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  1. Re:The Amazon AppStore Auto-consent on Amazon Fighting FTC Over In-App Purchases Fine · · Score: 1

    What you say and how you say it do not jive. You are on a crusade and are fully willing to slander other folks in the process of defending your kids from your own lack of parenting through government action. Its quite clear.

  2. Re:quelle surprise on When Beliefs and Facts Collide · · Score: 1

    Science - Member of the species Homo sapiens sapiens.

    You could have at least tried to go with the embryo vs fetus argument (which I left open for you...) but that would have required that you actually knew some of the science.

  3. Re:Other way around on When Beliefs and Facts Collide · · Score: 1

    Science says fetuses don't have the brain capacity or structure to be even vaguely human until 20 weeks or so.

    Sorry, science does not define "human" as having a particular "brain capacity or structure"

    Human is a species, specifically Homo sapiens sapiens.

    Under your belief system, apparently severely mentally disabled people arent human? What about really really intelligent people? Are they not human too?

    This is what the left does. They de-humanize that which they want to restrict, steal, or deny rights to.

  4. Re:quelle surprise on When Beliefs and Facts Collide · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    what is the scientific doctrine that Democrats typically reject?

    That a fetus is a human being.

  5. Re:The Amazon AppStore Auto-consent on Amazon Fighting FTC Over In-App Purchases Fine · · Score: 1

    Let me guess, you develop games with in-app purchase and so you naturally want to exploit this loophole?

    yes, thats it.. couldn't possibly be that I have integrity and a moral compass and a strong belief in liberty... instead I am conspiring against you.

    Take off the tinfoil hat, man up, and be a fucking dad to your child.

  6. Re:Why subsidize energy? on Study: Global Warming Solvable If Fossil Fuel Subsidies Given To Clean Energy · · Score: 0

    The thing is that cheap energy reduces poverty and because poverty not only kills but has plenty of other negative population effects, expect countries to continue to fight over cheap energy.

    Global Warming worries are missing the forest for the trees. Poverty already kills more than global warming ever will even in the worst case scenario of the IPCC (which is heavily politicized to exaggerate.)

    You want to save vast amounts of people? Give the impoverished cheap energy.. ANY cheap energy.. you want to kill vast amounts of people? Make energy more expensive.

  7. Re:Wait until those lamers find out... on Study: Global Warming Solvable If Fossil Fuel Subsidies Given To Clean Energy · · Score: 1

    Nuclear Reactors generate Nuclear Waste.

    Solar Power demands Big Batteries, which are inevitably Highly Toxic Waste.

    Stop living in one-sided fantasy land.

  8. Re:The Amazon AppStore Auto-consent on Amazon Fighting FTC Over In-App Purchases Fine · · Score: 1

    Are you serious? They used Amazons own controls to reduce the risk, and you still claim "lazy bad parent reasons"?

    Yes.

    Stop blaming other people for what your child is doing. Man up and be a father.

  9. Re:The Amazon AppStore Auto-consent on Amazon Fighting FTC Over In-App Purchases Fine · · Score: 0

    The parents set it to NO in app purchases.

    Yes, and?

    They have good reason to believe that they have controlled the risk.

    Lazy bad parent reasons.

  10. Re:Irresponsible parents are part of the problem h on Amazon Fighting FTC Over In-App Purchases Fine · · Score: 0

    We need to have the "nanny state" for those adult programmers who can't tell right from wrong and engineer there games in a deceptive and unfair way.

    "wah wah! its unfair that I can't just give my kid a credit card and know that they wont spend any money!"

    Seriously? Be a better parent because right now you are a very very bad one.

  11. Re:The Amazon AppStore Auto-consent on Amazon Fighting FTC Over In-App Purchases Fine · · Score: 0

    Even if the parents do exactly what the scolds demand

    Looks to me like they demand that the parents take responsibility. How does anything said here undermine that?

    Take Some Fucking Responsibility. Thats your kid, chief. You are letting your kid use a device that can charge up thousands of dollars in credit card bills, completely unsupervised, and you want to blame someone other than yourself?

    Thats your fucking kid, chief. Be a fucking parent. Good parents dont let their children do that. Yes, this means that you arent a good parent Suck it up and be a better one.

  12. Re:It's not just the refund on Amazon Fighting FTC Over In-App Purchases Fine · · Score: 1

    When I was a kid there wasn't some little box that both let me play games and run up a $1000 credit card bill.

    Yes there was. It was called a telephone.

  13. Re:It's not just the refund on Amazon Fighting FTC Over In-App Purchases Fine · · Score: 2

    Right now you are blaming those parents that have been caught out

    Yes. Right where the blame belongs.

