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  1. Re:Time to use that stationery you got for christm on Canada To Introduce Copyright Law Next Week · · Score: 1

    I really hope people already know who their MP is.

  2. Re:How do we protest? on Canada To Introduce Copyright Law Next Week · · Score: 1

    Write your MP. We have a system, and the system doesn't work because no one uses it. Write your MP and tell them that you don't like this, and etc. etc. Write your MP, because they're the ones that are going to listen.

    If only that were true. However most MP's, with the exception of independants, listen to their party first.

  3. stereotype on Canada To Introduce Copyright Law Next Week · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "If a father or mother gets a notice from their ISP that they might be sued because of the activities of their teenaged son or daughter, you could be pretty well assured that that activity is going to change," said Jay Thomson of the Canadian Association of Internet Providers.

    As if it's just kids that do it.

  4. embarrassed on Oregon Woman Sues Yahoo for $3 Million · · Score: 1

    I think her boyfriend should go to jail.

    I was soo embarrassed when I showed up at her office wearing nothing but a trenchcoat, expecting to have some fun and she said no.

  5. Re:The important question is . . . on Kevin Rose Leaving G4 to start Internet Only Show · · Score: 2

    Asia Carrera is still my favorite hot geek.

  6. Re:Just tell me this... on Revenge of the Sith TV Spots Revealed · · Score: 1

    That would completely blow my mind. I guess I'll do some spoiling to, I have a feeling Obi Wan gets killed off as well.

  7. Re:Um . . . there ARE NO PROFITS . . . on Star Wars: Revelations Available Online · · Score: 1

    ummm, that was my point. I guess my sarcasm was too subtle

  8. Re:Where's George? on Star Wars: Revelations Available Online · · Score: 1

    He could sue them for 100% of their profits if he wants to.

  9. Re:Mod parent up! on 2005 Star Wars Fan Film Entries Online · · Score: 1

    "I am your baby's daddy"

    Best Line Ever!

  10. Not too bad but... on 2005 Star Wars Fan Film Entries Online · · Score: 1

    I felt that these short films were pretty good but I'm a fan of parodies. I really liked Sith Apprentice but my favorite Star Wars parody is A Lost Hope from sequentialpictures.com. It's a parody of a trailer for Episode 3.

  11. unique item on D&D Blamed For Stabbing Deaths · · Score: 1

    It was probably the Holy Knife of Stabbin. A +3 modifier is added on all attack and damage rolls.

  12. good for pseudocode on Metafor: Translating Natural Language to Code · · Score: 1

    I think this would be a good tool for building the structure of your code.

    On a side note we don't want to have a computer program being able to convert plain english to code for a couple of reasons. The most important is that I wouldn't have a job anymore. And of course if computers start writing code from plain english it's only a matter of time before they become self-aware and before you know it SkyNet is launching nukes.

  13. Re:New prizes announced on NASA Unveils Centennial Challenges · · Score: 1

    Anti-gravity device is done. It's called a lifter, whether or not it's really anti-gravity is still being debated but I do have one in the basement. It runs completely on electricity but the power supply can't be mounted on the actual lifter since it's far too heavy.

    So how do I go about collecting.

  14. abuse the patriot act? impossible on The Continuing Hunt for PATRIOT Act Abuses · · Score: 1

    The whole purpose and idea of the patriot act is abuse. It rescinds the rights people once had. How can you abuse something that is already so abusive?

  15. Parents...Be careful on Microsoft Robots to Watch Kids · · Score: 1

    This may only the beginning of a new line of robot sitters that MS puts out.

    Soon they will come up with a biological/robot hybrid to ease concerns of machines watching the kids. Then they will guarantee that your children will be better behaved by injecting them with "nanites". Which is why parents must be careful, because some time dow the road everyone will be sitting at dinner and the following conversation will take place:

    Parents: Why aren't you eating your vegetables?

    Kids all turn heads at same time to parents Kids: Vegetables are irrelevant

    And I think we all know where the story goes from there.

  16. Re:Is it... on Spyware Critics Respond to iDownload/iSearch · · Score: 1

    Is it spyware when a Yes/No box comes up and regardless of what you press it installs anyway?

    The answer here is quite simple.

  17. Re:Life after Death in Star Wars? on Star Wars Episode 3 Play-By-Play In Pictures · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yoda and ObiWan aren't escaping death. They allow their souls pass on to the living force where they stay for a few years. Eventually they fade away.

