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Comment Re:Well... (Score 1) 390

...Joe Gutheinz would like to speak to you...

Interesting that you bring that up. Of all the potentially credible sources whom the author could have picked, why did he select a "professor" from the University of Phoenix? How about Rutgers? Harvard? UC Berkeley? SURELY the author (writing for The Seattle Times: Winner of Eight Pulitzer Prizes as displayed prominently at the headline of the article) could have found a professor at a real, not-for-profit university who would put in his two or three cents. Or even someone from a reputable community college. But a bona fide diploma mill? And before anyone tries to nab me on the guy being an "agent for NASA," who went undercover, I want to see some facts because he more than likely was not employed by NASA. Something really doesn't add up here.

Comment Re:Calculated customer drops == quality drops (Score 1) 316

Maybe you should go back to high school. The USSR was Communist. China is Communist. My father was born in Communist Czechoslovakia. None of these has ever been in the least communist.

And by the way, why don't you take a little vacation to Egypt before you make such an uneducated generalization about the class gap there. You cannot so subjectively compare the two nations. It is more or less like comparing England to Congo and declaring that the Congolese have a better wealth distribution amongst their people.

Comment Got any words for this, MDSOLAR? (Score 3, Insightful) 308

Interesting. France's going to be selling nuclear power to Germany for the rest of our lives. The French are smart people. Not only have they weighed out all the environmental concerns (don't get me started about coal), but these guys are really going to cash in on energy sales. Props to you, France!

Comment Re:What? (Score 5, Informative) 574

The astronomers are the indirect object, putting the 'comprised of' descriptor onto the direct object, which is the Nebula.

Umm, excuse me. ESO astronomers is NOT an indirect object. ESO astronomers is the subject of have been which is a linking verb. Just so that you know, linking verbs don't have DOs or IDOs. They have predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives. Comprised of silica and alumina dust is a phrase that is used adjectivally and is intended to modify nebula. However, since the phrase was placed in the front of the sentence, at best, it is dangling. As the phrase is placed now, it modifies astronomers. Whoever modded up the parent needs to go back to grade school.

Comment Fortress Forever (Score 1) 195

If you like a TFC-like game where there's more skill required, you get grenades, and you can move around at more than a mile per hour, check out Fortress Forever. Now that TF2 is free, that gives you a free copy of the Source engine and in turn makes Fortress Forever completely free to play.

1. Download TF2 for free
2. Download Fortress Forever.
3. Install.
4. ????
5. Enjoy better gameplay!

And you don't have any whiny kids on these servers complaining that you beat them when you actually used a little skill. :)

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