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  1. Re:Copyright infringement penalties are excessive! on RIAA Complaint Dismissed as "Boilerplate" · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've always found that argument silly, let me tell you, if a girl is a wonder in the sack, even if she's not particularly great looking and comes with baggage, she can sure lure me into a relationship by giving me some free milk.

  2. Re:Why no mention? on BioShock Review · · Score: 1

    Glad you said software industry, because NOBODY has lost more money to infringement than pron.

  3. Re:flawed in the first place on Method of Reading Discovered · · Score: 1

    I honestly think that reading is so abstracted in the brain that it's actually done very differently procedurally from one person to the next.

  4. Re:Science Journalism - Thumbs Down on Pink, Blue, and Bad Science · · Score: 1

    Our congressmen don't need to understand those bills, they just sell their votes on most of them to states that care and do understand in exchange for those states' votes on issues they don't care about but our congressman does.

  5. Re:Drugs don't wreck people's lives on Drug Testing Entire Cities at Once · · Score: 1

    I knew plenty of "pre-loaders" who tried such things, and it seemed to help a bit early on, but even with an available precursor your body isn't going to just produce massive new stores in no time. Most stopped bothering as even with it, it would maybe get a month down to two weeks. Depends on one's individual metabolism, I suppose, not sure if it's more effective or less after you've been doing it a while, as I'm not really in contact with anyone that drops pills anymore.

  6. Re:but..... on Drug Testing Entire Cities at Once · · Score: 1

    To address treatment - CURRENT treatment is horribly expensive an ineffective. Thats because it's based on the 12 step program, which is a thinly veiled religious recruitment program. The 12 steps basically cook down to "accept you can never take care of yourself and put yourself in Gods hands." Rather than "take responsibility for your life and be the person you need to be to live the life you want to have. If rehab was usefully constructed and only applied to people that wanted "out" it woudl be effective. Forcing people into a religious recruitment nuthouse which on the failure side is a "dealer-client meet and greet" is NOT good solution to the drug problem.

  7. Re:Drugs don't wreck people's lives on Drug Testing Entire Cities at Once · · Score: 1

    Ecstasy loses is strong euphoric effects if taken more than weekly, better yet, monthly, so I think true "for the buzz" users tend to stay under control, while those using it just because it hypes them up like speed would are the ones that get out of control. Serotonin, the cause of all the drug's most desirable effects, only regenerates so fast.

  8. Re:but..... on Drug Testing Entire Cities at Once · · Score: 1

    Your implication illegality reduces use of these substances if false, review reality a bit and think about how everybody stopped drinking during prohibition... or rather, that next to nobody did.

  9. Re:question for moderators: on Drug Testing Entire Cities at Once · · Score: 1

    Worsening the problem is the concept of the "12 step program," the basis of nearly all modern rehab, which basically, stripped of it's dressings, comes down to "accept you can't control yourself no matter what you do and pray God will help you stay clean." A simple religious recruitment agenda disguised as a medical treatment that helps people. They work, as well... at least they work as well as jail, or every single other forced treatment ever imposed on anyone, which is to say, they work on people that want to and have reason to stay clean, and always fail utterly on everyone else.

  10. Re:Is MP3 louder than uncompressed? on The "Loudness War" and the Future of Music · · Score: 1

    It does to some extent, but less so, the use of compression this way is less significant than it might appear, as our ablity to hear well degrades as we leave the prime midrange, thus, compression in the bass and treble are less likely to cause audible artifacts and clipping outside of standard audible range is common for encoders.

  11. Re:state==public domain? on DUI Defendant Wins Source Code to Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    The reason blood alcohol level tests for sobriety are silly is because the whole PREMISE is silly. There's already laws against hurting someone or killing them when you drive. It shouldn't matter if you hurt or killed someone because you were drunk, or tired from no sleep and two jobs, or turned around to stop your child from throwing little bits of play-doh at the windshield, or took your prescription as described by your doctor and got an unexpected drop in blood pressure that never happened before. Way more drivers are impaired from lack of sleep than alcohol, and it's just as bad for your driving, should they get a device that measures your blood melatonin levels, determine that you had too little rest to drive, and slap an extra harsh penalty on you, even though you were the person HIT in the accident, because your reflexes could have potentially been better enough to avoid the situation were you well rested(even though you were blindsided and never had a chance to move)? Not to mention "roadside sobriety tests" - officers fail over half of people, completely regardless of the actual intoxication level of any of them(yes, they still fail over half when EVERY SINGLE ONE is sober), and there are NO standards for them - the officer can make you hop on one leg down the road line while singing the Doors if he wants, and fail you for forgetting the words. It was always hectic for officers to determine if someone's drinking played a role in an accident, breathalysers are treated as a magic bullet which "knows!" how intoxicated you are. If I was gravely injured and my two choices for a ride to the hospital were my GF with half a beer in her, or an alcoholic from the local bar that normally drinks at least 12 a day and has 9 in him right now, I'd take the alcoholic please, as my gf can't even see well enough to WALK after half a beer. But she'd test totally fine on the machine, and the boozer would fail. And all of that is not to mention that anything with an alcohol group molecularly sets a Breathalyzer off, so if you chew sugarless gum and it happens to be sweetened with sugar alcohols(VERY common in the low carb trade), better hope you don't get into an accident, because you might be going up the river with a DWI, those machines read anything actively on your breath from recent consumption at many, many times the actual level in your body, and increase your level for ANYTHING with an alcohol group, even if it's not intoxicating. That means you also don't want to use menthol cough drops if you've got a sore throat, that a conviction, too. Personal responsibility means knowing when you can and can't drive, whether its alcohol, sleep deprivation, or any other issue, and the crusade against "drunk driving" which pretends a magic box can determine if someone is safe to drive is only hurting the concept.

