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  1. Re:When the free market is subjected to harm.. on LA City Votes For Municipal Fiber Network · · Score: 1

    Seriously, why are you afraid to study history? It's been proven time and time again that communism becomes a corrupt instatution. Even China has realised this and is on the path of capitolism. Russia even realised this too. Cuba and N. Korea are the only die-hard communist countries left on earth. They are also the most poor.

  2. Re:When the free market is subjected to harm.. on LA City Votes For Municipal Fiber Network · · Score: 1

    It IS communism and socialism if your tax dollars pay for the service regardless if you use it or not. If it's a paid subscription however, it's a moot point.

  3. Re:Dirty Cox on LA City Votes For Municipal Fiber Network · · Score: 1

    Because the local city will now provide the cable service, expect no religious channels. After all, you have to maintain a seperation between church and state.

    While I'm not a religious person, I do find it rather unfair to those that are and welcome religious programming they once were able to get through the private sector. But once government gets involved...well

  4. Re:How to use this to make workers look bad on White Lies Help Stressed Computer Users · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Minimum wages are so low and without a wellfare state, some people have to work two jobs just to get by.

    BZZZZT WRONG!!!. In fact, the best way to INCREASE unemployment is to raise minimum wage. Once you start forcing socialism, companies will have to raise the cost of goods in services just to be competitive in a global ecconomy. It's all relative.

    Go back to school and learn Econ 101

  5. Re:Abuse on More Evidence for Tabletop Fusion · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think this has some potential for abuse. Do we want this power to get into the wrong hands?

    That's the very question currently being asked at the Pentagon. Just what will our government due when a drop on productivity is caused by millions listening to music with an ever-lasting battery in their iPods?

  6. Re:Shellfish allergy on Shrimp Bandages Clot Blood Faster · · Score: 1

    The thing about allergies is not so much as the amount, but the type of chemical your allergic too. Some people are so allergic to penuts, that smelling penut oil is enough to kill them let alone having the oil itself touch their lips. Even a few years go, a 37 year old woman died of anaphylactic shock after opening up a tin of chopped tomatoes. If people are this sensitives to certain times of molicules floating in the air, then maybe it's best to not have shellfish that have been in contact with the meat be placed on the skin of someone allergic to shellfish.

  7. Re:Pitch Black on Tatooine-like Planet Discovered · · Score: 1

    Hell, anything other then Hollywood has to be good. Hollywood doesn't have actors and tallent anymore, just fashion models by the elite to be treated like idols of god-like representatioin.

    Screw Hollywood, they suck ass.

  8. War with China eminent on Governing the Internet Report Released · · Score: 1

    Given this article about China using a full onslaught of nuclear weapons agains the US if we defend Taiwan, would you WANT the US to give up control right now? FUCK NO!!!

    http://news.ft.com/cms/s/28cfe55a-f4a7-11d9-9dd1-0 0000e2511c8.html

  9. Re:Pitch Black on Tatooine-like Planet Discovered · · Score: 1

    Hell ya! Pitch Black has got to be the most under rated SciFi movie of all time. I'm a huge cult follower of it myself. I wonder if there will be another Chronicle of Riddick, but with the character development of Pitch Black.

  10. Re:More valuable than Lagrange points=US will keep on U.N. To Govern Internet? · · Score: 1

    It will get let go quite easily if Hillary Clinton gets elected. She's so into the whole Euro-socialism thing that I wouldn't put it past her.

    Remember folks, the democratic and republican parties are dead. We now have Neo-Cons and Euro-Socialists. Pick your poison.

  11. Re:Flash my BIOS on The End of a Floppy Era · · Score: 1

    Anything can be done with software given the time and effort. Point is, we shouldn't HAVE to hack up a solution just to flash a MB without a floppy drive.

    Personally, I will never flash a BIOS in Windows. I've done it twice before and each time resaulted in either a BSOD or failed flash. Both times it rendered the MB dead. Luckly, I was able to move a jumber to a backup ROM on the board. In both cases, it wasn't untill AFTER the Win32 flash program was released, they admitted to a "bug" that "could" happen with certain hardware combinations.

    FUCK THAT! Never again will I flash a BIOS in Windows. I'll make a DOS boot CD next time.

  12. Re:Raise your hand... on 'MP3' Celebrates its Tenth Anniversary · · Score: 1

    I remember back when I had my Pentium 166, I could only capture audio in analog mode. I played each song and captured it in WAV file to be edited with some WAV program that was included in my SB AWE32 sound card. Anyways, I too remember it taking around an hour or more just to encode one song.

    Durring this time, I was too busy collecing MOD files and playing them back with WinMOD. Ahhh...the memories.

  13. Re:Piss Christ on Biases in Simulation Video Games · · Score: 1

    The fact is, every nation has blood on it's hands...and will continue to have it in the future. It is human nature. Unless we can genetically modify our species, we will never change. As such, if you wish to survive with a great deal of certainty, you must never be a pacifist. Of course, you should never be the aggressor either yet you should always be on guard.

    Contrary to what our delusional leader might say in his sound bites, nobody is bombing/killing because they "hate freedom." They are doing it because, however misguided and brainwashed, they think they are fighting for their way of life - in your terms exercising their rights to defend themselves

    Wrong, totally incorrect! They are killing because of the brainwashing they have received from the warped teachings of the Koran. These zelots believe democrocy is a form of hubris and underminds the will of Alah. Read their holy book sometime and you understand their twisted philosophy. The Bible too can be interpited in a twisted manor too. The history of the crusades teaches us so.

