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  1. Re:Nothing related to guns can be considered "smar on Smart Guns To Stop Mass Killings · · Score: 1

    What it comes down to, is it worth it? Is it worth having massacres over someone potentially saving the day from a home invasion? I would still say no. Is it worth collecting and having fun trap shooting or having massacres continue to happen? No. I cannot find any worth of private ownership of a gun that would outweigh piles of dead children. It just isn't worth it to me anymore. This is coming from a former gun owner, deer hunter, and trap shooter.

  2. Sorry,Midwest megaregion is more dense than Europe on World's Longest High-Speed Rail Line Opens In China · · Score: 1

    If you overlay western Europes megaregions over the midwest, you will see not only is the North American Midwest more dense, that the area is even larger commanding even more people to ride the high speed rails. You need to turn off Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, and stop listening to the GOP nonsense.

  3. Re:Same problem all SEO and PvP games have on Game Review: Planetside 2 (video) · · Score: 1

    Thankfully your worst case scenarios are just that. It's nothing like that in the game at all currently. Yes, you will be run over. A lot. But if you're smaller than the thing driving around you, move out of the way. The best you can do it play LA and use jetpacks to move around in areas of high vehicle traffic.

  4. Re:My biggest question on Game Review: Planetside 2 (video) · · Score: 1

    Why not play all three classes then? People rarely stick to one class. I spawn in Inf when a base needs to be capped and hack all the terminals, I spawn Light Assault when we're having problems getting IN to a base, I spawn a Heavy when there is too much air and land vehicles and they need to be taken out. I prefer Light Assault over all of them, but I rotate as needed.

  5. Re:Too laggy on Game Review: Planetside 2 (video) · · Score: 2

    Disagree. I play with a 4 year old Core2Quad 2ghz processor and a 550Ti and I get a reasonable frame rate in every situation. Both are considered budget gaming at this point. I roll with about 200+ people a night during prime time, and we class with groups even larger than us. The frame rate remains stable. You don't need a monster to play this game, certainly not by todays standards.

  6. One of gamings best in the past 30 years. No joke. on Game Review: Planetside 2 (video) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've been around. I have had so many highs like getting a 2600 and playing Space Invaders one Christmas, booting up Lemmings for the first time on my Amiga, beating Kid Icarus on my NES, rescuing the princess in Link to the Past on the SNES, blowing people up in Doom with three other people sitting next to me, slaying Dragons for the first time in Everquest with 50 people, toppling enemy mechs with a few other players in Chromehounds, and now finally being in a squad of soldiers, being led by a platoon leader across an alien world with thousands of other soldiers made up of different outfits that consist of multiple platoons. All tasked with taking specific objectives. Blinding the enemy installations with smoke grenades and turning on your IR vision and sneaking around taking people out. Jumping into a huge flying whale of an airship that can carry over a dozen people. Being flown over a distant enemy base to drop out onto the roof and storming into buildings. Leaping over obstacles and into the air with your jet pack and over 5 enemy guys who dont see you. You look over the ledge and drop a grande onto them racking up the kills. You secure the base. Load up and move to another. All with real voice coms chatting back and forth warning of mines, and enemy armor.

    Not only is this one of the best looking games I've ever seen, it can give you one of the most epic war moments you will ever experience at this time. Two dozen troopers running over a hilltop flanked by tanks as your air support swoops down ahead of you to soften up the line. IT IS THAT EPIC.

    The free part makes this a no brainer to try at the very least. I would hate to see someone pass by the opportunity. It is one of gamings greats.

    No, I don't work for Sony. But I love this game. A lot. Try it! We need you!

  7. Re:Mixed feelings. UNIONS on Ban On Loud TV Commercials Takes Effect Today · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And when, exactly, does the 'market' ever 'fix itself'?

    Unions are the best example I can come up with. When companies run workers into the ground, and the government wont step in, and other better companies don't appear to replace the bad ones, it's up to the workers. Unions are the defacto example of a free market regulating itself.

  8. 1980s Spencer gifts. on Bennett's Whimsi-Geek Gift Guide For 2012 · · Score: 1

    Is what this list is. The only thing missing is black light posters of Dr. Who or something.

    "What, no lava lamp?!"

  9. Will EA be jailed and fined as well? Treason? on Navy Seals Disciplined For Revealing Secrets As Consultants On Video Game · · Score: 1

    They must have known a lot of this info was classified, I mean they're the "experts" on all of this, right? It doesn't matter if the SEALS said otherwise, I am guessing EA knew. They were just as much a part of this as the SEALS were.

  10. 100m tablet already sold. Where does MS fit in? on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Forget the iPad, Surface Is the Tablet People Want · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not like people with tablets will be racing to go buy ANOTHER tablet.

    Just seems to me Microsoft jumped into the market two years too late. This isn't a knock on Surface or anything, just an observation.

