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  1. Re:Will you guys ever learn? on EVE Online CSM and Diplomat Killed in Libyan Consulate Attacks · · Score: 1

    In other words. We are freeing Islamists around the world from their pimp-lords, rulers, kings, and anyone else that thrives on their oppression. In return with their new found freedom, they are collectively forming an Islamic axis of evil (Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt, Syria, etc) against Western nations and specifically it's titular head, America.

    Well, fuck em. Them bitches can bring it!

  2. Re:They're thieves and war criminals on EVE Online CSM and Diplomat Killed in Libyan Consulate Attacks · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Because a Libyan Christian living in California made a movie supporting his belief that the Muslim faith is a dangerous cancer (his words)

    He just got vindicated based on the actions in Libya and Egypt. I think his film just got a helluva lot more popular now.

  3. Re:Graphic Capabilities on Intel Unveils 10-Watt Haswell Chip · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's official. Intel on-board video is all you'll ever need for home and general office use. I'm not talking about "getting by" performance. I'm talking about full 2D hyper smooth animation, fading, and alpha blending. I've seen both Ubuntu, Windows 7, and Windows 8 using on-board. It doesn't bat an eyelash. No pausing or hiccups. Flash animation couldn't be more smooth too.

    About the only reason you wouldn't use on-board video is if you must run Adobe product that calls for GPU acceleration or you're a gamer.

    nVidia knows this too. As you can see, they've been focusing in on advanced 3D gaming and super computing. It won't be long before nVidia turns into the next "SGI" where only high-end is their focus. To the point where even they start losing the consumer market and only focus on business-to-business solutions and other vertical market applications.

  4. Re:Such vitriol for M:TG in these early comments on Magic: the Gathering Is Turing Complete · · Score: 2

    I used to play M:TG until it got all complicated with poison counters. Playing started to hurt my head after just one drink. I suppose there are people whom enjoy it all the more with their superior short-term memory capacity compared to my own. Either way, at some point a game can get so complicated that it's no longer fun to play. As always, YMMV.

  5. Re:Statutory damages are devoid of all meaning on 8th Circuit Upholds $220,000 Verdict In Jammie Thomas Case · · Score: 1

    Ask for the Universe and you will get the World. It's how it works. It's the classic high-low-middle negotiation ploy.

  6. Re:The only winners here on Samsung Expected To Sue Apple Over iPhone 5 LTE Networking · · Score: 1

    The majority of US politicians often have a legal background. Many whom have worked at a law firm. They are (by design) an entirely different class of people. So of course they are the winners. What politician would have it any other way?

  7. Re:Good ol' Putin on Nature Lover Vladimir Putin Flies With the Cranes · · Score: 1

    Free markets don't dictate whether or not people are assholes. Because you will always have them even in a hunter gatherer or agrarian society. People determine the economic model to use, not the other way around. That is to say, an economic model doesn't magically turn people into assholes. If all you're left with is scorched earth, the assholes are the last to remain for they are the darwinian survivors of the Human race.

    Peace and civility? That's such a recent and subjective concept. However, a strong economy does in fact improve the human condition. From food, medicine, to shelter. These are undeniable facts of life.

  8. Re:Good ol' Putin on Nature Lover Vladimir Putin Flies With the Cranes · · Score: 1

    I think a mandatory trip to a 3rd world nation should be required for every HS senior student. And not just to the popular photo op tourist attractions. But rather the outer city and country side too. Assuming the hosting nation would even allow for that exposure.

    If by then you don't come back to America, Canada, or Western Europe down on your knees kissing the soil, then you have no compassion let alone human soul.

    I honestly think such a program would dramatically reshape our world view of others and appreciate what it means to hold western values of education, production, and civility.

  9. Re:Good ol' Putin on Nature Lover Vladimir Putin Flies With the Cranes · · Score: 1

    Oh, I'm sure he's correct. Did he have direct ties to the party? Depending on what social class he was a part of, he could have lived with an upper-middle class to rich life style.

    Oh yes, even under communist nations not everyone is treated the same. Far from it in fact.

  10. Re:EVIL: No Server Hosting Allowed on 90 Percent of Eligible Kansas City Neighborhoods Sign Up For Google Fiber · · Score: 2

    Oh, I'm sure they'll offer a "business class" of service for those needing to work from home. You'll pay a lot more, but at least you will have unrestricted (as long as it's legal. No hacking allowed, etc.) access and bandwidth to use. Generally that's the case with all business class offerings.

  11. Re:Even Jesus Said on Space Vs. Poverty Debate In India · · Score: 0

    This is India we are talking about. They have a caste system that specifically forbids a poor person from being rich and the other way around as well. That is to say, you are born into a fixed position in life and that is it.

  12. Re:How about we just get rid of cemeteries? on QR Codes For Memorials · · Score: 1

    I agree. Not only that, but it's really best to just "let go" and not provide the living with a compelling reason to go back to a site to grieve yet again. As strange as it sounds, I find that people have an easier time with an urn of ashes setting on a shelf in the home someplace. It's always there, and yet people don't grieve as much. Or so that's always been my impression.

  13. Re:No thanks on Impending CA Sales Tax Sparks Amazon Buying Frenzy · · Score: 1

    Not to nit-pick, but there's a lot of pirated batteries online. They're often passed off as the "official" version when in fact the label is honest-to-god pirated fake. This goes for both cell phones and computers. At most, the battery doesn't contain anywhere near the life you would expect. At worst (and it's rare), the batteries get really hot, smoke, and started venting violently.

