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  1. Re:if he's so concerned on Slate: Amazon's Tax Stance Unfair and Unethical · · Score: 1

    Amazon does collect sales tax in those states in which it has a physical presence. Your example fails.

  2. Re:CP on When Software Offends · · Score: 2

    There's a difference between a consensual performance and a non-consensual act (which many, many upskirts at least pretend to be). Someone familiar with the nuances of both is perfectly placed to comment upon the issue. I fail to see what your attempt at slut-shaming brings to the conversation.

  3. Portal-bots on Nexus S To Serve As Brain For 3 Robots Aboard the ISS · · Score: 1

    Aww, they even come in different colors like the eyebots in Portal. And that is a lot of piercings on their lead dev.

  4. Re:This was from some B movie? any have a name? on Don't Fly If You Just Had Surgery! · · Score: 1

    My grandfather was on a body recovery team in France and Germany during WW2 and they encountered at least one, and possibly multiple, booby-trapped corpses. He didn't like to talk about his experiences very much so I only heard this from my dad.

  5. Re:Horn-rimmed glasses on Eyeglasses Made of Human Hair · · Score: 1

    Well, except that the horn buds are typically removed within a few months of birth from animals destined for mass market commercial slaughter. But it would be a potential good secondary source of income for small organic or pastured farms.

  6. Re:Blame the developers on The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland · · Score: 1

    mostly irrelevant to the discussion, but did you have a fire while you were camping? At least here in my area, the Corps doesn't mind people camping on their property as long as there are no fires of any sort.

  7. Re:Red herring on The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland · · Score: 1

    The city was not founded by blacks. Parent post may or may not be inspired by latent racism, but it is impossible to tell intent from the words as written.

  8. Re:Good luck keeping it on on Tracking Bracelets for Autistic Kids and Senior Citizens · · Score: 1

    You obviously aren't cursed with the type of heightened sensitivity the GP is referring to. I have it to a very mild degree, and wasn't able to wear socks, blue jeans, most lace-up shoes, or belts until after puberty, and to this day will scratch my skin raw if a drop of sweat hits the wrong way and I don't have something else to focus on. Someone chaining a bracelet on me before I took up meditation would have been pure torture (and would still drive me batty).

    Oh, and yeah, anecdote. Unlike the nurse up there you threw that accusation at earlier.

  9. Re:DUH on Man Robs Bank of $1 To Get Health Care In Jail · · Score: 1

    Treatment for acute illness or injury, perhaps. But this guy has tumors - they're not just going to wheel you into surgery and the chemo ward on an emergency-admit basis.

  10. Re:Hey, might make sense on Man Robs Bank of $1 To Get Health Care In Jail · · Score: 1

    One typically has to provide proof of residency for aid programs, which is difficult when you haven't got a residence.

  11. Re:Please ... on High Tech Elder Care May Be Mixed Blessing · · Score: 1

    pull a fuse and also partially detach a spark cable boot on the generator end. If he shouldn't be driving, he'll either be too blind to notice it missing, won't think to look for it, or will forget what he was doing under the hood by the time he gets it open or at least gets one of them fixed. I'd suggest that it's safest legally if the car is in your name or a joint title.

  12. Re:Murderers. on Fetus Don't Fail Me Now: How Scientists Raise Children · · Score: 2

    AND it also proved that men were responsible for determining the sex of their children, eliminating a major excuse men used to control the behaviour of women. Yay science!

  13. Re:Criminal Charges? on Note To Cheaters: Next Time Hire the Brains · · Score: 1

    Brilliant.

  14. Re:Criminal Charges? on Note To Cheaters: Next Time Hire the Brains · · Score: 1

    You would not believe the amount of faith I lost in my doctors when I saw which of my classmates were accepted to medical school. Gods help us all.

  15. Re:GMO scientists, who do you think you are? on Activists Destroy Scientific GMO Experiment · · Score: 1

    Whoosh.

  16. Re:Arousal through cheating? on What Internet Searches Reveal About Human Desire · · Score: 1

    Oh, it's not especially hard to measure arousal, just time and money consuming. And it can sometimes be hard to find enough willing research subjects.

  17. Re:Get a shark on Tom's Hardware Benchmarks Inkjet Printer Paper · · Score: 1

    Pft. A 20 um nozzle is ancient. More like 10um at this point for color, and the paper runs far closer to the head than used to be the case. Mono runs larger but that's because people want their docs to print quickly.

  18. Re:Slashdot has come a long way on Google Founders' Jets Caught On WSJ's Radar · · Score: 1

    No, as Oprah is now off the air. But I think you knew that.

  19. Re:Admit it... on How Today's Tech Alienates the Elderly · · Score: 1

    Embarrassing admission: I didn't realize the symbol on the on/off buttons was a 1 intersecting a 0 until I was in my twenties. I thought it was representing a toggle switch of the type you'd find on a really basic breadboard and got annoyed at the inconsistency of the orientation of the switch relative to how you pressed the button!

  20. Re:Why did she even enter? on Computer Records Hold Key In IMF Head's Sexual Assault Case · · Score: 1

    It's a posh suite - the bath may have been fairly far from the door, and have a decently soundproof door. We can't assume she would have heard him.

  21. Re:In other words on Jeff Bezos Calls Sales Tax Requirements On Amazon Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Yep. Kentucky is one. Amazon collects sales tax from me whenever I buy from them (which is not often after the 1984 debacle).

  22. Re:Was it stringy? on Think I'm Not American? Pass the Hamburgers. · · Score: 1

    it was in maki, so I don't really know. It seemed rude to pry it open and look. However - since I think pork and beans are nasty enough on their own without being fermented, maybe I'll skip the authentic natto.

  23. Re:Diuretic on Coffee Wards Off Cancer · · Score: 1

    Well what the hell is it in the stuff that sends me running to the bathroom every half hour then? And stinking of coffee to boot.

  24. Re:Try Natto on Think I'm Not American? Pass the Hamburgers. · · Score: 1

    I had some natto recently, and thought it was pretty good. Tasted sort of like a cross between boiled peanuts and coffee beans with a bit of vinegar, though there's a possibility it was house-made and not allowed to ferment as long as it would have in Japan. My husband had the more typical OMG this is the most disgusting thing I ever ate reaction... and he's pretty open minded. So who knows.

  25. Re:Flamebait Summary on Easily Distracted People May Have 'Too Much Brain' · · Score: 1

    Nah, that's schizophrenia.

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7448474