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  1. Oh yay... on Beware the Garden of Steven · · Score: 1

    Not only is the insane stupidity rampant all over the Mac specific sites I go to, it's here.

    Listen up maggots, if you count yourselves among the truly retarded who are worried about the Mac app store locking down your computer and being the only software distribution channel available for a Mac please... drown yourself in the nearest toilet. Really. It's for the good of the species.

    I have never seen so much ridiculous paranoia. And even if Apple did... okay, so what? It ain't the only platform in town. You fucking dweebs are going on like it's the end of the fucking world.

  2. Re:Sense (or Sense inspired) all the way on Details of Android 3.0, SIP, Video Chat · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No. They're not. Those visual cues are important to A LOT of people.

    Of course, you're probably the kind of person who shuts off text anti-aliasing too.

  3. Re:headline FAIL on Steve Jobs Lashes Out At Android · · Score: 1

    Because every time Steve Jobs does ANYTHING some jackass needs to make it a headline and turn it into something way bigger than it is.

    (And Jobs regularly uses this to his advantage.)

  4. Re:most will be happy with a MATE Imac or a system on 'Back To the Mac' Media Event On October 20th · · Score: 1

    Apple isn't pushing games. Valve is pushing games.

    And it doesn't matter anyway. The geeks around here build gaming rigs. Great. Fantastic.

    My dad plays PC games. He plays them on... basically a stock computer. Same with my brother. Same with my sister-in-law. The list goes on.

    I have a custom gaming machine that screams. It gets better FPS than theirs. It rules. So what? Casual PC gamers outnumber people who build their own rig.

  5. Re:Still no UMA on T-Mobile To Begin HTC G2 Preorders · · Score: 1

    I just saw this feature today while looking for G2 info. Man, I wish the Android phones had it because it would solve my one gripe with T-Mobile: no coverage in a few rural areas I occasionally find myself in. However, I always have wi-fi out there.

  6. Re:Marketability? on T-Mobile To Begin HTC G2 Preorders · · Score: 1

    Too bad it doesn't share the same keyboard as the G1 which, in my opinion, is the best keyboard out there on any smart phone. (Five rows baby!)

  7. Re:But what created the law of gravity? on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    I don't think that matters. These higher levels of the universe are beyond anything but speculation to us right now and may always be. If there is a god, who knows what it is or how it operates. I seriously doubt it's some old guy that snaps his fingers and, presto, universe!

    Whether you call it gravity or God or whatever, here's what was said: "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing."

    Am I missing something? Because of SOMETHING (gravity), the universe (also something) can and will create itself (huh?) from nothing (because there are two somethings)?

    While I find this level of physics interesting, with our current understanding we're always going to hit a sort of god particle or god force or god law or something that we don't really understand and throw in the mix to make everything work. So long as we don't really understand it (and as far as gravity is concerned, we don't) we're exercising faith. Frankly, it's hard for me to think outside something linear with a beginning and an end. I'm pretty sure that's not how existence operates but... don't blame me! I'm just a really advanced ape!

  8. Re:Honda Civic = fail on Apple Announces New iPods, iTunes 10, Social Network, AppleTV · · Score: 1

    "Says who?"

    Says anyone who doesn't stuff their kids in the trunk.

    "Is that a challenge?"

    Sure. Next time your toilet is clogged, I suggest you use a pencil instead of a plunger.

  9. Re:The only thing I was hoping for on Apple Announces New iPods, iTunes 10, Social Network, AppleTV · · Score: 1

    "Am I being unreasonable here?"

    Yes. However, Apple isn't and isn't generally.

  10. Honda Civic = fail on Apple Announces New iPods, iTunes 10, Social Network, AppleTV · · Score: 5, Insightful

    * You cannot haul a California king size mattress (without a hitch and trailer)
    * You cannot haul 12' x 4' sheets of drywall (without a hitch and trailer)
    * Passenger space is very limited. For example: you cannot easily transport 6 children in it
    I think you're better off just getting a Ford F-150 with a king cab and bench seats... unless of course you like Honda dictating what can and cannot transport in your vehicle.

