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  1. Re:That's ok. on Nasa Details Shuttle's Retirement · · Score: 1

    The people at the JPL will be crushed to hear that.

  2. Re:Blame the telecoms for government-forced demand on Telecom Amnesty Opponents Back New Amendment · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Those are personal infractions of individual members of the government, not crimes by the government.

  3. Re:Proof that lawyers have no soul on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 1

    The lawyer was telling the truth.

  4. Re:just respect the Terms of Service on User Charged With Felony For Using Fake Name On MySpace · · Score: 1

    You visit several websites per minute? Lay off the meth.

  5. Re:What the.... on User Charged With Felony For Using Fake Name On MySpace · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's what most laws are for: fucking with undesirables.

  6. Re:Browser-based OS on The Next Browser Scripting Language Is — C? · · Score: 0, Troll

    If your sysadmins were worth a damn it wouldn't matter if you needed to push updates to 5 computers or 50,000.

  7. Re:KDE .. vs ... anything else? on KDE 4.1 Beta 2 – Two Steps Forward, One Step Back? · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you like Gnome, you'll love KDE4. It lacks many of the same features Gnome lacks.

  8. Re:Frozen? on Freeze On US Solar Plant Applications Lifted · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So your complaint is that environmentalists care about the environment, not people? I have a similar complaint about humanitarians. They don't care about the environment.

  9. Re:ICQ Who? OH! YEAH! on ICQ Starts Blocking Alternative Clients · · Score: 1

    I oddly feel like I just wasted my time, the time I was already doing nothing with, by typing this post.

    Imagine how I feel. I read it.

  10. Re:Not Sure I'm Getting It on Intel Says to Prepare For "Thousands of Cores" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Pleasing a woman is easy. Give her your credit card.

  11. Re:Apple on Apple Laptop Upgrades Costing 200% More Than Dells · · Score: 1

    Actually parts for Ferrari laptops don't cost all that much more.

  12. Re:Apple on Apple Laptop Upgrades Costing 200% More Than Dells · · Score: 1

    Just look at Microsoft's 2003 SEC filing on the judges they bribed.

  13. Re:Why alarm bells? on Firefox 3 Already Rules the Roost · · Score: 1

    "It doesn't affect you as much if you totally ignore ads in a way that you don't watch or read them." Do you even know what subliminal means?

  14. Re:Why alarm bells? on Firefox 3 Already Rules the Roost · · Score: 1

    If remote systems not running arbitrary code on your system is a feature you're not interested in, no wonder you like IE.

  15. Re:Gun RIGHTS! on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    I've met more than a few people who hold the 2nd amendment as the most important right

    That's because an armed man can say and do whatever he wants until another armed person stops them. Rights are irrelevant.
  16. Re:Couch potatoes pretend to be Rambos on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    Lethal firearms do not make sense for home defence for the simple reason that you are infinitely more likely to shoot a drunken son or neighbour who missed the door number, rather than an actual criminal intruder.

    I'm just as likely to stab them in the dark, too. It's not like I'm going to announce my presence if all I have is a knife to defend myself. I'm gonna sneak up and slit their throat if I can.
  17. Re:"weapons in common use at the time" on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If I'm not mistaken, the firearms in use at the time the Second Amendment was written, were so slow to operate that native Americans well experienced with bow and arrow could "fire" 8 shots to 1 from the gun-toter. If I'm not mistaken you needed a printing press to excercise your freedom of the press. The internet is so much faster and more powerful, maybe we should rethink the first amendment, too.
  18. Re:Surprised on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is very simple: In (most of) Europe citizens are not allowed to bear arms and very few people get shot. So Europe is like Canada, except the citizens aren't allowed to own guns?

    More guns in circulation just makes more guns available to total idiots and criminals. Replace the word guns with cars, knives, alcohol, computers, or anything else you can think of and it's just as true. return True
  19. Re:16 steps? on Managing the PlayStation 3 Wi-Fi Network · · Score: 2

    Let's ignore the fac t you have to buy Xbox Live.

  20. Re:Then STOP releasing the product! on Bill Gates Chews Out Microsoft · · Score: 1

    1. What is a winamp? What is a real player? Is there a fake player? Naming is not a problem unique to Linux, and mplayer is only slightly harder to understand than media player. 2. sudo apt-cache search podcast

  21. Re:Bad Valuations on MySpace's Melting Makes Murdoch Mad · · Score: 1

    Myspace has paying customers, specifically those who sell music and goods via embeded stores. Granted Myspace isn't the best medium for that, but it's there.

  22. Re:Don't be so quick to judge! on House Votes For Telco Immunity; Obama Will Support? · · Score: 1

    I like the pay for what you use approach of Libertarians. That's why I bought a house in a city with no property tax. I pay for garbage pickup, sewer, police, fire, etc. If I don't pay, I won't go to prison, I'll just be living in a stinky pile of burning, crime-ridden garbage, as is my right.

  23. Re:CDs are still readable on Best Way To Store Digital Video For 20 Years? · · Score: 1

    The trick is to not throw away the hardware the drives were attached to, and if you do, copy the data off beforehand.

  24. Re:Thus the "handed" portion on Bill Gates Reveals Secret of Microsoft's Success · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's what we're mad about, not the monopoly abuse.

  25. Re:Thus the "handed" portion on Bill Gates Reveals Secret of Microsoft's Success · · Score: 2, Interesting

    he IBM PC was available with 3 OS choices. And it currently has even more OS choices. And Microsoft is still a monopoly.

    To say nothing of how it is - by definition - impossible to be a monopoly in a "market" you created. They didn't create any market they have ever competed in.