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  1. Re:There are no other questions on Will Your Answers To the Census Stay Private? · · Score: 3, Funny
    Human is a race. Write that in.

    What if I'm only humanoid.

  2. Re:Having now read the ruling... on Federal Judge Bars Instant Publishing of Analysts' Stock Tips · · Score: 1
    insider information is almost exclusively used for short-term gains.

    I think you mean "those who are caught using insider information are almost exclusively those who use it for short-term gains." They are a lot easier to spot.

  3. Re:I don't understand on Disgruntled Ex-Employee Remotely Disables 100 Cars · · Score: 1
    It's COMPLETELY incomprehencible to me that anyone is willing to accept that crap. Seriously.

    It's only incomprehencible because you don't know enough average Americans.

    The average American believes America is the greatest country on earth, and thus must have the greatest healthcare system on earth. They believe that should be obvious to you, since they pay the most for their healthcare, how could it be anything other than the best.

    You can't swing a dead cat in America without hitting a nationalistic moron.

  4. Re:The problem with fair use on A Second Lessig Fair-Use Video Is Suppressed By WMG · · Score: 1
    ... having a system where the one way to be certain is to go to trial ...

    Let me see if I got this straight.

    The only way I can really exercise my fair use rights is to hire a lawyer and go to trail.

    Who thought that up?

    Oh wait a bunch of lawyers...

    Never mind

  5. Re:Unsurprising on PayPal Freezes the Assets of Wikileaks.org · · Score: 1

    If our government actually believed in human rights, we wouldn't favor trade with China above all other nations.

    Maybe, if the US believed in human rights, the first thing they should do is stop torturing people.

  6. Re:Misuse Of Statistics on Scientists and Lawyers Argue For Open US DNA Database · · Score: 1
    I'm sure the FBI has done at least some good faith testing of their methods ...

    Is that the same FBI as the one mentioned in this article?

  7. Re:A scarlet letter wasn't enough? on Illinois Bans Social Network Use By Sex Offenders · · Score: 1

    Perhaps this is just another case of where the actions of a few individuals ruin things for everyone?

    Your right. And in this case like so many other, those "few individuals", are politicians.

  8. Re:The FBI? on FBI Files a "Secret Justification" For Gag Order · · Score: 1
    While simultaneously being one of the best law enforcement agencies in the world. Seriously - who would you compare to them?

    Let me see now ...

    • National Security Letter (NSL) to force the cooperation
    • Gag order so you can't talk about the NSL
    • Secret justification for gag so you can't read it.

    KGB?

    Was I right?

    This whole thing seems familiar...
    Oh, there it is;

    Catch-22 states that agents enforcing Catch-22 need not prove that Catch-22 actually contains whatever provision the accused violator is accused of violating. An old woman explains: Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

  9. Re:Why doesn't this threaten everyone? on Red Hat Hit With Patent Suit Over JBoss · · Score: 1

    ...patent law does not advance the common good...

    I think that statement can stand without qualification currently.

  10. Re:Good News Everyone... on Small Asteroid On Collision Course With Earth · · Score: 1

    Please can we send Tom Cruise instead??

    You've got the wrong maverick.

    I suggest Palin, kill 2 birds with one stone

  11. Re:"almost no questions asked" on Election Dirty Tricks About To Begin · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, if you can't prove you're a citizen WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING TRYING TO VOTE?

    Funny you should ask.

    My mother falls in that exact situation. She can't prove she's a citizen. She was born on a farm in rural Kansas during the great depression, no hospital, no doctor. Her birth was never recorded, so she has no birth certificate. That had never been a problem, until drivers license renewals started requiring a birth certificate (or passport which she doesn't have as she has never left the US).

    So when you ask her "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING TRYING TO VOTE?", I think she'll let you know "IT'S HER RIGHT" she's a U.S. citizen and lack of a birth certificate can't change that fact. Besides, she's probably been voting since before most people reading this were born.

  12. Re:Whoops on James Powderly of Graffiti Research Labs Detained In China · · Score: 1

    Wow did they have it wrong. I thought everybody knew George Bush was the antichrist and he's definitely no friendly to the UN.

