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  1. Re:Freezes cut into their business? on Credit Industry Opposes Anti-ID Theft Method · · Score: 1

    Not true, when I went to buy my condo I got to see my credit report and saw all kinds of inquiries I didn't authorize. Also after that I made the huge mistake of using Lending tree to try to find a mortgage broker, like 10 different companies ran checks, none of which I explicitly authorized and it killed my credit score because they ran so many checks.

  2. Hot Recruiters on Shutting Down Annoying Recruiters? · · Score: 1

    I have one that calls me about PeopleSoft consultants almost daily. She sounds really hot. I wonder if I can get in trouble for telling her I'll hire her consultants if she sends me pictures of her wearing nothing but Psoft CD's as pasties.

  3. Vanishing Brain on Experts Now Say JFK Bullet Analysis Was Wrong · · Score: 1

    If anyone doubts it's a conspiracy on some level, just ask yourself how the Brain of one of the most popular presidents disappears after a highly questionable assassination. I mean come on really, If the brains don't fit the conspiracy is legit!

  4. Re:seriously on Experts Now Say JFK Bullet Analysis Was Wrong · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The government couldn't cover up the blow job because Monica talked and half the government wanted it blown up(pun intended) all over the media. It's when the whole government wants to cover something up that we should be scared.

  5. Not another one! on Final Season of Battlestar Galactica Confirmed · · Score: 1

    First Firefly now this. At least we are getting one more season to close off lose ends. What is it with amazing space dramas that can't seem to go the distance(Besides Startrek)?

  6. Re:Well on Student, Denied Degree For MySpace Photo, Sues · · Score: 1

    Yes but it helps. :P

  7. Re:Gun Laws on Many Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry but what the hell are you basing this on? Sounds like you've watched too many gang movies and aren't basing this statement on reality. Most licensed gun owners are not nut jobs who are just itching to plug someone. Normal adults don't go around shooting each other just because they get into a fight, and the wack jobs out there are going to get guns either way.

  8. Jam-1 on Brain Connection To Hypertension? · · Score: 1

    Well the protein is called Jam-1, of course it's clogging arteries with a name like that!

  9. Goodbye Kurt on Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Dies At 84 · · Score: 1

    Truly an American literary great.

    And so it goes...

  10. Re:If this is the case... on Viacom Sues Google Over YouTube for $1 Billion · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately the Viacom lawyers will just make sure most of the Jury is over 40 and has never used YouTube. Though I really do hope Google lays the smack down on them. This constant battle over media needs to come to a head, and this might do it.

  11. LCD on Plasma or LCD? · · Score: 1

    If you are even considering playing games on your TV LCD is the way to go. I brought my 360 to my friends house and within an hour of playing it started to burn in on his Plasma. Not only that but even he agreed the picture quality seemed better on my LCD. With the popularity of gaming I can't see Plasma's making it long term. While I love my PC, there is just something about playing a game on a 55" TV with surround sound that can't compare.

  12. Big Crook on World's First Jail Sentence for BitTorrent Piracy · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they chose him because of him flaunting his criminality with his username? Because surely he was doing those studios a favor distributing those crappy movies, I'm not sure they could even give them away.

  13. Re:I don't know about the game on Wal-Mart Asked to Drop Christian Video Game · · Score: 1

    *Sarcasm on* Yes I'm sure most Christians have looked at all the hundreds of religions out there and decided Christianity is surely the best choice.*Sarcasm off* I know at least in my family it was all that you were forced to accept because it was what my parents were forced to accept, and so on and so fourth, going back generation after generation. Luckily I have finally broken the line of dogmatic belief by actually questioning why I'm believing in something that from a factual and historical view are undoubtedly fiction. So to get back to your statement, if you've only ever eaten pizza, and you tell the rest of the world that if they don't only eat pizza and think it's the greatest they are going to hell, yes that's pretty damn arrogant.

