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  1. Re:About that floundering financial situation on USPS To Ban International Shipping On Lithium Ion Powered Gadgetry · · Score: 1

    The government refusing stamp increases because there was "zero inflation" also cost them billions of dollars

  2. Re:It's the taxes, stupid on Only 22% of California 8th Graders Pass National Science Test · · Score: 1

    LA built a $600 million high school a couple of years ago, so they can't be that underfunded...

  3. Re:People are not arrested for being pedophiles on NY Ruling Distinguishes Downloading, Viewing Child Pornography · · Score: 1

    The point of arresting people who possess child pornography is that they might have paid for it

    Police have lots of tools for tracing financial transactions, but it seem like the business aspect is mostly mythical. Viewers are being punished for unholiness. The government also suppresses legally produced porn that it considers distasteful.

  4. Re:IOW: Pedobears have a loophole on NY Ruling Distinguishes Downloading, Viewing Child Pornography · · Score: 1

    Of course with digital cameras in the hands of kids they are certainly the leading producers of underage nude portraiture...

  5. Re:Why 1st ammendment? roxy on Israel Passes Photoshop Law To Combat Anorexia · · Score: 1

    So the only right you recognize is the one to exist like a pig. Because communicating like a human being has some effect on others. If granny and the kids are little piggies they should be locked safely away in pens someplace. "Political correctness" is more degrading to a man than living in a sty.

  6. Re:Truth in advertising on Israel Passes Photoshop Law To Combat Anorexia · · Score: 1

    The only fact is the product itself. Any representation or description cannot be a fact.

  7. Re:parts of that seem ok to me on Israel Passes Photoshop Law To Combat Anorexia · · Score: 1

    Beauty isn't an ideal for women, it's practical. When every guy wants them they are well satisfied with their looks. When they bring up a body issue and a guy rapturously compliments them, the look of dissatisfaction on their face is because the guy does not meet their standards.

  8. Re:There's an obesity epidemic on Israel Passes Photoshop Law To Combat Anorexia · · Score: 2

    Correlation is hardly a "direct connection". Girls are coming out of elementary school obese, and it's not because they are trying to look like their favorite haute couture models. It's because of shit food, and a culture that coddles girls and accepts them for "how they are" and their "inner beauty". In times when moms cooked, fashion demanded tiny waists, and neurosis was still a disease, girls had fewer problems maintaining their figure.

  9. Re:What about OBESE models? on Israel Passes Photoshop Law To Combat Anorexia · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. Cutting the heads off the tallest poppies does not make the grass bloom.

  10. Re:Parasites on More Plans For UK Internet Snooping Bill Revealed In Queen's Speech · · Score: 1

    Convert the palace into a brothel and there'd be 100x more tourists

  11. Re:Once again on GOP Blocks Senate Debate On Dem Student Loan Bill · · Score: 1

    When increases in healthcare, gas, food, housing, education are all increasing "in great excess compared to the general rate of inflation", maybe that rate has been a little understated...

  12. Re:Obama knows how to play politics if anything. on GOP Blocks Senate Debate On Dem Student Loan Bill · · Score: 1

    Imagine if your mom's salary was $10,000. She'd be an even bigger hero! It's a win/win.

  13. Re:Repossession on Universities Hold Transcripts Hostage Over Loans · · Score: 1

    Usually after repossession the loan is written off. I'm sure plenty of people wouldn't mind handing back the diploma to be free of debt.

  14. Re:Google Beta on Google Gets Driverless License For Nevada Roads · · Score: 2

    What answer? Attaching devices to your car was obviously illegal! How about the real problem: plate readers, which can easily achieve total surveillance of road traffic. But a ruling against those would raise questions about the millions of other government cameras monitoring the public. And at this point questioning those is simply not going to be allowed.

  15. Re:Extortion? on Universities Hold Transcripts Hostage Over Loans · · Score: 1

    It's kind of the natural order. There's something to be said for the "village" lending a hand, but in large populations the value of a random individual is going to be 0. Certainly people can advance beyond nature and focus on attaining self-fulfillment in their lives, but the first step is: Don't have any children.

  16. Re:does it surprise you? on Universities Hold Transcripts Hostage Over Loans · · Score: 2

    It could prevent you from getting a job that pays anything, in which case you are in a kind of debtors' prison. It would more sense for the bank to get part of your paycheck withheld.

  17. Re:What a joke on Unblocking The Pirate Bay the Hard Way Is Fun · · Score: 2

    Had something to do with established business interests opposed to hemp paper in the early days before pot gained much market saturation.

  18. Re:Why is the MEDIA MAFIA industry so damn importa on US-Australia Agreements Create Opportunities for Privacy Violation, Extradition · · Score: 2

    Their business depends entirely on the government so they give lots of bribes. Other businesses lobby, but once the government has paid you to build your factory and let you operate it tax free, what else is there to ask for? Copyright on the other hand requires constant vigilance.

  19. Re:This is stupid. on British Prime Minister To Announce Porn Blocking Plans · · Score: 1

    They want to make it illegal (more illegal). It undermines a certain social order where men work hard for the chance to support a woman and her children, and where women work in office buildings for low wages. Every worker unit is equal, and its only identity is its assigned level in the corporate hierarchy. Sport and religion obviously are not in conflict with this system! And since no one wants their daughter in porn or their son watching it, and no one will publicly admit to watching it themselves, censorship of obscenity faces weak opposition. And indeed, by pushing those instinctual buttons, most worker units reflexively form up for a mob attack.

  20. Re:The right wing here wants to leave you alone on British Prime Minister To Announce Porn Blocking Plans · · Score: 0

    Women stick out both hands to accept the gifts that conservatives give them. But tell them to stop killing their daughters...

  21. Re:First they came.. on British Prime Minister To Announce Porn Blocking Plans · · Score: 1

    England is not a free country.

  22. The nuclear balance is life-or-death, and any anti-missile systems are destabilizing. The interceptors aren't a deterrent to Iran and North Korea, they neutralize their deterrents to US invasion, which isn't worth reviving an arms race over.

  23. Re:In that case... on Hulu To Require Viewers To Have Cable Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    Inevitable that those servers will be shut down one way or another.

  24. Re:A little clarity into the situation on Not Just Apple, How Microsoft Sidestepped Billions In State Taxes · · Score: 1

    Government wasting money is disgusting, but so is the hoarding of money by corporations. At least the government is stimulating the auto industry, while Microsoft just continues to rip off customers with the "Windows Tax" and invest the proceeds in nothing.

  25. Re:Race to the bottom on Not Just Apple, How Microsoft Sidestepped Billions In State Taxes · · Score: 1

    Competition between nations means that foreigners lose something which is a sweet victory. Making parts of your own country lose something is not.