Meh. These multiplayer shoot-em-ups don't do it for me anymore. They don't offer anything different. We might as well all still be playing Half Life - and frankly that'd probably be more fun anyway (Mods, Maps, etc). I'm hugely disappointed with what's available in the game market, especially on the console. Give me something different. Give me a story that grabs my attention. Give me something that makes me think. I mean, actually THINK. I think some developers think that's the same thing as having the patience to simply put up with the game....

The music industry has forgotten how music is purchased. You go to a friend's house. "Hey," he says, "Check out this new band!" You listen to it. It's good. You buy their next album. You check out similar bands. Instead of suing everybody for doing what's natural, they would do well to use what comes naturally to sell their product.

I've never heard of this movie before now. Maybe they need to consider doing some marketing rather than suing people.

At this age of my life, I tend to make it a point to take the path of Less Drama. Less Drama doesn't include ignoring legal paperwork and getting an 11 Million Dollar judgment dropped on my head when a simple phone call would have fixed it.

I understand what you're saying, but the point is - I doubt very much that TheDirt.Com had to hire a lawyer in the first place. What they should have done was not ignore the legal paperwork. They should have simply called the attorney, advised him/her of the error, and moved along with life. By not doing that, they made someone else's mistake their problem.

They didn't have to show. One phone call to the attorney would have cleared it all up. "Hey, you made a mistake. You're suing the wrong person." ...Doing nothing was probably stupid.

One of my college FORTRAN programming assignments was to write a program that given wind speed and direction would plot the spread of a poisonous gas cloud set off by a group of terrorists on campus. Now, this was 20+ years ago - but I doubt anyone in the class actually went on to use this knowledge to become an actual terrorist.

I've got anther one. In my area, The traffic gets extremely heavy during certain times of the day. It's not uncommon for traffic to stop suddenly and with no warning and leave several people stranded in the middle of an intersection for half a light cycle or so, well into the red light.

There are traffic lights in my area that have yellow lights so short that even if you are right AT THE LIGHT when the light turns yellow, you cannot get completely through the intersection before the light turns red. Traffic light cameras are a money grab, pure and simple. Lengthen yellow lights, have a short delay between red light and green light for the opposite traffic. Any other solution is just playing games.

Something worth noting. If the video is watched to the end, when he turns his helmet you can see a marked patrol car behind the motorcycle.

It's a pretty important training issue. This training issue puts the officer and civilians lives in danger. If the guy on the motorcycle had been legally armed (I'm not sure what the laws are in Maryland where the stop was made, but in some states that's absolutely possible), this story could have been even more tragic.

They must do things different where that boy's from. One of the things that was drilled into my head in Journalism school was that you can take pictures of anything you can see from a public street. The Maryland law is unconstitutional, and citizens of Maryland have the right and responsibility to violate that unconstitutional law. But you know, that's not the thing that bothers me the most. The thing that bothers me the most is the 'Traffic Stop'. Here in Florida and in many other states, we have a right to carry concealed weapons with a permit. The man in the video did not identify himself as an officer. There was no reason to think he was anything other than some freak with a case of road rage. I could easily see someone drawing their weapon on that officer and killing him. Someone needs to review basic traffic stop techniques up there.

Ages and Ages Ago, I physically took the cover off a seagate drive so that I could start the platter spinning with my finger in order to salvage data off it. And I got the data, too. I haven't purchased another seagate drive since.

*sound of light clicking on* Hey! I'll make it in to a case for my guns! Thanks! *sound of jigsaw running*

I really mean G5. Big, shiny, indestructible case and all.