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  1. My heart goes out to you and yours. on Ask Slashdot: Terminally Ill - What Wisdom Should I Pass On To My Geek Daughter? · · Score: 1

    First of all, my deepest sympathies to you and your family. As someone who has seen first hand the speed to which pancreatic cancer manifests itself, my heart goes to you. Let your daughter know that you will always be there for her. That she is the product of you and your wives love. That she is smart, beautiful and has a keen mind. That all problems have a solution, but there are many solutions yet to be discovered. Let her know that her talents have merit. That she should do good, be good, and strive to help others as well as herself. That there will be perils along the way as she grows up, but that her character is in she should always do the right thing even when no one is looking. That being a good communicator and an even better listener can be more than she ever imagined. Godspeed.

  2. Re:Dear Michael Rogers, on NSA Director Wants Legal Right To Snoop On Encrypted Data · · Score: 1

    Agreed. What I don't read anywhere in this was whether anyone challenged him on this stance or not. Anyone?

  3. Re:Who will take credit first? on Jon Stewart Leaving 'The Daily Show' · · Score: 1

    That still doesn't go to the heart of my question. I'm sure Limbaugh liked seeing Stewart quit because it was one less person that would mock conservatives. But again, answer the more salient question if you can.

  4. Re:NWO on Trans-Pacific Partnership Enables Harsh Penalties For Filesharing · · Score: 1

    I agree that it looks like everything needs to be encrypted at this point. I don't see any other solution to stop these despots of law.

  5. Re:Odds are favorable in a way on The Mathematical Case For Buying a Powerball Ticket · · Score: 1

    Effectively the odds are the same, but kudos to the winners either way.

  6. Re:Unsettling science on US Gov't To Withdraw Food Warnings About Dietary Cholesterol · · Score: 1

    I believe that government's campaign against cholesterol/fat has had a detrimental effect on peoples health overall. Human beings need fat, but they can't control how their bodies process it. That is beyond the governments ken, but they really need to stay out of how people consume food. These are choices that should be made on an individual basis. It's funny that if government puts out dubious and uncorroborated data and 'science' nothing happens, but if someone else does it, why it's a felonious event practically.

  7. Re:Who will take credit first? on Jon Stewart Leaving 'The Daily Show' · · Score: 1

    I'm a conservative and I liked Jon Stewart. I always thought he was funny, but then again, I've always been a comedian follower so for me this isn't new. But your idea that somehow conservative talking heads on radio/tv are somehow going to take credit for him leaving seems odd. Why would you think that? Most of them don't even really talk about his show because to them, for this very reason, it is fake news. Now, I've heard many of segments featured on a lot of these shows, but they were done for the sake of entertainment, not actual mockery of Jon Stewart or the content since he's been fairly poignant on his satire and mockery regardless of the topic or subject. But what's more telling is that you seem to revel in the idea that there should be people out there, and a specific type of people, conservatives, should be made buffoons of. Is there a reason for that? Does being a conservative somehow illicit, in your mind, that I and others who think like I do, should be characterized as buffoons?

  8. Re:Fraudulent herbal supplements? on Major Retailers Accused of Selling Fraudulent Herbal Supplements · · Score: 1

    The entire supplemental industry is a scam. there isn't an honest broker of the truth or facts in any of them.

  9. Re:The sad part? on DEA Planned To Monitor Cars Parked At Gun Shows Using License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    That is wrong. It was ratified by 27 states with the last one being Georgia of all places at the end of 1865. Where was the unconstitutionality of it's ratification?

  10. Re:The sad part? on DEA Planned To Monitor Cars Parked At Gun Shows Using License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    In fact, what the government should be doing is actually protecting your rights under the Bill of Rights and other rights enumerated elsewhere, not finding ways to erode them. I realize that this is a fantasy, but I still like to think that I live in a country that can turn itself around in this regard. Because never in my lifetime have I ever seen such callous tactical attacks against rights in general in this country before.

  11. Make a programming language tailored towards women on WA Bill Takes Aim at Boys' Dominance In Computer Classes · · Score: 1

    with expressions like OMG and LIKE and WUTEVER!!! That will roll them right in.

