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Comment Re:Death To All Jews (Score 1) 920

Seems to me that you are making his point with that comment. He acknowledges that this style of humor might have ramifications with regards to viewership and sponsors - even said he might have taken it to far.

The issue here is that instead of criticizing his humor they portray him as an anti-smite by taking clips from his show out of context.

Not appreciating his comedic style or criticizing him for going to far is perfectly fine, but when you intentionally misrepresent him it turns into something else.

Would you have the same response if WSJ took Chris Rock shows out of context to portray him as a hate preacher against black people?
PC Games (Games)

An Early Look At Civilization V 286

c0mpliant writes "IGN and Gamespot have each released a preview of the recently announced and eagerly awaited Civilization V. Apart from the obvious new hexagon shape of tiles and improved graphics, the articles go on to outline some of the major changes in the game, such as updated AI, new 'flavors' to world leaders, and a potentially game-changing, one-unit-per-tile system. No more will the stack of doom come to your city's doorsteps. Some features which will not be returning are religion and espionage. The removal of these two have sparked a frenzy of discussion on fan-related forums."
PC Games (Games)

Future Ubisoft Games To Require Constant Internet Access 497

Following up on our discussion yesterday of annoying game distribution platforms, Ubisoft has announced the details of their Online Services Platform, which they will use to distribute and administer future PC game releases. The platform will require internet access in order to play installed games, saved games will be stored remotely, and the game you're playing will even pause and try to reconnect if your connection is lost during play. Quoting Rock, Paper, Shotgun: "This seems like such a bizarre, bewildering backward step. Of course we haven't experienced it yet, but based on Ubi’s own description of the system so many concerns arise. Yes, certainly, most people have the internet all the time on their PCs. But not all people. So already a percentage of the audience is lost. Then comes those who own gaming laptops, who now will not be able to play games on trains, buses, in the park, or anywhere they may not be able to find a WiFi connection (something that’s rarely free in the UK, of course – fancy paying the £10/hour in the airport to play your Ubisoft game?). Then there's the day your internet is down, and the engineers can’t come out to fix it until tomorrow. No game for you. Or any of the dozens of other situations when the internet is not available to a player. But further, there are people who do not wish to let a publisher know their private gaming habits. People who do not wish to report in to a company they’ve no affiliation with, nor accountability to, whenever they play a game they’ve legally bought. People who don’t want their save data stored remotely. This new system renders all customers beholden to Ubisoft in perpetuity whenever they buy their games."

Comment Re:Uh oh (Score 2, Informative) 591

I'm pretty sure Lucas borrowed that bit from the ST:TOS episode "The Immunity Syndrome". Spock is startled as he senses many Vulcans suddenly dying. McCoy questions him about it later and Spock delivers this line "Even I, a half-Vulcan, could hear the deathscreams of 400 Vulcan minds crying out over the distance between us". When I first heard it the famous Obi-Wan quote sprang to mind immediately.
Biotech

Journal Journal: Stem Cell Fraudster May Have Actually Made Breakthrough 206

Woo Suk Hwang's career swung from fame over his lab's claim of the first stem cells from a cloned human embryo to humiliation when the results were found to be fake. New research at Harvard on Hwang's cells has found that they are actually parthenogenic lines derived from eggs -- perhaps a more important and difficult achievement than what he had been claiming!

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