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  1. Re:monopoly on free service... on Senators Recommend FTC Perform Antitrust Investigation Of Google · · Score: 1

    The EU is one of the few places more retarded than the US.

  2. Re:monopoly on free service... on Senators Recommend FTC Perform Antitrust Investigation Of Google · · Score: 1

    Slanted search is exactly what made Google good.
    Do you really want your search to return sites that use the words you typed in most?
    Or....
    Do you want Google slanting the raw search and adding in stuff to attempt to figure out what you are looking for and presenting you with that?

  3. Re:Happy Holidays from the Golden Girls! on Kindle Fire and Nook Upgrades Kill Root Access · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The word you are looking for is Whoosh!

  4. Re:Why don't they just ... on New Kind of Metal Theorized To Be In the Earth's Lower Mantle · · Score: 1

    I would just go with a General Products Hull #2.

  5. Re:Bleeding Edge Aviation on Fatal Problems Continue To Plague F-22 Raptor · · Score: 1

    Can't be as bad as Samsung. :)

  6. Re:didn't notice? on Domestic Surveillance Drones Could Spur Tougher Privacy Laws · · Score: 1

    Posting to fix a bad mod.

  7. Re:Seems like an obvious money-maker to me on Inside a Last-Ditch Effort To Save the Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    Yup. Shuttle sucks at satellites.
    Though to be fair a Virgin Galactic ticket while much less expensive gets you a lot less as well.

  8. Re:Ho Hum on Is Jupiter Dissolving Its Rocky Core? · · Score: 1

    The heavy carbon dioxide that makes up most of Venus's atmosphere tends to stick around. Though Venus is losing much of its Hydrogen and Helium to the solar winds.

  9. Re:Sounds cool on Sprint Orders All OEMs To Strip Carrier IQ From Their Phones · · Score: 2

    I have been a Sprint customer for 13 years now.
    Never had a problem with coverage. YMMV.
    Never had a bad customer service issue with them.
    But until very recently. (Last 2 or 3 years)
    They had shit phones. They worked but Verizon and ATT had all the newest shit.
    My friends on Verizon and T-Mobile were getting decent Android handsets before me.

  10. Re:They don't want to on Congress's Techno-Ignorance No Longer Funny · · Score: 1

    If YOU were elected to Congress, how many areas are YOU an expert in?

    The exact number is areas I decide to take upon myself to make laws in.

  11. Re:They don't want to on Congress's Techno-Ignorance No Longer Funny · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well. Either you allow no one to make signs, commercials, hold rallys, or do anything that will cost some amount of money or you do.
    If you choose to allow no one to spend a dime of their own money to support or oppose a cause or candidate then you are definitely running into a free speech area.
    If you allow any amount to be spent you get some problems.
    If you allow certain amounts to get spent in certain ways you get loopholes.

    I say fuck it.
    Allow any US citizen or corporation spend as much as they want.
    Then all contributions of any type must be put into a publicly accessible database within 48 hours.
    All contributions must be stopped within one week of the vote.
    All failures result in prison.

    Easy and cheap to implement. Easy to follow. People can make informed choices.

    If people want to vote in a politician that takes $450,000 from Wal-Mart and the people know that this is the case then they get what they deserve.

  12. Re:Solution to US debt problem on Satellite Spots China's First Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 1

    Harpoon FTW.
    Awesome naval combat game that you could play with friends, in the living room at your moms house!

  13. Re:Why don't U.S. carriers also use ski-jump? on Satellite Spots China's First Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 2

    a steam catapult won't work at "half power", so if you tried to launch an UAV, it would be ripped apart by the catapult operating at full power.

    I am not entirely sure that is accurate.
    As far as I remember Somebody on the carrier has the job of checking the weight of the aircraft they are about to launch to set the catapult correctly.
    Think they do it for the arresting gear as well.

  14. Re:Tuition math lesson on Oracle Sued For 'Extortion, Lies' By Montclair State University · · Score: 0, Troll

    So you are saying that many more parents now are failing their children now?
    I agree.

  15. Re:You are part of the problem on Oracle Sued For 'Extortion, Lies' By Montclair State University · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well. If you do not want to blame your self for making bad decisions. Then you should maybe according to your scenario you should blame your teachers.
    Of course the most important thing I ever learned I did not learn from a teacher.

    I learned that when you look anywhere other than to your self to find the problems in your life you remove all power of being able to change it your self.
    Blaming others may make you feel good for a moment but never leads to a solution.
    Finding your part (How ever small) in bad situation allows you to improve and avoid it next time.

  16. Re:It's not lying on Oracle Sued For 'Extortion, Lies' By Montclair State University · · Score: 5, Funny

    perhaps you didn't bother to read it and simply read the sparse /. summary?

    Perhaps you forgot where you were? :)

  17. Re:Not a Person on Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester" · · Score: 1

    Not to worry. The Muslim Brotherhood is there to fill in the gap.

  18. Re:What about the Tea Party Movement? on Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester" · · Score: 2

    Rush Limbaugh is no friend of the tea party.
    I am sure he would like to be but truth be told Rush is all about helping the Republicans and taking down the Democrats.
    Tea party is about a smaller, less intrusive government.
    Republicans and Democrats both fear a smaller government.

    You show me a Democrat that wants a smaller government running against a Republican that wants to enact SOPA or keep voting up the patriot act, and you will see me vote for a Democrat.

    I know that you think that the tea party is some sort of republican astro turf fake crap. If you look in to it though you will find that a great many of those in the have no love for either party.

  19. Re:What about the Tea Party Movement? on Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As a person who actually believes in personal responsibility and in the power of small communities of people working together, and as a person who has attended tea party rallies. I for one believe that there would not be many in the tea party that would want to be grouped with OWS or those people in Greece.

    A bunch of spoiled people demanding more free shit is the antitheses of what the tea party is about.

  20. Re:What about the Tea Party Movement? on Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester" · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    How batcrap crazy do you have to be to see the nihilistic occupiers who violated individual rights, living in filth, committing murder, robbery, rape, assault and call that rational and constructive?

    You just say it over and over again many times.
    Then you have your buddies in the press repeat it a few hundred more times.
    After all that it just sort of becomes truth.

  21. Re:Citation please on NTSB Recommends Cell Phone Ban For Drivers · · Score: 1

    He must be a cop.
    You know how it pisses them off if you dare to question anything they do.

  22. Re:Mandatory Notice on House Panel Moving Forward With SOPA · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Umm.
    Thanks for the clarification.
    The ability of you to ferret out this well done post successfully appearing as an official Slashdot / Microsoft statement would surely have worked against most people here if not for you.
    Thank you again from saving us all from believing this.

    If I did not post this I would have had to post some karma killing rant about what a fucking idiot you must be.

  23. Re:Forced Voting? on Publicly Available Russian Election Results Hint At Fraud · · Score: 0

    Any reason that you think Democrats are any better?
    They are all whores.
    Democrats are whored out to public employee unions and lawyers.
    Republicans are whored out to big pharma and big telco.

    They all want you to just STFU and vote out of fear of what the other guy will do.

  24. Re:Please no... on Internet Explorer Users Have Low Risk Intelligence · · Score: 2, Funny

    These are the same people I have at work that do not know what I am talking about when I ask them to open "the browser".
    After a few tense moments they ell at me about why I do not just say open "the internet".

    Fuck I hate my job.

  25. Re:Cheaper on Clothier Slammed For Using 'Perfect' Virtual Model · · Score: 0

    Wrong.
    I am sure that most of us believe that most of those GQ "Pretty Boys" are only capable of modeling and appearances in Twilight movies.