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Comment Re:I think this could be potentially good. (Score 0) 153

RTFA!!

a Belarusian textile company has developed a special school uniform that protects kids from... electromagnetic radiation emanating from their cellphones!

-And translated from the original article in Russian-

Let us recall, WHO (World Health Organization) extended information about the unfavorable consequences of the action of the electromagnetic radiations of cell phone on the children and adolescents. Foreign, including Russian, studies prove, that the use by the rising generation of such apparatuses is dangerous for the health. Electromagnetic radiations most strongly act on the central nervous and immune systems of organism.

The uniforms even come with a free tinfoil lined hoodie

Comment You would think gamers would know better... (Score 0) 60

Bad move Ottumwa, once you've mined up a little ore you don't use it to build a hall of fame, your gonna need vespene gas for that. No, what you do is you use the ore to build more workers, that way you can mine ore faster. Otherwise how are you going to defend against the initial zerg rush?

Comment Re:Assure vs Insure vs Ensure... (Score 0) 287

I was debating delving into a multi-point counter argument picking apart your grammatical fanaticism; however, I suspect that would only "delight" you further.
Yet one point stands above all else; for all intents and purposes neither you nor I know where the parent hails from. Whose to say where he/she lives there aren't different grammar rules than what you personally have determined in your head to be the be-all and end-all of grammar? Surely you aren't suggesting that the poster, I, or anyone else for that matter, engaged in a conversation, should always and forever use grammar that you personally like just in case you were to stumble across the conversation without regard towards the grammar that may be "correct" in our respective locals?

Your feelings of entitlement towards reading everything in a way thats most comfortable for you are unjustified and to be honest, excessive. Now, I'm sure theres a word for that; something that means "making unjustified or excessive claims or expressing an exaggerated worth or importance." Oh wait, here it is: pretentious

Comment Re:Assure vs Insure vs Ensure... (Score 0) 287

1.) I used parent's language to better convey my idea to parent because it occurred to me that simply launching into a dissertation of proper grammar and spelling rather than arguing the merits of his, or her, post might make me appear pretentious and kind of an asshole. If you found ambiguity in my post, might I suggest you read the thread in it's entirety before commenting on something you had a hard time understanding?

2.) On a more personal note I would like to suggest you reexamine your personal feelings about linguistic evolution. Should you still feel the same, please feel free to simply write in Latin from now on... though I suppose Egyptian, Sumerian, or Cuneiform would also probably be acceptable alternatives.

Comment Re:I for one... (Score 0) 236

Who grants this stuf anyway?

A mixture between your tax dollars and an archaic law thats been so perverted from it's original concept that its a sick joke.

"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. ...ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition..."
-Thomas Jefferson

Comment Re:Pranks now felonies (Score 0) 177

In my youth... women could not vote.

Assuming you are a natural born US citizen that would mean you were born before 1920. Seems to me someone that was born right around the end of the first world war would have realized by now some things don't change. Theres ALWAYS going to be "evildoers" out there that wants to kill us. There always has been. That doesn't mean we need to treat our kids like criminals every time they make a mistake.

Comment Re:Parking Meter Botnet (Score 0) 221

If your sole goal was to break the meter why not just put super glue on a card you don't mind losing, shove it in the machine and leave it?
Your essentially defacing the meter regardless of which way you do it, but with the latter you need neither a specific type of card, nor the specific vulnerability in the OS for it to work.

Comment Re:That's funny (Score 0) 749

Ah, but a car only has a finite lifespan. So if it falls apart after 3 years of normal use I would probably not be responsible for fixing it. Although you may tell all your friends that I make crappy cars. On the other hand YOU can buy a screwdriver at any hardware (or most dollar stores even) to fix the car. The real issue is that I have persuaded congress to make it illegal for you to buy the screwdrivers that fix the cars I sell. And now I am saying that I should not be expected to keep any of the screwdrivers around either. And even if no one has the right tools to fix the car YOU still can't build one.

Fixed that for ya.

Comment Google's new business model (Score 0) 37

1.) Monopolize human history by putting the maximum amount of human thoughts and writings allowable by law on Google servers and give everyone access to it
2.) Write scripts that determine what everyone is researching to figure out exactly what they are trying to develop, in the hopes that Google could then patent their ideas before they can
3.) ???
4.) Profit

Quick, someone patent this business model and beat them at their own game... wait... oh.. right, you can't patent a business model.

/Shakes fist

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