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  1. Re:Gah! on British Civil Liberties Film Released · · Score: 1

    er, minority = majority above.

  2. Re:Gah! on British Civil Liberties Film Released · · Score: 0, Troll
    I know that I'm being a troll here, but I don't understand how an arrogant asshat like yourself, who believes so sincerely that you know better than everyone else, gets away with not having a troll label.

    Because this is /. and here he is in the minority. Your reasoning is also why the big fans of Linux here are utterly incapable of convincing anyone to switch to that OS, etc. I'd warn you not to make them aware of their style of conversation having an obnoxious body odor, but I know them well enough that they aren't going to learn or change.

  3. Re:We needed to be unashamedly populist... on British Civil Liberties Film Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think the start of the current version is 'First they came for the Islamic terrorists who were in the country illegally and making videos of their plans to kill the people in the rest of this poem.'

  4. Re:Film as political persuasion on British Civil Liberties Film Released · · Score: 1
    No, actually, false. If the producers wanted to allow this, they could and they could even make the donations tax deductable if they wanted to.

    Thanks so much for another moronic viewpoint regarding copyright laws on slashdot.

  5. GH2 versus DDR for Difficulty on First GH III Video Displays Differences · · Score: 1
    I have a red-octane afterburner pad for my xbox and have been able to A on six footers. I'm not great and haven't practiced too much.

    But - I went to my cousin's and played GH2 and found it pretty easy on medium. Was my first time playing GH at all and I am sure I would have aced the songs even better if I had a little more practice time.

    For those who have done both, which do you find harder/easier? I'm guessing DDR is a harder game to master.

  6. Re:Necessary Illusions on It's Not News, It's Fark · · Score: 1
    (__|__)

    You're just like your hero. Running away when confronted with facts and reason.

  7. Re:Necessary Illusions on It's Not News, It's Fark · · Score: 1
    His solution is that decisions for the media should be based entirely by people. That no one should be ahead of anyone else in the decision making process. That media should be a positive freedom, and if you or I wanted to produce a video for a television station we would be able to.

    But they are right now in the US based entirely on the people - except for the Hate-America first crowds at institutions that are funded by America like NPR/PBS - stations with ratings so low that it's not even worth tracking them.

    Chomsky isn't interested in ALLOWIng you to produce a TV program, he's interested in forcing rubes like me to watch it. Guess what - NO ONE wants to watch your trash or hear his opinions. If it was worthwhile, it would already be on TV. And I certainly don't want to subsidize trash I don't care to watch with loans - because the government only has money that it takes from me.

    There isn't anything in what we are talking about that a 12 year old would have trouble understanding.

    So you are 8?

    Nothing in your article suggest Chomsky has anything but praise for the government seizing property and expropriating it to build his political powerbase. His program is identical to every other tyrant who rose to power including the one whose name would Godwin this debate. I'm surprised Chavez didn't call himself the national socialist party - because that is literally the course of his policies and the same course that Chomsky advocates.

  8. Re:Necessary Illusions on It's Not News, It's Fark · · Score: 1
    No, actually, my statements mirror exactly his sentiments. He may not like my wording of them (few people do care to have their words re-phrased or repurposed by others), but it is accurate.

    So tell me what his solution is for the problem that is the US Media?

    So let me repeat: Chomsky's vision for America is vividly captured by the action of his fellow psychotic and fan, Hugo Chavez, in Venezuela, shutting down and seizing media that disagree with him.

    Where did you go to school? I didn't know Wikipedia had a degree program.

  9. Re:Necessary Illusions on It's Not News, It's Fark · · Score: 1

    Is it easier just to contradict everything I say, adding nothing to the conversation?

  10. Re:Necessary Illusions on It's Not News, It's Fark · · Score: 1

    Maybe you can take Chavez's advice at the UN to read his book. And then see the kind of tolerance for free media it has inspired in Venezueala as of late with Chavez shutting down dissident TV stations.

  11. Re:Necessary Illusions on It's Not News, It's Fark · · Score: 1

    No, he is in favor of more regulation because that is the only solution for his criticism of the free media in the United States. He is critical of people doing/watching/producing what they want to produce because he thinks the masses are stupid and are being manipulated by corporate-totaltarianism. Anything that doesn't agree with him exists because of this vast conspiracy - he's no different from any paranoid nut off his meds.

  12. Re:Necessary Illusions on It's Not News, It's Fark · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Chomsky is a moron not because he has a niche viewpoint but because he doesn't realize he has a niche viewpoint and wants the government to regulate free speech and the media only because it doesn't reflect his lame, niche viewpoint.

  13. Re:When were men-in-pajamas movies horrible? on Halo, Nothing But Halo · · Score: 1

    Superman (all of them except maybe the first and second). Daredevil. Ghost Rider. The Punisher (though I enjoyed that one). Captain America. Judge Dredd. Timecop. Cat Woman. Howard the Duck. TMNT. Dick Tracy. Fantastic Four. The Rocketeer. League of Extraordiary Gentlemen. Constantine. Tank Girl. The Mask. Hell Boy.

