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  1. Re:|Walkman has been around since the 80s on Australia To Fight iPod Use By Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the people hurtling down the road in the 2-ton minimally insured weapons should bear the legal responsibility for any harm they bring to people who's soft, fleshy bodies are not protected by such enclosures. And yes, auto laws (speed limits etc) should most certainly be enforced. Driving is a privileged not a right etc.

  2. Why, slashdot, why?! on Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts · · Score: 1

    Anything with the word "Ebonics" is just rage-bait for the ugliest little racist impulses. KILL IT WITH FIRE!

  3. Re:Enviroment or revenue generation? on Smart Trash Carts Tell If You Haven't Been Recycling · · Score: 1

    If folks can't be bothered to sort out their recyclables, then yes, maybe they should pay a fee for wasteful use of public resources. Landfills aren't magic, and recyclables are worth money.

  4. Re:Huh? on Arizona Backs Off Its Speed Camera Program · · Score: 1

    You know what, bravo to you! And any asshole who thinks he has a right to exceed to speed limit, much less to insist that you enable him in that, has no standing. They're the truly shitty drivers.

  5. Re:Religious bullcrap is commonplace here on In Israel, Potential Organ Donors Could Jump the Queue · · Score: 1

    Kosher is HAAAARRRDDD. Try matzo or a wrap.

  6. Re:Okay. on The Apple Paradox, Closed Culture & Free-Thinking Fans · · Score: 1

    I also think the prevalence of people who pirate Windows is very telling See, I think the dearth of people pirating OSX is telling. It all runs on the same hardware, but people don't want it.

  7. Re:Subjectivity presented as fact on The Apple Paradox, Closed Culture & Free-Thinking Fans · · Score: 1

    God yes. Obnoxious as the culture and branding around Macs may be, the reason I avoid using them is because OSX in unintuitive. Now, I found Windows 3.1 intuitive, and I had an awkward time transitioning to the Windows 95-style interface, but I made it. But short of web browsing, nothing I've ever done on a Mac has been easy. Quite frankly, it's always been borderline incomprehensible. On Windows I'm a go-to guy. In Linux with KDE or GNOME or IceWM I'm proficient. MintLinux with GNOME, Compiz and six desktops is a cinch. Maybe OSX is only meant for those right-brainers.

  8. Re:male genital mutilation on How Men and Women Badly Estimate Their Own Intelligence · · Score: 1

    "Safer" is highly relative. For example, it's safer [riding down a busy street / falling into bed with a lose (wo)man] [in a shopping cart / bareback] if you [wear a football helmet / are circumcised], but safe [driving / sex] would demand using a [car / condom]. Of course, riding down a busy street in a shopping cart is safer, since you can see the cars coming. If you don't use condoms for your flings you're an idiot. Then again, so is anyone that fucks you.

  9. Re:Password Safe on Best Tool For Remembering Passwords? · · Score: 1

    I'll vouch for this one. It stores passwords in a small encrypted file, has an autotype feature, generates strong passwords, pronounceable passwords, lets you store notes in a given entry, and can run off a USB drive. And the password file doesn't have to be a particular extension, so you can obscure it, and it's small, so it's really easy to back-up. Mine has hundreds of passwords with notes and is still under 50kb.

  10. Re:let me get this straight on FOSS Sexism Claims Met With Ire and Denial · · Score: 1

    In other words, women's participation in FOSS development is over seventeen times lower than it is in proprietary software development.

    Because women don't volunteer their time for FOSS development, men are sexist? Sorry, I just don't follow that logic. Women don't volunteer their time for FOSS development, because men are sexist. FTFY

    Because I took a feminist stance in public, I have been abused in every way possible -- being called irrelevant, a saboteur, coward, homosexual, and even a betrayer of the community.

    Being called a "homosexual" is "abuse"? Great going, Bruce: show off your feminist stance by insulting another minority group.

    Yeah, I mean that's so GAY, amiright?

  11. Re:People who write in textbooks... on In Trial, Kindles Disappointing University Users · · Score: 1

    What's a future user?

  12. Re:Gas on US House May Pass "Cap & Trade" Bill · · Score: 1

    You're full of it. 50 miles each way? I mean, where the hell do you live? Searcy? Malvern? Fordyce? Little Rock has low housing prices, in good neighborhoods. If you can't afford the housing there (or in Fayetteville, whichever), you probably need to find a job where you live. I mean, let's be realistic, once you stop driving 50 miles a day to take that job in LR, the industries don't collapse. Rather, some soul in LR takes your place. Little Rock has plenty of people who need the jobs that people like you have taken up. You are not indispensable.

  13. Re:Parents choose their baby's name on Designer Babies · · Score: 1

    Life can quite easily be a dog show.

  14. Re:I don't see the purpose on Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? · · Score: 1

    Same enforcement? I don't know where you live, but here, cops enforce drug laws. They seek out dealers, they seek out buyers, if they suspect possession they investigate, even if that is not their original goal, it's what they will do.
    Because drugs are illegal, and alcohol is not.

  15. Re:Genre on The Importance of Game Length · · Score: 1

    RPGs aren't padded by leveling up (i.e. gaining skills) and plot (i.e. gaining experiences) , as these are intrinsic aspects of character development, and hence the RP in RPG. You're not an RPGer, that's fine, but to say that plot is "padding" in an RPG is like saying shooting guns is padding between plot-points in an FPS.