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  1. Re:$0.35 bleh... on PayPal Settles Class Action Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Read the class action terms. You can file a "long form" claim for your damages incurred through payment fraud (which I would think this would fall udner), or a "short form" claim and get $50.

  2. Re:Funding a terrorist organization on Patriot Act Used to Enforce Copyright Law? · · Score: 3, Informative

    If the Google Groups archive is correct, he appears to have been defrauding international customers by selling them region-free DVD players and not delivering. Sounds like an international conspiracy to me (which would be a conspiracy to defraud that reached across national borders).

  3. I bet... on Toyota Patents Winking, Laughing, Crying Car · · Score: 1

    ..that the emotions EASILY add at least 50 HP to a ricer! Man, with this and the wiper LEDs you'd be unbeatable!!

  4. Re:New Headline on Microsoft Expects 1 Billion Windows Users by 2010 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Wall Street, NY - In a surprise move, Microsoft (MSFT) announced today that they have reached their virus targets ahead of schedule. The company had formerly predicted the one billionth Windows virus by 2010, but were pleased to surprise investors with the news that the goal had been reached five years early.

    "Woohoooooo!!!!! We did it!!! We finally did one thing that didn't have to be delayed several times!!!" said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer while running around his office. "Eat that, you Linux zealots!"

    Microsoft was founded in 1975, and has become the largest software company in the world.

  5. Re:How about.. on Modding Laser Tag Gear? · · Score: 1

    Not much more than a paintball.

  6. Re:As an independent artist on iTMS Sells 100,000,000th Song · · Score: 2, Informative

    His link is here.

  7. Re:UNC-Chapel Hill? on VAX Users See the Writing on the Wall · · Score: 1

    Internet? Heck, I was attending Xavier University in 1992 and was dying for the Internet. Back then we were still on Bitnet. :)

    Digz

  8. Re:I'm an old bastard! on Doom 3's Release Date; Quake Turns 8 · · Score: 1

    ..the first clue should have been that I (and probably you) still remember playing games on actual Commodore 64s (not emulated) before they were "retro".. :)

  9. Re:Quakeworld is dead... on Doom 3's Release Date; Quake Turns 8 · · Score: 1

    No it's not. All those Amiga users are still running it!

  10. Re:Hello? Microsoft? on Clear Channel Buys Patent For Instant Live CDs · · Score: 1

    They own a big share here in Cincinnati. A recap:

    WSRW 1590
    WSAI 1530
    WCKY 1360
    WIZE 1340
    WONE 980
    WLW 700
    WKRC 550
    WOFX-FM 92.5
    WVMX 94.1
    WDKF 94.5
    WLQT 99.9
    WEBN 102.7
    WXEG 103.9
    WTUE 104.7
    WDSJ 106.5
    WSRW-FM 106.7
    WKFS 107.1
    WMMX 107.7

    Nowhere near 50% of all stations, but a vast majority of the most popular and heighest-power ones.

    (all info courtesy of http://www.radio-info.com/)

  11. Wow.. Dating myself.. on Follow Up to "Linux's Achilles Heel" · · Score: 1

    ..I saw the name, and it brought memories rushing back of reading his columns in Compute!s Gazette, right before typing the program listings in my C64.

    Guess I'm getting old.. ;)

    Digz

  12. Re:Do Anglicans believe in transubstantiation? on SimChurch · · Score: 1
    Not so. I was Anglican, and am now Catholic.

    The Anglican view is much closer to the dogma of Transubstantiation than the Zwinglian "symbolic-only" viewpoint. If looking for the closest approximation, I would have to say that the Anglican viewpoint is halfway between the Orthodox viewpoint in that they believe you are actually receiving the Body and Blood of Christ (in a "heavenly manner" per the Articles) and the Lutheran consubstatiation view (in which the Body and Blood of Christ are present in the Species alongside the original elements of bread and wine but disappear after Communion). Ergo, a dogma such as Transubstantiation is overly analytical in the Anglican viewpoint and works against Faith - again, according to the Articles and the Liturgy (check your Book of Common Prayer, especially Eucharistic Prayer A).

    But then again, there's such a breadth in Anglicanism between Anglo-Catholics and Spong-ian postmoderns that the Articles are pretty much "historical reference" nowadays and congregations vary vastly.

  13. Re:There are other explanations on Technology Spontaneously Combusts In Sicily · · Score: 1
    ..and said 8th century Inquisitor posessed the knowledge to institute a perpetuating "slight of hand"? One point I think you may have overlooked is that the said miraculous Blood has reliquefied annually for all but two years - and in those two years great natural disasters happened. Quite a feat for an 8th century Inquisitor, no doubt.

    As to your other contention, whose ethics should we teach? Islamist ethics? Fascists ethics? Kantian ethics? Nazi ethics? To whom do you appeal? And if your appeal is merely to a man, why should I respect that authority? What makes it more compelling for me to embrace the ethical stances of Bertrand Russel instead of Benito Mussolini? Inherent evil? But then again, what is evil? If you have no objective standard to seperate good from evil, then how can you effectively delineate what is superfluous in one ethical system and detrimental in another? And again, by what authority should I take those classifications?

    Check out Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis sometime - it may give you reason to pause.

  14. Re:The Score on Technology Spontaneously Combusts In Sicily · · Score: 1

    ..but what about those that defy science and yet still happen? Take for example the Eucharistic miracle of Lanciano.

  15. Re:Very cute. on UK Government to Tax Linux? · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about??? I LOVE SCO!!! Especially today!!!! ;)

  16. The King is dead.... Long live the King! on Amiga dropping plans for new machine · · Score: 1

    Well, now, Gateway, you have turned the Amiga community against you (save for some unforseen pleasant news released by Petro on Tuesday). I will never buy nor recommend, nor specify for purchase at my company, another Gateway computer in my life... We true die-hard Amigans won't give up because you have. We know what the machine is to us, both on a technical and spiritual level. Our community has survived thus far without a company producing under the namesake. We will survive again (although, I'm sure, in smaller numbers). I've been holding off on pre-ordering the G4/Neutrino combo. I still hold a faint glimmer of hope that Tuesday will bring good news. But if not, my order will be placed. Enough venting. To Jay Miner, Dave Morse, Dave Bertman, Bob Burns, Mitchell Gass, Dale Luck, Tom Cahill, Rick Geiger, Jeff Taylor, Gary McCoy and all the others (even the unnamed dog whose footprint is on the inside of my 1000) - Thank you. This little piece of engineering and ingenuity has forever changed some peoples' lives (mine included). The King is dead... ...Long live the King! Digz -Back for the future?!?!?! I never left!!!!!