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Comment Re:Great news (Score 1) 269

The brain chemical reward system, defines for each individual what is boring and what is not so gaining knowledge for the more intelligent is neither dull not boring but quite a soothing pleasant mellow ride and interruption of said mental ride can and often will result in quite negative expressed reactions. This in it's most extreme form is represented in autism, where singular mind focus disrupts from normal social development and disruption results in reaction akin to drug addicts being denied their substance of choice. The brain chemical reward system is somewhat flexible and can learn new stimulants to provoke that reward but again that varies between individuals.

To confuse issues of course, you can have a genetically more efficient and effective mind however due to lack of brain chemical reward it is not exercised and you can have a less efficient and effective mind but the brain chemical reward not matter how used really does not achieve all that much, in comparison to others.

So likely a composite of factors including diet of the mother during pregnancy as well as health and well being during childhood. Not just genetics, let alone a single genetic trait.

Comment Re:Traditional crimes (Score 0) 140

More simply put, freedom of speech is the right to freely express your opinion as just that and not the right to misrepresent lies as the truth. Apparently Ronny Raygun eliminated that distinction in the US http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... his singular greatest achievement, if you are a lying psychopath corporate executive.

Comment Re:KIlling off the Microsoft Store Name Too (Score 4, Insightful) 352

In this case it was all pre-planned. Basically the whole batshit crazy idea, lets turn the computer desktop into a phone interface to force users who don't want it to get used to the windows phone interface and buy it like mindless lemmings.

Apparently that whole batshit crazy plan backfired and did more damage to windows on the desktop than it ever did to force acceptance of windows on a phone.

Comment A Lesson Learned (Score 1, Interesting) 59

Unfortunately the whole Ozone event did one thing for sure and certain, it taught the carbon polluting psychopathic corporate executives to get in early with their PR=B$ teams (public relations and marketing) and lobbyists to kill anything that might affect short term profits. The future, fuck the future, they want it all now, more and more and more. If they attempted to tackle ozone depletion now, you just know they would fail.

Comment Re:Wrong Title (Score 1) 499

Have you ever been a member of an organisation that "Prevents others from exercising their constitutional rights", youch, based upon many recent civil law suits and prosecutions that would get you barred for ever having been a member of many local police forces and even federal government agencies, I guess they must exemption when you do it corruptly for the current politicians in power.

Sorry but those guilt by association questions cross the line and seriously nearly all religions cross that line of "Prevents others from exercising their constitutional rights" just read their religious works and seriously if your religions abides by a religious work and that religious work contains instructions and requirements that cross the constitutional line then you and your religion are crossing that constitutional line. Just like any other written threat or terrorist act.

Comment Re:Trust us with your payments (Score 1) 730

You are aware, that with credit card like payments, the onus of proof is upon the retailer not upon the credit card holder. However the current problem is failure to prosecute retailer's for fraudulent charges and the whole identity theft lie. A lie designed to throw the burden on individuals and away from credit card companies and retailers. A prime example of first class marketing by PR=B$ companies, got you all sucked into believing that the individual must prove their innocence, rather than the guilty people, the retailer and the credit card company must prove they did not intend to commit fraudulent charges ie that must prove that they were defrauded by someone impersonating you.

Comment Re:No. (Score 1) 368

Lego fusion is only a simple extension not a whole world built of Lego, especially in multi-user. So they have a whole long way to go. The smart idea is allow people to cheaply design Lego models and then allow them to order the parts based upon the design and have it delivered as a custom box ready to go in the real world.

Comment Re:No. (Score 4, Insightful) 368

Actually lateral thinking would be to buy Lego and create a full game based around constructing with the Lego blocks. You then have a full 'click and mortar'(heh, heh) solution ie a full range merchandise already in stores to go with the newly created game. Makes much more sense than buying minecraft.

Comment Re:Can someone clarify the state of BitCoin? (Score 1) 134

Nothing at all confusing, when you read the fine print. Paypal wont be 'accepting' bitcoin, it will be allowing transactions and the merchants are the ones who will only voluntarily accepting bitcoin and paying real money to allow those funny money transaction. So Paypal will sneakily be handling bitcoin to earn real money and pushing all the risk on merchants foolish enough to accept them. As to be accepted the majority of merchants will refuse them. So bitcoin will only be a parallel currency and not as the story or the bitcoin ponzi promoters who got in early, converted by Paypal into real money. In reality more an exercise in marketing to drive news stories and free advertising to compete against other 'small' transaction agencies as well as existing credit cards.

Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 1) 533

Why do you join in the lie, pretty obviously because you support the psychopathic scheme behind that lie. It is enough for one but not enough for a family of four, hence the scheme is to charge the family of four for four lines at peak usage.

Realistic full usage would include four high definition channels at the same time, together with peaks of file downloads and 4 different audio visual communications channels. Uploads could peak quite high for example with the addition of uploading wedding or birthday videos to all attendees.

So why the strangle band, quite simply to artificially introduce scarcity in order to charge more for bandwidth already available in many countries, straight up psychopathic thinking fed by insatiable greed. Proof that the internet needs to become a government controlled essential service if it is ever to perform properly and provide a service that fulfils the needs of the majority rather than trying to feed the insatiable greed of a minority.

Comment Re:Government doesn't get it. (Score 2) 184

For a start government creates the concept of ownership of property. All property is owned by the government, the people that create that government and that government just allots control of elements that it owns based upon rules created by the individuals that form that government. First and foremost is rule of self ownership a right right fought for with the deaths of millions for centuries and screw any asshat that puts property rights about personal rights. So the employee always takes precedence over their personal rights ahead of the employers property rights because the employee is not property. You apparently don't get that. Property rights are a privilege not a right and assigned by the government to benefit the majority. When that privilege not no longer benefits the majority than that privilege is taken away either voluntarily or as is the norm by lethal force due to the nature of the psychopaths and narcissists who routinely abuse property privileged and try to extend to include ownership and control of persons via extortion or slavery.

Comment Re: It's all bunk. (Score 1) 546

Getting a computer science college degree does not preclude you from learning how to code. The college degree does exactly what it needs to do, it gets your foot inside the door, what other knowledge you bring gets you past the interview and of course goes on to build your career. Not having that degree more often than not means you wont even get a look in to the many and varied jobs within the computer industry. Of course how much extra education you gather in your own time or whilst employed will define where you go beyond that.

Comment Re:Ban when you are done testing? (Score 2) 322

The problem with hypersonic weapons are they are specifically first strike weapons and hence a major escalation in planetary war state. Start playing with them and eventually and not all that far off. some idiot will be tempted to launch them and recalling them will be impossible. Want to start playing games like that, and might as well start putting big mirrors in space to start forest and agricultural fires. That has always been the greatest terrorist threat, terrorist running around with boxes of matches starting fires in wheat, corn etc fields just before harvest, during hot weather, as well as igniting major forest fires. All far simpler to do it with mirrors in space but still ludicrously easy to do on the ground. Right now psychopathic lobbyists from arms manufacturers are pushing war all over the bloody place, that management and those lobbyists should be targeted in order to save our selves from their insane greed, which ever country they come from.

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