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  1. Re:Who's John Galt (raping)? on EFF Assails YouTube For Removing "Downfall" Parodies · · Score: 1

    Ayn Rand never talked about company owned copyright, IIRC. Now, she did discuss copyright itself, and supported lifetime of author plus 50 years. However, I doubt she would have supported the idea of corporation owned copyright, and if she did, she probably would want it treated as if the author had 'died'. So a corp has 50 years to play with the material.

  2. Re:I still blame Metallica on EU Piracy Estimates — Just How Inaccurate? · · Score: 1

    The official CD release of Death Magnetic was a pile of overcompressed horseshit.

  3. Re:Then on Roger Ebert On Why Video Games Can Never Be Art · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Any sport without an objective scoring method isn't. It's merely performance art.

  4. Re:One new thing - transatlantic on 2 engines on EU Conducts Test Flights To Assess Impact of Volcanic Ash On Aircraft · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Starting to get ridiculous... on EU Conducts Test Flights To Assess Impact of Volcanic Ash On Aircraft · · Score: 1

    Zeppelins!

  6. Re:Doubt it will ever get made on Joss Whedon To Direct The Avengers · · Score: 1

    Whereas I doubt Serenity had more than 2 million spent on promotion for both the theater and DVD release combined. I saw a single commercial for that movie after it opened on Comedy Central at 10 o'clock.

  7. Re:5% on Do You Have a Secret Immunity To 3D Movies? · · Score: 1

    Alice in Wonderland had relatively few pop out effects. Only two or three IIRC. The rest of the movie was just normal 3D.

  8. Re:Big companies = bad for gaming on Activision Countersues Modern Warfare 2 Execs · · Score: 1

    Square Enix.

  9. Re:Punish Activision on Activision Countersues Modern Warfare 2 Execs · · Score: 1

    The Doom iconic weapons were the BFG and Chainsaw.

  10. Re:Schools vs. Killing brown people on Chicago Mayor Calls For "Brainiac High" · · Score: 1

    Of course, one of the reason's the government's so weak is because they killed the most honest anti-terrorist politician in Afghanistan several days before 9/11 in a suicide bombing. They damn well knew what our reaction would be, though they probably didn't realize the full extent of our ability.

  11. Re:Equal opportunity apathy on Chicago Mayor Calls For "Brainiac High" · · Score: 1

    Given that the stupid bitch Blanco refused to give the go-ahead for Bush to mobilize the Nat Guard until 2 days after the hurricane hit and that dumbass Nagin left fleets of buses in the town I'd say the federal government did pretty damn well. Especially since the NG got to the Superdome less than 24 hours after they were released to operate.

  12. Re:Your racism is really offensive on Chicago Mayor Calls For "Brainiac High" · · Score: 1

    Well for one, whenever someone says brown people I think of Samoans and Thai

  13. Re:public, private schools on Chicago Mayor Calls For "Brainiac High" · · Score: 1

    In terms of absolute numbers, sure. In terms of percentage however, things become much more uncertain.

  14. Re:If not China, why US? on Google Gives the US Government Access To Gmail · · Score: 1

    The part where it affects the second half of the sentence. I speak and read English according to its grammatical rules. What language's grammar are you following when you read the 2nd amendment?

  15. Re:"Jawa report" not credible on How Did Wikileaks Do It? · · Score: 1

    No they don't, they identify the RPG seen earlier in the video which is much skinnier than the telephoto lens was .

  16. Re:They also left out a good deal of context on How Did Wikileaks Do It? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Multiple people had AKs along with at least one RPG-7 less than 5 blocks away from a US ground patrol. Moreover, photos of the patrol were found on the journos' cameras. Collateral murder my ass.

  17. Re:Did you even watch the footage? on How Did Wikileaks Do It? · · Score: 5, Informative

    On the 17 minute video posted on Youtube, during seconds 3:45-6 you can clearly see someone separate from the two journos with an RPG-7 launcher. It's not a tripod or a camera, those were carried by other people.

  18. Re:Designed Obsolescence on Blu-ray Proposes Incompatible BD-XL and IH-BD Formats · · Score: 1

    Except for archiving purposes you'd only use writable media. You wouldn't need rewrite capability.

  19. Re:Fool's hope that... on Wikileaks Releases Video of Journalist Killings · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The ICC is composed of a bunch of self important wankers who are so far removed from reality as to believe they actually matter. More importantly from an American's point of view, becoming a signatory to the Rome Statute would be unconstitutional.

  20. Re:problem with the officers on Family Has Right of Privacy In Decapitation Photos · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The greater good can fuck itself up the ass sideways. The greater good has, through one evolution or another, given us every truly despotic regime on this planet. It has justified more bloodshed and evil than any other phrase in existence.

  21. Re:Australia on Ubisoft DRM Causing More Problems · · Score: 1

    Clearly his history class glossed over Hitler's origins.

  22. Re:They Suck on New Litigation Targets 20,000 BitTorrent-Using Downloaders · · Score: 1

    If you don't know how time is a physical phenomena, then the idea of the time-space continuum and the electromagnetic spectrum must be beyond you.

  23. Re:So... on NASA Summoned To Fix Prius Problems · · Score: 1, Informative

    It was my understanding that the entire problem was caused by some Shadowrunners hired by GM and Chrysler to break into the Toyota supply lines. I heard it was a three pronged attack, their decker injected some software bugs, they let a troll loose in the factory to fuck with the pedals and they got a shaman to curse the floor mats.

    FTFY

  24. Re:Short Answer: Yes! on Are Consoles Holding Back PC Gaming? · · Score: 1

    A good weapon? Hell, I used it much more than I ever did the sniper rifle.

  25. Re:You know... on GameStop Sued Over Lack of DLC For Used Games · · Score: 1

    *blinks* It wasn't on the install disc, at least not in the case of DA:O.