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  1. The bigger picture on Obama Wants To Fund Clean Energy Research With Oil & Gas Funds · · Score: 1

    Let's not miss an important aspect of this: Obama just proposed ACTUAL POLICY SPECIFICS. This is really turning over a new leaf for him.

  2. Re:Yea... no. on Is It Time To Enforce a Gamers' Bill of Rights? · · Score: 1

    That wasn't the vapid argument that I was pointing out, but hey. You kids and your reading comprehension.

  3. Re:Yea... no. on Is It Time To Enforce a Gamers' Bill of Rights? · · Score: 1

    Oh, I was just following your vapid argument to its dumb conclusion. I guess that upset you, but to be fair, you do seem pretty easy to upset.

  4. Re:Yea... no. on Is It Time To Enforce a Gamers' Bill of Rights? · · Score: 1

    That makes sense - if we're not busy complaining about Wiley & Sons vs. Kirtsaeng, we really shouldn't complain about anything else. Folks, remember: you should only ever take issue with one thing at a time. If you're not cool with something, make darn sure the rest of the world is alright by you until you're done being mad about that one thing! I, for one, am glad we've had focus brought to this conversation, so that instead of talking about the gamers' bill of rights, or simcity, we can instead just talk about Wiley & Sons vs. Kirtsaeng. And that's thanks to you, CanHasDIY. From all of us: thank you.

  5. Re:Wrong lesson. on SimCity 5: How Not To Design a Single Player Game · · Score: 1

    Ugh, it's "reticulating splines", not "matriculating splines." lrn2readmadeupphrases

  6. Re:EA: Making solutions into major problems on SimCity 5: How Not To Design a Single Player Game · · Score: 1

    To be fair, he never said X didn't equal zero. ;)

  7. Re:Wrong lesson. on SimCity 5: How Not To Design a Single Player Game · · Score: 1

    Do what they did in one of the earliest scathing reviews of it. Start a game, then simply press "Next Turn" around 200 times until the AI wins the game for you.

  8. Re:Are gays varelse? on Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy · · Score: 1

    At the very least, gays are generally cultured enough not to eat ramen. Does that make them varelse, by definition?

  9. Re:Consider Me Warned on Feedback On Simcity Gets User Banned From EA Forums · · Score: 0

    You think he paid to get into the beta? Umm...

  10. Re:McAfee is not a drug addict on John McAfee Explains How He Milked Information From Belize's Elite · · Score: 1

    If he's getting it on with that many women, may I suggest condomS? Using the same one over and over might not get the results he's hoping for.

  11. Re:Slashbloat on John McAfee Explains How He Milked Information From Belize's Elite · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean the Peter Norton who hasn't been caught yet?

  12. More research needed on Humans Have Been Eating Cheese For At Least 7,500 Years · · Score: 1

    Are we sure this just isn't a grilled cheese sandwich that looks like it has Noah's face on it?

  13. Can we just get back to saying "while" instead of using its pretentious trendy douchey variant? Sure, if you're British, and you use it regularly, fine. Otherwise, get over yourself.

  14. And the TED talk guy screamed while cornering... on Self-Driving Car Faces Off Against Pro On Thunderhill Racetrack · · Score: 1

    EHRMAGERDES!

  15. Re:I don't follow.... on Teenager Arrested In England For Criticizing Olympic Athlete On Twitter · · Score: 1

    Because dickery is less well-regarded than equivalent counterdickery.

  16. Re:I blame on Study Finds New Pop Music Does All Sound the Same · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should look up the difference between "tempo" and "meter".

  17. Re:No kidding on The Fall of 38 Studios · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Single player MMOs"? Derp?

  18. Re:Just like a slashdot poll on Google Wants You to Use Your Real Name on YouTube · · Score: 1

    Oh, fine. You and your technicalities ;)

  19. Re:Just like a slashdot poll on Google Wants You to Use Your Real Name on YouTube · · Score: 1

    Staying out of jail is not one of my motivations.

    Then turn yourself in already, you ninny!

  20. Straw man much? on Is It Time To End Our Love Affair With the QWERTY Keyboard? · · Score: 2

    Nobody has a "love affair" with the QWERTY keyboard. It's just the de facto standard since it's been used for ages. Dumb headline.

  21. Re:Are we to take this seriously? on Ask Slashdot: Old Dogs vs. New Technology? · · Score: 1

    Maybe the "old dog" graduated 5th grade and knows that the phrase is "should have" and not "should of".

  22. Re:Impossible on Eben Moglen: Time To Apply Asimov's First Law of Robotics To Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Asimov dealt with that exact issue in The Robots of Dawn.

  23. Re:Impossible on Eben Moglen: Time To Apply Asimov's First Law of Robotics To Smartphones · · Score: 1

    You haven't read Asimov either, have you?

  24. Re:Impossible on Eben Moglen: Time To Apply Asimov's First Law of Robotics To Smartphones · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you'd actually read Asimov, you'd know that emotional and financial harm would both have fallen under the same First Law umbrella as physical harm, in his canon.

  25. Tradeoffs on The Hobbit's Higher Frame Rate To Cost Theater Operators · · Score: 1

    You can watch the same movie at 24 FPS if you want to. But just to warn you - it's going to take twice as long.