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  1. Re:In the interest of fairness... on Computer Cracks 5x5 Go · · Score: 1

    In the real world, you can tell the difference between a squad(4-8 people) aka an 8 and a field battallion(4-5k people) aka a 1 without much difficulty. Determining if the 8 people are a supply convoy or a special forces team is a different story, but a field battalion will still squash a special forces squad.

  2. Re:In the interest of fairness... on Computer Cracks 5x5 Go · · Score: 1

    Stratego is like poker, you are playing against a person, not a board. The completely random and unknown layout of the board makes for a very complex and entertaining, but not very strategic, game.

  3. Re:In the interest of fairness... on Computer Cracks 5x5 Go · · Score: 1

    Because unlike the others you don't have perfect knowledge of your position.

  4. Re: People are missing the point on Hatemongering Becoming A Problem On Orkut · · Score: 1

    At point A, I determine if you are a threat to me by your demeanor, speech, and carriage. If i determine that you are not, you are no more a threat to me at F than at A. If I determine that you are, Somewhere between B and C, I will take steps to eliminate you as a threat.

  5. Re:MOD PARENT UP on Hatemongering Becoming A Problem On Orkut · · Score: 1

    Ok, I haven't done an exhaustive study, but I've never seen a 2 legged insect, All insects I've seen had 4(or more) legs and thusly go about on 4 legs. Since we are having a pointless semantical discussion.

    And Owph... the word (mis)translated fowl in Leviticus 11:13 means Flying creatures.. including insects, and logically bats and superman.

  6. Re:Hate and Racism.... on Hatemongering Becoming A Problem On Orkut · · Score: 1

    Frequently you will notice that the hood does not cover the face and is a part of their ceremonial attire.

    Further, the hatred is very much confused... for example While driving home from burning a cross on someone's yard, it is entirely possible that He(hood and cloak guy) might stop to help a damsel in distress with a flat tire and not be detered by noticing that the damsel in distress was of a different shade of melanin.

  7. Re:Hatred on Hatemongering Becoming A Problem On Orkut · · Score: 1

    Free and open discourse inevitably marginalize irrational hate. Allowing the idiots(my opinion) in white sheets to spew their nonsense publicly and without unreasonable restriction( daylight hours, not blocking traffic, etc, but no content restriction) tends to reduce their pool of applicants, where gagging or forcing them underground tends to make them popular or attractive to any who feel a rebel streak and allows them to recruit on that basis vs the basis of the open theatre of the mind.

  8. Re:Not that I want to beat this dead horse, but on Judge in SCO Case Notes Lack of Evidence · · Score: 1

    From Day one it would have been cheaper for IBM to buy SCO. IBM Spends more each month for Coffee than SCO is worth, So for whatever reason, IBM is committed to seeing this through. IBM being the ancient monolith that it is, knows that it is better to fight this battle once and leave nothing but broken bodies and ashes than to pay it off repeatedly.

  9. Re:My Life is Dilbert on Same Part, Same Supplier, Different Prices · · Score: 1

    If you are willing to pay the price, IBM will supply you with a replacement hard drive for a 22 year old PC.

  10. Re:15 years from creation time, war has turned to on Is eBay the Promised Land? · · Score: 1

    I've never had that problem. And I always get delivery when they promise. SO I can tell the buyer I sent it today, here's your tracking number it will be there Thursday or Friday.

  11. Re:15 years from creation time, war has turned to on Is eBay the Promised Land? · · Score: 1

    I(as EBAY recommends) ensure and track everything, there is no kinkos or fedex drop in my area. and once you add insurance and tracking USPS FAR outpaces UPS. I do all my shipping at Office Depot. They will be(real soon now for sure) getting a fedex franchise and then I'll be price comparing, but for covering my back, USPS just doesn't stack up.

  12. Re:Mouse Usage 101 on Windows XP Starter Edition Review · · Score: 1

    Any mac I used that had the tutorial, wouldn't NOT start it until you told it to NOT start, so the tutorial would be the first thing you saw, always until you accomplished it.

  13. Re:15 years from creation time, war has turned to on Is eBay the Promised Land? · · Score: 1

    And people like you are the reason I only use UPS. I don't hide my shipping costs and I charge ($.50-$1.50) over UPS basic cost to cover the **NEW** shipping materials I will use to ship the items.

  14. Re:How to get a cure for AIDS: on HIV Immunity Gene Found In Rhesus Monkeys · · Score: 1
    No
    This is one of the dumbest fucking comments I've read here in a long time
    makes it flamebait.
  15. Re:Boooooring on Sir Richard takes Virgin into Space · · Score: 1

    Repeatedly crashing into hedges does not qualify as landing.

  16. Re:Best of luck on IBM Opens Their Patent Portfolio to Open Source · · Score: 1

    The word you are looking for is Ruthless. As in behaving in a manner that takes oneself and ones allies concerns in mind without a care for the consequences for one's enemies. Or, knowing full well that an action will turn out disastrously for ones enemies. Treachery is behaving in the same way towards one's allies.

  17. Re:You'd think it would go without saying.. on FBI Warns: Many Tsunami Relief Pleas Are Fake · · Score: 1

    I wish my bank would pay my rent and phone bill. How do you arrange that? I pay my rent directly to my landlord via direct paycheck deposit, but If my bank were to make that payment it would save me ~$700 a month.

  18. Re:The worst thing I heard of... on FBI Warns: Many Tsunami Relief Pleas Are Fake · · Score: 1

    I don't know about average, but let me pick the slashdot user and you can pick the criminal.

  19. Re:Too bad they don't carry the binaries groups on Google's 20-Year Usenet Timeline · · Score: 1

    In fact, they no longer even archive the binary groups... one of the nice things deja had was the ability to access archived 0files from binary groups.

  20. Re:Maybe their new post numbering on Google's 20-Year Usenet Timeline · · Score: 1

    use the workaround at groups.google.ca or groups.google.co.uk

  21. Re:Boring on eGenesis to Develop New MMO with Orson Scott Card · · Score: 1

    Yes, in EQ2 you can even be killed when sewing.. I guess strangled by the yarn, or impaled by the shuttle or perhaps beheaded by the loom.

  22. Re:But will it translate into a worthwhile product on eGenesis to Develop New MMO with Orson Scott Card · · Score: 2

    There are pacifists in the Army, we call them Medics.

  23. Re:Can I be the first to say "duh"? on Conspiring Against Your Employer? Watch What You Email · · Score: 1

    That is why Briton or British is the Correct term for someone from the British isles... which of course would include the manx as well.

  24. Re:OP is perfectly correct. on Infogrames Could Help Ubisoft vs. EA · · Score: 1

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  25. Re:Well... on Alek's Christmas Lights: Humbug · · Score: 1

    And liberty is the sheep with a gun.