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  1. Re:Cool! on Creating a New Yorker Cover On the iPhone · · Score: 0, Troll

    Reading comprehension fail. Life is unfair to xerxesvii, as I clearly stated. He whines about mods in his sig, what a loser!

    Life is unfair to me, too. I get way more than I deserve, what with all the women, the money, the brains, the education, the physical good looks and horse like stamina, the inheritance, the invitations to interesting parties, tons of friends, man, what could I have done to deserve all that? I mean, life is starting to bore me, there's no challenge, I just get everything I want, when I want it, without having to work for it.

    But thank you for your interest in me and my life. I take it as a compliment when someone pays this much attention to me, really, you've made my day. The more you respond, the more important I know I am to you. Ahhhh, yeah. Keep it coming.

  2. Re:Cool! on Creating a New Yorker Cover On the iPhone · · Score: 0, Troll

    Read my journal, I've been documenting our polyamory for about eight years now. I was in Pali Paths in Hawaii for years. Look it up. I've had more women than you've even known, sad little man. I've been in three ways and orgies, and done things you don't even know the names of. You are the one with the virgin fixation, and the negative view of sexuality. You should get some counseling to help you deal with your Mommy issues, or you will never know intimacy with a woman.

  3. Re:Cool! on Creating a New Yorker Cover On the iPhone · · Score: 0

    Are you claiming the New Yorker ISN'T boring and pretentious? When was the last time you read it?

    And who whines about mods in their sig, seriously? Oh, no, life is so unfair, 'xerxesvii.' Waaa, waaa, the mods don't like you. Get over yourself.

  4. Re:Cool! on Creating a New Yorker Cover On the iPhone · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I talk to babies in baby talk. You are the one who got a bug up their but and got all sniffy and childish, I was just speaking your language. I'll tell my wife and the ladies we have three ways with about your little joke, they will get a laugh. Your bitter, impotent rage is like sweet, sweet nectar to me.

  5. Re:Cool! on Creating a New Yorker Cover On the iPhone · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Awww, didums get ums wittew feewings huwt? Well, you know what else? Your favorite band sucks too.

    You don't like that quote? Try finding one that better describes what arguing on the Internet is like. Really, I don't think you can, but if you do, I'll change my sig.

  6. Cool! on Creating a New Yorker Cover On the iPhone · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Now they just need to do something to make the actual content of the New Yorker less boring and pretentious.

  7. Not racist or classist, caste-ist? ghetto-ist? on Google Earth Raises Discrimination Issue In Japan · · Score: 5, Informative

    In ancient Japan, anything to do with death, or other unclean jobs like leatherworkers, was taboo. People who did those things had to live in separate villages. Nowadays, people don't know where most of those ghettos were. Google published a series of scholarly maps that show where they are, now people can easily trace families back to these areas because Japanese family registration was fixed to ancestral address until recently.

    It's like these areas are cursed to the Japanese, even if everyone's forgotten where they were, and any family originally from the area is tainted by that curse, no matter what that family has done since.

  8. Re:Thanks for admitting you don't know on Ancient Fossil Offers Clues To Primate Evolution · · Score: 1

    I disagree, I believe Kucinich did refute her claim, and I believe the interview proves that. In any case, McClain's testimony is hearsay, only good for baseless attacks.

  9. Re:Hmmmm.. on Artificial Ethics · · Score: 1

    Nope, everything is both a cause and effect, but nothing is a 'choice.' I was fated to discourage someone, they were fated to be discouraged. No choice need be involved.

  10. Re:RTFA on FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco · · Score: 1

    Your bitterness is delicious.

  11. Freedom to pirate? on FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco · · Score: 1

    Is that freedom? Because that is essentially what companies want to do to developers who release under public licenses: pirate their code. How is the freedom to pirate any kind of freedom?

    If I want to kick you in the nuts, is it taking away my freedom if you stop me? This is no different. Nobody gets to do whatever they want unless they live as a hermit. You choose to live in society, you follow the rules. Enforcing the rules that everyone agrees to live by is not reducing freedom, it is increasing it.

  12. Not gonna help you, bro on Cola Consumption Can Lead To Muscle Problems · · Score: 1

    FTFA:

    It appears that hypokalaemia can be caused by excessive consumption of three of the most common ingredients in cola drinks â" glucose, fructose and caffeine.

    The dew is even worse for you, bro. The article makes no mention of diet colas, which do not contain fructose or glucose, so I doubt they are as bad as sugar sodas.

  13. Re:Freedom on FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco · · Score: 1

    I know, eh? AC below me explained it MUCH better...

  14. Re:RTFA on FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco · · Score: 1

    Okay, but it is a donation. The important part is that it's tax deductible. I don't think we really have a word for 'tax deductible contribution given under duress,' so 'donation' will have to do.

  15. RTFA on FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is a tax deductible donation to a 501(c)3 charitable foundation, agreed to as part of a out of court settlement. It was freely given, Cisco could have gone to trial instead.