  14. Re:Wrong on all counts on Microsoft Says Your Phone is Your Next PC · · Score: 1

    Meant their Zune store. PFS devices work in the Zune store, but the Zune uses a kind-of PFS DRM, but not the specifically branded PFS.

  15. Re:impervious to water, how about body heat? on Polyethylene Bulletproof Vests Better Than Kevlar · · Score: 1

    I would guess that the Underamour, like thin slices of steak, cook/melt much faster than the Polyelthalyn. So that sudden blast might flash-fry the underarmour to your body, the PE might only melt a little on the exterior and not start drizzling all over you.

  16. Re:Wrong on all counts on Microsoft Says Your Phone is Your Next PC · · Score: 1

    You are being obtuse. Not only has MS not dropped PFS, they are using it on their new Zune. And obviously Apple wouldn't use the same SOFTWARE, but just the same concept.

  17. Re:In Soviet on RIAA Seeks Royalties From Radio · · Score: -1, Redundant

    In Soviet Russia, the short bus drives YOU!

  18. Re:TV? on Windows Media Center Restricts Cable TV · · Score: 1
    Actually, there is a limit and that's what your TV is set to.

    The difference is that the TV show RARELY wants to max out the sound output so they can be dynamic in volume. Commercials want to be as loud as possible so you can hear them in the next room.

  19. Re:How to conduct an interview 101 on Nepotism and Incompetence - Sigil's Legacy · · Score: 1

    I liked this interview because it's clear the interviewer knows the material and wants actual answers that I, the reader, would want. I like it when I find my voice in the interviewer. Same deal with Bill O'Rielly (well, not all the time, but pretty frequently). Where did you get your rules of journalism? They suck.

  20. Re:Gee.. on Microsoft Says Your Phone is Your Next PC · · Score: 1

    Things to add to that are I use TomTom on mine to get me wherever I want to go AND I use my EDGE connection to run Skype and Agile Messenger (a really good combined chat program).

  21. Re:The bugs aside on Sony Online Entertainment Purchases Vanguard · · Score: 1
    Hi,

    I played the Beta. I really wanted to be an engineer in that game. But I got tied back into AC as no one I was with in AC were inclined to go to AC2. I wound up doing the monarch thing instead on AC.

    Maybe you should let your friend get LOTRO and consider AC2 a learning moment for Turbine. I don't know if you aren't buying Turbine anymore to PUNISH them or because you don't believe they can make a good product. Both are invalid. You need to REWARD them for good products (buy LOTRO) and PUNISH them for bad projects (cancel AC2) or they will be confused - just like training a dog. And aparently it is a GOOD product.

  22. Re:Wrong on all counts on Microsoft Says Your Phone is Your Next PC · · Score: 1
    Excel is actually pretty handy to have on my phone. I can draw up spreadsheets on the fly to calculate things and carry along spreadsheets that I created in Windows that are helpful. Word is good as a reader on the phone but I also compose a few short documents in it, mostly lists. It's not soo bad. PowerPoint is great because you can plug directly into a projector and run your presentation from the phone.

    It does have a long way to go, still. But I am one of those who actually didn't like their Ipod (even the one I got for free) because of it's interface as I used it in an excercise environment and it doesn't handle gloved, cold, or blind fingers very well. I also prefer the Playsforsure thing and while I expect Apple to go with that eventually, it's not here yet.

  23. Re:Gee.. on Microsoft Says Your Phone is Your Next PC · · Score: 1, Insightful
    I use a smart phone. So you're wrong on count one.

    All of the features you list are things my phone is capable of RIGHT NOW and has been for a few years at least. I think Apple has some silly multi-touch screen, but I don't want to touch my screen with much more than the stylus because it marks it up - and I have a lot of buttons on the Querty (FUCK YOU nerd nazis, I did that on purpose!) so I can get stuff done faster than flipping through a bunch of menus using just one button ala Ipod.

  24. Re:Wrong on all counts on Microsoft Says Your Phone is Your Next PC · · Score: 0
    1) You can't make a phone call on a Newton. You can on a CE device. Both WindowsMobile and SmartPhone are CE devices.
    2) A vitual keyboard is not a keyboard. Don't BS me.
    3) 'Considering' is not the same as 'have had for 11 years.'

    How can MS possiblhy be behind? What's truly cool about the CE platform is you could recreate the entire Iphone experience with it and sell it - all probably before the Ibrick comes out.

  25. Re:Gee.. on Microsoft Says Your Phone is Your Next PC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, MS has been ahead of Apple in this market for at least 11 years starting with Windows CE. I've had several of the devices and my HP Ipaq 6945 eclipses the capabilities of any computer I owned until maybe 2000. WM5 is not perfect and has a long way to go, as does the hardware. But unlike Apple's product that you can't buy anywhere and that doesn't have a QUERTY and that doesn't have a the possibility of getting third party developers, WM has had all of that for several years.