...what is wrong with being sad? Why must we be happy all the time? Sometimes sadness is a natural response to the sad things in the world. If something is wrong, I don't want to pretend to be happy about it. Sadness tells us something is wrong, and motivates us to do something about it.

I understand employees are expected to smile more in japan out of politeness, but why force employees to smile harder? If they aren't smiling, perhaps the problem is their job. A sure way to encourage smiling is to treat employees better, and make them feel loved.

Flamebait? Come on mods, I know we're all libertarian nutcases here, but this poster raises a valid point.

because every writer is motivated by popularity or respect /sarcasm

You pay 10$ in gas to drive to the library? What do you drive? A Hummer h2?

Hahahahahaha! Never gonna happen! :-)

When information is this easy to copy, we'll never see the end to piracy. All you can do is accept it, and adapt to the new digital world, where information wants to be worthless.

Good to know you have artistic integrity /sarcasm

Seriously... make art because you enjoy it. Many great artists never saw a cent from their work.

Not just windows machines. I'm running debian and I still see cowardon in firefox. I just assumed it was some newly discovered ancient reptile, like dimetrodon.

never saw it, but i just imdb'ed it. Would you reccomend it?

Sorry, I should have been more clear. I was hoping that if html 5 chose a codec for its video tag, it would reduce the need for flash, and contribute to it's death (forcing it out, in your words). It seems nobody wants to pick a codec now because they are afraid it will kill flash, but I think the html 5 team shouldnt worry about that. With flash gone, adobe could spend their efforts making something new to compete in an html 5 world. All in all, I agree with you.

Alright, alright. I admit, I don't totally understand the biology of trees. Thanks alot, you nerds! :p

the freedom to say mean things, as well as good things. Lori Drew is an asshole, but last time I checked, being an asshole was not illegal. What she did was harassment, not murder.

We have been taught to fear destruction, and praise creation, without realizing the two functions are complementary. Like a tree must be pruned before it can bear fruit, the death of outdated technologies forces us to innovate, and thus destroying creates. When flash and silverlight die, newer, better technologies will fill the void. I echo your call for said entities to die already. Death is beautiful.

How the hell are 8 people going to connect to battle net at the same time when I only got one lousy dsl connection! The latency would be unacceptable.

G-G-G-GHOST!!!!!

Lan parties are different than online play, because everyone is in the same room. You know everyone who's there, and you can see them from across the room. Nothing is a substitute for human contact, and playing on battle.net won't be the same.

And most violent crimes involve males. Should we kill all men?