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  1. Re:~79%? on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 0

    And thus you have done as many of the SC's have done in the past. Taken a document and in turn changed it from what the framers have written, to something that 'lives and breathes' this is the fundamental flaw. When something is the prime law of the land that's it. You don't interpret it, it's that all other laws should be interpreted by it.

  2. Well that's the ringer... on Venezuela Bans the Commercial Sale of Firearms and Ammunition · · Score: 1

    Chavez is toast(via cancer), the inner circle know it. There's going to be fracturing and infighting between them and the military. And they're trying to get rid of all the guns they can to keep control as hard as they can before the people are able to rise up and overthrow them.

  3. Re:~79%? on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is no separation of church and state in the constitution. Rather that the government shall not impose religion or establish a state religion and all people are entitled to practice whatever religion they so choose. Those are two fundamentally different things.

    Incase it's hard to understand let's take it right from the page itself.

    "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."

  4. Re:Why This Misconception of Obama? on Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Of course not. Just like Van Jones and the large variety of environmental groups looked the other way on Obama's handling of the Gulf oil spill. Hell the guy was even bold enough to come right out and say it. They're just hypocrites, so no big shock.

  5. Re:UN takeover must be stopped? on UN Takeover of Internet Must Be Stopped, US Warns · · Score: 1

    Salon, being about as useful as the NYT's I can see what half your problem is. But yes, it's kinda bad. I suppose I shouldn't tell you that Canada has been killing it's own citizens for the same things that the US started recently doing since the 40's.

  6. Re:Why upgrade? on Windows 8 Release Preview Now Available To Download · · Score: 1

    Yeah creative is junk, and have been for a very long time. I think the last card I owned of theirs was a SB!Live, from around 2001, and I used it right up to the point where it failed and died a couple of years ago. I'd recommend Auzentech or Asus Xonar. I prefer the Xonar series of soundcards myself.

    Though if you're not planning on gaming, and you're not planning on anything related to working with DirectX or anything like that. You're probably going to be happy just sticking with XP.

  7. Re:UN takeover must be stopped? on UN Takeover of Internet Must Be Stopped, US Warns · · Score: 0

    Well let's see here. The US is kinda bad, the UN is horrible, no terrible. We have murderous dictators running human rights councils, we have the most oppressive countries running womens rights councils, we have NGO's directly influencing 'racism' conferences with the heads of the UN organizations actively being supportive of the efforts, and in calling for the genocide of other groups of people

    Soooooo....you tell me. US or UN? Even if you say US, the US doesn't control near as much as you think.

  8. Re:Why upgrade? on Windows 8 Release Preview Now Available To Download · · Score: 1

    There's no reason I can see. From XP to 7 you get DX11 which is a bonus plus better handling and proper handling soundlayer system. From XP or 7 to 8? Maybe the filesystem, but I can't see that being a huge thing for the average person. Not for you, not for me. There doesn't appear to be anything specific for directX either.

    Oddly, I've been running Win7 for the last 3ish years(Original Install Date: 10/28/2009, 11:44:46 AM) and have yet to reinstall it. It seems to be running as fast as the day I installed it no less. Though I'm building a new rig in July or August so I'll be able to tell then. Though to be honest I have been running it off a OCZ Vertex as well, so that might have something to do with it. At worst I've noticed the boot times a bit slower the last 2 months, but I think that's because the drive is getting close to it's EOL, or might need a secure erase.
     

  9. Re:Yet another reason.... on Soda Ban May Hit the Big Apple · · Score: 1

    Mac when I was a kid, I drank a 24 case of pop a week. You know I enjoyed it too. It didn't kill me, it didn't make me fat either. Probably because I was off my ass and outside enjoying life. Well, we've always jammed things in our bodies. Let's be honest, beer and hard liqueurs are much more damaging to your body than soda. Yet I don't hear the complaints.

    But soda? Ooooh dangerous.

  10. Re:We all know why on Backdoor Found In Hacked Version of Anti-Censorship Tool Simurgh · · Score: 1

    Well considering that it's being funneled to Saudi Arabia, my guess is. Is someone is, or a group of people are working as a group of brokers tipping off governments to various underground workings so they can pounce on them. The other possibility is, that Saudi Arabia(or one of the myriad of princes) authorized this in order to bolster the relations between the kingdom, and various arab countries.

    Or it's someone who wants to be paid for information. Infobrokers are real after all, and information does sell well, especially if you have the ethics of a rat carrying the plague.

  11. Re:not sure on Windows 8: More EULA, Fewer Rights. · · Score: 1

    Try Quebec, or the prairies, they're in dire need of people. As for paying well? Well yes. Last time I looked, $30k above the median average($52k) was was a good paying job for a single income earner at a non-backbreaking job. "Public sector" work aka bureaucracy is not work that produces anything.

