Comment Thunderbirds are go! (Score 0, Offtopic) 379
Am I the only one who read the headline and first thought of the old TV show?
Comment Re:High Quality (Score 1) 711
Another vote for BS 1363, or IS 401 as it is known in Ireland...
Comment Re:I have a reason..... (Score 1) 202
Of course some games are funny (Super Paper Mario had some great jokes), and even Smash Brothers Brawl made me laugh a few times.
I can't help but notice that the game you single out for being funny is not a game that seeks to "deliver a more realistic experience to the player" with detailed 3D graphics; in many ways it is in fact a "text-driven adventure."
Comment Re:Wouldn't help (Score 1) 100
I have a series of computers, each louder and progressively further away from me, which blare the 'Gilgamesh' music from Final Fantasy V. The first one starts playing, then five minutes later the second one farther away and louder than the first starts playing, etc. I live alone...
Comment Re:Finland (Score 1) 1359
I had never heard of the 'right to roam' before. Thanks for posting!
For academic reasons I can't move to wherever I want, but if I could I think that Finland might be my first choice. It's not too hot, has an interesting language, and has the best music. ;-)
Comment Re:Will be include in F11 (Score 4, Informative) 327
Arch has had it since yesterday:
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/openoffice-base/
Submission + - Proposed law lets students skip evolution class
Kaeso writes: A proposed Alberta law would let students skip classes on such topics as evolution and homosexuality:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2009/04/30/cgy-bill-evolution-law-alberta-classes-teachers.html
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2009/04/30/cgy-bill-evolution-law-alberta-classes-teachers.html
Comment Re:Environmental Factors? (Score 1) 695
Could environmental factors be the reason that people are dying of respritory complications in Mexico but, so far, this doesn't seem worse then other flu outbreaks.
Isn't Mexico City massively polluted? I wonder how that might affect things.
Comment Re:Not surprising (Score 1) 247
Basically, we are still in a cold war with one side KNOWING that it is, while the other side hopes that it is not.
With both sides being as economically inter-dependant as they are, we can't have a REAL cold war, despite all the nationalistic posturing.
Comment Re:Do not underestimate Western-security procedure (Score 1) 330
When the actual F-35 is deployed, it will defeat those countermeasures and deliver its nuclear payload to Beijing -- on time and on target.
I'm sure you didn't mean it, but don't say "when" in describing such an event!
Comment National Days of Mourning (Score 2, Informative) 334
I hear that they're suspending the torch relay for three days too: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/05/18/olympic-torch.html
So since there are to be three national days of mourning, maybe cutting access to entertainment sites is also a part of this...
