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  1. Re:American == USA citizen on Fighting Porn Vs. Ruining Innocent Lives · · Score: 1

    Wait... cuba or mexico?

  2. Re:Irony at its best? Since we're on Iraq read thi on Google Earth and "Collateral Damage" · · Score: 1

    Then what qualifies as a non aggressive war. Pushing an enemy anywhere past there border is a war of aggression. Hell the retaking of any land you lost is a war of aggression. When the enemy was the aggressor however, sometimes pushing them to there border and stopping isn't enough. Sometimes you have to make a push for that figurative Berlin.

    Your statement is biased in that it assumes all wars and all fights are unjust. Sorry sometimes diplomacy does not work. Not everyone can be reasoned with.

    Now before you start screaming about how I'm an idiot for the Iraq war ect ect. No I do not support the Iraq war. I do not support the current MO and I do not support most of the current leadership.

    "Protect from foreign enemy's". So if someone does lob a nuke that hits a major city our army should sit idly? They didn't cross our border. They haven't taken any of our land. What do we do at that point? In that case what is considered fighting defensively. Who has to pay and how do we make them pay for that. That is the problem with your so called solution. It relies to much on the point of view of the powers that be.

    You know they had these cozy little camps in Siberia where the sent people who the government didn't like. The problem is, that gets you in trouble with all those icky humans rights things. Your solution is perfect though. ( no this will not be a strawman as I am not trying to take his argument and refute a different version of it) A vocal part of your population thinks we should get involved in a situation that could go out of control. INSTA DRAFT!!!! Toss said vocal population into the situation in just a way to make them easily killed. Vocal group is gone. Toss a few military leaders and some planners for being "incompetent". Claim that you sincerely regret the lives lost. Talk about how important good planning is, and how you always strive for a diplomatic solution. Guess what no humans right violations. When you get your soldiers killed no one cares.

    Then again that situation could happen in ANY country with a draft.

    Possibly ordering your own family to their deaths would cloud the judgment of most leaders. The could not be relied on at that point to make the the right decision based ont eh situation.

    What if the politician family disagrees with him/her? What if there son/daughter is a total pacifist."Your fucked, your estranged father thinks this and were going to punish you since he doesn't give a fuck about you". yeah... slavery.

  3. Title is wrong on Doomsday Clock To Advance · · Score: 1

    Advance implies that it will get closer to midnight. The summary itself says that they don't know which way it will move yet.

  4. Re:Quit your whining... on John Carmack Discusses 360's Edge, Considers DS · · Score: 1

    Afraid? The man loves new powerful hardware. Maybe he just has a dose of reality to deal with.

  5. Re:Well... on John Carmack Discusses 360's Edge, Considers DS · · Score: 2, Informative

    Didn't quake 3 run in linux?

  6. Re:Article summary wrong (surprise) on Gilmore Loses Airport ID Case · · Score: 1

    Oh well, wasn't sure, thought i would ask.

  7. Re:Article summary wrong (surprise) on Gilmore Loses Airport ID Case · · Score: 1

    Isn't the slippery slope argument a logical fallacy in some cases?

  8. Re:I call dibs on... on XXX Top Level Domain May Still See Use · · Score: 1

    So not wanting to have to explain to his 5 year old why that one woman was putting her fist in the ass of another woman is somehow wanting to bring them up in a padded world. Jesus, I'm all for personal responsibility, but when some actively tries to lure in people who don't want to go there in the first place and people who don't understand what they are seeing(children) by using misspellings... that is what he is talking about. I honestly think that is a mildly reasonable thing to ask.

    I remeber when i was trying to get to gamesages.com(redirect to an IGN code site) and misspelled it and got hardcore porn all over the screen. 1 fucking letter. Back when i was 8 maybe 9. I didn't need to see shit like that. I don't want my kids to see shit like that, they don't need to see shit like that.

  9. Re:Not unsurprising really on New Version of Xbox 360 Rumoured · · Score: 1

    Just curious, how many of the moves are pre-rendered cgi?

  10. Re:Taste on Columbine Game Kicked From Slamdance Festival · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Taste only comes into it if the game is meant to be enjoyable or fun. It is a game in the same sense that Saving private Ryan is a movie. It reexamines a terrible and violent event, not for the enjoyment of the viewers but because there is a lesson to be learned.

    However last time I said this I took hell for it but so be it.

  11. Re:Why Apple moved to x86 on Why Do We Use x86 CPUs? · · Score: 1

    He may have meant something else, but the 360 doesn't use cell processors.

  12. Re:Not all of us are slack asses on UK Teachers Say Censor The Internet · · Score: 1

    Hehe Ap physics. Good times. My AP teacher was great, thick Austrian accent, couldn't understand a word he said. Great teacher, kept us interested, helped us when we needed it. Made us enjoy the class. Didn't take bullshit from students. Great moment when he made a bunch of steel wool burn/melt during the lecture on resistance. Let us play with a van degraph, my tounge still goes numb from playing with that thing.
    Have way through the year is built a tracer cloud tank. Brought in a decaying material and we watched particals streak through the tank. That was one of coolest things I have ever seen. Simple yet entertaining, and we wanted to know how it worked. So we figured it out. I owe that man the 5 I got on the AP test.

