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  1. Re:Why Koch and not Soros? on What Charles G. Koch Can Teach Us About Campaign Finance Data · · Score: 1, Troll

    And Soros astroturfed MoveOn, etc. into existence. The question posed was why does one direction seem to be legally sactioned but not the other. If Koch brothers are wrong and Soros is not, then we are making legal rulings based on political ideology and that is definitely not something to support... unless you are a leftist.

  2. Re:lawsuit by proxy? on The Amish Are Getting Fracked · · Score: 1

    Well, you're the one who claimed to be septic.

  3. Re:lawsuit by proxy? on The Amish Are Getting Fracked · · Score: 1

    I think a good antibiotic might help you out.

  4. Re:I think he's dealt with other orthodox types on The Amish Are Getting Fracked · · Score: 1

    My GE gas oven has a Sabbath mode that causes the oven to not start immediately when I set it to come on but will start randomly in the next 10 seconds. I view this as a lawyerish way of "obeying" a commandment while not actually desiring to obey it.

  5. Re:1047 Miles on ROVs Discover Deep Sea Trash · · Score: 1

    I believe your last sentence 9the part between the commas anyway) was an accurate rephrasing of the desired goal.

  6. Re:Contradiction? on ROVs Discover Deep Sea Trash · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, no, no. Providing artificial homes for wild animals is only good when it is done in coordination with the groups that have enriched themselves at the pubic trough studying the best way to build artificial shelters. Only after years of study are we allowed to build such shelters.

    Obviously, these creatures would have been much better served by properly constructed shelters (union workers, OSHA oversight, etc) instead of these haphazard things tossed out there.

  7. Re:significant negative effects on ROVs Discover Deep Sea Trash · · Score: 0

    "manipulative and dishonest" You've just discovered the only tools available to the modern environmental movement.

  8. Re:The bias might be in your interpretation... on ROVs Discover Deep Sea Trash · · Score: 1

    So... When a natural process produces a result that causes changes in a different part of nature, that is somehow not natural and needs to be prevented?

    Or, things change because things change and letting nature run its course is bad.

  9. Re:Paying off for whom? on Class Action Suit Goodies Await Tech Users · · Score: 1

    What kind of harm did Papa John's cause by sending a few texts? How many people that got these texts were charged anywhere close to $50 for having received them? This is one example of why the US legal system has issues.

  10. Re:Empire State Building Built in 14 months on Chinese Firm Approved To Raise World's Tallest Building In 90 Days · · Score: 1

    And China today is different how?

  11. Re:Alanis Morisette, take note on Ask Slashdot: With Grants Drying Up, How Is a Tech Non-Profit To Survive? · · Score: 1

    but, but, but... I'm guessing you don't really go for the FOSS idea much do you (at least the F part of it).

    You seem to be suggesting that people should are mainly responsible for themselves and should focus more on giving away their own stuff than somebody else's. I once read something about liberals being very generous with other people's money. Are you suggesting that is not an ideal we should strive for?

  12. Re:meanings on Ask Slashdot: With Grants Drying Up, How Is a Tech Non-Profit To Survive? · · Score: 1

    And that fact that some (many? but certainly not all) non-profits are paying very large salaries is one reason why the money is drying up.

  13. Re:While you're on ebay... on Own the Controversy! Blackbird DDWFTTW Up For Auction! · · Score: 1

    "Since the same mass occurs over a larger area, the 'weight' will be less on the smaller area. And, of course, once the helicopter moves out of ground effect, the weight on the scale will be zero."

    That would depend on the size of the scale's platform, wouldn't it? If the scale's platform were slightly larger in diameter than the rotors, then all of the downdraft would be captured by the scale. I didn't read anywhere that he limited the surface area of the scale.

  14. Re:Their API's are exactly what you would expect on GIS Community Blocks Esri's Geospatial 'Open Standard' REST API · · Score: 1

    7000 what? days, nano-seconds, times?

