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  1. Re:Back to the Future on Teacher Suspended For Reading Ender's Game To Students · · Score: 1

    So, God impregnated his own mother? Who was also one of God's children? Man, no wonder inbred rednecks cling to the bible like a drowning man to a plank.

  2. Re:Put them to work on Teacher Suspended For Reading Ender's Game To Students · · Score: 1

    "reading their own books" - nobody wants to see 35 copies of Twilight staring back at them...

  3. Re:Put them to work on Teacher Suspended For Reading Ender's Game To Students · · Score: 1

    My high school library had the Chronicles of the Unbeliever by Stephen Donaldson in it. At the risk of spoilering for anyone who hasn't read it the central charcter rapes the first person he meets in the new world. The repercussions of that haunt him all the way through the series and nearly destroy any chance he has of saving that world. It was a very powerful subtext that there are some acts do damage far beyond the act itself and cannot be forgiven.
    I don't expect any school library has those books in anymore. Someone will have complained and another lesson will be lost because they couldn't face the fact that their little darling is entering the dangerous world of adulthood. Which of course means that when they do they are woefully unprepared and get hurt even worse.

  4. Re:Not a surprise on UK's Largest Specialist Video Games Retailer Enters Administration · · Score: 1

    We had 2 GAMEs and 1 GameStation within about 3 mins walk of each other here. AFAIK only one of the GAME stores survived the cull. It was ridiculous to double up like that - especially when they didn't have any presence the other side of the city at all.

  5. Re:Car Wars? on Steve Jackson Games Shows Off Their Latest Tabletop Games at SXSW (Video) · · Score: 1

    I used a car with a ripple fire rocket system and two 6-shot rocket pods. It made a hell of a mess. My mate took the concept one stage further to have a car that had 4 6-shots mounted pointing down and jump jets. He used to go head-to-head with ram cars and then jump over them and turn them into polos on the way over...

  6. Re:That's not the same on Megaupload Host Wants Out · · Score: 2

    1 pirated song =/= 1 lost sale.

  7. Re:That's not the same on Megaupload Host Wants Out · · Score: 1

    So the *IAA have no case for this closure because they still have N copies of their songs...?

  8. Re:Lets go through that link on Megaupload Host Wants Out · · Score: 1

    Your point 2 is fallacious - it's like saying "It's okay I jacked his car, he's got another one"
    Anyone with any sense backs up in multiple locations but you cannot rely on that. Your stance is victim blaming and plays straight into the hands people who are misusing the law to prop up a failing business model.

  9. Re:Male companion on New Doctor Who Companion Announced · · Score: 1

    The guy who told me this was the person sharing a block with Matt and isn't someone prone to making stuff up so I'm tempted to believe him.

  10. Re:5th Amendment on Megaupload Host Wants Out · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Freezing someone's assets to "Prevent their flight" disrupts all their business, legitimate or not...? Who knew that was going to happen?
    Hell, I'm still confused as to how a German living in New Zealand gets arrested on the orders of the FBI...

  11. Re:Male companion on New Doctor Who Companion Announced · · Score: 5, Informative

    Matt Smith went to UEA, Norwich. A friend of mine shared an accomodation block with him - seems that he had a bad habit of shouting "Who loves the c*ck" when entertaining a young lady in his room... Unfortunately that knowledge has made it hard to take the 11th Doctor seriously despite my being a life-long fan of the show...

  12. Re:Can I get one on Nokia Applies For Vibrating Tattoo Patent · · Score: 1

    I believe there's a minimum size for it to work properly... ;->

  13. Re:I have an organ donor card... on When Are You Dead? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I burned out a good chunk of my brain in the 90's in a suicide attempt. I can still function, hold down a good job, have a relationship. I'm not the same person i was before the incident but I'm still a person with feelings, hope, dreams and rights.

  14. Re:See? on Japan's Nuclear Energy Industry Nears Shutdown · · Score: 2

    Yeah - my bad.
    "poorly maintained fission reactor" is what I should have typed.

  15. Re:See? on Japan's Nuclear Energy Industry Nears Shutdown · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And when (if) fusion becomes commercially viable what then? Japan was leading the world in fusion research and it was expected that they'd crack the break-even point first. I'd hate to see such an important development set back because a poorly maintained fusion reactor that was past its decommision date couldn't survive a simultaneous earthquake and tsunami...

  16. Re:An easy solution on Why Making Facebook Private Won't Protect You · · Score: 1

    Or, you can ask them if they are aware of the current court action being taken by the ACLU against a school that demanded the same of one of its pupils and explain that you could not be in all conscience party to exposing the employer to a similar liability. You may not get the job but you will impress on anyone but the stupidest that this kind of intrusion is unwarranted and egregious and may well (hopefully) be declared illegal.

  17. Re:So the moral of the story is... on The Worst Job In the Digital World · · Score: 3, Funny

    ""Just think of us as friends you haven't met yet and hope you never will."
    TFTFY

  18. Re:Gingers? on Redheads Feel Pain Differently Than the Rest of Us · · Score: 1

    My wife is from a line of redheads but only got a hint of the red - the rest of her colouration is perfect for red so she dyes her hair. She never wants for attention from guys - I've lost count of the number of times I've gone off for a piss or to grab a beer to find some guy hitting on her. (My usual reaction is to sashay up, put an arm round her shoulder and say "Sweetie, who's your friend? Is he for me...?" Never fails to put them off their stride...)
    Redhead girls get a lot of shit till everyone's bits start working, then it's attention from guys and jealous bitching from girls. Redhead boys are just shit out of luck...

  19. Re:Power and Responsibility on Photographing Police: Deletion Is Not Forever · · Score: 1

    I keep on saying that every police station should have "Servant not Master" prominently displayed in several places to remind them daily of the fact that they exist to serve the public, not the other way around.

  20. Re:GAMBLING FUNDS TERRORISM!!!11! on US Shuts Down Canadian Gambling Site With Verisign's Help · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So if I set up a website and someone in a US state spends money on it then it automatically comes under the jurisdiction of that state? No matter where it's hosted? Wow - that's an insane level of power grab.

  21. Re:Wouldn't that include the Game of Thrones books on Paypal Forces E-Book Publisher To Censor Erotic Content · · Score: 1

    Most of the major religions' prime texts contain acts and references that the Moral Minority would scream blue murder over if they were in a modern book that their children were forced to read at least once a week.
    But hey, it's one rule for us, another rule for The Word Of The One True God...

  22. Re:More likely to return? YES on Paypal Forces E-Book Publisher To Censor Erotic Content · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine found incest pr0n sites in the browser history of her brother's PC. To say she was icked out was an understatement...

  23. Re:I still don't get it on US Prosecutors Have a Sealed Indictment On Assange, Say Leaked Files · · Score: 2

    America has an extradition agreement with the UK, it's just horribly one sided.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_Act_2003

  24. Re:Is this Apple or MS? on Apple Threatens To Pull Siri Clone From App Store · · Score: 0

    Just another reason to avoid the proprietary lock-in hell that is Apple's walled garden. Sure their products are shiny and smooth but you trade all your rights to the device you just forked out enough to buy a car on for that ease of use.

  25. Re:Innovative on Nordic Nations Pitch For US Data Centers · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that the second any US-generated data is put on the servers the servers come immediately under US jurisdiciotn and are bound by US law.
    What? That's not the case? Then what the frack happened to MegaUpload...?