    Again, you believe that because it takes 4 people to employ 1 person that they're a benefit to everyone else. Instead of a drag to the other four people, who have less disposable income.

  12. Re:war on botnets on White House Announces Initiative To Fight Botnets · · Score: 1

    Well we won the war on poverty. Welcome to North Korea.

  13. Re:So the BSA is leading the charge on White House Announces Initiative To Fight Botnets · · Score: 0

    Hey Holder is the same guy who doesn't have any problems with the New Black Panther Party using voter intimidation at polling places, so...I guess I shouldn't be surprised at a statement like that.

  14. Re:not sure on Windows 8: More EULA, Fewer Rights. · · Score: 1

    Anyone without a criminal record and $80 can get a RPAT. Add in range fees, and the cost of your gun ... I'm not seeing the problem. Unless you're a criminal, and even then, I'm not seeing the problem.

    Actually you're just kind of missing my point. But that's okay, getting a RPAT isn't a problem. It's the convoluted mess of the RPAT then restricted system on top, then the provinces deciding to do their own thing that's all willy-nilly half-assed. I'm happier with my bow though. Take a look at Toronto for example, it's a pain in the backside to find a range in the city now, it's a pain to find a range in a lot of places in southern ontario, because of the provincial government. Though when I was in Alberta? Not a problem.

  15. Re:not sure on Windows 8: More EULA, Fewer Rights. · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You do realize that it takes 4 private sector employees to pay for 1 public sector employee in Canada right? So just tell me something, how do you turn around and cause a recession by reducing the overhead of the biggest tax grab on the average person.

  16. Re:not sure on Windows 8: More EULA, Fewer Rights. · · Score: 1

    Yeah don't let the RCMP know, they'll want to ban it like some other guns because it "looks scary."

  17. Re:not sure on Windows 8: More EULA, Fewer Rights. · · Score: 1

    To be honest, I'd be happier if they let me get a gun as easily as they do in the US. Otherwise I do agree with ya. I miss hitting the range. At least I don't need a permit for my compound bow...yet.

  18. Re:not sure on Windows 8: More EULA, Fewer Rights. · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not legal in Canada, or in Germany. Various other parts of the EU either.

  19. Re:Kimble - the douchebag's douchebag. on US Ordered To Hand Over Megaupload Documents · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I remember him from the quake days too and remember him as being an asshat as well, but to be honest? I couldn't care. You know why? Because the case in itself is a giant miscarriage of justice, and if you can't see that though over 10 years of self-inflicted hate, you've got a deeper psychological problem.

  20. Re:Everybody Draw Mohammed Day on Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over 'Blasphemous' Images · · Score: 1

    Yeah I'll facepalm to the entire thing. Next you'll be whining about the B'nai B'rith.

  21. Re:Another peaceful message on Another Afghan School Poisoned — 160 Girls Hospitalized · · Score: 1

    Ah...that felt good. I like this anonymous coward thing.

    Look on the bright side, it's the best you'll ever be. After all, I'm Jewish(and Canadian to boot) so I couldn't really care one way, but it's sure fun to what people make an ass out of themselves. Most innocent civilians since 9/11, oh that's easy. I'd guess somewhere between Africa and perhaps the Central Balkans.

    The rest of your post is full of nonsense.

  22. Re:Religious extreme on Another Afghan School Poisoned — 160 Girls Hospitalized · · Score: 1

    Am I clearer now?

    No. You're making even less sense.

    Though I found the climate change comment funny, since the only one's calling for the death of people are those on the left.

  23. Re:Religious extreme on Another Afghan School Poisoned — 160 Girls Hospitalized · · Score: 1

    I was actually hoping he'd the nomination. I figured that he'd lose to Obama by such a huge margin, that it would force reform in the Republican party, pushing out the religious fringe. Now instead we have a halfway decent politician stuck having to pander to the wingnuts...

    Let me guess, you also believe that the teaparty is full of racists who are out to blow up state legislature buildings, and that the OWS protestors are full of peace lovers who have been infiltrated by FBI plants. Never mind that the OWS have been running around raping their own, and trying to blow up bridges or anything.

  24. Re:They're going to go bust. on RIM May Need To Write Off $1 Billion In Inventory · · Score: 1

    Doubtful, they made almost $4B last year with $200m in profit. That's not going bust, that's still making a profit with a poor P/E performance.

  25. Re:Another peaceful message on Another Afghan School Poisoned — 160 Girls Hospitalized · · Score: 1

    but they have much less of a problem with people reinterpreting the religious texts than Islam does.

    That's because Christians and Jews have had reformations and decided to disagree with their good books, and they argue against the points themselves, in their own theological debates. And will call out other members of their own flocks on it. Jews though are probably the best at instituting their own rules, for their own and going on about their business. Unless they're a bit off the deep end and we do have them. But they're rare, and in general society, they're called out on it.