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  1. Re:Language evolves... on The Illiteracy of Corporate American E-Mail · · Score: 1

    Are you serious? The whole purpose of TFA is about the ability to be concise and clear.
    If you had read the samples it's not just the broken english, but the lack of any ability to make a point that the reader can actually understand. I don't care if they misspell a word here and there, I only care about being able to understand them.
    I deal with clients all the time and it seems like they have no concern about how unprofessional or dumb they come across. It's shocking, really, how some business men have such a poor grasp on the english language, and how willing they are to show it.

  2. A perfect example on BitTorrent Servers Under DDoS Attacks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is a perfect example of why it's not quite right to take the law into your own hands against someone who you **feel** is wrong.
    I have had my site targeted before, and I run a completely legit, whitehat site. Just because someone thinks they're better off financially without a competitor does not mean he's justified to try to take me down.

  3. Re:This Will Save Lives on Military Robots Get Machine Guns · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't call them terrorists- call them rebels or whatever, but not terrorists. And while in the short run this may save a couple of Americans, civilians are more at risk from killbots. A dead innocent civilian just creates at least five or ten more "terrorists". Even if it does slow the death rate of Americans, that also means the presidents approval numbers remain high and contempt for us from the real world grows. This is not a good thing at all.

  4. Re:don't believe him? on Internet Porn More Addictive Than Crack, Senate Told · · Score: 1

    You've obviously never been actually addicted to anything. If you're saying going cold turkey is even in the same ballpark as even alcohol or nicotine, you don't know what you are talking about. Actual clinical nymphomania is rare.

  5. For a really cool rendering of Mars.... on Go on a Virtual Trip to Mars · · Score: 3, Interesting
  6. If anything will put the life expectency over 100 on Harvard to Clone Human Embryos? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It will be stem cell research. Then again, with overcrowding in the world, I don't even know if that's the best good idea. It's going to be a long century, and at the moment, this kind of thing isn't safe either privatized or government regulated.

  7. No such thing as game addiction on Coping with Gaming Addiction · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm sick of there being addictions to everything. Dr Pepper addiction. Sex and the City addiction. The fact is people are lazy and have no will power and allow themselves to form habits.

    Want a REAL addiction? Try crack or heroin or be quiet and learn some self discipline.

  8. For the last time on Chimp Can Hack Diebold Electronic Voting System · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Chimps are not monkeys they are apes.

  9. Re:I'm sorry. So what? on Obsessively Detailed Map Of Springfield · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The first several seasons are the funniest shows you'll ever see on ANY television show... but the most recent seasons aren't that funny at all.
    If you were new to the series, and say, 14, then I could see how you wouldn't like the Simpsons.
    It doesn't help that fox rarely shows classic episodes (in my area at least).

  10. mod parent up on Extended RotK Expected December 14 · · Score: 1

    I could not agree more. If I had mod points Id give them all to you.

  11. The solution is the same as with spammers on Pennsylvania Child Porn Act Overturned · · Score: 1

    ...& others who commit online crimes, like hackers, script kiddies, spammers, and child pornographers.
    The only real solution (which is still a kind of band aid) is to track the bastards down and put them behind bars. Make examples of them.
    Lets have real laws to get law enforcement off their asses, get the isps to track the spammers, hackers, and kiddie pronographers down and KILL THEM.
    Did I say kill them? oops, I mean, imprison them.

  12. Re:Your rights and freedoms are being thrown away on No Secret Ballot for Military Personnel? · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Those of us who take an interest in the state of the US watch in sorrow and some concern at the rate at which your cherished rights and freedoms are being stamped on by this administration. Bush only got in after some very suspicious vote counting. The Republicans aren't too bothered what it takes to keep him there

    Trust me it hurts much more to watch it happening to my own country. Now that Bush apparently has a double digit lead, It is begginning to become obvious that not only will BU__SH__ probably win, he may even win by getting the popular vote this time.
    I can only hope that the rest of the world realizes there are still some people in america who are AGAINST Bush and everything he stands for.
  13. mod parent down on "Scotty" Gets Walk of Fame Star · · Score: 1

    tasteless, unfunny

  14. Re:Yeah on Video Games Hit The Big Screen · · Score: 1

    Even if that game is HD compatible, the equivelent resolution of an imax screen is probably much, much higher than even 1920x1080 (imax is even 4:3 IIRC, not 16:9). But yes it would be cool.

