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  1. Re:Ultimate (was Re:Changed the view of the US?) on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I know.
    I goofed.
    Addressed here.

  2. Re:Mentally Ill on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 1
    What the hell.
    First, the red herring.
    If you're on a jury, you can't say "I don't believe he has been proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt because I wasn't paying attention when the evidence was shown."
    Then, a logical implication.
    it is technically true that denying the holocaust is not causatory evidence that he is anti-semite
    Followed by a logical implication contrary to the prior.
    No one has ever denied the holocaust who wasn't anti-semite.


    Alright kids, you've just witnessed the perfect way to /not/ frame your arguments.

    Is everyone who disagrees with you a fucking moron?
  3. Re:Can we trust them? on Why Offshore When Canada's Next Door? · · Score: 1

    See, the thing is, we pretend to be nice, but we're not. Since we hate you, we get rid of our shitty pop stars by throwing them at you. We're not sorry, at all.

    Now please enjoy the latest from avril.

  4. Re:And get paid 40% less? No thanks. on Why Offshore When Canada's Next Door? · · Score: 1

    What should you do with drunk drivers and pedophiles? Life sentence? Give them no support so that they run a high risk of repeat offense? Or helping them go live normal lives?

    And the CRTC is shit, everyone knows this, but I suspect the shutting down of that radio station will be overturned since every one is (rightly) up in arms.

  5. Re:Well, I'm one example on Why Offshore When Canada's Next Door? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Used to be.

    I distinctly remember playing a game of Jedi Knight using msn internet in my youth, when in the middle of a big game, this stupid message took the focus away from the game and said something like 'We'd just like to remind you that your internet is coming from Microsoft' or something equally inane. And it cost me the game.

  6. Re:Mentally Ill on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 1

    I haven't listened to it either, just giving this chap the benefit of the doubt.

  7. Re:Mentally Ill on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 1
    And yes this IS the land of the free, but the minute your freedom is used to take away someone elses freedom, then there is a problem
    I was unaware that Bobby Fischer exercising free speech takes away from the freedoms of others. Care to enlighten me regarding how this takes place?

  8. Re:whose freedom did he remove? on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 2, Informative



    Number of U.S. executions Value
    Year 1999 98
    Year 2000 85
    Year 2001 66
    Year 2002 71
    Average per year since 1976 29
    Total executions since 1976 820http://www.religioustolerance.org/executd.htm

  9. Re:Changed the view of the US? on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Another example of my ignorange=].

    I can't throw a frisbee very well or long distance run, so I never got into it.

  10. Re:Changed the view of the US? on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, since your argument seems to be summed up by:
    a american football and baseball are the most intellectual sports (implied*)
    b cycling is possibly as intellectual (with evidence)

    Because of a and b, american football and baseball are the most intellectual sports. So if you want to call my argument dishonest, stop begging the question. I have made no attempt to quantify the smarts involved in the other sports I am familiar with (hockey, basketball, lacrosse, soccer)** with all of the sports of the world, because I know I don't know everything.

    What I am saying, more clearly now, is that the sports I am familiar with are on par with american football and baseball intellectually. Not to discount other sports like motorsports, curling etc. You simply did not discuss any sports that were below your examples, and made it hard for me to refute your claim.

    *implied because you say football and baseball are intellectual (true), but then say the only sport that comes close is cycling

    **I am also famaliar with baseball and american football. But I'm speaking now strictly of other examples.

  11. Re:Changed the view of the US? on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that fits.

  12. Re:Mentally Ill on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just for being antisemitic?

    Land of the free indeed.

  13. Re:Changed the view of the US? on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Every sport involves deep strategy. Just because you are not familiar with these strategies doesn not mean the don't exist.

    Saying that 'merican football and baseball are somehow head and shoulders above everyone else is simply ignorant.

    Of all the sports I'm familiar with, I honestly can't think of one where being smart, quick thinking, and strategical isn't an asset.

    Maybe ultimate frisbee? All that requires is getting in the open. And even that requires some planning.

  14. Re:magnetic disks on The New York Times On Earth's Magnetic Flip-Flop · · Score: 1

    Nope, the field is far too weak for that.

  15. Re:20-Hour Battery, 25-minute Storage on New Walkman-Branded Hard Disk Player · · Score: 2, Informative

    Who modded this insightful?

    It's 25 minutes of memory is used for antiskip. It has a 20GB harddrive for storage.

  16. Re:Good precedent on Canadian High Court Says ISPs Don't Owe Royalties · · Score: 1

    Well it's possible that London drugs imports the cd's themselves. Then yes, they could charge the levy at the register. But the levy is on wholesale cost, not retail.

    The cheapest i've seen 100 cd's is about 35 bucks at price club (price costo or whatever it's called now). And the levy is built into that price.

  17. Re:Good precedent on Canadian High Court Says ISPs Don't Owe Royalties · · Score: 2, Insightful
  18. Re:Good precedent on Canadian High Court Says ISPs Don't Owe Royalties · · Score: 1

    It's paid on wholesale items, not by the consumer.

    So the cost is hidden.

  19. Re:Legal danger? on Forward This Article And Get Paid $203.15 · · Score: 1
    Brilliant. Absolutely fucking brilliant. Let's start charging people criminally for sending email to their friends.
    At first he just sent it to a few friends, but those friends sent it to other friends

  20. Re:What Country are YOU living in? on Senate Unanimously Passes Anti-Camcorder Bill · · Score: 1

    Heh, Steven Harper would tend to disagree.

  21. Re:I love how the iPod just sits in the glove box. on iPod Your BMW Officially Launched · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey look at that plain $45,000 x5, not a target.
    WAIT JUST A MINUTE! It has a $250 ipod in it! Let's steal this shit guys!

  22. Re:Racists should have free speech as well. on EU Pushes to Limit Internet Speech · · Score: 1

    Nothing should be done to him. Just because it's in book form doesn't automatically make it true. You're a human, who can interpret things for yourself, and if you don't like the idea of pedophillia then you can disagree with his book and not buy it.

    What more do you want? Should we all grab some flaming torches and march to his house?

    The line to be drawn is between open discourse, which is fine, and where this book falls, and action. Such as, having sex with boys, which is against the law and pretty much universally accepted to be bad.

    So let's get this straight, talking about man boy love, you may not like it, but it's free speach.

    Actual man on boy action, not good for a variety of reasons. A.K.A. 'the line'.

  23. Re:Absolutely Stupid! on Yet Another Degrading DVD · · Score: 1

    Man, being consumers means using a lot of resources. Live with it, or join a non-consumer driven society.

    You've wasted valuable electricity by posting to slashdot. There were resources spent in generating the electricity, resources spent transporting those resources to a power generation facility most likely. Resources spent on the employees who drive their car to work everyday. And so on.

    This will continue until we're right fuck out of oil, then we can't make anything we do now.

  24. Re:Call me old fashioned if you want, but... on Big Bang of Convergence · · Score: 1

    Man, if you're still in the industry, break out the thumb button radio controls on the steering wheels like Saab's (and maybe others) have.

  25. Re:Islamic websites. on Saudi Webmaster Acquitted of Terrorism Charges · · Score: 1

    Rep. Democracy and Republic have pretty much everything in common except how they are chosen.

    In canada we also have the n party system, but these days there are only 3 major players, the progressive conservatives (right), the liberals (less right) and the new democrats (left).

    Last year the conservatives merged with an even more conservative group that was pretty popular in parts of the west, (mostly alberta). This move nearly put canada into a similar situation as the states. Lots of parties, but only 2 choices =/.