Recent content by antipirate

Really I thought a disabled account would mean no access to my library unless I already had a machine running steam in offline mode. Reagrds, Jordan

I have a couple of problems with steam. I don't really agree with the policy on account sharing (I should be able to share my account with anyone in my household, and I don't even mean room-mates or anything just my wife and daughter) Second I don't like the idea of not really owning the...

I don't really see your point, If I drank an human insulin solution made from e.coli and a human insulin solution made from a human pancreas they'd have the same effect on me if they were pure enough. (Not that drinking insulin makes any sense.) How about this: I have a purple eggplant...

The reason why there isn't really a difference between GM and selective breeding is because all living things (that we know of) make their proteins and DNA out of the same building blocks. any GM food we make could only be as different from a natural food as say two video games made in the...

They couldn't have any control because it was an observational study aka not really even worth talking about unless there is a really sensible mechanism that explains it or you're a scientist studying glaucoma who's thinking about designing a animal or human experimental trial.

Interestingly based on what the article says about the study it isn't caffeine or coffee it's only caffeine with coffee. It also sounds like it was only in the really high consumers that there was any significant results. Also the data sets they were using are not really good any ways...

I guess what I thought I knew about aspergers is wrong. I was under the impression that aspergers was similar to but distinct from autism in that It was characterized by an inability to read other peoples's emotions. That sort of definition hasn't come up here at all. Wierd. It's great to...

I agree with the 2 on topic images that have been posted in responses. Personally I'm wary of disingenuous people in everything that I do and there are geeky situations where I would be more wary of women than men because they are more likely to pose as geeks (men can do it too). Mind you I...

I really don't think the act of owning a game license should be considered a service that's part of a subscription. Buying, downloading, patching and community/multi-player connectivity are services. If a person stops using a service that shouldn't invalidate their ownership of their licenses...

Apparently you don't know how to read journal papers very critically though, you seem to have bought into the grain industry's agenda wholesale. Mind you the traditional meat industry isn't much better but I suspect the optimal human diet does include properly raised livestock or hunted...

Metroid other M invisible war Though I don't really dislike WoW's story I do think a theoretical Warcraft 4 would have a better story if WoW never got in the way. Regards, Jordan

creepiness aside, something like this probably wouldn't work even if they got the robotics just right because of latency... kissing latency

"go to college" has pretty much been a mantra for parents and high school guidance councillors for years. Really it should be (and is starting to shift towards) "get some sort of post-secondary education" but trade school is still seen as being for people who can't get into college even though...

I default to good but if I've decided I'm playing a character I'll play what the character would do, not being able to play an evil character ever would probably make me a bad DM when I play D&D. For example my main character in skyrim was mostly a good guy but figured it would be for the...

I just wanted to second this