I use the number pad in WoW, too, and I find myself pretty much forced to play on a Mac. Aside from the numlock issue you mentioned (it's simply a calculator Clear key on a Mac), if you want to do something like bind Shift-NP2 to your 2nd action bar, either the keyboard or the OS fails to recognize this as a key combination; it thinks you're pressing "down arrow".

Did you take your Cheerios with extra piss this morning?

I found his comment pretty entertaining. Just wish I'd read it before moving out of my old apartment.

And where, pray tell, did you get THAT load of tripe? I'm a BSD fan and all, but to think that NT will switch to a BSD base, is absurd, Android less so, but still ridiculous, and Mac I can't see switching from it's Mach/FreeBSD hybrid that works so well for it.

I'll grant you that Ethanol is a toxic substance to possibly every organism on Earth, and that methanol is toxic to many things, but not necessarily everything. Not every alcohol is toxic. According to you, glycerin, an alcohol, is toxic. So we should stop using it as a medicine. Furthermore anything in sufficient quantity is toxic. Oxygen is toxic to humans in sufficient quantity. Which is why divers don't use pure oxygen for diving. We need a little nitrogen in our oxygen (although there are certain medical exceptions to this rule). It seems to me, you are the one not being scientific. the NOVA organism you're looking for is the one I listed as living in rock. As I said, I'm no biologist, and thus can't really debate how much water any given bacteria may have in it.

While I can't prove that there can be live that is not based on water, you have not offered any theory to prove that silicon based life using an alcohol is not possible. Once you rule out the impossible, anything left is possible. It is unscientific to preclude or conclude, without evidence or defensible theory, that something is impossible.
In fact, I'll submit that intelligent life is not possible without alcohols. For example you would quickly die, after your neurons stop firing, if all sources of the alcohol choline were removed from your diet. This would be a very difficult thing, almost any food you eat will have some choline source in it. I know of no advanced lifeform that could survive without alcohols. Therefore, by your own standards, alcohols are essential to life.

>>>And if the suspect went back into the house to retrieve a gun so he could shoot the cop, you'd probably be dancing in the streets that yet another jack-booted thug was put down, huh?
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Taking a page from Jimmy Carter I see. If you can't make a well-reasoned argument, then demonize the liberty-loving protesters. Not cool pal. That was very Kenye West of you.

What I want to ask this guy (SA Attorney General) is this:
Why do you think that the safeguards put in place to prevent R rated computer games from being sold to minors would be any different to those currently in place for R rated movies and why do you think such safeguards would not be adequate to prevent minors from gaining access to this content?

Companies selling software can't just ignore US market. It's too big.

Of course if you sell via internet from an oversea country, you may imagine you can avoid legal risks from US.

However, your US customers will be wary of buying something from abroad without local legal recourse if anything goes wrong. I most cases, you also need to have local sale forces and support.

I suspect that this has already happened in domestic cockroaches and other common pests. Probably in the federal government too.

I'll correct that for you:

Current designs of hard disks rely on there being air inside in order to float the heads. But you wouldn't necessarily need to float the heads on air if you redesign the disk to suspend the heads in some other way (Off the top of my head, lets say a magnetic field. Of course, you'd have to make sure the magnetic field you suspend the heads in doesn't interfere with the magnetic field they are reading/writing). Also, air is just a fluid - it may be that you can find a different fluid to fill the drive with that has better properties for the job in hand (e.g. higher speed of sound).

But they also host google mail and apps. The data on that can't be regenerated.

court orders are rubber stamps. they don't preserve justice anymore. not really.

You are all making me wish my mod points didn't expire 2 days ago.

On the other hand, part of the iTunes EULA states you may not use it for terrorism. So...

The placebo affect can also be caused by pride. "I paid $300 for these pills, they work so much better than the generics!" It's the same reason that I can buy an expensive computer/phone/car with the same features as your off-brand, but still act like it's much better.

But I'm sure that has little to do with testing where you don't have to pay... just saying, in general.

I understand what your saying but just like the guy who said I can earn 5K in a month so it would be stupid for me to knock over the Apple store misses is he is not stupid to begin with.

You and I know its a fools game because we know something about how cellular phones work, how expensive electronics are serialized and some of the ways that can be tracked. We are not out doing smash-and-grabs on our Saturday nights because we see the problems with it and have other opportunities and I hope maybe we are just better people to with higher ethical and moral standards.

I can see how a robbery would be appealing if you lacked the intelligence, education, or a combination of both to spot the problems I listed above as well as the others there obviously are. Now imagine at the same time were not likely to find yourself in a career where you can earn anything even close to 5k in a month at any point in the future; perhaps you already have a criminal record that will prevent you from being eligible for such a job.

Now I suspect I could plan and execute such a crime and get away with it. The trouble is as other have pointed out I can earn more doing honest work with less risk for the amount of time and engergy that would need to go in. This is the failure of most criminals they don't do it right, either because they don't know how or are lazy. These guys clearly choreographed. Simple though the crime may be there was some planning that went into this break in, If you can't see that than you need to look harder.

These guys all knew where they were going and when to move. I bet they have a plan for unloading this stuff that they cooked up before they stole it too. I sure would, have disposition in mind beforehand. I mean sitting on this stuff for any amount to time would be dumb. It ties you to the crime and it allows time for the authorities to circulate the serial numbers, tell the cellular carriers about the ESN codes of the stolen phones etc etc. These things could make it hard to sell this stuff at all, if to much time passes.