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Comment Re:Kinda sounds like (Score 1) 118

So it adds nothing to your particular style of roleplaying, at least in that game. In a game where the players aren't constantly keeping secrets from each other, it's fine. Hell, it'd probably be fine in that game if you had players who can separate OOC knowledge with IC knowledge. It definitely could have its uses at times, but like anything else, it has its flaws.

Comment Re:Lenovo (Score 1) 583

Ever tried Jarnal?

It feels kludgy, I'll admit, but it does get the job done.

Note, you probably want to know how to get rid of the lined paper. Intuitively enough, it is under Format, Paper and Background (you'd probably have found it without my help). Change "Lined" to "Plain" and apply to all pages.

Note also, you probably want to know how to open a PDF to annotate it. This one isn't intuitive at all, but you have to go to File, Open Background. (The PDF is opened as a background image. Unfortunately this means you cannot edit, only annotate.)

To save, either Export to PDF or Print as PDF – I'm entirely clueless as to whether there is any difference between the two or why there are two options to do the same thing.

As a bonus, you can also download the zip, unzip to a flash drive, and run it portably.

Comment Re:VAT on Books in Europe Trending Towards 0%-5% (Score 1) 145

For me, at least, is this not a topic of interest.

I treat all DRM-encumbered purchases as an extended rent/lease agreement. Books (and music) tend to be one-off items for me, except in a few extraordinary cases. In these cases I prefer the special/ultimate/extended/uncut/annotated edition, and purchase the physical object anyway.

Handhelds

Submission + - Kindle finally ready for global distribution (amazon.com) 1

geirnord writes: Previously a US-only device, the Amazon Kindle 2 is now finally available in an international edition. It seems Crunchgear was at least partly right. The new device is identical to the Kindle 2, with the exception of Edge and 3G support. That means Whispernet-like functionality over most of the world.

Comment Re:whew (Score 1) 104

Craig Ferguson (of the Late Late Show) had the best joke about it: Vampires with 6 pack abs! Do they come out at night to go to (in vampire mock-scary voice) Goooold's Gym! Then Craig does an impression of Sesame Street's The Count while miming a bench press: "One! One Repetition! Two! Two repetitions!"

He hates these so called Vampires because they should really be pasty white and frail.

ohman maybe offtopic but all for Craig

Comment Publishing houses beware (Score 1) 350

While you need a decent studio to create a decent music quality, writers can create good-looking PDFs on their computer.

If there is going to be an iTunes book store, publishers and bookstores will take the hit. An author could charge a bit more, and the audience would pay way less. It would be more convenient to buy the book (one can read the first chapter before buying, not something you do in a bookstore. Nor do you have to go there).

Bert

Comment Re:Its just stupid (Score 1) 408

SO? They are impaired from fucking with the radio, too, aren't they? Holding cell phone conversations? Eating? Putting on make-up? Slapping the kids around?

Yes, never said they weren't. But, so are you impaired from your cellphone/texting, only you're too full of yourself too believe it.

In Germany, home of ultra strict driving laws...

I don't need lessons in German driving from you...I drove on the Autobahns for six years. Yes, I wish we would train our drivers the same way, and yes our lack of any real drivers training is shameful. By the way, if you're going to use statistics, you need to not compare apples to oranges...deaths by percentage of population is a poor comparison...try something like...Germany:6 fatalities/billion miles, U.S.:8 fatalities/billion miles.

Wow, not quite the "slaughter" you make it out to be, is it?

I guess 40,000+ isn't a slaughter?

You really don't have any say in the matter. It's illegal to smoke pot and to speed, too, but people still do it and get away with it all the time. It sure does infuriate people like you who see they can't control others with an iron fist

Actually, I do. I vote, and write to my congress critters. Maybe you need to back away from your pipe long enough to stop assuming that you know what other peoples feelings are, and stop judging them. As for what those feelings are, well I'll tell you, since you were so kind. I personally don't give a shit what anyone else does to themselves as long as it doesn't interfere with another persons right to do the same.

LOL, no, I won't be suffering, because I'm just going to continue doing the same thing I've been doing.

I'm sure you're not old enough to remember when people drove around w/o seat belts, and the days before M.A.D.D. I am, and times have changed, and now you see cops pulling folks over for not wearing them. You occasionally see sobriety checkpoints. And, now you're seeing enough of the population that's pissed off enough about the morons weaving down the road that you're very likely to observe police action. So, good luck with your go-fuck-yourself-I'm-gonna-do-whatever-I-want attitude.

No, of course not. Why the hell would I want to do that?

Well, you were the "dumbass" that made the claim that you weren't impaired while texting. I was offering an opportunity for you to stand up and prove it, but here's your admission of...well, not really...rookie.

Comment Re:Their site... (Score 1) 454

P.S.

>>>The retailer is under no obligation to publish unfavorable reviews on their own website

Correct, but if they DO publish reviews then they should either post all of them, or include a diclaimer that negative reviews are deleted, or stand before a judge for violating the law.

>>>from a First Amendment standpoint

The first amendment only applies to human beings, not soulless entities like corporations which have no more rights than a rock or tree.

Comment Re:Before the outcry of "foolish fools!" (Score 1) 258

The vaccination DOES NOT boost the chances of normal flu, but DOES boosts the chances of swine flu.

Why would you expect the seasonal flu vaccine to boost the chance of normal flu? Seems to me the expected result is for the seasonal flu vaccine to reduce the chance of seasonal flu, and make no difference to the swine flu.

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