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  1. Re:If we would just allow free market on In Small WV Town, Monsanto Faces Class-Action Suit Over Agent Orange Chemical · · Score: 1

    Let's say I'm a factory owner. I make widgets. My factory dumps poison into the sky and into the water. After all, it's my air and water, too, right? And it's next to my factory. If you stop me from dumping the waste, you are imposing on my property rights; you are decreasing the value of my factory. If I change this, I will have to cut back payment of my workers, thus impacting their property rights.

    If you cause harm to another, it trumps "property rights" does it not? I'm not free to murder people on my property, or shoot my gun into my neighbors yard because of property rights.

    You assertions are ridiculous on face value.

    Power corrupts. Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. The State always wants more power. Which is why our system of governance was based on INDIVIDUAL rights, and not group or states rights. With rights comes responsibility, something NOBODY is talking about these days.

  2. Re:Foxconn suicides on In Xhengzhou, Thousands Vie For Foxconn Jobs · · Score: 0, Troll

    Would you rather the workers not have any jobs.

  3. Re:Maybe it's just too hard... on OpenStack Ditches Microsoft Hyper-V · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is the key passage from the article, should you read it.

    “Ah, never mind. They really don’t care.”

    The "They" is Microsoft, and the guy saying it is person Microsoft has a liaison for the project.

    Also, it is too hard to maintain code you don't have control over. Microsoft drafted someone else to develop the code, that organization was bought by Citrix who owns Zen Hyper-V, a competing project. Again mentioned in the article.

    So, this is not just normal Microsoft Bashing by /. (well, it is) this is something that Microsoft deserves. Microsoft better start focusing on core competencies to support of Enterprise Infrastructure and Windows or it is going to find itself shrinking rapidly.

  4. Re:If we would just allow free market on In Small WV Town, Monsanto Faces Class-Action Suit Over Agent Orange Chemical · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Free Market includes Courts to address grievances exactly like this. In a Free Market, a company such as Monsanto would and could be sued in perpetuity for hazards it created either intentionally or unintentionally. If bad enough, the entire company could be liquidated to pay for damages, leaving shareholders nothing. Additionally, in MY version of the free market, the CEO (all of them) and anyone sitting on the Board of Directors would be criminally liable for any criminal activity condoned or sanctioned by them.

    In this case, if found guilty, Monsanto would be forced to pay for cleanup, health monitoring and medical bills of all people damaged by their product or the process used to create that product.

    Free market works if the right application is applied. Don't blame the free market when we have no such thing to blame. There is no "free market", because we have government involved in too many places telling businesses how to do business.

  5. Re:One little detail... on Sensor Networks In San Francisco Finds Parking Spots · · Score: 1

    Hollywood, Santa Monica, Wilshire district, etc yeah, I know all about them. Heck, even my current city has its places I wouldn't want to go. But I can walk downtown without getting "an eyeful" ... well most days anyways. San Fran .. probably not so much.

    The funniest was telling my French cousins that hooker was a guy ... LOL, they had no idea boys could be so pretty ;)

  6. Re:One little detail... on Sensor Networks In San Francisco Finds Parking Spots · · Score: 1

    As a Californian, who was born and raised in So Cal (San Gabriel Valley) and now living in Northern California (North of Sacramento), I can assure you that they don't like people. How else could you free a Gang Banger Illegal Alien under "sanctuary" laws, allowing said "gentleman" to murder three people? It is because you have a sick twisted sense of "justice".

    There is NOTHING in San Fransisco that I need, want or otherwise would go there for. I'd rather drive 10 hours to LA or San Diego and deal with what can only be described as "horrible traffic" than go to SF. In other words, I wasn't complaining about the Parking.

    You yourself admit to it with a statement such as this "experienced total sensory overload when he visited", which is code for "not family friendly". Here is a list of things I saw the last time I was in SF.

    1) three guys peeing .. together ... I'll leave the rest to your imagination
    2) A bum taking a crap in some bushes
    3) hit on by no less than 3 hookers, one of which I'm not sure what sex it really was, one was probably female and one was probably male.

    That was on my walk from AT&T park to Fisherman's Warf ...Aahhhh culture huh?

