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Comment Re:Captive Portals Do That You Know? (Score 3, Informative) 273

Hint, that is a word. From Merriam Webster

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless

"The most frequently repeated remark about it is that âoethere is no such word.â There is such a word, however."

Just because you choose to not recognize it, even though you understand perfectly what he meant by it, shows your ignorance. By the way, ain't is a word too, well a contraction at any rate.

Comment Re:When I was in High School... (Score 3, Insightful) 1054

The bible is one of the most pornographic and violence filled books ever.

Two of the more pornographic passages, yes the second one is incest, no it is not taken out of context in the least.

Ezekiel 23:20
There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

Genesis 19:32
Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

Comment Re:Good Fucking Luck (Score 3, Interesting) 155

This is mostly only a problem in the US. In Essen Germany there is a yearly games trade fair/convention called Spiel that attracts over 150,000 people a year. Semi comparable conventions in the US get 14k for Origins or 37k for GenCon. Spiel is much more of a marketplace compared to people actually playing games at Gencon or Origins. Just another number to throw in, PAX attracts about 70k gamers.

Spiel is a family event and the games being marketed there are definitely not your average superstore games shelf fodder like Monopoly, Hi Ho! Cherry-O, or Jersey Shore trivia game. Though some have have gotten better about this and now carry others like Catan, Carcassonne and Race for the Galaxy.

Comment Re:Tree style tabs (Score 1) 507

Nothing bugs me more than wasted real estate on the sides.Tree view tabs, even opening a ton of sites only go down half way then it is empty space to the bottom, in addition to all the websites that have a sidebar on them, like Slashdot. I much rather run with two browsers open side by side, or a browser and anything else rather than using up 1680 wide just for a browser or even worse 1920 and this is with dual monitors as well. I also find it much easier to eat up top or bottom real estate and scroll up and down than to eat up sides and then either have to expand the browser to the full width of my monitor or scroll side to side, one of which is very wasteful and the other just doesn't flow right for me.

Comment Re:Outsourced Programming Flaws (Score 1) 653

Broad strokes here, but most Asian cultures seem to have this answer yes to everything issue, and not just with employees, with customers too. I've explained stuff to Japanese customers and I ask if they understand, the answer is always "Yes", the trick is to get them to explain it back to you and when they fumble you can go over it again, that way they get to save face by not saying "No we do not understand."

Comment Re:Yes, we're boned (Score 1) 393

The Soviets were some of the worst polluters ever. Not even counting stuff like Chernobyl, you have things like the Aral Sea which was completely devastated and there are a number of abandoned polar nuclear lighthouses, which are as bad as you can imagine.

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