Scammers are some of the scum of the Earth because they think it is okay to do evil to their fellow man if it benefits them monetarily.

I used to use dating sites. Laugh it up, you're allowed. I lost a true love to stupidity once. Anyway in the process of using dating sites for 3 years, I would only get about a 1/70 ratio of people I message. One girl came on strong with a pet nam and I was a little worried, but hey I'll talk with whoev until it gets weird. Anyway it culminates with her being stuck in the UK and no way to get a plane ticket to the states unless I sent her money. I called her out that this sounds like a scam, and that was the last I ever heard from her.

Anyway, one of the reasons for me stopping to use dating sites is that if God has someone for me, he'll hook me up, otherwise, I can work my butt off and have more to help the poor. There's more to life than just getting married and raising kids, though that is a cool part of it.

Big oil and your standard energy providers win if our electricity bills are going up. They're going up by 50% now around where I live. They figure,"Hey one way to compete with the electric car is to make it as expensive to fill up your electric car as buying gasoline." and it will work for the short run.

Right, that is the standard approach. Use hydrogen with particle accelerators which people are calling ion engines now.

It is just that the asteroids produce an interesting situation where if you had a rock cannon, you could use the asteroids as propellant. It is probably a bad idea though because it is like wasting asteroid material which could be used for research. Another idea would to have a sort of "leaping" robot which wouldn't deplete the asteroid's mass, but would jump from asteroid to asteroid without the loss of solid fuel. Sure it'd still need to use a little bit of fuel with conventional fuel if its leaping calculations were off to the next asteroid.

Its just a fun thought exercise when to acquire solid mass material doesn't require fighting a large gravitational pull.

My idea was to use a nuclear powered craft that once it latches on to its first asteroid, it then extracts small pieces of it, and fires them out like projectiles to move it to the next asteroid. You could even launch asteroids back towards earth if you're feeling lucky :P I don't hear anyone talking about using Asteroid rocks as the kinetic matter for propulsion. I just thought it was a unique thought to share with the community.

Just as sharks are known to prey on the wounded and weak of the ocean, Slashdot is always on the look out for weak servers of the Internet so we can hit them when they're down.

She approved the NBC-Comcast merger, then immediately quit the FCC and started working for NBC! I wouldn't trust a single thing she says since she's a poster child for corruption in the FCC and a prime example of the revolving door problems. While Congress is elected and has to try and hide its corrupt doings by making confusing laws no one can understand except lawyers and the corporations that wrote them, the FCC is on a tear of doing whatever it pleases. Believe it or not, there's still some people who think governmental officials are acting for the good of people, but the more the FCC brazenly does actions that are for their corporate overlords and not for the good of the people, the more people are losing faith in the government.

All one manufacturer needs to do is be able to make one without bells and whistles, and aim for economy. Make a plug in hybrid for under $16,000, and people who care about their wallet will buy enmass. It doesn't make sense to buy a plugin hybrid when you can buy a cheaper car that comes with "free gasoline." When I look at cars and go,"Okay, I could by a hybrid or a car ten grand cheaper, the 100,000 miles of free gasoline means it isn't economically sensible." A plug in hybrid that is economically feasible could vastly improve poor people's lives. They could go from store to store shopping for deals if they wanted since the biggest reason not to now is that the gasoline overhead of traveling.

I guess as long as some people are still buying the more expensive hybrids that is good for the future of the technology to come down in price, but I don't know any manufacturer who has done it yet.

Thank you. You'd think there would have been a link in the summary.

Do you have a ghost pepper hot sauce? If not, do you know where I could get a good one?

I've been eating so many nachos that it surprised me when I can barely even notice Habaneros give me any heat.

The obvious step is to go up a notch, but I can't find any ghost pepper sauces at my local grocery store, and I'm hesitant to buy ghost peppers from out of the country on Ebay. Ebay is pretty bad when people screw up your order to begin with, but ingesting something you buy on Ebay steps it up to a new level of trust I don't think Ebay deserves.

Omega Race gets my vote for underrated game of its time. It immerses you, relies on reflex gaming, is pretty fair, and there are several strategies to employ of various success rates. If you're good at it, you can play for quite some time. Try it sometime on Mame, though realize the dial control of the game doesn't translate perfectly to keyboard. It took me some time adjusting the sensitivity to have an okay time.

I excelled at every video game I played at far above anyone else I've met. Every competition I've been in, I've done very well too. I ranked high in the Nintendo World Championships in what 89? I got #1 in ladder in Starcraft back in 99. I got first to 1500 wins in Warcraft3 and #1 in ladder in 1v1,2v2 and 3v3.

So my question is: Have you ever wanted to design an ultimate skill based game?

I'm also a programmer/designer. I got into game design in 87 when I played all the games that were out there and had ideas for my own. My main ideas as a kid was "Action/RPG", and MMORPGS. These were good ideas and as anyone can tell they're where we went as an industry. The problem is that MMORPGS have little reflex skill involved, and Action/RPG can be beat by just leveling your player up.

So lately I've been wondering in how to make a video game similar to those 80s games in terms of relying on reflexes, yet still be fun for the modern player who likes to bathe in powerups(levels, skill trees and equipment). Do you have an idea you might want to share? We could work together to see it through. I'm just finishing a video game that is like Zelda and is going on Kongregate.com hopefully in the next few weeks. If you want to play the engine the game was built on, just be sure to login to save your progress.

Disclaimer: I don't recommend Poker for everyone. If you don't treat Poker just right, it can destroy your life even in ways unrelated to your finances. Poker has so many dangers that I can't put it in words. If you start on freerolls and don't put up much of your own money by playing at the smallest stakes then you can work your way up. Just never get a big head on yourself that you're better than you are and start using a lot of money to supplement your bankroll or go out to borrow money to play, etc. There's so many dangers that I don't recommend it for everyone. There's a lot of ways you can treat poker as gambling instead of the skill based game that it is.

I just felt I needed to say a disclaimer because Poker does destroy some irresponsible people's lives even though to me the game is more fun than playing Chess. Computers will play a mean game of NL Texas Holdem pretty soon, but until then, its one of the best games of strategy you can play that a computer isn't superior.

I turned $1.20 into $1000.00 on Pokerstars. I wanted to see if I could turn $1000.00 into a million, but they closed the site

Also I found a way to absolutely CRUSH Rush poker. My sessions would have me winning money constantly even if I was losing races and getting bad beat. I turned like 15$ into 80$ in like just a few days of casual play. Of course Black Friday hit. The thing that makes me sad is that people probably got better over the last few years and my style wouldn't dominate as bad.

Poker is the one game where you can put the odds in your favor, but you gotta be really good and play a lot. I probably have played 5-10 thousand hours of poker in my life and I'm constantly getting my money in good. I haven't used any of my own money on poker sites since 2007. I just miss the big sites where you could get in a game without waiting for a long time.

I might not be a doctor, but I have watched Dr. Nick, and I think I've learned a thing or two over these years.

But I guess it isn't something that should be laughed at in general. Some people have thyroid conditions in that they can't really medically lose weight.