  7. Re:One little detail... on Sensor Networks In San Francisco Finds Parking Spots · · Score: 0

    They hate cars in SF. They hate people there too, unless you are a tourist or a wacko. I'd much rather spend time in Geyserville or Napa Valley than SF, and it is only about an hour's drive once you leave the Bay Area. Or you can go a tad further out of the way to Mendicino which is quite picturesque.

    I don't know why anyone wants to go to SF, except for the Brochures that are better than the City.

  8. Re:Apple is not marketing towards the enterprise.. on Apple Forcing IT Shops To 'Adapt Or Die' · · Score: 1

    Wake me when I can run XServer on VMWare .. legally. I'm not buying Apple hardware in violation of server consolidation.

  9. Re:More results on Early Plants May Have Caused Massive Glaciation · · Score: 1

    Al Gore wasn't lying .. he was ... just ... wrong .. yeah, that's the ticket!!

  10. Re:Religion on Mitt Romney, Robotics, and the Uncanny Valley · · Score: 1

    Which is why it isn't either, regardless of what Christianity says. Drinking Blood is a violation of both New Testament and Old Testament scriptures (symbolic or otherwise), even by "gentile" believers ;)

    Gen 9:4 KJV - But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. (Before Moses)

    Deu 12:23 KJV - Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood [is] the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh. (Moses)

    Act 15:19 KJV - Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
    Act 15:20 KJV - But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and [from] fornication, and [from] things strangled, and [from] blood.(Church Age)

  11. Re:Religion on Mitt Romney, Robotics, and the Uncanny Valley · · Score: 1

    Or, you can realize that eating human flesh and drinking any kind of blood is not "kosher", and if Jesus was a good Jew, he wouldn't have meant it that way. But it is easy to make fun of things you don't know or understand, and ignorance can cause all sorts of misunderstandings.

  12. Re:Religion on Mitt Romney, Robotics, and the Uncanny Valley · · Score: 1

    I'm Messianic, this is where Nominal Christianity gets it REALLY wrong. Eating people and drinking blood is UNKOSHER, even symbolically. The items of bread (unleavened) and wine were consumed during Passover were symbolic to who Jesus was, and what he came to do.

    When he said "This is my blood", it wasn't literal or even symbolically "blood" but rather pointing to the means of the redemption. It was a specific cup (one of four) during the Passover called the cup of Salvation.

    When he said "This is my Body", it wasn't literal or even symbolic "fleshly body", but rather pointing his upcoming torture and death.

    They were symbolic in the sense of illustrative and not substitution/replacement of "blood" and "flesh". People who claim it otherwise do not understand Hebrew Faith of Jesus. IF he was really saying what you are saying he was doing, that would disqualify him as Messiah, on the basis of Deut 13:1-6 alone.

    I realize that you think you're being "funny" or "intellectually charming" or whatever, but all you are really doing is pointing to your ignorance, as well as the ignorance of all the other Christians that say similar things.

    So, no, it isn't eating flesh and drinking blood, as many love to claim. It is however symbolic in nature regarding the purpose and means of redemption. Below is a link that further illustrates this point, if you want it.

    http://www.olivetreemessianicfellowship.com/images/pdfs/passover-haggadah.pdf

  13. Re:Religion on Mitt Romney, Robotics, and the Uncanny Valley · · Score: 1

    Only Catholics believe in transubstantiation (real blood, flesh). Everyone else believes it is symbolic.

  14. Re:Why Apple is good on Apple Forcing IT Shops To 'Adapt Or Die' · · Score: 1

    My Doid X has voice commands. It isn't Suri, but it does what I need it to do. Suri, from everyone that I know with a 4S, is just a lame gimmick that needs work.

    Here is a typical "show and tell" of someone showing me Suri: "Suri, what kind of underwear are you using"
    Me: Walks away .. I don't even want to know.

    5 different people used similar lame "question" to show how "cute" Suri was. They didn't even bother trying to do something they normally would need to do, that my phone doesn't do. Nothing. The best try was "find Starbucks" which my phone did fine too.

    I'm sure that Suri does things that my phone can't, but I haven't seen it do it any better.

  15. Re:Why Apple is good on Apple Forcing IT Shops To 'Adapt Or Die' · · Score: 2

    You forgot the "Lame" comment at the end ...

