Comment: Re:Mini Volcano (Score 1) 41
First thing in my mind too was that this was a "grown-up" version, but I think you and I mean different things by that.
Comment: Re:Words in common - Thai and English (Score 1) 323
It's possible, but nothing else on the poster implied that they thought there was a joke going on.
Comment: Re:Words in common - Thai and English (Score 1) 323
An amusing modern example is the group of armed rebels in the Phillipines that go under the name of MILF.
When I was in college, I often saw posters for the Student Organization of Latinos, or as they preferred to call themselves, S.O.L.
This inevitably made me laugh.
Comment: Re:None of the above: (Score 1) 413
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Orion_III
http://openmoo2.org/en/
Comment: Re:None of the above: (Score 1) 413
http://moo3.quicksilver.com/main2.html
It sucks, by the way. Got too complex to be fun.
(clears throat)
I wish they had made a MOO3.
Comment: Re:None of the above: (Score 1) 413
I really wish they had made a MOO3.
Comment: Re:PRIVACY? OFF THE TABLE! (Score 1) 508
Forseveralcenturiesitdidnotusespaceseither.
Comment: Cause of LED Efficiency Droop Finally Revealed... (Score 1) 308
"We were just stepping out to grab a bite to eat," said one LED, who asked that he remain anonymous. "We didn't realize anybody could see a difference. Terribly sorry."
Comment: Re:get a life (Score 1) 152
Regardless of additional modifiers: tits always beat tats.
Man boobs.
Comment: Mandatory cosmetic surgery (Score 1) 694
I'm tired of looking at ugly people (yes that includes me)
Comment: Re:I sell actual things in Bitcoin (Score 4, Insightful) 293
I blogged about it the other day, in how I wish governments would just make BTC to fiat currency transactions illegal. It would be a great step in reducing volatility and decoupling BTC from the regulated markets.
That sounds to me like a sure way to kill bitcoins. If I accept bitcoins as payment, and no one who sells something else I want to buy accepts them, then the bitcoin has no value for me.
Comment: Re:"identified a potential root cause", my ass (Score 1) 546
So... this comment:
I think part of the problem is that when kids grow up boys are taught to build and women are taught to be pretty, when a boy plays with Lego or other similar products in a sense he's engineering. On the other hand girls are given a barbie and a easy bake oven and told to have fun, how is that going to lead to a career in engineering. I think the problem needs to be fixed at the child level.
He's arguing that when gender stereotypes are reinforced at a young age, the effect cascades to adulthood and thus we have fewer women in technical fields.
How is that misogynist? He's not claiming that women are inherently unsuited or anything like that. He's saying society pushes women away from engineering, and if we want more women in engineering we've got to change the ways we treat boys and girls.
Comment: Re:That's a new one... (Score 1) 49
Content maximalists? In context it's obviously supposed to refer to Viacom et al, but I'm not sure what that means. They want maximum content? Doesn't quite sound right.
It means the big old school content "gatekeeper" companies, and their trade groups like the MPAA, RIAA, ASCAP, etc., whose economic power is being eroded by digitalization and the internet, and who are fighting back by taking extremist positions in defense of their copyright ownership.
Right, I had figured that was who it meant, but I'm not sure I understand how that makes them 'content' maximalists. Is it just a typo like someone else suggested and it should read 'copyright' maximalists instead? If that's not it, then it seems a bit ambiguous. I want as much content as possible to be out there, wouldn't that make me a 'content' maximalist too?
Comment: Re:That's a new one... (Score 1) 49
Obviously, he meant "copyright maximalist"
I'll buy that interpretation, but it didn't jump out to me.
Comment: That's a new one... (Score 2) 49
Nevertheless, 5 will get you 10 that the content maximalists will appeal once again.
Content maximalists? In context it's obviously supposed to refer to Viacom et al, but I'm not sure what that means. They want maximum content? Doesn't quite sound right.