  12. Re:entropy decreases? on Telomere-Lengthening Procedure Turns Clock Back Years In Human Cells · · Score: 2

    Sarcasm stems from the greek word Sarx which means 'to cut or rend flesh'. That's why people who use sarcasm appropriately are told that their sarcasm has bite to it. Sarcasm isn't a lie with an attitude problem, it's usually a truth with bite which is why sarcasm is the most violent uses of comedy... and sometimes tragedy.

  13. Fuck this guy... on Obama Proposes One-Time Tax On $2 Trillion US Companies Hold Overseas · · Score: 1

    Seriously, at this point, Obama is one of the most business unfriendly presidents this country has seen. He can't get out of this office fast enough.

  14. Re:Thus confirming existing opinions: on ESA: No Conclusive Evidence of Big Bang Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    No, science isn't a sham and never was. However, if you can't find the gravitational waves you need to bolster the big bang, they either have already passed you by and you can't see their wake at all. I say keep looking for them, but the possibility that the theory of the big bang might need to be revised. Maybe it didn't create any gravitational waves at all and it if did, they where all on the leading edge surface boundary of it's creation/inflation.

  15. Re:Or maybe it's because on Gamma-ray Bursts May Explain Fermi's Paradox · · Score: 1

    Rule 34 is a universal constant that should be renamed to Law 34.

  16. Re: Honestly... on Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister · · Score: 2

    Austerity doesn't collapse governments. Oh wait, it does, you know why? Because austerity reveals the fat, bloated, obese pigs that government are and have become and austerity as an economic diet makes them collapse under their own weight. If you have a trimmed down government, a government that lives within its means, a government that doesn't over-promise and under-deliver doesn't require austerity because it will be a government that works to stay out of the way of it's people to let them be as prosperous and as successful as possible while maintaining it's owns girth.

  17. Re:Honestly... on Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister · · Score: 1

    Why? It's leftism that got them into this mess and this marxist is going to put them right back into it again.

  18. John Koskinen is a fucking weasel on IRS Warns of Downtime Risk As Congress Makes Cuts · · Score: 1

    John Koskinen is a fucking bureaucratic weasel of the highest order. He's a lifelong civil servant scumbag and worthy of being shackled to concrete shoes and dropped into the deepest part of the pacific.

  19. Re:Censorship? on Blogger Who Revealed GOP Leader's KKK Ties Had Home Internet Lines Cut · · Score: 1

    http://time.com/3649354/steve-... For the woefully ill informed, which is basically most of the /. mob.

  20. Re:Seems... facile on The Paradoxes That Threaten To Tear Modern Cosmology Apart · · Score: 2

    Well, there are Cassimir effect experiments done in a vacuum that show energy is coming from somewhere. Someplace we can't see. Is it from repository universes that contain the building block materials for this universe that leak through the aether/ether of space? Is that what dark matter/energy really is? Is it's radiation the fundamental particles we see now? I don't know, but what I do know is that it isn't facile.

  21. Re:"inescapable conclusion" on The Paradoxes That Threaten To Tear Modern Cosmology Apart · · Score: 1

    In effect, space itself is a perpetual motion machine.

  22. Re:Go get em... on US Government Lurked On Silk Road For Over a Year · · Score: 1

    Rule #1 of government: It hates competition.

  23. Re:They do it for us! on IEEE: New H-1B Bill Will "Help Destroy" US Tech Workforce · · Score: 1

    Iceland is looking better and better by the minute at this point.

  24. Hate to burst your bubble Francis... on Pope Francis: There Are Limits To Freedom of Expression · · Score: 1

    Francis is simply wrong and he is becoming more wrong by the word. Speech is and must remain free and without impediments or limits. If that means that your religion is or should be above offense or criticism, then that is suppression of speech for what is the point of speech if one can not criticize or in the sake of speaking against a religion not be deemed to offend it. The simple act of speaking against a religion would be an offense and that must be protected at all costs or we will no longer be free. Francis' marxist streak is showing again.

  25. Re:Thanks, assholes on Gun Rights Hacktivists To Fab 3D-Printed Guns At State Capitol · · Score: 1

    I have personally built several .22LR lower receivers from my FDM and they work just fine and have good longevity. Granted, certain portions needed to be beefed up to withstand higher gas pressures, but overall, they are solid and without issue having put several thousand round through them. Not man stopping power, but still I've done it and it's not an issue and it's perfectly legal, which is not an issue either.