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  1. Re:Seriously? on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because they don't mention pay just miserable working conditions.

  2. Re:Public Funds on Copyright Claim Sets Back Cognitive Impairment Testing · · Score: 2

    A private university that receives about a half billion in annual NIH grants. http://report.nih.gov/award/trends/FindOrg_Detail.cfm?OrgID=4134401

  3. Re:Democracy. on Go Daddy Loses Over 21,000 Domains In One Day · · Score: 1

    21,000 out 20,000 in. They lost 1,000 domains for basically shitting on their customers. Yet their support for SOPA stands, despite the half assed mea culpa. Every person who voted with their wallet against SOPA still has to live with the outcomes in the political realm and Godaddy loses almost nothing.

  4. Re:Accidental overdose? on The Painkiller That Saves Money But Costs Lives · · Score: 2

    Or perhaps people people on high doses of opiates. My wife was on a very heavy dose of Oxycontin for a long time and there were more than a few occasions wherre she wasn't sure if she taken her pills yet. We always played it safe and held off when there was doubt, but there were a few occasions where I had to stop her because she was sure she hadn't taken it. Large doses of these rugs don't exactly leave you clear headed.

  5. Re:u should deceive those u can on The Ups and Downs of Being a Twitter Fraudster · · Score: 1

    Robin Sage

  6. Re:what a load of on Red Cross Debates If Virtual Killing Violates International Humanitarian Law · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Are you out of your mind? The nonprofit space is highly competitive. There are finite amounts of money for donations, just like for purchases, and they still have to convince the public that they are the ones who should get the money.

  7. Re:Nice thought, however not close to reality. on Mexican Gov't Shuts Down Zetas' Secret Cell Network · · Score: 1

    How often is there a rolling gun battle down State street in Chicago over moonshine? Legalizing marijuana and maybe a few other common drugs wouldn't kill organized crime. That is here to stay, probably forever. It would slash a huge source of funds and incentive to engage in the really destructive behavior we see. Cigarette and alcohol taxes are high, but nothing compared to the black market mark up and any illicit operation would have to undercut the legal one on price.

  8. Re:Haught isn't in favor of creationism on Censored Religious Debate Video Released After Public Outrage · · Score: 0

    Instead it is a nasty creationist who feels his public debates at an academic institution should be kept secret.

  9. Re:Nothing to see here.... on Proposed Mercury Ban Threatens Vaccines · · Score: 3, Funny

    If only there were a way to compare the rates of autism in populations given vaccines with thiomersal and those not given it. Oh wait, they have and there was no difference.

  10. Re:Sooooo on US Copyright Czar Cozied Up To Content Industry · · Score: 1

    How many of those Democrats stayed with the party after the passage of the civil rights act? Look at the electoral map of the 1960 election. The entire west coast went for Nixon. Georgia, Texas, and the Carolinas went for Kennedy. By 1968 many of the states that had been solidly Democratic had turned on that party because of that vote. In fact the "Solid South" wasn't part of the Democratic party because of some deep liberalism, but rather anger over reconstruction. Once those sneaky liberals actually pushed a bill for civil rights they fled to a party more willing to embrace them.

  11. Re:90% chance that prostitue won't kill you on HIV Vaccine Trial Shows 90% Immune Response · · Score: 1

    Yet you can be in a lovely monogamous screened relationship and your partner could choose not to be. Life throws curveballs sometimes.

  12. Re:Policy City-State on Conflict Between Occupy Wall Street Protestors and NYPD Escalating · · Score: 1

    You have it pretty close to right. They can also do it if they claim they think you might be involved in a crime soon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiibel_v._Sixth_Judicial_District_Court_of_Nevada Either way stop and identify grew out of the actions of Texas law enforcement.

  13. Re:Policy City-State on Conflict Between Occupy Wall Street Protestors and NYPD Escalating · · Score: 1
  14. Re:The age of personal empowerment. on NASA Satellite Falls Back To Earth; Landfall in Canada · · Score: 1

    Arizona, Alabama, and Michigan are just three of the states that have had mass casualty incidents and legal concealed carry. If you're going to say concealed carry has kept you from having another mass casualty incident you'll need a bit more data. Right now it sounds more like a rock that wards off tigers.

  15. Re:Biting off more than they can chew I fear on EA's New User Agreement Bans Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    They have been, consumers lost again.

  16. Re:How nice on Designer Creates "Euthanasia Roller Coaster" · · Score: 1

    Sulfur hexaflouride, which he did mention, is a potent greenhouse gas.

  17. Re:Microsoft on Casio Paying Microsoft To Use Linux · · Score: 1

    This isn't even really new for them. It strikes me as an awful lot like their Suse deal from a few years back.

  18. Re:Incoming bitchy comments... 3.. 2.. 1 on Netflix Creates Qwikster For DVD Only Business · · Score: 1

    In my case dropping the DVD side made sense. I would often forget to return DVDs for long stretches of time. Streaming, on the other hand, was used frequently for kids shows for my daughter. Netflix was a streaming service with a few bonus DVDs for me.

  19. Re:Where does Netflix get its DVDs? on Netflix Creates Qwikster For DVD Only Business · · Score: 1

    They needed to hold DVDs back to keep the studios happy for the streaming side.

  20. Re:Time to go for a class action suit. on New Sony PSN ToS: Class Action Waiver Included · · Score: 1

    After that Supreme Court case it wouldn't be eaqsy to overturn at any other level.

  21. Re:Not necessarily... on EU Extends Music Copyright to 70 Years · · Score: 1

    That isn't the motto of La Raza no matter how many times commentators claim it is.

  22. Re:Bars on Boost Your Wi-Fi Signal Using Only a Beer Can · · Score: 1

    It isn't a bad looking can though.

  23. Re:Pointless Apple-bashing on Apple Finally Removes DigiNotar Certs In Safari · · Score: 0

    An inability to quickly remove bad certs is a foreseeable problem on their end. Whether the mistake occurred this week due to sloth, or a few years ago due to poor planning, they were the one major player unable to handle a necessary security task.

  24. Re:Keynesian? on Krugman On Bitcoin and the Gold Standard · · Score: 1

    As long as your debt is denominated in your currency. If I'm paid in the rapidly inflating currency and my debt is denominated in a different stable currency I would be boned as a debtor.

  25. Re:No... on Are Some CAs Too Big To Fail? · · Score: 1

    Do you have a better, scalable solution that doesn't suffer the same or greater weaknesses? The problems of CAs remind me of the issues with spam. Everyone agrees the system we have is broken and no one has a better solution.