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  1. Re:Scientifically meaningless? on Attractive Women Make Men Temporarily Stupid · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No, bisexuals account for easily 8-40% of the population depending on studies. Absolute monosexuals are just barely a majority.

  2. Re:Bond on Attractive Women Make Men Temporarily Stupid · · Score: 1

    IDK, Oddjob was pretty damn chubby.

  3. Re:Finally! on Canadian Hate-Speech Law Violates Charter of Rights · · Score: 1

    This sentence means nothing in French.

  4. Re:The tide is turning against lefties on Canadian Hate-Speech Law Violates Charter of Rights · · Score: 1

    History has showed you wrong on every point, especially minimum wage.

  5. Re:That was Joe Clark's fault on Canadian Hate-Speech Law Violates Charter of Rights · · Score: 1

    I thought his real self came out when he threatened to walk on Ottawa already.

  6. Re:Sticks and stones on Canadian Hate-Speech Law Violates Charter of Rights · · Score: 1

    Be glad dueling was outlawed, I suspect most of the "be tougher" guys and "omg, sticks and stones", had they lived up to these words in the recent past (last public duel in France was in 67 for example), would have been with Lady Mondegreene. It's bullshit from a psychological pov, and it's bullshit from a society pov.

  7. Re:Sticks and stones on Canadian Hate-Speech Law Violates Charter of Rights · · Score: 1

    Are both fruits and are both part of a similar family of plants, they grow in trees, produce large edible seeds and are found in the old world, they can also be compared by color of their skin, thickness of their skin... you were saying?

  8. Re:I'm glad this is gone on Canadian Hate-Speech Law Violates Charter of Rights · · Score: 1

    ORLY - Lindberg, if he had bothered to run for elections, would probably have plunged the US into fascism, but with other words than those of the nazis. The British fascists only lost their chance at gaining popular support in the UK when they provoked and attacked a syndicalist rally in the middle of the day, in central London, in front of the media to the point that even the Sun, their main media supporter, had reservations.

  9. Re:I'm glad this is gone on Canadian Hate-Speech Law Violates Charter of Rights · · Score: 1

    You must be a moron to not even have heard of "Banality of Evil" let alone bothered to understand why exactly it was described as such - hell, the Turing petition thread this week was full of idiots saying "omg, this was the law at the time".

  10. Re:Let's hope... on Canadian Hate-Speech Law Violates Charter of Rights · · Score: 1

    So you do agree with limitations, interesting.

  11. Re:Let's hope... on Canadian Hate-Speech Law Violates Charter of Rights · · Score: 1

    The pen is mightier than the sword.

  12. Re:There's a difference between Mars and the Ameri on Sending Astronauts On a One-Way Trip To Mars · · Score: 1

    What about our thriving Antarctic colonies... oh

  13. Re:On Personality on How To Hire a Hacker · · Score: 1

    BPD is basically NPD with a different focus (as are Histrionic Personality Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder) - basically it's all about being a soul-sucking asshole, jacked up to 11 (the 4 disorders are called Cluster B personality disorders basically), and latching on people - they make people insane just by their presence (it's pretty common for at least one person in the family tree to exhibit Cluster B personality types in the next generation and even more common to see addiction-type issues like ED, addictions, codependency (I think OCD falls under it), etc crop up in their immediate environment, including partners, friends, collaborators).

  14. Re:nightmares on Microsoft Pushes For Single Global Patent System · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yeah, that, I still haven't finished (after cracking it up for a first try 8 years ago :p) so the terms are a bit fuzzy

  15. Re:nightmares on Microsoft Pushes For Single Global Patent System · · Score: 1

    There's a thing though - Proudhon consider property as theft under the existing system, but does consider there is such a thing as free property, not that I really want to launch into an anarchoid interpretation fight

  16. Re:Advantages for Inventors and Small Businesses on Microsoft Pushes For Single Global Patent System · · Score: 2, Informative

    The only country I know of lacking a legally defined public domain is japan, and there is a de facto recognition of works being public domain after a certain time.

  17. Re:Push for proper patent reform on Microsoft Pushes For Single Global Patent System · · Score: 1

    - Revoke corporate personhood?

  18. Re:What shall I get a patent for... on Microsoft Pushes For Single Global Patent System · · Score: 1

    Crap, un*code

  19. Re:What shall I get a patent for... on Microsoft Pushes For Single Global Patent System · · Score: 1

    Lack of unicode support leads to no success for the employ of the turk I

  20. Re:Maybe we have changed on Has the Rate of Technical Progress Slowed? · · Score: 1

    And fundamental research for these two's work came heavily if not mostly from fundamental research that in some cases was about a century old.

  21. Re:Ray Kurzweil on Has the Rate of Technical Progress Slowed? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but Ray Kurzweil is the prophet, he can't be wrong.

  22. Re:Not so excited about excitement as I used to be on Has the Rate of Technical Progress Slowed? · · Score: 1

    The family farm has been dying since Antiquity.

  23. Re:basic research and physical sciences on Has the Rate of Technical Progress Slowed? · · Score: 1

    Er, no, flight dates from the 18th century as a feasibile thing, the bicycle repairmen did fixed wing heavier than air flight, and had competition at the time.

  24. Re:Yeah and on OS Performance — Snow Leopard, Windows 7, and Ubuntu 9.10 · · Score: 1

    That was basically net application's methodology, yknow.

  25. Re:just Turing? on Alan Turing Apology Campaign Grows · · Score: 1

    Sadly I know more than a few, and share blood with them.