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  1. Re:That makes things worse. on Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    On the contrary, the doctor has avoided harm to his other patients. Every new born baby or person with a weakened immune system is at risk from the preventable infections his unvaccinated patients bring into his clinic.

  2. Slightly more nuanced on Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers · · Score: 1

    I'm a little disturbed by the reaction above. A more nuanced reason to ban unvaccinated people would be that they endanger every other patient with a weakened immune system in the waiting room. I don't see why a medical association would recommend against a patient ban for this reason.

  3. Re:Today's lesson on UK Police Charge Suspected Anonymous Spokesman · · Score: -1

    It's "you're just a bunch of script kiddies", not "your just a bunch of script kiddies".

  4. Re:this is the whole point of auctions on How the New Spectrum Bill Would Harm the Tech Community · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're implying that if you don't pay 10 billion you won't use them for something that produces revenue? Using them to produce revenue doesn't mean they're used for something that benefits society. Comparing the USA to Russia is useless.

  5. Only in America... on How the New Spectrum Bill Would Harm the Tech Community · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations.

  6. A change of mind? on Programming Is Heading Back To School · · Score: 0

    Wasn't the consensus to outsource the actual work to China and save the Americans for the difficult work of being middle manager morons and sales cretins?

  7. Re:It's a little early... on Have We Reached Maximum Sustainable Population Size? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Climate change wasn't mentioned at all. Maybe the author meant that there's more people living in tornado prone areas.

  8. Re:Mean while near Tokyo on Japan Doubles Fukushima Radiation Leak Estimate · · Score: 1

    That adds up to about 50 milisieverts per year, just about the maximum you'd want to allow for a permanently inhabited area.

  9. Screw anyone who dismissed privacy. on US Citizen Visiting Thailand Arrested For Blog Posting · · Score: 1

    This, people, is why privacy IS important after all.

  10. Imaginary Spacecraft on NASA Rejoins Space Race With Manned Deep Space Craft · · Score: 1

    Because making far fetched plans is cheaper than actually doing manned spaceflight.

  11. Re:Agreed. on Fable III Dev: Used Game Sales More Costly Than Piracy · · Score: 1

    Your comparison to video releases is flawed, since selling second hand DVDs is not regulated either.

  12. Re:Amazon was offended, end of story on Amazon Removes Yaoi Manga Titles From Kindle Store · · Score: 1

    A company with the dominance and influence of Amazon must be held to higher standards, for the common good.

  13. Trust issues on DRM Drives Gamers To Piracy, Says Good Old Games · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If DRM is a result of the publisher's distrust in me, then my boycot is a result of my distrust in them.

  14. Troll island on Disarm Internet Trolls, Gently · · Score: 2

    Why not isolate the trolls by showing their comments only to themselves, but not to other readers.

  15. Lobbying in 5, 4 3... on US To Fire Up Big Offshore Wind Energy Projects · · Score: 1

    Oh dear. It'll cost the oil and coal lobby at least that much in "campaign contributions" to make this problem go away.

  16. We were asking for it... on Amazon Taking Down Erotica, Removing From Kindles · · Score: 1

    When did it all start going wrong? How did we willingly turn over control of our culture to greedy corporates? We condemn regimes with censorship, but are blind to what we have become ourselves.

  17. Re:LibreOffice will join the ranks of Linux... on 33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org · · Score: 1

    This is not just what happens to open source software, forking happens to life the universe and everything. Life forks all the time, so why not obey entropy? The result is humans developing from pond-scum, instead of sickly inbred poodles from wolves.

  18. Lefties on Australia To Fight iPod Use By Pedestrians · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It would help if they didn't drive on the wrong side of the road here... (recent immigrant)

  19. Endless love... on Microsoft Claims 'We Love Open Source' · · Score: 1

    They love it so much, they just about love it to death.

  20. Standing on the shoulders of giants. on NAMCO Takes Down Student Pac-man Project · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A vital part of human culture is that every generation of people can build upon the innovations of the previous. This is how we got from living in caves to reaching for the stars. Greedy corporations are systematically destroying this mechanism for their own personal gain. This must be stopped or our civilization will have no future. Lawrence Lessig dat a much better job at explaining this than I do: http://remix.lessig.org/

  21. Re:In Soviet Brazil on Brazil Forbids DRM On the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    But not in the USA, where is works for the good of the corporation. Like everything else.

  22. "programmers"? on Flash Is Not a Right · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I find that most "programmers" that jumped on the internet bandwagon because of hype, are only capable of cutting and pasting code from Google into ready made frameworks. Having your framework yanked out from under you must be really scary in that case.

  23. A serious attitude problem. on Microsoft Claims Google Chrome Steals Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    Somehow Microsoft always come across as socially awkward dorks, especially by lashing out so randomly.

  24. Banned in 5... 4... 3... on Doctors Skirt FDA To Heal Patients With Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure our patriarchy will decide against the practice of miracle cures. After all... only Jesus was supposed to do this stuff.

  25. Shadenfreude on Infinity Ward Lead Developers Axed Unexpectedly · · Score: 1

    It's nice to see Activision committing suicide like this.