  16. Re:Apple is not marketing towards the enterprise.. on Apple Forcing IT Shops To 'Adapt Or Die' · · Score: 1

    If Apple was smart, they'd contract with M$ to develop solutions for AD... wait, what am I saying .. never mind

    Lets try this again. Apple needs to build a LDAP compliant network Management server that plugs into AD network and just blend in, and manages all the iDevices for Enterprise. It would do even better if said server would also allow AD like policies on managed Macs. Perhaps Apple should consider acquiring Dell just to get KACE and port it to an iServer of some sort.

  17. Re:Perhaps a less sensitive subject? on Object Lesson in Non-Transparency At Energy.gov · · Score: 1

    You said "equally" which is impossible. Typical Socialist over simplistic viewpoint, and fraught with tons of unintended consequences as the system TRIES to accomplish the impossible. It is typical because it is "equal results" oriented thinking, which is invariably impossible in all cases, especially cases with limited resources.

    It isn't even the "best on offer" because you're not being reasonable in even looking at alternatives. In fact, Universal Health Care almost always results in worse care for more people than before.And you're deciding for "Everyone" is typical of Social Elites that think anyone that opposes their ideas as simplistic dolts and in need of "reeducation".

    Sorry, but I comprehend a great deal more than you think. And unlike your typical socialist I don't just go for "It looks good on paper" models.

  18. Re:Perhaps a less sensitive subject? on Object Lesson in Non-Transparency At Energy.gov · · Score: 1

    "distributing healthcare to everyone equally"

    Impossible. Pure and simple. It is a limited resource and therefore cannot be given to everyone equally. Nothing like overly simplistic thinking.

  19. Re:Appearance Is Everything on Object Lesson in Non-Transparency At Energy.gov · · Score: 1

    This is called Mandated Processes, not Mandated Results. If they had to cost justify their existence, most agencies couldn't even come close.

  20. Re:Perhaps a less sensitive subject? on Object Lesson in Non-Transparency At Energy.gov · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Which is way Government should be the LAST resort for anything like ... you know ... HEALTHCARE.

    Seriously, there is a HUGE disconnect between some people's brains (not necissarily yours), where on the one hand, they can complain about DMV, Post Office, Social Security Services, etc and etc, and then turn around and say "Government Run Health Care is going to be AWESOME Woot!"

    Boggles the mind.

  21. Re:Windfall profits tax! on Apple Announces Most Profitable Quarter in History · · Score: 1

    Why should they pay dividend instead of buying the next two years of production of the newest greatest electronics from some innovative company? THAT is how they got to the top of the field in iDevices. Rumor has it they will build the plant, and the production run for the exclusive run of two (or whatever) years, so that NO other company can even offer anything even close.

    Wait till the iPhone 5 comes out with 12 MP 3D camera* or something equally ridiculous, AND the software to do the 3D editing ...

    (*Just a wild guess)

  22. Re:no 5th? on US Judge Rules Defendant Can Be Forced To Decrypt Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Here's my answer to the "bit for bit digital copy" ...

    Your honor, that drive is not my drive, I'm not touching it.

  23. Re:Panic? PANIC! on Huge Freshwater Bulge In Arctic Ocean · · Score: 1, Funny

    So, what is the downside?

  24. Re:This is a Huge Violation of the Constitution on Senator Rand Paul Detained By the TSA · · Score: 2

    except that being turned aside at the gate is tantamount to being "detained", in as much as travel by plane is normal business.

    I can see the loopholes being generated now. "We didn't detain him, we just closed all the roads leading from X to Washington D.C. See, we didn't detain him, we just won't allow him to proceed normally"

    People complain about slippery slopes as logical fallacies, except slippery slopes is exactly how tyranny often is granted power. First it was Plane, then it was Trains, and soon it will by Interstate Highways. Next time someone asks for "papers" simply state "Scissors .. I win!" and leave.

  25. Re:Either them or someone else on Mutant Flu Researchers Declare a Time Out · · Score: 1

    "Being able to defend against is before MILLION OF PEOPLE DIE"

    Breaking evolution for humans ... are we supposed to be for Darwin's Evolution or not? If we Evolve, then why are we trying so hard to stop it? Seems short sighted to me.