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  1. Re:Still not a sport, try as you may.. on Sports Bars Changing Channels For Video Gamers · · Score: 1

    Well it would be amusing just for once to see a sports game get pre-empted by something else. Just to see how the sports fans like it when it happens to them. Because usually a football game or a basketball game will pre-empt ANYTHING ELSE that's on the air no matter how much more merit it may have. It's like mental crack rock for the shallow. Those who aren't jock-sniffers and aren't obsessed with how well some millionaires can play a game have had to put up with that for a long time now.

    Actually it's more of a contractual agreement than what is more meritorious in one person's opinion. Don't get me wrong, I would rather watch a High School or even a pewee league game than a so-called professional team. At least the amateurs shows some heart and determination.

  2. Re:As usual, Americans ignore the Cause of migrain on LSD Alleviates 'Suicide Headaches' · · Score: 1

    I had to look twice to make sure it wasn't our resident chiro-quack, but it didn't mention subluxations once. I need to actually do some work I think.

  3. Re:Thanks for inappropriate ratings on Amazon Gags On Gaga · · Score: 1

    Am i the only one to read that as tranny of the masses coupled with selfishness.

  4. Re:TIE fighter on Double Eclipse Photographed, Sun, Moon, and ISS · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one that had the image of Cartman pop into my head. I think it was the first episode.

  5. Re:New tech but not new idea on Military Uses 'Bat-Hook' To Tap Power From Lines · · Score: 1

    If you didn't have insulation on these cables, then the live & ground would just short out at the source as they are twisted together.

    Actually you get two hots and a neutral. You derive ground from, well the ground.

  6. Re:I abstain on Voting Machines Selecting Default Candidates · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Unfortunately that only accounts for the dead ballots, with obvious errors or other issues. If there are preselected options and the voter either doesn't want to vote for either person and ignores that contest, it should not be a vote period for that particular contest. There should never preselected options. It should always be that just actual cast votes are counted, regardless of how many ballots are there. Nobody ever said I had to make a choice for every contest. Does that nullify my entire ballot, I would hope not.

  7. Re:On a more serious note... on Canadian Cannabis Car · · Score: 1
    From TFS

    The Kestrel will be prototyped and tested later in August by Calgary-based Motive Industries Inc., a vehicle development firm focused on advanced materials and technologies, the company announced.'

  8. Re:details details on BFG Tech Sending Out RMA Denial Letters, 'Winding Down Business' · · Score: 1

    Actually UPS in this situation should be United Parcel Service. USPS OTH is United States Postal Service. FYI

  9. Re:Sounds Like Maggot Treatment on Dog Eats Man's Toe and Saves His Life · · Score: 1

    Leaving aside the obvious revulsion. Urine is sterile and has a fairly close PH and salinity from one person to another. When in doubt save up the person's own urine. Much better than the alternatives of loosing a limb or life to gangrene.

  10. Re:The steady slide to Police State continues on Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded · · Score: 1

    In this case, the film box. Pictures don't lie.

    Yeah right. http://couchtrip.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/shark-helicopter.jpg We've never seen a picture get modified, or a video for that matter. There's bad guys on both sides of the issue. You would also be complaining if they took the cameras out of the cruisers. You would then argue it was a question of their word against yours. Like the old lady from Texas that swore up and down she never cussed the officer or anything. She was just being a polite little granny. Hmm you have a video you say... how long did it take for her to shut up and just sue?

  11. Re:ignore them and show it anyway on Decency Group Says "$#*!" Is Indecent · · Score: 1

    as long as it has a sufficiently high parental control rating to trip my parental control settings I don't care what they put on TV. It's up me, the parent, to control what the brats see or don't see. Preemptive remark: I know nothing is perfect but my kids will start pushing the up or down button until they get a show they want to see. This way at least it will ask for a password with the parental controls.

  12. Re:Hypochondria? on Doctors Seeing a Rise In "Google-itis" · · Score: 1

    Sounds very much like EDS. If so i feel her pain, my sister and myself both have the symptoms to varying degrees. Good look and glad it was found and more importantly taken seriously. Although it depends on the type/classification of EDS is used to be thought of as predominately affecting females, it can be transferred to the male offspring as well.

