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Comment Re:Double bind (Score 2) 1431

Take away people's ability to restrain rude fucks, and the rude fucks run riot through the life you're trying to live.

Mmm. I suppose that explains Japan? The US seems to be one of the rudest countries on the planet, as well as being one of the most armed.

I think the worry is that the "rude fucks" are the ones who will tend to arm themselves...

Comment Re:Erm... (Score 1) 172

I beat Mirror's Edge on hard mode like that, it's the best way to play the game imho.

Although for the record, there is a part where you have to shoot a gun to beat the level. So technically it's a game that you can complete by shooting only a single bullet...

Comment Re:What I didn't find amusing... (Score 1) 387

What?

The hell it's a double standard. Is it a double standard to wish the worst on Osama Bin Laden, vs. not wishing it on Ghandi? To wish on Lex Luthor what you don't wish on Lois Lane? That's not a double standard, that's justice.

Simply because something is against the law doesn't mean "it's wrong, end of story." Sony has committed so many egregious crimes* against so many of us, yet fair trials will never be so much as considered by our corporate government. How is it wrong for us to cheer those anonymous vigilantes, when they are our last hope for justice? How is it a double standard for us to disapprove when some other anonymous cracker hits an innocent non-profit like PBS?

I hope that Sony gets hacked into oblivion, that their sales plummet and stock tanks, and that the decision-making execs in charge forget to grab their golden parachutes. In the same breath, I hope that PBS safely recovers and that they continue their great programming for decades to come. I don't think anyone in their right mind can accuse me of hypocrisy for this.

*Rootkits
*RIAA litigation
*MPAA litigation
*Lik-Sang, termination of
*OtherOS, removal of
*Geohot, legal smothering of
*Blu-Ray player smothering
*Lax database security, and the subsequent ID theft
*and plenty more...

Comment Re:Then why... (Score 1) 234

Assuming the right bird to egg mass ratio, the bird and egg system follows conservation of momentum laws just fine. If the bird simply dropped the egg, it wouldn't be terribly interesting, as they would both follow the same trajectory and hit the same spot. The bird squirts the egg down and backwards in such a way so that the egg drops straight down.

Why the birds are throwing eggs at the pigs at all is more of a quandary, considering that the operation's primary goal is to recover stolen eggs in the first place.

Comment Re:What about Asian Fonts? (Score 1) 280

Yes, but don't forget to note that in a system like kanji, you don't need as many characters in the first place. The necessary height and width of each letter in the word "write" may be less, but you need five of them. An everyday example might be that text messages in Japan have a much shorter character limit, but you never feel more restrained (at least, I don't). The same amount of conversation takes up 15~20% of the number of characters it would in English.

Comment Re:Now if they could only add another rows of keys (Score 1) 262

Um, you do realize that you can hold down keys on the G2 keyboard for more options? Hold "alt" and the parenthesis key for brackets or curly braces. Hold down alt slash for the backslash. Alternatively, you can just type alt space for some symbols. The only symbol the G2 keyboard is truly missing (that I can tell) is the caret. It does have a superscript 2, though, so it's not usually a problem.

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