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  1. Re:Yo. on The First HD DVD Movie Hits BitTorrent · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Without piracy he wouldn't have got me as a consumer. I hadn't heard of the film or the series and when I did I downloaded them. Fortunately I didn't know it was Whedon who produced otherwise I wouldn't even have downloaded. Now I own both the series and the film on DVD. I also don't consider Whedon to suck ass as I did before.

  2. Re:Stands to reason on Bilingualism Delays Onset of Dementia · · Score: 1

    That is if you learn the grammar. I know almost nothing of the formal grammar in both of the languages I know. My only way of learning languages is immersion, that's how I learned English and it's a big reason why I couldn't manage to pick up much German.

    I would say that I read more English than Swedish though. Ever since I got as fast in English that's about the only language I read books in because most of the authors I like happen to write in English.

  3. Re:you know.... on Teacher Found Guilty of Endangering Kids Due to Spyware · · Score: 1

    I can confirm that. The only images I have ever been "scarred" by was some documentary which contained several different clips with people getting killed. One scene was some guy getting shot which wasn't bad. Another scene was from the vietnam war (I think) where a guy gets shot in the temple with blood squirting out. I of course went and told my mother excitedly what I'd seen and she basically shouted that I shouldn't have watched that. That in it self was way worse than the acutal images. It took about two years for me to even be able to think about the incident without feeling bad. I was 5-8 years old when I saw that program.

    Sex hasn't been problematic at all but if I'd stumbled by Goatse and got the same reaction I would imagine that I would've felt the same way.

  4. Re:IBM is smart. on IBM Breaks Patent Record, Wants Reform · · Score: 1

    Are you even aware that software patents are very recent and that they don't even exist in Europe or most of the world?

  5. Re:Sand is a wonderful thing... on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the same thing. That th same thing could also be said in the future if man-made global warming turns out to be false or insignificant.

  6. Re:I'd be happy... on Firefox 3 Plans and IE8 Speculation · · Score: 1

    I regularly open more than 50 tabs and Firefox rarely crashes. When it actually crashes I can usually attribute it to a single page that usually contains messed up scripts or flash objects. I'm talking about version 2.0.0.1 for windows with various extensions but not flashblock.

  7. Re:The human race starts to decline on What Are You Optimistic About? · · Score: 1

    This comment need to be modded up.

    If you look at the developed nations you will se that the population is barely increasing or even stagnating. Population growth is not a problem as long as we can bring the technological blessings to the third world.

  8. Re:Polygraphs ... on Scientist Organizes Resistance To Polygraphs · · Score: 1
    It also weeds out people that answers questions without thinking. From what I've heard, if you interview with the NSA or CIA and they ask "have you ever given money to a foreign organization?" and your answer is an unthinking "no", this weeds you out. After all, you buy stuff from foreign companies all of the time without even realizing it.
    That would be even more stupid in the case of a polygraph test. The whole point is to answer with yes/no.

    If you're talking about some general interview then you'd have to be a moron to not ask them to define foreign organization.
  9. Re:Can't wait... on Secret Gov't Documents Will be Declassified 12/31 · · Score: 1

    This is one of the most retarded things I've read recently. By that logic Roosevelt is less moral than say Mugabe, Pinochet and Castro probably even if you put all three together.

  10. Re:Patents kill in a lot of sectors... on Nobel Laureate Attacks Medical Intellectual Property · · Score: 1

    Good Point.

    Sorry.

  11. Re:Patents kill in a lot of sectors... on Nobel Laureate Attacks Medical Intellectual Property · · Score: 1

    Care to give some kind of link that supports the notion that patents and not bogus health/environmental concerns were the reason for not accepting GMO corn?

  12. Re:Patents kill in a lot of sectors... on Nobel Laureate Attacks Medical Intellectual Property · · Score: 1

    Yeah, sure. It was a bunch of green would be doo-gooders that scared the shit out of the Africans that GMO's are dangerous. Why the fuck would Mugabe care about patents when he's confiscating land from thousands of farmers?

