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Comment Re:Made up scandal (Score 2) 709

It was never thrown away to begin with, dumbass. Before it ended up on our dinner tables, it was primarily used in pet foods. It has nothing to do with being ethical, and everything to do with creating a grossly inferior product using the runoff of the animal we are not accustomed to eating and having to chemical treat it just so it doesn't actually kill us when we do eat it.

There was nothing right about what they were doing, except for their bank accounts, being able to stretch out their original product by that much more while charging us the same price.

Your post just goes to show what we have come to expect in our daily lives, so much that we outright stick up for the status quo of people screwing everyone over for their own personal gain. Who cares what we eat, right, as long as it doesn't outright kill us? Quality isn't even in our dictionary anymore.

Comment Re:Who has data caps in the USA? (Score 1) 238

I will be totally screwed if Time Warner follows suit on the data cap train. I take care of my father and kid sister, and we all use Netflix. My dad is disabled so he watches a LOT of Netflix from bed, and my router shows that our monthly usage fluctuates between 280 on a really good month and 340gb.

Comment Re:Huh? (Score 5, Insightful) 246

Except that according to his story, she wasn't even over the limit. However by her admission, she signed a document recalling the events, her admission of feeling impaired enough to convict her.

In the US, people are taught to trust the police from childhood and onward. To the average person, it's only the nutters that are screaming about how backwards the police system can be like this, so the usual instinct is to try to be polite and helpful since they don't feel they have done anything wrong. Unfortunately for them, when they do finally end up on the wrong end of a police investigation, they will learn all too well how being helpful is about the worst thing they can do.

So yeah, it was dumb to talk to the police, but most people do not know any better and it is hard to fault them for it. Most people have never even had an encounter with a police officer, let alone been given any reason to personally mistrust them all.

Comment Re:Simcity does city planning, environmental issue (Score 2) 162

What makes you think anyone is talking about the upcoming version? In terms of what the apparent lessons are supposed to teach could easily be taught using Sim City 2000, 3000, or 4. Why would you need cooperative multiplayer for this curricular? None of the actual goals seem to need it and the article doesn't even hint at Minecraft being played on a server.

There is no feedback from Minecraft regarding any of these topics, where as any Sim City will inform you of results caused by your (good/poor) planning, sims will complaint about environmental conditions and even get mad when you start chopping down woodlands, etc.

Minecraft can inspire creativity the same way Lego can, but for their narrowed down subject matter it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Comment Re:What about Magic? (Score 1) 136

Your standard run-of-the-mill desktop printer. If you really want to go all out, then you can use nice thick glossy paper or even get even the rarest cards printed at Kinko's for a pittance.

That said, cheap decks can be officially paid for and still be strong. Unless you want to be a top tier tournament player, I guess. You might need to invest a bit more to have that hobby. It doesn't invalidate the whole game however.

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