  13. Re:Ongoing damage, political opposition to change on Inhabited Island Vanishes Forever Underwater · · Score: 1

    My dad doesn't live in a MCmansion he built it on about 20 acres in north GA. It was not built by a developer. Me and my dad tilted up most of the walls on the basement. I then bolted them down to the slab, and he braced them till we got the adjacent walls put up. We put in most of the trusses in the basement. We built most of that house only bringing in a crew to put in the roof trusses and to tilt up the longer external walls. I wired most of the house, he did most of the plumbing. We brought in a guy to do the HV/AC and sheet rocking. So piss off about the MCmansion comment.

    A considerable amount of the space is dedicated to his shop and my stepmothers jewelry workshop. My dad also has an office upstairs since he works from home. If wants to have a large house, and he is willing to pay to make it cheap and therefore less wasteful that is his right. We have 1 guest bedroom and 3 bathrooms. Total of four bedrooms. One for my brother and one for me, when I'm home during the summer. 2 car garage and a storage room.

    My point was however, having a nice spacious house does not mean you have to spend wastefully to keep it livable.

  14. Re:Ongoing damage, political opposition to change on Inhabited Island Vanishes Forever Underwater · · Score: 1

    I meant tripled paned actually.

  15. Re:Interesting! on World of Warcraft Tuesday Maintenance A Thing of the Past · · Score: 1

    Why? Because you don't like my opinion, and you can't come up with a counter argument.

  16. Re:Fake on Do Electric Sheep Dream of Civil Rights? · · Score: 1

    Would you want to eat them?

  17. Re:Interesting! on World of Warcraft Tuesday Maintenance A Thing of the Past · · Score: 1

    Those instances operate differently. They do not reset the same way the 5 man and 10 mans do. I mention BRD because it gets farmed for stuff by new 60 who need gear for MC. You kill a boss in the 20 man and 40 man raid he is dead till the next reset which is several days away. At that point you have to re kill trash mobs. Annoying, yes. Immpossible, no. UBRS,LBRS, SHOLO, STRAT live/dead and Diremaul all take less than 3 hours. I have been present at rag kills and hakkar kills. I was there for both of my guilds first kills.

  18. Re:Interesting! on World of Warcraft Tuesday Maintenance A Thing of the Past · · Score: 1

    Those instances operate differently. They do not reset the same way the 5 man and 10 mans do. I mention BRD because it gets farmed for stuff by new 60 who need gear for MC. You kill a boss in the 20 man and 40 man raid he is dead till the next reset which is several days away. At that point you have to re kill trash mobs.

  19. Re:Interesting! on World of Warcraft Tuesday Maintenance A Thing of the Past · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hahaha. Bullshit. If you take 6 hours to do any 5 man you are a shitty group and have no chance to finish in the first place. Most sholo runs take 3 hours tops. BRD is almost never done in full. If you get no warning that was a crash dumb ass. I have usuualy seen 30 minute warnings on planned resets.

  20. Re:Ongoing damage, political opposition to change on Inhabited Island Vanishes Forever Underwater · · Score: 1

    I like your point about housing. I helped my father build his 6500 ft^2 house. 2 stories tons of windows. Icinine foam in the external walls, thick outer walls. Good attic insulation and it is completely sealed house. He keeps the whole house at 70F during the winter months for about $120 tops. That is natural gas cost. Every window is doubled paned and all we get from them is a bit of solar gain, almost no heat loss through them.

  21. Re:Interesting! on World of Warcraft Tuesday Maintenance A Thing of the Past · · Score: 1

    Well if you look at the reply I gave to the guy I was rude to this wouldn't be a problem.

  22. Re:Interesting! on World of Warcraft Tuesday Maintenance A Thing of the Past · · Score: 1

    Okay, I apologize for my first response. That was rude and uncalled for.

    Bosses stay dead to prevent guilds from downing rag every 2 days and farming the hell outta high end raids. Molten core can only be reset once every 5 or 6 days. Zg can can only be reset once every 3 days. Until its reset the bosses stay dead, however trash will respawn. The announcement i read is next to the login boxes on the main screen after you start the game.

    The resets will not be disruptive. Most of the time they provide a 30 minute ingame warning, most of the time this is long enough for a group to mop up an instance or not start it at all.

    Hence these should not be a major problem.

  23. Re:Interesting! on World of Warcraft Tuesday Maintenance A Thing of the Past · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You idiot. They will do off times. AKA, early in the morning when most US guilds are not running. They also, with the exception of patches will not have to reboot, hence LIVE FUCKING maintenance.

    Oh, and every time you kill a boss in any of the raids, it stays for 3 to 5 days depending on the raid. You get stuck with a certain instance, that way guilds can't farm the bosses as much.

    OH FUCK we have to re kill trash for 20 minutes. THE FUCKING WORLD JUST ENDED. If your guild is upset about redoing some trash, you have more to worry about than a server reset. You are still learning the instance,and there is no way you are 95% done. Jesus, have you ever actually done a raid?

  24. Re:Solar Cycle 24 on Scientists Predict Big Solar Cycle · · Score: 1

    ehh, good times all around.

  25. Re:Why so late? on Google Reaches Second-Most Visited Site Status · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You know, its the rude, arrogant, and self absorbed creative people like you that get the pleasant and intelligent creative people killed.