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  1. Re:Geography on US Broadband Won't Catch Up With Japan's For 101 Years · · Score: 1

    I have a 20 megabit connection and I live in rural county in the western states. What is the point of 100 megabit connection when no site will ever give you that much bandwidth? When the web actually has sites that need 100 mb+ of bandwidth than Americans will start upgrading.

  2. Re:What? on Russian Invasion of Georgia Might Jeopardize Space Station · · Score: 1

    Some of the missions; were capturing enemy satellites and manning an orbiting surveillance station. Check out more of it here. The military space shuttle designs still are classified but apparently the civilian one has most of those capabilities or they would of built their own shuttle.

  3. Re:News? on The Effects of Exporting Used PCs To Africa · · Score: 1

    It is a system of terror that was taught directly to those countries by colonial powers armies. The people that rose through power grabs in leadership roles in African countries were often enlisted in native analogs of those armies used during Colonial times to suppress rebellion, eliminate discontent and establish power through fear. They learned it directly through participation either in Europe or Africa.

  4. Re:News? on The Effects of Exporting Used PCs To Africa · · Score: 1

    This type of mass organized rape happened in the colonial wars as well, like the European wars in Kosovo by the Serbs, Berlin by the Russians and the Germans everywhere. Using sexual violence as a weapon of terror on an industrial scale is a modern invention, before in Africa men would go kidnap "warbrides" and bring them back to their people as trophies. They did not tape them with a jagged piece of glass till they could not longer hold in their piss. The Belgians were monsters and unleashed a type of violence that Africa had never seen before. The article linked does not do the subject justice, if you want to understand why setting up such a wide disparity economically and militarily between those who would acquiesce or participate in the brutality and those who have their hands chopped off and their vaginas ripped apart read this.

  5. Re:News? on The Effects of Exporting Used PCs To Africa · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Colonialism has caused things like rape to become the number one violent crime in Africa. They have children under 8 in the Congo that respond sexually to strangers because they have been sexualized at infancy. Yet the Congo is allowed to do this by the AU, the US and the EU. Chap cobalt, copper and diamonds are bartered for these governments to institutionalize rape. We are fully responsible even now for what happens in Africa get your head out of your ass good sir and learn about post and neo colonialism or we may it at fisticuffs. Your ignorance and others like it, is sickly and deadly, know that.

    They really need to stop having so many kids, smaller families will put far less of a strain on the available resources.

    We need to make sure the capital they get from us for their resources does not go to purchasing defense goods from us. Its all a fucking trick, The US, EU or IMF go in promising civilian aid and industrial development (resource extraction industries) to any country that will hold up a certain set of economic laws that are to the advantage of the international companies doing business in said country. Shortly after this begins the national treasury of the country enjoys record revenue as the companies deliver on their promise of paying them some taxes, kick backs and the like and everyone in charge of the national government or the resource industries has almost absolute economic power and often unifies into a cartel. Because we insisted on economic reforms and not political reforms that would do things like guarantee universal human rights the rest of the people in the country become the participants of a game fueled by the worst aspects of plutocracy and exist in fear of becoming human targets, rape victims and live with dreams of far more bloody things.

    We than tell them they can buy weapons from us. For us to continue to sell to some of these countries armor personal carriers that they use as mobile rape rooms, tanks which they use to shell refuge camps and guns, oh god guns; those things that kill 20% of some males in Central Africa is to encourage it at this point, and China should be ashamed to be doing it right now with Sudan. It seems some people like you, who are so self-righteously ignorant should bone up on the situation before letting loose the blind aims of your prejudices.

    Go see this movie The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo and than tell me they have any choice but to hope for international armed intervention. We need a fucking UN with balls that goes after genocide, rape and other truly terrible things with a technologically advanced force.

  6. Re:The most controlled Olympics ever? on China Claims Score In Weather Manipulation · · Score: 1

    What do the people of China want though? It seems like they want a democracy and maybe we should start thinking about what that means.

  7. Um, why not Antarctica on New Map of Carved Up Arctic · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Antarctica is not included in the study for NG or oil in those studies. Why? Lets fucking drill there too.

  8. Re:End to End on Ohio Sues Over Missing Electronic Votes · · Score: 1

    For one I would like to end the electoral system in the US. That would the power away from state governments to manufacture electoral votes via gerrymandering every 2-6 years. This could possibly be done via constitutional convention but the likelihood is nil.

  9. Re:End to End on Ohio Sues Over Missing Electronic Votes · · Score: 1

    Try that with 10x more people. Electronic voting with a paper receipt is the best solution I have heard so far.

  10. Re:End to End on Ohio Sues Over Missing Electronic Votes · · Score: 1

    Yes, Punchscan does solve part of this problem by allowing you to verify your votes and having a paper and an electronic trail.

