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  1. Re:Ignore the gyrations of management on IsoHunt Guilty of Inducing Infringement · · Score: 1

    More like creating a chimera and then attempting to predict it's behavior using either organism used in the creation as a baseline for capability is useless without using the other.

  2. Re:Is there a way for a US judgement to be enforce on IsoHunt Guilty of Inducing Infringement · · Score: 1

    It's the 9th circuit. Between the district courts and the appeals court, so many bad decisions come out of there it's not funny.

  3. Re:Ava-who? on The Science of Avatar · · Score: 1

    Scientist boy was willing to let all the worker idiots starve to death, yet he becomes outraged over the experiments being done to them? Doesn't scan. Not to mention the odd collection of weapons and the fact that they somehow smuggled them all down to the surface even though the only transport off was by freaking helicopter and some of them like the god damned mech never would have fit in the first place was never taken into account. That movie had more holes than lacey swiss.

  4. Re:I haven't seen it on The Science of Avatar · · Score: 1

    Soo, you want me to spend 16 bucks on a tech demo? I didn't buy Doom 3, and I'm not gonna buy a ticket to Avatar.

  5. Re:Why would you want to go with other people? on The Science of Avatar · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that the military characters all act with less discipline than you average 3rd world army, even though they're all ex-US military of some sort. Or that a Force Recon marine shows about as much knowledge of tactics as a fucking 5 year old.

  6. Re:I haven't seen it on The Science of Avatar · · Score: 1

    You also have to add something about Petaybee in there, what with the sentient planet and all.

  7. Re:Regrettably... on Typing With Your Brain · · Score: 1

    Movement would have to be remapped to the arrow keys. Thinking WASD to move would be a PITA.

  8. Re:Her Constituent Status Is Only Part of It on Florida Congressman Wants Blogging Critic Fined, Jailed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Pretty much attributable to LBJ and the fact that he more or less hoodwinked them into thinking that the Democrats were responsible for the 1964 CRVA(They weren't, the Republicans were) And then giving them a straight up bribe that was entirely a poison pill in his Great Society. Oddly enough, pretty much the moment that passed, the poverty rate stopped declining.

  9. Re:Her Constituent Status Is Only Part of It on Florida Congressman Wants Blogging Critic Fined, Jailed · · Score: 2, Informative

    *blinks* Do you mean if we had privatized SocSec from the start and invested evenly in the Dow? Much, much, much, much better off. Or do you mean if we had gone with Bush's plan? In which case the answer would be nobody who could accept Bush's plan would currently be receiving SocSec because his plan had a cut-off age to start it and nobody over that age could participate, which means no one currently drawing SocSec would have a privatized plan.

  10. Re:Why a decade later on The Definitive Evisceration of The Phantom Menace *NSFW* · · Score: 1

    WORSE acting? Yeah, the acting was bad, but I'm pretty sure it was quite a bit better.

  11. Re:This definitely on Holy See Declares a "Unique Copyright" On the Pope · · Score: 1

    Well for one, they claim trademark, not copyright.They've held 'copyright' for over 1000 years. Last time I checked, US copyright law didn't allow for more than 80.

  12. Re:Pro-"Choice" on Charities Upset Over Chase Facebook Contest · · Score: 1

    Morality requires sentience.

  13. Re:Charities? on Charities Upset Over Chase Facebook Contest · · Score: 1

    Heroin can as well.

  14. Re:I don't get it on Google Found Guilty of French Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    They overstepped the bounds of the latest French copyright law. The one that makes the US DMCA look fuzzy and friendly.

  15. Re:Never said it was on Google Found Guilty of French Copyright Infringement · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We could easily have done what the Russians did to Eastern Europe to Western Europe after WWII if we had wanted to.Or we could have absorbed Japan. Of any government that has held significant power at any time in the history of the world, the US has been the least abusive and most egalitarian.

  16. Re:Yeah, but it's France.... on Google Found Guilty of French Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    The lesson learned by Vietnam is to take the exact opposite stance on Foreign Policy as the French. Had we to the French to STFU and get out of Vietnam after WWII, there's a chance Vietnam would be a capitalist system today.

  17. Re:Sh..... on $26 of Software Defeats American Military · · Score: 1

    Except when talking about the singular, it cannot have intelligence. You must be talking about all the military to consider aggregate intelligence and therefore his grammar was incorrect.

  18. Re:Sh..... on $26 of Software Defeats American Military · · Score: 1

    Um , unless you managed to factor in manpower and bureaucratic oversight into you spontaneous calculations there, I fail to see how you can say they do it at a higher rate. The military has a fixed number of people to allocate to various tasks.

  19. Re:Why is there even a debate? on Russians Claim More Climate Data Was Manipulated · · Score: 1

    Nobody has a graph of the past 200 years. The only graphs are for a maximum of the past 30-40. Besides, it makes more sense to ask for a variance graph of the last 10,000 years if we're going for pie in the sky dreams.

  20. Re:Why Are We Deferring to an Economic Organizatio on Russians Claim More Climate Data Was Manipulated · · Score: 1

    The only thing that's been tested is that a system composed of gas and an IR emitter traps heat. However, IIRC all the experiments used much larger amounts of CO2, didn't have pressure differentials throughout the container, and weren't large enough to have a climate. The actual theories proposed all say that a certain layer of the atmosphere should be heating up much more rapidly at the equator than elsewhere, but that's not happening.

  21. Re:Plenty of funds going around on both sides on Russians Claim More Climate Data Was Manipulated · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bad for everybody except the specific industry that feeds off of the phenomenon, along with all the lovely government jobs that are created to enforce the parasite.

  22. Re:Why Are We Deferring to an Economic Organizatio on Russians Claim More Climate Data Was Manipulated · · Score: 1

    The Russians say that Hadley-CRU ignored about 3/4 of their data. It should be EXTREMELY FUCKING SIMPLE for the people there to go "Nope, we used it all, except for these very specific examples that we didn't use, and here's WHY". That's what would happen if they were conducting actual science. They would have RECORDS. Instead we're dealing with people who apparently don't record their homogenization techniques and DELETE DATA. For which, if the scientific community were acting rationally, they would keelhaul the fuckers.

  23. Re:You can certainly have an opinion on Russians Claim More Climate Data Was Manipulated · · Score: 1

    Simply put? The dissemination of information through the internet. There are plenty of people who have the capability to understand a topic, but not the time to look up the source of the knowledge. With the internet, the paradigm changes.

  24. Re:Why Are We Deferring to an Economic Organizatio on Russians Claim More Climate Data Was Manipulated · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Except there has been no evidence shown whatsoever that it was a hack. No computer logs, nada. Moreover, the fact that a BBC blogger was emailed the file and decided not to publish it weeks before it became available on the russian site seriously undermines the hacker theory. Not to mention the fact that everything is collated into a FOI folder.

  25. Re:Conveniently forgetting the details on Israeli Border Police Shoot US Student's Laptop · · Score: 1

    The Swiss have guns for safety as well. And if you outright ignore the black population, our murder rate is pretty much the same as Canada's.