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  1. Re:Why sombody else than Anderson? on MacGyver Film In the Works? · · Score: 1

    Totally. After all, Harrison "Solo" Ford is doing Indiana again.

    I'd prefer the good old RDA over any DiCaprio kind of actor every day. If they'd had done that with Knight Rider we could then have a The Hoff Vs McGyvera la Alien Vs Predator!
    That would be the mother of all the balltes.

  2. Re:Time for us westerners to wring our hands... on Windows in Brazil Costs 20% of Per Capita Business Income · · Score: 1

    Almost every single response to my post is "omg! get laid!

    Doesn't that ring a bell?

    No, seriously, I'm not Brazilian nor "american" so if you want to insult me, use something else. Yet, you keep insulting Brazilian people and that's what it makes you wrong. There's no need to generalize or insult to prove a point. That's why you got many angry replies.

    Life IS an ant-grasshopper tale. I worked hard years ago, and now I'm very comfortable. Some people do suffer from plain, old-style injustice, but a lot of people are suffering from their own past actions.

    Good for you but I really can't care less how well you are doing so if you want to save some time, drop all the "I have a good life" speech. Again, good for you.
    It's true that most people suffer from their past actions. I couldn't agree more with you on this point. But then there's my point again, the people I refer to as happy, even if poor, chose that life. You can be happy and poor...Well, not you but many people. Happiness is not related to economic status at all.
    Life is whatever you want it to be. For you, a grasshopper tale, but not for everybody.

    And who said that?...

    You said "They lack basic culture" in your first post. Perhaps I misundertood you. Would you mind elaborating what do you exactly consider basic culture?

    I'm not sorry for considering things like real-world issues....

    And you wouldn't be, but you don't need to insult anybody while doing so.

  3. Re:Time for us westerners to wring our hands... on Windows in Brazil Costs 20% of Per Capita Business Income · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hey did your girl/wife just left you or something? Because there's no need to insult anyone to get some attention. I know it's more expensive than in ranting in /. but you should hire a hooker. You'd be more relaxed by now.

    And the impoverished are not just "poor", as in "lacking money for basic elements of life". They're also extremely indolent and dishonest. They lack basic culture and effort to achieve any kind of progress.

    Oh, do they? And you pretend to prove your point by tagging everyone as indolent, dishonest and with lack of "basic culture" and "lack of effort to achieve any kind of progress"? Oh you are so illustrated to think in black and white only. You really represent those ideals of "culture" and "progress", right?

    As unlighted as you are, you probably know this already, but I need to enforce my point: Culture is not just the "american" way to live.

    You forgot to mention "random drug-motivated murders". And also forgot to mention that all those "happy people" are actually impoverished idiots who would rather spend their entire day partying around the city than working hard to improve their lives. Remember the Ant and the Grasshopper? If not, it's a classic that explains a lot about those bozos you call "happy people".

    I didn't forgot "random drug-motivated murders". I never wanted to include any negative points so no, I didn't forgot to mention that or anything you said I forgot. They happen everywhere anyway, including every US city. The "happy people" I refer to are not those you are talking about. I'm referring to exactly the opposite of people like you, that rants and bitchs about everything, being grumpy and cheer-less all the time, and using that ant-grasshopper tale to justify their sad and boring existence.

    And if booze motivated my decision about where to live wouldn't be your business. But no, it doesn't. Never said it did anyway. It's that the world is so crowded with below-average ignorant people like you that I usually get sick of it.

    Your post only shows your lack of culture and education. I wonder if the education story to you told up there is really your family story there.

  4. Re:Time for us westerners to wring our hands... on Windows in Brazil Costs 20% of Per Capita Business Income · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Backwards place to live? You get that from experience? I'd live in any brazilian coastal city over any US coastal city. Warm climate, nice girls, drinking caipirinhas all the time, hapy music, happy people.

  5. Market rules on New President for OLPC Organization · · Score: 1

    Product for third-world countries is a huge selling success in first-world countries. Adam Smith's "invisible hand" at work.

  6. Re:So.... on Bill Would Bar US Companies From Net Censorship · · Score: 1

    More sooner than later. Read this article. Long but worth read.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/ten-steps-to-close-down-a_b_46695.html

  7. What's the use on Google Sets Sights On 3D Map of the Oceans · · Score: 1

    Aside for fun and searching the Titanic and the Atlantis, what's the use of it? I mean, it's not that we will able to find the nearest Starbucks or get directions underwater. Why not use that cash to improve the streets and imagery on the earth part?

  8. No way on Metallica May Follow In Footsteps of Radiohead, NIN · · Score: 1

    Since they become the first band to sue Napster, every time I try a new p2p program my first download is a Metallica song or album. They have might killed the company but not the spirit.

    Don't give them anything, not even your e-mail address or gender. Wait for a free seed and even if you don't like the music, download it and seed it for a week or so.

  9. Isn't it nice? on Computers Emulate Neanderthal Speech · · Score: 1

    Isn't it nice to have a Neanderthal that will talk to you? Mongo is HUNGRYYYYY!!! ARRRRR!!!