    As someone who uses a number of Apple devices where they make sense (my laptop and my music player) and other stuff where they don't (my gaming machine and my phone) I don't know why people freak out about Apple products doing what they always do. My mom doesn't give a shit about xvid or divx. She doesn't rip her DVDs. She doesn't store them digitally or download torrents. She certainly isn't going to configure anything or care about storing rentals.

    My parents can plug this box in and be GOOD TO GO. Like most Apple products, this is an appliance and marketing and targeted as such. I really wish I could have fails like the Apple of late. My car would be a lot nicer!

    Yes, the device is a fail at doing things it was never designed for. Most devices are. My pencil, for instance, is an epic fail when my toilet gets clogged.

  11. Re:Rails 3 vs. a weird OS 10.6 configuration... on Rails 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I do my Rails dev in OS 10.6 and, frankly, stopped using MacPorts some time ago. I try to keep my machine as vanilla as possible but...

    I install a few special libraries and other things by hand to /usr/local using --prefix= and make sure that everything in /usr/local takes precedence over /usr. I just upgraded to Ruby 1.9.2 today to go with Rails 3.0 (since it complained about my 1.9.1 install) and this setup has worked for for me since 10.6 was released.

    Apple's 1.8.7 sits where it's always sat and, whenever I want to start over I can just blow away everything in /usr/local.

  12. Re:It's a nice framework on Rails 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Of course... why bother using Apache when we have nginx?

  13. Re:My last set was the last for me... on Lost Star Wars Scene In the Wild · · Score: 1

    I didn't laugh. There were a lot of elements of the last movie I actually liked but... Vader's actual fall was just so lame. "OH NOES! I HAD A BAD DREAM! NowIwillkilltheyounglingsmwhahahahahaha!"

    "Is Padme all right?" was just... I think the reason I was so annoyed is that I'm thinking, "Okay, well, now he's got the suit. He's Vader now. All is well in a way." "Fuck, he's still a total pussy."

  14. My last set was the last for me... on Lost Star Wars Scene In the Wild · · Score: 1

    When the theatrical releases were made available on DVD (basically nothing but a rip of the laser discs) I picked them up since my VHS tapes were on death's door. I expect that's the best Han shot first release we'll ever get and as such that's the end of the road for me.

    Pasting Hayden Christensen into the end of Return of the Jedi was the last piece of George Lucas scat I could handle. I didn't even see those. I saw a YouTube video of it before it was released and was just like, "Okay, I'm done." (Although, I was basically done at the point I heard Darth Fucking Vader say, "Is Padme all right?" Then the infamous, "NOOOOOOOOOO!" Even thinking about the journey from Anakin to Vader makes my skin crawl now.

  15. Re: How does on Obama Wants Allies To Go After WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    People are, as a rule, stupid and lazy.

    Anyone who crafts a philosophy where that's not the case and bases their worldview otherwise is living in a fantasy land.

    Which, unfortunately, means that most people who want a free society (and by free I mean actually free, when I need a driver's license, a marriage license and a business license as well as an identifying number to get a job, I'm not living in a free society by any stretch of the imagination) are living in a fantasy land.

    The only real solution to our government is some kind of mass extermination followed by a mutation that causes an evolutionary epoch in humans. That would be nice... presuming I survived anyway,

  16. Re:Why do I need KDE? on KDE 4.5 Released · · Score: 1

    I didn't know a "techy" was supposed to be uninterested in aesthetics. I like a good-looking clean UI. I also like good anti-aliasing on my fonts.

    And as said, KDE is more than just some fancy, shmancy visuals. A desktop environment is all about libraries that allow for major code reuse and the ability for applications coded to them to work together seamlessly. It goes far beyond a simply widget library.

  17. Re:"Undeniable" on Global Warming 'Undeniable,' Report Says · · Score: 1

    And...?

