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  1. Re:Microsoft eating their own dogfood? on Windows Vista - Not So Bad? · · Score: 1

    Now all we can do is wait for the hordes of hell to appear.

  2. Re:Change Your Ads Then! on PS3 to Sell at Over $800 in UK · · Score: 1

    Actually, given the price of the Wiiiiiiiiiii! most people who shell out for a ps3 will be able to afford the Wiiiiiiiii! if the games available interest them.

  3. Re:Not likely to be the tower. on Mobile Phone Transmitter Causes Brain Tumours? · · Score: 1

    You'd cook your brain. Literally. There wouldn't be tumors developing, however.

  4. Re:Ever heard of parrots ? on A Dolphin By Any Other Name · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but do two birds 'talk' to each other about a third bird by using it's name in their whistling? It's one thing to have an identifier, quite another to reference a third being when the person isn't there.

  5. Re:Not that astounding.... on A Dolphin By Any Other Name · · Score: 1

    Wrong, they only responded to the name of a close relative 9 out of 14 times. Big difference.

  6. Re:*sigh* on A Dolphin By Any Other Name · · Score: 1

    How the fuck would a double blind trial work on dolphins? It would immediately become apparent to the testers what you were trying to find, thereby introducing nonrandom bias into the experiment and negating the entire point of a double-blind study.

  7. Re:Energy efficiency on Urging Congress to Cancel the Ethanol Tariff · · Score: 1

    Actually, if we really wanted energy independence we would remove all tariffs and subsidies, and also greatly reduce the patent system from what it currently is. Allowing patent ip companies to exist, or for companies to buy up patents to stop a technology from being used is a severe bastardization of the system and the people doing so should be stripped of any money they made off of control of said patents. Then the government would get off it's ass and ruduce most regulation of things like oil refineries and nuke power plants. Allow people to suck as much gas as needed and either reduce the fuel taxes or force them to actually use said fuel taxes to improve the roadways like they're fucking supposed too. Within 2 generations we would be energy independent with the added bonus of a revitalized economy. Combine that with the abolition of corporate taxes, which are in the long run just another sales tax anyway, and our economy would make China's look like a fucking slug. But since it's probable that none of that will happen it's a moot point anyway.

  8. Re:Cuba? on World of Warcraft In the Axis of Evil · · Score: 1

    They gave up after the war of 1812.

  9. Re:Just What We Need on DOA Coming to the Theater Near You · · Score: 1

    Hey, Street fighter was quality stuff. Followed closely by Super Mario Bros. Is it just me or is it really, really sad that those are the two best video-game based movies?

  10. Re:well duh on Canadian Music Stars Fight Against DRM · · Score: 1

    If we rioted whenever elections were fixed, Chicago, Madison, and Milwaukee would have major riots every single election year.

  11. Re:Definitely not 0 profit... on IE The Great Microsoft Blunder? · · Score: 1

    Depends on the dog. Not to mention if there's two your screwed uless your really fast.

  12. Re:Not so good on AMD Calls on Microsoft for Intel Antitrust Case · · Score: 1

    Except there would be morehn enough people offering them loans for them to quickly ramp up production. Maybe a year of tight proc. production, possibly 1.5. Not any more really, especially since they'd be able to buy and convert Intel's facilities.

  13. Re:It is real, look out the window on Environmentalists Coming Around to Nuclear Power? · · Score: 1

    Most aren't saying to abolish SUVs, just that the majority of the people driving them don't need to be.

  14. Re:my anecdote on Ubisoft Officially Drops Starforce · · Score: 1

    If I read the following correctly "2. After the installation and start-up of StarForce protected product the problem with (CD/DVD read-write malfunction) must exist and be reproduced in any other configuration." that qualification pretty much makes it as impossible as the guy who claims he will give you money for proving evolution. Of course there will be a configuration that will work. But that doesn't mean that StarFuck doesn't kill the occasional drive. Looks bogus to me.

  15. Re:Too much buying power... on Wal-Mart Controls Modern Game Design? · · Score: 1

    It would be more true to say the government is elected for the people that as a group pay over 30% of the taxes.

  16. Re:Lawyers and Politicians with Mod points? on The Call Girl Character Class · · Score: 1

    All politicans are whores at the big levels. American politicians are just slightly more honest about it. Of course, in the case of Daley, he's more of a Madam, but still.

  17. Re:Wow on Republicans Defeat Net Neutrality Proposal · · Score: 1

    Quote from the article "A Republican-controlled House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Wednesday defeated a proposal that would have levied extensive regulations on broadband providers and forcibly prevented them from offering higher-speed video services to partners or affiliates. " Quote from topic header "A Republican controlled committee has defeated a bill that would have guaranteed fair access and stopped companies like AT&T and Verizon from charging high-bandwidth sites for allowing their customers to have priority access to them." No bias there AT ALL. Nope, don't know what you're talking about.

  18. Re:Wow on Republicans Defeat Net Neutrality Proposal · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. My dad is the co-owner of an LLC. By regulating his business you are damned well restricting his freedom to sell his product.

  19. Re:RIAA has some learning to do on RIAA Recommends Students Drop out of College · · Score: 1

    However, comparing it to a library is perfectly valid, as you could photocopy the book, at least in theory, and then return it. As an aside, does anyone else rent CD's from the library and burn them and if so, what's the actual legal situation there?

  20. Re:RIAA has some learning to do on RIAA Recommends Students Drop out of College · · Score: 1

    Or it could be that taking them to court over the matter is a complete pain in the ass.

  21. Re:Perfect... on RIAA Recommends Students Drop out of College · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't. Piracy means selling fake copies on the streets. Not downloading. Downloading is downloading. Still perfectly legal to do. It's uploading that's illegal. So if you're a leecher or only share your legal material you're perfectly in the clear

  22. Re:"Ha Ha!" on Frustration With Oblivion Mod Costs on Xbox Live · · Score: 1

    If the oblivion community is any bit as hmmm, creative as the NWN community, someone will figure it out. It might be an ugly as hell hack in terms of coding application, but it'll work.

  23. Re:"Ha Ha!" on Frustration With Oblivion Mod Costs on Xbox Live · · Score: 1

    I give it 2-3 weeks at most. Soon enough you will have user designed strongholds as well.

  24. Re:There's a lot of potential on Americans Gearing up to Fight Global Warming · · Score: 1

    The irony of the situation is the more gas we use, the faster we switch energy sources which is what you purport to want. Until the resource is exhausted, People will continue to utilize it.

  25. Re:Character Development on The Oblivion of Western RPGs · · Score: 1

    There are quite a few PW's for NWN that are mature in their roleplaying, and the server pop is small enough that the DM's can weed out the idiots.