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  1. Re:First dissent on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 0

    You'll be subsidized if you can't afford it. Otherwise, it's pretty much like car insurance, so was the game already over decades ago?

    I am so tired of this "it is like car insurance" bullshit. I don't drive, Portland has got an excellent public transportation system and I don't need a flipping car, so I don't have to buy car insurance. However, I will have to buy health insurance or be fined. Total and utter bullshit. What the hell happened to personal liberty? Why the hell do I have to be "mandated" to buy anything from a private company? The federal government can go fuck themselves.

  2. Re:Only 5 Ingredients Required! Why Pay More? on How Printed Circuit Boards Are Made · · Score: 0

    At risk of feeding the troll, I do a helluva lot more that "flash an LED" with my home etched boards. For example, I use a wireless XBee radio to read my power meter and chart my daily usage. Many of the folks at http://www.doityourselfchristmas.com/ do some amazing things with their home etched boards, more that just flashy-blinky lights. So, AC, maybe instead of trolling /. you should go read a book or two, lest you end up demonstrating idiocy to everyone. I'll finish with this quote from Friedrich Nietzsche: Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

  3. Re:How is this news for nerds? on Politics: Paul-Barney Bill Would Legalize Marijuana Federally · · Score: 0

    Mt Dew and Warcraft are not a mind-altering substances.

    FTFY

    You obviously have not drunk enough Mt. Dew or played enough Warcraft.

  4. The Bangles will be making a comeback soon. on Egyptians Find New Ways To Get Online · · Score: 0

    Surf like an Egyptian. Really makes me wonder what would happen here in the US if the government though they could get away with it during an "emergency."

  5. Re:Not so bad of a result on Stuxnet Infects 30,000 Industrial Computers In Iran · · Score: 1, Informative

    I love the double standard! So, if that's the case, then people should STFU about Iran building anything, considering they haven't signed that treaty either...

    Are you really that flipping naive? Israel is using nukes as a deterrent, defensive weapon, which has so far worked. Iran has stated that they want to "wipe Israel off the face of the earth," http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/oct/27/israel.iran and would probably use nukes as an offensive weapon, at least that is my interpretation of "burn in the fire of Islamic fury." So GFY before you tell people to STFU!

  6. Re:Not wrong question on Internal Costs Per Gigabyte — What Do You Pay? · · Score: 1

    Exactly! If this were not true the State of Oregon's State Data Center (SDC) couldn't charge what they do. Current charges: http://www.oregon.gov/DAS/SDC/docs/rates/Rates.pdf - we often try to host outside the SDC because of service level agreements, agency accessibility for managing the resource and price. If we were to pay what it costs, how would we support a bloated SDC staffing structure. The SDC now has more staff than the agencies who moved to the SDC did and the service quality is down (4 flipping weeks to open a firewall port), availability is down (nowhere near the promised 99.9% uptime), costs are up! Yes, sadly, I work for the state and helped move our agency, DHS, to the SDC a few years back - wish I could turn back time.

  7. Re:Eat my transistor on Researchers Create 4nm Transistor With Seven Atoms · · Score: 1

    I used them as 'nads to glue onto my Nazi Party action figures: Himmler, Goebbels, Hitler and Göring.

    Who only got one?

  8. Re:Great step forward on Air Force Sets Date To Fly Mach-6 Scramjet · · Score: 1

    can people live with loud bangs as a routine?

    The evidence where I live (Valencia, Spain; a city addicted to pyrotechnics) is that yes, we can.

    Welcome to hong kong. ;)

    Welcome to my hood!

    Welcome to my pants!

  9. Closing this ticket on Are Googlers Too Smart For Their Own Good? · · Score: 1

    Reason: Works for me. Comment: Nice API and easy to understand too.

  10. Is this... on NASA Estimates 600 Million Metric Tons of Water Ice At Moon's North Pole · · Score: 1

    ...in earth weight or moon weight?

  11. Hey IIPA... on Use Open Source? Then You're a Pirate! · · Score: 1

    ...go fark yourself. ARRRR

  12. Crap like this... on TSA Makes 4-Year-Old Take Off Leg Braces · · Score: 1

    ...makes me ashamed of my country.

  13. Re:Note to /. readers... on What Are the Best Valentine's Day Stunts? · · Score: 1

    Aren't we trying to avoid the RAIGs?

  14. Re:Developed != Civilised on Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws · · Score: 1

    ...The purpose of a prison sentence is rehabilitation, not revenge...

    The purpose of a prison sentence is punishment. We can also try to rehabilitate the criminal, but recidivism rates suggest that we are failing at that. All of our actions, positive and negative, have consequences. If you commit a crime, that consequence is some form of punishment. If a prison sentence was indeed viewed as vengeance, then we would allow the victim or family of the victim to inflict some sort of consequence on the criminal. We don't, so I don't understand why you think we, US citizens, think it is revenge. Please help me understand the basis of your viewpoint.

  15. Re:Hmm on First MySQL 5.5 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    SELECT * FROM features WHERE build = 'current'

  16. Re:If he's a hacker... on US Wants UK Hacker To Pay To Fix Holes He Exposed · · Score: 1

    ... or the ability of people to be swayed by theatrics over substance. It's not about what's fair, it's about what one can get away with.

    "It depends on what the meaning of is is" - one of the best performers of them all.

  17. Re:bipolar mice? on Scientists Levitate Mice for NASA · · Score: 1

    Why does everyone think it's normal for mice, to eat partially digested and rotten (with the help of bacteria) cow milk? What do you think they do without humans? Suck on tits of dead cows? ^^

    For that matter, why does anyone think it's normal for humans to eat cow secretions?

    Because it is oh so yummy.