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  1. Re:I expected China, but here in the US? on The City Where People Are Afraid To Breathe · · Score: 5, Informative

    Most of the medical professionals and vetrinarians in my area of southwest Utah know about it.

    It's no secret.

    People gotta live somewhere. Fires, floods, earthquakes, malaria, congressmen, natural radiation, natural heavy metals in ground water... every place has some problem.

    It isn't like we are talking about bubonic plague running rampant. What should the government do? Spray bleach over everything? Kick people off their own property?

  2. Re:A whole 100,000 bucks? on MS Tackles CS Education Crisis With Popularity Contest · · Score: 1

    We ALL lead sad an pointless lives my friend.

    But you perpetuating the lie that people need to be handed MORE and MORE money so they can go to school? You just make things worse. Get a cheap appartment, get a job, budget, don't waste money on binge-drinking parties, enjoy the salad days. It sounds like you figured it out, I know I did. Now hold the rest of the world to the same standard.

  3. Re:A whole 100,000 bucks? on MS Tackles CS Education Crisis With Popularity Contest · · Score: 1

    Then why the cry-ass entitlement complaint about 100k?
    I used my GI Bill and ACF, and NG FTA, and worked full time during school.
    I paid my dues, and worked for what I have. Now remember not to sound like a little baby because someone is offering "only" $100,000 for school? No one owes anyone anything. God forbid people have to work for their educations.

  4. Re:A whole 100,000 bucks? on MS Tackles CS Education Crisis With Popularity Contest · · Score: 0, Troll

    You must be an east-coast trust-fund baby if you think room and board are really part of your education.

  5. Re:A whole 100,000 bucks? on MS Tackles CS Education Crisis With Popularity Contest · · Score: 1

    what colleges are YOU averaging???

  6. Re:fourth amendment vs. first amendment on EFF Sues NSA, Justice Department, FBI · · Score: 5, Interesting

    here's the basic premise in the founding of the enlightenment model US (boiled down):
    rights were given to you by your creator, not by your government.
    your government didn't give them to so, they can't take them away.

    if any right is allowed to be redefined as a privilege, or if it is re-cast as something "given" to you by a government then all rights can be redefined or recast. and if they are redefined, they can be taken away arbitrarilly. so they are all equally important. if you want to keep any of your rights then you must be pro-gun, skateboarding isn't a crime, don't spy on us, free speach even if i don't like it, punk rock anarchist. anything less is just a slow slide into slavery.

    god knows we have too many people who only care about the rights they feel like using. conservative and liberal.

  7. Re:Gattaca or Minority Report? on Scientists Seek Biomarkers For Violence · · Score: 1

    and a track record of FUTURISTIC fiction at that.

  8. Re:So what then? on Scientists Seek Biomarkers For Violence · · Score: 2

    What if such a person could gain enough experience to control those impulses?

    ....or use them in a criminal prosecution defense strategy.

  9. Re:Definitely... on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    War isn't the same as the civil society you are accustomed to.
    The Nazis weren't brought back to New York for a well-televised celebrity trial either.
    The problem *might* be we've gotten so accustomed to being convenienced and entitled, soft in the comforts of our civil societies, and educated by television shows about police work and court-room docudramas that we forgot what war is like.

  10. Re:Definitely... on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    I see you got modded down. Which is wrong. I think what you are saying is the exact right way to go about it.

  11. Re:Definitely... on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That wasn't an accident.
    The US neither invented slavery, nor was the last country to give up slavery. The US was one of the few counties to fight the global slave trade on the high seas back before it was cool.

  12. Re:Definitely... on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 0

    I wonder if the community activist had a different world view BEFORE he was president.

    Then after he got elected, he found out what kind of people he had at gitmo. Probably learned all kinds of things about how the world works.

    And suddenly he "has the wolf by the ears" as it were. If he just magically closes gitmo, maybe he will create even more problems he will be blamed for (from his hypothetical new view).

    Just wondering. It's like you don't want us to kill terrorists, but you don't want us to capture them either. Or you want to fight a war using civil police procedures. Maybe Obama just figured out that your way isn't realistic even if it does play well in The Huffington Post.

  13. Re:nothing new... on The Little Bomb-Detecting Device That Couldn't · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'd really like you to put your name on this post so we can have a discussion.

  14. Re:nothing new... on The Little Bomb-Detecting Device That Couldn't · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ahh. the salt peter myth.

    No, I "broke one off" there many a time my friend.

