Comment Re:Good riddance for daylight savings time (Score 2) 158
Comment Re:Microsoft Outlook is like capitalism (Score 2) 292
Comment Re:Please Mr Google... (Score 1) 348
Comment Re:What? (Score 4, Insightful) 110
I was under the impression that using airbags without seatbelts would actually cause injuries, mainly due to passengers being bounced around uncontrollably. In a car crash, the head and neck are flung forward by the collision and then back by the airbag rebound, potentially causing whiplash injuries.
If you're wearing a seatbelt, however, it will keep your body stable while the airbag slows your head's travel forward.
Please, correct me if I'm wrong but the two seem to complement each other quite well.
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Comment Re:ComplainersThe world is passing you by... (Score 1) 295
It exists. It works. It's actually quite nice.
It does what Steam does (game store, install manager, launcher, community thing) without being Steam. Most of the indie bundles give you both Steam and/or Desura keys, so if you've bought any you can use those to give it a try.
Comment Re:Don't Forget: "Six Strikes" Starts This Weekend (Score 3, Informative) 298
How about a response about the resulting organized crime [b]with the purpose of skirting the prohibition[/b]?
It didn't so much change the alcohol culture as drive it underground.
Comment Re:Finally, a computer so small... (Score 1) 127
Mental note: Always include a unit test for "test subject did not die".
Comment Re:ACTA Represents the End... (Score 1) 217
You know, I've thought about this.
Say a regime has a very large standing army. Call it 1% of the population, so a country like the U.S. would have about 3 million armed soldiers.
The population is armed and unhappy.
Your argument is that, since the general population isn't allowed heavier weapons (artillery, automatic rifles, etc.), the army will "win" in an armed conflict.
Do you really think that all 3 million of those soldiers are prepared to fire upon their countrymen?
Do you really think their big guns and tanks and planes will help them control an armed uprising of 50 peasants for each of their trained fighters?
I think if the people are sufficiently dissatisfied to take up arms at all, just having guns in the first place will be a huge boon. The size of the guns isn't quite as important as you'd think when the numbers are on your side.
Comment Re:Bllody Cool (Score 1) 39
When do
When it's, uuuuuh, probably not a problem. Probably.
Comment Re:Home porn videos? (Score 1) 332
Way to make women feel really welcome in this space.... NOT. Few women post to here, and even fewer identify themselves as women. Wonder why?
It could hardly be the other way around, could it?
Comment Re:You're not allowed to hate in America (Score 1) 890
Hate speech is legal.
Speaking as a citizen of a country where we've given up part of our freedom to stop "hate speech", I humbly suggest you try to keep it that way. Nothing good lies down the path of censorship or thought crime.
Comment Re:This should be illegal (Score 1) 171
There's also an online summary after each election, showing all kinds of neat statistics (like this).
They also publish each and every one of the write-in votes (without names of voters, of course) and those results make it painfully obvious that you can't get anywhere if you're such a party. Try searching for "anka" (duck) in that page to see the astounding number of people who voted for the Donald Duck party, except "Kalle Anka Partiet", "kalle anka partiet", etc are counted as separate parties.
It is a neat place to voice your disapproval (Every now and then you see someone voting for "THEY'RE ALL CROOKS"), but it serves absolutely no purpose for actual election results.