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  1. Re:Fuck. Some people need to fucking toughen up. on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    You would have a point if corporation didn't have legal rights like a person.
    But they do, and he can use his position to influence actual politics. That's why it matters.

    "But you're going to excoriate this guy because his opinion differs from the one you consider "right"?"
    when their opinion is to take rights away from other human beings? yes.

    "Shrug off the shit that doesn't matter "
    denying people rights doesn't matter?

    "focus on the stuff that actually means something. T"
    if basic human rights doesn't matter, then what does?

    "Second, how are YOU being any more tolerant than the so-called "bigot" you're trying to hate on?"
    How come no one on this site seems to know what intolarance means?
    http://www.merriam-webster.com...
    Since the context is human rights, number 2 applies
    a : unwilling to grant equal freedom of expression especially in religious matters
    b : unwilling to grant or share social, political, or professional rights : bigoted

    You are rather short sighted and small minded.

    Do you even see the irony in you post? at all? It's just information OKCupid is giving people. People can make up their own ,minds. You are advocating OKCupid should not share information.

    It seems to me you screed is based on the fact that you know you wrong to keep using the browser, you just too much of a coward to admit it.

  2. Re:Why I complained about the message to OKCupid on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    It's not a technology, it's an implementation.
    " Let's encourage individuals, organizations, and governments to make more technological decisions based on merit instead of politics."
    So a browser the is perfectly secure and fast is OK to use even if someone is killed every time a click is made?

    My point is that there is a place for politics. You think they are separate, and you are wrong. You need to understand that because it permeates technology, form management , to corporations, to dating sites.

    They aren't stopping anyone form using it, there just informing people and asking them not to use it for a specific reason.
    The fact that you think empowering people to take rights away is ok is a different matter. I wonder if that's i you OKCupid profile?

  3. Re:Op Out Knowledge? on Should Patients Have the Option To Not Know Their DNA? · · Score: 1

    No knowledge is opt out able. How do you opt out of something you already know?

    Gaining the knowledge can be.

  4. Re:Op Out Knowledge? on Should Patients Have the Option To Not Know Their DNA? · · Score: 1

    Although in many cases, it should be.

  5. Re:yeeehaw on Should Patients Have the Option To Not Know Their DNA? · · Score: 1

    IF there were strictly enforced laws on how they use that data, would that be bad?

    Hypothetically speaking.

  6. Re:Op Out Knowledge? on Should Patients Have the Option To Not Know Their DNA? · · Score: 1

    Kids like that need different types of teaching.

    "So even if doctors were force to tell potential diabetics that they will develop the disease if they keep quaffing sugary drinks "
    is there a Dr. that doesn't say that now?
    If you are drinking sugary drinks, you potential have diabetes.

  7. Re:Gattaca on Should Patients Have the Option To Not Know Their DNA? · · Score: 1

    I think it would have just underscored the bigotry and intolerance.
    I still wonder what the long term viability for those companies are. I mean, after a couple generations 99% of issues will have been removed from the gene pool.
    On the plus side I suspect intelligence will be chosen, so after a coupe of generation off 200 IQ. they may figure it out.

  8. Re:Bad idea on Should Patients Have the Option To Not Know Their DNA? · · Score: 1

    Yep.
    Then finally we can have a decent health system.

  9. if the patient on Should Patients Have the Option To Not Know Their DNA? · · Score: 1

    want's to remain ignorant, fine but the info should still be collected. It will be too valuable a tool.

  10. Re:earthquakes here at home on 8.2 Earthquake Off the Coast of Chile, Tsunami Triggered · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Are you in Con Carne?

  11. Re:Of course it was calm on 8.2 Earthquake Off the Coast of Chile, Tsunami Triggered · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nothing and neither does New Orleans, but some people are pretty clueless and feel the need to bring up there ignorant pet issues under the flimsiest of reasons.

  12. Re:Sadists, enabled by our government.... on Senate Report Says CIA Misled Government About Interrogation Methods · · Score: 1

    Enabled? Did you miss the part about the lying?

