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  1. Can someone explain on Legislators Call On Twitter To Ban Hamas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    why the USA blindly jumps to the defense of Israel for everything all the time? I mean... Israel comes across as Tommy DeVito as played by Joe Pesci in Goodfellas. Crazy little guy on a hair trigger who keeps fucking everything up for everyone. And the USA without fail jumps in with WE STAND WITH THE CRAZY LITTLE NATION ON A HAIR TRIGGER.

    I don't get it.

  2. Re:How can this happen in "The nation of Laws?" on FBI Asked Megaupload To Preserve Pirated Files, Then Used Them Against Dotcom · · Score: 1

    The "Nation of Laws" got acquired in a leveraged buyout sometime in the 60s. In today's America, if the corporations take notice of you... you're fucked.

  3. Re:Sensational! on Police Raid Home of 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay User, Seize "Winnie the Pooh" Laptop · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Big Media, winning hearts and minds.

  4. Re:Arghh.... on Samsung Claims iPad Mini, iPad 4, New iPod Touch Also Infringe Patents · · Score: 1

    Let's put an end to this please. Void all current and ban any further patent suits. Then, everybody can go home and have a party with Warren (Warren Cuccurullo) to celebrate the end of patent wars!

    Bahahahaha, this is a stupid post. AND THAT'S THE WAY I LIKE IT.

  5. I call for Unskewed NCAA on Statistics Key To Success In Run-and-Gun Basketball · · Score: 1, Troll

    Anyone who believes in this so-called "System" is just a shill for the liberal elite news media. I laugh at their so-called "arithmetic" and "science".

    Also, Nate Silver is GAY.

  6. Re:woz: the boy who lived on Woz Worries Microsoft Is Now More Innovative Than Apple · · Score: 1

    Enormous corporate success? Woz hasn't been involved with Apple in any significant sense since he cashed out back in 1987. He's still technically on the payroll and owns some Apple stock, but he's had nothing to do with Apple's success in THIS century.

  7. In conclusion, open on Google Targets Android Fragmentation With Updated Terms For SDK · · Score: 1

    Where "openness" is "doing only what Google says you're allowed to do"

  8. Re:It's a sad sign of the times on Tapping Shale Reserves, US Would Become World's Top Oil Producer By 2017 · · Score: 1

    When dealing with two groups of antagonistic groups, each claiming the absolute right to possess a certain piece of land because some invisible superhero who lives in the sky said so in a 100% totally true book (you know it's 100% true, it says so in the book)... perhaps one should just sit back and let them go at it. Maybe we could supply them each with weapons to hurry things up a bit.

  9. Amazing on Windows Chief Steven Sinofsky Leaves Microsoft · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...how once people get described as "a potential successor to Steve Ballmer" they mysteriously disappear...

  10. Checkmate atheists on Supersymmetry Theory Dealt a Blow · · Score: 5, Funny

    See? Your science doesn't have all the answers.

  11. hey it's not just a threat on The Cyber Threat To the Global Oil Supply · · Score: 1

    It's a CYBER threat. That makes it more worser.

  12. marketing genius on UK Court Sanctions Apple For Non-Compliance · · Score: 1

    I'd love to see the web stats for Apple.co.uk for the past few weeks. Whether it realises this or not, the UK court has ruled that anyone wanting to see Apple acknowledge the court ruling has to see an ad for iPad Mini / iPhone 5 too.

  13. Re:Serious denial on Project Orca: How an IT Disaster Destroyed Republicans' Get-Out-The-Vote Effort · · Score: 1

    The Republican Party lost Massachusetts (where Romney lives), Michigan (Romney's home state and where his daddy was Governor), and Wisconsin (Paul Ryan's home state).

    The people who know the Republican candidates best don't want them elected.

  14. Re:Conservatives bad at High tech? on Project Orca: How an IT Disaster Destroyed Republicans' Get-Out-The-Vote Effort · · Score: 1

    He basically called Silver a nerd faggot. That's not getting caught up in election hysteria, that's bigotry.

  15. Re:Microsoft image problems on Microsoft-Built Smartphone Could Irritate Hardware Partners, Harm Nokia · · Score: 1

    Microsoft always sold more on the desktop, even today Microsoft machines outnumber Apple machines 20:1

    I daresay Apple machines outnumber Microsoft machines by a factor closer to infinity because there's no such thing as a Microsoft machine. Microsoft isn't - yet - a hardware manufacturer. If you're talking about operating-system-software licences then Microsoft peaked in 2004 with a Windows:Mac ratio of about 56:1. Now, if you include iOS as an operating system, the ratio has dropped to about 2:1.

    See:

    http://www.asymco.com/2012/07/04/the-building-and-dismantling-of-the-windows-advantage/

  16. Re:Apple's strategy on Microsoft-Built Smartphone Could Irritate Hardware Partners, Harm Nokia · · Score: 1

    Yes, of course, because nobody used mobile phones before 2007. When iPhone was launched there were literally no other mobile phones in the world.

  17. Re:OK, stick a fork in them, they're done. on Apple Hides Samsung Apology So It Can't Be Seen Without Scrolling · · Score: 1

    osx really isn't unix at all

    Someone modded this shit "informative"?

  18. Is it time on Apple Pays Only 2% Corporate Tax Outside US · · Score: 0

    for this article again? Do they get posted every time Apple posts quarterly results, or does Slashdot wait to do it annually?

  19. It'll be like Pearl Harbor on Department of Homeland Security Wants Nerds For a New "Cyber Reserve'" · · Score: 1

    ...TIMES A THOUSAND.

  20. Re:Hilarious on UK Court of Appeal Reprimands Apple Over Mandated Samsung Statement · · Score: 1

    You don't seem to understand how advertising works.

  21. truly this must be on Rasterman On The Impending Release of Enlightenment 17 · · Score: 2

    the year of Linux on the desktop!

  22. Re:Who the fuck wrote this summary on Nexus 7 and Android Convertibles Drive Massive Asus Profit · · Score: 0

    Let's imagine that we're talking about a species of animals and their long-term prospects.

    You know, it's a pretty common opinion that an asteroid impact combined with poor diet will completely eliminate most of them.

    Can you work out the rest?

  23. massive $230 million profits on Nexus 7 and Android Convertibles Drive Massive Asus Profit · · Score: 0

    Or, put another way, the amount of profit Apple generates every two and a half days.

  24. Re:Who the fuck wrote this summary on Nexus 7 and Android Convertibles Drive Massive Asus Profit · · Score: 0

    I guess you skipped reading comprehension in school, yeah?

  25. Re:Because it worked so well before on Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm, Star Wars Episode 7 Due In 2015 · · Score: 1

    You've fucked it up by treating "takeover" and "buy" as interchangeable.

    Disney bought Pixar in a deal that saw Pixar take over Disney, in the same way that Apple bought NeXT in a deal that saw NeXT take over Apple.