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  1. Re:Get involved but on a limited scale. on Syria: a Defining Moment For Chemical Weapons? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And what if the Syrian rebels were using those chemical weapons? The US government seems unwilling to investigate that option, even unwilling to let the UN investigate this. They have only one prefered outcome. Judging from Kerry's speech they don't even to bother to produce fake evidence like in Iraq.

  2. Re:How about no. on Syria: a Defining Moment For Chemical Weapons? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You're NOT supposed to be the worlds police force. Especially not when there seems to be no proof Assad used those weapons. Kerry's speach was even worse than that of Colin Powell about WMD in Iraq, at least Powell tried to show the falsified "evidence".

    Everyone outside the US, and some Americans too, understand that attacking Syria has much to do with oil, pipelines, Israel and scoring orders for American companies who donate to election campaigns. It has nothing to do with moral standards.

  3. Re:and why not? on How One Man Turns Annoying Cold Calls Into Cash · · Score: 1

    In most EU countries this information has to be provided when calling the number. When I call a 0900 number I always get a tape "this number costs X cents per minute plus possible airtime on your mobile". When you hang up when the tape plays you're not charged.

  4. Re:Conversation on How One Man Turns Annoying Cold Calls Into Cash · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Some poor people become pot dealers, some become telemarketeers. The difference between those two is that there is an actual demand for the services of the first.

  5. Re:Tell me again on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 1

    The US doesn't do much to improve the UN security council too, blocking every possible action against Israel.

  6. Re:Tell me again on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 1

    Harder to hit? Rwanda was a clear-case example where ground troops were needed, bombing from high altitude planes would be useless against civilians killing other civilians. The only air support needed there would be transportation.

  7. Re:Tell me again on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 1

    He has a better record of not telling lies than a US government spokesman. Let the US prove anything, and please more convincing this time than those nukes they knew that were in Iraq.

  8. Re:Tell me again on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 2

    Same holds for christians.

  9. Re:interesting timing on Calibre Version 1.0 Released After 7 Years of Development · · Score: 2

    The GUI didn't change much between 0.9.x and 1.0.0, only a few minor changes.

  10. Re:freedom? on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 1

    That's always preferable to the freedom for everyone to buy guns.

  11. Re:Plenty of room for all on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 0

    You can take a taxi.

  12. Re:FTFY on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 1

    Some people think that change is good for its own sake. That line of thought brought uw windows 8, Gnome 3 and Unity. Most people disagree.

  13. Maybe in the US on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 1

    At least, if they can sort out the artificial mess lawyers will make of it. In other parts of the world, most people don't even buy cars with automatic transmissions (it has been over 10 years ago I drived an automatic transmission myself, when I borrowed my fathers car) but do it manually. Those systems are cheaper and more robust anyway. Self driving cars are a big step further, which most people will not want to use.

  14. Good, get the traitors who spy for the USA! on Info Leak Wars To Get Messier · · Score: 1

    Not filtering out the names of the traitors who spy for the US is good, now they can be properly imprisoned or executed.

  15. Re:Only the stupid on The Next Frontier of Consumer Exploitation By Corporations · · Score: 1

    The advantage of a hosts file is that it works for every application, not just for a webbrowser.

  16. Re:Idiot on Time Reporter "Can't Wait" To Justify Drone Strike On Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying it would justify saying everything Obama did was right, but it would justify voting for him. Since the republicans nowadays seem to be fundamentalist nutjobs the choice is bad or worse.

  17. Re:Idiot on Time Reporter "Can't Wait" To Justify Drone Strike On Julian Assange · · Score: 2

    I think they are affraid that the alternative for Obama was even worse.

  18. Re: Try claiming "Death to the Great Satan". on Time Reporter "Can't Wait" To Justify Drone Strike On Julian Assange · · Score: 3, Interesting

    However, telling inconvenient thruths seems to be illegal there. Even if you're not American and don't even live there (Assange).

  19. Why buy any e-textbooks at all from Amazon on Amazon Forbids Crossing State Lines With Rented Textbooks · · Score: 1

    when you can download them on The Pirate Bay and other sites for free?

    Man, I wish there were tablets and modern internet when I studied. It would have saved me a lot of money on books and a lot of carrying bags with heavy books in it.

  20. Re:Only the stupid on The Next Frontier of Consumer Exploitation By Corporations · · Score: 3, Informative

    I use multiple: AdBlock Plus and Ghostery in my browser, a hosts file and since I'm using Peerblock anyway to block the RIAA and cronies from my torrent client I added an ads blocklist there too.

  21. Re:yeah, right on US, Germany To Enter No-Spying Agreement · · Score: 1

    That is because, according to the US, foreigners have no rights, so there's nothing to break.

  22. Re:LOL on Cisco Slashes 4,000 Jobs · · Score: 1

    Which means that they can't be trusted with all those NSA programs going on. I'd prefer Chinese network equipment over US by now, especially if the company has any US competitors. The Chinese only care wether I deal with the Dalai Lama, if you don't you're much safer there.

    If you are a western internet company it is nowadays good marketing practice to empathise you're NOT from the US.

  23. Re:LIcense Plate Scanners on Next Up: the Jamming Wars · · Score: 1

    That still doesn't make it legal (that may depend on your jurisdiction), but it will of course seriously reduce the chance of getting caught.

  24. Re:Your papers, comrade! on New York's Financial Regulator Subpoenas Bitcoin Companies · · Score: 1

    None other than a search warrant. And destroying possible evidence before they knock on the door (or even fleeing through the back door with it when they enter the front door) is not a crime on itself. Usually companies comply with demands because otherwise the tax service can make their live terrible but the real scan companies usually don't.

  25. Re:Your papers, comrade! on New York's Financial Regulator Subpoenas Bitcoin Companies · · Score: 1

    Subphoena's are something typical for US law. In The Netherlands, the police can come search for evidence but I'm not required to give them anything and if they can't find it it's bad for them. Not giving information voluntarily is not a crime here.