Thorgi Duke of Frisbee

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/romney-im-not-concerned-with-the-very-poor/2012/02/01/gIQAvajShQ_blog.html?wprss=the-fix "Not concerned with the very poor"? I think you just lost yourself the election, Mr. Romney.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/everyone-step-toes-gingrich-security-harasses-ron-paul-165042767.html

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie. It's a fantastic, fantastic movie, but BE WARNED; if you are not a Tim and Eric fan, if you cannot handle their comedy, then you will fucking LOATHE this movie. Here's a litmus test; http://youtu.be/GwhZ8Y82xw4 If you aren't laughing your ass off at this, then STAY THE FUCK AWAY.

Meh, I think that's kind of a silly over generalization. Since you can't really eliminate piracy then companies mostly work on making piracy as inconvenient as posisble. If you can make it a huge pain to pirate something (which usually isn't possible) then maybe you can discourage people from pirating it. I don't think that in and of itself is a problem. What is a problem is that they manage to inconvenience paying customers. It seems to me you should be doing everything possible to reward paying customers and hurting them is going to outweigh whatever minor gains you get from fighting piracy. A good example of inconvenienceing customers is DVD menus. Companies really need to learn to not punish paying customers. If it's easier to pirate something than it is to buy it then you're really shooting yourself in the foot. It's not a generalization if it's really as simple as that. Like it or not, piracy is now a competitor. You have to compete with piracy just like Target and Wal-Mart have to compete with Amazon. And if you want to win against piracy, you had better come up with reasons that make it better than getting the product for free. Laws can try to fight piracy (justifiably), but it will never work. The only way to win is through consistently offering a better service. End of story.

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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/newt-gingrich-vows-to-take-gop-race-to-the-convention/

http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/gingrichs-space-colony-may-run-afoul-of-internati Gingrich's batshit plan to colonize the moon for America is also illegal. Just goes to show that spouting nonsense off before research is a bad, bad idea. If he were president, who knows what he may try to pass without taking into account the laws we have in place?

Finished the first season of the show. Holy shit, things are constantly ON. And they weren't fucking around when they said "When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die."

Been on a La Roux kick recently.

Love me some Alan Wake.

I have an iPad. It's pretty great. I use it for textbooks, notetaking, reading, playing games, and by far my favorite feature, reading. Not just books; reading sites feels so much more comfortable when you simplify it with an app like Instapaper, or Flipboard.

So, Jesus Diaz just got himself banned from commenting... http://gizmodo.com/5879213/i-just-banned-jesus-diaz

http://vimeo.com/32102469

I actually thought the Jimquisition episode was pretty decent. Then again, I also like Jim Sterling, and I know many of you hate him.

Apparently people here are interested in dubbing the new Phoenix Wright movie when it releases, so I figured we should set up an official place to discuss/plan/cast the damn thing. It'll probably be loads of fun, so feel free to hop in if you want, provided you have a microphone. While suggestions about who you want to play are welcome, what we'll probably end up doing is recording ourselves trying each character out to see who does the best what. I personally want to try for one of the villains or Larry Butz, though I could try my hand at Phoenix Wright, the judge, or someone else. I'll look up videos of the characters to refresh my memory on the cast, then post my own interpretations.

Mike Rowe on the growing lack of proper labor jobs.

OK, OK, break it up you two. Kiss and make up.

From Software released a port of Ninja Blade.