    It's a gamble. Some get the real deal on the cheap. But most people get the fake pirated 5$ Droid cellphone battery thinking it's real.

  14. Re:It's an Effing Toll Road on Texas Opens Fastest US Highway With 85 MPH Limit · · Score: 1

    I really don't know what your scenario involves, so forgive me for assuming.

    If you're hauling some stuff or driving in unsafe conditions. I think most people will be understanding. Especially if you can't be in the right lane and require your hazard lights to be on. Shit happens, and safety is first.

    If OTHO hand your trying to be dick by policing the rest of us because "you say so". Well, that shit does not fly in Texas. No, really it doesn't. We take notice and just know when a person is being a dick. That's a battle that ends in war that you cannot under any circumstance win. To try is wasting your time and everyone else's along with putting peoples lives in needless danger.

  15. Re:It's an Effing Toll Road on Texas Opens Fastest US Highway With 85 MPH Limit · · Score: 1

    Depending on the highway in question, the left lane is *not* a fast lane, it's a passing lane. It's the whole "keep right" thing. Move to the left, pass, than move back to the right. It's not just advice, it's the law. Abuse it, and a cop will write your ass up with a citation.

  16. Re:No thanks on Impending CA Sales Tax Sparks Amazon Buying Frenzy · · Score: 1

    I can't comment on the charger, but I just purchased a new battery for my late 2008 MacBook 13" unit. The price for the battery was exactly the same online as it was at the Highland Village location here in Houston, TX. Tax and all. They don't even use registers, just iPhones to process payment right there on the floor. I was in and out in a flash. Amazing.

  17. Re:It's an Effing Toll Road on Texas Opens Fastest US Highway With 85 MPH Limit · · Score: 2

    No, you can drive on it. Just stay in the right lane and you're cool. As a native Texan, we understand and will most often oblige. Just don't -for the love of God- scoot over in the left lane while driving slow unless you want a bumper rammed up your ass. Just some friendly and safe advice.

  18. Re:Well, I was forced to serve them hamburgers on Chinese Students Say They Are Being Forced To Build Your Next iPhone · · Score: 2

    Sounds like the Chinese are doing it for "China" (to keep the jobs from being outsourced elsewhere). I guess from that POV, it's no different from your experience after all. But then again, America has been facing the whole Intern Nation phenomenon as of late too.

  19. Re:Romney waived a red flag on Secret Service Investigating Romney Tax Hack Claim · · Score: 1

    Social architecting society through the tax code is what got us "loopholes" in the first place. You can't have one without the other. The two are intrinsically one in the same. Hence a simple tax code or math formula across the board (linear or exponential) is the only viable option.

  20. Re:Romney waived a red flag on Secret Service Investigating Romney Tax Hack Claim · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bullshit! You don't think the Democrat politicians games the same IRS rules like the Republicans in office? Here's a clue for you Micky, every rich man, women, and child does. BECAUSE THEY DO **NOT** DO THEIR OWN TAXES!!! Some other firm does it for them whom specializes in US tax code.

    Both the players and the game suck. But lets start with the common denominator here. Overhaul the US tax system. Go flat tax if we have to. But absolutely nothing will change in behavior with those with disposable income to obfuscate.

  21. Re:Now That 2012 is Out... on Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2012 · · Score: 1

    Server 2007 doesn't exist. Server 2008 R2, sure. Stay away from 2008 (non R2) as that OS is built on the Vista platform. The Windows Update process is horribly broken for the Vista / 2008 lineage! Server 2008 R2 and SBS 2011 being Windows 7 based is far in away superior.

  22. Re:No thanks on Impending CA Sales Tax Sparks Amazon Buying Frenzy · · Score: 1

    Because Amazon will ship same day and have to pay taxes anyways, they are a stone throw away from opening up their own B&M store. Might as well at this point. Imagine all the Best Buy's and Walmarts having some serious competition from that new Amazon flagship store down the road housing all the popular items for impulse shoppers.

  23. Re:Hold still on The UK's New Minister For Magic · · Score: 2

    Interesting. My friends daughter was having a similar issue with ear aches as well. Giving her some gum cleared the issue up in a matter of minutes. If I had to guess, barometric pressure was causing her pain and chewing gum caused her ears to "pop" and equalize. Essentially the same symptoms you get in a plane but on the ground instead as the ears are more sensitive.

  24. Re:frist on Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2012 · · Score: 1

    Windows backup up tools have nicer gui's, though. Apparently that is more important than having a good backup nowadays.

    Thinking you have good backups and knowing you have good backups are two entirely separate things. When it comes to backups, functionality is extremely important regardless of the interface. However, having a nice GUI helps immensely with visual identification of jobs, backup processes, and backup data sets (fulls and incrementals). However you can go overboard with TMI. Take Backup Exec for example. Holy shit is that visual mission control console or what?!

  25. Re:frist on Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2012 · · Score: 1

    I'm bookmarking this thread. Benjy, this is an excellent point you bring up. I'm a Windows Server admin, and rarely if ever touch Linux. Though in production we do run a LAMP server as a VM in Hyper-V. Anyways, I hope some Linux guru can answer your question clearly as I would like to know the answer to this as well.