    Convinging people to defend themselves is never hard. Convincing people to use restraint and act as humans rather than animals is the hard part.

    I agree 100% with that statement.

    I somehow doubt you have any real understanding of the "dark side" of humanity.

    I talked to so someone in homicide before and a few other police officers. After hearing about what they encounter throught their career, I can't imagine they will ever be mentally at peace. The truth about humanities dark side is very sobering. I'm tempted at giving you some examples, but I'll refrain due to their heinous acts. Basically, if you can imagine your deepest and darkest forms of torture and death...it has already been done. Some of these killers make killing an art. What's real spooky however, is they have IQs between 130 and 140.

    You reap what you sow.

    What the hell is that supposed to mean? Based on your Bush bashing, it is my conjecture that you are some sort of anti-american liberal. Let me clue you in on something. Because you live in America, you are not innocent. Everything you do and everything you buy shapes America to the same degree as my actions. You should be saying "we reap what we sow". Ya, shit happens and we fuck up now and then in even the most civilized of societies. At the same time however, people cannot put most of the blame on America too. We DO live in a global ecconomy after all.

  14. Re:The next logical step on BBC In Trouble Over Free Music · · Score: 1

    When all else fails, there's Vodka.

    Bottoms up. *passing the bottle*

  15. Re:Piss Christ on Biases in Simulation Video Games · · Score: 1

    From the link... "In common usage at present, a hypothesis is a provisional idea whose merit is to be evaluated. A hypothesis requires more work by the researcher in order to either confirm or disprove it."

    In other words, a hypothesis is just an idea. However, a hypothesis can be torn apart if you have data that nullifies it. If you gather more data in favor of a hypothesis, it becomes upgraded to a "theory". Being that creation cannot be proven OR disproven, it remains in the state of a hypothesis.

    Idea = Hypothesis

    An interrelated and coherent set of hypothesis = Theory.

    Given that Creation falls under the catagory of pseudoscience, the idea idea itself is still a hypothesis none the less.

  16. Re:Piss Christ on Biases in Simulation Video Games · · Score: 1

    I think you are well on the way to becoming one of them. ...or maybe I've just come to terms with the dark side to humanity and to which we are all (including you) are capable of. You should not fear humanities dark side, rather, you should understand and control it. As I've always said in the past "We are all animals. Some however are just more civilized depending on whom you talk to".

    Just remember. When the rubber meets the road, be prepared to leave a mark. In other words, you have the right to defend yourself. And when you do, don't worry about getting blood on your hands in the process.

  17. Re:Piss Christ on Biases in Simulation Video Games · · Score: 1

    Technically, creation by God is not a Theory. It in fact, could be labeled as a "Hypothesis" however.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothesis

  18. Re:Curse? on Falling Window Cover Damages Discovery · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the same thing. I mean, in terms of odds...well...I would rather be playing craps in vegas then riding this pony to space.

    Maybe it's a sign from God saying "Scrap that pile of shit, just build something better and cheaper"...or something.

  19. Re:Piss Christ on Biases in Simulation Video Games · · Score: 1

    Anyone who wishes to kill because someone pissed on their Koran should be shot themselves.

    Second, I will express my "art" by shredding that book in a wood chipper. Then, I will take the remains and burn them. Next, I will take the ash and spread them all over a $20 whore found on the street. I call this masterpeace "Desecration desecration on an illusionary philosophy".

  20. Re:Piss Christ on Biases in Simulation Video Games · · Score: 1

    Personally, I could care less if people have faith in the afterlife, or God. Regardless of whether or not your religious doesn't not make me think any differently about a person. But, it does piss me off when people who claim to intellectually elite are hypocritical themselves.

    Liberals, Neocons....they all suck. People just need to live their lives in an honest matter and not worry about offending or being offended. Most important of all though is to live your life to the fullest without depriving someone of life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness.

  21. Re:So hacker gets death... on Death Penalty For Hackers? · · Score: 1

    "one dollar one vote" only applies to the services you favor and wish to remain. Those that don't support business alow those business to reform or go bankrupt.

    Corporations should NEVER vote with YOUR dollar. This is basically a vote via proxy. Voting for our representitives should only be directly through the citizens and not influenced by monitary capital.

  22. Re:Piss Christ on Biases in Simulation Video Games · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well you see, liberals say it's ok to degrade the bible and everything "christian". But, if you even utter a single degrading things about other religions, your not politically correct and thus lack intellect. Point being, art is biased too even by those who claim to have an open mind.

  23. Piss Christ on Biases in Simulation Video Games · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why is it the "Piss Christ" is seen as art (crucifix in urine). But, I can't make art of out other religious items such as the Koran?

    Riddle me that Batman ;P

  24. Re:So hacker gets death... on Death Penalty For Hackers? · · Score: 1

    Correct! Which is why business and government should never mix. When they do, such laws carve out a groove of Plutocracy and deminish democrocy at the same time. Welcome to the new America, where votes can be bought and paid for.

    Then again...if people didn't act like a bunch of sheep either...

    *stepping down from soapbox*

  25. Correction... on Toshiba HD-DVD Player Planned to Enforce HDMI · · Score: 1

    I meant to say component and not composite.