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  1. Re:change on White House To Propose Ending NSA Phone Records Collection · · Score: 1

    That's right. You didn't. Asterisks don't increase the weight of an argument or statement. They just make the author look like someone who used to write in all caps. What makes you think my mind has never been changed? Logic and reason are important to me. That makes perfect sense because you now seem to think asterisks are more important than logic and reason.

  2. Re:Meanwhile, people are bailing from the IPCC on UN Report: Climate Changes Overwhelming · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No, it's a political report that presents a scientific viewpoint. At least call it what it is.

  3. Re:Obligatory Fight Club on An Engineer's Eureka Moment With a GM Flaw · · Score: 1

    Companies are run by humans. Most humans don't think that way. We have been conditioned by pop-culture and the media to believe that all corporations are evil. I think our perceptions are probably wrong.

  4. Re:can troll but can't talk policy on White House To Propose Ending NSA Phone Records Collection · · Score: 1

    You win!!!

  5. Re:Mr. Sassy has no logic or evidence on White House To Propose Ending NSA Phone Records Collection · · Score: 1

    You must have been reading your own posts where you devolved to accusing your opponent of being a faux-noise watcher. Such indomitable proof. Yeah, I no longer care at this point. You don't even have a coherent position, because you just make up definitions to suit your world view.

  6. Re:Bill O'Reilly wannabe on White House To Propose Ending NSA Phone Records Collection · · Score: 1

    Holy shit, I just realized that you're a complete idiot. I hardly know who Bill O'Reilly his, and you obviously watch his show.

  7. Re:Put up or shut up on White House To Propose Ending NSA Phone Records Collection · · Score: 1

    I'm not going to do your homework for you. Net neutrality is a set of rules that must be imposed on people; it is a legislative and regulatory initiative. It is not libertarian. It is not liberal. It is authoritarian. I oppose net neutrality because I support economic freedom in the libertarian sense. You haven't figured it out yet. Every time one of you pinheads decide to impose your vision of freedom and equality on society, it hurts people. Do more with less, not less with more.

  8. Re:Progressivism != Authoritarianism on White House To Propose Ending NSA Phone Records Collection · · Score: 1

    Is this some kind of joke? Progressives don't value individual rights. In the progressive bastions that are our public universities, they implement speech codes. Progressives do everything they can to restrict property rights, economic rights, and self-defense rights (even claiming as collective, rights that that have been recognized as individual). They shout down speakers that don't share their fascist ideology at every opportunity. I would say libertarian=free speech, but progressive=free speech is down right laughable. I'm not sure where I admitted that my definition of libertarian is biased. I don't really see how a definition can be biased.

  9. Re:It was not misspelled on TSA Missed Boston Bomber Because His Name Was Misspelled In a Database · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. Someone made a terrible decision, and this misspelled name story is the smokescreen. This administration has done it before, and they will do it for as long as they can get away with it.

  10. Re:It was not misspelled on TSA Missed Boston Bomber Because His Name Was Misspelled In a Database · · Score: 1

    All of this. This misspelled name story is a pile of bullshit. This is 2014. They did not miss him because of a single additional phonetic "y".

  11. Re:It was not misspelled on TSA Missed Boston Bomber Because His Name Was Misspelled In a Database · · Score: 1

    They don't require a perfect match. That's the smokescreen. This is 2014, nothing requires a perfect match these days. The extra "y" is the official story explaining why this bombing was unavoidable and how it couldn't be helped. Some people are choosing to believe that steaming pile of bullshit.

  12. Re:Helpful links for intelligence community devs on TSA Missed Boston Bomber Because His Name Was Misspelled In a Database · · Score: 1

    They know all this. They're just making up a story to mitigate accountability. They've done it before (Benghazi, FF), and they'll do it again. Judging by the reactions of the posters here at Slashdot, successfully.

  13. Re:Who says computers will take over.... on TSA Missed Boston Bomber Because His Name Was Misspelled In a Database · · Score: 1

    No, it's a clear case of we fucked up and people died. The explanation is that it was unavoidable, and funny enough, you see, someone just made a spelling mistake and that's why we didn't catch the guy. Totally unavoidable.

  14. Re:Libertarian & Liberal coexist on White House To Propose Ending NSA Phone Records Collection · · Score: 1

    You will note that I put libertarian and progressive at opposing ends of the spectrum. And then I equated progressivism and authoritarianism. I meant exactly what I said, not what you imagine I said, or wish that I had said. Progressives advocate individual conformity at every opportunity. It is ingrained in their imagined solutions for all that ails us. You are only furthering my argument.

  15. Re:Not a 'left-wing totalitarian' on White House To Propose Ending NSA Phone Records Collection · · Score: 1

    Liberal means liberal, libertarian means libertarian, and progressive means progressive. They are three different ideologies. Libertarian and progressive are at different ends of the spectrum. A progressive has never seen a rule they didn't like that grants more power to the state. They are the opposite of libertarian. They are authoritarian, and when they wield the power of the federal government that we have today, they trend towards totalitarian. Wake up you ignorant fool.

  16. Re:explain it to me on White House To Propose Ending NSA Phone Records Collection · · Score: 1

    To a left-wing totalitarian, Obama being in office is the most beautiful thing that has ever happened.

  17. Efficiency and CO2 emissions... on Mazda Says Its Upcoming Gas-Powered Cars Will Emit Less CO2 Than Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    ...are not correlated like Mazda is claiming. Stoichiometry dictates how much CO2 a 100% efficient engine will emit by burning gasoline.

  18. Re:Communism is the only way forward on Job Automation and the Minimum Wage Debate · · Score: 1

    Usually? When has communism ever worked amazingly well?

  19. Re:was in quotations on White House To Propose Ending NSA Phone Records Collection · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't think the words, "quotations", "executive orders", "responsible", or "criminals" mean what you think they mean.

  20. Re: Redefine hunting. on Drone-Assisted Hunting To Be Illegal In Alaska · · Score: 1

    How does a hammer help you chase down a gut shot deer?

  21. Radio controlled airplanes... on Drone-Assisted Hunting To Be Illegal In Alaska · · Score: 1

    ...are pretty much illegal now. Great.

  22. Re:As an enterprise user of oracle based systems on Ex-Head of Troubled Health Insurance Site May Sue, Citing 'Cover-Up' · · Score: 1

    Seems pretty obvious then, that the state of Oregon is incompetent and are to be blamed for contracting with company that is so widely known to be arrogant, evil, and incompetent.

  23. Re:Oracle vs the state on Ex-Head of Troubled Health Insurance Site May Sue, Citing 'Cover-Up' · · Score: 1

    Each gets half a baby?

  24. Re:Let's go Bayesian on Ex-Head of Troubled Health Insurance Site May Sue, Citing 'Cover-Up' · · Score: 1

    Then why do you work with them? And more to the point, why did Oregon hire such a shitty company to work on a mission critical product? Who's fault is this, really?

  25. Re:Let's go Bayesian on Ex-Head of Troubled Health Insurance Site May Sue, Citing 'Cover-Up' · · Score: 1

    That's ridiculous. If it's widely known that Oracle has a %99.999 chance of screwing a project up, it's the fault of the people that hired them and expected to get a functional product. I'd bet that it's Oregon's fault for picking Oracle considering I have not seen one person on this discussion praise Oracle.