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  1. Re:An alternative they didn't seem to face on Algorithm Names Powell 'Ideal' Vice President Candidate · · Score: 1

    Yes, but what do most people Vote for ? The algorithm probably weighs that a little heavier.

  2. Re:Seriously? on Algorithm Names Powell 'Ideal' Vice President Candidate · · Score: 1

    As VP Colin would be in a much better position to be heard than in his previous positions where he was basically told to make things look good, which he did well enough, IMHO.

  3. Re:Oh great... on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    I'm overpowered by the redolence of, "IF" in that statement. An arms race can only go so far until we're getting illegal again, and then all bets are off.

  4. Re:Sweet on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    2. "Sexual conduct" means an act of masturbation, homosexuality, sexual intercourse, or physical contact with a person's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks or, if such person be a female, breast.
    First, how is this still illegal? Second of all, how do you even judge an act of homosexuality. Two men kissing?

    First, Nobody's challenged it. Besides, would you really be OK with some guy sitting down next to you on a park bench and whacking off? Second, the homosexuality thing was probably put in there so someone's lawyer can't come up with the brilliant defense that it wasn't a sexual act because it was between two members of the same sex, but, it's up to the judge, and yes, she or he could totally throw a pair of men or women in jail for holding hands if he or she felt like it.

  5. Re:Sweet on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    Far be it from me to read links I post (Its' too much like RTFAing), but where do you work that the link was NSFW ?

  6. Re:What a moot issue on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    Would a handgun be effective against a tank? No. Would a high-powered hunting rifle be effective against an army that includes tanks? Maybe. Several thousand individuals with rifles, armor-piercing ammunition, and some common sense? I think so. The tanks themselves would be pretty impervious to small arms fire, but they can be disabled.

    Back in the days of yore the most deadly thing on the battlefield was lack of antibiotics. If a musket ball or a bayonet struck your torso you were going to die of sepsis and that was that. Now you have to hit someone in a major organ or do a lot of tissue damage, but bullets are faster and firearms are more accurate, so it evens out.

  7. Re:Oh great... on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, the right of privacy, not clearly stated in the American constitution, is necessary, and should be added...

    Doesn't the Fourth Amendment cover? Eavesdropping is considered a search.
  8. Re:Oh great... on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's part of why we need a right to own guns. Not because we're planning for a civil war, but because lots of people who disagree with you already own them.

  9. Re:Sweet on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    New York, maybe? I can't think of many public places there wouldn't be heckling, but it's perfectly legal.

  10. Re:An excellent argument... on IT Students Contract Out Coursework To India · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If that is the case then it isn't a well-designed practical. Anybody who knows a language should be able to read some code and solve a few problems. You can't expect many interviewees to be able to churn out work up to company standards at the interview, and you shouldn't be looking for that unless you don't allow people any time to come up to speed.

  11. Re:Just deserts... on IT Students Contract Out Coursework To India · · Score: 1

    That's what you get in a colonial society where everyone will do their damndest to avoid work.

  12. Re:Yes,it's horrible on Japan Imposes "Fine On Fat" · · Score: 1

    On the subject of stevia. It seems to me some people just can't taste the various chemicals the plant secretes to remind you that it doesn't want to be eaten. I hypothesize it's a genetic thing, like being able to taste sucralose, aspartame, and other artificial sweeteners. It's possible most people in Japan are lacking the gene to taste stevia and it might be a good solution for them.

  13. Have you ever tasted stevia? on Japan Imposes "Fine On Fat" · · Score: 1

    I have a couple plants in my herb garden. Nice foliage, but I wouldn't recommend anyone put it near his or her mouth.

  14. Re:repository like linux? on How to Save Mac OS X From Malware · · Score: 1

    The same way large devels do. Payola.

  15. Re:Immigration? on How to Save Mac OS X From Malware · · Score: 1

    ... And if that said App Store would have free accounts for qualifying Open Source licenses, wouldn't that be enough? ... Isn't that a huge if?
  16. Wouldn't that be better for everybody? on How to Save Mac OS X From Malware · · Score: 1

    Apple's OS becomes the paragon of security people think it is and Linux gets more devs. Everybody's happy.

  17. Re:Gel on Bizarre Properties of Glass Allow Creation of "Metallic Glass" · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you discount the medium gel could be considered a, -for lack of a better term- jammed precipitate. The whole point of TFA was that gel can be used to model the particle-interaction that takes place in glass because both can't settle into a more stable state.

  18. Re:Net Worth... on Man Selling His Life On eBay · · Score: 1

    Was the dr. also 25? because that's about when the average dr. starts his/her residency and residents get paid roughly enough to keep from dying of exposure.

  19. Re:Well, two things come to mind on Man Selling His Life On eBay · · Score: 1

    The winning bidder isn't going to get to live any longer. So no matter what else they get, they still don't get his, "life".

  20. Re:In other words ICANN seeks to increase its prof on ICANN to Add Anti Front Running Charge? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Domain tasting will not go away, because it is cheaper to taste domain by paying 20c instead of full registration price. ICANN will earn 20c for each domain tasted, which translates to tens of millions of dollars of additional profit per year for ICANN.

    ... Assuming ICANN can somehow charge these 20 cent fees without having to pay credit card processing fees.

  21. Re:What is the real truth here? on Man Fired When Laptop Malware Downloaded Porn · · Score: 1

    He needs to learn humility, or at least restraint. I don't see how his alleged remarkable deductive, inferential, and learning abilities prove about whether any of our hypothetical children will surpass our ability to guide them before we've managed to instill them with a basis in morality. Do you see? Did that self-serving diatribe serve any purpose? A humble man would be content to recognize his superiority and comfortable enough with himself to avoid wasting his and our time talking about it to no effect.

  22. Re:Sounds Just Like ... on Northrop Grumman To Develop Brain-Wave Binoculars · · Score: 1

    Why pay for it when you can get it for free?

  23. Re:I don't see what the big deal is on Register, Others Call Plagiarism in "Limbo of the Lost" Game · · Score: 1

    The difference is in the intent. Cities are public and meant to be so. Few architects intend their work to be unseen except by paying customers and those that do should take measures to that effect. Most games are meant to be viewed privately by the people who paid for the privilege (and whomever they choose to share it with) but not disassembled and resold piece by piece, which you're allowed to do with buildings.

  24. Re:I don't see what the big deal is on Register, Others Call Plagiarism in "Limbo of the Lost" Game · · Score: 1, Funny

    They might loose someone's game purchasing dollars since we can get most of the game experience from just playing LotL.

  25. ... and I call redundancy on that title. on Register, Others Call Plagiarism in "Limbo of the Lost" Game · · Score: 1

    To add insult to injury.