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Comment Re:they can adjust (Score 1) 426

Is this trolling? I can't tell anymore.

I can do stuff with my left hand, just not as good.

So...this being a game where the object is presumably to play well, you don't consider switching to the hand you don't use 'as good' to be a problem?

We aren't talking big movements here, we are talking small, little ones. Nothing hard, nothing that requires alot of dexterity really.

This is just ass backwards. Big movements are the easy ones; the small, little ones are exactly the ones that require dexterity. I'm sure a right-handed surgeon could punch someone in the face with the his left hand, but switching the scalpel to the other hand could present a problem.

Comment All right-handed people are racists (Score 1) 426

Oh how I've waited for the day that this article and these comments showed up. Watched and waited, twirling my mustache and sharpening my band saw with my left hand, ready to give you right-handed monsters (Yes, monsters. Right-biased, racist, Nazi-loving monsters) a quick chop to see how you adapt to my left-hand world. I remember the day I bought my 1st guitar: "You know," said the salesman, "since you're left-handed you should actually play a right-handed guitar instead for better fret control." And with my left-hand I stabbed him in the face, shouting "then why the fuck don't you play left-handed you goddamn idiot?!". To this day I love nothing better than to walk into Guitar Center with a huge wad of bills, casting my eyes across 500 right-handed guitars searching for the rare lefty. And when I find it? Same. Fucking. Guitar. I. Already. Own. Didn't we learn anything from the Holocaust? If this discrimination is still so rampant, it's as if 3 million of my people died for nothing.

In conclusion: I hate you all, and if I could find a left-handed book of matches I would burn you all alive.

Comment Re:Great! Move On. Spend More Time w/ Family (Score 1) 178

I oppose publicly funded elections myself, mostly because I can't see a workable way to balance between proper funding levels of long-shot candidates and wasted-funding of non-viable candidates (who decides what constitutes a candidate worthy of funding?) Plus I don't really like the idea of public funds ending up in the hands of private broadcasters. But I'm curious about your rationale for opposing term-limits? I don't want to put words in your mouth, but it sounds like maybe you're concerned that term limits set a barrier to entry for lower-income or working-class citizens, in that the risk to their non-political, paying careers is too high if there's no potential for a long-term political career. Or am I misreading you? I guess I don't understand what you mean by:

Heaven forbid he try to keep his job as long as the public will elect him, as the term-limit crowd will try to force him out as soon as possible.

Comment Re:XBMC + Acer Revo (Score 1) 516

Came here to post this same link. I just went with the same setup and I love it. The Revo is nice and quiet, and small enough to mount behind a wall-mounted LCD.

Any suggestions for wireless keyboard/trackpad combos? I plan to use the XBMC remote app for Android as the basic playback remote, but I'd like some kind of Bluetooth keyboard/mouse combo for more full-featured control when I need it. This looks kind of swanky, but might fall into that unusable middle-range between small remote size and large keyboard functionality. Maybe something like this?

Comment Re:Hmm (Score 1) 878

It kills innocent people? You sure that's the reason? Drug laws kill innocent people: 8 out of every drug related death is an innocent, yet we still have drug laws.

And how do you assess "speeding"? If we all drive at 5mph there would be no road deaths. None. So whats your point? If granddad is ok to drive at 55 in his '75 buick with bouncing suspension, then I'm ok to do 90 thanks: including reaction time, I can stop in the same distance.

Speed limits were introduced to save GAS not LIVES. Now they are there to save money.

Around schools and through residential areas, 5mph should be the limit if you want to save lives. You up for that?

Comment Re:lol (Score 2, Funny) 690

I have a little routine that I love:
Save all the seeds, then randomly throw them into the air at inappropriate locations (churches, the grounds of government buildings, into people's flower beds, random roadside ditches, etc). The odds of anything growing are tiny, but I make up for it with volume. I'm sure anything that did grow would be garbage, but it makes me smile every time I think of someone finding a plant at the state capitol building.

Comment Re:There's a reason they call it extreme (Score 3, Funny) 233

On top of that, if you manage to get that deep, you have to account for the trip back, meaning if you exceed your air supply by getting lost in dirty water, or any other number of potential gotchas, you could easily end up overstaying your welcome and just not have enough time to get back out again.

That's what she said.

Comment Re:The problem with that approach (Score 1) 281

Capitalism isnt the problem. Our fiat currency is the problem. If we were on the gold standard we'd have sent all the gold overseas, the dollar would be worthless, and US manufacturing would be competitive. In the absence of the gold standard we could actually require that China stops "managing" its currency, or we could just impose "fair" trade regulations, or best of all we could get rid of bullshit income tax so that the Chinese wouldn't want dollars: the dollar's only value is that our government will come to our house and take our stuff if we refuse to keep paying back the money we owe the Chinese bond holders. We are Chinese slaves. You have to admire the way China won world war 3 without anyone even knowing.

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