  10. I've already seen it!!! on Dreamworks Acquires Rights for Ghost in the Shell · · Score: 1

    The plot was not exactly as I remembered it from the original but was entertaining, and they kept asking about this "Matrix" thing I don't know why...

  11. Re:Duke! on Nvidia Physics Engine Almost Complete · · Score: 1

    Duke Nukem Forever was never conceived as a game. It's a message and a business model. It's 3D Realms's very own particular way to tell you Osama Bin Laden doesn't exist at all. Much like Osama, Duke would appear from time to time in a video, most often during Christmas eve, to tell you how he's going to screw things up, he tells you to stay tuned...But as the time passes, you never see him appearing, live or dead. Yet, the videos keep coming...each quarter and the company keeps getting funds.

  12. In other news on The Texas Petawatt Laser · · Score: 1

    George Lucas sues the University of Texas for copyright infringement.

    Quote: "-They have clearly turned the earth into a Death Star. And, it just so happens, I've got it registered!"

  13. Tin-Foil Story on Identify and Verify Users Based on How They Type · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...and when this hashing algorithm was implemented in Javascript, it meant the end for anonymous cowards...

  14. Re:That's outrageous on Administration Claimed Immunity To 4th Amendment · · Score: 1

    We have to be careful that we do not lose our identity as a country of freedom via our efforts to protect that freedom.

    I would usually post a comment LOL about such ridiculously overwhelming amount of naiveness. But this is too serious to take it as a joke.

    You still don't realize you lost that already do you?

    This article might give you a new perspective, it's long but I promise it's worth it:
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/ten-steps-to-close-down-a_b_46695.html

  15. Re:The Law on Administration Claimed Immunity To 4th Amendment · · Score: 1

    Actually it leaded to fascist regimes. In some of them, that leaded to revolutions. Others had to lose a world war to get back to a normal state.

  16. Re:who cares? on 3G iPhone Going Into Production In May · · Score: 1

    Which one is it? Thanks.

  17. Here's mine on Geeky April Fools' Day Prank Roundup · · Score: 1

    Get a screenshot of your coworker's already-turned-on desktop computer. Grab a notebook, display the screenshot. Attach the monitor cable to the laptop external display output and hide the notebook so he can't see it. Remember to disable the screen saver of the notebook.

    When He/she comes, he/she'll move the mouse. The pointer won't move. The keyboard won't work. Ctrl-Alt-Delete won't do it. Not even reseting the computer or unplugging it will make the still screen go away.

  18. Business model on Nuclear Nose Cones Mistakenly Shipped to Taiwan · · Score: 2, Funny

    1 Ship WMD to foreign country
    2 Claim that foreign country has WMDs
    3 Invade foreign country
    4 PROFIT!

  19. Re:Explore Mars? Or waste the money in Iraq? on Mars Rovers Facing Budget Cuts [Updated] · · Score: 1

    It just so happens that the Bush administration doesn't have any friends in any other area other than homeland (read fatherland) security. So the answer is: Yes, we could explore Mars. No, we won't.

  20. Everyone please read this article on California Edges Toward Joining Real ID Revolt · · Score: 2, Insightful


    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/ten-steps-to-close-down-a_b_46695.html

    Ten Steps To Close Down an Open Society

    1 Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
    2 Create a gulag
    3 Develop a thug caste
    4 Set up an internal surveillance system
    5 Harass citizens' groups
    6 Engage in arbitrary detention and release
    7 Target key individuals
    8 Control the press
    9 Dissent equals treason
    10 Suspend the rule of law

  21. This election = Pepsi or Coke on IT Workers Split For McCain, Obama · · Score: 1

    This election is like choosing between Pepsi and Coca-Cola.
    Both parties have the same agenda. They will both cripple even more your liberties, both will keep pushing Real-ID and the Patriot Act. They'll maintain the war in Irak for at least 2 years or move it to Iran.
    That, if Bush doesn't dissolve the congress first.

    No matter which your candidate is, you'll regret it in 2 years from now.
    I'll be pleased to be proven wrong.

    Save this post for future reference.

  22. Re:WARNING: Contains references to BOGEY MAN on US "Fusion Centers" For Intelligence Sharing · · Score: 1

    I think everybody, world-wide, should give a fuck about America and their bogey man lies about terrorism cause those lies are detonators for "preemptive" wars on foreign countries. It's not only their fate what's at stake here. It's everyone's.

  23. Re:No link to wired article? on US "Fusion Centers" For Intelligence Sharing · · Score: 1

    Its like the holy grail of data analysis; transcending the boring bits of storage and indexing to the complex fun bits of trying to organize data and explore interfaces for making easy for humans to tag related 'facts' and associate them with others.

    It's called Facebook

  24. Re:Stasi Police on US "Fusion Centers" For Intelligence Sharing · · Score: 1

    Germans had much cooler uniforms. And that's the only difference I can find.

  25. Re:Looking at the wrong records get you caught on Passport Files of Presidential Hopefuls Snooped · · Score: 1

    Seems there is some sort of alert when you request data for famous people.

    Now, isn't that in itself cause for a lawsuit?