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  1. Re:Better idea: on Why Engineering Freshmen Should Take Humanities Courses · · Score: 3, Informative

    No. It's called a University for a reason. The entire point of assembling a wide array of experts in many fields in one place is so that ideas between them can be easily exchanged. If you want to only study one thing, go to a trade school to be a plumber or something.

  2. Re:Better idea: on Why Engineering Freshmen Should Take Humanities Courses · · Score: 1

    Yudkowsky is an arrogant cunt. Don't listen to him.

  3. Re:This is not the Right to be Forgotten on No "Right To Be Forgotten," Says EU Advocate General · · Score: 2

    I promise you this: neither one will work; get used to it. Even if you could force Google to delist you, the background check agencies mirror the data to save expunged data and they will still run your credit report and other shit. Teaching the fools in HR? Might as well replace them with a bunch of fucking monkeys you trained to use sign language. They're a bunch of disgusting leaches who thrive on busy work and drown themselves in bureaucracy to avoid killing themselves when confronted with something that requires actual thought; they will never admit that they are wrong about anything nor will they accept that people are more than replaceable cogs that live only to serve The Company.

  4. Re:Done us all a favor on Wikileaks Aiding Snowden - Chinese Social Media Divided - Relations Strained · · Score: 1
    But not in everyday contexts. In other words, it is only allowed in carefully curated scenarios decided by the government.

    Every person in Germany learns about the Nazi regime at school at large and in negative context

    So it is there to allow people to say `but we're not like that anymore!' after all. Not that I'm saying they are, understand? I'm just trying to understand the rational basis of forbidding all depictions of Nazi symbols, even in stories in which they are (quite literally) demonized.

    Just ask your nearest German.

    Oh no, that's okay, I believe you. Could you please explain to an ignorant, uncultured amerkan what purpose the censorship serves after sixty years if it is not for the purpose that I have stated?

  5. replace your I's with l's on NSA Releases Secret Pre-History of Computers · · Score: 1

    WAR lS PEACE
    FREEDOM lS SLAVERY
    lGNORANCE lS STRENGTH

  6. Re:He's no more of a hero than... on Wikileaks Aiding Snowden - Chinese Social Media Divided - Relations Strained · · Score: 1

    This is what Snowden gave to the media. We don't know how many other details like this he has to hand over. The fact that he's now in Russia could mean that he's handing over gigs detailed of information he had stored somewhere.

    WE JUST DO NOT KNOW.

    So stop acting like you know.

  7. Re:How is it okay if he's helping foreign governme on Wikileaks Aiding Snowden - Chinese Social Media Divided - Relations Strained · · Score: 1

    Spying on diplomats is a no-no.

  8. Re:Done us all a favor on Wikileaks Aiding Snowden - Chinese Social Media Divided - Relations Strained · · Score: 1
    Sure.

    No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

    Oh wait, that's been interpreted by SCOTUS to give a right to privacy. Never mind.

  9. Re:Nothing new on The Security Risks of HTML5 Development · · Score: 1

    Do you also dislike the fact that you have to have a license to drive on public roads?

  10. Re:legit patent suit? on Formlabs In Settlement Talks Over 3D Printing Patent Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    How about establishing the market and being the leader when the patent expires? Give people a reason to upgrade? Make some fucking money? Don't be as dumb roman_mir; there are plenty of incentives to improve. This isn't a coal mine, where one rock is very much like another.

  11. Re:Done us all a favor on Wikileaks Aiding Snowden - Chinese Social Media Divided - Relations Strained · · Score: 1

    Didn't Doom have to be modified in Germany because of Nazi symbolism? At this point, isn't it more about not upsetting people by reminding them of their past than it is about stopping Nazi propaganda?

  12. Re:Done us all a favor on Wikileaks Aiding Snowden - Chinese Social Media Divided - Relations Strained · · Score: 1

    Yup, that definitely excuses them. I hereby rule that Sweden is still a free country as long as it doesn't get in the way of politics..

  13. Re:Nothing new on The Security Risks of HTML5 Development · · Score: 1

    Yeah, damn government, saying doctors have to have a license to give brain surgery is nothing but fascism. How far will we allow the government to intrude into our lives? If we were truly free, we'd be able to go pay some high school drop out to cut your chest open and plop in a new heart in a Walmart parking lot, and private insurer will pay.

  14. Re: As the song asks... on Ask Slashdot: Is an Online Identity Important When Searching For Technical Jobs? · · Score: 1

    You seem to be having a hard time admitting that you are wrong.

  15. Re:Is that still being updated? on Megatokyo Gets a Visual Novel Game · · Score: 1

    Atlas Shrugged would actually work very well as a visual novel.

  16. Re:Gets it right on the third go on Next SurfaceRT To Come With Qualcomm Snapdragon 800, LTE · · Score: 1

    You can tell the truth and still be dishonest.

  17. Re:rat scurry on One Year Since Assange Took Refuge in Ecuadorian Embassy · · Score: 1

    All they have to do is publicly negotiate with an international fugitive and promise a specific political action? How could they refuse?

  18. Re:aren't there laws against monopolistic practice on Verizon Accused of Intentionally Slowing Netflix Video Streaming · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Start your own ISP then, idiot. No one is forcing you to be a Verizon subscriber. Why don't you crawl back under the rock you live under and take masturbate with your money to avoid spending it.

  19. Re:aren't there laws against monopolistic practice on Verizon Accused of Intentionally Slowing Netflix Video Streaming · · Score: 1, Insightful

    lf l were an ISP, Netflix would "get" to install hardware in my network over my dead body - simply because l DO NOT TRUST HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE l HAVEN'T VERIFIED.

    lF YOU'RE AN lSP THEN lNSTALLlNG RANDOM SHlT ONTO YOUR NETWORK lS WHAT YOU GET PAlD TO DO. SUCK lT UP AND DO YOUR FUCKING JOB.

  20. Re:It runs benchmarks real fast on China Bumps US Out of First Place For Fastest Supercomptuer · · Score: 1

    Only 800,000? Should have just rented a botnet.

  21. Re:we can also expect... on Do-It-Yourself Brain Stimulation Has Scientists Worried · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's actually not even a plant.

  22. Re:WTF is income equality? on What Charles G. Koch Can Teach Us About Campaign Finance Data · · Score: 1

    If it's riskier, then in aggregate, the profit will even out.

    I suppose, if you had an infinite amount of money to invest (and the financial system were simplified to the point that a mere child would realize that it were wrong), that would be true. (But if you had an infinite amount of money, why would you invest?)

  23. Slavery actively prevents a middle class and pretty much ensures that everyone is either rich, poor, or a slave; labor is not a reoccurring cost as it would be with a free man, so the poor can't become middle class through their own hard work.

  24. Re:My goodness on U.S. District Judge: Forced Decryption of Hard Drives Violates Fifth Amendment · · Score: 1

    I read the request the last time this case came up, and no, that is not what they had. They got into the drive that had the eMule cache and found in the log that he had download file like ``toddler boy raped.mpg'' and dozens of other quite specific filenames.

  25. Re:WTF on Judge Orders Google To Comply With FBI's Warrantless NSL Requests · · Score: 1

    All it takes is a declaration of a state of emergency... which we have formally been in since 1995.