  14. Re:Pareto Distribution on Richest 2% Own Half the World's Wealth · · Score: 1

    No the rich are getting much richer and the poor are up their eyeballs in debt. The poor may be living at a higher level then they were a 100 years ago, but they are now indentured servants to the credit card companies for the privilege.

  15. Don't use the data my Arse on Drivers License Swipes Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    This has been going on for years, and they definitely use the data they take off the license. I still get fliers in the mail all the time from clubs I visited years ago and the only way they could have gotten my mailing address is from that scan of my license. Of course it makes sure I always know when they are having a naughty school girl night, so maybe it's not such a bad thing.

  16. Re: RadioShack e-fires workers on Radio Shack E-Fires 400 Workers · · Score: 1

    You think American companies are cold and heartless, try working for the British. Since they've taken over the CEO has personally told at least 5 people I know not to worry about their job and then fired them that week. It's almost like they take a personal satisfaction in raising up their hopes and then smashing them on the rocks. At least they do it in person though.

  17. Re:Show some humanity on Enron's Kenneth Lay Dies · · Score: 1

    To be honest I think we should get the government to give heartattacks to those who would actually defend such a rotten piece of shit as Kenneth Lay.

  18. Re:*cough*ASTROTURF*cough* on Everyone Still Rumbling About PS3 · · Score: 1

    The accusation holds plenty of water, and I wouldn't be suprised you weren't getting payed by Nintendo. Your reaction is exactly what I would reply with if I was being paid by a company to Astroturf, which happens constantly now. Check out PennyArcade.com they did a whole comic about this and an article. It's getting so bad that I can see in a few years a whole forum of just astroturfers not realizng they are all trying to sell their companies products to each other.

  19. Re:dirty little secret about pig dogs on MPAA training Dogs to Sniff Out DVDs · · Score: 1

    I guess you don't have any family in law enforcement, they do it all the time. My uncle Kenny is my credible source. :P

  20. Re:How could this be BAD news? Like this... on Evidence of the Missing Link Found? · · Score: 1

    If you studied Biology you would know that the simpilest forms of life are barely more then basic proteins linked together. They really aren't that complex at all. You can also follow how each organism through time got more and more complex by the smallest of increments. There is no magic, just ALOT of time and ALOT of simple proteins combining.

  21. Re:Eye strain on eBooks - What's Holding You Back? · · Score: 1

    I couldn't agree more. I work on computers all day, and reading a book is a nice escape from that. I don't think I would ever chose an Ebook over my good old fashioned paper.

  22. Beach Front Property on Global Warming Past The Point of No Return · · Score: 1

    To quote another reply: According to wikipedia, the greenland ice sheet [wikipedia.org], if fully melted, will raise global sea level by 7.2 meters (23.6 feet). This would put large portions of many coastal cities underwater. Has anyone figured out what the US coastline would look like after this? With a few clever land purchases I can be the next Donald Trump(without the bad tupee or ego). Looks like Lex Luthor should have just waited for global warming instead of bothering with those pesky Nukes.

  23. As a Jock/Geek on Hillary, GTA, and High School Football · · Score: 1

    It may encourge aggression on the field, but the coaches aren't trying to get you to go beat down random people on the street. I played football all throughout high school and I was also a video game addict. I don't think I've ever started a fight in my life, I may have ended a few but it was pure defense. Whoever is doing these so-called studies are either doing so with an agenda or clueless. Of course the kids who play football are going to be more aggressive, it attracts aggresive people. Though I think I'm living proof that playing football, playing violet video games, and watching horror movies have nothing to do with how aggressive you are in real life. This kind of slipshod research that gets blown up into national crusades makes me want to Kill some one! :P

  24. Piracy on United Kingdom Leads the World in TV Downloads · · Score: 1

    Oh the horror, sharing stuff that was already pubically broadcast for all to see, oh when will the madness end...

  25. Thought Controlled Cursors... on Non-Invasive Computer Control Through Brainwaves · · Score: 1

    So when can I pick up my copy of Thought Pong!