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  1. Did you think China gives a damn about anyone? on IOC Admits Internet Censorship Deal With China · · Score: 0

    Did you really think China would value

    Democratic values?

    Democracies would LOVE to screw their people like

    China does. No civil rights. No freedoms.

    No right to protest anything.

    The USA gov't is already a dictatorship.

    Spying on every single american/non-american

    through AT&T internet backbone network/system.

    THEN AT&T gets away with it in the new law

    that the USA passed. I forgot the name of it.

    Good job. China does this too. But they don't

    need to pass any law to spy on their people.

  2. Lying? What? on Your Computer and Cell Phone Are Lying To You · · Score: 0

    Battery meters are VAGUE at the best of times.

    Temperature, usage, vibration, etc.

    So many factors that determine battery meters and

    how they are displayed.

    I don't remember anyone saying that the battery

    meter is 99.99% accurate.

    Maybe I'm wrong.

    Please show me a 99.99% accurate battery meter

    that doesn't cost three hundred dollars, that is

    very small [ fits in an mini ipod ], and

    compensates for battery degradation.

    This is what consumers what : Simple.

    FULL battery, half, and empty.

  3. My boring opinion on Scrabulous Is Dead, Hasbro's Version Brain-Dead · · Score: 0

    Everyone has said what I wanted to.

    I'll just be brief.

    Scrabulous is better than scrabble.

    Scrabble got pissed off and killed the better game.

    Now we have a crap game to play, if you play it.

    OLD story.

    Might makes right. NO IT DOESN'T.

    My recommendation : NO ONE play scrabble online.

    Tell them to stick it where the sun don't shine.

    No lawyers, No court fees. Just STOP.

    Its so simple, so easy.

  4. No one can teach anything on How Do You Fix Education? · · Score: 0

    http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~david/david/educphilosophy.htm

    http://hermitslantern.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=1062477%3ATopic%3A2741

    There was a book on this topic, but I forgot what it is called.

    If you think I need a teacher, go to hell.

    The information is all I need.

    I am the teacher.

    I teach myself.

    I've been doing this my whole life.

    I'm satisfied. I take FULL responsibility for
    my learning.

    I give NO power to anyone else for my education.

    Oh, your going to teach me? Do you see this? ..|.

    I don't need you. I will buy my own books, and study on my own.

    Screw you.

    The ONLY real reason people want a diploma,
    or certificate is for "recognition", and official
    "government" supported education.

    That and they are too dumb to teach themselves.

    Or they have no motivation. Or they see no

    point in learning anything.

  5. Only FIVE generations on Spore Prototypes Put Up By Maxis For Free Download · · Score: 0

    If SPORE was honest,

    it would only last five generations.

    People who are going to pay for SPORE, better

    realize that they are RENTING the game.

    Five install, or Five "major pc changes",

    then your screwed. No more SPORE for you.

    I wonder how many people EA is going to piss

    off. 1,000 ? 10,000 ?

    How many people until EA learns that

    this five install program is WRONG!

    Thankfully, we have pirates who can crack

    anything. Even bluray encryption.

  6. Moves like "real" bikes on Bootleg Tron 2 Trailer Is Out In the Wild · · Score: 0

    Oh really?

    If I had a "real" bike, it could do anything.

    NO limits.

    NO rules.

    You like being "limited"?

    Whatever.

    In the computer world I achieve MORE than god.

    You can be a limited human for all I care.

    Real bikes. Bah, Humbug.

  7. Analog had 100% on Lack of Bandwidth Oversight Damages HDTV Quality · · Score: 1

    Analog had 100%.

    Digital has what? 80%? 60%?

    High

    Doofus

    Television.

    Look at this! Its digital!

    I don't have HDTV.

    I'm not going to get it anytime soon.

    Its just a scam. Suckers are born every minute.

    Television has proved this.

  8. Just my boring $0.02 on No Gap Found In Math Abilities of Girls, Boys · · Score: 0

    Everyone has said what I wanted to type.

