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  1. Re:I am a GIRL. Therefore... on Can Games Make You Cry? · · Score: 1

    Oh shut up and have a sense of humor.

  2. Re:I am a GIRL. Therefore... on Can Games Make You Cry? · · Score: 1

    You killed Paul! You bastard! :(

  3. Re:I am a GIRL. Therefore... on Can Games Make You Cry? · · Score: 1

    UNITE!

  4. Re:I am a GIRL. Therefore... on Can Games Make You Cry? · · Score: 1

    And you. You're also friended! Somehow I just managed to depress myself into nearly crying reading the comics. Okay, so it was some past strips in which Luann's love, Aaron, is moving and they'll be parted, and I'm hell a depressed over my love leaving me over a miscommunication that's becoming clearer by the day, but still. Have you ever cried during something you reeeeeeeeaaaaally shouldn't have cried for?

  5. Re:I am a GIRL. Therefore... on Can Games Make You Cry? · · Score: 1

    Woot! Another /. girl! You're also friended! We need to get a group going, unite the /. girls because the guys just don't understand. They'll laugh at the idea of crying at video games, but dying baby birdies you're trying to save is sad!

  6. Re:I am a GIRL. Therefore... on Can Games Make You Cry? · · Score: 1

    Woo-hoo! Another woman! I'm adding you to my friends list!

    The number one cause of crying? Men!

  7. Re:I'm concerned for that kid on Hire a Game Coach Online · · Score: 1

    I am adult at work taking a couple mini-breaks. Then I go home, go out, have a life. That kid, with his age, should be going to school, which means half the day sitting around, and is following that up with more time sitting around playing games. Pretty much all of his time. No, all of it.

  8. I'm concerned for that kid on Hire a Game Coach Online · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Most people who are good enough to even consider coaching have been playing steadily for more years than that kid has been alive. He's eight. How many years can be reasonably have been playing? Three? Maybe four? He was put on the controller at the age of TWO. According to his website, he's been doing this since he was SIX and won a championship at the age of just FIVE. Does this kid have any activities (I'm not buying it if anyone says he actually goes out) aside from video games, or is he being set up for a miserable life of obesity and notknowing how to make friends and connect with people? Good gods, his parents should be ashamed.

  9. I am a GIRL. Therefore... on Can Games Make You Cry? · · Score: 1

    ...anything can make me cry if it's the right time of the months. Video games with gore. Chocolate. Being out of chocolate. YOU. Not getting any. Not getting hugged. Movies. Video games with cute lil' critters...being bludgeoned to death by big bad guys with machetes....

  10. A few ideas on Investing Tips for College Students? · · Score: 1

    First, a varied stock portfolio. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Warren Buffet used to give his grandkids gifts of money to invest, and one of them decided to put her money into Pillsbury or something, some pastry thing, and when asked why, it was because it's what she knew about. Okay, a kid knows about yummies. But the point it, vary your stock investments and keep it to companies you are familiar with. Second, don't invest much in your own company. If it folds and you're without a job, you don't want to lose all your investments with it. Third, CODs. The gain is less than you'd potentially have with stocks, but it's more stable, more reliable. Four, give it to me and I'll start a company. :) Keep in mind that the greater the chance of gain, the greater the risk of loss. The safer an investment actually is, the lower the gain, but at least you're basically guaranteed one.

  11. Re:Sony will sing its swan song. on Sony 'Anti-Used Game' Patent Explored · · Score: 1

    Said that they aren't and actually not doing it are two different things. We'll only know once it's officially released. But just having this patent could turn fans off to a company that would even have thought of tis seriously enough to go through the process of obtaining a patent.

  12. Sony will sing its swan song. on Sony 'Anti-Used Game' Patent Explored · · Score: 2, Informative

    If people can't borrow games from friends or sell their games when they've finished them, or would have to buy all games new if they need to replace their system, they may as well bow out now. Who will pay for this?

  13. Re:But if that's true . . . on Sony 'Anti-Used Game' Patent Explored · · Score: 1

    This sounds more like it would be a contract. Contracts are uneforceable on minors....

  14. Re:An Incorrect Clause in the original post. on Sony 'Anti-Used Game' Patent Explored · · Score: 1

    OP said to sell copies, not the original disks.

  15. Re:The studios lie in the ads on Sony 'Anti-Used Game' Patent Explored · · Score: 1

    People do know that they don't own the rights to redistribute the movie or copy it.

  16. Re:7 Dirty Words on Cutting out the Naughty Bits Ruled Illegal · · Score: 1

    By chance did you go to high school in Oregon?

    And the rest of this is right on.

  17. Re:Well, if you'd RTFA on Cutting out the Naughty Bits Ruled Illegal · · Score: 1

    How I'd sell my time is my business. If a customer were to buy a copy of a piece of art, that customer owns that piece of art and can pay me to hack it up to their liking.

  18. Re:We've got to take the steps for privacy on Patriot Act Bypasses Facebook Privacy · · Score: 1

    It's difficult to search all the photos online, but easy to search for someone's name. Also, I don't hide my face when I'm in public. Posting photos gives no more information than someone seeing me in public, be it in a business outfit or skimpy dress. Just seeing what someone looks like tells you little or nothing about who that person actually is. Someone glancing at my photo affects me no more than someone looking at me when walking by on the street.

