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  1. Re:"Moon is a Harsh Mistress" anybody?? on Magnetic Ring Could Launch Satellites, Weapons · · Score: 1

    A straight line has the problem of being too short. A circle is analogous to an infinite line and allows for more acceleration time.

  2. Re:Ubuntu has already won on Mandriva 2007 Released · · Score: 1

    Try emerge. Once you go emerge you don't go back. I wish there were more CLI tools like emerge.

  3. Re:Ico on Judging a Game By Its Cover · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh my god that Japanese cover is ugly. The American cover is ugly too, but slightly less ugly for me.

  4. Re:Hold off on the writers for a moment: Consider. on Bloggers or High Schoolers, Where is the Literary Talent? · · Score: 1
    Today's average reader is leagues below just twenty years ago, let alone one hundreds years prior.
    This is because there are more people who can read.
  5. Re:"It takes hard writing to make easy reading." on Bloggers or High Schoolers, Where is the Literary Talent? · · Score: 1

    Show me something that can give a good indication of their abilities and isn't subjective.

  6. Re:Absolutely Unsurprising on Bloggers or High Schoolers, Where is the Literary Talent? · · Score: 1
    And yeah, "Standardized" tests are far from the panacia some people think they are.
    Of course. They're used because nothing better exists that isn't subjective.
  7. Re:not hard on Bloggers or High Schoolers, Where is the Literary Talent? · · Score: 1

    That's just Sturgeon's Law, illuminatedwax.

  8. Re:Who cares? on Bloggers or High Schoolers, Where is the Literary Talent? · · Score: 1

    No, I'm just cutting off your girlfriend's maidenhead.

  9. Re:Gordon Rules on Bloggers or High Schoolers, Where is the Literary Talent? · · Score: 1

    Gordon Rules? I thought that Gordon never said anything!

  10. Re:Sensationalist Journalism on Bloggers or High Schoolers, Where is the Literary Talent? · · Score: 1
    (a word my browser also underlines in read, because it is ignorant)
    Fat lot of good that spellchecker did you.
  11. Re:The in-game editor isn't easy? on From SketchUp to Second Life · · Score: 1

    Actually, he's asking why use some external character editor for WoW, and if you're going to use some external character editor to just play your own MMORPG.

  12. Re:In other news... on RNA Interference Leads To Nobel Prize · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but they gave it to John Nash.

  13. Re:No it isn't invisible on Invisible Unmanned Aircraft · · Score: 1

    I thought HARM missiles were supposed to HARM you...

  14. Re:It's a bird-of-prey on Invisible Unmanned Aircraft · · Score: 1

    They don't hide Romulan ships in area 51. Goa'uld ships, on the other hand...

  15. Re:Swedes Don't Care on "DVD Jon" Reverse Engineers FairPlay · · Score: 1

    He lives in the US now. US law applies to him now. Apple can and will take him to court.

  16. Re:Confused on "DVD Jon" Reverse Engineers FairPlay · · Score: 1

    Grandparent is wrong, but not due to your reason. "A splode" is two words. It comes from a Strong Bad Email entitled video games in which one of the games had the bad guy saying "YOUR HEAD A SPLODE".

  17. Re:But Clinton troll modded conservatives! on Administration Ignored Bin Laden Intel · · Score: 1

    Pudge is actually trying to convince me that the Democrats are still the racist party.

  18. Re:The biased party line from Supabeast on Maryland Governor Wants Paper Ballots · · Score: 1

    Republicans: You should need ID to vote!
    A few years later:
    Republicans: We should be able to deny ID to you! It's only ID, after all!

  19. Re:Bias on Maryland Governor Wants Paper Ballots · · Score: 1

    Watch out, if you use malign the pudge semantics demon will attack you and make sure you only use malign with a small subset of a rare usage that excludes the common usage!

  20. Re:Politics of sports on Maryland Governor Wants Paper Ballots · · Score: 1

    When you open a vein the blood is exposed to the air and becomes red.

  21. Re:Paper ballots makes dead people voting difficul on Maryland Governor Wants Paper Ballots · · Score: 1
    No one from The 4400 came from earlier the 20th century.
    I don't watch the show, I just know it's about people pulled from the past into the future. If you continue this point as a form of attack, I'm going to just ignore it.
    You really think the Republicans are racist, and the Democrats are not?
    Considering that Republicans are the ones pushing the racist bills, yes. (And before you say anything about affirmative action, go read about the Bakke case.)
    Notice that the KKK publically supported Bush in the 2004 election.
  22. Re:Strangely unfamous cancer on Going Pink For October · · Score: 1

    I stole this line from an Everything2 node of the same name. I agree with the argument about only disarming the good guys, I just don't agree with the pro-gun "It's for a Revolution" line. Gun-owners have had a very bad track-records with actually protecting our freedoms, with exactly 0 examples after 1800. Even if you had the right to buy rocket launchers and tanks there's still the money issue. In the olden times having more money was nowhere near as much of an advantage as it is now.

  23. Re:Paper ballots makes dead people voting difficul on Maryland Governor Wants Paper Ballots · · Score: 1
    No; I am a not a Democrat.
    Is this the 4400 and you're from Civil War times when the Democrats and Republicans were reversed from what they are now? Or are you just a moron?
  24. Re:Pudge, please look up malign in the dictionary on Maryland Governor Wants Paper Ballots · · Score: 1

    Did you get mad when Ceres stopped being a planet?

  25. Re:They suck on The I-Tech Virtual Laser Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Quantum physics: The dreams stuff is made of.