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  1. All these Josephs, who can keep track... on New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame · · Score: 1

    ...now if his name had been Charlie.

    Also, in America, they're so hopped up on Joseph being the father of Jesus and Joseph, the guy that brought Israel into Egypt in the first place, both of which is thought of as good things, that they want to forget any bad people with the name "Joseph".

  2. Re:Amerika on New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame · · Score: 1

    I am an American citizen, born into it, so to speak, and I never say America is free.

  3. They've got the army, we don't on New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The second amendment is useless and completely ignored. Also, different segments of society write other segments of society off, speaking as one who has been written off.

    The mental health profession in the USA is mainly to keep people who have been written off preoccupied. Once I refused to let them keep me preoccupied, they refused to have anything to do with me.

  4. Re:Bought and sold so cheaply on New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame · · Score: 1

    major parties will notice that & attempt to make their policies closer to the libertarian

    What part of "The major parties sell themselves cheaply" don't you understand?

    Say you're a libertarian

    The nonvoters generally belong to no political leaning, not libertarian, not green, not anything, and the political system is so messed up, as far as anyone can tell, even the minor political parties will sell themselves cheaply.

  5. Charlie McCarthy, great puppet... on New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame · · Score: 1

    Oh, you mean that senator guy? Sorry, everytime I bring up McCarthy to anyone in my general area, if they think of anything, it's that puppet.

  6. Re:Bought and sold so cheaply on New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because when your only choices are between two guys that can be bought and sold so cheaply, that's what you pick. Voter turnout is low for this among other reasons.

  7. Addendum on Social Networking From Your Cell · · Score: 1

    I had in mind meeting people for the first time. Back in the old days there were only rural areas, in which you could be sure everyone's interests were farming, towns that were more homogenous than those of today, and then there was royalty. Nowadays there are a great many more interests, and restaurants, which is one place to meet people are structured around what you want to eat more than social compatibility.

  8. Re:Hooking up in person... on Social Networking From Your Cell · · Score: 1

    Where would you recommend doing that? Society has changed a lot since the Hoedown at the Barn and whatever came before that.

  9. Re:Is it really worth it? on AMD Bumps Up Socket AM2 Launch Date · · Score: 1

    "Expensive enthusiast" RAM is the common RAM of the future.

  10. Re:Spaniard? on Google Violates Miro's Copyright? · · Score: 1

    I don't know. I simply don't see many Peurto Ricans that I know of get referred to.

  11. Re:SELECT * FROM music WHERE on Code Monkey Like Fritos · · Score: 1

    What do you have in mind?

  12. What did the article expect? on Viiv Falls Flat · · Score: 1

    They expected it to be Yoshi's ybox, of course! http://www.google.com/search?q=yoshi+ybox

  13. Re:Like New on DRM Lite for Electronic Textbooks · · Score: 1

    I should have hit preview. The sig reads, for those who come here afte the sig gets changed:
    Please help entering the code: 2,2,7,6,6,4

    But what's up with just two posts, both of them the first after mod downs are accounted for, and having been moderated 4 and 3?

  14. Re:Like New on DRM Lite for Electronic Textbooks · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Please help 2,2,7,6,6,4

    Help what? Why do other number combinations get displayed below the entry portion, and why is 1 27 displayed in the upper left hand corner?

  15. Re:Spaniard? on Google Violates Miro's Copyright? · · Score: 1

    I don't know how many people don't make that distinction, but the French speaking Canadians are still Canadians to me, and I don't know of any other area in which that distiction would be able to be made. Hawaii has another language, that doesn't make it any less American. Louisiana also has French as an official language. Nope, still American. Peurto Rico, a territory or commonwealth depending upon who you ask, not a state but still American.

  16. Rhyming is overrated. on Code Monkey Like Fritos · · Score: 1, Insightful

    When I listen to songs, rhyming is not one of the things I look for.

  17. Re:Spaniard? on Google Violates Miro's Copyright? · · Score: 1

    That's like saying that because I live in Indiana, I'm a Hoosier, not an American. Catalonia is a part of Spain. From that article, I infer that "autonomous community" is not significantly different from "state" or "province". The article on Spanish autonomous communities, seems to indicate that it sits above the Spanish concept of a province, but that the entirety of Spain is composed of autonomous communities, so if one were to try to make the case that since it is an "autonomous community" it isn't a part of Spain, one would have to deduce that there is no such thing as a Spaniard, at least in this modern era.

  18. Re:Why do companies... on Google Violates Miro's Copyright? · · Score: 1

    Companies cave in because they believe they have better things to do than to try the issue in court. I wonder if the lack of case law this results in will come back to bite them.

  19. The purpose of war is to decide morals on Google Violates Miro's Copyright? · · Score: 1

    Despite recent claims to the contrary, wars do not merely decide who's left, they decide what's moral. Some would have you believe that "ethnic cleansing" is about genetics, but it's really about morality. Being wracked by relativism is a detriment to our society's capability to wage war.

  20. Re:Overlap on Next in Browser Development, High DPI Websites? · · Score: 1

    That's where word wrapping should come in. It seems to me that sometimes it's completely the browsers fault, but I don't understand why most websites turn word wrapping off.

  21. It's not your work on Google Violates Miro's Copyright? · · Score: 1

    Sure, you did work to manifest it into the physical realm, but once there, you have no power to yank it back out again. Intellectual property laws helps people have the delusion they own it lock stock and barrel, to do with whatever they please, and for that reason alone they should be abolished. The fact is intellectual property law is wrapped up in too many metaphysical theories that scientists these days refuse to examine.

  22. Rights on Google Violates Miro's Copyright? · · Score: 1

    I don't know. Those people who believe they have the rights the article speaks about can be pretty persistent about it. Personally, I don't believe in those rights and am prepared to go to jail or war to defend the rights that I would have to give up in order for them to have those rights.

  23. Re:Aspect Ratio on Next in Browser Development, High DPI Websites? · · Score: 1

    Yes, I'm sure. The closest things are in Display|Advanced|ATI Displays|Preserve wide aspect ratio on attached displays, which only affects how the image looks on an attached monitor, not the laptop's LCD screen, or I can click on the LCD screen in that section and uncheck Scale image to panel size, which will cause resolutions lower than 1280x800 to have bars all around them as opposed to just on the sides. (I did discover that second option just now, though I had been aware of it on other laptops before.)

  24. Re:wide screen on Next in Browser Development, High DPI Websites? · · Score: 1

    I have a 15:9 widescreen too, with an ATI controller, and when I shift to normal resolutions, it either scrolls the display or stretches the pixels aspect ratio. What do the manufactuers have against black boxes to the sides of the screen. I wish that when they had 320x200 resolution they had put 20 pixels of dead space on top and bottom, but they didn't. Doesn't make sense to me.

  25. Pixel Sizes? on Next in Browser Development, High DPI Websites? · · Score: 1

    Whoever thought it was a good idea to render things in absolute pixel sizes anyways. I can set the browser's default font to 24, only to wind up either on sites where the absolute pixel size is much smaller, at which point I turn to View|Text Size|Increase, which isn't sticky, or I wind up on sites where they use absolute pixel size some of the time, which results in some text being small.