  12. Re:DUI defendant would have been better off on DUI Defendant Wins Source Code to Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    About that calibration - how is it done, is there an adjustment screw, lever, or the like?

  13. Re:Idiots on Bad Movie Physics Hurt Scientific Understanding · · Score: 1

    Isn't the sound created by shock waves of particles from the detonating craft smashing into the listeners shields?

  14. Re:Think of the children... on Bad Movie Physics Hurt Scientific Understanding · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Possibly antibiotics, the over use of which by hypochondriac parents is currently actively damaging their immune systems.

  15. Re:state==public domain? on DUI Defendant Wins Source Code to Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    By significant, I mean worse on you than being a couple hours short on sleep. 1 beer is about the equivalent of 1 hour short of sleep, so .008 is about two hours short. If you think you should be arrested for that...

  16. Re:state==public domain? on DUI Defendant Wins Source Code to Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    It's the truth. 0.08 is below any significant level of impairment under normal driving conditions, and police fail a consistent 50-75% of people on sobriety tests when 100% are sober.

  17. Re:Wired: The Eternal Value of Privacy on Privacy and the "Nothing To Hide" Argument · · Score: 1

    The reason for statues is that as people age, they become different people. Most people that commit violent street crime at 25 will have a workaday job and family to support at 35. Not some, the vast majority. Imprisoning them at that point does nothing to change how they will act(they've already done so themselves) and removes a pillar of support from a family, likely dropping them below poverty line and greatly increasing the chances any children growing up in that family will end up as criminals behind bars themselves. Certain offenses certainly require a statute of limitations, or laws will corrode and degrade society, rather than protect it.

  18. Re:Suspicious at best. on Nicotine Is the New Wonder Drug · · Score: 1

    Try Irish Flake if you haven't, highest nicotine of any peterson tobacco, and it's just a pure tobacco blend, no casing or other flavorings added, so it leaves the lungs feeling very clean compared to the irish wiskey or the university flake.

  19. Re:Suspicious at best. on Nicotine Is the New Wonder Drug · · Score: 1

    You good sir, have fine taste in pipe tobaccos. The Peterson high nicotine tobaccos, like Irish whiskey, Irish flake, or old Dublin, are much better tobacco than anything you can get in a cigarette, and provide a distinct, pleasant, and energetic buzz.

  20. Re:Suspicious at best. on Nicotine Is the New Wonder Drug · · Score: 1

    It's very fast and effective, opium smokers discovered this centuries or longer ago. What they need now is a base that produces no carcinogens when burned and has no foul flavor, then we can add whatever drug medium we want to it, synthetic cigarettes with no aromatic hydrocarbons or other carcinogens, any flavor you want, and any nicotine dose we want, now that sounds like a product that will sell.

  21. Re:for a fact.... on Nicotine Is the New Wonder Drug · · Score: 1

    CLOVES! Sweet, delicious Djarum Specials, bummed off the cute goth girl outside as an excuse to talk to her, ahhh MEMORIES.

  22. Re:Hah. on Intelligent Design Ruled "Not Science" · · Score: 1

    I saw a tug of war between a chimp and a sumo wrestler several times the chimps weight. The chimp wasn't even particularly challenged, he could hold his ground with only one arm on the rope.

  23. Re:The Censorship of the Oregon Trail on History of MECC and Oregon Trail · · Score: 1

    Generally agreed, but there were plenty of far worse atrocities going on during desert storm period than Saddoms' invasion, the only reason that particular one registered on the radar was that it was in the middle east. I mean, the events that started up the Rwandan Genocide were already going, and we're talking just short of a million people being slaughtered systematically. Nothing Saddam has ever done can compare, even if you include casualties of war from his war with Iran(which really shouldn't because that was a war), it's barely a tie. Difference? No oil in Rwanda, so their people don't need to be brought democracy and freedom, so 4 years later, nearly a million are dead from systematic slaughter.

  24. Re:Not a single bison shall stand on History of MECC and Oregon Trail · · Score: 1

    rabbits were the worst, they'd create blocks that made the larger animals run strait back off the screen...

  25. Re:May I be the first.... on Chairbot Walks You Around While You Sit · · Score: 1

    I found them to be much better late game replacement for the marines, which splatter far too fast to properly form a line around siege tanks and prevent them from being bombed by air units or rushed by faster units, I'd use a divided guard of half goliaths and half wraiths. Even late game a flock of zerglings could pretty well ruin an otherwise efficient tank line, if they just split up and let themselves get splattered while the tanks blow each other to pieces.