    We arent talking about fraud here. Amazon isn't pretending that the in-app purchases are free and then charging people anyways. Quite the contrary.

    If you really dont want to be responsible for your actions, then let me take control of your life. You will love it. Living in a room with no windows (sunlight gives you cancer) or electricity (electricity is dangerous.) The door is locked because wandering around the world is dangerous. You will earn food by performing simple safe tasks for me. No plumbing because that might be dangerous. Clothing wont e allowed because you might get tangled. The walls will be padded because I cant trust that you will understand the sign that says dont repeatedly slam your head into the wall. All nice and safe. You. Will. Love. It.

    If you doubt that you will love it, then maybe you should change your stance on personal fucking responsibility .

  14. Re:It's not just the refund on Amazon Fighting FTC Over In-App Purchases Fine · · Score: 1

    The problem with your "free market solution" is that most people are unaware of Amazon's policies until after they bought the device

    Why is it amazons problem that people are stupid?

  15. Re:It's 2014 on Bug In Fire TV Screensaver Tears Through 250 GB Data Cap · · Score: 1

    Except it isn't "most of the country"

    Yes, it really is. Not sure why you continue to falsely claim that it isn't... a\re you a shill for a town council somewhere that wants to defend its protection racket?

  16. This is what R is for.

    Why Python and not C or ERLANG or COBOL? ..

  17. Re:Disappointing - Potential payoff is enormous... on Senate Budgetmakers Move To End US Participation In ITER · · Score: 0

    Neil deGrasse Tyson says it best.

    Republicans fund science more than Democrats do, so therefore Democrats constantly claim that Republicans are anti-science. Democrats are always saying that the Republicans are guilty of what the Democrats are actually the ones guilty of, because thats politics.

  18. Re:It's 2014 on Bug In Fire TV Screensaver Tears Through 250 GB Data Cap · · Score: 1

    In those [most of the country] places where it isn't true, it is because the idiots in the local government granted an exclusive franchise

    Fixed that for you.

  19. Re:It's 2014 on Bug In Fire TV Screensaver Tears Through 250 GB Data Cap · · Score: 1

    Not true. Anyone can start an ISP as long as they are willing to pay for the infrastructure to deliver the last mile connection to their customers.

    what country is this?

    This is almost universally not true in America. There might be extreely rural places where its true, but it sure as fuck isnt true where 99% of people live.

  20. Re:Old news. More accidents != bad on Unintended Consequences For Traffic Safety Feature · · Score: 1

    I dont know how much of an increase due to seat belts and other safety features was.... but fairs, carnivals, and amusement parks turned safe to collide vehicles into entertainment that involves people paying for the opportunity to colliding on purpose.

  21. Re:Meanwhile... on Renewable Energy Saves Fortune 100 Companies $1.1B Annually · · Score: 1

    My average $500+/mo energy bills are why I'm getting solar installed this month!

    $500/month?

    Getting involved in your local politics is a better solution... because you are getting fucked by your local public utility commission (which might also be the nearest city council.)

    Residential rates are as low as $0.09/kWh in this country. If you are paying more than twice that then you should have gotten involved a lot sooner.

  22. Re:Citation? on Renewable Energy Saves Fortune 100 Companies $1.1B Annually · · Score: 0
  23. Re:A loss for freedom on U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception · · Score: 1

    To my mind, this money belongs to the employees as part of their health benefits package

    If the employees wanted control of the money, they should have asked for the money...

    oh thats right.. you robbed them of their liberty when you first decided that if the employer paid for the health insurance that it would be tax deductible, but not if an individual paid for it... forever making it advantageous to have the employer pay for it....

    Good intentions... robbing people of their healthcare liberty since 1951

  24. Re:A loss for freedom on U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception · · Score: 1

    Still a failure for liberty. The people in need of liberty are the ones having their boss decide what kinds of healthcare they getl

    They would be deciding their own healthcare if you people didnt rob them of their liberty when you decided that businesses should be forced at gunpoint to offer health insurance.

    You claim that its a tragedy of liberty that those that are forced to provide health insurance arent providing your pet favorite kind of health insurance?

    Its so laughable...

    The problem began when you robbed folks of their liberty, and increasing the theft of liberty is not the solution to the problem you created you ignorant twat. The solution is to restore liberty for everyone, not just the people that your heart bleeds for. EVERY SINGLE PERSON DESERVES LIBERTY - STOP STEALING IT.

  25. Re:Political/Moral on How Often Do Economists Commit Misconduct? · · Score: 1

    The private sector lives by kicking the can down the road. Banks borrow every day to kick the can down the road.

    What the hell are you talking about?