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  1. Re:Win - Win on Are Optional Ads Worth The Trouble? · · Score: 1

    Just wondering - I remember CoH (and CoV - same game?) came out a while ago to a big buzz. But is anyone still playing the game?

  2. Re:neither copyright nor trademark on Blizzard Sues Creator of WoW Bot · · Score: 1
    we _reduced_ blizzard's costs because they had a lower load on their servers.

    You also reduced the advertising revenue and marketing strength they had on their servers. Battlenet was built with advertising banners across the top promoting new Blizzard products and whatever else they wanted.

  3. Re:Copyright? Maybe not, but maybe trademark? on Blizzard Sues Creator of WoW Bot · · Score: 1

    But even winning the lawsuit isn't going to solve the problem at_all. The current users of the bot will crack it and pass it around OR he may just make the thing open source and set it loose - never to be stopped again.

  4. Re:I got a cramp in my brain on OCZ Prepares Neural Impulse Actuator for Shipping · · Score: 1
    Alternatively, when you use a part of the human body that has not been in use before, that part of the body adapts and gets stronger.

    From personal experience, this applies to sleeping at altitude, getting calouses on my hands, running, swimming, biking, weight lifting, playing trumpet (lips were NOT meant to do that), using a special kind of bike crank (power cranks), doing pullups, pushups, and crunches. Hmm - also playing FPS.

    Initially, all of the above activities left me very 'cramp'ed. But now they do not and my proficiency with them has gotten much better.

    Some things your body doesn't deal well with (cyanide injestion) but many of these things - the body adapts to quiet well.

  5. Re:Happy Darwin Day on Will Wright's Spore To Release Sept. 7th · · Score: 1
    what is the "other thing" that is creating life akin to the way scientists do?

    Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

  6. Re:Happy Darwin Day on Will Wright's Spore To Release Sept. 7th · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hello from the 5%.

  7. Re:Happy Darwin Day on Will Wright's Spore To Release Sept. 7th · · Score: 1
    No, Intelligent Creation may be Creationism but not necessarily. Creationism is premised upon an omnipresent 'God.' ID can be premised upon that (though so can evolutionary theory), however it doesn't require it. For decades, humans have been practicing ID in laboratories, splicing genes and creating new variations of species in aggriculture and livestock.

    The God-less ID theory is that the life on this planet originated in a similar way.

  8. Re:13 and 10 not pedophilia on Internet "Creates Pedophiles" According to "Expert" · · Score: 1

    Pedophilia isn't about attraction to a certain age, it's about attraction to pre-pubescent individuals.

  9. Re:O RLY on Namco Blames Wii for Arcade Closures · · Score: 1

    Good lord. I just read up on DOC as I had not heard of it yet and not found a woman in the last several years who wanted to go to D&B (can't say I'm to enthused myself). Fascinating.

  10. Science without Ethics on Science Debate 2008 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Science without Ethics is sociopathology.

  11. Re:Entry to Federal Buildings on DHS Official Suggests REAL ID Mission Creep · · Score: 1
    I'm just replying to the earlier post about being an EMT and what comes first. You will note that the method for getting an airway changes when truama is involved from a head-tilt to a jaw thrust. This is a motion that is easily done AFTER the spine has been stabalized.

    If you have a text handy or something like thatI think this can be backed up.

  12. Re:Subscription DRM services on Yahoo Music Shutting Down, Users Going to Real · · Score: 1
    My brother's music is available on iTunes and on Real. He gets $0.70 for each song sold on iTunes, and something like $0.12 off of real or one of the other subscription servicecs services. Not a lot, but not 1/1000th of a sent.

    So, uh, help him out and download alexanderbe or Alex Ander Be (don't remember).

  13. Re:Worst story ever on Yahoo Music Shutting Down, Users Going to Real · · Score: 0, Troll
    I heard this yesterday. I am a current Yahoo subscriber and love it. I've tried Rhapsody and it is awful.

