google Growing Up · · Score: 1, Troll
    Obviously, Google can only go down. Their people are "arrogant" because they know they have the right product, and refuse to kowtow to business people who have no new ideas and only know how to do business one way.

    After the IPO, Google will grow crappier and crappier, and eventually become Just Another Site. This crappiness will be mandated by the businessmen who will control the company. Since a businessman's goal is not to make a profit, but to maximize profits, Google will begin abusing its position, and in general, becoming more like the Microsoft of web searches. They'll make their site less informative, remove the "fun" stuff like the enchefilizer and Google Groups, and in general behave like assholes. That's what businessmen do!

    All we can do is hope a new contender steps up. But, this probably won't happen. Sigh.

  24. Re:To environmentalists everywhere... on Extreme Bugs Found In Slag Dump · · Score: 1

    Do a search on "rural cleansing". You might be surprised at the thoughts of a lot of the people you're in bed with. And did you see "12 Monkeys"? The Earth, returned to its natural state, with animals everywhere instead of people. Check out the reviews of that movie from environmentalists. If you're surprised, you're probably hopelessly naive.

  25. Re:To environmentalists everywhere... on Extreme Bugs Found In Slag Dump · · Score: 1
    A creationist environmentalist? Now I've seen everything.

    You want to preserve humanity? Why? All the environmentalists I know would like nothing more than to see the entire human race removed from the planet, preferably violently. It's a common enough fantasy...anyone ever see "12 Monkeys"?