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  1. Re:Uh oh on FTC Bars Popup Backdoor Ads · · Score: 1

    Gee, the fake error message looks kind of... well... fake in my Konqueror browser, don't you think?

  2. Re:Sweeeeeet. on Doom 3 Hardware Guide Debuts · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I must say, thank goodness. Maybe I'll get to play this game after all. I spent $600 upgrading my computer over a year ago and UT2003 still plays so choppy I can't stand it. It still gives me ulcers just thinking about it. Hopefully, if this is right, I'll be able to play DOOM 3 on my AMD 2600+ with 128 MB video RAM.

    Believe me, I tried everything to get UT2003 to run well on this system. /me pukes and then faints.

  3. phone bills on How Much Are You Paying For Electronics Labels? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My parents run a small business. They tell me that the phone service for businesses is more expensive because businesses threaten to sue as soon as the service goes out for whatever reason.

  4. Re:Emotional Car Driver Charged With Murder on DVD-Watching Driver Charged with Murder · · Score: 1

    That car is nothing. Check out THIS CAR!

  5. Re:Road Trip on DVD-Watching Driver Charged with Murder · · Score: 1
    He probably swerved at the large leopard underwear part!

    Actuaaly, I had imagined that he swerved when they got to the "milking the prostate" part.

  6. Re:This is YRO how? on DVD-Watching Driver Charged with Murder · · Score: 1

    Acutally, it's a double crime. Not only did he obvoiusly commit manslaughter, he committed the crime of being stupid, apparently.

  7. Re:ah, the old puritan mentality... on Vaccinated Against Vices? · · Score: 1

    So, is there anyone else here reminded of the Equilibrium movie?

  8. Re:VOTE LIBERTARIAN on Hatch Pushes INDUCE Act · · Score: 1

    The pathetic thing is, no matter who wins the next US Presidential Election, the result will be called into question because of the electronic voting fiaSCO.

  9. Re:VOTE LIBERTARIAN on Hatch Pushes INDUCE Act · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the Australians are pissed off at you for calling their country a "2nd or 3rd world ally."

  10. Re:Wakeup calls on Hatch Pushes INDUCE Act · · Score: 1
    Its rare that laws ( or taxes ) are ever repealed..

    [trolling]Yeah, but when taxes are lowered, the liberals scream TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH, never mind that most of the taxes are paid by the rich anyways.[/trolling]

    Remember the death tax, anyone?

  11. Re:Powerful incentives (and interests) on Hatch Pushes INDUCE Act · · Score: 1
    There is no way you can say that this problem is unique to liberals. I hear conservatives saying the same old "win by losing" tripe as well.

    There are just too many people who don't care for us to "win by losing."

  12. Re:Tax everything on Japan Considers Taxing of WiFi · · Score: 2, Informative
    You took that from US President Ronald Reagan,


    Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases:

    If it moves, tax it.
    If it keeps moving, regulate it.
    And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

    Those are his words.

  13. Math, the sport on Is Math A Sport? · · Score: 1
    First, you divide a group of players along two sides of a field, which is marked off for both groups by division rings. Between the two division rings, there exists a sphere into which a player must launch a ball. If a player kicks the ball to the right of the sphere, it is called an open ball; likewise, to the left is a closed ball. When a player launches a ball into the sphere, the game is complete and the kick is called perfect power.

    By the way, after extensive research, I discovered that the WORLD SERIES diverges!!!

  14. Re:GNBasic = GNBasic Not Basic. on EU Ministers Went Off-Brief In Patent Vote · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm suing you for infringing on my patent on the GOTO statement, as well as my patents on the letters 'g', 'o', 't', and 'o'.

  15. Victims of the new bill? on Senate Unanimously Passes Anti-Camcorder Bill · · Score: 1

    Doesn't that sound a bit like people who break the law? I know that the MPAA is not popular here, but there is no intrinsic right to make copies of movies from the theatre.

  16. Just wait... on ATi HDTV Tuner For The PC Arrives · · Score: 1, Funny
    Just wait until Jack Valenti hears that you can get movies on your computer out of thin air in HD resolution. He'll flip out.

    Those computers must be confiscated from those filthy pirates.

  17. Re:The savages did it again! on Intel Puts the Lock on Overclocking · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  18. Re:Powerful incentives on Sen. Hatch to Introduce Wide-ranging Copyright Bill · · Score: 1

    Good point, but if they had the clipper chip, then they could have made all other encryption "naughty" stuff for terrorists and child molesters.

  19. Re:Concerning taxes... on Sen. Hatch to Introduce Wide-ranging Copyright Bill · · Score: 1
    The only grants I see as being useful are highway funds (trade and defense reasons), and they are so loaded with mandates and requirements to get the money that it is effectively extorting the states into making laws that the people would otherwise not support.

    I agree. I think that this is Unconstitutional as the federal government uses it to force the states to pass certain laws over matters that it has no Constitutional dominion over.

    Forgive me if this is a bit off-topic, but one string that is attached to federal highway funds is the national 21 drinking age. The federal government essentially forced states to enact and enforce a law that the federal government didn't want to mess with; not that I want to advocate repealing the drinking age lawas with this post.

  20. Just a little reminder here... on Sen. Hatch to Introduce Wide-ranging Copyright Bill · · Score: 1

    One often overlooked fact is that it is the responsibility of the legislature to write the law, and it is the responsibility of the courts to interpret the law. There is an interesting history in why it is that the courts now have the power of "judicial review." I know that most of us disagree with Hatch's copyright policies, but please keep keep court decisions in their proper perspective that they are to interpret the law, now make the law.

  21. Re:reminds me... on Who's Blocking Verified E-Voting? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, I believe that because of the nature of what war is, if you are a soldier fighting in any war, for any country or organization, and you are captured, you should expect to be mistreated.

  22. Re:Perfect Setup on Microsoft Patents The Task List · · Score: 1

    You're saying that it was justified to kill all those people in the World Trade Center. riiiiiiighht.... you ought to hear yourself.

  23. Re:Not funny at all on Netgear's Amusing "fix" for WG602v1 Backdoor · · Score: 1

    You said that the government should help us out on this one. I'm not sure that's such a good idea. I don't mean to be a conspiracy nut, but isn't the government an institution that wants to restrict encryption and what not? This sounds like something they might have been compelled to do by THE MAN.

  24. Re:I my GOD! on Microsoft's EU Appeal is Ready · · Score: 1

    OK, for those of us who keep hearing that joke and don't know what it's all about, could you please EXPLAIN to me what the Chewbacca Defense is all about?

  25. But hardware will be free!!! on Microsoft Revamps Licensing Plans · · Score: 4, Funny