  16. RTFA on FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco · · Score: 1

    Who said anything about Cisco releasing the source to their routers? Please read the article before working yourself into a tizzy over nothing.

  17. Thanks for the FUD, shill on FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco · · Score: 1

    You can link to as many LGPL libraries as you like, so stop with the FUD, okay? A competent lawyer would never tell you to stay away from any of the licenses you mentioned, only a fool would make a blanket statement like that without understanding the specifics of the situation.

    You can easily be 100% sure of the libraries you link to. If they are LGPL, MIT, or Apache, you have no problem. Whatever they link to has to be under the same license, or they could not release.

    You are purposely spreading FUD, you do not respect open source, and I suspect you are a paid shill because it looks as though you copied and pasted that post directly from a Microsoft playbook.

  18. Freedom on FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco · · Score: 4, Informative

    GNU is about freedom. Let's say I wanted to punch you in the face. I have the freedom to do so, unless you have the power to stop me. But trying to stop me is taking away my freedom to swing my fist, under your definition of freedom. Under my definition of freedom, your right not to get hit in the face outweighs my freedom to swing my fist wherever I like.

    The GPL and the FSF help protect developers and end users from getting punched in the face by companies like Cisco. The GPL and the FSF help protect freedom, unless you define freedom as 'I get to do whatever the hell I want and screw the rest of you.'

  19. Re:The pimp hand has been shown on Ancient Fossil Offers Clues To Primate Evolution · · Score: 1

    There is a sense of self, but it is no more and no less important than any other senses. When I am in an intense coding session or athletic competition, my sense of self disappears completely and there is no separation between observer and observed. I know from experience that the sense of self is not important.

  20. Re:Thanks for admitting you don't know on Ancient Fossil Offers Clues To Primate Evolution · · Score: 1

    Shirley McClain tore up all her chairs to make a shrine to Wingnuttia, the Goddess of screw fasteners. I'm not sure whether it is upstairs or not.

  21. Re:The pimp hand has been shown on Ancient Fossil Offers Clues To Primate Evolution · · Score: 1

    Nope. I said morality is simple in real life situations, where all the facts are known. Nice try at making a straw man, though.

    Free will may or may not exist, but it is utterly unimportant. Nothing is a thing unto itself. Everything exists because conditions that support it exists.

    There is no self. There is no hard and fast distinction between internal and external. The closer you look, the more holes and exceptions you will see. Without self, the concept of free will is moot.

    I'm sorry I've been trolling your religion so hard. I actually have real respect for people who truly try to follow the teachings of Jesus. I just want to shake things up and get people thinking, but making statements like I was making probably isn't the best way of doing that. More likely I will just piss them off and they will stop thinking.

    But, now I feel I have to back up those statements. Religion is damaging to the intellect and psyche insofar as it replaces the natural, internal moral sense with an arbitrary, external and rigid set of rules. People stop thinking for themselves, and they stop trusting their own situational sense of right and wrong. That is damaging.

  22. Re:Thanks for admitting you don't know on Ancient Fossil Offers Clues To Primate Evolution · · Score: 1

    Sounds like he denied it to me. I never claimed a right wing loon started this non-story, I claimed they are the only ones who care about it. I never claimed you were a loon, either. I claimed that you were implying negative things about Kucinich that can't be backed up by facts. You admit they can't be backed up by facts, yet you insist on repeating these allegations. Slander.

  23. Thanks for admitting you don't know on Ancient Fossil Offers Clues To Primate Evolution · · Score: 1

    You are trying to use hearsay to slander Kucinich, while giving the impression that you are being reasonable. You aren't. The important point for any readers to take away from this conversation is "So, as before, we basically don't know."

    Everything else is unsupported innuendo designed to cast aspersions on Kucinich, which is exactly the type of slander I accused right wing loons of. Thank you for providing an example of the unfairness I mentioned.

  24. Re:Meanwhile over in Congress on Ancient Fossil Offers Clues To Primate Evolution · · Score: 1

    Heh? Kucinich explicitly denies the rest of the account when he states, "And the rest of the account. It was an unidentified flying object, OK? It's like, it's unidentified. I saw something." Note that he does not say anything about triangles or hearts or voices.

    I just want to put that out there so we don't leave anyone with the mistaken impression that Kucinich said he heard voices from aliens. I know you wouldn't want that.

  25. Re:The pimp hand has been shown on Ancient Fossil Offers Clues To Primate Evolution · · Score: 1

    Those are hypothetical situations, not real situations one can actually look at. There is not enough detail in any of them to make a moral decision.

    Religion's role is to get people to shut off critical thinking by mixing some good, common sense morality with some utterly non-verifiable wackiness. People agree with the common sense stuff, then feel that, as they can't judge the wacky stuff (I'm the only God, worship only Me), their judgment must be faulty, so they accept the religion unthinkingly.

    Religion is horribly damaging to the human psyche, intellect, and to society as a whole.