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• Interesting. I'd give it a shot (or several).
  
  Sight picture from the many existing designs varies, but typically the sight blade is too coarse to get very good placement from a handgun at distance (plus, the trajectory falls off fairly quickly). Of course some people are innately more apt than others at handling all the elements of the sport, and practice counts for a lot. In reply to: "New technology makes for more accurate guns"

  December 14, 2009

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• 14 yrs ago? WTH! I was using Winamp when it first came out in '97. Plus it was barebones, with no visualization, skins, etc., and definitely no music store. I was also probably the very last person to pay for it during the period it was shareware, since it became freeware again the week after.... Used it for years, but I can't say I miss it much now that I use iTunes.
  
  I avoid buying things on iTunes because I prefer to have the CD: non-compressed audio with liner notes in a physical package. But a lot of people pay for the convenience of having their music already in portable form. That's their choice, and you just look like a blowhard for being so judgmental. In reply to: "iTunes Rewind shows off best-selling content of 2009"

  December 9, 2009

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• @badasscat: Partially true. Japan uses QWERTY, but the layout is different and has several special keys to switch into kana modes, and backslash is the yen symbol. As for other countries, Wikipedia has this to say: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout In reply to: "Apple said to be working on 'world mode' iPhone"

  November 11, 2009

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• Ah, how naive. When your plans are widely known, bad people can take advantage of those plans. Going to London? How about a bunch of guys clean out your house for you while you're out? Could be an employee of one of the corporations with access to your data, or maybe they got hacked. Either way, you're screwed. But you'd only have yourself to blame. Ignore the warnings about intrusive surveillance to your peril.
  
  Smarter folks are buying more things with cash to avoid tracking, and even bypassing increasingly worthless Federal Reserve notes with other intermediates, or bartering. The government hates that because then they can't track what you're doing. Suck it, Big Brother! In reply to: "IBM wants my phone data. I'll happily give it more"

  August 4, 2009

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• Hey, we've got the guns. Why don't you come and try to make us move? Hahaha! It's you that should do us a favor and get the hell out of our country =) In reply to: "Truck dealer aims to spike Web traffic with free AK-47s"

  July 22, 2009

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• Not a diss from Ballmer, but: "Developers developers developers developers..."
  
  Can he open his mouth without something outlandish (and slightly Kafkaesque) coming out of it? In reply to: "Steve Ballmer is a dissin' machine"

  July 16, 2009

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• @Brehhah
  That's an inaccurate and somewhat racist comment. I don't see a problem with a suicidal attack during wartime. After all, a charge up a hill toward a machinegun nest while under fire could be considered a suicidal attack. It all depends on which side you're on, and of course the victors write the history books. Pearl Harbor was crappy. However, we knew about it and let it happen. Plus, we were embargoing Japan to curb their nationalist expansion, so from their point of view they had no alternative. It was conflict -- there isn't always a right or wrong, just sides.
  
  @Lerianis3
  I completely agree that the Founding Fathers of this country were considered terrorists by the British. And as the saying goes, where the government fears the people there is liberty and where the people fear the government there is tyranny. The danger of the "war on terror" is that it invites the thought police to go crazy. Law enforcement has always been about dealing with crimes after the fact. Otherwise how do you know the crime would've actually been committed? Thinking about committing a crime and actually doing it are two different things entirely! Until the act is perpetrated, there's time for redemption. Apparently the government wants to control what people think, hence the push for mandatory public schooling and censorship of people who disagree with their agenda.
  
  As for robots feeding on corpses -- how will they tell that the bodies are really dead? From an ethical standpoint, this is bogus. But who cares about ethics anymore, eh? Apparently not us. In reply to: "Dawn of the corpse-eating robots?"

  July 16, 2009

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• Piracy of products is actually good for capitalism. It keeps lame corporations who expect to make fat margins by producing easily copyable garbage, physical or digital, to do something different, i.e. innovate. People won't pirate if it takes them too much effort relative to the ratio of the cost to their income. (So college kids will always pirate because they have more time than money.)
  
  I don't really condone piracy. However, I don't think it's truly evil, either. Yeah, if some college kids download your music or your app, so what, they probably wouldn't have bought it anyway. Theft is different from piracy: the author isn't losing physical matter, as he still has his original digital bits. He's losing potential profit -- which he likely wouldn't have had anyway. I have a problem with people pirating software and then making money using that software (e.g. pirating web design software and then freelancing), but that's a specific case. Should people pay? Yeah. Is it as bad as rrod182 makes it out to be? No. In reply to: "Warner exec Twitters that blogger is 'stupid brat'"

  April 23, 2009

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• Hey, I found it useful, particularly being a late adopter -- all my usual handles were taken! One thing I found is that when someone retweets or replies, the length of your username counts as part of the 140, so I would suggest the shorter, the better. In reply to: "Eight Twitter username tips"

  April 20, 2009

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• Need more friends under the age of 30? =)
  
  If all your friends are local, then maybe Twitter's not such a big deal. When your friends do their own thing and live on different continents then it's nice to keep up with what they're doing. The info's there and you can ignore or call or email a follow up as appropriate. In reply to: "Eight Twitter username tips"

  April 20, 2009

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