    I object to a phone book listing people who don't want to be listed. Telemarketing, prank calls (*67 blocks your number from caller ID), idiots who want to harass you, etc.. Maybe someone only wants friends and close relatives to be able to contact them.

    What private information of mine or yours will be beneficial to technology? How do our names, birthdates, social security numbers, addresses, phone numbers, occupations, hobbies, and other information benefit technology?

  19. Re:Well, if you'd RTFA on Cutting out the Naughty Bits Ruled Illegal · · Score: 1

    Soooooo...I shouldn't have the right to sell my time to someone else who wants it done to their copy, but, say, doesn't have the time?

  20. Re:And the Lesbians Shall Inherit the Earth .. on Mice Produced Using Artificial Sperm · · Score: 1

    Bull shit. Plenty of straight people can't have children. I can't. Before states continue to say that the ability of a relationship to produce offspring is what matters for marriage, perhaps the lawmakers need to get their heads out of their asses, acknowledge that even straight couples very often have trouble conveiving, and, if they are so dead-set that the ability to have children within a marriage is the bar, then disallow infertile people from marrying!

    Sorry, I'm not mad at you, but am pissed at the government's discrimination, then trying to claim it's to "preserve families" and all that crap. Have they seen the divorce rates, the numbers of children born out of wedlock to mothers who don't know who the fathers are? Yeah, things are really going swell as it is.

  21. We've got to take the steps for privacy on Patriot Act Bypasses Facebook Privacy · · Score: 1

    Why do people use their real names online and then expect privacy? It's 2006, and we should all know by now not to expect things we put online under our real names and contact info to stay private. Use pen names online, different ones for different sites if you don't want it all connected, don't post work places, phone numbers, etc..

    What I do: First, I never ever use my real name. Even in my friends-only LiveJournal I haven't mentioned the name of where I work or use my real name because those who should know have found out somewhere other than LJ. My handles are changed on a semi-regular basis, and friends who should know are privy to this. Security breaches are possible, or there could be a loophole in the ToS I overlooked allowing someone access. Even my user IDs on websites is not unique to me. Go to MySpace and AriaStar there is someone else, and AriaStar on LiveJournal is yet another person. For most messege boards, the user names are so plain that many more people can share it. And I have many e-mail addresses, one for each of these places, so trying to connect my posts and whatnot by connecting e-mails won't work either. I only put up photos online because there are billions of people in this world and even more photos online, and the chances of an employer coming by them is infinitesimally small. The only pieces of information I don't skew are my age (if I decide to share it), my town, and my occupation, which would describe hundreds of people with age, or thousands without my age, and my photos are real. You're not going to find anything I wrote a year ago online. Even I'd be hard pressed to do so.

    It's now a part of life that very little is private anymore, and it's wrong, and we can all either bitch and moan about it, or bitch and moan and try to get things changed while taking steps to protect ourselves in the meantime.

    Anyone who expects privacy these days is a fool. It's not right of the government to break our Constitutional rights, but until we can get this changed, we have to take the neccessary steps to keep our own private lives private, even it if means going as far as taking on assumed names online.

  22. Re:Well, if you'd RTFA on Cutting out the Naughty Bits Ruled Illegal · · Score: 1

    Should someone be allowed to buy a copy of a movie and pay someone else for his time in hacking it?

  23. Re:7 Dirty Words on Cutting out the Naughty Bits Ruled Illegal · · Score: 1

    Small town, a dead end for a lot of people. I wasn't from there, so knew of a world outside. It really wasn't that uncommon for kids to have multiple children as teenagers, though Devon having four was a bit extreme. She had her first in jr. high. Only one of my friends finished school without children, as did I, and this was the "good" crowd.

  24. California law on Talking iPods · · Score: 1

    Safety experts have raised concerns over cyclists, pedestrians and motorists being involved in accidents when they are distracted by their digital music devices.

    Which is why it's illegal in California to wear earphones in phone ears while driving a vehicle or riding a bike. It's California Vehicle Code 27400. Not many people would think to read the CVC for rules and laws outside the DMV handbook. Ane even fewer would read it to see if they're violating any laws while on a bike. Yes, this is enforced. A friend of mine got a ticket for it.

    You know, this will enable blind people to be able to use an iPod, which is nice, but may be impracticle for non-blind users to search through thousands of songs simply to not take it out of a pocket. And if driving, well, like with finding a particular CD, why not just wait for a stop?

    Now if Apple were to release an iPod with a small speaker, that would be pretty damned cool, even if the sound quality sucks.

  25. Re:7 Dirty Words on Cutting out the Naughty Bits Ruled Illegal · · Score: 1

    No, no, no, I thought it was lame of the district. It's not like there are any of us who haven't seen something as tame as a naked human butt. I don't think it's overly graphic, but that district does. What's sad is that it's so lame that the only form of birth control the school can talk about is abstinence. No wonder something like 80% of kids leave/finish school as parents themselves.