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  1. Re:Rich, white hypocrites? Say it aint so!!! on Exxon Mobile CEO Sues To Stop Fracking Near His Texas Ranch · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So basically he's suing to stop the fracking, because without that water tower they can't frack on that land.

    The tower is an excuse.

  2. Re:Racist. on Exxon Mobile CEO Sues To Stop Fracking Near His Texas Ranch · · Score: 3, Informative

    Rightly or wrongly, it's shorthand for "privileged majority".

  3. Re:Rich, white hypocrites? Say it aint so!!! on Exxon Mobile CEO Sues To Stop Fracking Near His Texas Ranch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Which is precisely why you get Internet Libertarians smugly arguing against unions: their sheltered upbringing prevented them from learning about being downtrodden anything, except for maybe having to do household chores when they didn't want to.

  4. Re:LastPass on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Passwords? · · Score: 1

    That gets you nothing yet. The German datacenters aren't under EU law yet, because Lastpass does not yet have a European subsidiary that operates under those laws.

  5. Re:58 is pretty young on Jim Weirich, Creator of Rake, Has Passed Away · · Score: 1

    PROTIP: Nothing is sacred on the Internet.

  6. Re:Not even close on Scientists Study Permian Mass Extinction Event As Lesson For 21st Century · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. That event is called the Oxygen Catastrophe for a reason.

  7. Rule changes are ephemeral on FCC Planning Rule Changes To Restore US Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Obama's hands are tied because the Republicans will reflexively obstruct if he tries to get this through Congress, but the real problem with doing this via FCC rule change is that as soon as a Republican gets elected President network neutrality goes out the window.

  8. Re:Raise PRICES on California Fights Drought With Data and Psychology, Yielding 5% Usage Reduction · · Score: 1

    You'd have to make a progressive pricing system if they don't have it already: basic usage (what an average family would need for cooking, drinking, and hygiene) is very cheap, a band of usage above that costing more per unit, the next band of usage costing quite a bit more per unit, and so on, about how income taxes are figured.

    You'd also want to promote xeriscaping and using graywater for your plants and toilets.

  9. Re:Throwing stones on N. Korea Could Face Prosecution For 'Crimes Against Humanity' · · Score: 1

    Horseshit. There's no way Japan could have taken Hawaii, not without disposing of the US Navy's carriers and submarines first. That'd be a hell of a long supply line to keep open, for starters.

  10. Re:They're finally going to do something. on N. Korea Could Face Prosecution For 'Crimes Against Humanity' · · Score: 1

    In general we don't like dictatorships and tyrants and in particular are morally opposed to human rights abuses

    Point of order! We don't like dictatorships and tyrants that aren't otherwise useful to us. We supported enough of them during the Cold War simply for being anti-communist. We also tended not to give a toss about their human rights abuses for the same reason.

  11. Re:Unconstitutional on Obama To Ask For $1 Billion Climate Change Fund · · Score: 1

    "Things extreme libertarians dislike" is not a synonym for "divine right of kings" either, snowflake.

  12. Re:Unconstitutional on Obama To Ask For $1 Billion Climate Change Fund · · Score: 1

    roffle, a Libertarian saying that someone else
    1) doesn't have credibility, and
    2) lives in a fantasy world.

    Irony is dead.

  13. Re:Unconstitutional on Obama To Ask For $1 Billion Climate Change Fund · · Score: 1

    "Idiot" suffices. Sheltered libertarian as well, but I repeat myself.

    That's a nice theory. Now try to get the Supreme Court (and hell, the people) to see it your way, and maybe you'll be taken seriously. Now run along back to your mom's basement.

  14. Re:Unconstitutional on Obama To Ask For $1 Billion Climate Change Fund · · Score: 1

    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

    There's a fuckton of stuff Congress does, and has done for over 200 years even when the document's signers were alive and serving, that's not strictly part of Article 1 Section 8.

  15. Re:No Problem on Obama To Ask For $1 Billion Climate Change Fund · · Score: 2

    Be honest. Even if Solyndra had never happened you'd come up with some other excuse why the government should never spend money.

  16. Re:Unconstitutional on Obama To Ask For $1 Billion Climate Change Fund · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's a political thread and there's a lot of pseudolibertarians here nowadays, hence the stupid.

  17. Re:Who says loners don't get married? on Computer Geeks As Loners? Data Says Otherwise · · Score: 1

    That guy you're talking about could be me. I don't socialize because it's tiring, because (despite being mid-30s and married) I just don't do people well and never have, although I'm not as bad as I once was. I tend to not get social cues and thus make more than my share of awkward situations, so it's easier for everyone just to not.

    Would that it were otherwise, sometimes, but here I stand. I can do no other.

  18. Re:NIMBY on Germany's Renewable Plan Faces Popular Resistance · · Score: 1

    What?

  19. Re:Knowledge on Oldest Known Star In the Universe Discovered · · Score: 1

    Hubbard was batshit crazy, so maybe he wasn't aware he was full of shit.

  20. Re:Pizza place on What Are the Weirdest Places You've Spotted Linux? · · Score: 1

    That was $699. ...you cock-smoking teabagger.

  21. Re:Parabellum on Para Bellum Labs Will Attempt To Make the RNC a Political-Analytics Player · · Score: 1

    Do you have a point, or are you simply unable to admit when you're wrong?

  22. Re:Parabellum on Para Bellum Labs Will Attempt To Make the RNC a Political-Analytics Player · · Score: 2

    Uh, /no/. Parabellum is used as a nickname for 9x19mm NATO pistol ammunition, "9mm Parabellum", and that was from the motto of the original designing company.

    Para was used in the names of a few other period German weapons such as the MG08 and had the same provenance, from that company's motto.

  23. Re:Waste of Time on Para Bellum Labs Will Attempt To Make the RNC a Political-Analytics Player · · Score: 0

    If you write down a list of position statements and don't attach a brand/party to it, and then ask people what they agree/disagree with, republican _positions_ do pretty well.

    {citation needed}

    Your cite had better include how they present those positions so we can control for propaganda.

  24. Re:The problem is MUCH, much wider ... on Ugly Trends Threaten Aviation Industry · · Score: 1

    Sure, but it's an unconscious thing.

  25. Re:The problem is MUCH, much wider ... on Ugly Trends Threaten Aviation Industry · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much of that is related to the lower birthrate today; rather than having (say) 7 kids people might have only one or two, so if one gets killed doing something dangerous that's a much bigger risk to a parent's "investment" than if you had several other kids.