  15. Re:I'm still going to opt out. on TSA Finishes Removing "Virtual Nude" X-Ray Devices From US Airports · · Score: 2

    Yup, or use the fairly large amount of resources and time they seem to have and get a job working for TSA (or any other airport job) and slide whatever they want past the checkpoints.

  16. Re:Misleading summary, as usual on TSA Finishes Removing "Virtual Nude" X-Ray Devices From US Airports · · Score: 1

    Wow, I've been waiting to see someone from the UK have the balls to call the Muslim terrorists nutters. After all, it has been quite awhile since the commie groups were doing hijackings.

  17. Re:Misleading summary, as usual on TSA Finishes Removing "Virtual Nude" X-Ray Devices From US Airports · · Score: 1, Troll

    Which is exactly the point liberals make quite frequently. We must give up our lifestyle of moving from place to place if we are to save the earth. Making air-travel a royal pain is just one step along that path.

  18. Re:Analog hole on TSA Finishes Removing "Virtual Nude" X-Ray Devices From US Airports · · Score: 1

    "(Not to mention, how'd they get the sample images they show on TSA.gov, if the machines cannot save and transfer images??)" Uh.. Photoshop and or Illustrator or who knows what else. They are called mock-ups.

    I have no idea if they really were mock-ups or real images, but our UI designers produce mockups of what they want our web-pages to look like all the time without actually building the web-pages.

  19. Re:the typical Tesla driver... on No, the Tesla Model S Doesn't Pollute More Than an SUV · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's why they have so many coal plants in Utah and Nevada. California even resorted to suing the sate of Nevada for refusing to license a coal-fired plant in the early 2000s. The most hilarious thing was that the Sierra Club filed an amicus brief in support of Cali. after having fought to prevent the same plant from being built in Cali.

  20. Re:Doesn't matter on No, the Tesla Model S Doesn't Pollute More Than an SUV · · Score: 1

    And the parent was pointing out that as soon as half your neighborhood (and everyone else's) is doing the same, there will no longer be a cheap time because you will have increased the off-peak load to match the peak load. There will no longer be peak and off-peak rates because there will no longer be peak and off-peak periods.

  21. Re:Texas leads the way, again on Texas Poised To Pass Unprecedented Email Privacy Bill · · Score: 1

    And I responded along the lines of having without using is useless. And yes, it was illegal to use a gun rack for its intended purpose in Wisconsin until Fall, 2012.

  22. Re:Shortage, no. on Moore's Law Fails At NAND Flash Node · · Score: 1

    Some are a much closer approximation than others and the closer the approximation the more it works.

  23. Re:Texas leads the way, again on Texas Poised To Pass Unprecedented Email Privacy Bill · · Score: 1

    Maybe not arrested, but ticketed so still illegal. I assumed the OP was exaggerating and was including tickets in arrested. Also, if engaged in hunting at the time then the guns could be confiscated as well. And yes, I personally know a few people who were ticketed for simply having the zipper on their gun case open less than one inch because a tooth on the zipper was bent. The gun itself was not even visible. That law was changed in the Fall of 2012. Driving around in Madison or Milwaukee with a good deer rifle or shotgun hanging in your window would have definitely caused a multi-car response from law enforcement.

    Just because you didn't find it on google doesn't mean it wasn't the law.

  24. Re:im confused here on Canon DSLR Hack Allows It To Shoot RAW Video · · Score: 1

    As i posted earlier... Just call every one that disagrees with you too stupid too even know they are stupid. Libs in the US do that with minorities who disagree with them all the time. It is a pretty bigoted viewpoint but you have every right in the world to be a bigot.

  25. Re:im confused here on Canon DSLR Hack Allows It To Shoot RAW Video · · Score: 1

    Oh, the old "everybody that disagrees with me is so stupid that don't even know how stupid they are" routine. Thanks for the "enlightenment".