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  1. Re:jealous much? on Gibson Accuses Guitar Hero of Patent Violation · · Score: 1

    Well, if you're good at soloing on guitar, especially fast solos, the speed of your fingers would help too.

  2. Re:Can you say "Nobel Prize"? on Researchers Discover Gene That Blocks HIV · · Score: 1

    That might also have to do with the Transmission rates

  3. Re:To Deal With Size Limitations (Variant on Phras on Child-Suitable Alternatives To Passwords? · · Score: 1

    That's the password to my luggage!

    I love that song. Just flat out love. It's one of the best of the Beatles.

  4. Re:Sounds crazy until... on Men Willing to Give up Sex for a 50in TV · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, don't you get it?
    If you have sex in Britain, you have sex in REAL LIFE.

  5. Re:Not that exciting on Zen and the Art of Guitar Hero · · Score: 3, Funny

    Watching someone play DDR is definitely more fun.
    Especially if said someone is a cute girl (or guy, depending on how your attractions lie).

    But, then again, most games weren't meant to be watched, they were meant to be played.
    Prince of Persia is an exception.

  6. Re:A more interesting question on Can Time Slow Down? · · Score: 1

    It was actually July (for Julius Ceasar) and August (for Augustus) that came later.

  7. Re:this is like cheap (free) therapy on Unusual Data Disaster Horror Stories · · Score: 1

    I was rather concerned when I accidentally spilled water on my laptop, and it stopped working.
    By rather concerned, read, panic.
    I left it under a fluorescent lamp for whatever heat I could get, and the next day, it worked.
    I was very happy.

  8. Re:Frankly... on How Much is Your Right to Vote Worth? · · Score: 1

    See, that's the issue. That representative government doesn't adequately represent us unless we're all representatives.

    However, in Greece, they had everyone participating. Everyone, meaning, every citizen.

    The only way they could do that is everyone was basically a full-time legislator.
    The way they achieved that, was slavery.

    Slavery will get the kind of democracy you want. I suggest white people for a change, it hasn't been done enough.

    And while you may say that the best solution is to eliminate government, well, that's not going to last. If you eliminate government, people will reinvent it.

    So, I think the best idea is to get representatives to represent us, because they've lost touch.

    And, if you feel confident enough, run.

  9. Re:Frankly... on How Much is Your Right to Vote Worth? · · Score: 1

    No.

  10. Re:Foie Gras is some nasty shit... on Chefs As Chemists · · Score: 1

    if God did not want us to eat people, why did He make them out of meat?

  11. Re:Understanding on Brains Hard-Wired for Math · · Score: 1

    it's S0, and SS0

  12. Re:Much bigger issue than that of marriage on Human-Robot Love and Marriage · · Score: 1

    Firstly, whoever programs a sapient AI that would be severely damaged after a power outage or someone turning it off is barely sapient themselves.

    Secondly, I don't believe sapience is not required in a machine to drive a car properly, and if it is, it'd better be encased properly.

  13. Re:Data on Human-Robot Love and Marriage · · Score: 1

    Data did it with Tasha in the Naked Now.
    He later mentioned his full functionality way too many times.

  14. Re:Hotmail isn't a good comparison on Google Vows to Increase Gmail Limit · · Score: 1

    At the end of my most recent message from a yahoo account (yesterday)

    Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase.

  15. Re:Windows AV Programs on Most Users Think They Have AntiVirus Protection, While Only Half Do · · Score: 1

    No, I think that's lumped into the forced fees.
    See, they are nice enough to call it something that's different from tuition.
    So they can advertise a lower tuition, maybe? Nah. Not at all.

  16. Re:Windows AV Programs on Most Users Think They Have AntiVirus Protection, While Only Half Do · · Score: 1

    My college recognizes the danger of letting infected PCs on the network, and gives out Symantec for free.

  17. Re:Randi is seriously uncool on James Randi Posts $1M Award On Speaker Cables · · Score: 1

    I think you've got (at least) one thing completely backwards.

    Free-thinking spirituality is compatible with science. Science in the ideal is objective (in the real, it is not). But science has better error correction than almost all forms of spirituality.

  18. Re:determinism finally! on Self-Tuning Electric Guitar · · Score: 1

    I actually did do violin for three years in elementary school.
    Considering after 2 months I can do the chords to a few songs on my acoustic, compared to the still cat screeches of my violin at that time...

  19. Re:determinism finally! on Self-Tuning Electric Guitar · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Speaking as someone who just picked up the guitar about 2 months ago, I must say it's hard to play something genuinely bad-sounding on the guitar.
    Somewhat dissonant, maybe.
    Not good, maybe.
    But it takes a concerted effort to play painfully bad.

  20. Re:Technical review... on Self-Tuning Electric Guitar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Make that a flat million.

  21. Re:Serving the diners or the cooks? on Falling Hardware Prices Favor Linux · · Score: 1

    As someone who was begged to help set up at least 10 laptops on the Stony Brook University network, I must say that XP was more pleasant than Vista, where network options were hidden and more updates had to be fetched in order for the security checker to work.

    Ubuntu was nigh-instant. Registered, waited for the system to accept me, I'm on.

  22. Re:Price difference on OLPC Cost Rises To $188 Per Laptop · · Score: 1

    The Asus EEE has gone up $50. This was, like, 3 days ago.

  23. Re:Octave? on Pitch Perception Skewed By Modern Tuning · · Score: 1

    We could call it Hol-rock!

  24. Re:Extrapolation of probability using two variable on Scientists Offer 'Overwhelming' Evidence Terran Life Began in Space · · Score: 1

    I think the DNA would denature before it would have a chance to replicate, although perhaps you are right.

    PCR was still not the best example, though.

  25. Re:Extrapolation of probability using two variable on Scientists Offer 'Overwhelming' Evidence Terran Life Began in Space · · Score: 1

    Although I think there are simpler replicators than bacteria, PCR is creating an environment artificially that is not likely to happen, with very complex (and expensive) enzymes in abundance, and a regular heating-cooling cycle (yes I have done PCR).

    Which means that something like PCR would not have spontaneously happened.