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US Grants Home Schooling German Family Political Asylum 1324

Posted by samzenpus from the come-get-you-some-learnin dept.
A US judge has granted political asylum to a family who said they fled Germany to avoid persecution for home schooling their children. Uwe Romeike and his wife, Hannelore, moved to Tennessee after German authorities fined them for keeping their children out of school and sent police to escort them to classes. Mike Connelly, attorney for the Home School Legal Defence Association, argued the case. He says, "Home schoolers in Germany are a particular social group, which is one of the protected grounds under the asylum law. This judge looked at the evidence, he heard their testimony, and he felt that the way Germany is treating home schoolers is wrong. The rights being violated here are basic human rights."
PC Games (Games)

EA Shutting Down Video Game Servers Prematurely 341

Posted by Soulskill from the sixty-dollar-yearly-fee dept.
Spacezilla writes "EA is dropping the bomb on a number of their video game servers, shutting down the online fun for many of their Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3 games. Not only is the inclusion of PS3 and Xbox 360 titles odd, the date the games were released is even more surprising. Yes, Madden 07 and 08 are included in the shutdown... but Madden 09 on all consoles as well?"
Businesses

EA Shuts Down Pandemic Studios, Cuts 200 Jobs 161

Posted by Soulskill from the say-goodnight-folks dept.
lbalbalba writes "Electronic Arts is shutting down its Westwood-based game developer Pandemic Studios just two years after acquiring it, putting nearly 200 people out of work. 'The struggling video game publisher informed employees Tuesday morning that it was closing the studio as part of a recently announced plan to eliminate 1,500 jobs, or 16% of its global workforce. Pandemic has about 220 employees, but an EA spokesman said that a core team, estimated by two people close to the studio to be about 25, will be integrated into the publisher's other Los Angeles studio, in Playa Vista.' An ex-developer for Pandemic attributed the studio's struggles to poor decisions from the management."

Comment Re:Let's Not Get Ahead of Ourselves Here (Score 2, Informative) 705

by Faw (#29095519) Attached to: "District 9" Best Sci-fi Movie of 09?

I'm not a hard scifi nazi like some people; I enjoyed me some District 9. But the biggest plot hole in the movie is the fuel causing genetic mutation. That's just ridiculous. But it was completely necessary to the plot as written. And, I loved the ending :)

Why does everyone think that canister was fuel? I don't remember if they ever mentioned it was fuel. Was it mentioned? Anyway the mothership moved without it, the problem was that component was damaged in the small ship. We don't know their history, technology, hierarchy. Actually we know nothing about them. The liquid could have been something biological (virus, bacteria, queen's blood, ... ) which would explain the mutation of the guy. That canister thing could have been anything. It could have been a computer component (fuse, circuit, gelpack ala ST:voyager) that transmits data/energy/something using the liquid. The ship's "key" that uses the bio-liquid inside to grant permission to use it. There are lots of explanations, don't know why everyone is fixated on "fuel". Maybe they said it and I forgot but I really dont remember it.

Comment Re:Ad blocking (Score 2, Funny) 299

by Faw (#28958313) Attached to: Ads Retroactively Added To <em>Wipeout HD</em>, Soon Others

Okay, you win.

You must be new to the internets, you never say "You win", you try to:

  • 1. destroy his credibility
  • 2. criticize his sources
  • 3. call him a noob/troll/nazi
  • 4. if you are losing the argument just say you have better things to do that to explain simple things to ignorant people.

If you can mix all of them in one it's an instant argument win:

  1. Look you gene nazi (3), you cant trust anything written in wikipedia (2) you probably added that entry yourself! (1). Anyway I'm not going to waste my time trying to educate (4) a noob (3) like you. Just go back to your parents basement (1), you troll (3).

Hope I was of some help to you....
Medicine

This Is Your Brain On Magnets — Or Maybe Not 59

Posted by Soulskill from the it's-going-south dept.
conspirator23 writes "Jon Hamilton of National Public Radio brings us a story about 'voodoo correlations' in fMRI studies that seek to learn more about emotional states, personality, and social cognition in the human brain. Many of us outside the scientific community have been treated to fascinating images of brain activity and corresponding explanations about how the images reveal which portions of the brain are engaged in certain kinds of thinking. But these images are not actual snapshots; they are visualizations of data generated by repeated scans during experiments. Flaws in the statistical methods used by researchers can result in false images with a variety of inaccuracies. Yet the images produced are so vivid and engaging that even other neuroscientists can be misled by them."

Comment Where is Dr Zoidberg? (Score 1) 860

by Faw (#28390325) Attached to: Who is your favorite fictional doctor?

Dr. Zoidberg: Now open your mouth and lets have a look at that brain.
[Fry opens his mouth]
Dr. Zoidberg: No, no, not that mouth.
Fry: I only have one.
Dr. Zoidberg: Really?
Fry: Uh... is there a human doctor around?
Dr. Zoidberg: Young lady, I am an expert on humans. Now pick a mouth, open it and say "brglgrglgrrr"!
Fry: Uh... brglgrglgrglgrrr!
Dr. Zoidberg: What? My mother was a saint! Get out!

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