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  1. Re:Feeling concerned? on China Says Tibetans Need Permission To Reincarnate · · Score: 1

    Traditional culture is evil anyways. It's a prime mover for feelings of superiority, which are the #1 impetus for wars. Until it's all gone we're gonna be stuck here for a while.

  2. Re:Bogus! on Hypervisors Can Defeat GPLv3's Anti-Tivoization · · Score: 1
    The definition of DRM is attempting to use software to provide the user a service while restricting that same service from the user.
    GPLv3 does not fall under this definition because:
    • It is voluntary on the part of the software writer(or at least, exactly as voluntary as GPLv2)
    • It still has no restrictions on the user's part
    • It's a license, not a software program
  3. Re:Bogus! on Hypervisors Can Defeat GPLv3's Anti-Tivoization · · Score: 1

    But then all the code Tivo doesn't want touched will just be in the Hypervisor, and it will have to not be under GPLv3. In other words, we also changed the pages of the real Death Note he's using right now!

  4. Re:The more you tighten your grip, RMS, on Hypervisors Can Defeat GPLv3's Anti-Tivoization · · Score: 1

    Have you actually read the new GPL, or are you just basing your predictions off of what Linus("I don't care about where the missiles go down", said Von Braun) and Microsoft are saying?

  5. Re:Backfire in responce. on Hypervisors Can Defeat GPLv3's Anti-Tivoization · · Score: 1

    GPL does not put restrictions on use of code. It puts restrictions on distribution of code, created to ensure the lack of restrictions on use of code.

  6. Re:GPLv3 is like DRM in that respect. on Hypervisors Can Defeat GPLv3's Anti-Tivoization · · Score: 1

    No, the GPLv3 is trying to use the law to ensure people can use the technology they, the consumer, wants to.

  7. Re:Bogus! on Hypervisors Can Defeat GPLv3's Anti-Tivoization · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's like Death Note. Of course, that begs the question: is Light the FSF or Tivo?

  8. Re:Silent hill on Videogames Make Better Horror Than Movies? · · Score: 1

    Depends, will its plot gradually decline over seasons like 24 and Lost?

  9. Re:No. on Videogames Make Better Horror Than Movies? · · Score: 3, Funny

    But take a good scary movie like Jaws where it's based on real places with real creatures and real situations, and it can be incredbly powerful Marty McFly: "The shark still looks fake!"
  10. Re:Without a comment... on Where To Find Opus On Sunday · · Score: 1

    Well, actually I was referencing a quote from Bill O'Reilly about the Daily Kos.

  11. Re:Slashdot quoting Susan Sarandon... on Wachowski Brothers and the Speed Racer Movie · · Score: 1

    WTF?
    If this were a politics story you might have a point but this is about a movie.

  12. Re:You asked for it on Wachowski Brothers and the Speed Racer Movie · · Score: 1

    Actually, apparently(go look up in the discussion) they didn't want to do a trilogy(I've heard conflicting reports) but the sequel movies would have been better had they both been pushed into one movie. That's probably why I don't have some deep hatred towards them like everyone else does--I saw them sequentially, so all the bad stuff disappeared from my mind.

  13. Re:Correction on Wachowski Brothers and the Speed Racer Movie · · Score: 1

    ...didn't Disney, even circa Snow White, have some sort of elaborate tower system for simulating "depth of field" with cells? And it was the worst part of the movie, because it fell smack-dab into the uncanny valley.
  14. Re:Don't forget to buy your carbon indulgences... on Wachowski Brothers and the Speed Racer Movie · · Score: 1

    Go read the actual scientific peer-reviewed literature on global warming then come back trying to compare it to religion.

  15. Re:You're making my brain hurt. on U.S. Attorney General Resigns · · Score: 1

    I dislike state taxes. I would dislike it less if college was free.

  16. Re:... and the Daily Show is off this week. on U.S. Attorney General Resigns · · Score: 1

    It just happens that for most of Jon Stewart's career on that show Bush has been president and he is both conservative and the most mockable president in history. It's a lot harder to make fun of Democrats, or even most Republicans, than it is to make fun of Bush.

  17. Re:slashdotliberalwinning on U.S. Attorney General Resigns · · Score: 1

    Depends, would you like to all roll over and say "yes" to the dictator because he's a "true American" like Joe McCarthy, or would you like to fight, and have a chance of the dictator actually having to be worried about opinions towards his actions?

  18. Re:slashdotliberalwinning on U.S. Attorney General Resigns · · Score: 1

    An interesting note about party politics and fiscal spending is that if you actually look at the numbers Democrats tend to be more fiscally "conservative" in that their preferred spending plans generally spend less. Why? Because the favorite conservative program, the military, is the most expensive.

  19. Re:Hmph. on U.S. Attorney General Resigns · · Score: 1

    Honestly, after reading Slashdot discussions and hearing the constant Randroid whining(a favorite of those with god complexes--how do I know? just call me Ryuzaki) I'm not certain I'd prefer a Slashdotocracy to the "idiocracy". At least the idiots have an excuze

  20. Re:Better late than never on U.S. Attorney General Resigns · · Score: 1

    I'd just like to not be disenfranchised during the general election, because that's what's happening to me by not living in a swing state.

  21. Re:Better late than never on U.S. Attorney General Resigns · · Score: 1

    The only reason the American Revolution didn't end in chaos is that the Revolutionary War was really a foreign invasion in everything but name.

  22. Re:Not likely on U.S. Attorney General Resigns · · Score: 1

    Well, no, most of the people like that live in places like Wyoming where their vote is magnified three times what you and I living in places not called Wyoming have due to the electoral college.

  23. Re:An old sentiment on U.S. Attorney General Resigns · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, the law was written so that it would pass out of effect after the end of the presidential term. They planned to just pass it again after another Federalist became president.

  24. Re:Just an incredibly banal version of the Borg... on Users Trash Wal-Mart On Its Facebook Site · · Score: 1

    so obviously we should ignore any chance at improvement[/sarcasm]

  25. Re:So do homosexuals on Ape-Human Split Moved Back By Millions Of Years · · Score: 1

    The shit and pee come out of the same tube for birds.