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  1. Re:what will be more interesting on Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear · · Score: 1

    Actually, they finished filming a lot earlier, but Clarkson decided to go drinking for several hours whilst the helicopter waited for him. By the time he returned to the hotel the chef had gone home. It was entirely his own fault.

  2. Re:So they have tactics? So what? on NBC Thinks Connected Gloves and "Bullet Time" Can Make Boxing Cool · · Score: 1

    They might get a fine that's a token of their purse.

  3. Re:So they have tactics? So what? on NBC Thinks Connected Gloves and "Bullet Time" Can Make Boxing Cool · · Score: 1

    ? One thing for sure, you would hear a lot less of the "I'm gonna rape you so hard" trash-talking of eSports.

    Oh yeah boxers never talk shit about opponents.

  4. Re:Make it easier to hire people? on What Happens To Society When Robots Replace Workers? · · Score: 1

    A hundred years ago, you could have said the same thing about horses. Industry created more, and safer jobs for horses. Horses that were no longer needed in a cavalry charge could be redeployed to pull a canal barge or an omnibus. Until the internal combustion engine came along and no-one needed horses anymore.

  5. Re:Why Steam? Why? on To Fight Currency Mismatches, Steam Adding Region Locking to PC Games · · Score: 1

    Pirates will always have something to morally justify it to their own conscience, there's no point pandering to them.

  6. Re:Why Steam? Why? on To Fight Currency Mismatches, Steam Adding Region Locking to PC Games · · Score: 1

    By that logic, why don't they sell games cheaper in the west to people on lower incomes?

  7. Re:It increased gamers' average age on The PlayStation Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    Yeah there are no interesting platformers and sidescrollers like Super Mario 3D World, Shovel Knight, Super Meat Boy, no interesting RPGs like Dark Souls or Skyrim, and if you think there are no innovative gameplay mechanics then you must have stopped playing games years ago. I could name a hundred innovative games released in the last five years alone.

    Sick of these old farts 'oh it were better in my day'. Yeah better when you had an Atari with 4000 space games that consisted of pressing a button to shoot a pixel at aliens.

  8. This doesn't add up on Infected ATMs Give Away Millions of Dollars Without Credit Cards · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you have access to the ATM physically, why not just take the cash there and then?

  9. Re:The best quote from the article on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 2

    Except the least educated areas all vote Labour.

  10. Re:Idiot on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 1

    Why would you be measuring flour by volume anyway? Unless you're an idiot.

    If metric is bad for cooking, why do Americans cook less than the rest of the world?

  11. Re: Simple answer on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 1

    Do you have any proof that you can feel a difference of less than a degree? That would be a fine trick considering the temperature in a room can vary by several degrees in itself.

  12. Re:Good. IndieGoGo should do it too on Kickstarter Lays Down New Rules For When a Project Fails · · Score: 1

    Even if solar roads did work, they offer no advantages, and many disadvantages, over building normal roads and just putting the solar panels in a field.

    In your first two examples, there are significant advantages to rocks and asphalt. There are literally no advantages to solar roadways over other ways of doing it.

  13. Re:The over-65's swung it for No on Scotland Votes No To Independence · · Score: 1

    Scotland was united with England very much against the wishes of the Scottish people. Scotland is not oppressed, but it's forced to live with policies by a government that it would never vote for. The flavour of Tory politics that rules in the South-East does not jive with Scotland at all.

  14. Re:The over-65's swung it for No on Scotland Votes No To Independence · · Score: 1

    Except Britain doesn't have freedom or speech or assembly. An independent Scotland could have altered that, but they're stuck with London's Orwellian approach now.

  15. Re:The over-65's swung it for No on Scotland Votes No To Independence · · Score: 1

    How can the over-65s influence an election in a country where the life expectancy isn't even that high?

  16. Re:Everyone loses on Scotland Votes No To Independence · · Score: 1

    In general, the young are more liberal than the old. Scotland in general is a more liberal country than England, which is becoming increasingly conservative as Cameron continues the job started by Thatcher. A lot of younger Scots would like Scotland to be independent so they can model the country of the socialist Scandinavian countries which are more prosperous than Britain.

    As it stands, they're wedded to the economic policies of England, specifically the hyper-conservative South-East which dreams of modelling Britain after America, and selects policy mainly for the benefit of London's finance industry, even at the expense of industry in the rest of the country. A shipyard in Scotland might lose all its foreign orders and shut down because of London's politicians fiddling with the currency, or a Glasgow businessman might be unable to find a premises due to high property costs, deliberately inflated to benefit the banks and promote debt-based consumer spending to benefit the retailers.

    I don't really know anything about Quebec, but Canada is a federal country, and doesn't have one province with 5/6ths of the population so the same issues don't apply.

  17. Re:Everyone loses on Scotland Votes No To Independence · · Score: 1

    A lot of those things are changing as British politicians try to model the country after America.

  18. Re:Everyone loses on Scotland Votes No To Independence · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Healthy growth? Wages plummeting, zero-hours contracts proliferating, real jobs replaced by involuntary 'self employment', debts soaring, bailiffs doing record business, food banks struggling to keep up with demand. If this is healthy growth I'd love to know what you consider unhealthy.

    GDP is only of real relevance to economists and politicians. Ireland has a high GDP but its people still have to mass-emigrate because there is no work there.

  19. Re: Got Burned by Titanfall on The Growing Illusion of Single Player Gaming · · Score: 1

    That isn't really true. You have to pay for xbox live even if you don't use any Microsoft servers. Even if you play on a third-party developer's server, a community server, or play peer-to-peer, you still have to pay Microsoft. It's effectively an Internet tax.

  20. Re:What? on Report: Microsoft To Buy Minecraft Studio For $2bn+ · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that the xbox version of the game sold more than any other. It's big on tablets too.

  21. Re:Radicalization on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 1

    Those rockets they have killed what 2 or 3? there are over 1000 Palestinians dead.

    All that means is that Israel are much better at this rocket exchange business than Palestine. Which makes you wonder why Palestine don't give up. Attacking Israel will have no results for Palestine other than complete annihilation. Fwiw, Northern Ireland was not integrated, but is more divided than ever, and thanks to Britain pandering to Irish terrorism, there are now convicted terrorists running free as part of peace agreements.

  22. Re:I must be missing something on Add a TV Tuner To Your Xbox (In Europe) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but this allows you to use the Xbox's DVR features. Before the Xbox couldn't do that because it couldn't understand OTA TV signals.

  23. Re:A Romero by any other name would be as Correct. on What Happens When Gaming Auteurs Try To Go It Alone? · · Score: 1

    Romero didn't make Deus Ex though, he just hired the people that did whilst he worked on Daikatana.

  24. Re:It's time on Does Google Have Too Much Influence Over K-12 CS Education? · · Score: 1

    School vouchers have failed everywhere they've been tried.

  25. Re:Not just that on Sony Overtakes Rival Nintendo In Console Sales · · Score: 1

    Haven't you got the memo? Nintendo is losing money now. Sony's console division is profitable.