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  1. How long before 4.5? on The D&D Designers Answer Your Questions · · Score: 0

    Here's to hoping they get it right this time. I played plenty of 2nd and when 3rd came out like many of us I bought that. Then a few years later 3.5 comes out and all that money is wasted. This is especially important now that I play at the FLGS and not with a bunch of friends in someone's kitchen/basement and play in the living campaigns. To continue playing in one of these campaigns you techinically have to own the current rule book or you can't play. After the 3.5 revision I only bought books I absolutely needed and is the only edition I don't own a DMG for and were it not for the short lifespan of 3.0 would also be the edition I owned the fewest books for. With 2nd I would buy books without a second thought so I believe change editions so often and obsoleting previous books does more harm than good.

  2. One Laptop Per Country on The $54 Million Laptop · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Try buying ONE of those per child. It would run off its own nuclear power (sorry Iran you can't have one), the case would be made of something expensive and virtually indestructible...carbon nano tubes? Terabytes of RAM, multiple multi-core cpus, and a nipple because no self respecting laptop should be without one.

  3. Re:Well, happy birthday. on Mars Rover, Spirit, Turns 4 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well what about the rover they burried with the whole meters vs feet thing? Doesn't he get a birthday?

  4. Re:2031?! on First Details of Manned Mars Mission From NASA · · Score: 1

    How much sooner would this be if the Columbia hadn't been lost?

  5. Please Explain on Yahoo Settles With Imprisoned Chinese Journalists · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What is the difference between the Chinese government forcing any telecommunications company, search engine, or whatever to give up consumer data and the US government doing the same thing sometimes without even a warrant? Or a business filing a subpoena because some anonymous person posted bad things about their company/products and they want to punish them? I suppose it is ok because anyone we do this to is obviously a terrorist and wrong so it is ok. While anyone any other 'axis of evil' country does this to is oppressing them.

  6. Two ways to do this on New Project To End Stupidity Online · · Score: 1

    The default homepage for all browsers is locked to this http://www.coolquizme.com/blondbusy1.html. Or you close the internet.

  7. What if? on Earthlike Planet Orbiting Nearby Star · · Score: 1

    If it is already inhabited then they could be twice as strong as us on average. With the higher radiation only things that could survive that extreme would remain and could better survive a radiation poisoned battlefield. The increased gravity would also mean stronger technology, airplanes would need stronger engines, spacecraft would need more thrust to break the orbit of their planet, all equipment would be better shielded against the radiation. If it is inhabited and they are on roughly the same technology level as us we had better hope they are friendly.

  8. The next step on Old Methods Used to Detect Liquid Explosives · · Score: 1

    No carry on, period, and you will be stripped naked and thrown in a paper smock. Then we should be safe as long as nobody hides their devices in checked baggage with some sort of time and/or altitude based trigger.

  9. Great Idea! on Will Pretty PCs Make Vista More Attractive? · · Score: 1

    Oooooh look at the pretty trees.

  10. One way on Stephen Hawking Asks The Internet a Question · · Score: 1

    A virus like Ebola wiping out 80-90% of the world's population would do the trick. Other than that? We can't.

  11. Re:Be safe, Citizen! on WA Law: 5 Years in Prison for Gambling Online · · Score: 1

    I hope you voted or else maybe you and others who didn't could have seen that those self-righteous politicians werent not put in power.

  12. Other news on Blue Ring Around Uranus · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other news the 10th 'planet' has finally been named Mykok, pronounced Mick Oak.