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Comment Re:That's funny! MLK was a leader. Jackson a whine (Score 3, Interesting) 514

>. I pray, when they die, the ghost of MLK spends eternity bitch-slapping the both of them day in and day out.

  That put a smile on my face.

Glad I could do that for ya!

MLK is one of my personal heroes, right up there alongside Nikola Tesla and Samuel Clemens. Which is what makes it hilarious, for me, when I bitch about Jackson and Sharpton, and someone has the nerve to call me a racist for it.

Comment Re:So this is a... (Score 1) 171

Wouldn't call it vaporware, you could cast molten copper into an ant colony and get something looking like that, or 3D print.
For the latter you can't put the "Thousand of lives were lost to bring you this fine piece of hardware" label onto it though.

Suddenly I wish there was such a thing as a Bothan ant...

Comment Re:Alright! Go Senate bill (Score 1) 176

Like I said, I don't take offense to the opinions of angry adolescents.

Which this "I'm rubber and you're glue" comment of yours kind of cements in my mind as being the actual case, and not just a metaphor for your piss-poor inability to have an adult conversation that doesn't degrade into playground insults.

I'm going to just flat out ignore you now, as I'm becoming more and more certain that just talking to you is a COPPA violation.

Comment Re:For domestic use only (Score 1) 176

Isn't self-hosting a violation of most ISP EULAs?

I think so, if you have user-grade service, but I pay for a commercial-grade Internet connection that comes with a static IP for running services, and I run three hosted servers. Freedom isn't free (but it is a lot of fun). :)

You realize, of course, that a system where one only has "freedom" if they can afford to pay is anything but free, right?

Comment Re:For domestic use only (Score 1) 176

A strict reading of the Constitution looks to outlaw searching anyone anywhere without a warrant, not just searching Americans. Might want to watch that slippery slope there, fella.

Incorrect.

What you have to look at is what word the founders used to determine the scope; everywhere else in the document, the term, "the people" refers specifically to American citizens. If a provision is meant to apply to everyone in general, they used the words, "all persons" for covered actions, and "no persons" for things the government is prohibited from doing.

You can see this difference between the 4th and 5th Amendments; the 4th reads

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Whereas the 5th reads

"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

As you can see, there is a blatant and actionable difference between the meaning of those two Amendments - the first one implicitly states that it applies only to citizens, whereas the second obviously applies to everyone within US government jurisdiction.

The only slippery slope here is the one where people think they can re-interpret the meanings of 250 year old words with modern language, ie references to the term "regulated" in the 2nd Amendment.

Fella.

Comment Re:Recent genre launches (Score 1) 65

Parappa was nothing but a bunch of quicktime events strung together. Total rip off of 1990's arcade hits like Die Hard: Arcade and Hologram Time Traveler.

Rocksmith is... not that.

A "game" where you connect an actual musical instrument (instead of a plastic toy), and learn rather than play? Sounds pretty novel to me.

Comment Re:Flappy Bird is Balloon Fight (Score 1) 65

Various flavors of Survival Horror; from Alan Wake, that Slenderman game, Rust, etc.

I haven't played them. What do they add on top of the Alone in the Dark/Resident Evil/Silent Hill template?

Play them, then you tell me.

Regarding Rust, I don't recall ever having to build and defend a house in any of the games you mentioned.

Oh, right, you're still obsessed with the concept that "not new genre == been there, done that." Nevermind that, even if a game fits an existing genre (like FPS), it can still have novel elements that make it uniquely different than previous iterations of said genre (like Minecraft).

Also, I noticed you didn't mention KSP - is that because you missed it, or you couldn't think of a proper poo-poo for why that one isn't different enough to satisfy you?

Comment Re:Time Shifting? (Score 5, Interesting) 317

LOL, check this out:

4/16/14 version of the site

AARC provides a music royalty, generated by the sales of blank CDs and personal audio devices, media centers, satellite radio devices, and car audio systems that have recording capabilities, to its 142,000+ members worldwide.

5/17/14 version:

AARC provides a music royalty, generated by the sales of blank CDs and personal audio devices, media centers, satellite radio devices, and car audio systems that have recording capabilities, to its 142,000+ members worldwide.

And today's version:

AARC provides a music royalty, generated by the sales of automobile infotainment systems, blank CDs, personal audio devices, media centers, and satellite radio devices that have music recording capabilities, to its 300,000+ members worldwide.

I wonder, do they think if they add something to the intro of their terrible, terrible website*, it means they can start collecting royalties on it?

* as the creator and admin of several terrible websites, I know bad when I see it.

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