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  1. mod up on Which Movie Download Site Is Best? · · Score: 1

    Well said! If I hadn't posted the GP, I'd modded you insightful.

  2. Re:the best movie download site on Which Movie Download Site Is Best? · · Score: 1
    No, what you are is a criminal ... Grow up and stop posing as nerds.
    It's called civil disobedience. When laws are written by big biz, these methods is what the rest of us must resort to. You may call me a criminal, I'll take it as a compliment.
    Fall into the line and conform, if that's what you want. I won't.
    (And I'm quite the nerd, believe it or not.)
  3. the best movie download site on Which Movie Download Site Is Best? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Short answer: TPB
    Long answer: The Pirate Bay

  4. Re:frikken friends on Steve Chen Making China's Supercomputer Grid · · Score: 1

    what?

  5. Re:What do you expect? on French National Assembly Embraces Open Source · · Score: 1

    Bullshit, you trolling francophobe you! Go eat some liberty cabbage.
    The burqa ban applies to schools only.

  6. Re:Go Canada! on Canadians Vie for Space Elevator Victory · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Canada may be once of the nicer places to live, but the only thing this country's a leader in is taxation ...
    Ever struck you that the high taxes (or rather what the taxes are spent on) and the high niceness of living could be correlated?
  7. Re:I sense a confusion in the Force... on George Lucas To Quit Movie Business · · Score: 1
    ... he does not plan on distributing movies online ...
    Dear George. We'll distribute them for you. Love, b4stard.
  8. Re:Mass drivers RULE! on Magnetic Ring Could Launch Satellites, Weapons · · Score: 1
    As for it being a target ... the terrorists ...

    When I read the summary, I assumed the "target" thing was a reference to how our robot overlords (or klingons or any other post-warp civilization) might feel about us exploring the final frontier. It's a sad state the world is in, when a potentially beautiful thing like this is primarily sought after for it's military applications, and thus made into a "target".

    That being said, I doubt that terrorists, seeing as they are not likely to be affected by a weapon like this, would bother attacking it. Hostile nations, on the other hand, might just have a problem with these new refridgerator flinging capabilities of the US.

  9. Re:Yea, right on Steal This Film · · Score: 1

    These people, the front figures of Piratbyran and TPB, are in fact copyright holders. For instance, Fleischer of Pirabyran is a trained musician and composer of electronic music, Anakata of TPB is a computer programmer and creator of a bittorrent tracker called Hypercube. I'm sure they have reason to represent themselves positively.

  10. Re:"animal" rights? on Neuroscientist Halts Research to Stop Extremists · · Score: 1

    But they didn't firebomb shit. The molotov was found unlit. Most likely, they just wanted to scare/threaten him.

    So when is it "morally right" to threaten with violence? Well, according to some, large scale poaching of great apes should be punished severely. Fuck knows what that researcher did to primates in his lab.

  11. Re:Why teach either? on Evolution No Longer Worth Learning, Says Government · · Score: 1
    Most ancient cultures (cf. the Jews, the Hindus) pegged that age as being around thirteen. I, for one, think they were just about right. What is it about modern cultures that have enforced infantilism for a quarter of one's life?
    Would 52 be a low life expectancy for an ancient culture? If not, 13 sounds like a quarter life.
  12. Re:Why teach either? on Evolution No Longer Worth Learning, Says Government · · Score: 1
    Its relatively easy to poke fun at some one's religious beliefs. I just say that because it points out that both of your "jokes" were hack over-used tripe.
    I didn't intend to poke fun at anyones religious beliefs and only the last line was supposed to be a joke (whoring for funny-mods, I admit).
    To me, questioning evolution is about as sane as questioning the earth being round. By all means go ahead, but don't expect evidence in support of either alternative theory to outweigh those of the established counterpart.

    But nono, you're absolutely right. We must teach our children the truth.
    Agreed. :)
  13. Re:Why would IBM... on IBM to Buy ISS for $1.3 Billion · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's not a space station, it's too big to be a space station.

  14. Re:Sort of ironic. on 2006 Fields Medalists Announced · · Score: 1

    To quote a fellow math geek discussing how to make math popular and how to get rid of the quirky genius mathematician stereotype:
    "Why do you have to be so f*cking crazy Perelman?!"

  15. Re:Torpark on The Face of One AOL Searcher Exposed · · Score: 1

    Deleting cookies on a regular basis is probably a good idea too.

  16. Re:Tuesday morning sarcasm on The UK's Total Surveillance · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Assuming those speed cameras photograph and register all vehicles that pass, people should destroy them. If they only take pictures when a passing vehicle is actually speeding and the photographs are analyzed by hand/human eye (thereby minimizing the possibility of misuse), I'm thinking destroying them is not quite called for.

  17. Re:Terrorists on The UK's Total Surveillance · · Score: 1

    You should look closer at who'll benefit from your country becoming an orwellian fascist state. My guess is that you'll find big business and very rich people high up on that list. Also consider who's pulling the strings that are attached to your politicians bodies. My guess is that you'll find big business and very rich people high up on that list.

  18. Re:Tuesday morning sarcasm on The UK's Total Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Do more. Organize and resist. Sabotage their infrastructure. Let people know your country's moving into fascism. What's that thing that president guy said about blood and liberty and something else (no I'm not american)?

    Bloody or not, resistance is fertile.

  19. tinker rights on Slashback: SGI, Exploding Dell, Gizmo · · Score: 5, Funny
    When is it Okay to Reverse Engineer?
    Always. Everybody should have the right to tinker with their gadgets and publish their results. Period.

    PS tinkering with your gadget != masturbation DS
  20. Re:Had something similar happen to me on CIA Blogger Fired for Criticizing Torture Policy · · Score: 1

    Then organize, ffs!
    Where I'm currently employed, we've got about 60% of the workers organized together in a union. If they fuck with one of us because of some petty bullshit like that, they're in trouble and they know it. Though I doubt it'll do you any good if you work for the CIA.

  21. Re:How stupid. on Spain Outlaws P2P File-Sharing · · Score: 1

    Just a matter of listening to big business. If a government do, bad shit falls upon their people.

  22. Re:This is what we need, but named horribly on Pirate Party Comes to the U.S. · · Score: 1

    I think you (american pirates) have everything to gain from trying to embrace and reclaim the word "pirate". Most swedes said exactly what you're saying now when the Piratbyrån was founded and the people behind it started refering to themselves as pirates. Today the situation is completely different. Guys like the swedish *AA-equivalent Antipiratbyrån just look stupid to most people today.
    "Anti-piracy? WTF? Piracy is a good thing and they're against it? Fscking wankers!"
    If you can make that quote sound credible and reasonable in a north american cultural context, as it does in sweden, you've come far.

  23. Too bad it's futile on Pirate Party Comes to the U.S. · · Score: 1
    It's only a couple more jumps until you're in the national spotlight.
    So we can expect to see reformed copyright and IP laws in the US around 2032?
  24. low EQ on Device Developed To Help Socially Challenged · · Score: 1

    Nah, he's thinking of the EverQuest players.

  25. For the metric crew: on One REALLY Long Runway for Rent · · Score: 4, Informative

    15 000 feet = 4 572 meter