Allowing Hollywood dipshits would write something that would appeal to your average slashdotter would be an epic fail. What we need, is for somebody to sort out the decent fiction, and then, find somebody to direct & produce it who wouldn't make a complete abomination out of something that is awesome and classic.

But they are off the menu...

I've been waiting for YEARS for the chance to eat extinct animals! T-Rex Burgers, Bald Eagle Sandwiches, Dodo Egg Omelettes, Saber-toothed McNuggets! Yummmm!

At the moment, this appears to be standard operating procedure for every cheap-ass penny pinching small office manager. I blame the software-key system for this oversight; it is too financially tempting to just buy the one CD and take it to every PC in the Building- and plenty of people would think this is legal. To make it even sweeter, there seems to be little or no threat of financial damage to a small office. Sooner or later, internet-based licensing & registration will start limiting licenses to particular people or machines, and I'm guessing we will see a much more robust licensing system where 'free for home' software will know the difference between home & work PCs, and once the trial ends on a work PC, the use of the software is locked.

I had a few extra years of college, and during that time, my creditors have been less than understanding that my engineering degree wasn't done and I couldn't make enough to pay them. In retailiation for their impatience, I told them to piss up a rope and stopped paying everything, from credit cards to student loans. I really didn't have that much debt, maybe 5k in normal debt and 15k in student loans. They will call, mail, and annoy you over and over and over, and then, they will submit your debts to collection agencies. These agencies will add 'fees' over the years which will pretty much double the number they are asking for to resolve the debt. Then, you will be able to contact these folks and calmly explain that if they don't cut the bill in half of the original amouint you will never pay, and they usually agree, saving you 50%. The downside is that if you are shit outta luck if you want to finance anything. My wife & I are making almost 90k per year, and we can't finance a house costing 125k. This 'downside' has saved me possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars because I would have bought at the housing peak if I could have. I can't get credit cards so ID theft really isn't much of a concern, and I'm not paying 20% on every dollar I spend.

I'm not getting into this crap where you can control what I can and cannot read. Take your orwellian device and cram it.

That way you're exporting your wealth to my local schools and gov't!

I worked in the gaming industry for two years and found that feeling partially responsible for completely fucking people over and selling false hope and abusing peoples addictive personalities left me feeling like a true piece of shit. There are great opportunities to to learn and grow in this industry, but if you want your life's work to be more than the abuse of human nature for profit then go somewhere else- thats what I did, and it was my best career move yet.

From this I do not think better of Barack Obama, as intended. Instead, I think less of the Nobel Peace Prize, as it is obviously being abused as a political tool instead of a method of honoring people who actually do things that benefit humanity.

YES. GREAT BOOK. Rama 2 lost me though, I enjoyed the mystery of the ship in the first book, while the second took that leap into pure fantasy crab-robot stuff.

Yes, there is no doubt in my mind that Windows 7 will be the most secure, most reliable, government tattle tale ever. Finally, they will be able to crack down on those file sharing bastards, so that they can rightly claim that $35/DVD that they worked so hard to print on a .2cent disk.

This is totally awesome! Anybody who was ever robbed knows how desperately the victim wishes to take up a samurai sword and slaughter the worthless repeat offender who is pawning the shit for meth. This guy is a true hero of the people.