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  1. Ethical perhaps but ... on Ethical Killing Machines · · Score: 1

    Neither mercy nor compassion will be served by these robots. No loyalty and no remorse. Thanks, I'll take the human soldier any day, flaws and all.

  2. Re:Ethical vs Moral on Ethical Killing Machines · · Score: 1

    A soldier does not seek victory, we seek to complete our mission. If you describe completing your mission as victory that is your problem.

  3. Re:DANGER on Breaking Into Games Writing? · · Score: 1

    Well I used to teach one of those "Game Design" courses and I can tell you we used state of the art game engines (at the time it was Unreal 3 or 4 I forget) and we also used the Torque engine. So do a little research before you slam us all ok!

  4. Re:gaming is how i got my start on Breaking Into Games Writing? · · Score: 1

    I do Db programming and its boring but pays the bills, did I mention how boring it is. I teach C++ for game programming (used to anyway) and I write games, I wish I could make a living at it but it's very hard to break into the field. Though if one of the three games I've written ever get published (non disclosure prevents name calling) I have a chance. In the mean time I'll go back to working on Mods. Did I mention how mind numbingly boring DB programming is?

  5. Re:Forget the trial on Lori Drew Cyber-Bullying Trial Begins · · Score: 1

    fair enough

  6. Re:Shame on New "Juno" Mission To Jupiter Announced · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah I want my tax dollars to go toward probing bodies in this system. I've already had mine probed last month.
    But there are bodies I'd like to see probed starting with Angelina Jolie, maybe Alysa Milano, a few super models maybe.

  7. marstransport.com on Massive Martian Glaciers Found · · Score: 1

    Hey A friend and I volunteered to be the first prisoners in the Martian penal colonies. But no one took us seriously and we couldn't get a hold of any serious explosives so we gave it up.

  8. Re:Wider implications on Lori Drew Cyber-Bullying Trial Begins · · Score: 1

    Because they did it still does not mean that it was legal or that they will ultimately get away with it. Since evidence was destroyed it may be moot but that does not invalidate anything I said. And yes Civics was a class in High School, at least in California and it was at one time mandatory. Most of the people on the streets couldn't name all three branches of the government and more still when elected officials were questioned thought that the "Electoral College" was a prep school for people just elected.

  9. Re:Frankenstein on Resurrecting the Mighty Mammoth, Cheaply · · Score: 1

    Yeah I'm sure they do, but I've got better weapons!

  10. Re:Wider implications on Lori Drew Cyber-Bullying Trial Begins · · Score: 1

    Actually you are completely wrong in every sense. The uniform code of military justice is the same as the normal rule of law with a few exceptions for who gets to sit in judgment and some of the rules of evidence. An officer can not bring a gun any where you can't. The military is not above the law and neither are the police. If the police pull a gun on someone they can be charged with the same things you could if there was not reasonable cause for them to believe that their lives were threatened. I wish more people would have paid attention in civics.

  11. Re:Wider implications on Lori Drew Cyber-Bullying Trial Begins · · Score: 1

    Actually the word is tortious and has nothing to do with torture.

  12. Re:Charged with the wrong crime on Lori Drew Cyber-Bullying Trial Begins · · Score: 1

    Actually the laws concerning the use of the mails to commit any number of despicable acts are even more draconian than what she is being prosecuted for.

  13. Re:Forget the trial on Lori Drew Cyber-Bullying Trial Begins · · Score: 1

    You realize that your post constitutes assault and could be prosecuted as such.

  14. Re:Charged with the right crime? on Lori Drew Cyber-Bullying Trial Begins · · Score: 1

    Actually what she did was to facilitate her daughter and friend in their manipulation of a vulnerable teenage girl. The illegal MySpace access comes from the fact that she was not a teenage boy when she opened the account for her daughter.

  15. Re:Indictment Right / Law Wrong? on Lori Drew Cyber-Bullying Trial Begins · · Score: 1

    "And if there's no law, than the justice system ..." There is no law than the justice system what are you saying? Do you perhaps mean "And if there is no law, THEN the justice system ..." Come on people this looks really bad and screws up my enjoyment of your armchair "legislating" and "sociopathic" ranting about your "right" to make up fake myspace accounts for your own purposes.

  16. Re:Dragging on? on Lori Drew Cyber-Bullying Trial Begins · · Score: 1

    Same thing!

  17. Re:The New Must-Have for Tech Billionaires on Resurrecting the Mighty Mammoth, Cheaply · · Score: 1

    I hear the Dodo was truly tasty too!

  18. Re:Frankenstein on Resurrecting the Mighty Mammoth, Cheaply · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Look what we did for the American Bison, I mean they are tasty and all but we still stopped at the last minute. Now everyone can have buffalo steaks if they want one. Why not bring 'em back and farm them for food. We used them for that once and these things produce a whole lot more meat than buffalo.

  19. Re:Frankenstein on Resurrecting the Mighty Mammoth, Cheaply · · Score: 5, Funny

    I feel sad at a zoo cause you can't get at the tasty ones.

  20. Re:Frankenstein on Resurrecting the Mighty Mammoth, Cheaply · · Score: 1

    Cool, send it to the kitchen we'll take Good Care(tm) of it there.

  21. Re:Funny hah hah or peculiar? on AIX On the Desktop Is Getting the Boot · · Score: 1

    Well masochists are people too I guess.

  22. Re:Which leads to a question on Apple DMCAs iPodHash Project · · Score: 1

    It's simple, like your understanding of monopolies.

    Having a monopoly isn't illegal. Using unfair means to maintain that monopoly is illegal.

  23. Re:Microsoft and Apple on Apple DMCAs iPodHash Project · · Score: 1

    I've been using Mac OS X since it debuted, I've never had actually had to re-install Mac OS X when I wasn't upgrading to a new version. I've re-installed WinXP three time in the past year simply because either it caught a virus or spyware, the registry got screwed up and it quit working or some such. The other day I fired up XP and suddenly every program I tried to run couldn't be loaded by acrobat, seems the .exe file type was given a program to load it called acrobat. So yeah I'd call the Apple products I have used superior to Microsoft's. I have used both heavily since 1984. I program Windows for a living, I use Macs when I want to relax and just use a computer.

  24. Re:When did they die out? on Most of Woolly Mammoth Genome Reconstructed · · Score: 1

    There are no stupid questions. But there are stupid places to ask them. Try elsewhere, for better sources of information.

    Ahh I see pomposity is alive and well among mathematicians. This is a perfectly good place to ask that question as it was at least on topic. Go play with your derivatives and leave the social interaction to the humans.

  25. Re:Not quite there yet on Most of Woolly Mammoth Genome Reconstructed · · Score: 1

    Your document fails to take into account:

    (x) They may be very tasty and we all want Mammoth steaks
    ( ) You may be a vegetarian and don't care
    ( ) I may be a vegetarian and don't care
    (x) People Eating Tasty Animals are probably willing to chip in if the rights to the meat are available