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  1. Re:GITMO still open? on WikiLeaks Releases Guantanamo Prisoner Files · · Score: 1

    Which part of the phrase "inalienable human rights" don't you understand? The rights don't just apply to citizens.

    Also if you're going to claim that rights can be suspended during wartime (a reasonable claim), then when has torture ever produced useful intelligence? From a purely pragmatic point of view GITMO serves no useful purpose.

  2. Re:What... on Self-Wiping Hard Drives From Toshiba · · Score: 1

    This is a hardware /dev/null. Think how much quicker it will be.

  3. Re:Punishment to fit the consequences on Elderly Georgian Woman Cuts Armenian Internet · · Score: 1

    I think it's sad that you got modded funny. Your post had a serious point.

  4. Re:All I see is on Elderly Georgian Woman Cuts Armenian Internet · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't steal a fibre optic cable...

    (But you would use said fibre optic to pirate a movie).

  5. Re:Uh, don't we maybe NEED that hormone? on Accidental Find May Lead To a Cure For Baldness · · Score: 2

    You don't need to withdraw with either condoms or the pill. That's the whole point of contraception.

    Both are 100% effective if used correctly.

  6. Re:Uh oh on Pirated Android App Shames Freeloaders · · Score: 1

    That's only a USA thing where you pay to receive messages. I haven't heard of that anywhere else.

  7. Re:PATHETIC. on Top French Chess Players Suspended For Cheating · · Score: 1

    No mod points today, but this post deserves much better than 1 Funny it is currently at.

  8. Re:Why not just block attachments? on Aussie PM Office Calls For Government Ban On Gmail, Hotmail · · Score: 1

    I don't think it's to silence whistle-blowers. If you want to blow the whistle you could buy a cheap usb stick, download everything onto that and send out the info from an internet cafe or someone's unsecured wi-fi. The wikileaks comment wasn't in TFA from what I saw.

    It's as simple as government business should not be done on free webmail accounts due to security risks. Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet were using gmail for work. These people are the staff for the top MPs. Cabinet documents are supposed to be confidential for 30 years (being reduced to 20 over the next 10 years). I'll remind you that some prominent peoples gmail accounts have been hacked recently, e.g. Chinese human rights activists.

  9. Mandatory on Journey To the Mantle of the Earth By 2020 · · Score: 1

    Drill Baby Drill!

  10. Re:Cannot believe on Duke Nukem Forever Multiplayer Mode Predictably Controversial · · Score: 1

    Whoooooooooosh!

    (unless Grab has a second meaning I'm unfamiliar with).

  11. Re:Slow! on Firefox 4 Released! · · Score: 1

    I find it hard to believe that FF4 is using over a gig of RAM (what my Win7 + IE9 VM uses).

  12. Re:Does it still have the AwfulBar? on Firefox 4 Released! · · Score: 1

    I have my bookmarks sorted into folders too. Despite this, I use the awesome bar because typing a few letters then pressing down arrow, enter is way quicker than navigating through two or three levels of menus.

  13. Re:Crops on Pepsi Moving To Bottles Made of Plant Material · · Score: 1

    I think they'd be scratching their heads at the fact we built PET bottles that last for thousands of years and threw them away after one use. Why did we bury all these perfectly good bottles?

  14. Re:Wow on Potentially Great Sci-fi Films Still Due In 2011 · · Score: 1

    What about the prequel? It's an epic story starting at the creation of the universe and describing the history of God's people from then until 400 years before the birth of the boy.

    You'd probably have enough material to make several movies out of it.

  15. Re:Lets face it on Potentially Great Sci-fi Films Still Due In 2011 · · Score: 1

    The I, Robot movie stank. No plot, the special effects were cheesy. As for exploring the three laws, never in the books did they remove the first law so the robots would be killers bent on destroying humanity. That's a pretty shallow look at the laws and how they interact.

    I agree that it would have been hard to follow the book faithfully and make a compelling movie. Tossing out the book and putting Asimov's name on a turd is something I like less.

  16. Re:Sounds like Warcraft on Angry Birds Exec Says Console Games Are Dying · · Score: 1

    How dare Blizzard copy Games Workshop. Warhammer is such an original setting and never copied anything from anyone, especially not Tolkein. /sarcasm.

  17. Re: the clean West on Ariz. Team Seeks Fossil-Fuel Cost Parity, Using Solar Energy Concentrators · · Score: 1

    China isn't clean; pick your pollutant there's plenty of it being dumped into the environment. And Greenhouse gas is one type of pollution (not the only one but its all the media goes on about these days).

    http://www.chinahush.com/2009/10/21/amazing-pictures-pollution-in-china/

  18. Re: your sig on Is Apple Turning Into the Next "Evil Empire"? · · Score: 1

    Alex: name all keybindings not used by emacs.
    Me: What is the empty set?

  19. Re:What percentage use FB again? on Facebook Linked To One In Five Divorces In US · · Score: 1

    My car purchase was linked to the Internet. I did all the research online of what I wanted and what was available in the local area. I'm pretty sure this idea could be applied to cheating too if you were so inclined.

  20. Re:Other features on Panasonic Launches Beautifying Camera · · Score: 1

    I've got two questions: "How much?" and "Give it to me!"

  21. Re:what's his gain? Lots on Activists Seek Repeal of Ban On Incandescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    People don't switch to the superior solution. They buy the cheapest. There is good empirical evidence that this is the case.

  22. Re:The fix is in on Julian Assange To Be Extradited To Sweden · · Score: 1

    How does allegedly tampering with a condom make one a rapist? Sure if he did it it's a sexual crime, but it's not rape.

    I guess its too much to expect facts to be reported. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

  23. Re:Not the same thing on How Watchmen Killed 'R'-rated Fantasy Movies · · Score: 1

    Amadeus? Seriously?

  24. Re:No sex in space? on Infertility Could Impede Human Space Colonization · · Score: 1

    Just float around and think of England.

  25. Re:Dangerous book w/ incomplete instructions on FBI Releases File On the Anarchist Cookbook · · Score: 1

    A quote I read once: "The biggest fear in America is not having a gun pointed at you. It's not being able to point one back."