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  1. Competency test on Warner Bros. to Sell Movies Over BitTorrent · · Score: 1
    They believe movie fans will prefer to pay a reasonable price for a legal downloaded movie rather than risk illegally swapping a computer file that could contain viruses
    Anyone dumb enough to EXECUTE a video file shouldn't be playing with P2P software.
  2. Re:What does Take 2 have to do with that? on Jack Thompson Weighs in on Oblivion · · Score: 0

    Grouping Senator Mccarthy with Hitler is truly laughable.

  3. Re:Nothing on What Happened to Blue Security · · Score: 2, Informative
    I don't think windows has a similar function readily available.
    NUL
  4. Re:Purpose for defense or offense? on U.S. Considers Anti-Satellite Laser · · Score: 1
    The fact people related to us died for something does not make it good.
    I didn't say it did, did I? Don't feel too badly, you missed the point like most Slashdotters.
  5. Re:Purpose for defense or offense? on U.S. Considers Anti-Satellite Laser · · Score: 1

    Don't look now, but I think your post just bombed.

  6. Re:Purpose for defense or offense? on U.S. Considers Anti-Satellite Laser · · Score: 1
    1) The US is a member of NATO.
    And you're a member of Fools'r'Us. Are we NATO's scapegoat? If a British officer was in charge, he's at fault. End of story.
  7. Re:Purpose for defense or offense? on U.S. Considers Anti-Satellite Laser · · Score: 1

    China's ICBMs clearly do not have the capability.

  8. Re:Purpose for defense or offense? on U.S. Considers Anti-Satellite Laser · · Score: 1
    in the meanwhile, i invite u to investigate the location where those fantasy bombs where found, as far as i know, none chemical or nuke bombs where found.
    Not finding significant quantities of WMDs does not support your argument that the war was for oil. It does not even prove that the war was entered under false pretenses. See the last three years' discussion regarding the questionable competence of the CIA and other intelligence agencies in interpreting the data.
  9. Re:Purpose for defense or offense? on U.S. Considers Anti-Satellite Laser · · Score: 1
    Don't worry about offending people - it's just words (and our ancestors have died to protect our rights to free speech).
    Kudos to you for actually understanding that concept.
  10. Re:Purpose for defense or offense? on U.S. Considers Anti-Satellite Laser · · Score: 1
    I do agree with your post to a certain extent, but the US hasn't entered a hot war with an equivilant (or even close) power for over fifty years (and arguably never)
    NEVER? Were Japan and Germany pushovers? Assuming you mean a unilateral war, the furthest we need to go back is probably the Spanish-American war, and if that still doesn't satisfy you then how about the War of 1812 against a clearly SUPERIOR opponent.
  11. Re:When I was your age on ESRB Changes Oblivion's Rating to 'Mature' · · Score: 1
    In my day, Al Gore hadn't invented boobies yet.

    You lucky bastards. God bless Al Gore!

  12. Re:Europeans watch with mouths agape on ESRB Changes Oblivion's Rating to 'Mature' · · Score: 2, Funny

    So which continent is that, genius? Brittanica?

  13. Re:Answer is easy. on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 1
    The milk section in the supermarket was wall to wall skimmed milk, with a smaller section for the more daring americans that wanted to risk semi-skimmed and finally, buried down in a little corner, was the "full-fat" milk, though I don't think it was called that in the shop.
    It's called whole milk. And you must shop in some bizarro-market, because mine has about equal quantities of all varieties. There might actually be a little bit less of the skim. How does this fit in with the "Fat American" stereotype, anyway, if we supposedly only drink skim milk?
    I had several people look surprised when I drank that, as if I'd committed some moral sin.
    Perhaps you should have left the dairy aisle and paid for the milk before drinking it.
  14. From the article on Cloak of Invisibility Coming Soon · · Score: 1
    It's been the curse of the USS Enterprise and the Klingons' favoured weapon.
    No... clearly the Klingons' favored weapon is Romulan ale. A few cups of that and you can hardly keep your qagh down.
  15. Re:It's a naming problem on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 1

    Umm... I don't know where you shop, but none of my milk has expiration dates more than two weeks from the date of purchase.

  16. Re:Answer is easy. on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 1

    Weak tea. Mmm... that sounds refreshing. Hey, you might live to 101 but what is there to live for?

  17. Re:Answer is easy. on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 1

    Boy... I can't wait until we have socialized health care in the U.S. so that everyone is on the successor to Medicare and every health provider goes broke.

  18. Re:Answer is easy. on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Er... pasteurization and refrigeration? I hear they work wonders.

  19. Re:Answer is easy. on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 1
    Car accidents are human errors!
    Sometimes your error, sometimes the other driver's. Health is the same way! Sometimes you get the cancer (smoking) and sometimes the cancer gets you (heredity, unknown factors).
  20. "Rush hour" lanes on The Future of the Internet · · Score: 1
    What if I-95 announced an exclusive deal with General Motors to provide a special "rush-hour" lane for GM cars only?
    Well, allowing single-occupant hybrids to use the car-pool lanes probably isn't due to corporate interests-- but it's certainly not in the public interest. There are non-hybrids in existence that get over 45 MPG (such as the Metro). Why aren't they allowed in the carpool lanes?
  21. Re:I've ALWAYS had the same IP (going on 15 years) on Unique Visitors = 1/10th of Unique IPs? · · Score: 1, Funny

    I have bad news for you, buddy... I h4x0r3d j00 last night!!!!111

  22. Re:I thought it was the opposite. on Unique Visitors = 1/10th of Unique IPs? · · Score: 1

    PPPoE (used with some DSL) is the same way, of course.

  23. Re:Form 1040 VR on Real Life Cash Card Launched To Access Your Virtual Money · · Score: 1
    What is the "fair market value" for a +15 sword of the undead?
    I have no idea because some tool like "Bl4d3" or "Buffy the vampire slayer grrl :-)" keeps bidding them up!
  24. Already been done ... on Real Life Cash Card Launched To Access Your Virtual Money · · Score: 3, Funny

    We already have fantasy worlds where one plays games for funny money and cashes it in for real money-- it's called a casino! And most of the women are actually female! And attractive!

  25. Re:Bzzzzzt history says you are wrong on Colbert New Comic-in-Chief · · Score: 0
    But ... it is likely the forged letter was essentially accurate
    That's funny... that's what Dan Rather said about it. He admitted it was fake, but it reflected what he thought was the truth. We don't want guesses, we want facts. We can't afford to have every media blowhard make slanderous statements and ruin people's careers and reputations.
    the commanding officers secretary
    Now that's a reputable source! No one believed Monica Lewinsky without the dress, though... did they? We don't have a dress here.
    Rather was of course driven out of the CBS anchor chair and the producer was fired.
    Sic Semper Tyrannus.