  13. Re:Addiction Wars: Conquest of Serotonin on Interview With the Founder of a Video Game Rehab Clinic · · Score: 1

    Your sig fits perfectly with the comment. My page break was such that on the next scroll it went from ... to squirrel! My cube mates think I've lost my mind.

  14. Re:'Losses' on App Store Piracy Losses Estimated At $459 Million · · Score: 1

    Nobody neither took something you've created off you without giving a compensation back.

    And.... Where is the other half of the statement?

  15. Re:The first time... on Geoengineering a Snow-Free Winter Fails In Moscow · · Score: 1

    Sure, it happens all the time. The south west US deserts come to minds as well as the folks from Florida going to Aspen, Vail, etc.

  16. Re:This proves one thing on Secret Copyright Treaty Leaks. It's Bad. Very Bad. · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, this is the same people / same industry lobbyists / same secretive, greed-crazed financial companies who control our health insurance *already*. If we had a system of publically accountable, transparent entities running health insurance (as we do with health *care*, thank you very much the hospitals are mostly fine,) then it would be crazy to propose a federal takeover. But the groups presently running the insurance scam in this country are the same financial institutions responsible for all the worst excesses of the commerce department.

    The same could be said for any aspect of government or big business.

    "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth." Abraham Lincoln.

    Sadly that has long since perished and is now a rotted corpse.

  17. Re:See ya! on SCO Terminates Darl McBride · · Score: 1

    might convey you intent better?

    People in glass houses...

  18. Re:In socialist America on What Kind of Cloud Computing Project Costs $32M? · · Score: 1

    And the final misspelling DEO.

  19. Re:It's unclear why this is a bad thing on College Credits For Trolling the Web? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Completely separating the issue of religion from science classrooms is the best idea, in my opinion.

    That's where the problem is at. How does one separate it so that the evolutionists and the creationists are happy about it? You can't. Someone is always going to be mad about it one way or the other. Just like Vi Vs Emacs, Gnome Vs KDE, Tastes Great Vs less filling. Personally I think that there's too much else to be concerned with at this point to be concerned with the debate. I teach my children about God and the Bible at home and church, because that is what I believe. It's called faith for a reason. I have no problem with them learning about evolution and other so-called bad things in school. :) When a child is old enough they can decide for them selves what and how to believe. I just give them both sides of the discussion.

  20. Re:Bank disputes on Deposit Checks By iPhone · · Score: 2, Informative

    I know of several times that I've been forced to produce a canceled check, either to prove I paid something or to prove how much was paid. Most banks now just take pictures of the checks anyway. I have to pay an extra fee to get the canceled checks back from the bank. My wife is an accountant so she is predisposed to having a paper trail.

  21. Re:it was only a matter of time on Real-World Consequences of Social Networking Posts · · Score: 1

    How is this any different than the various and sundry play on words for former President Bush? It's not to my way of thinking. Of course, I didn't vote for him so naturally I'm a white supremacist with homophobic overtones. Cut us some slack.

  22. Re:Broad brush strokes on Montana City Requires Workers' Internet Accounts · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, depending on the filtering they use they may not get to see it. :) Point taken though. Who wants to volunteer? I worked with a guy that almost got fired because he linked back to suicide girls on his company intranet site, that is until the lawyers reigned in the boss. This was about 4 or 5 years ago.

  23. Re:Um, what? on So Amazing, So Illegal · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So are you for or against "Contemporary Christian Music"? There are both good and bad sounding bands out there. I agree there is more bad than good. I do prefer to listen to the more edgier Christian groups. Currently Disciple, POD, Fireflight, Decemberadio, HOH, and Reliant K are on the playlist. Admittedly most of them aren't edgy per se.

  24. Re:Doesn't Make Economic Sense on GM Cornered Into Defending the Volt · · Score: 0

    Sadly, they do get it. We as Americans have for the most part always been a bigger is better society. In everything form our meals to our vehicles. A 250/275 I4 would appeal to only the "ricer" generation with the park benches on the trunk.

  25. Re:much bigger damage to society on UK Company Sold Workers' Secret Data · · Score: 0

    You do realize the story is based in the UK don't you?