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  1. Re:meth on Senate Passes Patriot Act Renewal · · Score: 1

    Banning the precursor has worked for several drugs, some of which you won't have heard of because of the success.

    This is the first logical fallacy you learn in the course, a corruption of the first rule of inference known as Affirming the Consequent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_conseq uent). Your premises go as follows:

    P1: The precursor is banned (A)
    P2: Drug use declines (B)

    The construct of your arguement is A->B. You then assert B to be true, and assume A must therefore be true. This is an invalid proof.

  2. Re:OT: Don't reply then on Utah Games/Porn Law Fails · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but that meme rocks. So any excuse to see it again is cool in my book :)

  3. Re:Remember kids... on Utah Games/Porn Law Fails · · Score: 1

    That's not mixing, that's called mutally inexclusive

  4. Re:Wow Utah's Looking Good on Utah Games/Porn Law Fails · · Score: 1

    Inbreeding'll do that...

  5. Ooh... on Utah Games/Porn Law Fails · · Score: 1

    I bet they didn't see that coming in the golden plates.

  6. Re:One has to wonder on Google Moving PRC Records Out of China · · Score: 1

    "trigger" is a feature of LP muds. Basically you can type "trigger Orc has died todo get gold from ground" and the effect will be similar to the text above

  7. Re:Paperboy... on More Classic Games To Hit Xbox Live · · Score: 1

    I thought it came out on nintendo first. That's the version I had...

  8. Re:One has to wonder on Google Moving PRC Records Out of China · · Score: 1

    Triggered! doing: "say money"

    >money
    do: done!

  9. Re:Paperboy... on More Classic Games To Hit Xbox Live · · Score: 1

    I was always amused by Death appearing starting wednesday, thinking "fuck, this kid must like in a really bad neighborhood..."

  10. Re:Of course they are on Penn and Teller's Long Lost Game · · Score: 1

    Because there's an element of growth, even if only slight over the course of an entire login. +1 strength and 2 defense to my sollerets, yay! Kinda like Bonzai trees.

  11. Re:Paperboy... on More Classic Games To Hit Xbox Live · · Score: 1

    Every house but the red ones

  12. Re:Logical fallacy on The Impact of Violent Gaming · · Score: 1

    Though you're not the first to point that out, it's the most concise arguement along the line. That makes alot of sense now that I think about it. Time to tweak the adage a bit.

  13. Re:Logical fallacy on The Impact of Violent Gaming · · Score: 1

    Of course. It's not the jump that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end.

  14. Re:Logical fallacy on The Impact of Violent Gaming · · Score: 1

    The former, though not in such grandiose terms.

    A: Majority of video gamers are male B: Majority of video gamers are teenagers or in their 20s C: Teenage boys are naturally agressive because of puberty D: 20-year old men are naturally agressive because men are designed that way. If A, B, C, and D are each True, then A*B*C*D, therefore T.

  15. Logical fallacy on The Impact of Violent Gaming · · Score: 1

    Correlation does not imply causation

  16. Re:Really cool.. on Nanotube Paint Blocks Cell Phones on Demand · · Score: 1

    Some people RELY on their cell phones' ability to receive calls...

    Like doctors

  17. Astounding on Laptops Required for Freshmen · · Score: 1

    Through Access Connections, students and faculty will be able to seamlessly move from classes to dorm rooms

    Through the ancient and hallowed technology known as 'feet', students and faculty will be able to seamlessly move from classes to dorm rooms

    Fixed.

  18. Re:Who Cares? on Opposition to AOL's 'Email Tax' Growing · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I read your comment as "This will further isolate AOL's 2 users"

  19. It cannot be on Opposition to AOL's 'Email Tax' Growing · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Has not the great Lawgiver already made it clear that Ape does not spam ape?

  20. Re:Seeking.. Lifeless Looser on Xbox Live For The Players · · Score: 1

    lol, ok.

    u got weps 4 me??!?!?

  21. I *am* the law! on New York Times sues DoD over Domestic Spying · · Score: 1

    Asking the government for arbitration when your complaint is against the government? I can't imagine how this exciting story will turn out!

  22. I feel a great disturbance in the force... on China Prepares to Launch Alternate Internet · · Score: 4, Funny

    As if millions of MMORPG gold farmers cried out in terror, and were suddenly silences...

  23. Re:Obvious on Give A Workout To More Than Just Your Thumbs · · Score: 1

    The best was the long jump. Just leap right off the pad and slap down in time before the runner "collapsed" in mid-air. I had records of like 63 feet.

  24. Re:Services rendered on Spam King Busted by Secret Service · · Score: 1

    Imagine if local police tried this!

    Problem: Sex offender released from prison
    Step 1: Distribute local elementary school address list
    Step 2: ???
    Step 3: Profit! (well, send him back to jail at least)

  25. Obvious on Give A Workout To More Than Just Your Thumbs · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Nintendo Power Pad - a twelve button (6 red and 6 blue on one side or 2 red and 6 blue depending on what side you were using) mat with sensors that corresponded to the presses you inputted for certain games that supported the peripheral - hardly made an impact when it was released in 1988.'"

    Yeah, because it took us fat kids all of 10 seconds to realize we could just sit on the floor and slap the pads with our hands.