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  1. Re:Hmm... on Justice Sotomayor Warns Against Tech-Enabled "Orwellian" World · · Score: 2

    She had a job before being on the Supreme Court.

    I'm just mentioning this, in case you were born yesterday.

  2. Re:Call the Auto Club! on Curiosity Rover Arrives At Long-Term Destination · · Score: 1

    The rocks are damaging the wheels?

    Call the auto club and have them fix it.

    Does Curiosity have a club card?

    Flamebait?
    Overrated?
    Offtopic?

    Someone really has a hard on for this stupid buggy. Can't even let a couple jokes about it go.

  3. Re:Call the Auto Club! on Curiosity Rover Arrives At Long-Term Destination · · Score: -1

    The rocks are damaging the wheels?

    Call the auto club and have them fix it.

    Does Curiosity have a club card?

    No, but it does carry The Club. So no joyriding Venusians can steal it when it's parked overnight.

  4. Re:So..... on California Declares Carpooling Via Ride-Share Services Illegal · · Score: 1

    Your view of what laws are wrong probably does not coincide with my view of such things.

    However, the one view that matters is the government's view, because they will arrest you, fine you, imprison you, if they don't like how you treat their laws. Right or wrong.

  5. Re:Good decision? on Microsoft Killing Off Windows Phone Brand Name In Favor of Just Windows · · Score: 1

    Oh come on. Even I know what you are saying.

  6. Re:KIlling off the Microsoft Store Name Too on Microsoft Killing Off Windows Phone Brand Name In Favor of Just Windows · · Score: 1

    I caught the or/for thing, but not the acronym. Thanks for asking. We're all enlightened now. :^)

  7. Re:CDC guilty of correlation == causation on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    Hey, we all have those days. Right?

  8. Re:Obviously. on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    I always lash my venomous cows, so I can get toxic whipped cream.

  9. Re:CDC guilty of correlation == causation on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    Wait. He got amnesia whenever I took a drug?

    Citation needed. ;^)

  10. Re:Just as long as it's not XK-class. on X-Class Solar Flare Coming Friday · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unless there's that lone scientist who isn't being listened to by everyone else, as he's got the evidence that the sensors are wrong, and ...

    he launches his only son away from the doomed planet of Krypton, to be raised by aliens on a far distant earth.

  11. Re:Wrong Title on Researcher Fired At NSF After Government Questions Her Role As 1980s Activist · · Score: 1

    Oh yes. No true Scotsman would accept such a thing.

  12. Re:Wrong Title on Researcher Fired At NSF After Government Questions Her Role As 1980s Activist · · Score: 1

    Read my sigs: No new parties.

  13. Re:Parole? on Using Wearable Tech To Track Gun Use · · Score: 1

    Totally agree here. Jail should be for violent offenders who are a physical danger to society. That said, what do we do with the Bernie Maddoffs of the world?

    Execute them. Within a month after their trial ends. Give them an appeal in case there were wrongful actions in the trial. Then either give them a new trial, or a hemp necktie.

    Honestly, this is how you deal with those people.

    Also, confiscate all their wealth, and any amount of wealth they gave to anyone.

  14. Re:Maybe on Using Wearable Tech To Track Gun Use · · Score: 1

    I feel there will be a lot of false positives. It will likely need good tuning.

    You betcha. My jackoff technique alone will render this ineffective.

    If your technique is anything similar to firing a pistol, I feel sorry for your penis.

  15. Re:Maybe on Using Wearable Tech To Track Gun Use · · Score: 1

    I shot mine off.

  16. Re:Use Two Buses on To Really Cut Emissions, We Need Electric Buses, Not Just Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Or insist they design a bus with an easily swapped out battery pack. It may way a thousand pounds (453.592kg), but that's what technology is for.

  17. Re:sounds perfect on To Really Cut Emissions, We Need Electric Buses, Not Just Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    I was wondering about that part.

    Is it 30 miles at 30mph with no stops?

    Or is it 30 miles of stopping every 200 feet to pick up and drop off passengers?

  18. Re:Backup a sec... on Denver Latest City Hit By Viral Respiratory Infection That Targets Kids · · Score: 1

    Considering Denver, Colorado, is called the "Mile High City", I would classify the state in the Mountains region. Midwest is mostly farm country.

  19. Re:antibiotics on Denver Latest City Hit By Viral Respiratory Infection That Targets Kids · · Score: 1

    I should add: IAMAD.

    ??

    You are mad at doctors?

  20. Re:Meteoroid, Meteor, Meteorite on Apparent Meteorite Hits Managua, Nicaragua, Leaving Crater But No Injuries · · Score: 1

    [Monty Burns Voice]
    Excellent.
    [/Monty Burns Voice]

  21. Re:autoplay sucks anyway on Facebook's Auto-Play Videos Chew Up Expensive Data Plans · · Score: 2

    No, they must try to make a profit, if that is what the corporation is for. Not all are. But the specific wording I objected to was:

    They're publicly traded which means their every thought must be about how to make more money for the shareholders.

    There is nothing saying that larger profits are the only thing a corporation can think about or focus on. If that were the case, every time a corporation gave to charity, or used company resources (money, vehicles, personnel, publicity, etc.) to sponsor an event, they would be sued by the stockholders for ignoring their fiduciary duty.

    So, no, the fiduciary duty of a corporation, and its directors, is not simply about making as much profit as possible for their stockholders. The court case that settled this, and that people refer to without having read it, basically states the exact opposite of kelemorv4's claim. Your definition of fiduciary duty is simply that, a definition of a term. Not how it is applied in the business world, or in all the countries with their own differing laws.

  22. Re:Meteoroid, Meteor, Meteorite on Apparent Meteorite Hits Managua, Nicaragua, Leaving Crater But No Injuries · · Score: 4, Funny

    Until they reinstate Pluto as our ninth planet, I'm going to call all those things meteorites. Just to stick it to da man.

  23. Re:Hope they're keeping people away on Apparent Meteorite Hits Managua, Nicaragua, Leaving Crater But No Injuries · · Score: 1

    I think it was Peru. Large amount of arsenic in the ground.

  24. Re:Oblig. XKCD on Fedora To Get a New Partition Manager · · Score: 1

    And you've read every one of them, just to verify your conjecture?

  25. Re:Practical problems with a hard line stance on Stallman Does Slides -- and Brevity -- For TEDx · · Score: 1

    The next guy can get a job that pays his bills.

    Do you think we should be guaranteed money every month just because we want to create a game?

    If you want to do something that doesn't make money, than learn to live without money.