    You have the earth covered by a species with the self control of the average locust. We consume and we consume and we consume and we'll keep consuming until some kind of evolutional epoch comes along that either annihilates us, does something to our collective thinking or at least kills off enough of us that the remainder realizes that long term survival will require building society on something more than greed and short-sighted self interest.

    If we don't make that change, I say the planet and the universe is better off without us anyway.

    I don't like when people think that can go from point A to point X without doing B, C, D, E... etc. "Saving the planet" is like... in another alphabet. Can we get there? Sure. Can we get there without changing our local and national governments and without, as consumers, really saying "no" to the crap being fed to us by mega-corporations? No, we can't.

    The population in the USA can't even stand up and say no to the nutritionally devoid sugar filled poison the average person consumes every day and, I dunno, eat a fucking salad and some whole grains. To save a few bucks we're fine factory farming animals which is not only cruel and disgusting but produces food that's unhealthy. I'm not even going to get into corn subsidies.

    I know others have posted the link, but since I'm a Carlin fan, I'll post it again because it sums up everything I think about this bullshit:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw

    "And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. What? Are these fucking people kidding me? Save the planet? We don't even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven't learned to care for one another. We're gonna save the fucking planet?"

    Regardless of all that, let's say global warming is 100% caused by man, just for fun. What's the ACTUAL solution? What are YOU doing about it? I don't care what the president is doing because I have little to no control of what he does. I don't care what the CEO of BP is doing because... I have no control.

    I can affect REAL change locally--and have done so between local activism and flat our suing the state. I'm a big fan of localities that are doing things like taxing bottled water. That's a good start. At a city or county level, that's doable by a few individuals and it's doable one step at a time.

    You know what else would be good? How about accountability in government? How about we actually do something about politicians who continue to make being environmentally irresponsible profitable? Of course, this would mean voting outside the major parties and not eating rhetoric like "hope and change" for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

    Of course we can't blame the politicians and corporations entirely. Who votes for them? Who buys their shit?

    Every fucking time there is a global warming related story on this site it devolves into one group of pricks calling another group of pricks deniers. Woop-dee-fucking-doo. "Let's see who has the biggest intellectual dick and who can cite the most papers that neither side even really understands beyond the introduction and conclusion. Let me impress the other geeks out there with my own environmental enlightenment! I know what's really happening. Oh, and let me mention ice core samples. I saw that on a Discovery Channel episode this one time and it makes me sound like I know what I'm talking about."

    So, once the global warming dick has been put on display and measured with the people agreeing lining up to stroke it and the "deniers" branding it as obscenity... then what? Basically we get, "vote for the liberals, they care." They do? How's that been working out for you guys the last couple years? (And just so no one is confused about where I stand, fuck the conservatives too.) And that's it. The only "solution" most of the crowd poses is... let's get the government to regulate this shit. That'll solve the problem!

    The "let's get the government to do something abo

  18. Re:"Undeniable" on Global Warming 'Undeniable,' Report Says · · Score: 1

    This is a fantastic post.

  19. Re:Have some faith in people on Global Warming 'Undeniable,' Report Says · · Score: 1

    I used to be a political activist (and still am, but to a different and lesser degree). However, my time spent amongst people really kinda turned me off to the whole thing.

    I literally had people who, despite AGREEING with initiative petitions I was working on REFUSED to even sign them because "it would never win." When your initiative petition misses being on the ballot by a couple hundred votes (state wide), all those assholes mattered.

    Also, as a result of my activism I had tons of people who agreed with me in principle, but would say stupid shit like, "The world needs more people like you." And by "me" of course they meant people who weren't as "busy" as they were.

    The biggest problem almost any movement faces is that most people don't want to do shit or they want someone else to make it easier and more convenient to participate. If that's the vast majority of our species, maybe global warming is the cure to a longstanding disease.

  20. Re:"Undeniable" on Global Warming 'Undeniable,' Report Says · · Score: 1

    Take a stand?

    Seeing as I listed things I am ACTUALLY DOING I don't see how I'm failing to take a stand.

