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  1. Re:Overreacting on Nintendo Apologizes For Not Allowing Same-Sex Relationships In Life Sim Game · · Score: 1

    Scare quotes around a phrase the GP poster didn't even make.

    The world is becoming a whatever place. It generally doesn't get 'better' or worse. It just plods along. Sameasiteverwas.

    If it pleases you to think otherwise, enjoy.

  2. Re:What will they think of next on Duo Sneak an Oculus Rift Onto Roller Coaster For a Wild Ride · · Score: 2

    Wow. Skinnable rollercoaster rides. That's so cool, it's like WinAmp!

  3. Re:We could pay I guess on Duo Sneak an Oculus Rift Onto Roller Coaster For a Wild Ride · · Score: 2
  4. Re:Q: Why Are Scientists Still Using FORTRAN in 20 on Why Scientists Are Still Using FORTRAN in 2014 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Precision is important in scientific discourse. Latin isn't a language with creeping grammar and jargon. It's sorta what Esperanto only wished it could ever be.

  5. Re:So what? on As Species Decline, So Do the Scientists Who Name Them · · Score: 1

    if it weren't for the fact that for it to become a true science

    It has similar difficulty becoming a True Scotsman.

  6. Re:no Ghost_no "singularity"_only sci-fi on Mathematical Model Suggests That Human Consciousness Is Noncomputable · · Score: 1

    Oh, come on. Often enough the troll at a TED talk is the person front-and-center on the stage. Certainly not always, I would add, but often enough.

  7. Re:Second Life anyone? on EVE Online's Space Economy Currently Worth $18 Million · · Score: 1

    It sounds a lot like Farmville Cash. I can get that right across town at Walgreens.

  8. Re:A feature phone doesn't need a data plan on The Feature Phone Is Dead: Long Live the 'Basic Smartphone' · · Score: 1

    You can get a pretty powerful Android phone for Virgin Mobile for significantly less than an iPod Touch, and never sign up for any cellular plan on it. Awhile back there was a Virgin Android phone for $40 at Walmart. A perfectly good mobile wifi-only device, and with an SD slot and the Google Play store.

    It's hard to figure out how Apple sells any iPod Touches at all in today's market.

  9. Controller Supporrt? on Microsoft Doesn't Have Plans For a Dedicated Handheld Gaming Device · · Score: 1

    My Windows tablet already has controller support. As much as any other x86 Windows box does. There isn't really any class of controller that won't work on it.

  10. Re:Uh... on Brain Injury Turns Man Into Math Genius · · Score: 1

    The bits that touched would have to share one common point.

    Fuller couldn't grasp that?

  11. Re:No story here, move along on Brain Injury Turns Man Into Math Genius · · Score: 3

    In the physical world, 355/113 is a close enough approximation that almost nobody owns a physical instrument precise enough to need anything better.

    And 355/113 is even easy to remember. One one three under three five five.

    I've never understood why 22/7 gets so much admiration.

  12. Re:Not Likely on Comcast: Destroying What Makes a Competitive Internet Possible · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I don't use Netflix. I'm a nerd. I do stuff. I don't watch other people do stuff. My wife uses Netflix, though.

  13. Re:you're confused on US Climate Report Says Global Warming Impact Already Severe · · Score: 1

    Andro-supremacists are always trying to claim credit for the humans in any big global event. The rest of the earth just ignores the conceit and keeps cycling.

  14. Re:Frequent hurricanes? on US Climate Report Says Global Warming Impact Already Severe · · Score: 2

    The problem is, it's inane talking points all the way down, in all directions. That's how it always is in any issue where the aim is actually about gaining/retaining and wielding power.

  15. Re:sigh on US Climate Report Says Global Warming Impact Already Severe · · Score: 1

    If we drop to zero emissions immediately, that will become the catastrophe, and we also will be less prepared for the 'inevitable' further catastrophe to come.

    No, if it's inevitable, hunkering down might be all we can do. It might be time to build more nukes, and imprison or exterminate anybody blocking us from doing so. Or not. Maybe we need more anaerobic digestors near the wind farms, too, to turn the bird carcasses into fuel, too.

  16. Re:sigh on US Climate Report Says Global Warming Impact Already Severe · · Score: 1

    The evil rich dudes keep killing anyone who mentions it in any detail. Duh! That's why we can only vaguely allude to the obvious solution in discussions like this.

  17. Re:CIA operatives should be flogged... on Polio Causes Global Health Emergency · · Score: 0

    Good luck getting the Taliban to follow said 'rules of war' and stop killing health care workers.

    Oh that's right, in your worldview they are 'dumb savages' who can't be held accountable. It's, like, totally the CIA's fault.

  18. Re:Go ahead. on Polio Causes Global Health Emergency · · Score: 2

    It is suspected that distilled water also causes cancer. More research is needed, but the scientists are still fighting over the formulation of the non-distilled 'dirty' water to use for the control group.

  19. Re:Any slap on the wrist for the CIA? on Polio Causes Global Health Emergency · · Score: 1

    What utter bullshit. You are treating the Taliban like foolish children who are out doing bad things to health workers because they are confused. Fuck that. They are responsible. They and their leaders bear the blame.

    Also tossing more fuel on a 'blame the West' fire is beyond outrageous.

  20. Re:antivaxxers, kill, mame, burn on Polio Causes Global Health Emergency · · Score: 1

    So is it the whole anti--west Islamic world you want to exterminate? That isn't very tolerant of you. Sure, they're homophobe misogynists, too, but we need to be diverse!

  21. Re:Vampirism on Elderly Mice Perk Up With Transfused Blood · · Score: 1

    You'll be old by then. So yes.

  22. Re:Regional dialects on Some Users Find Swype Keyboard App Makes 4000+ Location Requests Per Day · · Score: 2

    Yes, but no matter where you are if you're in an 'update' on some social networking thing, the logical choice is "I'm getting stupid" so no further scanning is necessary.

  23. Re:Old Boys' Network on Steve Jobs Defied Convention, and Perhaps the Law · · Score: 1

    and the Personal Computer would have been quite different than it is today.

    On that point we can agree. Back in the early days of the Mac, Apple sued the various competing GUI environment developers out of business. They ran GEM off the desktop and relegated GeoWorks to oblivion. It took the emergence of a deep pockets business like Microsoft, with Windows, to defeat Apple in the courtroom.

    Without Apple and Steve Jobs Windows wouldn't be the dominant environment that it is.

  24. Re:Just the cost of doing business. on Steve Jobs Defied Convention, and Perhaps the Law · · Score: 2

    Translation: the people benefiting from his unethical actions admired him.

    That's just standard criminal syndicate behavior.

  25. Re:Clueless on Why Microsoft Shouldn't Patch the XP Internet Explorer Flaw · · Score: 1

    Beavis? Butthead.said you should give him a call.