    Darth Plaguesis is talking about staying alive in the real world. Sidious learned this technique from him.

    BTW Yoda learns how to pass to the living force from Qui Gonn, who will appear as a force ghost in EP3.

  18. Re:Looks better on Star Wars Episode 3 Play-By-Play In Pictures · · Score: 1

    George said that if this one makes $800 mil. worldwide then he may consider doing the sequel trilogy, which looks like it sux by the way. The plot is way too unoriginal for ep7-9. His ideas for ep.10-12 are still coming out, but are set 10000+ years after the original Tril.

    Basically if you want these to be the end then the movie has to suck financially. I'm

  19. Re:what about Storm Troopers, etc on Star Wars Episode 3 Play-By-Play In Pictures · · Score: 1

    Episode 3 will answer your first question. The storm troopers are the clone troopers, there are other people that get cloned to be stormtroopers by EP4. Some of the stormtroopers aren't even clones just people making an 'honest' living in the galaxy.

    As for the droids, most are destroyed during the clone wars, what's left would have been refitted to make a protocol droid or such.

  20. Re:Something to think about on Star Wars Episode 3 Play-By-Play In Pictures · · Score: 1

    This issue was touch and go for a while but yes JEJ will do the voice for vader. Lucas originally wanted to use a voice that sounded like his but after much fan negotiation, he will use JEJ.

  21. Re:Contradiction on Star Wars Episode 3 Play-By-Play In Pictures · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Nope not a plot hole. Sorry to burst your bubble but Leia is born first by a few minutes and her mother holds her(remember she is force sensitive so her remembering this isn't completely in left field). Padme passes out afterwards and the droid has to manually remove Luke, which is why he knows nothing of her.

    BTW my favorite movie thus far is ROTJ but AOTC comes in a close second. And from what I know and have seen thus far of ROTS, I'm almost positive it will take the top spot.

  22. Re:Hello, TESTING??? on North Korea Admits to Having Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 1

    The bomb that the US dropped on Hiroshima, a uranium device, had never been tested.

    Sure it was. They chose the best testing grounds possible: the streets of Hiroshima. But then of course they had 2 designs and had to test the 2nd as well so they chose the fine streets of Nagasaki.

    The tests turned out to be a success.

  23. Re:Quick hide the WMD Canada! on Canadian Government Weary of Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    That's right. I'd like to see those american jokers cross the border and attempt an invasion. We would whoop your ass straight back to Washington.

  24. It's a powerful tool on Games Better Than Books? · · Score: 1

    This is my area of expertise. I develop games and simulations for the adult learning market. However I have done much research in the area of child and adult education.

    At the school education level the idea is not to replace books, but instead to get a person interested enough in a subject to read the book to get the full story. We have to capture the interest of people first. History class is a prime example, there are so many amazing stories to be told from history. There are exciting battles, political corruption, religious wars; but how do we teach it? We teach it with dates and names and places, the kind of thing that would make the best of us drowsy. A game on the subject, something interactive that the student can control can truly spark interest in a subject. I design games with the specific goal of teaching but there are thousands of games in the world that are there for fun, but they still contain information that is easily retained by the player. It's very important that these games are as historically and factually accurate as possible because it's through media that people today, not just kids, get vast ammounts of their knowledge.

    There is a huge market for this type of interactive learning in all areas of western society, I don't think you should downplay the quality of information based on the medium in which it's brought. It shouldn't matter whether the information is in a novel or text, or if it's in the plot of a game, providing it's factual.

    I'm from Canada, but my research has been taken from around the world. I've found that far eastern society students are better than western society students. We have to remember that not everyone learns in the same way. Not everyone can read a novel and are able to see the story unfolding in their head. Western society has a better potential for visual learning and interactive learning. Far Eastern society has been found to learn very well through written texts alone, but does that make them better than those that are visual learners? The answer is no, but why is it that they seem to make better students? It's because we haven't attempted to adapt teaching styles to fit learning styles, we've been doing the opposite and it hasn't worked for the mass amount of learners yet.

  25. Re:Can Spam Act as defense on Spammers Sue Spamee · · Score: 1

    A court order would be required to force the ISP to give up the name. Chances are there wasn't one, so if the isp did there could be a lawsuit of complainant vs ISP.