Recent content by BlueMage

I'm a PC gamer, but when I console, I prefer my Wii over my Xbox.

Finally, someone responding with facts instead of just chest-thumping. How rare and refreshing. And exactly what I was trying to draw out. Captcha: bigger in texas. How appropriate.

Exactly. America finally joins the rest of the civilised world in no longer forcing people to choose between seeing a doctor or paying the rent. Truly sir? I work at the Royal Brisbane. When I went to the ER complaining of pain around my right eye, I was seen to in less than 20 minutes...

Especially if I'm stupid enough to also leave the car unlocked or not have other anti-theft measures in place.

You can't grow sufficient crops internally to support your population, you don't have the resources necessary internally to fuel your economy, you have little-to-no manufacturing capability. Please tell me again how you need the rest of the world less than it needs you.

Nor should we - it's part of what makes us excellent multi-taskers and lateral problem-solvers - we operate on multiple levels simultaneously.

Ethical hacking is a completely legitimate way of hardening a system against attack. I used it at my last position to harden our systems as we were increasingly seeing anomalous contacts from China. As for credit card details being stolen, blame the folks holding those details originally -...

Because people like the Feudalism system that republicans masquerade as freedom.

I think I should remind some of you that taking offense is a choice YOU make, not the other person. I can call you a retarded cum-guzzler. But in order for that to have any impact, YOU must take offense.

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Basically, fear those with both intelligence and common sense, for we shall surely rule the world.

The engineer in me loves your girl.

... ... Ok, you got me. Yes, it was on purpose. Dear girl, I don't mean that you're consciously attracted to them. Simply that you'll find - for reasons you yourself cannot explain - that the arsehole seems to draw your eye. His displays of wealth, of power, of prowess. Even if...

I know, right? Those filthy Colonials!

They most certainly cannot. It's not discrimination if everyone gets a serve. And personally, I'm sick of people getting butthurt about making fun of disabled people. They're people in their own right, they can (perhaps not literally) stand on their own two. Anyone who says otherwise, I...