Mike Smith

Member since: Jun 12th, 2006

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Group messaging: the next big thing? (Download Squad)

Mar 24th 2011 12:31PM Amazing, they're reinvented Usenet.

Switzerland Debates Legalizing Incest (ParentDish)

Jan 11th 2011 3:33PM You're confusing "normal" (a statistical evaluation) and "natural" (i.e. something that occurs in nature). Homosexuality is not "normal", but it *is* "natural"; it has been observed in nature, and outside the human species, as well. (Not that either of these criteria should have anything to do with whether it is legal or socially acceptable. It doesn't hurt anyone, as long as it's consensual, so I don't see the problem. The same goes for incest IMO - although I *personally* find the idea rather creepy, I don't see why it should be illegal - as long as coercion is not involved, or children who aren't ready or able to make such choices for themselves.)

Switzerland Debates Legalizing Incest (ParentDish)

Jan 11th 2011 3:26PM I'm sorry to hear about what happened to you, but I'm quite sure that no one is talking about legalizing sexual molestation or forced incest here.

The Lawbringer: A rookie's guide to the EULA (WoW)

Aug 11th 2010 6:09PM What exactly makes Blizzard a "scumbag" here? You are voluntarily paying Blizzard to provide you with a service by means of a set of software. The EULA lays out the terms under which this service is being provided. You can stop using the service at any time. Blizzard can stop providing it at any time. What's the problem?

Surprise! New York cabbies prefer Crown Vics to hybrids (Autoblog)

Jul 30th 2010 11:41AM Whatever happened to the Checker Marathon? The perfect taxi?

MS Announces: Windows XP will be sticking around for ten more years [UPDATED] (Download Squad)

Jul 13th 2010 1:55PM Microsoft wouldn't have this problem if they'd let people *upgrade* to Win7. I'd be using 7 on all my machines right now (5 licenses in MS's pocket), except that I'll be damned if I'm going to install from scratch and then have to sit there reinstalling every app, every game, etc. My time is not valueless.

Side-scrolling, 25-year-old Zelda II, reimagined as a 3D FPS... and it works! (Download Squad)

Jun 14th 2010 12:10PM Whaddaya mean, you can't cover a Michael Jackson song? Alien Ant Farm *improved on* Jacko's "Smooth Criminal"...

Gas tax pop quiz: how long since it's been raised? (Autoblog Green)

Jan 27th 2010 11:15AM @Tim: Tell you what. I won't make you pay my (suggested) $1/gal gas tax, if in exchange I don't have to pay for the Iraq War, mmm-kay? The cost of that war could've offset everyone's gas taxes for many years to come.

Shouter is a unique voice-controlled Time Waster (Download Squad)

Jan 18th 2010 4:58PM For those in the NYC metro area who are old enough to remember:

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Detroit Preview: 2011 BMW 740 brings six-cylinder power back to the 7 (Autoblog)

Jan 12th 2010 10:56AM Because the same-displacement engine can produce different levels of power output, depending on how much boost the turbos are tuned to provide. How else would they differentiate such cases?