  15. Re:FUGLY on Halo 2 Direct-feed Multiplayer Video Released · · Score: 1

    That's heavily ccmpressed video your seeing, which is what gives you the wrong impression. They also got the fps wrong while encoding making it look worse with motion.

    They should have just made a five minute video with excellent compression. Obviously they're not video experts.

  16. IL 2 Sturmovik on TrackIR3 Pro Head-Tracking System For Gamers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In case some of you are wondering why this is so vital to the flight simmer, well, it isnt.
    But what it does it supposedly does very well. Being a former member of the IL2 Sturmovik community, home to some of the most insane, fanatical, and hardcore legion of gamers in the world, Track IR is a godsend to those whose day is ruined when they lose a dogfight.
    Instead of having one hand on a mouse and the other on a joystick, they can now concentrate on the joystick.
    Since IL2 is life to many a gamer, track ir really sadly enhances many peoples lives and contributes tp their purpose in living.

  17. Stick to south park on South Park Creators Have A New Film · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's the only thing the;ve done right, and the only thing they will ever do right. They need to make new episodes.

  18. Re:Oh great... on The Pentagon's Ultimate Home Theater · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The USA only entered the war because Pearl Harbour forced them to; until then, they couldn't care less that the Nazis were taking over the world.

    That's only a half truth, really. Yes, the majority of the public was against the war, mainly because of the previous war, which was needless, but FDR knew war in Europe was necessary.
    Oh, and if any country could claim credit for winning WWII, it would have to be the Soviet Union.
    And yes, the soviets did most of the killing, but the US' lend lease arguably prevented Moscow from falling in the first year, and provided millions of tons of materiale to drive them westward into berlin.
    So really, lets not go into the gray shades of history. I do probably agree with you that we definitely should be isolationists now that the world is stereotyping us as dumbfucks.
  19. Re:The significance on Duke University Students Receive iPods · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nah, they just had to post it because it's been three hours or so since the last ipod discussion.

  20. Give a man to fish....Teach a man to fish... on Education Via Video Games · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just give em a copy of the Oregon Trail and teach em how to hunt. This way, they don't need welfare, they're self sufficient, the deer and bear population is controlled, everybody wins. They will learn invaluble lessons, like: You can kill 1000 pounds of elk but only carry twenty back to they wagon. Saved my life many a time, helped me preserve those musket rounds.

  21. Opera already does this. on Not Enough Ads? Install Adbar. · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Opera has been doing this for a while now. I have no idea why this article is about Mozilla. Adsense is built into the free version of Opera.

  22. Re:Yes, but on Internet Publishing Can Pay Off · · Score: 1

    Video work on a pc does not blow if you have anew pc and vegas 5 like I do. FCP may be better, but my system does the job, and has all the bells and whistles FCP does. And I can play Far Cry. :p

  23. Re:There will be No Gay Marriage in Fable on Molyneux's Fabled Fable Finally Close To Release · · Score: 1

    Yeah Im pretty sure it's because of the extra coding involved, not because they're homophobes.

  24. Re:The Same Clown from Black and White? on Molyneux's Fabled Fable Finally Close To Release · · Score: 1

    You may have found it boring, I found it incredibly stimulating and innovative once you get past the tutorial. Since you seem intent on going along with the crowd, maybe you should stick to Doom3 where all the thinking is already done for you.

  25. Re:Critics don't know shit on Molyneux's Fabled Fable Finally Close To Release · · Score: 1

    I agree its an open ended sim. And no id didnt suck at all, I found it fun the entire way through, even though there were very few worlds.

    And the interface was not shit- at least not to me. It worked well.

    The worst thing about the game was the ai of the pets were too shallow.

    I really don't know how so many people can think it sucked. Maybe they need to open their mind to new ways of gameplay. IMO these people are the ones who stifle innovation.