    The kits tested for nitrate-based and some others I don't remember. Octyl-based? Wished I still had the little hand-out.

    We had a VBIED there later on. So I can see residue then. But not before. We DID fire our weapons all the time, but not over the lunch meat! There are nitrates in lunch meats, but if lunch meat causes a false-positive then your kit isn't really worth much.

  15. nothing new... on The Little Bomb-Detecting Device That Couldn't · · Score: 5, Informative

    In Ramadi '05 we had these cool spray kits.
    It was a little plastic case with several sprays and swabs with some instructions for various kinds of explosive testing.

    One day we caught these dudes out on the desert who would dig up UXO's and sell them to local insurgents who would use them for IEDs.
    Lat Long: 33.16845,43.635263
    We had been trying to catch them for a while but they were on motorcycles... try catching a motorcycle in an up-armor hmmwv.

    When we caught them, they didn't have any explosives on them. So we though, hey... why not try out this kit?

    They tested positive for 2 kinds of explosives. So we detained them, shipped them off to the detention facility with all the appropriate paper work and evidence... as best we could since we aren't investigators by trade.

    So we are back at the OP, thinking how bad-ass we are. Then we get the idea to play with the kit some more. We tested our hands, HESCO barriers, lunch meat, hmmwv windows... everything tested positive. Guess the kits didn't really work as advertised but every unit had one.

    Of course, maybe our kit was bad. Or maybe we didn't use the kit correctly. Or there was really explosive residue on everything.

    At least the kits weren't WHY we detained them. They were going to be detained anyway. But the Military being dazzled by salesmen or shiny new stuff is nothing new.

  16. Re:not surprised at racism and naive WASPs on George Zimmerman Acquitted In Death of Trayvon Martin · · Score: 4, Informative

    After the audio of the call was released, reports by CNN[346] and other news outlets alleged that Zimmerman had said "fucking coons" two minutes and twenty-one seconds (2:21) into the call. Two weeks later on April 4, 2012, CNN claimed that enhanced audio revealed that Zimmerman had said "fucking cold."[347] The following day, April 5, 2012, CNN's Martin Savidge reported that forensic audio expert Tom Owen claimed it was "fucking punks."[348] It is said to be "fucking punks" in the affidavit of probable cause, dated April 11, 2012.[31] Other reviewers of the call have offered alternate interpretations of what was said, some labeling it "unintelligible."

    But hey, if a dude is smashing your head into the pavement, you have no right to protect yourself. Because... racism! or something!

  17. Re:So happy on Google Raises Campaign Funds For Climate Change Denier · · Score: 0, Troll

    Really?
    It seems like socialists took over.
    I don't want to pay for your kids breakfast, but if I refuse then people with guns come to my house and take all my posessions.
    I haven't seen a corporation with that power yet.

  18. Re:It costs the government NOTHING. on What the Government Pays To Snoop On You · · Score: 2

    See also: slave labor.

  19. cost. on Russian Federal Guard Service "Upgrades" To Electric Typewriters · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's probably cheaper than trying to out-bid American hipsters for old Remington typewriters.

  20. Re:less than human? on Orson Scott Card Pleads 'Tolerance' For Ender's Game Movie · · Score: 1

    I'm from southern Utah. I get a reminded of polygamy every weekend at Walmart. (:

  21. Re:Yet another biased Slashdot story on VLC And Secunia Fighting Over Vulnerability Reports · · Score: 2

    Yes, but for MISSION CRITICAL .mkv playback, VLC just isn't an option.

    Like, say... porn.

  22. Re:... citation? on VLC And Secunia Fighting Over Vulnerability Reports · · Score: 1

    From a journalistic standpoint, that last sentance DOES need a citation. It stands out even worse because the other statements are well cited.

  23. Re:less than human? on Orson Scott Card Pleads 'Tolerance' For Ender's Game Movie · · Score: 1

    polygyn

    I see what you did there!

  24. less than human? on Orson Scott Card Pleads 'Tolerance' For Ender's Game Movie · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How many authors (or chicken restaurant owners) would treat polygamists as "less than human" by supporting laws against plural marriage?

  25. Re:your nearest gun is here on UCSD Lecturer Releases Geotagging Application For "Dangerous Guns and Owners" · · Score: 1

    The Osaka School Massacre : 8 killed, 15 wounded.

    This makes fascinating reading, actually:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_attacks_related_to_primary_schools

    And those are just the "primary" schools!