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  1. Re:When I was a kid on Company Claims EEG Scans Can Help Identify ADHD · · Score: 1

    From your positioning of ADD/ADHD under "Problem Child" and "Acting Up", rather than a header to "Special Needs", it's very clear you don't understand it nor the challenges it presents for legitimate sufferers.
    Like it or not, there are legitimate reasons for giving special treatment to some people. We're not all born equal, certainly nobody better, but certainly many worse off.

  2. Re:get rid of shitty teachers on Company Claims EEG Scans Can Help Identify ADHD · · Score: 1

    Seems your statistics teacher was among the shitty.

  3. Re:Dogism on Should We Just Call Dog Breeds a Different Species? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hence the don't answer that.

  4. PG-13 on Terminator Salvation Opens Well, Scientists Not Impressed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This movie definately was brought down by the PG-13 rating.
    Why, in the movie, are terminators so bad at killing people? In the first movie, the T-800 didn't fuck around tossing people around, he shot them multiple times in the face. Yet in this movie, the machines have dozens of chances to just crush John Conner's head (among others) and yet they decide it is more prudent to chuck him across the room, giving him a minute to recover while they amble over. What makes the machines so terrifying a concept is that they make cold, calculated decisions to kill at any cost to themselves.
    What happened to the bleak world that we saw in Kyle Reese's flashbacks, where the machines didn't scream, didn't waste time, and didn't act human at all. They were silent, terrifying killing machines.

    IMO, this movie would have been a lot better if it had followed more of a Saving Private Ryan-esque formula, with a small group of men (Conner, others) sneaking past the machines lines to rescue Reese. Can you imagine the opening to SPR, but with machines manning laser turrets? It would have evoked more emotion in the audience than the pathetic attempt to anthromorphosize the machines. But, then, it might not have gotten the all-powerful PG-13 rating, especially with the original ending. No fate but what you make, indeed.

  5. Re:This stuff is b-a-n-a-n-a-s on Cola Consumption Can Lead To Muscle Problems · · Score: 0

    Can you imagine the meeting with the nutritionist?
    Cola Addict: Hey doc, so, did you get those results back?
    Nutritionist: Yeah, we're going to have to put you on a french-fry diet.
    Cola Addict: Sweet, now I can live at McDonalds!

  6. Re:Cool story bro on Cola Consumption Can Lead To Muscle Problems · · Score: 5, Informative

    Of course only drinking diet soda won't magically make fat people skinny, but it helps a lot. When you drink 2 or 3 cans of coke a day, that's 300-450 calories from nothing. That's a whole meal, really. Eliminating a whole meal a day certainly goes a long way to losing weight, without curtailing your cravings for the taste of cola.

  7. Re:So, they had NO backups? on Hacker Destroys Avsim.com, Along With Its Backups · · Score: 0, Insightful

    I don't think 'olol' is going to impress anyone whos work was just wiped out by their incompetence.

    Anyone who relied on online storage to store their work without having backups of their own is even dumber than these guys.

  8. Re:Accessibility.... on A Touch Screen With Morphing Buttons · · Score: -1

    Actually, the braille on the drive-thru keyboards is due to the fact that all the ATM keyboards are made to the same standard.

    Why would it make sense to have a seperate process for making special, drive-through only ones?

  9. Re:Cultural issues and Religion on Women Skip Math/Science Careers To Have Families · · Score: -1

    Women who rather be career driven just have a chip on their shoulder

    Or, maybe human beings are complex creatures, and don't all fit into cookie-cutter shapes and temperments.
    This subtle fact is why feminism needs to exist in the first place.

  10. Re:As a fan, I hate to say this on Billy West Says Futurama Might Return To Fox For 6th Season · · Score: 1, Informative

    They just completely ignore it in the new movie

    No, now the ships are using Whale Oil, as evidenced by the fuel indicator in the Planet Express Ship.

