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  1. Re:MIT to community college? on RIAA Recommends Students Drop out of College · · Score: 1
    Actually, if she had the grades and the money to get into M.I.T. , she should have had enough 'smarts' to not do what she did.
    Think of this as intellectual Darwinism at it's finest. If she had no clue about pirating , she is NOT M.I.T. material.


    How does her choice to pirate deminish her intelligence?

    Plenty of kids I went to college with pirated stuff. Does that make them stupid? No.

    Does that make what they did right? Legally, no.

    Did they think it was ok? Sure.

    My personal view has always been that you can do what ever you want, as long as you are willing the accept the consequences, legal or otherwise.

    As long as you know the possible out comes and are willing the take the risks, then you aren't really stupid.
  2. Re:There's a lot of potential on Americans Gearing up to Fight Global Warming · · Score: 2, Insightful
    If you half that milage, double the tax. If you double the milage, halve the tax.


    So if your truck get half the milage of your car you should pay double the tax on it?

    If your truck only gets half of the milage of a car, you are already paying twice as much to go the same distance!
    It sounds like your "stepped price" system is already in place....
  3. Re:translation on Revolution Worldwide Launch Possible · · Score: 5, Funny
    we wouldn't want another "All your base"


    ...or would we?
  4. Re:Classic RPGs on In Defense of FFXII · · Score: 1

    A little bit of cross over is ok, like Cloud in FFT.

    But I got alittle annoyed with Kingdom Hearts.
    Sure all those other "worlds" being attacked was part of the story, but I thought it got to be a bit too much.

    I never played Mario RPG, but which FF game is Culex from?
    The only references I can find say he wasn't from any FF game, but just designed to look like he was.

  5. Re:That would be horrible on In Defense of FFXII · · Score: 1

    Actually, I quite like Kotor, and beat it several times. I also enjoyed the sequel.

    But then again I played on the PC, not x-box.

  6. Re:Classic RPGs on In Defense of FFXII · · Score: 1

    Final Fantasy doesn't involve a cohesive set of characters, a standard world, even a set storyline.


    The name FINAL Fantasy seems to imply that the adventure (fantasy) would be the FINAL one for those characters. This idea of course was broken with FFX-2 and the several offchutes of FFVII.

    I do remember hearing a theory a few years ago that could have tied the first 6 to the same world, just not in that order.

    Storyline:

    Good vs. Evil

    Usually the main characters have a prexisting relationship with the one of the final bosses (Someone was related to Cecil but I forget who and how, Cloud is a Sephiroth clone, Zidane's brother (basically), and of course Tidus has to kill his daddy.)

    Crystals are sometimes involved, also.
  7. Embeded use on Fanless Nano-ITX Motherboard Reviewed · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've always wanted to run Linux on my coffee mug. And I can use the heat from the CPU to keep the coffee warm.

  8. Re:Not really... on U.S. Army Robots Break Asimov's First Law · · Score: 1

    Meaning it was produced there. I'd assume the raw materials were imported, then the finished steel was exported at costs below US. Thats what I've been told, but this all happened before I was born...

  9. Re:Not really... on U.S. Army Robots Break Asimov's First Law · · Score: 1

    Actually, isn't Japanese steel cheaper then US steel. Thats what I've always been told. At least thats one of the stories I've been given for why the economy is like the way it is here near Buffalo.

  10. Re:Not really... on U.S. Army Robots Break Asimov's First Law · · Score: 1
    Because believe it or not Canadians think it should be refined at home so we are trading in Canadian dollars.
    There is nothing wrong with that either. Economically it might be bad for the US, but there isn't any fundamental reason for either way to be considered corrupt, as per your previous post. If the Canadians want it refined at home, then they can take that up with the people who sell the oil. Of course it would cost millions of dollars to build the refineries. So it might be cheaper in short term to just send it out to have it worked on, especially if we hit peak oil soon. Still, though, I don't see how that makes Canada as whole corrupt.
  11. Re:Not really... on U.S. Army Robots Break Asimov's First Law · · Score: 1
    Why is the term fascist always thrown at the right?
    Maybe those leftist commies want us to look as bad as they really are? Seriously though, I'm guessing it probably has something to do with the idea that Facists tend to be more conservative, or promote themselves as much. Often, though, people confuse "a implies b" with "a = b".
  12. Re:Not really... on U.S. Army Robots Break Asimov's First Law · · Score: 1
    First off, Canada has oil fields. Just we're as corrupt, sell the oil to you americans to be refined and then buy back the Gas at a higher price.
    Are you trying to say that Canada selling oil to the US, then buying back the refined gas makes them corrurpt? How so? There isn't anything wrong with that. Its just trading goods and services, like has been done for thousands of years. Thats like a farmer selling his goods to a restraunt, and later he or his family going to eat there.
  13. Re:What does your ISP have to say ? on Neighborhood WiFi Security · · Score: 1

    Just wondering, who is your ISP? Sounds like either a great deal or very expensive.

  14. Re:Buy a radio now (if you think radio doesn't suc on Audio Broadcast Flag Introduced in Congress · · Score: 1

    Now that you mention it, I did have weird dreams when listening to that show. I haven't listened in a few months because of work and other obligations.

  15. Re:Buy a radio now (if you think radio doesn't suc on Audio Broadcast Flag Introduced in Congress · · Score: 1

    I use the AM to listen to "Coast to Coast" . Gotta get my conspiracy fix somehow, and I don't feel like paying for the podcasts.

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

    Acutally. normal medium sized creatures will take 6 seconds to move 30 feet...