    Yahoo's product wasn't perfect, but it was much better than what everyone else had.

    Yahoo was very open about their new music service when it started. It worked great for me - unlimited music for $6 a month. Every new album each week - over 50 on average - and everything cataloged and easily searchable. And all available to go on my portable player.

    I am pretty sure I am not going to stay with Real because their product sucks and Rob Glaser is a socialist, so I am going to have to check out the other PlaysforSure offerings.

  14. Re:answer on Best Super Tuesday Candidate for Technology? · · Score: 1
    Why are you crackers so easily suckered? Obama is playing you like a fiddle.

    Here's a hint. He's been an elected official a long time. LOOK AT WHAT HE DOES, NOT WHAT HE TELLS YOU STUPID CRACKERS.

  15. Re:A Totally Free Market is Best, but ... on Best Super Tuesday Candidate for Technology? · · Score: 1

    Elderly liberals and white women are the majority of the D primary voters. So, it would appear, game set match.

  16. Re:A reputation on Gamespot's Editorial Problems in Perspective · · Score: 1, Troll
    For SC2, I have 2 weeks vacation I rolled from last year and all my vacation this year reserved so I can use it to take a month off when it comes out.

    Are you being serious?

  17. Re:Lawsuits? on Training From America's Army Game Saved a Life · · Score: 1

    I think that he still has a good point that people should be trained.Well. Ok. Are you?

  18. Re:Lawsuits? on Training From America's Army Game Saved a Life · · Score: 1

    Like the 'ski patrol' with CPR training? And who are you - other than an AC?

  19. Re:Lawsuits? on Training From America's Army Game Saved a Life · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think you are missing what was discussed. My first post was that most people are best off dialing 911. He said I was wrong because people should get involved because anyone with first aid knows what to do. I said he was wrong because most people don't have any kind of training. Everything else is irrelevant.

  20. Re:Lawsuits? on Training From America's Army Game Saved a Life · · Score: 1
    My first post was that most people are best off dialing 911.

    He said I was wrong because people should get involved because anyone with first aid knows what to do.

    I said he was wrong because most people don't have any kind of training.

    Everything else is irrelevant.

  21. Re:Lawsuits? on Training From America's Army Game Saved a Life · · Score: 1

    No, your steps are out of order. Spinal stabilization comes before ABCD in suspected trauma.

  22. Re:BF2 Encouraged me to become a medic on Training From America's Army Game Saved a Life · · Score: 1
    Source?

    Wikipedia and Merriam-Webster disagree.

  23. Re:Lawsuits? on Training From America's Army Game Saved a Life · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Not only are you wrong, but you're answer is dangerous.

    I strongly believe that everyone should at least have a basic level of first aid training

    And almost no one does. And what someone who either doesn't know what they are doing or did know and has forgotten would do more than likely will make the situation worse.

    In the event of a car accident, the first thing the professionals do (and I am one, and you are not), is to stabalize the spinal cord. The first thing an untrained person would probably try to do is drag the person from the car, possibly killing them in the process.

  24. Re:Lawsuits? on Training From America's Army Game Saved a Life · · Score: 1

    Actually, they do apply to doctors as well. Acting in good faith to the best of their abilities..

  25. BF2 Encouraged me to become a medic on Training From America's Army Game Saved a Life · · Score: 4, Interesting
    BF2 encouraged me to become a medic. I played a lot of BF2 and BF2142 and always used the medic kit or the assault class with a medic loadout.

    It fostered in me a desire to obtain basic medical skills. Just as it is helpful to be able to revive your comrad in the game, I thought it would be helpful to be able to render real aid to a person in an accident.

    So I registered for an EMT-B certification class and after about 120 hours of class time and 24 hours of on-site training, I was qualified to take the exam and am now a certified EMT-B and considering pursing the certification all the way up to paramedic.

    I will do it only on a volunteer basis - I already have a profession - but it is a worthwile skill and I am glad I obtained it.