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  1. Re:E17 is the only genuinely free option. on After 12 years of Development, E17 Is Out · · Score: 0

    RON PAUL is the only free option.

    (I'd originally typed "RPM PAUL" which sounds like an especially weird replacement for Yum).

  2. Joseph Stalin is dead on First Radeon HD 8000M GPU Benchmarked · · Score: 2

    You can't fool me, submitter!

  3. Re:"JUST" 12 light years? LOL. on Possible Habitable Planet Just 12 Light Years Away · · Score: 1

    Bet you the life-support system and/or batteries wouldn't last long enough, even for only two men.

  4. Re:USB 2.0 on Open Hardware and Software Laptop · · Score: 1

    Most likely there's not a sufficiently Free USB3 implementation to make it into the design.

  5. Re:Stop watching Fox on Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage · · Score: 1

    lol newsmax. Those folks are about as nutty-biased as Fox and Glenn Beck.

  6. Re:Christian terrorists on Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church · · Score: 1

    You wonder because you're an idiot.

    Somehow I don't think your Jesus would approve of talking to people that way.

  7. Re:It is time. on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1

    Point of order: in the past, at least (and they may still) Swiss militiamen do have ammunition at home, but it's kept it sealed boxes that are only to be opened when ordered (to repel an invasion), and there are periodic inspections to make sure the boxes are sealed.

    Also in the past (and may still be true) if a Swiss militiaman volunteers to serve longer than the mandatory term, at the end of their term of service they have the option to take ownership of their rifle. Such rifles have a stamp added to the receiver's serial number to show that it's a private arm.

  8. Re:Can we get a real editor? on Denial-of-Service Attack Found In Btrfs File-System · · Score: 2

    ed(1) is the standard text editor.

  9. Re:CRC on Denial-of-Service Attack Found In Btrfs File-System · · Score: 0

    It is insane, yes. md5 shouldn't be /that/ computationally intensive, and even though it's not secure enough for cryptography anymore it should still be good enough for this.

  10. Who ported btrfs to DOS? on Denial-of-Service Attack Found In Btrfs File-System · · Score: 4, Funny

    and should we give him a medal or lynch him?

  11. Re:what would you miss? on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1

    I'm really not sure. Some of them will butcher the animal themselves, so they're only out the cost of the hunting permit (around $20-25, or free if you own a large enough piece of land) plus their rifle[1] or bow + ammunition. A deer will net 30-100 pounds of meat (maybe more) depending on how big it is and if you shot it somewhere that will ruin some of the meat. At a rough guess that might save you a few hundred dollars over store-bought beef.

    Having it butchered is somewhat spendy but still doable. I killed an 80-some pound doe a few years back and it cost about that much in $ to get the meat (approx 30 pounds in various cuts, including sausage) packaged at a processor.

    [1] It's possible to get a hunting-grade rifle for around a hundred dollars if you don't mind shooting a military-surplus Mosin M91/30 or if you use a muzzle-loader. No idea what the price of a bow is.

  12. Re:And yet... on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1

    Yes? How many more of those Japanese schoolkids do you suppose might have died if he'd had a pistol?

  13. Re:And yet... on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 2

    People do tend to scream when they get stabbed or see someone else get stabbed, you know.

  14. Re:It is time. on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The point is that if guns are made illegal (which I don't necessarily support) it's going to be a whole lot harder for random nutters to get hold of a firearm suitable for going on a rampage with.

  15. Re:And yet... on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1

    Switzerland also has universal conscription, which I don't think would fly here.

  16. Re:Yay on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 2

    What hard data? Cite?

  17. Re:Gun control != taking guns away on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1

    Are you fucking retarded? Do you see all the anti-gun-control arguments posted in this story, or are you ignoring it because it doesn't fit your narrative of victimhood?

    And no, it's in general not OK to jump to OMG GUMMINT WILL TAKE AWAY MAH INTERNETZ either, and I don't do that.

  18. Re:And yet... on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1

    However, Norway has very strict gun control. Obviously gun control does not prevent such tragedies.

    When Norway has mass shootings as often as we do here in the States, your argument might make some sense. However, they don't and it doesn't.

  19. Re:And yet... on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 2

    The fucking fucker's fucking fucked. Fuck!

  20. Re:Would never happen to him on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 0

    Cite?

  21. Re:what would you miss? on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1

    I actually know a few people who are poor enough to need the meat they get from hunting, and several hunters around here donate extra deer to community food banks.

  22. Re:And yet... on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 5, Insightful

    However, killing is one of (not the only) the primary purposes of a gun. You cannot say the same of a computer.

  23. Re:Gun control != taking guns away on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 2

    When one of a car's primary purposes is to kill things, you'll have an argument, Now fuck off.

  24. Re:And yet... on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They all survived. How many would have been killed with a firearm? How many more could the baddie have injured or killed with a ranged weapon?

  25. Cue the knee-jerk pro-gun arguments on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 3, Insightful

    of which your post is one, funnily enough.