  11. Re:End to End on Ohio Sues Over Missing Electronic Votes · · Score: 1

    Vote tampering should be summary execution.

  12. End to End on Ohio Sues Over Missing Electronic Votes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For fuck's sake, can we just use an open source solution or build a better one already? This should be OSS's moment to shine because amongst us there are the ideas, talent and skills to make a system that for all purposes is more secure, transparent and robust than what is currently on offer from Diebold or any other proprietary vendor.

  13. Re:Pirate multicart on $12 MIT Computer Based On NES, Not Apple II · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Copyrights should only last 20 years as well. Lets all just start acting like that is the case.

  14. Re:inno on Mozilla Unveils Aurora Concept Browser · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Programmers? on California Can't Perform Pay Cut Because of COBOL · · Score: 1

    Odds are there could be a C shell program doing those changes in a few days at most. This is all political bullshit and I highly doubt any reasonable programmer would be stymied in solving it.

  16. Part of a middle east solution on Israel Moves Toward a National Biometric Database · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why don't they just build more land off the coast of Israel like they do in Dubai instead of occupying other peoples land?

  17. Re:Big and black on White House Briefed On "Potential For Life" On Mars · · Score: 1

    The presidency of the US has become quite different than what it was set out to be. An executive order can do anything except collect taxes.

  18. Re:Big and black on White House Briefed On "Potential For Life" On Mars · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The American form of government is fundamentally broken in design and philosophy. The idea that so much executive power should rest with one man be it under the mandate of god or electorate is absurd and anachronistic. We should attempt again at remaking democracy in a more modern image with dutiful consideration that our inherent rights should be protected explicitly, that checks and balances on power be strengthened and perhaps it is time to reconsider the mechanisms of power in all branches. 500 elected positions at the national level cannot possibly represent the will of nearly 400 million people. There are many forms of government, and many variations on democracy that would likely guarantee more transparency in the political process than we enjoy today and by that hopefully make us again feel as if the government exists at the behest of a free people.

  19. Re:Nothing wrong with water sports, after all... on The War Against Virtual Beer Pong · · Score: 1

    Some people like to be peed on. Nintendo must be playing to that niche.

  20. Re:The posters deserve to be unmasked on Yale Students' Lawsuit Unmasks Anonymous Trolls · · Score: 1

    I use the boyfriend rule when talking to women. If I know the boyfriend and he would allow me to get away with something like telling a dirty joke, flirting or the like I might. If on the other hand he would physically assault me with a foreign object if I breathe on her I typically show her the utmost respect.

  21. Re:Case Law Precedent? on Judge Rules Sprint Early Termination Fees Illegal · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The insane jumps in "fair market" valuation and the reasons for them are to blame. Manipulation of markets, flipping the properties, shopping for appraisals and far more nefarious dealings set the bar lower for ethics in yet another field in America. People everywhere were making money off real estate and most of them were idiots. Welcome to America, where as long as a gaggle of lawyers can successfully defend injustice or impeach justice in a court of law that lawyers (senators, judges and supreme court justices) create and abuse no one can touch you. Retroactive immunity should be prohibited under the constitution and approved by the people not by more fucking lawyers because I honestly believe that more heads should be rolling than just Countrywide and the isolated local condo scandal.

    Welcome Real Estate Agents your place in hell is reserved between RIAA/MPAA lawyers and the most monstrous bratty children of the oligarchy. Enjoy being raped by the billionaire spawn you helped create you bastards.

  22. Re:You wonder? on Citizens Spy On Big Brother · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Thats why you send a live feed from your car, person or the like to a secure Internet backup and use that in court. Those of you with children already know that you are growing your home video collection by massive amounts each vacation, birthday or random filming of you and your partner skinny dipping in the neighbors pool getting backed up for posterity. My best friend in the world just had kids and he is taking about 100 gig a month or so in HDTV. He is at 40 terrabytes video storage for his ripped DVDs and his kids. When I have children I think I will take most of my home videos in a home made stereo-camera so that when they have 3-D viewing technology in the future they will still be able to play old home movies. Anyone else been thinking about this?

  23. We need end to end verification on A Step Backward For Voting System Transparency · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We need E2E (End to End) voting systems period. Note the period.

  24. Biggest UI want on Software, Tools, Or Techniques For UI Review? · · Score: 1

    Windows can be made to quickly reshaped to the Aspect Ratio of the screen.

  25. Re:Yeah, but it could be on What Gore Didn't Say About Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    Um, how many readily available Uranium Ore Bodies do you think are out there? Fusion is a pipe dream with current technology we are only now being able to break even let alone go for the 20% efficiency of the worst Coal plants. Currently we have about 100-150 years of Uranium that we can rely upon for fission reactors. Uranium does not grow on tress.