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  1. Re:of course... on Kids Kill, Victim Sues Game Maker · · Score: 1

    which is nice if you live in the wild west round 1850, but has no real use in the 21st century in a country of freedom, law and civilization.


    Really? I'm sure those cops out in california a few years back would have liked to know that after having to use civilian weapons because the ones issue by the state were not powerful enough to stop well armored bank robbers.

    Tell that to Mr. Gates who shot drug dealers on his lawn when they refused to leave his property.

    Gun rights were not granted by the constitution, they were preexisting rights (http://www.2asisters.org/unabridged.htm)

    > If you are against gun rights, then you are in
    > the same pack as the Klan and the communists, .. and Ghandi, Martin Luther King.


    Not quite:

    "Among the many misdeeds of the Brittish rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest" -Ghandi

    If you are Vegetarian you are in the same pack with Adolf Hitler ?
    If you take your religion seriously you are in the same pack with the Taliban ?


    I think you missed the point he was making. The KKK, Stalin, Hitler, Mousolini, all of these had one thing in common that they did universaly, they took away guns from law abiding citizens. Why? Because unarmed victims are easier to take.

    If you think that page is "certainy more reliable information than Bowling for Columbine" you probably could inform me who is behind "gunfacts.info" and what their qualifications are.


    Read the PDF file, all of the information is presented with sources (like the FBI statistics on crime)

  2. Re:of course... on Kids Kill, Victim Sues Game Maker · · Score: 1

    Why don't you read it before you dismiss it out of hand, given that all the facts they list are backed up with references and studies. It's certainy more reliable information than Bowling for Columbine

  3. Re:of course... on Kids Kill, Victim Sues Game Maker · · Score: 1

    Problem is, the criminals aren't armed with hand to hand weapons. They're armed with guns. And believe me when I say that a knife is going to do jack shit for you when you're facing someone with a .45.

    Consider this, why is it that switzerland has a law that requires it's citizens to have guns, and has one of the lowest crime rates? Why is it that most armed roberies are not commited by legitimate gun owners? Why is it that you need a licence to own a gun but not a knife?

    Guns don't make people any more or less deadly, if they did, columbine would have had a hell of a lot more victims. The people who legitimately own guns are more often than not, the safest people to be arround. It isn't because they own guns, it's because they are trained in the proper usage of a gun.

    More people die every year from car crashes than from guns. Why don't we outlaw cars?

  4. Re:interesting idea... on Kids Kill, Victim Sues Game Maker · · Score: 1

    Mostly because all the laws in the world against gun ownership do one thing:

    Prevent law abiding citizens from owning guns.

    You think these kids lawfuly obtained their guns?

    Do you think armed roberies are commited with guns registered to the criminal?

    The gun control laws only make it harder for the law abidig citizens. And remember, 9 out of 10 criminals prefer unarmed victims.

  5. Re:of course... on Kids Kill, Victim Sues Game Maker · · Score: 1

    Then when your done with that, try balancing it out with a slightly more objective (and reliable) perspective:

    http://www.gunfacts.info/

  6. Re:Good intentions don't mean it is legal on Adrian Lamo Charged With Hacking · · Score: 1

    Probably because the company would ignore that site on security like they ignore all the other sites.

  7. All it takes is the right look on Is it Just Me, Or Is Our Mainframe Missing? · · Score: 1

    When I was working for the tech department for my university, one of my many jobs was to go through and perform routine matinence and such. Being a college kid, jeans and a t-shirt was my usual attire, and whenver I was in a sensative area ("important research") someone always made a call down to my boss to verify that I was supposed to be there and wasn't just some stupid kid pulling a prank.

    What I always found amusing though, was what would happen on the days when I was required to wear my ROTC uniform to work. Nothing big, just your standard BDUs (cammos) and the cadet rank pins (which are not the same as official rank pins). No matter where I went on those days, I was always allowed in without a hitch or a second glance. People are far too trusting of nice clothes.

  8. Re:What is the point of Major-Brand PCs? on Finally A Major-Brand Desktop With Linux, Not Windows · · Score: 1

    Well, I haven't seen any new hps or compaqs recently to know what they look like, but I work with Dells all the time, and most of the newer ones are fairly standard setups (the towers anyway).

