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  1. Re:Before someone says it on Russia To Save Its ISS Modules · · Score: 1

    replying to remove a mistaken moderation :/

  2. Re:Interesting on Investigators Replicate Nokia 1100 Banking Hack · · Score: 1

    looking at europe as a whole you can easily find legal drugs, hookers and gambling.

  3. that's just unsane! on A Teacher Asking Students To Destroy Notes? · · Score: 1

    Say something, make your teacher repeat it, then slap their face telling them that you're trying to get your property back out of their mouth.

    this is incredibly stupid and asinine.

  4. Re:Victim of WoW's success on Starcraft 2 To Be a Trilogy · · Score: 2, Informative

    only there aren't 10M people playing on the subscription method. Asia's players have a different payment system.

    good try though.

  5. Re:bullshit on Programming Jobs Abroad For a US Citizen? · · Score: 1

    you obviously didn't read.

    hooray that you went through a tough time doing it the tough way. i'm rather surprised /sarcasm

    I took a job in Netherlands and since I _had_ the job offer and the company wanted me here, I had no trouble moving here except for having to wait a month to get internet in my home.

    so I will say that if you have a job ahead of time, the paperwork is indeed rather quick and painless.

  6. Re:Has something changed recently? on Programming Jobs Abroad For a US Citizen? · · Score: 1

    That was the period between 9/11 and the Gig-em wars when the world felt the American people were hurting and treated us like hurt puppies. then we bit them, shit on them, and took all their food away.

  7. Re:Ridiculous on Should Wikipedia Allow Mathematical Proofs? · · Score: 1

    Your sig is stupid. There are those of us who have no bottom threshold

  8. obligatory on Jack Thompson Facing Disbarment Trial · · Score: 1

    Fatality!

  9. Re:gratuitous IBM inclusion on Russian Police Seize Kasparov · · Score: 1

    Really? It would seem to be more akin to arresting Dennis Kucinich or Ron Paul in my not-so-informed opinion.

  10. Live tours? on Ask MST3k Creator Joel Hodgson · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hi Joel,

    Always liked you more than Mike.

    Live action facsimiles of MST3K have been popping up (most notably, at least for Austin, Mr. Sinus Theater (which had to change its name)) lately, and with technology improving, have you considered doing a live action tour? Perhaps with a Jazz band opening act? or TMBG?

  11. Pardon me on US Senators Take On The ESRB Over Manhunt 2 · · Score: 1

    I've been playing the game on the Wii.

    Let me wipe the blood from my glasses...

    Ok then, while I am duly impressed at how my skills at killing people with a plastic bag have improved thanks to Manhunt 2 on the Wii (as opposed to how the theory was merely exposed while playing Manhunt), I just haven't had much success in finding mask wearing gangsters or corrupt police to use them.

    Sure, the homeless problem could be easily cured by hordes of Wii Manhunt2 players slowly creeping up behind them at intersections with bats, but honestly I don't see that taking much more than 1-3 years and then we'll have all these well trained, experienced, murderers.

    I think Manhunt 2 lost out by not including a way to train the would be murderer how to sneak. Where do we put our feet? How do we step? These things are taken care of by the game itself and I predict there will be many would-be murderers who get thwarted by a poor choice of steps.

    Not to mention all the poorly outfitted 360 and PS3 players who have no idea how to kill someone with a bat properly.

    Finally, the Wii shows its hardcore in a most awesome way.

    Maybe Rockstar should have set the game in Iraq and had the player be a Blackwater agent (still insane) and then things would be just fine.

  12. Re:..I'm fucked? on Valve Locking Out Gamers Who Buy Orange Box Internationally · · Score: 1

    only if you don't stand on your head for three hours a night whilest naked and lathered in elderberry juice. maybe you should research this problem yourself. A google search and some clickies would take nearly as many keystrokes as posting your asinine reply. hell you don't even need to google search its up above in this same fucking thread!

  13. Re:Ummmm on Replacing a Thinkpad? · · Score: 1

    maybe you could get them their own instead of letting them trash your coveted classic collection.

  14. Re:Rocky Horror on Antimatter Molecule Should Boost Laser Power · · Score: 1

    So's my putz.

  15. Re:Many bicycle riders do this on Whirling Twirling Propeller Trike · · Score: 1

    you've played backsie-frontsie before I see!

  16. Re:Guilty until proven innocent has CONSEQUENCES on Daylight Savings Time Puts Kid in Jail for 12 Days · · Score: 1

    sadly, claims of such a horrible offense in america tend to have the same guilty before proven innocent feel to them.

  17. Another World still lives on Top 10 'Most Influential' Amiga Games · · Score: 1

    http://www.anotherworld.fr/anotherworld_uk/ It has been updated and runs on XP. I guess there's also a mobile version too.

  18. Re:What? on Croal vs. Totilo - The God of War 2 Letters · · Score: 1

    If you are one of the lucky ones, you can play a game enough to have it's controls be almost subconscious. It's as if you are playing with your hands(feet or whatever interface being used) without having to have your brain turned on.

    How many times have you tried to explain a complex gaming moment and failed, but your hands were conditioned enough to be able to pull off the move repeatedly?

  19. Re:Not shooting for the stars on THQ Announces Warhammer 40K MMOG · · Score: 1

    Beating WoW in terms of gameplay is certainly attainable and I think that all MMOs have striven to improve the gameplay beyond WoW's system.

    I think that most of these PRs are saying that "we don't expect to trounce WoW's subscription numbers" when they say they don't expect to beat WoW.

    WoW had a huge consumer base from the Warcraft games, and Blizzard's Rep, and a general dearth of quality MMOs that many people flocked to it initially. Then the numbers swelled as word of mouth spread. Then the numbers became self-sustaining.

  20. Pirates! on Jim Gray Is Missing · · Score: 2, Funny

    I had a funny feeling that my bittorrent of Windows Vista was a little fishy...

  21. Re:Numbers skewed from shortages on Clearing Up Holiday Sales Rumours · · Score: 1

    that would be when demand drops to below the level of production. when that will be is anybody's guess.

  22. Re:It's a trap! on BBC Episodes Legally Available Via Peer To Peer · · Score: 1

    The feral televisions in some neighborhoods are overrunning the local technofauna according to reports I heard from a guy who heard it somewhere. Luckily in the US, we have the V-chip to help ensure that our feral televisions can be neutered.

  23. I call FUD on Blue Dragon Outsells Zelda in Japan At Launch · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's for a single 1 week period. Not overall

  24. Isn't Howard Stern on Sirius? on NPR Finds XM's Achilles Heel · · Score: 1

    I could [censored] that he was on Sirius.

  25. Re:Working URL on Top Ten Geek Wallets · · Score: 1

    it may work but the layout is FUBAR with the comments over the content (at least in FF1.5.0.7