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  1. Re:Awesome... on Comedy Central Confirms 26 New Futurama Episodes · · Score: 1

    They also dabble in dirtamancy from time to time. Naked trucker and T-Bone? Colbert and Stewart might count as thinkamancy... they've got a trimancer!

  2. That's not okay. on EU Says MS Must Offer Other Browsers; Now What? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    At least, not by me. I imagine that most users will be confused by the presence of more than one "internet" on their machines, and one browser or another still has to be the default. Does MS have to make Firefox the default browser, too?

  3. Re:ummm why? on Obama Wants Broadband, Computers Part of Stimulus · · Score: 1

    Why ban wikipedia? ... I've been writing research papers for a friend the last few weeks using mostly Wikipedia + the sources linked from the pages to write the majority of them, and gotten A's on all of them so far while trashed.

    You just answered your own question.

  4. Re:Hey, remember when Ender's Game was good? on Ender in Exile · · Score: 1

    That's more like it.

  5. Re:Hey, remember when Ender's Game was good? on Ender in Exile · · Score: 1
    Somehow I doubt that he wants to kill government attempts to change the definition of marriage, what with that being impossible and all. Guy's an asshat. He's open about his opposition to gay marriage. He does not want to overthrow the government, nor does he want to use violence, as per his direct quotes.

    I read Card's non-fiction editorial stuff quite a bit, not because I agree, mind you. Whatever else Card is, he's committed to democracy. He thinks it's panacea and utopia and rainbows and bunny rabbits. He's completely opposed to any kind of protest against government authority. This comes up repeatedly in his writing. You take one quote, misinterpret it wildly, and come out screaming about "violently overthrowing the government" when his stated stance is support of the political process that exists.

    He's an asshat. He's always been an asshat. He ignores much history and engages in Mormon apologia and hates "the terrorists." You had to pick one (inaccurate!) sticking point about gay marriage as your reason not to read his books?

  6. Re:Big whoop... on Stardock Tried To Make Star Control, Master of Orion Sequels · · Score: 1

    I am among those people.

  7. Re:Hey, remember when Ender's Game was good? on Ender in Exile · · Score: 1

    (See user names for irony) Lord Ender, while I agree that Card's politics are... disagreeable, I'd like to point you (as someone else already has) to this article. The relevant quote, to prevent TLDR: "At that point, what can we do? I've heard frustrated people talk about armed rebellion, about overthrowing the government. Those of you with itchy trigger fingers, put away your guns. We are committed to democracy, not to violence. ... All we have to do is withdraw our support from the dictatorship. "

  8. Re:you make me laugh on Study Shows Social Networking At Work Is Good · · Score: 1

    (what the fuck is a Bebo?)

    Sponsor of this study. Facebook and Myspace are thrown in there to lend it legitimacy.

  9. Re:Stop the insanity! on Wall Street's Collapse Is Computer Science's Gain · · Score: 1

    At my (on-campus) office, we have a few CS guys (I'm one) and a few IS guys. The IS guys tell themselves they'll be signing our paychecks, running their company, hiring CS guys and telling us what to do. We stay quiet, write programs, and get internships.

  10. Re:reproduction on Viruses Infected By Viruses · · Score: 1

    To the nth generation of mules? No. Female mules almost always produce stallions or male donkeys, not other mules. Their offspring are usually infertile, too.

  11. Re:reproduction on Viruses Infected By Viruses · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes. Mules cannot reproduce. The distinctions between species are based on the production of offspring which can reproduce to the nth generation.

  12. Re:Modesitt on Sci-Fi Books For Pre-Teens? · · Score: 1

    I, too, read it over and over. Every time I picked it up, though, it was retitled, and Lerris had a different name and profession. Wait, that's a series? (I kid, I kid. They're great fun to read, seriously).

  13. Re:Bah! on Interview With Author of the First Spoof Language · · Score: 1

    Since INTERCAL is a spoof language, and Malbolge is a Turing tarpit, they both succeed at what they're for.

  14. Re:I don't know about you all... on Prominent Mathematicians Rebuke Recent Riemann Hypothesis Proof · · Score: 1

    I wrote a proof for abstract algebra. My professor handed it back, with "I am unable to follow your reasoning" in the margin. I found that I couldn't for the life of me follow my own reasoning. 'Twas a clever proof, too. Can't remember what it was.

  15. Re:No, I don't think so on Paul Suspends Presidential Campaign, Forms New Org · · Score: 1

    Indeed, and I've read the articles, and I've heard him speak. His legislative record does not bear out the things you're saying: his deeds match my support, not your "omg evil." I'm still waiting for the ideological debate, folks.

  16. Re:No, I don't think so on Paul Suspends Presidential Campaign, Forms New Org · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're wrong. You've heard it before, you've heard evidence against your view before, and you're attached to the idea that Ron Paul's a BIG SCARY RACIST, so you don't listen. Just once, I'd like to see someone mount a real attack on the man's ideology, instead of ad hominem attacks based on lies.

  17. Re:Electric universe on Eric Lerner's Focus Fusion Device Gets Funded · · Score: 1

    Do you know why your inner ear has those three little bones that are so important to hearing? It has them because those were the jaw bones of reptiles, and they just happened to be in basically the right place that they were a few gamma-rays away from being detached. So... reptiles can't hear?
  18. Re:Old? on Iron Man Released · · Score: 0, Troll

    You're old when your youngest needs a sitter for you. Youngster. You're old when your youngest's youngest needs a sitter for your youngest.
  19. Re:I say! on $1/Gallon "Green Gasoline" In Sight · · Score: 1

    Replying to correct mismoderation

  20. Re:Viva la Revolution? on D&D 4th Ed vs. Open Gaming · · Score: 1

    I haven't played it, you're right. However, I reiterate: everything I've heard sounds like a bad idea.

  21. Viva la Revolution? on D&D 4th Ed vs. Open Gaming · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Everything I hear about 4e (subscription access to web content, big monster-type race, "WoWification") seems bad. This seems worse. I hope the independent publishers respond by sticking to 3.5e.

  22. Re:Or rather on For CS Majors, How Important Is the "Where?" · · Score: 1

    Didn't say it was any good. Said it was widely used. Which it is.

  23. Re:Or rather on For CS Majors, How Important Is the "Where?" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What exactly is he (or she) supposed to learn from C++? He's supposed to learn C++. Which is a widely used and marketable programming language, if I recall correctly.
  24. Re:I used ada.... on The Return of Ada · · Score: 1

    Java's compiler screams if you try a narrowing conversion (in which you could lose precision) without an explicit cast.

  25. Re:250 million years on Scientists Look at Martian Salt for Ancient Life · · Score: 2, Informative

    As others have said, the old cellulose isn't the oldest evidence of life on earth. It's the oldest biological material on earth. Fossils are just rocks, prettily shaped.