  9. Re:What is the point of Major-Brand PCs? on Finally A Major-Brand Desktop With Linux, Not Windows · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure apt-get works like you want for installing stuff, but again, it still relies on a fairly organized system. And yes, I agree when it comes to easy use for doing anything more than word processing, linux does have a way to go yet.

  10. Re:What is the point of Major-Brand PCs? on Finally A Major-Brand Desktop With Linux, Not Windows · · Score: 0

    because some of us have other things to do with our lives than piece together a PC.

  11. Re:Another brilliant idea, inspired by Apple on Virginia Tech to Build Top 5 Supercomputer? · · Score: 1

    Chances are they didn't. Generaly at the university level, a project of this magnitude is funded by grants or private investment.

  12. Re:Legitimacy of this evidence.. on Microsoft vs. Burst.com · · Score: 1

    That is one of the problems of the information age is the fluidity of data. Perhaps it should be a requirement that any and all emails relating to business matters must be stored off site by another company (not affiliated with the company storing the backups) or the government?

  13. Re:This is just another reason... on New Dell Clickthrough Software License · · Score: 1

    You've never read an Apple EULA have you? I'm as much of a fan of Apple as the next mac owner, but they can be pretty nasty at times in the EULA

  14. Re:Wine? on FWB Admits RealPC for Mac OS X was Vaporware · · Score: 1
  15. Re:No confusion on Apple Sued Over Rendezvous Trademark · · Score: 1

    Given that Mac OS X is one word, an abriviation and a roman numeral used to designate a specific product which runs on a computer and is not a common word or phrase, I doubt it would fly. Good luck though

  16. Re:ports on Apple Issues New G5 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    No, the bugs are worked out of the mac version too.

    Recently, very few great games have never made it to mac.

    And as for games in stores, shelf space costs money, and goes to what is most likely going to be purchased. A PC game is more likely to be purchased, and as such gets more space.

  17. spelling corrections on Apple Issues New G5 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    must remember to use preview:

    tow = two

    and microsoft sells software, not hardware.

  18. Re:Right click, amoung other things on Apple Issues New G5 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Wow you people are pathetic. Take your god damned USB tow button mouse off your current computer and plung the fucking thing into your mac. Instant right click.

    As for math and the real world, technicaly speaking all of your "real work" is done with merely addition and multiplication, it's just a matter of how fast each item can be accomplished.

    Its kind of interesting, actually, because where I work there are a lot of windows advocates and a lot of Linux advocates (myself included). The one thing we can all agree on is that Apple blows

    Mob mentality sucks doesn't it?

    The laptops look like barbie's makeup kit, not to mention the price

    Which ones? They grey ones? Or the white ones?

    At least MS lets OEMs sell hardware that can run their OS

    Repeat after me, Apple sells computers, microsoft sells hardware

  19. Re:Games? on Apple Issues New G5 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    On average now, the wait is about 3 months difference, though many games (espeisaly those by blizzard) tend to be released at the same time or within weeks of each other.

  20. Re:ports on Apple Issues New G5 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    I rather wait a few months anyways. By that time, all the really stupid bugs have been picked out and fixed.

  21. Re:I guess it could be done on Mac OS X Software Roundup · · Score: 1

    And exactly what is stopping these programmers from releasing their software onto OS X under a different licence?

  22. Re:Inflexibility means brittle. on UK to Put Monitors in Every Car? · · Score: 1

    Because you are assuming that the two vehicles are going to decellerate at the same rate. Consider what would happen if you were infront of say a semi as you passed into this magical low speed zone.

  23. Re:Mac: False Sense of Security on Mac's Immunity To Recent Virus Attacks · · Score: 1

    Thankfully, just about every remote access that I can think of is turned off by default in OS X, and the root user must be enabled before it can be used (even su will not work)

  24. Re:So what does apple do again? on G5s Start Shipping · · Score: 1

    Apple designs the actual product, and the software to run on it. It's very simple actualy. Apple has a product they want. They want it to do X Y and Z. They look arround to see who has something close to what they are looking for, then they work with that company (using their own developers and developers from that company) to design a system which fits their needs. Then, Apple hands production over to that company.

  25. Re:2 things keeping market share down on G5s Start Shipping · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In regards to #2. If you don't like it, sell it. Macs have very high resale value.