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  1. Follow the Tao, do you? on 60 Years Since Hiroshima · · Score: 1

    Become the Tao, you should!

  2. Re:Victim's story on 60 Years Since Hiroshima · · Score: 1

    al-Queda are not acting on behalf of a state, but that does not make them nobody's enemy. The United States did not try to conquer Europe, raping and pillaging everything in their path, but that did not mean they were not Germany's enemy. You don't seem to have any idea what an enemy is.

  3. Re:So far gone... on 60 Years Since Hiroshima · · Score: 1

    So far gone to wherever it is that you are that you think those are reasonable conclusions. Somehow my statement that there are quite a few similarities between the Holocaust and Hiroshima, has been interpreted to mean that there was no difference. I do not intend to be a pillar of reason. I am directing my words to those that don't make such obvious overgeneralizations. I made a small concession to lesser people in the hopes that they might be helped, and I am not surpised that one of them has the audacity to think that he is part of my intended audience. I only appear to be a fool to such a person, so it's really no big loss.

  4. Unavoidable. on 60 Years Since Hiroshima · · Score: 1

    Maybe if you subscribe to the theory that everything that happens, by virtue of sheer existence is unavoidable. Decision upon decision was made, and if at any point in the decision making process a different decision was made, a different result occurs.

  5. You don't understand war. on 60 Years Since Hiroshima · · Score: 1

    All that is necessary in war is the will to fight. Once that is extinguished, the war is over. The will to fight does not need to be held by both sides. The Jews in Germany were connected with Germany and lacked the will to fight, yet they were the enemy of Germany. They did not choose to be, and yet they were. The Japanese did not resist the war machine of their nation, and provided the economic fuel for it. Furthermore, the emotions of the civilians and the soldiers were towards each other.

  6. I don't know what you use pause for... on Cheap Tapeless DV Capture? · · Score: 1

    but I usually use pause when I leave for a while, which can be for more than 15 minutes, I used to press stop frequently back in the old days of VCRS, and pause usually kicked to stop after awhile, anyways back in those days. These days hitting stop makes the whole thing start over at the beginning, but he's still talking about tape, so why isn't he using stop for durations that long?

  7. Re:Victim's story on 60 Years Since Hiroshima · · Score: 1

    Nothing you have said relates in any way to what I have said. You clearly did not understand what you have read. The only reason I am replying is for the hope that it may benefit those who might think otherwise, though I fear they may be as far gone as you are.

  8. Ah, the vacuum some cast events in. on 60 Years Since Hiroshima · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Neither the sanctions nor the atomic bombings occured in a vacuum. Actions of a great many parties contributed to both situations.

  9. Re:Victim's story on 60 Years Since Hiroshima · · Score: 1

    A country consists of its citizens. One cannot be at war with Japan without being at war with the Japanese. One cannot be at war wtih America without being at war with Americans. Japanese were not being detained in detention camps, Americans of Japanese descent were detained. Your complete cluelessness makes it not worth my time to delve further into explaining why your completely ignorant post is totally and so incredibly wrong.

  10. Re:Medical Purposes Only on Former Health Secretary Pushes for VeriChip Implants · · Score: 1

    I believe that Jesus died on account of the sin of everyone, and that it was part of the process to awaken us from our sin. I also believe the Bible has been poorly translated. I also believe that the purpose for the marks is more important than the conditions for the marks. I also recognize that they didn't have the technology back then for I.D. cards. I also believe that most christians ignore huge chunks of the Bible, and that they read in punishment where none occurs. For example, the Tower of Babel, it doesn't say that God is punishing them by confounding their languages, but it is usually interpreted as such. Diversification is actually an asset. http://www.cresourcei.org/thirdheaven.html incredibly twists the meaning of 2 Corithians 12, and most people do not study it.

  11. Re:Victim's story on 60 Years Since Hiroshima · · Score: 0

    The Japanese were our enemy, the Jews were the enemy of Hitler. The Japanese were civillians, the Jews were civillians. The Japanese were killed by the order of Truman. The Jews were killed by the order of Hitler. The general U.S. population was unaware of the nature of the attack on the Japanese civillians, the general German population was unaware of the degree of Hitler's attack on the Jews. Is that enough for you?

  12. Re:Medical Purposes Only on Former Health Secretary Pushes for VeriChip Implants · · Score: 1

    Completely different situation that doesn't even work as an analogy.