    Look at this propaganda piece from the same kind of fuckers that caused people to starve to death. It says nothing of patents: http://www.indsp.org/GMWpr1105.php/

  13. Re:Patented Breast Cancer Genes? on Nobel Laureate Attacks Medical Intellectual Property · · Score: 1

    How can you use a monopoly issued by the state to argue against capitalism with a straight face?

  14. Mobile phone walkers anyone? on Using Cellphones to Track Your Kids · · Score: 1

    I can see a nice new backyard industry springing up. Some enterprising children will tend other childrens phones for a small fee. While the child is out doing forbidden things his mobile will be in a safe zone on the move.

    I'm not sure what it's called in english but there should exist a service where you can bounce your calls to another phone without the caller knowing. If this is available in the USA the parents will have a very hard time finding out that their kids are not the ones carrying around the GPS transmitters.

  15. Re:Libertarian countdown... on Military Tech for Daily Life · · Score: 1

    I love the smell of hay in the evening...

  16. Re:Microwave ovens are from WWII radar on Military Tech for Daily Life · · Score: 1

    I thought the Soviets and American manufacturing won the war...

    Also the breaking of Enigma should have had a greater strategic impact than radar.

  17. Re:Wait... on Wiimote Straps Result in Class Action Suit · · Score: 1

    When I was five I dropped literally boiling water on my foot as I took the pot of the stove. I had woolen socks on but naturally removed them as fast as I could. Total exposure time must've been 3-5 seconds. I got a nice 2nd degree burn.

    If non-boiling coffe is spilled in my crotch I guarantee you it will have no time to cause 3rd degree burns unless the person is a fucking retard or a paraplegic.

  18. Re:New and lost? on How 'Games for Windows' Will Change PC Gaming · · Score: 1

    OK. Thanks for the answer.

    Some of this functionality is included in some games (the most notable exception is voice chat but that can be explained by the presence of a keyboard) and is available in a few server browsing programs like: All Seing Eye, Gamespy Arcade (*shudder*) and X-fire. You should look into them if you value this kind of functionality.

    I still prefer the PC-way because it's less monolithic but I can imagine some of this functionality evolving in steam, especially as it expands it game catalog.

  19. Re:New and lost? on How 'Games for Windows' Will Change PC Gaming · · Score: 1

    Why would you need such a service? What exactly is so hard about clicking the multiplayer button and choosing a server?

  20. Re:"The franchise is dead, Jim." on New Animated Star Trek In The Works · · Score: 1

    "I'm seven of nine"

  21. Re:Of course we're changing our environment on UN Report Downgrades Human Impact on Climate · · Score: 1

    Letting money sitting in the bank is useless if we are likely to find replacement for money. So it's a bad analogy. It's more like saving firewood and going cold for the time it takes to wire the house for electricity and then finding your firewood more or less useless.

    What if the majority (or the ruling majority) had your opinion during the industrial revolution?

    I am confident that we will find a replacement for oil when we have to. If the price per barrel goes high enough other technologies will become economically feasible and get more research funding.

  22. Re:MOD PARENT UP on UN Report Downgrades Human Impact on Climate · · Score: 1

    So did Keynes ever become a member of the Austrian school of economics? ;)

  23. Re:Of course we're changing our environment on UN Report Downgrades Human Impact on Climate · · Score: 1

    What good does a natural resource do in the ground? What kind of benefit do I get from an undisturbed bauxite vein?

  24. Re:No way! on Study Detects Recent Instance of Human Evolution · · Score: 1

    Why do you define yourself as a Christian when you don't share most/many of their beliefs? How can you ignore most parts of the bible? How "dare" you decide which parts of the bible to ignore?

    I'm not trolling. I just can't understand why you would need religion when you are obviously a fairly rational person.

  25. Re:We had covered this story... on Hans Reiser in Court Today · · Score: 1

    Exactly. If the police does an illegal search the policeman is supposed to be punished but the evidence is still admissible in court. The same goes for a citizen that does say a breaking and entering and uncovers some evidence.