  11. Re:So something which we can't define... on Earth May Harbor a Shadow Biosphere of Alien Life · · Score: -1

    However, there is no definition of life that fire cannot meet, which the mule can.

    Fire has no hereditary factor, A.K.A. genes. A daughter fire inherits no traits from it's spark.

  12. Re:Paying for what ails you on Microsoft Sued Over Vista-To-XP Downgrade Fees · · Score: -1

    Nobody is stopping her from buying a machine from a local parts-shop with a copy of XP. This is akin to buying a new car with a stereo in it, and then replacing the stereo; you wouldn't expect Ford to reimburse.

  13. Re:This. Game. Sucks. on Looking Back At Far Cry 2 · · Score: -1

    The seeing-through-tents was a result of patch 1.4. Just use anything below that. 1.4 is only a mulitplayer patch anyway, oddly enough.

  14. Re:In reality, people move things on Microsoft Knew About Xbox 360 Damaging Discs · · Score: -1

    Interesting and plucked from Fight Club

  15. Re:CanCon for the Web on Canadian Groups Call For Massive Net Regulation · · Score: -1

    There was just a new episode of TPB: "Say Goodnight To The Bad Guys" Aired on the 8th

  16. Re:wow... on EA Forum Ban Will Now Mean EA Game Ban · · Score: -1

    Must be a metric ass-ton.

  17. Er...common sense? on Browsing Frugally Without Wasting Bandwidth? · · Score: -1

    For example, when I play a YouTube video, click a link, and then return to the video, the whole video reloads.

    Middle mouse on a link opens a new tab. This problem is easily solved.

    Some pages seem to send/receive data at certain intervals for the duration of my visit.

    Use the "Stop" button?

    When I begin to enter a search in Firefox's search bar, a list of suggestions is automatically downloaded.

    So disable that in about:config
    This is all pretty easy stuff.

  18. Re:flying sux on TSA Employee Caught With $200K Worth of Stolen Property · · Score: 0, Informative

    Breaking an NDA doesn't land you in jail. It's just an agreement not to disclose information. No rights are waived in an agreement. There is no law that says you cannot disclose information under an NDA.
    What lands you in jail is Misappropriation, "the acquisition or disclosure of trade secrets by improper means including theft, bribery and fraud." Which is a seperate thing altogether.

  19. Re:First cell walls on Old Materials Resurface For "Prebiotic Soup" · · Score: -1

    Primordial earth was able to interact with environment (sunlight, space) but could not reproduce or grow in any meaningful sense of the term.

    What about the moon? The earth spawned the moon after colliding with (oh the imagery) another body. That could be said to be (plantesimal) reproduction.

    And the earth has grown, at least, it had a phase where it did. The earth did not just pop into existence, it started small and accreted material and became more and more massive.
    Not that I subscribe to the whole "gaia" idea...

  20. Re:Correlation != Causation on Single Neuron Wired To Muscle Un-Paralyzes Monkeys · · Score: -1

    Whoosh!

  21. Cue the activists... on Single Neuron Wired To Muscle Un-Paralyzes Monkeys · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And the animal rights crowd would have these amazing experiments banished in the name of self-righteousness and guilt...

  22. Sammy Hagar Says: on Fuel Efficiency and Slow Driving? · · Score: -1

    Tag for this one: icantdrive55

  23. Re:Funny how "Tech Industry Issues" on Examining Presidential Candidates' Tech Agendas · · Score: -1

    You know, I hate to be anal, but continental drift is NOT a fact. It's a theory. And there are quite a few people who disagree with it.

  24. Re:Cutting the Grass on Giant Microwave Turns Plastic Back to Oil · · Score: -1

    Uhhh.... Use a mulcher?

  25. Re:Wow... on A "Bill of Lights" to Restrict LEDs on Gadgets? · · Score: -1

    Well, actually having an LED on while the tv is on can be very important. It could prevent burn in when you leave your tv on, say, VIDEO 1. Having the light on will show you that you forgot to turn the TV off, or that the remote failed, etc.