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  1. Re:Bravo for your sarcasm! on Debunking the Lorentz System As a Framework For Human Emotions · · Score: 1

    (which of course reminds us on how "we" were taught that in the 15th century that everybody thought the Earth was flat)

    Had you not been so intent on being a sarcastic ass, you might have done a little reading. This is one of those dumbshit factoids that aren't true.

    "The immense sarcasm in this post points to how many people talk about a subject they have no firsthand expertise in"

    Irony, thy name is Anonymous Coward.

  2. Re:The "death" is their own making on The Battle For the Game Industry's Soul · · Score: 0

    DLC is more like buying the next books in a series. If one were to wait for all the DLCs to be implemented, one would never get the game as it would take far too long to hit the market and simply cost too much. Every map, wireframe, movement script, (etc, etc) costs for someone to construct. .

    If you were unaware the DLCs existed, you really didn't look into the game did you?

  3. Re:PC Games waning death spiral on The Battle For the Game Industry's Soul · · Score: 2

    People don't 'not realize' how much money they're spending. Don't be so condescending of players just so you can take a perceived jab at game developers. People want to play and buy little things. It's a successful technique for expanding the game after release.

    By the way, I play on a PC. My favorite game involves extensions and micro-transactions. The platform in no way affects that.

  4. Re: actual "platform" on A Ray of Hope For Americans and Scientific Literacy? · · Score: 1

    Assuming you're referring to pirates (unclear), the pirates have modern arms as well. Same could be said for arms you can keep in your home.

  5. Re:actual "platform" on A Ray of Hope For Americans and Scientific Literacy? · · Score: 1

    Your first line is just trolling.

    As to the rest, no one in this country (aside from some felons) is required to live in a given state.

  6. Re: actual "platform" on A Ray of Hope For Americans and Scientific Literacy? · · Score: 1

    Correction: Generally, Tea Partier members are opposed to legalizing pot. I am not. It's not a plank because it's not important and should be controlled locally, not nationally.

  7. Re: actual "platform" on A Ray of Hope For Americans and Scientific Literacy? · · Score: 1

    "No!" says the tea partier. "We can't do this things! ...

    Not the stance. Just don't do them to stupid excess is the stance.

    Straw argument on your part.

  8. Re: actual "platform" on A Ray of Hope For Americans and Scientific Literacy? · · Score: 1

    "Don't see anything about an Air Force!"

    Pedantry of that nature is an admission of defeat.

    Easy, blow the bastards out of the water.

  9. Re:actual "platform" on A Ray of Hope For Americans and Scientific Literacy? · · Score: 1

    Agricultural subsidies are **claimed** as needed to provide incentive for overproduction. Please provide some proof, not social theory.

  10. Since the birth of film? on Advances In Cinema Tech Overcoming a Strange Racial Divide · · Score: 1

    Have you never seen a civil war photo of a black soldier? Or the group shot of the Tuskegee airmen? Or To Sir With Love?

  11. Re:nice ad hominem attack asshole! on Mark Shuttleworth Complains About the 'Open Source Tea Party' · · Score: 1

    His was overreach, but sometimes it *is* appropriate.

  12. Re:Stupidity deserves to be dehumanized. on Mark Shuttleworth Complains About the 'Open Source Tea Party' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "That's the best way to deal with stupidity."

    Erm, no, it is not and your very post is an excellent example of why. You come across as an adolescent ranting about people who don't do things their way.

    Dehumanization is done by those who don't think their idea can stand on its own. Often they are correct.

  13. Re:Of course... on Mark Shuttleworth Complains About the 'Open Source Tea Party' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not nearly as much as those who change with the breeze.

  14. Re: Of course... on Mark Shuttleworth Complains About the 'Open Source Tea Party' · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Not the party that did that. You either knew that and wrote badly or you are trolling big.

  15. Re:Errr... wat? on Yeti Bears Up Under Scrutiny · · Score: 1

    While 'possible', when you mix the extreme rarity of chimerism (35 humans in US), that mosiacism is an internal mutation (not a mix of disparate DNAs) and the rarity of yeti sightings in the first place, it gets very unlikely either of these are the answer.

    This bit of fur is indeed indicative of a all current 'evidence' for yeti. Every case examined thus far has turned out to *not* be a yeti, but a common creature. Or a crappy, blurry photo, or half melted and indistinct footprints. Etc. Etc. Etc.

    You cannot determine what a fictional creature 'really' is.

  16. Re:Shade of Grey (lol) on Books With "Questionable Content" Being Deleted From ebookstores In Sweeping Ban · · Score: 1

    "(almost always religious and conservative)"

    Bull. Crystal rubbing libs are just as likely to shit, shout and scream over sex, it's just different kinds.

  17. Re:Tired of this nonsense on Books With "Questionable Content" Being Deleted From ebookstores In Sweeping Ban · · Score: 1

    The waves are actually more like little laps of water now as younger women reject most of the feminist credo.

  18. Re:Tired of this nonsense on Books With "Questionable Content" Being Deleted From ebookstores In Sweeping Ban · · Score: 1

    So, you agree with his post to the point that all you can do is be pedantic.

  19. Re:Romance and Erotica is not the same on Books With "Questionable Content" Being Deleted From ebookstores In Sweeping Ban · · Score: 1

    Sure there is - James Bond. It's just not laden with trigger words like thrust, sheath, etc. because we don't key off that kind of thing. Read the very visual descriptions of the women, however.

  20. Re:Romance and Erotica is not the same on Books With "Questionable Content" Being Deleted From ebookstores In Sweeping Ban · · Score: 1

    Either you've been accurately labelled flamebait or you have exposed a serious and dark personal quirk, having leapt immediately to rape from a discussion about video and text.

  21. Re:Romance and Erotica is not the same on Books With "Questionable Content" Being Deleted From ebookstores In Sweeping Ban · · Score: 1

    My daughter and I have actually discussed this. She says you're wrong. Women aren't as visually stimulated as men, they use emotionally laden words. In other words, romance novels are women's erotica.

  22. Re:Data on Billion Year Storage Media · · Score: 1

    Doubt it. It would be akin (because of the vast separation in time) to our finding forty thousand versions of "Damn, Og just missed small deer. ... No, wait, he return. ... Damn, Og just missed small deer." Not a lot of info and of no real use (we have the deer remains at the site as well).

    PS: For the great majority of ancient, we *do not* have the equivalent of FaceBook posts to augment the vast reams of inventory, royal notices and laws. The peasant's lives are reconstructed from evidence, not learned from text.

  23. Re:what about the data format? on Billion Year Storage Media · · Score: 1

    No. It's pretty much all of them. Those without, like the Cretan hieroglyphics and Linear A are still untranslated.

  24. Whole idea is humorous on Billion Year Storage Media · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The entire concept of storing data for a billion years is nothing but ego. It would be akin to our finding a cave with forty-five thousand little paintings of dots, squares and circles - all perfectly preserved. What the hell does it mean? Curious and interesting to speculate on perhaps, but data? Not so much.

  25. Re:Good. on UK Court Orders Two Sisters Must Receive MMR Vaccine · · Score: 1

    As Cosby's "Dr Huxtable" was explaining all the goodies that hospitals have on hand for any pregnancy emergency, the young man who was listening said "Do you refund the fees if she doesn't need them?"

    Follow the money.