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  1. Re:What do you mean... on Sci-Fi Memorabilia To Ogle And / Or Buy · · Score: 1

    So how are they gonna prove that you manipulated it? Or that there are a thousand proxy users? And what if they planned on blowing up some building anyway, and make some money while knowing where a hit isn't suspected?

  2. Re:What do you mean... on Sci-Fi Memorabilia To Ogle And / Or Buy · · Score: 1

    Manipulating sports bets or the stock market has been and always will be a problem. Do you want somebody to blow up a bomb in Mineapolis and (try to) make a fortune just because people think that Mineapolis would be an unlikely place for a terrorist attack?

  3. Re:Predicted in SF on Pentagon Lets You Bid on Terrorism? · · Score: 1

    In the book the official pools (not polls) were manipulated by the government to get what they want out of it.

  4. Re:Uh, no. on The Beast of Brussels · · Score: 1

    Ohh. did the bad man hurt your feelings?

  5. Re:The Rapture movie? on The Beast of Brussels · · Score: 1

    No, that's the Mimi Roger movie. The other one is from the early 70s.

  6. Re:Uh, no. on The Beast of Brussels · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It was done to several European companies by the NSA. Screw yourself.

  7. Re:The Rapture movie? on The Beast of Brussels · · Score: 1

    Wrong movie. I've seen the movie talked about on video, and it's very Christian - no hint of nudity. Yet I have never found any review of it on the net.

  8. Re:How could this story be believed? on The Beast of Brussels · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, it has happened in the EU - and the US (specifically the NSA and CIA) did it.

  9. Re:How could this story be believed? on The Beast of Brussels · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And the Stasi didn't even need computers. Nor did they need computers in 1984 - or any other technology like the telescreens. All they need are your family, relatives, friends, neighbors and colleagues.

  10. Re:In contrast, Salon.com's "Air Osama" article on X-Plane - An Obsession For Realism · · Score: 1

    But in Airport nobody gets poisoned, and the pilot lands the damaged plane himself. Airplane borrows heavily from all of Hailey's Super-Pilot-saves-the-day books - and then some more.

  11. Re:In contrast, Salon.com's "Air Osama" article on X-Plane - An Obsession For Realism · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and Communism forced Americans to kill millions of people to prevent them from becoming Communists. Damn you, Stalin!

  12. Re:In contrast, Salon.com's "Air Osama" article on X-Plane - An Obsession For Realism · · Score: 1

    Ahh, but that book has been made into several movies under the original title Flight Into Danger (Actually, it started as a 1957 Canadian television play named Zero Hour).

  13. Re:What is wrong with this picture... on Digging Holes in Google · · Score: 1

    This guy is looking for MS SmartLinks, where any mention of Apple would lead you anywhere as lon its not related to Apple Computers ;-)

  14. Re:know whats really funny? on Ars Technica Interviews 970 Designers · · Score: 1

    Well, I'd be willing to bet $10 that 1000>0 too. But wait - if we count units shipped to developers, the G5s probably already outnumbers AMD 64bit desktops.

  15. Re:NBC? on Sensor Networks for NBC Threats · · Score: 1

    Wasn't it Atomic, Bio., Chem. before?

  16. Re:know whats really funny? on Ars Technica Interviews 970 Designers · · Score: 1
    BTW, considering market share, wouldn't Apple be considered a 'small manufacturer'? Hmm...

    Ten bucks that Apple will sell more G5s in the first week than BOXX will sell computers ever.

  17. Typical: has been done on the Mac already on Movie-Licensed Games That Might Not Suck · · Score: 1
    No, not the games, the "this movie would make a good game" bit: MacGamer's MovieGamer. Also talks about Battle Royale, but also such diverse movies as Taxi Driver, Red Dawn and The Breakfast Club. Only the Beaches piece is a bit over the top:

    From firearms to facials, aromatherapy to assassinations, Beaches: the First Person Shooter could have it all. Using the Soldier of Fortune II engine with advanced sound features from Undying (to catch not only the hiss of flying lead but also the spirit-lifting cuts from the soundtrack), the game could begin in mid-70's New York, C.C. Bloom and Hillary Whitney having recently moved into a low rent New York apartment and begun to work on their careers.

  18. Re:Generalizations on French Government Bans Term 'E-Mail' · · Score: 1

    Ohh, so you just babbled incoherently and not relating to anything in this thread. The fact that you are a self-proclaimed master of put-down doesn't change that. And I didn't have to dispute anything you wrote, it was undefendable from the start.

  19. Re:This is stupid on French Government Bans Term 'E-Mail' · · Score: 1

    Ohh, so why did you answer to my specific post?

  20. Re:Generalizations on French Government Bans Term 'E-Mail' · · Score: 1

    I didn't call the Americans arrogant. Maybe you should learn to read?

  21. Re:This is stupid on French Government Bans Term 'E-Mail' · · Score: 1

    Odd, I didn't see you complain about the french being called arrogant.

  22. Re:That doesn't solve all problems. on Deep Linking Legal in Germany · · Score: 1

    And she also mentions that it is legal to buy and own it.

  23. Re:if the french had created e-mail... on French Government Bans Term 'E-Mail' · · Score: 2, Informative
    Google-Man to the rescue!

    Child Labour in Europe

    CHILD LABOUR IN ICELAND

    Excerpt From the EI Barometer

    CHILD LABOUR: Children under the age of 16 are prohibited from working in factories, on ships, or in other places that are hazardous or require hard labour. Children of 14 or 15 years old may be employed part-time or during school vacations in light, nonhazardous work. Their work hours must not exceed the ordinary work hours of adults in the same occupation. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration effectively enforces child labour regulations.

    Worst Forms of Child Labour Data: Iceland For the year 2000, the ILO projects that there will be 0 economically active children between the ages of 10-14. (ILO, International Labour Office - Bureau of Statistics, Economically Active Population 1950-2010, STAT Working Paper, ILO 1997)
  24. Re:if the french had created e-mail... on French Government Bans Term 'E-Mail' · · Score: 1

    So why do you Americans constantly invent new words instead of using the perfectly good originals? It's Pommes Frites and Bratkartoffeln. And when you're litaraly translating, don't look up the wrong words (Meerrettich is searedish, not horseradish - Meer = sea, ocean not Maehre = horse, mare - actually that's wrong too, it should be Mehrrettich, mehr = more, greater).

  25. Re:can't you tell by my ridiculous accent? on French Government Bans Term 'E-Mail' · · Score: 1

    And the punishment is invasion of poster's country for posession of WMD.