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Comment Re:Arizona is worse than California (Score 1) 301

I just want to attack your beloved "illegal alien" label.

Alien...really? Through some twisted thought process, you demand to call fellow humans "aliens"?

That pretty much corners you in the stupid asshole room. I don't really know what an actual alien looks like, but I'm pretty sure my neighbors Sandra and Pedro are the same species as me, and I do not feel compelled to misappropriate words so that I feel better than them. The fact that you use "immigrant" when they are legally here is very telling. What a sweet change of heart!

I understand that it's a legal term, but that doesn't mean much as those terms change, fortunately. The term is a device used to "other" and dehumanize a population....oh jeez, I dunno, you think maybe it encourages alienation?

So keep your "illegal", but do yourself a favor and stop pretending there are aliens living among us, making delicious tamales and mole while they scheme to conquer our planet!

There has always been resentment by natives against newcomers, coming into our turf, using our resources and affecting the way we do things. So what? Still bitching about it? How about you step over the part-of-the-problem line and offer some solutions? Or is all you got "get off my lawn, get out of my school/town/state/country" and don't really give a fuck about anything else?

Comment that's odd (Score 1, Flamebait) 320

no matter how good people pretend the movie is, I won't be giving them a fucking dime.

Thanks though, for your subsidy. Somebody has to give their money away for total bullshit, might as well be you with all the extra cash and nothing better to spend it on.

when they start pushing the smurfs, live action, I wish I could punch you people in the mouth, one by one.

Comment Re:No good games (Score 2, Insightful) 310

I waited for Spore to come out for years but when it dropped the news were rife with terrible DRM issues so I avoided it. Not even gonna torrent it, even tho folks already cracked the hell out of it.

The way i see it, if they don't want me to play their games, I'm not going to argue with them. There are endless other things for me to spend my time and money on, those motherfuckers just look at me funny and I'm gone. I'm not going to risk my computer on some bullshit.

Same goes for movies...is it just me or is it easier and more rewarding than ever to just walk away from what used to be compelling purchases?

Comment can't shake the feeling (Score 1) 240

I know, I know!

Just imagine all the benefits! Technology is good!

But I can't shake the feeling that this is just like eugenics and human cloning: Amazing and powerful technology that is in the wrong hands being developed for the wrong reasons and there's nothing we can do to stop them from destroying us all.

But it's super cool, right?

Comment Re:GPS + SMS. (Score 2, Interesting) 1092

"The people that want to rape and molest your daughter statistically are yourself or one of your brothers(-in-law)"

Great idea for a list. Let's rank, in order of probability, likely suspects in a given child's life.

Police will tell you that immediate suspect #1 in a woman's murder is husband/boyfriend or ex. I guess that's based on stats, though I've never actually seen them.

Whatever, the poster is a nutcase and is over-reacting. Get the kid a off-the-shelf cell phone device from the local cell company that offers kid-tracking GPS service. That way the kid can get a decent electronic safety net and the father can avoid the obsessive neurosis, maybe even focus a little more on quality time and less spooky surveillance psycho.

Last, this smacks of "uh I have this friend, and he wants to know how to ..." bullshit. What does this dude really have in mind, and why do i suspect it has more to do with a ongoing custody battle than the kids safety? Why not go with a commercial product/service that hits your credit card each month? What other reason than because dude wants to be able to hide his tracks and not have this "system" show up in court records? My predator alarm is ringing pretty loud on this one. Sounds like a good list of requirements for a high-tech kidnapper/stalker. What next, dude wants web cams in his daughter's bedroom...and bathroom...just to make sure she's "safe" ???? But he wants to keep the whole system off the grid, with remote shut-off, no doubt!!!!

What a good parent ought to do in this situation is become more physically involved in their kids life. Be at the school enough to know the drivers and teachers and the kids friends and their parents. Not just the asshole who freaks out when he experiences "bad customer service" at the school and is never heard from again. The schools will be as good as we make them, showing up only when you don't like something is hardly a positive contribution. That's just being selfish.

Comment It's too much blood and gore... (Score 1) 141

...when the framerate gets choppy as a result.

In other news, when can we mercilessly mow down hundreds of zombies with as much gore as possible in a video game?

All this so-called "next-gen" is total bullshit as they still can't handle the power of all those pixels and sprites...shitty draw distance, disappearing bodies, grumble grumble...I want a game where i can kill so many motherfuckers they stack up like the corpse wall in 300!

Comment Off the cuff (Score 1) 494

I'm going to say that cheating federal elections would be a good argument for treason, as the tag suggests.

Yes, treason.

Forget about 'the death penalty' and its elusive deterrent effect.

I promise that if we start publicly shooting motherfuckers, nobody is going to mess with these machines.

Or we'll get them all in a few rounds, and the rest will understand.

Social Networks

Submission + - No way to remove Pandora link from Facebook?

amohat writes: So I added Pandora as an application to my Facebook account. Great, it posts all my Pandora activity to my fb. Now I want to remove it but apparently this is impossible. Anybody know anything about this? Good net companies going bad at a scary clip?

Comment Re:Whatever, it's a great service (Score 1) 244

Here is a service that is supposed to take what you like and suggest new and complimentary music in return.

Does the new ad system play new, relevant, non-repeating, targeted ads?

I will reject pandora until they make a ad system the serves up stuff that I might be actually interested in and maybe even buy at some point. For example, don't EVER show me a mcdonald's ad, for any reason, at any time. I promise that it's a waste of their advertising money. I would love to see the new G2 commercial though, and movie previews are worth sitting through the first time.

Hulu's ad system is horrible, and I won't use it as a result. I'd rather watch network tv commercials than the SAME mind-numbing ad 20 times in a row. Pandora will lose me, too, unless they spend some time making the ads as relevant as the product itself. (also the 6-time fast forward limit is retarded)

It cannot possibly be that hard to pull off. Shit, just ask me!

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