    I'll keep this simple.

    Men is equal to a woman, and vice-versa.

    Different but equal.

    Does this happen in real life?

    NO.

    I want MEN in my army, not women.

    I want MEN to do MAN work.

    Man work : hard, brutal, unforgiving, lethal,

    sometimes you get paid, painful, outright

    unpleasant to ALL the senses, etc.

    Everything women HATE.

    Man work : Anything a woman doesn't want to

    do, EVER.

    I would rather have a Master Chef that is a

    man. They're just better at it.

    I would rather have Master Teacher that is

    a man. They're better at it.

  9. Apple? Classified? really? on Inside Apple's iPhone SDK Gag Order · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Apple.

    Sign your life away, forever.

    Apple is your god now.

    Your life as you know it is over.

    Apple is to be worshipped forever and ever.

    Apple tv, Apple phone, Apple cpu, Apple

    games [ lol ] , Apple colours, Apple [noun].

    Apple is as open source as [ I can't think of

    a good pun ].

    Apple will go open source when pigs fly.

    There. I got it.

  10. Superconductors even better on Liquid Metal CPU Heatsink Beats Water Cooling · · Score: -1

    If this becomes publicly available, no heat will be produced. These heat sink technologies are funny.

    They will be obsolete soon.

  11. Market Power on Companies Coming Around To Piracy's Upside? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If 1 million people use your product legally, good for you.

    If 100 million people use your product illegally, good for you.

    Market share is POWER.

    Its that simple.

    How people get their power is a technicality.

    But people like power. They always have.

    The government will allow you to do

    "bad" things, as long as the gov't gets their

    cut. Smoking, casinos, private healthcare which

    only "healthy" people can get coverage, etc.

    Popularity has a downside. Everyone wants it,

    and they don't care about the laws of man.

    Music, video, drugs, etc. Its all the same.

    People want it. People get it.

  12. Cost is unknown? on Real-World 3G Monthly Cost With Taxes and Fees? · · Score: 0

    1. No one knows the cost per month. Utter garbage.

    Apple knows exactly how much it costs.

    But since its Apple [ closed source ], your SOOL.

    In other words, all the fanboys out there

    will pay 1000.00 a month for ANYTHING from apple.

    Apple KNOWS these fanboys will pay any price.

    2. If you think Apple is cheap, or affordable,

    or friendly to consumers [ battery is soldered

    into the case, NOT interchangable ], your dead

    wrong. Apple only cares about apple. They

    couldn't care less about your opinion.

    3. If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

    Its apple. Welcome to world of Misdirection.

    Bait and switch. Hey look. A SHINY apple gizmo.

    Please don't look at the price. heh heh.

    4. Companies that hide the price for "service",

    usually its very expensive. WHY would they

    hide the costs IF they were cheap or reasonable?

    5. Apple loves to take your money. Apple

    would love to take ALL your money, if they could.

    Then again, so would every other damn

    corporation out there.

    One last word :

    CAVEAT EMPTOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  13. Securerom species? on Spore Creatures Now Outnumber Known Earth Species · · Score: 0

    Has anyone made the species that dies after only FIVE generations?

    YES.

    Every single game of SPore will die after FIVE
    "reinstalls".

    Spore : The game RENTAL that keeps on giving EA money.

    The future is ugly : No one owns anything.

    The company rents/leases property to you.

    You have no more ownership over anything.

    Home ownership will soon be destroyed.

    Oops, off topic.

    SOFTWARE ownership will soon be destroyed.

    You will NEVER own any software from EA.

    THEY CONTROL YOU!

    But people are idiots and will support Securerom.

    Crack addicts.

    If EA succeeds with this securerom bulls**t,

    everyone will copy them.

    I hope Blizzard doesn't do that. I really

    want starcraft 2, diablo 3.

    But if Blizzard puts securerom on their products,

    goodbye blizzard.

    I guess my gaming days are numbered.

