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  1. Re:Surprised? on VK CEO Fired, Says Company Under Kremlin Control · · Score: 2

    That's propaganda. They have the form of Communism but not the function.

  2. Re:Surprised? on VK CEO Fired, Says Company Under Kremlin Control · · Score: 2

    Putin seems to want the USSR back but without Communism as its form of government, though still with the USSR's authoritarianism. Kind of like how China isn't really Communist anymore.

  3. Re:Expensive Middle Class Sport Losing Patrons on In a Hole, Golf Courses Experiment With 15-inch Holes · · Score: 1

    This may depend on where you live, but golf seems like a mid-upper middle class pastime and bowling & mini-golf as lower-mid middle class.

  4. Re:Turtleman speaks on Obama Delays Decision On Keystone Pipeline Yet Again · · Score: 0

    That's a lot fewer jobs than the Republicans killed with their continual obstructionism and focus on social issues.

  5. Re:Don't be ridiculous on Cody Wilson Interview at Reason: Happiness Is a 3D Printed Gun · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    By the NRA fundamentalists' logic, we shouldn't have laws because criminals ignore laws anyway.

  6. Re:So - who's in love with the government again? on Beer Price Crisis On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    Right, but the point is that since Congress won't do anything, then we either let FDA make new regs on their own initiative or we potentially allow dangerous conditions to fester. There really ought to be checks and balances involved, but Congress won't do their job, so...

  7. Re:So - who's in love with the government again? on Beer Price Crisis On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    At this point the alternatives are either FDA doing what they're doing, or never getting Congress to vote in new regulations. Don't kid yourself that today's congressional Republicans will let any industrial regulations go through.

  8. Re:As I Recall on Ask Slashdot: Hungry Students, How Common? · · Score: 1

    That's crazy, because multivitamins are dead cheap: something like $15 for most of a year's supply.

  9. Re:A bit of background for slashdotters on VA Supreme Court: Michael Mann Needn't Turn Over All His Email · · Score: 1

    Dah, sorry, s/North Carolina/Virginia/ .

  10. Re:A bit of background for slashdotters on VA Supreme Court: Michael Mann Needn't Turn Over All His Email · · Score: 2

    Yep. Mann was also investigated by former North Carolina AG and failed gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli, basically for political reasons - Cooch wanted to punish Mann for daring to question Republican orthodoxy on AGW. The case was thrown out for lack of evidence.

  11. Re:Model M Keyboard FTW on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 1

    You can still find new motherboards with one or sometimes even two PS/2 ports.

  12. Re:Model M Keyboard FTW on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 1

    Mine was built in February 1988, just a few days after my younger cousin. Works like new, but there are times when I wish for proper USB hotplug and the extra 3 keys.

  13. Re:Quick question on Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's true. I hated Unity with a fiery passion around 12.04. I still dislike it (largely because of poor discoverability), but it's a great deal more bearable now.

  14. Re:Quite logical reaction on Student Records Kids Who Bully Him, Then Gets Threatened With Wiretapping Charge · · Score: 1

    Says the Internet Tough Guy who'd apparently like to shoot up a school to prove something, yeah. Fuck off.

  15. Re:It's crap on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    As I posted elsethread:

    Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution reads in part:

    The Congress shall have power...
    To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
    [...]
    To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
    To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

    In other words, it was intended that we have no standing army[1] and that instead we have a militia of armed citizens that could be quickly mustered to "execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions", and for this militia to be governed and regulated by rules promulgated by Congress (but ultimately under the command of the President as commander-in-chief).

    The bit about "suppressing insurrections" is particularly damning of the idiots who think the intent for the Second Amendment was to give us the ability to overthrow the government. Even in George Washington's presidency the militia was used to suppress an insurrection (the Whiskey Rebellion), so it's quite obvious that the intent was to have the "well regulated militia" be our primary fighting force at least until a proper army could be mustered and fielded, and so the right for people to keep and bear arms was meant to make sure we had a militia capable of fighting.

    Since we now have a permanent standing army, there's no longer any reason under the original intent for citizens to have an unrestricted right to keep and bear arms.

    I am not making any arguments as to whether relying on a militia rather than a standing army is a good one, I'm just going for the "original intent" argument that gun-rights people have such a huge boner for.

    [1] which is why we have the biannual vestigial fig-leaf of the National Defense Authorization bill.