  13. You don't understand how dll's work on Windows Vista May Degrade OpenGL · · Score: 1

    The application would install the dll's in their own directory. No other applications would use the dlls. Windows looks in the application's directory first for the dlls it needs and then in the system directory. This can be done with different versions of DirectX as well.

  14. Just take a look at explorer.exe on Windows Vista May Degrade OpenGL · · Score: 1

    With a resource editor that works on executables, you'll discover that explorer.exe has several Start bar side bands, including "Embedded" and "Whistler" sidebands. I've never viewed a sideband in my startbar. Running sysinternals procexp, I see that explorer has a lot of pointless handles open. I deleted the sidebands in the copy of explorer.exe that I let Windows XP run. and it runs just fine.

  15. Re:Medical Purposes Only on Former Health Secretary Pushes for VeriChip Implants · · Score: 1

    I keep telling people that the Drivers License/State I.D. and your signature are the marks of the beast and some people accept it.

    Arguments in favor:
    It's hard to believe that the preposition 'on' instead of 'of' would make that much difference.
    The I.D is the mark of the forehead, and the signature is the mark of the hand.
    Your relationships and your ability to influence and do things for people, and their ability to influence and do things for you are things of the spirit and things that happen in that area of life that benefit you are hard to track. However your body is a much more trackable item, and what is a body without spirit but a beast, and your I.D. and signature are generated by direct interaction with your body and thus are marks of the beast.

  16. Wow! You really have me convinced by your clarity on Former Health Secretary Pushes for VeriChip Implants · · Score: 1

    of logic. But seriously, your logic is as badly formed as most of those you want to stop pushing their goods. There is a good way and a not good way, and it's not too hard to reach the conclusion that those who are going the not good way aren't interested in deviating from their course, so your pleas will largely go ignored. Furthermore, it is not unreasonable to conclude that those who are going a good way would want others to do so as well, so it makes some sense that the good ways are among the sets of those being promoted by others. Counterarguements, anyone?

  17. For those who missed it... on Hacking the Fluorescent Light · · Score: 1

    those were filled with petrol

  18. Tried that, on Retail Fraud on the Rise · · Score: 1

    ...couldn't find an interested party.

  19. It's one thing to suggest... on U.K. SF Writers Dominate Hugos · · Score: 1

    looking for better English teachers, and quite another thing to know and describe going about doing it. Then there's the whole, "How am I going to afford a better English teacher," problem. The U.S. education system reeks, and not just the subsidized K-12 part. I currently hold an Associates Degree in CIS, and the English teacher spent the entire course teaching the other students quite low-level things.

  20. Funny, I base my comma placement on natural pauses on U.K. SF Writers Dominate Hugos · · Score: 1

    Haven't had an English teacher complain yet. And to me, those commas are in quite natural places for pausing.

  21. Re:I would strongly disagree on Power Up · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My Japanese English dictionary give the meaning of "kibun tenkan" to mean change of pace, change of mood, and the google search on it seems to back that up. I grew up in the United States and have never actually left the country and watch anime because the characters were more individualistic than the drone students and teachers and cash register runners of my everyday life. If anime actually expressed the unifomity characteristic of Japan, then a student would never be able to blackmail his teacher (Kodomo no omocha), a girl would just surrender to bandits, instead of casting a massive spell on them (Slayers), a handful of animes where the main character is someone who doesn't have much to do with the rest of the school, all of the girls in the Tenchi series would just be classmates, in Pokemon, Ash would bow to the obvious superiority of Oak, Jessie and James would have never made the cut of Team Rocket, Jessie would have been incarcerated and James would be living in a mansion. I could go on, but I don't want to spend any more time on your inaccurate and simply plain wrong post!

  22. You don't understand how wikipedia works on Wikipedia Announces Tighter Editorial Control · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It has full regression capabilities. If a page changes, people can request email notification. They can compare the current state of the article to quite a few previous ones, and view only the differences, and then select any previous version to revert back to.

  23. Yeah, I'm gonna start right now... on EU Proposing to Make P2P Piracy A Criminal Offense · · Score: 1

    I'm going to do the task of torturing RIAA and MPAA employees and I expect to be paid for it! Better yet, I'm going to do the task of listening to whatever I feel like, and I expect to be paid for that too!

  24. Nice, but... on Penny Arcade's Collectable Card Game · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...does it include Jesus, the Rainbow Colored Pen?

  25. Re:Hopefully? on FCC Considers Deregulation of DSL · · Score: 1

    I never saw anything that indicated it actually would as it made sense to me that the actual power output would remain unchanged, due to the fact that the power consumption stays the same.