  11. Re:Mmmmm....contempt.... on Apple Posts Non-Apology To Samsung · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Depends on the judge. I think it is safe to say that if a judge went out of his way to have Apple post something like this publicly, and they spat in his face, there is going to be hell to pay. This doesn't seem like your run of the mill judge, and Apple should have known this from the verdict decision.

  12. Pmods are EXPENSIVE. on New Arduino Due Brings More Power To the Table · · Score: 1

    I looked this over, and while the starter $40 board looks comparable, the Pmods are all overly expensive compared to the Arduino. I also don't see any built it yourself kits for a fraction of the cost? Perhaps if you want to point out something "better", next time try posting something that is, you know, actually better.

  13. Fuel efficiency? on Texas Opens Fastest US Highway With 85 MPH Limit · · Score: 1

    Just wondering if this will make driving a pickup cost $200 a week for fuel instead of $100.

    Anyone know where fuel efficiency caps out?

  14. Re:Yeah, yeah, and "XP had a Fisher-Price UI" on CowboyNeal Weighs In On the Windows 8 "Metro" GUI · · Score: 2

    We've come full circle. Full screen launching of apps was called DOS.

  15. Re:Replace it with a link to a real model on Wikipedia Edits Forecast Romney's Vice Presidential Pick · · Score: 3, Informative

    He did not have a super majority the first two years. They owned both the house and the senate, but not enough votes to be a super majority. Republicans filibustered everything they could, and did.

  16. Re:It's not a prototype. It's a test cart on Legend of Zelda NES Nintendo Prototype On Sale For $150K · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but when trying to sell something like this, it is up to the seller to provide all the verifiable proof. Sadly, anyone buying this cart without a written letter from one of the developers involved, or someone at Nintendo who can certify this as legit, is going to be let down and should probably stay as far away from this as possible.

  17. Do they not realize what a cloud is? on Feds: We Need Priority Access To Cloud Resources · · Score: 1

    Cloud by its very definition is that it exists globally with multiple routes to redundant copies of the data should any location; or nation; "fail". Does the US government want its data housed on servers placed all over the world? The cloud cannot exist solely in a single country, or two, or even three.

  18. Re:So what? on Ron Paul's New Primary Goal Is "Internet Freedom" · · Score: 1

    What is wrong with Hilary Clinton? Just curious.

  19. Make your own wargaming miniatures! on Cubify 3D Printers Aren't Just for Squares (Video) · · Score: 1

    Considering it costs thousands just to buy a standing army for a lot of these war games, I think these printers will make it much more cost effective just to have everyone print up their own guys. Need 10 tanks? $50 in plastic compared to $500 buying them in the store from some company.

  20. How do we remove the Inspector General? on NSA Claims It Would Violate Americans' Privacy To Say How Many of Us It Spied On · · Score: 1

    Anyone know?

  21. It is a new category. "Tablet" Not a PC or Laptop. on Microsoft Announces 'Surface' Tablet · · Score: 1

    I'll no doubt get modded down for this, but there is a category for a device that isn't a desktop or a laptop, it's called a tablet.

  22. No, it really has single player. on Diablo 3 Banhammer Dropped Just Before RMAH Goes Live · · Score: 1

    You can play by yourself and disallow anyone from joining your game. That is by definition "Single player" - Whether it is online or not is irrelevant for this definition. The game was not designed to "trade items". It was designed to play through the game and beat Diablo. Nothing more, nothing less. The auction house is an add-on that people are not required to use at all. Nothing in the game will prevent a person in single player game from getting every item in the game.

  23. Re:Government actually working for the people on A Digital Citizen's Bill of Rights · · Score: 2

    People that post this seem to forget the massive party switch. When some Republicans were for equal rights they caused an uproar in the party. They left to become Democrats, and the Democrats that were upset over it left to become Republicans. It basically ended up with all the racists in the Republican party. Some refused to leave their original party such as the Dixiecrats.

    Read up on your history.

  24. Re:It worked for the RIAA.. on Fox Sues Dish Over "Auto Hop" Ad-Skipping Feature · · Score: 1

    This happened in Canada, not the USA. Turning off the power of your TV for 5 minutes when a commercial comes on would be no different than clicking the skip ad button. Why aren't they suing the television manufacturers? It's silly. No content is being altered on the DVR. No infringement.

  25. Who do they even charge a monthly fee? on Why You Don't Want a $99 Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    The PS3 has caught up to them, the service is entirely free. Nintendo doesn't charge for their service. The PC and Mac gaming don't charge to play online. You get everything on their competitors platforms for FREE. So why is Microsoft sitting in the past and trying to charge for people to play online while everyone has moved on? I own all three consoles, and refuse to buy games for my 360 anymore. I just go with PS3 or PC these days, they've caught up, and in a lot of cases, surpassed XBox Live.