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  1. -1 Misleading on Bully Banned by Some British Retailers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Clearly they are not refusing to stock it because of its content -- the British apparently have some fetish against single-word titles.

    Are they offering Pong, Gorf, or Combat? I rest my case!

  2. Re:Pathetic on School Bans 'Tag' · · Score: 1

    They're malleable, they bounce...

  3. Re:What else is there? on School Bans 'Tag' · · Score: 1

    and if you're lucky, somes games played when you're a young adult are a contact sport :)

  4. Re:Apple Q/C guys caught with their pants down on iPods Come Complete With Windows Virus · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...like, that puzzle game with the apple logo! I beat it, but it's still fun...

  5. Grandia 2? on Today's Best Dreamcast Games · · Score: 1

    Why, you ask? Haven't played 3 yet, but I heard it was lacking in several areas. Even Penny Arcade made a point of it. And Grandia Xtreme for PS2 was more of a Gaiden title

    -American-pedigreed voice actors (the guy who played Leonardo the ninja turtle and that Ariel chick from the Little Mermaid).
    -Quick, fun battle system.
    -Sky Dragon Slash

  6. Re:Just great on Battlefield 2142 to Bundle Spyware? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    +insightful.

    Minors can't enter into contracts, right? So software EULAs should be unenforceable against them, much less this.

  7. Against cloned foods, you say? on FDA Set To Approve Products from Cloned Cows · · Score: 1

    Where do you think seedless oranges come from?

  8. Re:Unacceptable on Battlefield 2142 to Bundle Spyware? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Heck, will the game stop functioning if the spyware server is shut down sometime in the future? What a great way to stop secondhand sales, just remote-disable all copies of the software from your end by not allowing it to authenticate.

  9. Re:Go Forth and Multiply on U.S. Population Hits 300 Million · · Score: 1

    Hell, do they even have electricity?

    Yeah, but they have to take turns...

  10. Re:Would this be with or without illegal aliens .. on U.S. Population Hits 300 Million · · Score: 1

    As a matter of policy, should population be allowed or tacitly encouraged to grow without limit?

    We're supposed to live in a democratic country. Therefore, "policy" should be whatever the hell the People say are doing.

  11. Re:Would this be with or without illegal aliens .. on U.S. Population Hits 300 Million · · Score: 1

    And exactly what religion do you think all these Joses and Marias are? Hindu?

  12. Re:One thing I would like to know... on U.S. Population Hits 300 Million · · Score: 1

    I guess they'll have to migrate away from a frying-based cuisine.

  13. Re:AAAGH on Space Station Gyro Problem Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    People in big cities -- usually brown middle east/southeast asians -- who get a liscence to park a small, stainless steel shack at corners and in plazas. Some have generators and are pretty fancy, others are literally just a hot plate.

    The food has a generally "unsafe" reputation. No one really gets sick on a regular basis, but I've seen the guys bring meat in like old paint tubs :) More often you just run a risk of getting an upset stomach or bad poos.

    Cheap food, usually $6 max. Lots of chicken/lamb and rice plates, shish kebabs, and gyro-type stuff. Usually comes with salad and a choice of sauses (barbecue, hot, and "white", which is mayonaise based)

  14. Re:How can America measure in WATTS? on The True Cost of Standby Power · · Score: 1

    Fool, you'll never get up to 88 miles per hour that way. It doesn't work like that!

  15. Re:Snuh? on What's Wrong With the Games Industry · · Score: 1

    1. Game developers and publishers focus too much on flash.

    Right, and this is nowhere more evident than on the evidence of how some games can keep pumping out sequel after sequel. Pokemon (barring my joke down the thread), Dynasty Warriors, Castlevanias on game boy. Very little upgrading of graphics over time and they're still best sellers.

  16. Re:You wanna know what's wrong wtih the industry?? on What's Wrong With the Games Industry · · Score: 1

    Well, Pokemon: Burnt Sienna certainly isn't helping things.

  17. Snuh? on What's Wrong With the Games Industry · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But the King Cause is simply this: Most game development management is pretty incompetent. most game development management --> most management

    Fixed.

  18. Re:AAAGH on Space Station Gyro Problem Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    New York City, man. You can get anything from a cart vendor in less than a three blocks' walk.

    Crab juice, anyone?

  19. AAAGH on Space Station Gyro Problem Dangerous? · · Score: 4, Funny

    STOP MAKING ME HUNGRY!

    It's only 11:00, the gyro cart won't be out for another hour!

  20. Re:... depicting her as a lesbian. on School Official Sues Over MySpace Page · · Score: 1

    If I tell someone to cut off your head, and know they will obey, then I have still committed murder.

    I don't think that analogy works. If a lynch mob urges one guy to hang someone, are they all charged with murder?

  21. Re:... depicting her as a lesbian. on School Official Sues Over MySpace Page · · Score: 1

    If the law is not right and the court feels free to disobey it for the greater good, I expect them to do the same when I break the law in the same fashion. Flat nullifcation of marijuana laws would be a good start.

  22. Re:... depicting her as a lesbian. on School Official Sues Over MySpace Page · · Score: 1

    You decide, we take a bunch of junior high punks whose parents have failed to teach them even a basic amount of respect and responsibility, smack their asses and then fine the parents of said mental infants; or we let Choicepoint and friends buy and sell every last detail of your life and many details of someone else's life attributed to you.

    That's the point of living in a society of laws -- there is no "deciding" when actions are illegal or not. It's all laid out in black and white.

    Until the first amendment is changed to make exceptions for whatever cases the People deem necessary, it is still in effect.

  23. Re:... depicting her as a lesbian. on School Official Sues Over MySpace Page · · Score: 1

    I don't think you're reading the amendment correctly...

    "shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press"

    This covers everything quite clearly. No law. Libel and defemation statutes are unconstitutional.

  24. Re:... depicting her as a lesbian. on School Official Sues Over MySpace Page · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Unfortunately, I can find no "right to not be offended" for you anywhere in our Supreme Law of the Land. Wrong != illegal.

    Howver, the myspace posters are very explicitly given absolutely freedom of speech and print.

  25. Re: The IP Address on One Last Spamhaus Warning Before The End · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyone who speaks German can't possibly be bad!