  16. Re:Militia, then vs now on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Bullshit on anyone getting 12+ rounds a minute from a single-shot muzzle-loading anything. You're just wanking now.

  17. Re:Quite logical reaction on Student Records Kids Who Bully Him, Then Gets Threatened With Wiretapping Charge · · Score: 0

    Oh my. You really have no idea how hilarious your posturing is, do you?

  18. Re:Quite logical reaction on Student Records Kids Who Bully Him, Then Gets Threatened With Wiretapping Charge · · Score: -1, Troll

    For the record, your mother is simply delightful.

  19. Re:Quite logical reaction on Student Records Kids Who Bully Him, Then Gets Threatened With Wiretapping Charge · · Score: 0

    Sure you would, tough guy.

  20. Re:Militia, then vs now on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution reads in part:

    The Congress shall have power...
    To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
    [...]
    To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
    To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

    In other words, it was intended that we have no standing army[1] and that instead we have a militia of armed citizens that could be quickly mustered to "execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions", and for this militia to be governed and regulated by rules promulgated by Congress (but ultimately under the command of the President as commander-in-chief).

    The bit about "suppressing insurrections" is particularly damning of the idiots who think the intent for the Second Amendment was to give us the ability to overthrow the government. Even in George Washington's presidency the militia was used to suppress an insurrection (the Whiskey Rebellion), so it's quite obvious that the intent was to have the "well regulated militia" be our primary fighting force at least until a proper army could be mustered and fielded, and so the right for people to keep and bear arms was meant to make sure we had a militia capable of fighting.

    Since we now have a permanent standing army, there's no longer any reason under the original intent for citizens to have an unrestricted right to keep and bear arms.

    I am not making any arguments as to whether relying on a militia rather than a standing army is a good one, I'm just going for the "original intent" argument that gun-rights people have such a huge boner for.

    [1] which is why we have the biannual vestigial fig-leaf of the National Defense Authorization bill.

  21. Re:Quite logical reaction on Student Records Kids Who Bully Him, Then Gets Threatened With Wiretapping Charge · · Score: 0

    Internet Tough Guy detected. You wouldn't do any of those things, cupcake, you're just a talker.

  22. Re:Trust No One on Snowden Used the Linux Distro Designed For Internet Anonymity · · Score: 1

    In other words, don't use any technology unless you developed it yourself, smelted the raw materials yourself, &c.

    How much do you trust the evidence of your senses?

  23. Re:Whonix is another alternative on Snowden Used the Linux Distro Designed For Internet Anonymity · · Score: 1

    Note that the above Whonices are vulnerable to Heartbleed, so you'll need to do an apt-get update/apt-get dist-upgrade once you've imported the VMs into VirtualBox.

  24. Whonix is another alternative on Snowden Used the Linux Distro Designed For Internet Anonymity · · Score: 1

    https://www.whonix.org/

    Magnet links:
    magnet:?xt=urn:btih:A031805E690BB0E03114A8FEB52485517218D3CE&dn=Whonix-Gateway-8.1.ova&tr=http%3a%2f%2fannounce.torrentsmd.com%3a6969%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2fwebseed.whonix.org%3a8008%2f8.1%2fWhonix-Gateway-8.1.ova

    magnet:?xt=urn:btih:AB89247534553946C500EDF3A78E9C30F9C956ED&dn=Whonix-Workstation-8.1.ova&tr=http%3a%2f%2fannounce.torrentsmd.com%3a6969%2fannounce&ws=http%3a%2f%2fwebseed.whonix.org%3a8008%2f8.1%2fWhonix-Workstation-8.1.ova

    And here's the magnet link for Tails v0.23 for good measure:
    magnet:?xt=urn:btih:B7EE06A2568630EED830CFFBF45B6BFD5DE796D4&dn=tails-i386-0.23&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftorrent.gresille.org%2fannounce

  25. Re:Well, If the NSA Can't Crack It, Ya Right on Snowden Used the Linux Distro Designed For Internet Anonymity · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've been seeding the 0.23 version since it came out. Here's the magnet link:
    magnet:?xt=urn:btih:B7EE06A2568630EED830CFFBF45B6BFD5DE796D4&dn=tails-i386-0.23&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftorrent.gresille.org%2fannounce