    It had to be a police state that made me stop

    playing games. I guess I'll have to make my own

    game. Learn programming. Give it away for free.

    I've always hated programming. But I do like

    revenge.

    Legal tactic to Securerom : Design your own game.

    Give it away for free.

    Scrabulous anyone? LOL.

    Scrabble was too damn effing slow. India

    kicked their ass.

  14. Same OLD song and dance on The Push For Quotas For Women In Science · · Score: 0

    Sigh.

    Hiring people based on gender, religion, the "right" school, colour, accents, national origin, race, hair, lack of hair, tattoos, no tattoos, age, height, number of legs/arms/eyes, etc, etc.

    Notice I didn't mention "work ability".

    I don't give a damn about gender. I do give a damn about your real world "working" skills.

    Your gender is just that. Gender.

    I would hire men for hard, physically demanding, high stress jobs.

    Women complain too much.

    I would hire women for office work, desk jobs, talking to people over the phone, [ easy work ].

    Women are very good at talking. Women are very good at complaining.

    Men are very good at getting the job done. Men don't care about "feelings". Men actually laugh at girly men.

    OH, but men and women are EQUAL.

    KISS MY A#####.

    Give women construction jobs. LOL.

    Lets see how SLOW that skyscraper goes up, if
    it goes up at all.

    Lets see women in Ultimate Fighting Championship.
    Come on. Lets see how equal you are. Men and women. NO special treatment.

    No special treatment for women. No quotas.

    Don't you remember? Women are equal to men.

    EQUAL!

    What the hell do they need special quotas for?

    I remember this affirmative action garbage.

    Hiring people based ON colour. Utter garbage.

    If you can't work, why hire you?

  15. We must do MORE [ extreme sarcasm ] on Senate Hearing On Laptop Seizures At US Border · · Score: 0

    Do you remember TERROR?

    We must protect YOU by stripping you of
    all your civil rights.

    Everything you have is owned by the government.

    Everything you are is owned by the government.

    You must give all dna samples to border agents.

    You must give multiple blood samples, and other
    bodily fluids.

    You must give border agents your entire electronic
    inventory and ALL data.

    You must give border agents your finger prints,
    toe prints, palm scans, iris scans, ear scans,
    hand vein topography, etc. All biometric data
    will be seized, recorded, backed up by all border
    agents.

    You are being protected from TERRORISTS.

    The government would never hurt you in any way.

    The government wants you to completely reveal
    your every friend, family member, and enemy.

    The government wants you to be implanted with
    multiple microchips in various parts of your
    body, including your brain.

    The government owns your body. Your every move
    will be logged, saved, backed up, etc.

    The government is protecting you from TERRORISTS.

    In the future, the government will download all
    data from your brain. WE need it to protect
    you from TERRORISTS.

    In the future, the government will make sure
    you do not go anywhere without prior permission.

    In the future, the government will wipe your
    memory if you are deemed unfit.

    Note : The government is NEVER wrong.

  16. Spore Demo should have Securerom on EA's (Limited) Creature Creator For Spore Released · · Score: 0

    Why should spore demo have securerom?

    TO show all those mind-consciousness systems

    [ organic humans ] that we at EA are absolute

    dictators.

    You can only install the demo two times.

    Then you have to pay 10 dollars more to

    install it again.

    Securerom is absolute perfection.

    PERFECT for EA and their greedy corporation.

    EA is not afraid of showing you how greedy

    they really are.

    My prophecy for the future :

    Spore is NOW an online game. You must have

    an internet connection. NO single player game.

  17. EA : Bad news on Mass Effect DRM Still Causing Issues · · Score: 0

    THIS is the same company that treats its own employess like garbage.

    They had to SUE EA to get their overtime and proper paycheques.

    Do you think they give a damn about customers?

    PAYING CUSTOMERS!

    Let me see.....NO.

    EA has not changed in any way.

    They are as cold as any corporation out there.

