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  1. Re:..or without a background check? on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 1

    It's always illegal to purchase a firearm if you are a convicted felon. There is no judgement call or ambiguities involved.

  2. Re:..or without a background check? on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How does a database keep someone from shooting up a school?

  3. Re:..or without a background check? on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 2

    They are not Liberal. Even though you capitalized it, I feel it is disingenuous to use that term to describe anyone who constantly works to restrict rights and freedoms.

  4. Re:Good if they succeed. on Oregon Withholding $25.6M From Oracle Over Health Website Woes · · Score: 1

    Yes elect somebody else, and watch the unstoppable social project fail for generations. We've never seen that before have we?

  5. Re:Good if they succeed. on Oregon Withholding $25.6M From Oracle Over Health Website Woes · · Score: 1

    No, if you hire a plasterer and fail to keep tabs on progress and quality control, fail to give them adequate instructions, and then you pay them before the job is completed without checking and verifying the product, then it is your fault that you have shitty walls. But at least it was your money that your stupidity wasted, and your house that was ruined, not someone that trusted you with their money, or was forced to give it to you under the auspices of public benefit.

  6. Re:Good if they succeed. on Oregon Withholding $25.6M From Oracle Over Health Website Woes · · Score: 1

    Are you telling me it would have cost less to train and hire an army of programmers and such that would have done the job instead of Oracle or other contractor?

  7. Re:Good if they succeed. on Oregon Withholding $25.6M From Oracle Over Health Website Woes · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It sounds like Oregon didn't know what they were doing, had incompetent contract managers, and no accountability increasing the chances of success. After all, if the project failed, most people will still get paid, keep their jobs, and continue to be promoted. It wasn't even their money that was wasted, and they know where to get more.

  8. Re:Cover Oregon... on Oregon Withholding $25.6M From Oracle Over Health Website Woes · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, but the store is going to work and you will be able to buy stuff when it opens, and no one will force you to shop there. And you weren't forced to pay for it.

  9. Re:Good if they succeed. on Oregon Withholding $25.6M From Oracle Over Health Website Woes · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Too many governments deliver sub-standard public services without any risk or recourse, especially in big projects. It's not the contractors fault, it's the contract manager's fault.

  10. Cover Oregon... on Oregon Withholding $25.6M From Oracle Over Health Website Woes · · Score: 2

    ...at least had great propaga...I mean, advertisements.

  11. Re:Sense, or lack thereof, of eating certain thing on Low-Protein Diet May Extend Lifespan · · Score: 1

    That's stupid. Everybody knows that animals are just clusters of cells. There is no ethical dilemma in eating them.

  12. Re:Tried it already. It kind of flopped. on Low-Protein Diet May Extend Lifespan · · Score: 1

    Not to mention, as an omnivore, you have the energy and muscle mass to outrun your prey and predators, quickly repair damage to your body, find and forage for a wider variety of food, and eat fresh food in the middle of the winter.

  13. Re:Atkin's Diet on Low-Protein Diet May Extend Lifespan · · Score: 1

    I never even counted calories when I watched carbs. I found I didn't have to. I just ate whenever I was hungry. Without the constant blood sugar fluctuations, I just wasn't hungry when I didn't need to be. I never got the 2pm sleepies either.

  14. Re:Atkin's Diet on Low-Protein Diet May Extend Lifespan · · Score: 1

    Cutting the fat never worked for me. When I restricted carbs, after about 5 months I was in better shape than I ever have been in since puberty. I lost 45 lbs. It works, whole grains beings good for you is the biggest load of BS. It's not about calories for the most part, but the type of calories.

  15. Re:Yeah, but women want it all on All Else Being Equal: Disputing Claims of a Gender Pay Gap In Tech · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Ah yes. Quite correct. And men are sexist pigs. That is all.

  16. Re:First blacks, on Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation · · Score: 1

    Nobody said they were except for you, coward.

  17. Re:First blacks, on Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation · · Score: 1

    If WBC member came into my (hypothetical) store wearing a "God hates fags" shirt, then you better believe I'd refuse them service. Not because of their affiliations, but because of their hateful and discriminatory message to everybody around them. If they came in, bought a common random item off the shelf and paid for it quietly and politely, I'd take their money same as anybody else... I wouldn't even know who they were. If I recognized them by the name on the credit card I'd feel kind of dirty about it, but whatever.

    If I knew, you're damn right I'd refuse them service, and I'd put my thumb up the nose of any government that tried to force me to serve them.

  18. Re:First blacks, on Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation · · Score: 1

    You obviously have never actually thought about the 3/5ths compromise, and what it actually means. Would you rather slaves have been considered whole persons for purposes of apportionment, so that slave owning states would have had that much more power in congress? Better than 3/5ths would have been 0/5ths, because that would have made slave states less powerful. Better than either would have been outright banning of slavery and full citizenship, but then we wouldn't have had a constitution at all. Grow up and learn something, you ignoramus.

  19. Re:Religion DOES serve a purpose. on Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation · · Score: 1

    I appreciate your agreement on the matter.

  20. Re:Religion DOES serve a purpose. on Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation · · Score: 2

    That's just ignorant and stupid.

  21. Re:Way to go moon! on Astronomers Catch Asteroid Striking Moon On Video · · Score: 1

    Don't throw coffee mugs!

  22. Re:Religion DOES serve a purpose. on Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation · · Score: 0, Troll

    Very few brilliant scientists are atheists.

  23. Re:First blacks, on Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation · · Score: 1

    Because this is not a Fascist country. That's why.

  24. Re:First blacks, on Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does the same rule apply to Planned Parenthood clinics? No? I didn't think so.

  25. Re:First blacks, on Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is it OK to refuse service to someone from the Westboro Baptist church? The Catholic church? How about a Neo-Nazi? Because if your answer is yes, you cannot rationally support a veto. Beyond that, this law is entirely unnecessary, because the default state of law is no restriction on activity.