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  1. Re:Looks like the AG actually read the law on Texas Attorney General Warns International Election Observers · · Score: 0

    Lie much?

    "Anyways, it seems that your voter rant should include the democrats who in Virginia, just had the son of a democrat resign from the campaign because he was caught telling others how to stuff the ballot by voter fraud."
    lets take a look, shall we?

    " just had the son of a democrat resign"
    so, not an elected official? and his father(the e person running) cut him off immediately?
    Yeah, that's horrid~\the pubs, OTOH cover up their own parties problems and then lye about them and using tactics to change the topic.

    "was caught telling others how to stuff the ballot by voter fraud"
    No. He talked about how people can vote if they don't have an official voter ID. Using Bills as ID.
    It's not legal*, and wrong but it isn't stuffing the ballot box.

    But you go ahead and lie to make things seem nearly as bad as what the pubs are caught doing all the time.

    *presumably. I'm not familiar with Virgia voter laws

  2. Re:Looks like the AG actually read the law on Texas Attorney General Warns International Election Observers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wrong. Minority's and people in poverty get intimidated all the time. Billboards intimidate people in those areas.

    And since there is almost 0(ZERO) voting fraud in the US, what other reason is there to put billboard in places that will intemedate voters into not voting? what is the purpose of Voter ID laws when 11% of the population doesn't have ID? Why are they also exclusively in dem voting areas?

    voter fraud by state:
    http://tinyurl.com/9e2q7lm

    Let me know when thousands and thousands of people are dying when they vote. Until then, you are committing the Fallacy Fallacy.

    http://www.theskepticsguide.org/resources/logicalfallacies.aspx

  3. Re:Looks like the AG actually read the law on Texas Attorney General Warns International Election Observers · · Score: 1

    Waddayamean, "you people??"

    Clearly he means smart and attractive people~

  4. Re:Looks like the AG actually read the law on Texas Attorney General Warns International Election Observers · · Score: 1

    I like when someone points out a specific lie the Pubs say, then then can't actually find a lie from Dems and just use a vague statement about justification.

    And it's not a belief, WMD information was falsified.

  5. Re:Looks like the AG actually read the law on Texas Attorney General Warns International Election Observers · · Score: 1

    ", why should there be unsupervised "observers" standing around a polling place and potentially intimidating voters?"
    Becasue there has been a strong push by republicans to stop voters from certain counties in the country? And why do you assume they would be unsupervised?

    "and I see no reason why unelected "observers" should be given more access to polling places that legitimately registered voters are.
    then how to you check for fraud if the process isn't monitored by a 3rd party?

  6. Re:I think it is aimed at businesses and academia on Now That It's Here, Is There a Place For Windows RT? · · Score: 1

    To replace the net book. You drop into a keyboard, office. Going someplace and want to use it for music, or vids, or games? Take it with you and leave the keyboard on your desk.

  7. Nonsense on Now That It's Here, Is There a Place For Windows RT? · · Score: 1

    Tablets need all-new applications, and if you're going to run all-new applications then you don't really need Windows.
    What about integration? If what I create on the tablet is also usable on the PC, then that's why you would need windows.

  8. Re:Nothing new here. on Would You Put a Tracking Device On Your Child? · · Score: 1

    Since most killers* of children are already known to the child, they will almost certainly be aware of the device.

    *there are VERY few

  9. Re:Nothing new here. on Would You Put a Tracking Device On Your Child? · · Score: 1

    " Some used the device to stalk and kill their intended victims."
    Bullshit.

  10. Re:No downside on Would You Put a Tracking Device On Your Child? · · Score: 1

    I don't lock anything. People are safer now then ever.
    SO I'm not sure what you are going on about.

  11. Re:No on Would You Put a Tracking Device On Your Child? · · Score: 0

    I don't know, do you have a cell phone? XBox?
    It's a stupid argument.

    You might as well say, nothing should ever change since I was a child.

  12. Re:Glad I don't have kids on Would You Put a Tracking Device On Your Child? · · Score: 1

    "Yea, I said it, and I'll say it again. I'm glad I don't have kids. "
    and no one cares, so you can stop saying it. It's not like it's an achievement of any kind.

    " Pressure to be a part of all sorts of extra-curricular groups and teams wasn't there like it is now, and if a kid wanted to, "
    WEll, I can't speak for you siblingd, and as a parent with kids in high school and middle school, I have never been under any pressure to do that. My kids always have the option. Thye have always choosen after school activities. If they decided not to, we would be fine with that.
    Some of the activities are expensive, but I think they always have been. As a kid, I played baseball for 5 years and it was pretty expensive then.

    ") I was gone for hours after school and on the weekend and especially in the summer, "
    Just like most kids today.

    "Would anyone with a shred of honesty really say they would rather live in a world like that? "
    depends.

  13. Re:Sure sounds like it on Michael E. Mann Sues For Defamation Over Comparison To Jerry Sandusky · · Score: 1

    Are you a public figure if you where forced into the public by people making lies to get you there?

    Not that being a public figure means people can defame you; which is what there are attempting to do.

