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  1. Fired? on Encryption Would Not Have Protected Secret Federal Data, Says DHS · · Score: 1

    I presume they know who's credentials were used.

    Have they been fired? Because giving anyone your credentials is like crossing the streams...it's never done.

  2. Irrelevant on Should Nuclear Devices Be Kept On Hand To Protect Against Near Earth Objects? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We have no delivery system, no fire control system, probably no software to guide it to the object, no information on a nuke's impact on the object, etc.

    It's like trying to decide if you should keep that 105 howitzer shell around when you have no gun, no one trained to use it, and no way to target anything with it.

  3. Re:Not a moral conundrum on USAF Cuts Drone Flights As Stress Drives Off Operators · · Score: 2

    Meh...pretty much the same for any skilled technology position in the armed forces.

    You don't join the armed forces to become rich. That's what Politics is for.

  4. Re:Why Not Ban Fried Food? on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    Pork Fat Rules!!

    If the FDA outlaws that, they'll have am armed rebellion on their hands.

    Keep your laws off my Pork Fat!

  5. Re:Why Not Ban Fried Food? on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    Don't tease me.

  6. Re:Why Not Ban Fried Food? on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    While I desperately wish that to be true, I'll have to stay with my snarky tone and do the dreaded and much despised request for "citation".

    Seriously, if you can give me a link ,I'd be overjoyed and go directly to the store and buy a pound of butter.

  7. Re:I do not consent on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So you are against:

    Smoking, all forms?
    Chewing Tobacco?
    Excessive hours posting on Slashdot, playing video Games, etc?
    Fast Food?
    And and all non-prescribed drugs, including Weed?
    Cars that go faster than, say, 65 mph?
    Rock climbing or any other dangerous sport?

    And we aren't' talking discouraging, we are talking prohibiting by force of federal law.

    So you are down with all this and more because, "...but not at the expense of others.."

  8. Why Not Ban Fried Food? on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    I think you can probably find a consensus that fried foods are bad for you and if they were not consumed, there could be billions saved in related medical costs.

    Maybe they'll get to that later after additional indoctrination.

  9. Re: This is what happens when you use Luddite soft on Missing Files Blamed For Deadly A400M Crash · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is why Dr. McCoy didn't trust the transporter.

  10. Re:To all you Obama supporters on White House Asks FISA Court To Ignore 2nd Circuit's Decision On Bulk Surveillance · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I guess you haven't been paying fucking attention

    God Damned Face Painting Homer.

  11. Re:8% on Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans" · · Score: 1

    This is a problem that plagues all debt for the most part. If you run into trouble, instead of working with you, the debt holder hammers you, putting you even further into debt. Make a payment a day late? Blam! $30 fee and your rate and payment amount jumps.

    It reminds me of the Slave Owners beating the slaves even harder when they are exhausted.

  12. Re:"Get as many credit cards as you can..." on Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans" · · Score: 1

    Because you can walk from your credit card debt but not your student debt?

  13. Re:pricing on Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans" · · Score: 1

    Well there's your problem!

  14. Re:Social mobility was killed, but not this way on Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans" · · Score: 1

    I don't think it makes sense for holding universities accountable for the major that people choose. All you need to hear is "You can't major in that" and people will lose their shit and it makes the 6 O'clock news.

    What you CAN hold them accountable for is the outrageous cost increases that far exceed inflation and infrastructure growth.

  15. Private land is where most of the fracking is taking place. The feds have been slowing/restricting or prohibiting fracking and even regular wells for most of this Administration.

  16. Re:So sorry... on NASA Drops $2.3M On Supersonic Aircraft Research · · Score: 1

    If you can't sit in it, it doesn't count.

  17. Re:What is wrong with "terrorist sympathies"? on US Prosecutors Say Clearing Browser Data Can Be Obstruction of Justice · · Score: 1

    Electing a representative government and declaring independence, then conducting regular warfare is b>not the same thing as going around and cutting off people's heads, kidnapping and selling women and children as sex toys, blowing up innocent civilians to make some point, etc.

  18. Re:We can't have this! on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    See! None of this metric shit makes sense!

  19. We can't have this! on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll resist this with every ounce of my being.
    I'll resist this with every gram of my being.

    I won't give an inch on this issue.
    I won't give 5 centimeters on this issue.

    They came at us with a shit ton of rockets and mortars!
    They came at us with a shit kilogram of rockets and mortars!

    An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
    An gram of prevention is worth a kilo of cure.

  20. Re:Yes, but can it launch Waze on Siri, Cortana and Google Have Nothing On SoundHound's Speech Recognition · · Score: 0

    I plead low blood sugar...it's lunch time here.

  21. Re:Yes, but can it launch Waze on Siri, Cortana and Google Have Nothing On SoundHound's Speech Recognition · · Score: 3

    mea culpa

  22. Re:Yes, but can it launch Waze on Siri, Cortana and Google Have Nothing On SoundHound's Speech Recognition · · Score: 1, Funny

    "What is the population of capital of the country in which Space Needle is located?"

    Hound correctly surmises that he's asking for the population of Washington, DC...

    The Space Needle is in Seattle.

  23. Principles on Leaked TISA Documents Reveal Privacy Threat · · Score: 0

    On principle alone, Congress should never cede power to the Executive or Judicial Branches.

    And this bullshit just shows the practical pitfalls of abdicating your responsibilities to someone else.

  24. Re:So sorry... on NASA Drops $2.3M On Supersonic Aircraft Research · · Score: -1, Troll

    And there's that Aeronautics word in their name, unlike "Muslim Outreach", whatever the fuck that is.

  25. Re:So sorry... on NASA Drops $2.3M On Supersonic Aircraft Research · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah....but it is the coolest and fastest fucking plane ever built.