  13. YOu think thats scary? on Threatened Pandemics and Laboratory Escapes: Self-fulfilling Prophecies · · Score: 1

    Startalk - Cosmic Queries with Laurie Garrett

  14. Re:Level 4 Containment on Threatened Pandemics and Laboratory Escapes: Self-fulfilling Prophecies · · Score: 2

    I remember hearing the they contracted Bigfoot to do the work, but he contracted out to the Grays.

  15. Re:Captain Trips!! on Threatened Pandemics and Laboratory Escapes: Self-fulfilling Prophecies · · Score: 1

    Yep. That book came directly out of the program NASA set up to stop any possible contamination from a moon visit.
    With time we realized it wasn't needed.
    I think the movie is better than the book, BTW.

  16. Re:Better Idea on Threatened Pandemics and Laboratory Escapes: Self-fulfilling Prophecies · · Score: 1

    You don't want the best and brightest. You want the best and brightest who are driven enough by their passion to move to BFE.

  17. Re:another great example... on How Airports Became Ground Zero In the Battle For Peer-to-Peer Car Rentals · · Score: 2

    Taxi's service have a very long history of ripping people off, threatening other taxi companies, dropping people off in the wrong place, and extortion.
    There is no reason to think that won't happen to other service where people pay to be driven door to door.

  18. Re:Key Feature... on The Connected Home's Battle of the Bulbs · · Score: 2

    Ww, you solved the problem for everyone, becaqsue no one has a child with asleep disorder!
    Thanks for you one size fits all. I'm amazed the world functioned at all before you started spitting pearls.

    And then you solve that light issue with a simple statement with not argument.
    Wow.

  19. Re:Dude, what? on How a 'Seismic Cloak' Could Slow Down an Earthquake · · Score: 1

    Right here:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

    There have been more in the last 10 years then there were in the 90s

  20. Re:Two questions. on How a 'Seismic Cloak' Could Slow Down an Earthquake · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    your statement sums up the tea party.
    The government is spending money on stuff I don't understand, therefore waste.

  21. Re:Just a friendly reminder... on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    [Citation needed]

  22. Re:April Fools stories are gay on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    http://www.merriam-webster.com...
      not willing to allow some people to have equality, freedom, or other social rights

    That is the context of the discussion. If you can't grok this, well then you are a useless human being.

  23. Re:Boycott California on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 2

    Called it.

  24. Re:The publisher's response on Nature Publisher Requires Authors To Waive "Moral Rights" To Works · · Score: 1

    waving of moral rights is needed to maintain journalistic integrity.
    It sounds bad, but it isn't. It's how you combat people playing games with articles and data in order to give weight to a politcal or theological opinion.

    And, yes 6 moth waiting period. Since the moral rights have been removed, its not a biog deal.

  25. I am going to school you on Emails Reveal Battle Over Employee Poaching Between Google and Facebook · · Score: 1

    Here are some excerpts from the Declaration of Causes of Secession. Its all about slavery.
    The real question is, can you accept new factual data and change you view? That is something only a thinking person can accomplish, so I have my doubts.

    Georgia:
    " For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery."

    Mississippi: Note the sue of the term 'products'
    "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin"

    South Carolina:
    "But an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution. The States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, have enacted laws which either nullify the Acts of Congress or render useless any attempt to execute them. In many of these States the fugitive is discharged from service or labor claimed, and in none of them has the State Government complied with the stipulation made in the Constitution. The State of New Jersey, at an early day, passed a law in conformity with her constitutional obligation; but the current of anti-slavery feeling has led her more recently to enact laws which render inoperative the remedies provided by her own law and by the laws of Congress. In the State of New York even the right of transit for a slave has been denied by her tribunals; and the States of Ohio and Iowa have refused to surrender to justice fugitives charged with murder, and with inciting servile insurrection in the State of Virginia. Thus the constituted compact has been deliberately broken and disregarded by the non-slaveholding States, and the consequence follows that South Carolina is released from her obligation."

    texas

    She was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery-- the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits-- a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time.
    http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-w...

    Those aren't even the most disturbing parts of the declarations of secession
    Consider yourself schooled.