  21. Re:Warming trends, and cooling.. on Global Warming 'Undeniable,' Report Says · · Score: 1

    This debate doesn't and never has had anything to with solutions or "does it matter." It has to do with everyone needing and apocalypse to push policy. Nothing whips people into a frenzy like a good old doomsday scenario.

    "Global warming" will solve itself in one way or another. Either it's cyclic and we're of no consequence and... problem solved or we're of consequence and will either destroy ourselves or greatly reduce our own populations and... problem solved.

    I don't need doomsday scenarios to tell me I don't like breathing dirty air and I don't like seeing garbage in my rivers and my my beaches. We should be cleaner. We're not. Frankly, I hope global warming IS man made because as soon as it cuts into corporate profits the movers and the sakers will actually move and shake toward cleanliness because for once it will actually coincide with the "bottom line."

  22. Re:The truth is on Global Warming 'Undeniable,' Report Says · · Score: 1

    When they come back, I doubt a few degrees that may be caused by humans are going to make a difference anyway.

  23. Re:Global warming != anthropogenic on Global Warming 'Undeniable,' Report Says · · Score: 1

    Alarmist conclusions are the only thing that can be reached when a topic is politicized. Even otherwise intelligent people in this forum become complete fucking morons when this topic is discussed.

  24. Re:"Undeniable" on Global Warming 'Undeniable,' Report Says · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Pretty much.

    I have found that apathy is the best approach anyway. Personally, I can make virtually no difference. I limit my trash, try to compost what I can, buy what appears to be more environmentally friendly products (although I'm sure half the things that are marketed so are just lying about it or meet some EPA loophole) and cut my driving down as much as possible. (I don't own a hybrid or anything, but I figure the amount of energy used to create and ultimately dispose of a new car makes my old car energy neutral.)

    I do these things because I don't want my own environment to be a dump. I don't want the air in my valley to be smog-ridden. It's that simple.

    Is global warming man made? Is it natural? Is it both? Don't know. Don't care. If it's man made it will be solved ONLY when its effects damage the bottom lines of the governments and large businesses the pump out most of the pollution. Until then, a couple people like me trying to live cleaner and more environmentally friendly within our means won't do shit and neither will all the screaming and yelling about the eventual devastation it will cause.

    While I believe humans certainly do contribute, what's to be done? Get the government involved? You mean the government that's bought and paid for by polluting companies to do something about it? Ha! If that's your solution, global warming sure as shit isn't your biggest problem. Not even close.

    So... focus on your broken political systems, then worry about saving the planet. Global warming will effectively take care of itself when it begins to become costly. Heading it off at the pass will involve reasonable nations, governments and people... none of which actually exist.

  25. Re:Still doing that? on Superheroes vs. the Westboro Baptist Church · · Score: 1

    And how about the pain the stomping our religion has caused? Or how much suffering has resulting from a society without religion firmly rooted?

    I need to look no further than such fine 20th century atheist leaders as Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong. Can we people give the religion bashing a break because it's old and tiresome.

    Good old lust for power and greed cause most of these problems. It's that simple. Religion merely because of a vehicle for our baboon-like behaviors when particularly clever monkeys learn to utilize it. Wiping out the native Americans was not religiously motivated, for instance. It was motivated by the fact that one group wanted another group's land. Even the Spanish Inquisition was rooted in stealing the property Jews and others not favorable to the Catholics.

    PEOPLE have caused this pain and they manage to do it just fine with or without religion.

    "And they should sure as hell keep their meddling little fingers out my government and schools."

    YOUR government and YOUR schools? Oh that's right, religious people don't pay any of the taxes or participate in any way. Yeah, those fuckers need to keep out and just chill with their congregations.

    Mind you, I'm not making a case for religion either. However, I find that atheists are entirely too comfortable in turning religion into a scapegoat for the natural evils of our species and think themselves blissfully immune to vile acts perpetrated by their religious cousins. History makes is very clear then no religion or lack thereof is free of atrocity.