    One more thing. Anything with SecureRom, is a

    rental game. You can play it. But in the near

    future its a dead game. It won't work at all.

    If I pay 50 or 80 bucks for a game, it better

    work for a LONG time.

    If EA charged 20 bucks for a rental game, with

    this secureROM on it, I might buy it.

    EA is not to be trusted. But hey,

    if you want to trust this DRM garbage, go ahead.

    Your loss, not mine.

  18. Far Superior Alternative on FAA Mandates Major Aircraft "Black Box" Upgrade · · Score: 0

    This option has been available for a long time. Some European airlines use it.

    Active Telemetry. All data is sent to a ground station. Every hour of operation of the aircraft is logged.

    NOT in a black box, but in a secure system.

    But is costs more. Oh no. More security, more costs. Go figure, eh?

    Black box technology is useless. Hey lets all waste time looking for a black box.

    NO. LETS NOT.

    The USA is CRAP when it comes to safety.

    Unless its the president's safety. If its some minimum wage pawn with no health insurance, then screw the pawn.

    Maybe the name has changed. Oh well.

    Thats my $0.02.

  19. How to Really blog at the olympics on Athletes Can Blog at Olympics - with Restrictions · · Score: 1, Funny

    1. Write at the end of every sentence : "China's Communism is COOL!".

    2. Make sure you praise the wonderful air quality of China *cough* , Need 100% air filter for my North Face mask.

    3. Make a second blog with the Mandarin version.

    4. Ask every athlete at the olympics to write about them. Selling Olympic emails for 50 bucks an email.

    5. Always include pictures of your most athletic muscle [ ie. runners are the feet, swimmers the arms, jumpers the thigh ]

    6. Always praise China for the "priviledge" of walking on chinese soil. Nice lead...mmmmm.

    7. NEVER mention the words freedom, free speech, democracy, tienamen square, religion, falun gong, etc.
            China HATES freedom. They will kill you for even saying it.

    8. I don't exist. This never happened. I am just a figment of your imagination.

    End of Message.

  20. Complaining on TSA Opens Blog — You Can Finally Complain · · Score: 0

    Does complaining really work? IMO, no way.

    I don't listen to people who complain. Ever hear the phrase "lifes NOT fair" ?

    If you are too lazy to solve the issue, then you deserve to complain and complain.

    If I have an issue, and its important, I fix it. I deal with it. I don't need a committee

    to TALK about it. I might do some research. Then I act.

    Action gets results, if you do it right.

    "know your enemy" : extremely important.

    NEVER fight fair. Attack him at his weakest angles, his weakest time.

    Attack when their sleeping, when their distracted. A fair fight is for losers.

    Complaining is for the weak, the lazy, the girly men, and all other "girls".

    Now, before you get into a sexist rampage.

    Some women are STRONG. They also take action.

    Some women don't need to TALK about it. Talking is SO overated.

    Conclusion :

    Complaining is useless. It only reflects how WEAK the complainer is.

    When do dictators listen to an unarmed man?

  21. Let them FALL behind on Fixing US Broadband Would Cost $100 Billion · · Score: 0

    Awww. Too bad.

    The RICH, POWERFUL, but DUMB usa.

    SO dumb they believe JFK was killed by a MAGICK BULLET.

    So dumb they still believe that planes took down the 3 towers. One of them wasn't even hit by a plane.

    So dumb they are at the bottom in education in math, science, physics, etc.

    So dumb they have a medical system far worse than cuba, a so called "evil" country by the USA.

    So dumb they can't troubleshoot ISP issues on their own. They have to call tech support because its too "complicated".

    Now, I grant you, some persons in the USA are smart. But they are the exception.

    Let the USA fall behind the internet. Let them suffer.

    As China becomes the dominant economy, and leaves the USA behind.

    As China makes the first MOON base, then MARS base, and so on.

    The USA is over. They are on their last leg.

    Unless WWIII starts. Thermonuclear war.

    That will pretty much send almost everyone back to the dark ages, or the reaper.