  14. Re:Same realm on Michael E. Mann Sues For Defamation Over Comparison To Jerry Sandusky · · Score: 2, Funny

    The only problem with slashdot is that no matter how far I adjust the brightness on my monitor, the AGW denial posters just aren't getting brighter.

  15. Re:Sounds more like a slam against Penn State admi on Michael E. Mann Sues For Defamation Over Comparison To Jerry Sandusky · · Score: 0

    And? What is ti with you single minded blinder wearing fools?Why do you think there is only one reason for warming? Why are you applying one localized study to the whole world? why do you bring up the graph, but not the authors explaining why it die snot run counter to AGW?

    oh, right, your actually stupid.

      "Our study doesn't go against anthropogenic global warming in any way," said Robert Wilson, a paleoclimatologist at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and a co-author of the study,"

      "None of this changes the fact that the current warming can't be modeled based on natural forces alone," Robert Wilson
    "Gavin Schmidt, a NASA climate scientist, the tree rings show what mounds of other data have shown as well: For the past few millennia, Earth's northern latitudes had been cooling down overall. "Similarly, we expect that over the same period the tropics should have warmed slightly," Schmidt said in an email. These trends resulted from shifts in the Earth's orbit on thousand-year-long time-scales."

    "Wilson, Schmidt and the vast majority of climate scientists agree: human-caused warming of the entire globe now overwhelms those subtle, regional heat redistributions"

  16. Re:Sounds more like a slam against Penn State admi on Michael E. Mann Sues For Defamation Over Comparison To Jerry Sandusky · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the null hypothesis has been refuted in this issue. IT's in all the expert scientific journals.
    What we have seen is out of line with the overall history trend. That, along with mountains of other data clearly indicate AGW is really. External sources have been eliminated. The current shape of the earths orbit* doesn't account for the change. So, it' internal.

    Yes, looking at one set of data, say 2 years' in and of itself doesn't mean the planet is warming, nor would it mean it's not warming. To isolate one piece of data, then use that one tiny pieces in an argument ignoring the rest of the relevant data it really fucking shitty.

    *it goes between phases of round to more oval; which causes 'ages' This is a quick laymans explanation, you can find the data online.

  17. Re:You don't know what "Hide the Decline" means on Michael E. Mann Sues For Defamation Over Comparison To Jerry Sandusky · · Score: 2, Informative

    Posting intentional trying to provoke people by posting incorrect things as facts. So -1 flamebait seems reasonable.

  18. Re:Sounds more like a slam against Penn State admi on Michael E. Mann Sues For Defamation Over Comparison To Jerry Sandusky · · Score: 0

    "because he did it "
      No, he did not. It was about TREE GROWTH decline at certain latitudes.. But please, keep being News Corps bitch. IT deals with the divergence problem. I could go into detail, but your heads is so far up your ass I doubt it's worth it.

  19. Re:Yea!... I mean No. on Boeing's CHAMP Missile Uses Radio Waves To Remotely Disable PCs · · Score: 1

    Actually we do.
    It's not perfect, but overall it's very good. We can drop a bomb through the top of a building with a 4ns delay so it explodes taking out the internals of abuilding and people, but barely rattle a nearby store front window.

    Are targeting is excellent, compared to other targeting. And it's getting better.

  20. Re:Music is always been tricky on NBC Erases SNL Sketch From Digital Archive For Fear of Copyright Lawsuit · · Score: 2

    This is why contract should stipulate the the music for a show, is part of the show. The musician cna use it for other things records, concerts, etc, but thye can't control the work the piece is attached to.

    Of course, this is another example of how royalties are ruining the culture.

  21. Re:As awlays, a half-lie on Microsoft Surface Review: a Tale of Two Tablets · · Score: 1

    It's for home use. That's the market they are going for. The have the business license for Office already tied up. This is for people who don't want to spend another 100 bucks just to use the device for what they are most likely to use the device for.

    It's not crippleware. But you go ahead and makes things you don't understand palatable by making things up.

  22. Re:Comprehension Fail... on Boeing's CHAMP Missile Uses Radio Waves To Remotely Disable PCs · · Score: 2

    No it isn't. Within the parameters of the test, they where expected to shut down. In this case, Collateral damage means they wouldn't be functional again. They functioned fine afterwards.

  23. Re:Yea!... I mean No. on Boeing's CHAMP Missile Uses Radio Waves To Remotely Disable PCs · · Score: 2

    Except you don't really know Application Y at the beginning. It's usually developed afterword when people are sitting around going: We have this great technology, what else can we do with it.
    It's a focused RnD. Often int Project X produces application A,B,C and D.

    The military doesn't build these things. Companies do. So it's not like the money is put into a pile and lit on fire. It circulates; which is key to a health economy.

    It's how spin offs happens.

  24. Re:movie captain on All Five Star Trek Captains Share a Stage · · Score: 1

    *BEEP*

  25. Re:A momentus event indeed on All Five Star Trek Captains Share a Stage · · Score: 1

    This isn't Sci-Fi. It's actors getting paid to stand on stage.