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Comment Re:Right (Score 1) 562

by spanky the monk on Saturday May 16, 2009 @09:03PM (#27983265) Attached to: Sony Pictures CEO Thinks the Net Wasn't Worth It

...

democracy + people think "stealing" is ok and normal = "stealing" is ok and normal.

Comment Re:1. Reject Technology 2. Criminalize Customer 3. (Score 1) 562

by spanky the monk on Saturday May 16, 2009 @08:54PM (#27983197) Attached to: Sony Pictures CEO Thinks the Net Wasn't Worth It

Sigh...

Comment Re:1. Reject Technology 2. Criminalize Customer 3. (Score 2, Insightful) 562

by spanky the monk on Saturday May 16, 2009 @08:24PM (#27982995) Attached to: Sony Pictures CEO Thinks the Net Wasn't Worth It

My sentiments exactly. TV poisons the mind with advertising coercion, news channel brainwashing and programs that stupify. Internet is the antidote.

Comment Re:1. Reject Technology 2. Criminalize Customer 3. (Score 1) 562

by spanky the monk on Saturday May 16, 2009 @08:18PM (#27982955) Attached to: Sony Pictures CEO Thinks the Net Wasn't Worth It

It's slowly and painfully eroding our culture of naivety,...

Funny, that's exactly what Michael Lynton thinks about the internet.

Comment Re:1. Reject Technology 2. Criminalize Customer 3. (Score 1) 562

by spanky the monk on Saturday May 16, 2009 @08:14PM (#27982925) Attached to: Sony Pictures CEO Thinks the Net Wasn't Worth It

Period is indeed a sentence. Period.

Comment Re:Why migrate from XP to vista? (Score 3, Insightful) 309

by spanky the monk on Saturday May 16, 2009 @07:59PM (#27982853) Attached to: Gartner Tells Businesses to Forget About Vista

I used to pull working computer/parts out of dumpsters all the time at uni. If you live in a first world country and don't need to play games, you don't even need to buy a computer! Just dust of some garbage and install your favorite linux flavor. Yesterdays gaming machine is my workstation.

I haven't bought a computer for about 6 years.

Comment Re:That's amazing (Score 1) 172

by spanky the monk on Saturday May 16, 2009 @05:16AM (#27977381) Attached to: Open Source's Battle In Africa

Actually he never drew a comparison to another OS and you've accused him of being a fanboy!? Seems it takes one to know one.

Comment moralists (Score 1) 295

by spanky the monk on Saturday May 16, 2009 @04:12AM (#27977135) Attached to: When Does It Become OK To Make Games About a War?

When Does It Become OK To Make Games About a War?

when the righteous moralists get over it.

Comment Re:Linear Thinking (Score 1) 138

by spanky the monk on Friday May 15, 2009 @06:07AM (#27963585) Attached to: Daydreaming Is Really Complex Problem-Solving

You just described smoking grass, for me.

Comment Re:This won't go over well (Score 1) 138

by spanky the monk on Friday May 15, 2009 @05:52AM (#27963523) Attached to: Daydreaming Is Really Complex Problem-Solving

I'm exactly the same with the "daydreaming to destination" thing and also taking varying routes. Driving for me is like walking: You don't think about each step, but you still move and don't fall over.

Comment Re:Personal Use Pot is Legal in Spain (Score 1) 164

by spanky the monk on Friday May 15, 2009 @05:12AM (#27963325) Attached to: Study Shows Cocaine And Other Drugs In Spanish Air

so civilised!

Comment Re:I still remember when HIV was blamed on the US (Score 1) 249

by spanky the monk on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @10:52PM (#27947057) Attached to: WHO Investigates Claims That Swine Flu Resulted From Human Error

Crazy: Person who has a view that contradicts your own.

Comment Re:Why is always humans fault. (Score 1) 249

by spanky the monk on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @10:49PM (#27947039) Attached to: WHO Investigates Claims That Swine Flu Resulted From Human Error

There is no such think as evil, except as a concept. The universe just expresses itself. You can label things/evens as right, wrong, good, evil all you want, but the fact remains and these are just artificial concepts.

Comment Re:M-O-O-N, That spells whoops! (Score 1) 249

by spanky the monk on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @10:42PM (#27947013) Attached to: WHO Investigates Claims That Swine Flu Resulted From Human Error

People DO spill the beans, often. But they're conspiracy nuts ... right? Seems to be a bit of circular reasoning.

Comment Re:Tinfoil hat wearing crowd said this was man-mad (Score 1) 249

by spanky the monk on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @10:28PM (#27946911) Attached to: WHO Investigates Claims That Swine Flu Resulted From Human Error

it's a case of: "you can't handle the truth!". People find it easier to deny conspiracy theories than to turn their world upside down. This is why some CT-ists use the phrase: "wake up!".

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