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  1. Re:Nonsense... on Top 20 Gaming Lows of 2004 · · Score: 1

    Certainly, they were choosing to refuse to sell item X rated M to anyone without an ID, that is by definition refusing service.
    YOU clearly were beligerant, It doesn't matter how "nice" you think you were, and they should have refused to sell you anything.
    WRONG, THE LAW states that a cash transaction is EXACTLY a contract. You may disagree, but you will be wrong. A minor may purchase a CD, DVD, or piece of computer software and his parents may return it and MUST be refunded the money regardless of store policies on the matter, do some research.

  2. Re:Not all of them are lows on Top 20 Gaming Lows of 2004 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Of course she does, they have the legal authority to refuse service for any reason and beligerance definitely qualifies, and so does being under 18 and legally unable to purchase ANYTHING under US contract law. A minor can purchase and return anything other than consumables and return it for no reason at all as long as it is in ~original condition.

  3. Re:Boygroups on Subatomic Darwinism · · Score: 1

    Well, watch them run and jump around... looks like fitness to me. Further Fitness for an environment is typically non-obvious to a casual observer... Sickle cell for example.

  4. Re:Must have been a classic "WTF?!" moment at the on Opportunity Rover Encounters Its Own Heat Shield · · Score: 1

    WOW!!! That is also how Intelligent design works... Are you saying that Evolution is powered by intelligence?

  5. Re:Don't forget ... on Subatomic Darwinism · · Score: 1

    You don't have to kill anyone, just allow the participants to believe that those being viewed will be killed.

  6. Re:Legal Rights & Partners on Legal Rights for Computers · · Score: 1

    The shape of its ports OF COURSE! Just like the way you tell a male human from a female, or a Male RS232 from a female. DUH!

  7. Re:Want to see how it will go? on Legal Rights for Computers · · Score: 1

    Let's solve the Human rights problems we have now. We have the resources, and like it or not Iraq is one step on a long road to solving the problem that the vast majority of people on this planet live horrible disgusting lives filled with poverty and tragedy.

    and it isn't because there isn't food or water, it's because men like Sadaam Hussien and Idi Amin want power.

  8. Re:Just out of curiosity... on Legal Rights for Computers · · Score: 1

    No Christians in the last ~350 years have tried to do such vile things. Prior to and during the "Protestant Reformation" when the government controlled the church and the church controlled the government such abuses were common, but SINCE then Christians(Catholic, Protestant and Other) have learned from their errors and moved on.

  9. Re:Appeals to cyberpunk/sci-fi fans? on Anarchy Online to be Subscription Free · · Score: 1

    DO you know the Santa leets? They alone have made the game interesting enough to stay.

  10. Re:It's interesting on Game Industry Not Bigger Than Hollywood · · Score: 1
    In movies, sequels suck. I mean, they suck a LOT. And before all of you start saying "Well, Star Trek [insert favorite one] was better than the original!", I have one word for you: Matrix. Ok, the two followon movies set in the Matrix used the same Metaphysical chatter, and borrowed concepts as the original, and actually dug deeper into the relationship of Man(kind) to his environment and the changes/creations he make to/within it.
  11. Re:Question: on HL2, Jump to Lightspeed Demos · · Score: 1

    And who doesn't have $50 in the budget for a single player online game.

    Between the evils of steam and my decision not to spend more than $20 a shot on any game... well there you have it.

  12. Re:Something for the adults? on Year in MMORPGs Reviewed · · Score: 1

    And you can't effectively do a Massively Multiplayer Online Twitch game, the Internet just won't support it.

  13. Re:Many new games, none of them really new. on Year in MMORPGs Reviewed · · Score: 1

    ROTT was more like 2.9D Almost Full 3D, for example, you could be directly above/below an enemy, but you couldn't have solid floors above one another.

  14. Re:Apples and Oranges on Game Industry Bigger Than Hollywood · · Score: 1

    That is because tickets aren't on sale months in advance. If tickets were available, for example for star wars 3(Revenge of the Sith) today, I'd have my theatre and tickets reserved today.

  15. Re:Not made for MMOs? on Pay-As-You-Play MMORPGs? · · Score: 1

    Try the free AO yearly trial available now... Very short term friendly and FREE!! :)

  16. Re:She must be kidding on Le Guin Peeved About Earthsea Miniseries · · Score: 1

    I didn't catch any continuity errors with the staff. Gandalf lost the wood one in moria against the balrog and recieved the white one from/with galadriel.

  17. Re:She must be kidding on Le Guin Peeved About Earthsea Miniseries · · Score: 1

    WHile some of us would have prefered to see a real wizard's duel with the two of them standing and doing nothing for 15 minutes, it isn't good movie making.

  18. Re:Alien technology on The Promise Of Transparent Circuits · · Score: 1

    They aren't aliens if they stay in Japan.

  19. Re:errrr.... on The Promise Of Transparent Circuits · · Score: 1

    It was a joke.. you moreon let this be a leson to your.

  20. Re:Hurt the GPL? on Lawsuit Filed Against Software Copyright · · Score: 1

    I read it in the documentation of DVDx and VCDeasy, explaining certain changes they made last summer. The authors are aware and that is how I became aware.

  21. Re:Hurt the GPL? on Lawsuit Filed Against Software Copyright · · Score: 1

    I know that many of the free/open source vcd/dvd replication/creation tools have been pirated into "commercial" products.

  22. Re:Very Telling Indeed on Math Skills Survey Shows U.S. Lags Behind · · Score: 1

    Sorry, didn't mean to suggest that you had.

    I don't know what a good percentage as compares to population is, I do know that the crazy guy on TV is both right and wrong.

    [tv guy]THERE ARE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF FREE GOVERNMENT MONEY UNCLAIMED FOR ALL SORTS OF PURPOSES[/tv guy]
    This is the true part

    unfortunately most of us reading slashdot aren't eligible for that money, but someone is, and they likely aren't using it, or even aware that it is available.

  23. Re:Very Telling Indeed on Math Skills Survey Shows U.S. Lags Behind · · Score: 1

    So we should give out uni diplomas like we do HS diplomas, and dilute their meaning as well?

  24. Re:Statistically invalid samples on Math Skills Survey Shows U.S. Lags Behind · · Score: 1

    No, part of the problem is lazy teachers.

    Students have always been lazy, read ancient greek, roman or hebrew literature
    Thus the onus is on the parents and teachers to beat(literally or figuratively) their spawn or students into compliance.

  25. Re:Mixed feeling on HIV Vaccine · · Score: 1
    The point being that on slashdot, posting to this article there exist multiple people who meet the criteria of
    Of course, the chances of a couple both being virgins when they first have sex, then staying monogamous, are also equally small that I'd lose track of the zeros.
    since there are multiple such persons, the number of zeros is between 4 and 5, and therefore the assumption that he can't count past 4 is reasonable.