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  1. Re:Waste of effort on Robots Teach Autistic Kids Social Skills · · Score: 1

    Actually, many many years ago I went to a summer camp for autistics.

  2. Re:This is why... on Microsoft Readies Cheaper 360 · · Score: 1

    There are websites on which you can play all the games grandparent mentions.

  3. Re:New wireless stack? Firewire stack? WTF? on Linux 2.6.22 Kernel Released · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    many of use slackware users use home brew vanilla kernels Easy solution to that: Don't use Slackware. That piece of shit needs to die already.
  4. Re:GPL v3 on Linux 2.6.22 Kernel Released · · Score: 1

    you can negate this by drawing a chalk circle around the machines running the MS software and sprinkling a ground-up printed copy of the GPLv3 over and around them. This is all standard as per Section 5. So now Microsoft's blaming their system instability on Harry Dresden...
  5. Re:number 6 on Attempts to Count Linux Users Remain Pointless · · Score: 1

    Sure, whatever, 700781. Get back in the line.

  6. Re:I Attended Yesterday on Robert A. Heinlein's 100th Birthday · · Score: 1

    This is an exaggeration but Virgil was still horrible. The more "plebian" poets such as Ovid(even if that guy was way too sappy to be Roman) and Catullus were better at least partially due to the fact that they didn't spend their entire poem blabbing about patriotism and how Juno was evil.

  7. Re:Obligatory Comment on Robert A. Heinlein's 100th Birthday · · Score: 1

    Only letting retired military officers vote is like only letting somebody vote after their mind has been sent through a grinder. I have respect for the military but war is a breeding ground for mental disorders.

  8. Re:Playing the "Grownup" Game on Study Says Kids Like 'M' Rated Games · · Score: 1

    Yes, most reasonable people dislike the Coliseum for the fact that there were actual deaths.

  9. Re:They like R-rated movies too on Study Says Kids Like 'M' Rated Games · · Score: 1

    Well, they did like that Irish Republican Army simulator...

  10. Re:I was worried about this on Singles, Not Albums, Define Music Industry Success · · Score: 1

    Almost all of the bands you listed also made a lot of money back in the 1990s when Kurt Cobain's corpse was selling all their albums, much like how JFK's corpse sold all of LBJ's policies.

  11. Re:Why harder for artists? on Singles, Not Albums, Define Music Industry Success · · Score: 1

    Because soon they won't need the record companies so they'll have a much bigger chunk of sales.

  12. Re:I was worried about this on Singles, Not Albums, Define Music Industry Success · · Score: 1

    And if you're about to blow up New York, burn bright, not hot.

  13. Re: 'service breeds citizenship' wasn't miliarist on Robert A. Heinlein's 100th Birthday · · Score: 1

    The film was created independently and wasn't actually meant to be a parody--it just ended up being so because it recreated so many ideas from it that it ended up being a {{Deconstruction}}.

  14. Re:I Attended Yesterday on Robert A. Heinlein's 100th Birthday · · Score: 1

    Virgil was crap. Having actually read it the truth is that The Eye of Argon is better.

  15. Re:Stranger in a strange land on Robert A. Heinlein's 100th Birthday · · Score: 1

    Is that some reference to the fact that when it all comes to it, gold is worthless?

  16. Re:Pelagian on Robert A. Heinlein's 100th Birthday · · Score: 1

    The absence of free will has nothing to do with "choice". It's causality. You have a reason for your choice and it comes not out of the magical aether like determined freewillists like to claim but out of your experience.

  17. Re:Suicide bombers on Politically Incorrect Observations About Human Nature · · Score: 1

    Here ya go. As for reasons, this guy seems to know what he's talking about.

  18. Re:No. on Politically Incorrect Observations About Human Nature · · Score: 1

    I wonder why the Republicans(and the "right" in general) support killing women who need an abortion to live ... I truly do. Anyone know?
    See, ma, I can do strawman arguments too!

  19. Re:References? on Politically Incorrect Observations About Human Nature · · Score: 1

    In today's society, the only way to be politically correct is to be politically incorrect. People confuse the words of political correctness(taking the offensive against racism) with the deeds(stifling free speech). And of course, just like with Communism(where the words were about helping people but the deeds were about getting and keeping power--America's closest match with Communist deeds were when they tried to avoid Communist words) and the negatives of Political Correctness are most enforced by the moral police demanding you not do anything approaching political correctness. Fighting "political correctness" used to be about saying the truths that were squashed by Political Correctness, but now it's about saying the lies that were squashed by Political Correctness.

  20. Re:American only belief? on Roswell UFO Festival · · Score: 1

    Or both, even.

  21. Re:What are the chances? on Roswell UFO Festival · · Score: 1

    Have you never watched Stargate? All aliens speak English.

  22. Re:The price of Freedom ... on Court Upholds Warrantless Internet Snooping · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, Fascism begins when people decide that fighting Communism is more important than protecting rights.

  23. Re:Actually, STOP P2P and piracy and they'll wonde on MediaDefender Denies Entrapment Accusations · · Score: 1

    It doesn't work like that. You see, piracy numbers have been going way down in recent months, but MAFIAA is still blaming their falling sales on piracy. If you want them to stop cracking down on piracy buy from them.

  24. Re:Hmm. Pot, meet kettle... on MediaDefender Denies Entrapment Accusations · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nope, that's still not theft, it's infringement, fraud if you're angry, piracy if you're Jack Sparrow. Theft is a completely different crime and calling infringement theft is like calling kidnapping rape. They're both bad but they're still not the same thing.

  25. Re:Well... Yeah on Forget Math to Become a Great Computer Scientist? · · Score: 1

    You don't need to be brilliant in math to code a forum in PHP The master of the Tao understands that PHP is crap, and would never program in it.