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  1. Re:But some artists suck. on Support Grows For Blanket Music Licensing · · Score: 1

    That's your choice, just as it was your choice to only read half of my post before replying (and even then, you only understood half of what you read).

  2. Re:But some artists suck. on Support Grows For Blanket Music Licensing · · Score: 1

    It DOES bother me, which is why I'm talking about it in such frighteningly deplorable terms. I am happy that I live in a country that helps people who can't help themselves... it's the huge landmass directly north of the USA. Welcome to society... there's more than one.

  3. Re:But some artists suck. on Support Grows For Blanket Music Licensing · · Score: 1

    ... keel over and die because of a lack of music?

    Is anyone actually reading my posts? Lady, I didn't say that people would keel over from a lack of music, I said that, right now, you live in a system where both your health care and music industries are individually pay-based: you PAY to continue living via medical treatment, and you PAY to listen to music via purchasing and downloading.

  4. Re:But some artists suck. on Support Grows For Blanket Music Licensing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It was rhetoric, which you seem to have ignored. You HAVE to have music, in the same way you HAVE to have a body: you don't. It's a choice. If you WANT to listen to music, you pay for it. If you WANT to get a medical condition treated, you pay for it. No-one will pay it for you. You can most certainly forgo having a body... it's called dying. It's only your continued decisions that keep you alive, just like your continued decisions to listen to music.

  5. Re:But some artists suck. on Support Grows For Blanket Music Licensing · · Score: 1

    Exactly. You HAVE to have a body in the same way you HAVE to have music, but you live in a system where you have to voluntarily pay in order to stay healthy, just like you have to voluntarily pay in order to listen to music. I don't actually see a difference...

  6. Re:But some artists suck. on Support Grows For Blanket Music Licensing · · Score: 1

    You can look at that for free at your local Supermarket checkout, though...

  7. Re:But some artists suck. on Support Grows For Blanket Music Licensing · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Amusingly, the same arguments used to keep your health care system privatized will be used to keep music downloading illegal. The ironing is delicious.

  8. Re:Rain sensing has been done on Vint Cerf Optimistic About Internet's Future, Continued Innovation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Of course. Trying an idea MORE than once, after nearly four decades of unprecedented technological advancement and innovation, has always proven a waste of time in the past.

  9. Re:It is most munificent of you, on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 3, Informative

    I love you now, sir.

  10. Re:Huh on New Olympics Scoring: No More Perfect 10.0 · · Score: 1

    We have black liberal runners at the Olympics?

  11. Re:WTF? "What is a DIGG?" on The DIY Dialysis Machine · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, now I know what a DIDG is...

  12. Re:WTF? on The DIY Dialysis Machine · · Score: 1

    What's a Digg?

  13. Re:Huh on New Olympics Scoring: No More Perfect 10.0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    So because I make fun of the racists... I'm a racist?

    If you're making fun of ME for being a racist, then by your own logic, you are a racist yourself, in which case, I'll be glad when you're hung from a pole, too.

  14. Re:Huh on New Olympics Scoring: No More Perfect 10.0 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes, but you'd scare away all the old people and rednecks who'd wonder "why dem young dark kids is on the telly havin's a seizure"...

    Seriously, though, I love to watch it as a performance (except when they make a movie out of it).

  15. Re:Just wait ... on Lessig Predicts Cyber 9/11 Event, Restrictive Laws · · Score: 5, Funny

    Splenda?

  16. Re:Can we still blame pollution for this? on Hot Water, Hot Earth · · Score: 1

    Thanks, tips. That is what I was asking. Under that much water = under an equivalent amount of pressure.

  17. Can we still blame pollution for this? on Hot Water, Hot Earth · · Score: 1

    Seriously, though, wouldn't the water just convert to steam at that point, even if it WAS under that much water? What are the properties of water at that temperature? Could this conceivably be used to power locomotivators (more commonly known as "iron horses") across large distances on metal rails? This could help solve that whole oil problem!

    Also, they found my luau pig! Awesome... seriously, I forgot where I buried it. It's probably too burnt to eat by now, though...

  18. Re:Health care, what health care? on Your Medical Treatment History Is For Sale · · Score: 1

    Thank you, Captain Obvious. However, rolling a 01 implied there was SOME chance that the insurance company would do as they said, so I... well, the joke sort of exploded on the runway. Without you here to point it out, it might have gone unnoticed!

  19. Re:COBOL. on California Can't Perform Pay Cut Because of COBOL · · Score: 1

    Or the 20 year old Canadians who have to learn it as part of standard broad-base computer courses.

  20. Re:Health care, what health care? on Your Medical Treatment History Is For Sale · · Score: 1

    Because you're lucky enough to live in a culture where the great and powerful (supposedly) care for the poor and infirm, which you will be someday, provided you live long enough.

  21. Re:Health care, what health care? on Your Medical Treatment History Is For Sale · · Score: 1

    Allow me to roll two D10's to see what the chance of that is... wow! Double zero!

  22. Re:Video much better than book... on "Last Lecture" CMU Professor Randy Pausch Dies · · Score: 1

    ... and the sky is blue. Seriously, we GET you were being sarcastic. Beating us over the head with your rapier wit isn't helping.

  23. Re:Video much better than book... on "Last Lecture" CMU Professor Randy Pausch Dies · · Score: 1

    You got moderated "interesting"... I'm wondering if it was truly THEM that missed the point.

  24. Pitch Black? on Delivering 8K VFX Shots For the Dark Knight · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I thought you said the hardware was clear!"
    "I said it looked clear!" "Well, what's it look like now?" "... Looks clear."

  25. Re:Video much better than book... on "Last Lecture" CMU Professor Randy Pausch Dies · · Score: 4, Funny

    Snape Kills Dumbledore {Sadness, but triumphant relief}