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Comment Re:Wow (Score 3, Insightful) 1073

I hope (and I know this is optimistic) that the mods who modded this jackass as "Insightful" read this comment before any of the others. Over simplification much? Most of the comments here are discussing quality, quantity, private schools, public schools, etc. Even in pointing this out I realise that I'm feeding a troll. I'd like to think you all can see it, too.

Comment Re:One simple rule (Score 1) 480

(e.g. not borrowing the car again for month or so)

Not borrowing the car? Why are they allowed to borrow the car in the first place? If they want the responsibility to drive themselves around, they should at least be responsible enough to afford their own car and insurance. Something to do with respecting the things that you earn yourself. I can't tell you how many times I've raged at the sight of a 17 year old smart-ass driving around a new Audi A4 that his daddy bought for him. There's no way in hell that kid respected anyone on the road, let alone his parents who gave it to him. And I'm speaking in general here. I know at least one example of this, and having graduated from high school in a wealthy area, I've seen the same story played out ad-nausium.

Please people, don't buy your children their first car. Make them earn it. I mean, when is the last time someone bought you a car, paid for your insurance, and filled it up every Friday with gas?

Comment Re:StarCraft II - LAN PLAY (Score 1) 520

You know what? Seriously, if Blizzard isn't going to include LAN play in SC2, I'm not going to buy it. I'm going to pirate it just to spite them. In fact, I'm going to pirate a version that hackers have put together that includes LAN play or some kind of feature to specify what "Battle.net" server the game uses. So I can set up my own Battle.net server. I will donate my hard earned money to pay hackers to hack SC2 to shreds just so that I can play the game as it should be played.

Fuck you Blizzard. Seriously, fuck you. LAN play is what makes StarCraft a great game. If you're going to turn corporate stingy motherfuckers on us, then we are going to turn on you.

Comment Re:Descent! (Score 1) 1120

Just so long as they remake Descent I and Descent II. Everything after those two involved too much not-in-a-mine. Sure, that was probably because technology had advanced far enough to make rendering a large(er) 3D landscape feasible, but that's not what Descent was about!

Comment Re:AJAX (Score 3, Insightful) 171

You're right, but it's not the AJAX that is the cause. It's the incompetent "web developers" who think AJAX is going to solve all of their problems by getting them a better job and making them worth more. These are the same people who firmly believe that Ruby on Rails is the only way to create an AJAX application and not-so-coincidentally couldn't code their way out of a paper bag. I should know. I went to high school with them :)

Comment Re:So Fake (Score 3, Informative) 109

The likelihood of the moon forming with the same rotational period as its revolution period is very slim. The moon had a much shorter rotational period originally, but tidal forces dragged at it and slowed it down. Now the two are in lock-step. I remember hearing that eventually the earth will do the same thing, so anyone standing on the moon would always see the same side of the earth.

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