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  1. Don't forget! on Shrek 2 Trailer Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    Eddie Murphy turned in his best performance since Beverly Hills Cop in the original Shrek movie. I am dying to find out if he can duplicate it. Thank you for existing Eddie Murphy. Where would my life be without you?

  2. Yeah man.... on Take Back Your Time! · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Capitalism sucks... don't let the man bring you down. Seriously.

  3. Not another one. on Dungeons and Dragons Online Interview With Turbine · · Score: 1

    Damnit. Am I going to have to rescue Tsukasa from another "world"? I am sick of all these new MMORPG's, don't the developers know what can happen!?

  4. FreeBSD. on Half Life 2 Source Code Leaked · · Score: 1

    I just checked the Ports collection for FreeBSD. WHERE THE FUCK IS THE HL-2 PORT!?

  5. Is anyone going to be surprised? on USS Ronald Reagan Commissioning Tomorrow · · Score: 0, Troll

    When the Ronald Reagan loses the ability to make quick decisions and stumbles a lot?

  6. This isn't surprising at all. on How Console Piracy Affects Gaming · · Score: 1

    When you aren't rich and you want to play video games, what do you do? You get them for free if possible. Am I to feel terribly sorry for the people that are reaping in millions if not billions over losses do to piracy? Hiding behind legality is just a superficial way of avoiding the point. Rich people make money off video games and people with a lot of meaningless income buy them. If all piracy ended tomorrow the prices for video games would stay exactly the same. The software programmers are getting screwed by their bosses, or should I say "owners", not by pirates.

  7. The drivers are excellent. on New FreeBSD NVIDIA Drivers Available · · Score: 2, Interesting

    All I can say in regards to the nvidia drivers is that they are excellent. I followed their directions to the T and in less than thirty minutes had great results. Seeing Quake 3 run on FreeBSD is truly a beautiful thing.

    Note: That is with their very first release of the FreeBSD driver. I am sure it is even better now.

  8. Wow! on Microsoft Patenting IM Translation? · · Score: 1

    Translation software! Who would have thought of that!? And a layer which puts it between two people using an IM client! Also revolutionary! Thank you Microsoft what would I do without your constant flood of great new ideas.

  9. Re:Anarchism in his work. on The Cassini Division · · Score: 1

    Wow, glad to see I am not the only one who has read that book. It is my favorite as well. I think I need to read again about Shevek and his adventures. Strange how LeGuin also wrote those books about that tiny cat (forgot the name) for very little children.

  10. Re:Anarchism in his work. on The Cassini Division · · Score: 1

    You are 100% correct. Thought I would be alone in any threads with this subject.

  11. Re:Anarchism in his work. on The Cassini Division · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, it is so hilarious. It is impossible for people to be economically equal and have little to no government. For instance, the spanish civil war which saw much of spain collectived under an anarcho-syndicalist union (the CNT) never happened. Just like every non western example of large scale communes that had an ardent history of libertarianism also never happened.

  12. Re:Anarchism in his work. on The Cassini Division · · Score: 1

    Jesus fucking christ someone finally gets it. Was avoiding that depth because I figured if I even said Trotsky everyone would knee-jerk on me like they have with "libertarian socialism". Anyway I agree completely.

  13. Re:Anarchism in his work. on The Cassini Division · · Score: 1

    I'll give you the simple INTERWEB solution. www.infoshop.org. Read "The Anarchist FAQ", it isn't perfect but good enough. Having just typed that I also see the real meaning of your question. It is future history written that includes accurate portrayals of anarchist societies. Oh and storming anarchist martians burning down palaces would be bad ass.

  14. Re:Anarchism in his work. on The Cassini Division · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is a long and pointless holy war. If you like I will call it libertarian socialism. I prefer to let the people who defined and lived the political movements of the past to dictate what they mean. A society "without leaders" (that is the original meaning) isn't necessarily chaotic, though it can be. Similar to the way a society with leaders can be chaotic or not (although most anarchists would argue any society with leaders is inherently chaotic). Have you read anything by Kropotkin/Prouhdon/Bakunin/Goldman/Rocker/Malatest a/Bookchin? I would recommend reading something by any of them if you are at all interested in history or politics.

  15. Re:Anarchism in his work. on The Cassini Division · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oh please don't think I consider that too "deep". I don't. It is just rare unless you read fictional independent books. Rare in the way of anarchist fiction per say as a genre. You should check out V for Vendetta which was an interesting comic mini series which more than touches on it but in a very original and admittedly strange way. It is a good break from Kropotkin and Malatesta anyway.

  16. Anarchism in his work. on The Cassini Division · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I love him simply because he understands anarchism. A rarity in any genre of literature these days. The Sky Road did an excellent job not only showing his ability to produce good hard SF but also his ability to understand the political issues that will be inherent in any future society.

  17. Boogerman. on Highs And Lows Of Game Character Design · · Score: 1

    Although like many I thought he was a disgusting and pointless character, I know for a fact that the boogerman SNES game sold well and did incredibly well in the rental market. So I don't think it is a good idea to classify this moronic and ultimatly dead (thankfully) character a failure. Oh and Mario > *. Don't mess with the plumber assholes.

  18. Guessing... on Beta Testers For Phantom Sought · · Score: 3, Funny

    I doubt this will do better than the jaguar-cd.

  19. D&D lovin'. on Neverwinter Nights for Linux · · Score: 1

    Doesn't it make sense that a D&D based game should come to linux? I mean don't know they know their target audience? Also, someone go over to valve/sierra and rape everyone there until counter-strike runs on freebsd (winex sucks, blah blah blah blah).

  20. GPS? on Honda Crash Detection System · · Score: 1

    If I am not mistaken Mercedes was testing (R&D of course) a gps system which completely drove your car. Don't know how that would of have worked with civilian GPS but regardless, this was years ago, why is something like this (ref. article) just coming up for honda R&D wise? Start making flying cars assholes.

  21. Re:Just Curious on Kismet on Mac OS X · · Score: 3, Funny

    People war-drive because they want to leech other peoples bandwidth like the 1337 |-|4>0|75 they are. Er, I mean they do it to "explore" the city and all the different and interesting wireless nets that are popping up....

  22. Hoping.... on Super Mario 3 Gets All Portable · · Score: 1

    I want Nintendo to make us all shit our pants with their next portable. Translations of N64 games on an extremely high resolution portable screen? I can only hope. Mario64 on the go, here I come.

  23. Well... on Digital Baseball Umpires · · Score: 1

    If real umpires are ever replaced, which I KNOW isn't the main point of this article blah blah blah, the good news is the digital umpires can't have heart attacks. Well unless they run windows. Insensitivity and talking shit about windows in the same sentence. Talk about slashdot to the "T".

  24. Having just graduated... on Open Source Text-Books in California? · · Score: 1

    Here is my tip (I just graduated from the california school system k-12), burn them all down and let's start building modern schools.