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  1. Re:Value? on Microsoft Offers Compensation For Counterfeit OSes · · Score: 1

    A power cord is non-peripheral... A monitor cable is peripheral.. because the computer will boot without a monitor cable.. it will not do so without a power cable... Oh and IANA Lawyer.

  2. Force power on How Lightsabers Work · · Score: 1

    I was certain that not only was force capability required to build a functional lightsaber, but that it was also required for safe operation.. Note that lightsabers customarily do not function when laying on the ground.

  3. Re:So, from your sig... on Taking on an Online Extortionist · · Score: 1

    I'm Human.. I don't wish to be eaten..

  4. Re:Good, some balls. on Taking on an Online Extortionist · · Score: 1

    Put the gun in a shoulder holster... the knife in your boot.. and a backup gun in an ankle holster. Problem solved.

  5. Re:Curious on Taking on an Online Extortionist · · Score: 1

    The Previous post was made by a bot.

  6. Re:Good, some balls. on Taking on an Online Extortionist · · Score: 1

    Maybe like many libertarian(small l) type, Pro civil rights, geek/hacker types he believes in practicing his civil rights. And living in Nevada he associates with others who do that.. and they happen to be coworkers.

  7. Re:Binary servers on CMU Professor's Rebuttal Against RIAA Propaganda · · Score: 1

    My ISP outsources to supernews... and it is a major Cable company. Roadrunner aka timewarner aka AOL aka Warner Bros aka Turner Broadcasting etc also provides a decent quality 7 day expiry Usenet feed hosted locally.

  8. Re:I agree with the professor-TechnoTalent. on CMU Professor's Rebuttal Against RIAA Propaganda · · Score: 1

    My rebuttal shall be a list of names
    Steve Jobs
    Steve Wozniak
    John Carmack
    Scott Miller

  9. Re:New Business Model - Parasite Economy on CMU Professor's Rebuttal Against RIAA Propaganda · · Score: 1

    You forgot

    4) Pay your lawyers ~$100US per hour for ~50 hours per user settlement...
    5) Profit?

  10. Re:Oh hells yeah on Red Hat Founder Offers Help in Apple vs.Tiger Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Yeah.... Lots of confusion and of course both came into being in the mid 60's

  11. Re:While other companies turn out innovative MMO's on Sony Online Seeking Queen of Everquest II · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Firiona Vie is *NOT* Antonia Bayle.

  12. Re:eBay on Online Shoppers Aren't Impulsive · · Score: 1

    I was 10 seconds behind someone bidding on an item I wanted. And I watched it go to DOUBLE the Buy It Now price. Several weeks later I got the item for a couple bucks over the BIN price.

  13. Re:Being intelligent does NOT contradict the Bible on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    NO, It is intelligence... Just like when your aircraft spotter sees bombers incoming and sounds the air raid siren INTELLIGENCE means you get in the shelter. Because the spotter knows something you don't. If God is then doing what s/he/it says is intelligence.

  14. Re:Being intelligent does NOT contradict the Bible on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Yeah... God tells you to do something ... Intelligence *IS* doing what you're told.

  15. Re:Another giant step backward... on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Actually In typical Hebrew faction there are THREE ... 1 In the beginning God Created the Heavens and the Earth.
    2. Seven days
    3. Man

    Hebrew narrative customarily goes from abstract to specific in order of importance and usually includes 3 versions ... Non-contradictory, but Generally duplicated.

  16. Re:Another giant step backward... on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    2) There is *ZERO* evidence that this isn't how nature did it. Since we weren't there... unless of course it happened during the great flood.

  17. Re:Our "excuse" for that... on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Well, for common sense.. if you are collecting animals do you collect BIG ones? or little ones... little ones can be fed and cleaned up after much more easily than big ones.. so you collect young bears and young elephants and young raptors... etc... and of course if you assume GOD then if GOD could shut the door, he could put the animals into an un-natural hybernation.

  18. Re:It's all a wind-up. on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Quality dictionaries, Concordances, and inter-linear(multi-language with concordance included) are available inexpensively. And anyone who is truly interested in a clearer analysis and study will have one available... And many who aren't have one on the shelf ... just because. And yes, some distortion of detail... Youth translated children can happen... But there are good translations and dictionaries available for those who want more accuracy. And of course Arguments abound even then because we are dealing with "dead" languages.... ie Koine Greek, Ancient Hebrew, Ancient Aramaic, and ancient Chaldean.

    And Blueletterbible.org can be used in a pinch.

    And just out of curiousity which discrepancies are you refering to.

  19. Re:It's all a wind-up. on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Of course the word in the Hebrew there is Youth... which refers to anyone under the age of 30... So the image should be that of a rowdy street gang. not a bunch of 5 year olds.

  20. Re:Summary = [-1, Flamebait] on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Of course you are wrong. Intelligent design states that Design points to a designer and if designers recreate it in a lab. That doesn't prove anything for either side, but assuming that the lab techs are intelligent it points toward intelligent design and not Random Factors.

    Creationism(distinct from Intelligent Design) also says that because the higher power created everything and said ~"Go forth and have dominion" that we should exercise dominion with knowledge and understanding.

  21. Re:Why would you need this kind of security in a g on Would You Submit Biometric Data to Join a Gym? · · Score: 1

    3. Profit

  22. Re:theft of my fingerprint? on Would You Submit Biometric Data to Join a Gym? · · Score: 3, Informative

    You realize of course that the woman who CLAIMED to find that finger is now facing fraud charges right?
    here
    or here
    or here even
    another one

    In other words.. she's a known con artist, and now she's paying the price for being clumsy.

  23. Re:Starship Troopers? on Dvorak Trashes Modern Gaming Industry · · Score: 1
    - to Paul Verhoeven's movie (which was overall a fairly faithful adapatation of Heinlein's book)?
    Ok. Yes the characters had the same names, and the same events(generally) occured. BUT In no way was the movie faithful to the concepts presented by the movie. The bugs were NEVER Humanized as ultimately they were in the book. "Service" was never promoted in the book, it was strongly discouraged and made difficult painful and unpleasant... Recruiting was kept low because even with the most unpleasant jobs possible, there were more recruits than jobs. so even more unpleasant jobs were invented.
  24. Re:Starship Troopers on Dvorak Trashes Modern Gaming Industry · · Score: 2, Informative

    EXCEPT OF COURSE, the BOOK isn't anti-war. The book is a fictional examination of an experimental form of government. As well as an exploration of the "humanity" of the enemy. BOTH of which the movie missed.

  25. Re:Sometimes I don't get George on Kevin Smith Previews Revenge of the Sith · · Score: 1

    HINT: ANAKIN BECOMES VADER BEFORE HE BURNS HALF TO DEATH Oh.. oops.. left off the spoiler warning... Ah well

    Anyway.. whether in the ugly black suit or not Anakin is Vader.