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Comment Re:A bit of advice for our friends to the North (Score 2) 292

The current Conservative government is already bowing (hugely) to corporate interests. And they are actively crushing anything or anyone who gets in their way.

This is a government who:

  • - Closed down science research projects in pristine waterways where big oil wants to run pipelines.
  • - Told scientists that they can't say anything to the media unless it is cleared by their 'handlers'.
  • - Refuses to provide adequate care for wounded vets.
  • - Refuses to let the budget officer look at the whole budget!!
  • - Railed against omnibus bills for years then put forth a massive budget omnibus bill that included hundreds of changes to non-budgetary items
  • - When other MPs tried to have a vote on those changes they stone walled and with their majority voted down ever single discussion. Didn't even try to look at anything on its merits and many Conservative MPs admitted they didn't even read the bill!
  • - Campaigned on making government smaller but now have the largest cabinet in history.
  • - Said they'd never run a deficit, now we have the largest deficit ever.
  • - Voter fraud!
  • - 50 Million siphoned from the G20 security budget to one MPs riding to buy gazebos and repave some of the streets. Not a single person involved with the G20 ever stepped into the riding.
  • - Spent 2 million to make a fake lake for a SINGLE G20 photo op when one the most beautiful lake regions in the world was not far away.

In short, this is the most fascist, opaque, anti-democratic, spend happy, bunch of pathological liars for a government in Canadian history. I mean, when Canadians are talking about revolution you know something is seriously f'd up.

Comment Re:Sounds like they're got inside access (Score 1) 353

Terrorists only win when we let them win. The over-reaction of the world governments has made terrorism a viable way to affect change. When in reality the damage and death toll they usually cause is far less than the number of deaths caused by enjoying our freedoms, ie. driving your car.

I grew up overseas on a military base and bomb scares were somewhat regular. I learned very early on that these people are cowards, and cowards are not to be pandered too, they are not to be validated by changing our way of life. As soon as we do that they have won.

Comment Re:vote with your money (Score 1) 258

How about how they treat their base? PC gamers made IW what is and they turn around and stab us in the back. Over 1 billion in sales... could have been 2 billion easy if they had of done the PC side correctly. They are so short sighted. Now it's the most pirated game in history and their con was that IWnet will lessen piracy and cheating... laughable. Fuck IW and Activision, I'll never buy another product from either of them.

Comment Re:First, make a good video game (Score 1) 523

I just played the PS3 demo of Dante's Inferno, available on PSN and releasing Feb 9th 2010... awesome demo... I highly recommend checking it out if you like button mashers like God of War.

I think religious overtones in the game scripts would and do work well so long as the story is compelling. More often than not the conflict between good and evil is what drives a game's story and religion is certainly filled with lots of that. So the opportunity is there to find great stories to use as an influence... I just don't want to be preached to.

Comment Question for those in the "know" (Score 1) 541

IANA-Particle Physicist || Theoretical Astrophysicist.

I am however fascinated by space and the science (albeit the layman's view) behind our understanding of it. One thing I have read about is the expansion energy that seems to be pushing the universe apart. If this energy can be found and quantified how plausible is it to create a negative effect, or localized contraction of space, to facilitate a new type of travel?

I don't claim to understand the amount of energy needed but seeing as this energy is dark and pretty much everywhere maybe we don't need black hole-esque power to achieve warping space.

Comment Re:Reality (Score 1) 120

The biggest problem I see is that Guitar Hero is not designed to be played with a real guitar, and the colored buttons do NOT correspond to real string/fret positions, or to real chords.

It goes farther than that. Anyone who plays guitar and has spent some time with GH (any version) knows that the timing of when to play in the games doesn't correspond to the actual timing of the song music. There are quite a few songs in GH that I can play on a real guitar (picture Randy Marsh playing Carry on my wayward son) that I know aren't even close to the strum timing for GH.

Comment Re:m$ (Score 1) 575

This doesn't surprise me... anything utilizing the technology (if you want to call it that) of Silverlight is bound to be a disaster. Netflix should definitely act appropriately if they're receiving this many complaints or else it will do more harm than good.

The problem isn't the technology, Silverlight plays media very well and if the CONTENT is encoded properly in very high quality. No, the problem here is Netflix and there choice to provide poor content and even poorer customer service.

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