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  1. Re:Fighting games? on New Genres For The Revolution · · Score: 1

    I don't think it really counts as it doesn't play any commercial games in English nor is it marketed in the US. You have to get it in the grey market.

  2. Re:Interactive Exercise Videos and Dancing on New Genres For The Revolution · · Score: 1

    They already had this back in the mid 1980s via the power pad. Except we just ended up cheating and using our hands. I want more games like Phoenix Wright, where you are a normal person doing a normal job. Who wouldn't want to play Certified Public Accountant where you play an account for a firm like Arthur Anderson. Or maybe dot com thousandaire, or Real Estate agent, Driver's Ed teacher, or SlashBlog day in the life of a Blog editor.

  3. Re:Devil's Advocate on Tech-Ed Funding to be Tied to Copyright-Ed? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I see your point. Some things are illegal and people should be educated. But if you get a ticket for shooting someone in a quail hunt. You can't use the freedom of speech as a defense. You can in copyright law.

    So if you teach kids about respecting copyrights, I think you should also educate kids about governments respecting first amendment rights. I have no problem with that.

  4. Re:Expect on September PS3 Launch, Online Service · · Score: 1

    Apple is selling tons of video at low resolutions. So I guess there would be a market for something similar to this.

  5. Re:"Gameboy" DS? on Opera on the Nintendo DS · · Score: 1

    The Micro can't play gameboy games either.

  6. Re:Molded from a real Beretta on LCD TopGun Hands On Review · · Score: 1

    No because it's a thing that can be patented, you can't claim copyright on things that are meant for patent protection. Otherwise you can extend patents to copyright levels.

  7. Craigslist? on Nintendo DS Hurts The Children! · · Score: 1

    If your kid is reading craigslist. You have a lot more things to worry about than a stranger asking what they are wearing.

  8. Re:OR ... we are all waiting until PS3 and NR come on 360 Sales Slow, Chip Blamed For Issues · · Score: 1

    If they name it, it would be a fake name. Probably GTA: Cascadia. With different names for Seattle, Vancouver.

  9. Re:OR ... we are all waiting until PS3 and NR come on 360 Sales Slow, Chip Blamed For Issues · · Score: 1

    Unless ... they come out with Grand Theft Auto: Seattle ... now, that would be sweet, using the choppers on top of the hospitals here, jumping onto car ferries while being pursued, using a cycle to get on the Ice Cream Cruise, and riding across the swinging bridge or using the Monorail track to bypass traffic jams. I would buy that just to take the 520 to Medina and take out Macrohard founder Gil Bates.

  10. Re:Thank you Big Brother on Chinese Claim Internet Censorship Modeled on West · · Score: 1

    Not exactly, the parent's job is to sell their kids into slavery.

  11. Re:Goldeneye on Wanted Revolution Downloads, Nine N64 Titles · · Score: 1

    Goldeneye came out in 1996/1997 Halo came out in 2001/2002. It was the first multiplayer FPS on a console that came out half a decade before Halo did on the Xbox. So that's why people have fond memories. It's like people have fond memories of playing Pong in the 1970s.

  12. Re:But... on Polite Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Only if your boss is really hot.

  13. Re:Bullshit. on Internet Suicide Pacts Surge in Japan · · Score: 1

    I don't think misogyny in Japan is imagined. Also you have to look at suicides of young people in Japan vs young people outside of Japan. If it is a little higher in Japan than elsewhere then there is a problem that is not imagined.

  14. Re:Optimus, we hardly knew ye.... on A Real Transformer? · · Score: 1

    Transformers the movie is actually pretty dark for a cartoon and different that the TV show. I was excited when I saw it because it was the first time I saw a PG rated movie by myself.

  15. Re:FREE Air Miles? on Yahoo Considers Offering Prizes to Search Users · · Score: 1

    You can use those free air miles to fly out of China. Sounds pretty good to me.

  16. Re:Written by a 16-year-old? on Saying 'No' to an Executable Internet · · Score: 1

    Why not? I am willing to be that most viruses are probably written by 16 year olds, or at least people with the emotional age of a 16 year old.

  17. Re:Correlation not Causation on Videogaming Keeps the Brain From Aging · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think there is a old people in Korea joke in there somewhere.

  18. Re:Optimus, we hardly knew ye.... on A Real Transformer? · · Score: 1

    Movie was out 20 years ago. I think 20 years is enough not to merit a spoiler warning, oh and Luke and Leia are brother and sister and Darth is Luke's father.

  19. Re:Freedom of Association on Craigslist Sued For Violating Fair Housing Laws · · Score: 1

    The commerce clause has changed a few times in the last 200 years. As it stands now, it allows for meddling by the Federal government. In another 50-60 years, it may mean something different.

  20. Re:Freedom of Association on Craigslist Sued For Violating Fair Housing Laws · · Score: 1

    The constitution allows for meddling in interstate commerce. Renting an apartment is considered interstate commerce as if you refuse to rent to certain people then businesses out of state are more reluctant to do business in that state. So it's not blatently unconstitutional, but it is however pretty controversial.

  21. Re:New Meaning to Corporate Slavery on Disney Trades Person for Intellectual Property · · Score: 1

    They really can't walk away at any time, at least for the top division 1 schools as that would jeopardize their chances for their pro careers. It's similar to grad students who work at almost below minimum wage can't really walk away at any time without jeopardizing their PHDs or chances at a professorship later on.

  22. Re:New Meaning to Corporate Slavery on Disney Trades Person for Intellectual Property · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I am far more interested in college sports since the money generated there actually goes back into the college, and there just seems to be a whole lot fewer problems in that whole system too.

    Ironic stance considering college football players don't get paid and can be cut from the team for any reason at all.

  23. Re:Freedom of Association on Craigslist Sued For Violating Fair Housing Laws · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You can freely associate, if you live in the property. You can discrimnate all you want. It's when you are using the home for income, then there is a problem. The act of excluding certain people from housing has a detrimental effect on commerce. If a motel refuses to rent to Canadians, then the city would lose money from Canadian tourists or there is a danger that Canadians would be forced to sleep out on the streets. So when you do business that is open to the public, you agree to certain rules, including the rule that you take in Canadians.

  24. Re:Who's the fair housing act applying to? on Craigslist Sued For Violating Fair Housing Laws · · Score: 1

    FHA doesn't apply to homeowners who rent out a room in their own home in which they also reside in. But if you move out and rent out rooms then the FHA would apply.

  25. Re:Housing Discrimination = better than alternativ on Craigslist Sued For Violating Fair Housing Laws · · Score: 4, Informative

    Roommates fall outside of Fair Housing laws. You can discriminate all you want. You have the first amendment freedom of association clause to thank for that. The FHA applies to people renting apartments, houses and the like.