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  1. Re:Of course on Britain's Broadband Censors: a Bunch of Students · · Score: 1

    do you think a few boobies would be in any way interesting?

    Dude, you need to see your doctor for a full work-up immediately.

  2. Re:Maximum voluntary blocking is a good move. on Britain's Broadband Censors: a Bunch of Students · · Score: 1

    Best way to do that is to use OpenDNS, filtering and logging software, and lock the machine in a cabinet. This will provide fully customizable blocking as well as time restrictions. What can GOVERNMENT have to do with one's OWN PC, except mess everything up and waste everyone's money?

  3. Re:Free to Chose, Filtered OR Unfiltered on Britain's Broadband Censors: a Bunch of Students · · Score: 1

    Besides ulterior motives and slippery slopes, the people opting out have to pay for the censorship system, since those opting in aren't charged an additional fee for the service. This isn't like paying for schools even if you don't have kids, this is the government forcing everyone to fund an ideology.

  4. Re:Serves them right on Can the Hottest Peppers In the World Kill You? · · Score: 1

    I think some people produce or perceive endorphins more than others. They probably also have a higher pain threshold.

  5. Re:life expectancy != maximum life span on What Happens When the Average Lifespan is 150 Years? · · Score: 1

    Head transplants don't seem that far away.

  6. Re:Will somebody PLEASE think of the... on Shady Reshipping Centers Exposed · · Score: 1

    Pimps have been shown to increase prostitutes' earnings and established cartels generally try to support public order . Obviously law enforcement can't allow that state of affairs, but they also can't eliminate those markets either even if it were possible.

  7. Re:Cosplaying Whackjob Assualts Group of Friends on Real Life Super Hero Arrested · · Score: 1

    ...or transform him into Dark Phoenix, supervillain.

  8. Re:Seriously? on UK ISPs To Begin Censorship of Porn Websites · · Score: 1

    Most women don't watch porn and view their partners' watching porn as a problem. That's before you add the Christian craziness.

  9. Re:That's not censorship. on UK ISPs To Begin Censorship of Porn Websites · · Score: 1

    It's obviously censorship since the point is to block children from seeing porn and other sexually suggestive material. There is no "Click to proceed to triple penetration". Most people think that content available to children should be censored, but that obviously doesn't mean it's not censorship. And indeed since advertisements, TV, and other popular media must be censored on a grade-school level, censorship applies to the general population, which is again obviously censorship.

  10. Re:So which other candidate is better? on The Data Crunching Prowess of Barack Obama · · Score: 1

    Female logic has no problem with that because it defines the fetus as a "baby" or as a "parasite" depending on how she feels about it.

  11. Re:If you live in a state with no sales tax... on Amazon Pushes For National Internet Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    Amazon sells stuff at a low profit-margin leaving state residents with more cash in hand to support the "commons". Modifying income and property taxes would affect the wealthy involved in corrupt government all-profit margin infrastructure contracts, however.

  12. Re:Here is why its good on Amazon Pushes For National Internet Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    Sales tax reduces the standard of living of everyone who is not rich. That does not make a decent human society.

  13. Re:Maybe Plum Consulting should become an ISP? on ISPs 'Exaggerate the Cost of Data' · · Score: 1

    If you want dedicated bandwidth that is guaranteed, then buy it. Just be willing to pay over $1000 a month for your 100Mbps line.

    Prices are significantly based on what the customer can pay, so comparing a home pricing to business pricing is deceptive. Businesses pay more for everything because they have more to pay, not because they are getting precious high-grade products.

  14. Re:Simpler solution on NY Senators Want To Make Free Speech A Privilege · · Score: 1

    Every country with weak speech laws ends up with obviously absurd and unjust convictions. The case Albert Langer, for example, shows that things are far from well Down Under.

  15. Re:Ass-backwards "solution" on NY Senators Want To Make Free Speech A Privilege · · Score: 1

    Except the aim here is stop bullying from happening instead of punishing it after the fact when it has reached the threshold of harassment. So communicating in general has to be criminalized. Just like heterosexual sex in general has mostly been criminalized, as the threshold for sexual assault has been lowered to achieve ideal vaginal air-tightness (e.g. Julian Assange). Human nature doesn't change: the government just enables the weak to bully and terrorize the strong.

  16. Re:Welcome to Canada? on NY Senators Want To Make Free Speech A Privilege · · Score: 1

    Actions have consequences: don't recognize the right to free speech and things become worse! Some may be cowed, but the bully or crazy person with enough foresight will get their satisfaction by breaking your bones instead of calling you names. The government becomes ever more oppressive, until you end up in jail for some accidental swear uttered near a child. Soon enough you are dodging car bombs and bullets from various insurrections caused by the lack of a legitimate government that recognizes human rights.

  17. Re:Welcome to Canada? on NY Senators Want To Make Free Speech A Privilege · · Score: 1

    It is obviously a Constitutional issue, since the most a property owner can do is demand that you leave and not come back.

  18. Re:Both parties hate you and the Bill of Rights on NY Senators Want To Make Free Speech A Privilege · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately with the reduction and homogenization of political parties the morons have taken over all three branches and the Constitution can be almost entirely ignored.

  19. Re:It may be 2011 on Florida Reduces Penalties For 'Sexting' Teens · · Score: 1

    To be fair, sexting often ends badly for kids. Of course when the hysterical minority who expect the government to solve every problem and the legislature which has nothing to do except constantly write new laws get together, things end up even worse.

  20. Re:Yuh Huh on Drone Kills Top Al Qaeda Figure · · Score: 1

    I won't disagree that they were assholes, but the assholes behind the CIA and the Mossad are to blame for dragging the rest of us dealing with these creeps.

  21. Re:Yuh Huh on Drone Kills Top Al Qaeda Figure · · Score: 1

    The USA terrorized al-Awlaki and bin Laden for years before they returned the attention. If you were almost poisoned or thrown into a shithole prison for resisting brutal Middle Eastern regimes a bullet to the eye would seem calming.

  22. Re:5th Amendment on Drone Kills Top Al Qaeda Figure · · Score: 1

    The Nazis did execute priests who objected to occupation, but I don't think we want to end up on that side of the analogy.

  23. Re:Of course. Duh. on HideMyAss.com Doesn't Hide Logs From the FBI · · Score: 1

    It's a punishment for political speech that ends up mostly netting the mentally deficient. Doubt they find one remotely plausible suspect for every $100 million spent. Meanwhile they of course invest in airtight physical security to protect against the professionals or intelligent crazies who actually are threats to the most legally dispensable elected official.

  24. Re:Of course. Duh. on HideMyAss.com Doesn't Hide Logs From the FBI · · Score: 1

    What's the point of using it under those terms? Warrants and subpoenas are hardly scarce, and could be issued for copyright infringement or divorce proceedings. Threatening the President is also a pretty low threshold since in the scheme of things it is less significant than littering.

  25. Re:You know nothing about Italy. on Italy Prepares '"One Strike" Anti-Piracy Law · · Score: 1

    Your lady was experiencing culture shock, not gender degradation. If Italian women preferred coy metrosexuals Italian men would use a different mating strategy.