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Nice UID, by the way. This shouldn't surprise you at all.

Wrong Bush. GHW = Bush Sr, who was not reelected, but lost to Clinton.

Pachter? Is that you?

All kidding aside, I've never understood this seething hatred that so-called "hardcore gamers" exhibit towards Nintendo and its products. Regardless of anything Nintendo does, their detractors feel the need to get on the Internet and rage about "It's all kiddie games!" or "The graphics suck!" or, in this case, "The 3D sucks!" and these tirades are always accompanied by predictions of Nintendo's impending bankruptcy. Ironically, it's always struck me as a bit childish.

Back on topic, I haven't gotten a 3DS yet for one reason: The lack of must-have games.

And on that subject, what system since the Super NES had a really compelling launch lineup? I honestly can't think of one.

especially with their most recent round of egregious bullshit, but does anyone actually use Buzz? I was messing around with it earlier today, and it seems a lot less annoying than Facebook; I just don't think I know ANYONE that uses it. Maybe it's just still too new? It's hard to say, but the way FB does things is getting more ridiculous all the time.

Putting Blackberry aside

Why would you put Blackberry aside? It's a sizable chunk of the smartphone market.

Apple individually sells more smart phones than most all other companies put together.

Oh, okay. Spin, indeed.

A Zappa reference on Slashdot? You are my new hero.

That actually threw me off for a second; reading it in the summary, I got this mental image of an inmate with an actual hard drive (with the cover removed, for some reason), and had a real "WTF?" moment before I realized what was really meant.

That's not the "medicine" part, that's hand holding.

It's usually called bedside manner, and it's very important to a very large number of people. To some people, it's the most important quality they look for in a doctor (especially parents looking for a pediatrician). Getting defensive and being a dick about it won't change that and doesn't really contribute to the discussion at all, and I'm a bit surprised that your comment was modded Interesting (which you usually are, but not this time). Retorting with one-word answers is pretty lame, especially for someone who needs to make compelling arguments on a regular basis in his line of work. You might just be taking the "lawyers and patients" snip a bit too much to heart.

Is it a game that cause the guy to become delusional, or was he susceptible to delusions in the first place?

Sadly, this question could just as easily apply to the judge as to the defendant.

You missed the part where the poster logs IPs. If a hiring manager goes looking into shit that has no relevance to the position applied for, and then uses that as a basis for not hiring someone, then the employer is guilty of discrimination. Not that I'd expect a corporate suit to understand that.

All they have to say is that they didn't hire you based on

This is an excellent example of how employers circumvent discrimination laws. "No, it wasn't discrimination, it was...er...some other reason. Honest!" Thanks for that.