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  1. Re:Issues on Why Do So Many Liberals "Like" Mitt Romney On Facebook? · · Score: 1

    FICA is insurance, not a tax (actually my "work-study" job didn't deduct this--and the college of course didn't pay its share--and it would have sucked if I became disabled and had too few credits to get any benefits because of this).

    I would say something bad about your mom, but it kind of seems silly for the government to pay someone and then tax them, so let's just say she should have been paid $15k, and if she didn't quit it would mean she wasn't being paid too little.

  2. Re:Headline on American Scientists Win Nobel Prize In Chemistry · · Score: 1

    Maybe if Americans identified a little more taxpayer funding would pour into research and science education would be encouraged on every level until America won at science! Group pride is a little silly, but if the country produced zero scientific discoveries group shame would surely be justified.

  3. Re:Big problem? No. on Judge Orders Piracy Trial To Test IP Address Evidence · · Score: 1

    I doubt the resources exist to search millions of houses and forensically analyze all those devices. Certainly not without impacting critical law enforcement functions like drug enforcement. Therefore, due to the practical requirements of national security, the government and courts will likely look generously on proposals to censor the internet or ban usage on an individual level.

  4. Re:Correction on Study Shows Tech Execs Slightly Prefer Romney Over Obama · · Score: 1

    John Kerry seems to have said something similar. Well, maybe the rich people aren't that concerned about the details, but they employ people who are barely rich to manage their money, and they certainly care.

  5. Re:Serious points raised? on Student Publishes Extensive Statistics On the Population of Middle-Earth · · Score: 0

    Tolkien was also a man. Otherwise he would have been writing about debutantes trying to hook a rich and hunky husband.

  6. Re:context on UK Man Arrested For Offensive Joke Posted On Facebook · · Score: 1

    No, it's the people who exposed a little girl on the internet by putting up the page. How many pedophiles are masturbating to her pictures right now? The parents should be arrested for aiding and abetting pedophilia and child abduction.

  7. Re:Good. on Laser Strikes On Aircraft Becoming Epidemic · · Score: 1

    Then the most sensible law would be one requiring protection equipment for pilots. After 9/11 do you re-enforce cockpit door or do you make box-cutters illegal to buy?

  8. Re:Worse than terrorists on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    punishment for thinking wrong, acting wrong, dressing wrong and even eating wrong... and don't even look the wrong way

    Post-religion, we have political correctness, an enormous criminal code, public decency laws, Bloomberg Dietary Edicts, obscenity laws/Male-Gaze-shaming, etc. Nothing has really changed, except there is even more hypocrisy, since each voter is trying to control the behavior of his neighbor without actually believing in the Law. And there is no forgiveness.

  9. Re:This is sad on Ad Group Says Internet Accounts For 5.1M US Jobs, 3.7% of GDP · · Score: 2

    Obviously manufacturing companies aren't using enough unpaid interns. Now that many college graduates have no hope of ever paying back their loans, a labor commitment should be added to the contract in lieu of interest.

  10. Re:Not so good on Philippines' Cybercrime Law Makes SOPA Look Reasonable · · Score: 1

    Paid cam-girls are classic. If children are under the power of evil people, shutting down legal businesses that can be inspected won't help, the kids will just have to earn on the streets. Sensational headline would read: Philippine Cyber Puritanism Promotes Preteen Prostitution

  11. Re:They Learned Their Lesson: Avoid Democracy on MPAA Boss Admits SOPA and PIPA Are Dead, Not Coming Back · · Score: 1

    Don't forget private agreements like "Six Strikes"

  12. Re:I'm confused... on 82-Year-Old Nun Breaks Into Nuclear Facility, Contractors Blamed · · Score: 2

    Should obviously be secured by soldiers, since there is no private company that can invest enough in training or maintain the highest level of discipline. Of course there would probably end up being photos on the internet of the soldiers peeing on the nuclear warheads or shooting the nun from a helicopter...

  13. Re:Guns on The Explosive Growth of 3D Printing · · Score: 2

    Won't argue about it being the USA that created the dangerous black market for drugs, but the cartels have lots of entertaining ways to kill people. Maybe as a law-abiding citizen and therefore militia member you should question why your government has disarmed you and left you disenfranchised and defenseless.

  14. Re:Politicians on UK Ministers' Private Communications Subject To Freedom of Information Act · · Score: 1

    If they already make too little, might as well pay them less. And they are already mediocre, power hungry, corrupt, millionaires, so I doubt things would get much worse.

  15. Re:Some Middle Ground on A Suicide Goes Viral On the Internet · · Score: 1

    What about all the other news, 99% of which sets a bad example? Clearly suicide is the exception, because it is so self-evidently the right thing to do.

  16. Re:Wait, what? on The Text Message Typo That Landed a Man In Jail · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Next time her kid gets locked out, she can catch pneumonia.

    Piss off the little girl and you could be even more fucked now that her mom has shown her what's possible.

  17. Re:Hollow sentiment on NZ Broke the Law Spying On Kim Dotcom, PM Apologizes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Indeed, like prostitution, which is a completely legitimate business forced to work around illegitimate laws. Your "moral authorities" all have histories that can't be examined too closely and bank accounts stuffed with cash, but unlike Dotcom they make the lives of the people worse rather than better. Kopimism is the one true faith.

  18. Re:Mormons on Torvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks · · Score: 1

    Just give those dudes the internet and an xbox! Too bad God didn't mention this in the Book of Mormon, maybe Joseph Smith just left it out because he couldn't understand what was being revealed

  19. Re:Mormons on Torvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks · · Score: 1

    Polygamy and marriage at puberty can make perfect sense, though modern society is arranged differently. Women waiting almost until menopause to get married like in our current culture is very strange indeed.

  20. Re:shouting fire on Brazilian Judge Orders 24-hour Shutdown of Google and Youtube · · Score: 1

    Panic is not something that should be encouraged. It should be managed. Otherwise you'll have 12 biochemist fighting to the death over a breathing apparatus. And it turns that the terrorists was yelling "Sharron" not "sarin"...

  21. Re:Message to the intolerant on Pakistan's PM Demands International Blasphemy Laws From UN · · Score: 1

    Not really extreme, since education is biased most of the time and involves at least some low-level indoctrination (except in mathematics, at least one would hope)

  22. Re:I wonder if someday this could be done here on Iran Set To Block Access To Google · · Score: 1

    Marxism, or whatever bastardized collectivism Europeans worship, is a kind of religion, making those governments pretty much godless theocracies.

  23. Re:Before we get the usual gaggle of fascists on Iran Set To Block Access To Google · · Score: 1

    On the other hand some "progressive" with a conspiracy theory and a compulsion to impress his saintly mother sounds a lot like Hitler too...

  24. Re:What a bunch of tossers.... on NZ To Investigate Illegally Intercepted Data In Dotcom Case · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, your tax money is also being spent to aid terrorism and organized crime. Normally none of this is done in accordance with any law or court so these people are in unfamiliar territory. Lesson learned: should have just killed the fat bastard.

  25. Re:Was there EVER really privacy? on Facebook Disables Face Recognition In EU · · Score: 1

    You relish the right to record and track other people...but in many places you don't have the right to conceal your own face! And by the time there are brain recording devices there will probably be better body cloaking options than a ski mask, though you won't be permitted to use them. The reality is whatever rights you have are just scraps that couldn't be taken away. Only government has the resources and privileges to fully implement global tracking, and government agents and members of the elite will be untraceable by, or invisible to, your little camera.