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  1. Re:Odd. on People With University Degree Fear Death Less · · Score: 1

    So in a lovely city with miserable weather and no employment prospects, could be worse.

  2. Re:Try having an original idea on Avoiding DMCA Woes As an Indy Game Developer? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why isn't it a copyright violation. He used their characters, their name (SuperPacman came out in 1982), and mechanic. This about as much of a derivative work as you get.

  3. Re:I said the same thing about Barak Obama in 2006 on Sarah Palin 'Target WikiLeaks Like Taliban' · · Score: 1

    Sadly that trend didn't start with Bush. Clinton played up the simple southern guy thing and downplayed the whole Rhodes Scholar aspect of his life. The 1840 campaign played on many of the same issues. It is an old them that comes back over and over again.

  4. Re:There we go wikileaks... on WikiLeaks Will Unveil Major Bank Scandal · · Score: 1

    Like Somalia, Kenya, or Libya? They already have.

  5. Re:Go, Julian, go! on WikiLeaks Will Unveil Major Bank Scandal · · Score: 1

    None, especially if we get stuck in the same debate we have every single time Wikileaks publishes anything "Was it right for them to release this?". The media wets itself over the forum for the leak and conveniently ignores the content.

  6. Re:So... on WikiLeaks Will Unveil Major Bank Scandal · · Score: 2, Informative

    1.2 billion was paid out to survivors of the internment camps. Why would they pay out to everyone of Japanese heritage?

  7. Re:So... on WikiLeaks Will Unveil Major Bank Scandal · · Score: 1

    Is there a country you honestly feel has faced and made right the crimes of their past? If there isn't then singling out the problem as a US trait is silly, if there is one in your eyes then you are terribly naive.

  8. Re:I really hope it's not more US stuff on Wikileaks Vows Release '7x the Size' of Iraq Leak · · Score: 1

    They already have. Well, the UK and China anyway.

  9. Re:Profiling on TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    99% of the time really? They don't even fit 99 percent of the high profile US "War on Terror" arrests.

  10. Re:So pay your bills on Debt Collectors Using Facebook To Embarrass Those Who Owe · · Score: 1

    I'm not a lawyer, but section 806.5 barring "Causing a telephone to ring or engaging any person in telephone conversation repeatedly or continuously with intent to annoy, abuse, or harass any person at the called number." would seem to cover multiple calls per day. It isn't a set limit, but states may have rules that define harassment further.

  11. Re:Okay. on Bacteria Used To Fix Cracked Concrete · · Score: 2, Interesting
  12. Re:'Free market' means muddled thinking on The Monopolies That Dominate the Internet · · Score: 1

    They were able to leverage their market position over a government backed monopoly. They themselves weren't a government backed monopoly.

  13. Re:Won't work on National Opt-Out Day Against Virtual Strip Searches · · Score: 1

    If there was any doubt about that the recent printer cartridge scene cleared that up. Oh we can't possibly scan all of the cargo, that would slow commerce, but we can increase our scans of passengers.

  14. Re:You are on a limb on National Opt-Out Day Against Virtual Strip Searches · · Score: 1

    3000 people over a decade is hardly a blip on the mortality statistics, especially when there isn't any evidence that the measures are working. Look at the foiled attacks that have happened, they made it through security just fine. What has stopped attacks is good intelligence, locked doors, and a more vigilant flying public. We will have another mass casualty terrorist attack, it probably won't be like ones we've had in the past, and those deaths aren't worth any more than others. If we're going to spend our finite resources on saving lives we should put it towards something with a higher return and less damage to our civil liberties.

  15. Re:'Free market' means muddled thinking on The Monopolies That Dominate the Internet · · Score: 1

    Standard Oil controlled a vast majority of the refined oil market and did it without the force of government.

  16. Re:Is this a surprise? on White House Edited Oil Drilling Safety Report · · Score: 1

    Yes, because Exxon has no history of giant offshore oil related screwups.

  17. Re:help? on Europe Simulates Total Cyber War · · Score: 1

    So will the US be producing a huge chunk of Europe's war material?

  18. Re:Wrong focus on Truthy Project Uncovers Political Astroturfing On Twitter · · Score: 1

    Source amnesia is a bitch.

  19. Re:A little more on How Much Math Do We Really Need? · · Score: 1

    Where else would we hide all of our glittery performers? You wouldn't want them on the streets.

  20. Re:What is the point? on New York Judge Rules 6-Year-Old Can Be Sued · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Many court judgments don't clear out during a bankruptcy, so even that might not help.

  21. Re:I thought all of the fat kids lived in America on Time To Rethink the School Desk? · · Score: 1

    The US isn't even number one anymore. Mexico overtook us this year.

  22. Re:Oxymoron on Time To Rethink the School Desk? · · Score: 1

    Some private schools have very deep pockets, maybe that is their target market.

  23. Re:Cheap -- to Replace! on Time To Rethink the School Desk? · · Score: 1

    Compared to traditional prison furniture that is an attractive look.

  24. Re:what about the shroud or turin on The First Photograph of a Human · · Score: 2, Informative
  25. Re:what about the shroud or turin on The First Photograph of a Human · · Score: 1

    It may be a fake in the sense of not the burial shroud of Jesus, but it is real in the sense of an artistic and historic artifact. There was a popular theory kicking about for a while that the shroud was formed by a very primitive photographic process. The idea is covered on the wiki.