    Conclusion :

    Internet Policy in the USA : what? what is the internet?

    Internet Policy in ASIA : FASTER! BETTER! I WANTED THIS FIVE MINUTES AGO! NOW! F*****G NOW!

  22. oooh future predictions on The City of the Future · · Score: 0

    Dec 23 2012

    Solar Flare : ALL electronic systems on earth are destroyed.

    Nuclear facilities all over the world become nuclear disasters.

    War, Famine, Plague, and Death once again crush humanity under its feet.

    Humanity in the year 2100 is barely alive. ALL knowledge has been destroyed.

    ALL technology except the most basic [ like hammers ] is destroyed or forgotten.

    Humanity has paid the price for its arrogance and pride. Hedonism and materialism have

    successfully destroyed the people of the 21st Century. Not that anyone knows what year

    it is anymore.

    Mutant lifeforms are taking over the earth. Some mutated homosapiens are becoming dominant.

    Other mutated species are gaining more intelligence. Homosapiens are no longer the

    "dominant" species.

    City of the future is a joke. There are NO cities. The population of the human race is under 100 000.

    The few females/males that can reproduce are rare.

    Goodbye humanity. You had your time. Looks like your idol called "money" has failed you again.

    Your worship of HUMAN has destroyed you. Have a nice day.

    bwah hah hah hah.

  23. Not as dangerous as.... on Radiation Not As Hazardous As Once Believed · · Score: 0

    Cyanide is not dangerous in 1 part per quadrillion.

    10 x Force of gravity is safe if only exposed for 15 milliseconds or less.

    5 billion lumens is safe , if your not looking at it directly.

    100 tons of Freight falling out of the sky is safe as long as you are not in the way.

    Radiation is safe as long as you can do cell repair or/and radiation shielding or/and "magic" force field like the EM field
    around the planet earth. No EM Field : Earth is dead. Literally.

    200 db of sound is safe if only exposed for 1 picosecond. [ cannot verify this, and I don't want to try ]

    Fire is safe as long as your not the one being burned.

    Smoking is safe as long as you have a body with STRONG immune systems [ some people smoke, NEVER get cancer, just some ]

    As someone once said : The weak will perish.

    Radiation will kill some people. Just like some people scare themselves to death.

    Conclusion : everything is dangerous. Depends on the situation. Depends on how much energy is involved.

    Depends on shielding/repair systems/defense systems/offensive systems/etc/etc.

    I wouldn't volunteer to be an A-bomb survivor. But I don't want to find out the HARD way if

    I am sensitive to that kind of radiation.

  24. Go Harvard! on RIAA Afraid of Harvard · · Score: 0

    I fully support Harvard's fight against the RIAA.

    Everyone knows who is going to win. Not the RIAA.

    The music industry has utterly failed in the digital age. They want the OLD age of

    tapes and vinyl. The OLD age before the internet.

    What the music industry doesn't realize is this : They are obsolete, extinct, and out of a job.

    Too bad. Another dinosaur dies and turns into a fossil.

    About bloody time.

    Why work for peanuts, when you can get the farm ?

    Why work for music labels, when you can sell the music yourself ?

  25. Its just a game on Why Do Games Still Have Levels? · · Score: 0

    levels or no levels? So what?

    If you don't like it, make your own damn game.

    You don't like that car? Make your own.

    IF you think you know BETTER, then prove it.

    Its a computer game. NOT real. It doesn't affect the "real" world.

    Real : physical reality as interpreted by the Five senses of the human body which are processed by the human brain as

    electrical impulses. This is scientific fact. Not some religious bullshit.

    Levels? No levels?

    Boring. IMO THis article should have been completely ignored.

    Next useless article : All games should only have 4 colours. Oh boy. Lets play a game with only 4 colours.

    Or even better : ONE colour. Lets all go back to monochromatic games. Remember those? I do. zzzzzzzzz.

    Computer game. Grow the fuck up.

    Take your levels and cram them up your ass.