  13. Re:Damn it! on ABA Judges Get an Earful About RIAA Litigations · · Score: 1

    I only wear the monkey suit for special events such as funerals, bar mitzvahs, and court appearances. I.e., just like you.

    I'll have you know I don't even own a monkey suit. :-)

    The dearly departed don't care what you wear, they're dead.

    I've never been to a bar mitzvah.

    For my only court appearance so far, I wore shorts and a T-shirt.

  14. Re:In all seriousness on What Would You Do As President? · · Score: 1

    If the economy takes a dive, I'll maybe push for a large domestic project rather than invent a war. Maybe an interstate highway syste... aww damn... I'll come up with something good.


    How about massive public owned wind farms?

  15. Re:Damn Liberal whiners on Mandatory Keyloggers in Mumbai's Cyber Cafes · · Score: 1

    I find your ideas interesting and would like to subscribe to your newslet... wait, scratch that, I'll just watch TV.

    Don't you mean "just what FOX News"?

  16. Re:WTO wont grant it. Antigua will capitulate. on Antigua May Be Allowed To Violate US Copyrights · · Score: 4, Informative

    People flock in huge numbers to Florida, Mexico, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, etc. Why would they not go to Cuba if the choice were available, and the price was right?

    I think you meant to say "Americans flock in huge numbers to ...".

    And that my friend is why Cuba is such a popular destination for the rest of the world. No flocks of Americans.

  17. Re:Linuzzz? on Microsoft and LG Electronics Sign Linux Covenant · · Score: 2, Funny
    WTF is Linuzzz?

    Isn't it a narcoleptic Linux distribution?

  18. Re:Maybe they are just waitng... on Dell To Linux Users — Not So Fast · · Score: 1

    Most people using Linux in the workplace already have their preferred Linux hardware vendor. Most people that are Dell shops are MS exclusively.

    This is just not true. Almost everywhere I've worked, if you were going to buy X86 hardware the easiest way to get it approved was to buy a Dell. I've never worked in a Windows shop and never will.

    Dell is already doing Linux support, we just had a go around with them about some problem we were having with a raid controller under Linux.

  19. Re:I can't see the problem here on More Voting Shenanigans in Florida · · Score: 1

    ...so now why would I want to be taxed out the ass to help a bunch of lazy people on social programs.

    Social programs?

    I though most of the money went to Halliburton and few other non-bidders.

  20. Re:Does this include the most recent degredations? on US Slips Again In Freedom of the Press Ranking · · Score: 1

    What a friggin' troll you are. There will be no such thing happen and you know it. Reporters have not 'disappeared' for any reasons other than perhaps organized crime. Dan Rathers, The NYT, et.al. have been adamantly andi-Bush and anti-anti-terrorism from the git-go and not a damn thing has or will happen to them. Nor should it.

    Not a damn thing has happen to the journalist at the NYT.

    Judith Miller never spent 85 days in jail.

    Nope. Not a damn thing.

  21. Re:V for Vendetta...it's happening. on England Starts Fingerprinting Drinkers · · Score: 1

    Better get that bulk order for Guy Fawkes masks in before the rush. Amazon have them for $5.99.

    No they don't. The cheapest I found was $22.99

    Maybe the slashdot effect caused a surge in the price.

  22. Re:A Prediction on U.S. Announces New Space Security Policy · · Score: 1

    You can look at how the US treated (or would treat) conquered Korea by examining South Korea today.

    Why can't we use the example of how the US treated its own citizens (e.g. the Lakota, the Cheyenne and Conestoga) who were out of favor with the government: Massacre and genocide seems likely.
  23. Re:Priorities on Iran Caps Net Access to Keep West Out · · Score: 1

    They should probably be more worried about their roads than their pipes.

    Don't you know, the Internet is not a truck it's a series of tubes.

    Trucks use roads, and tubes do not require either roads or pipes.

  24. Re:Dog bites man on Britain's First "Web-Rage" Attack · · Score: 1

    What happens when your government comes to take it away?

    Oh come on, that's easy. They will "pry it from his cold dead hand".

    Well at least that's what he'd say.

  25. Re:Innovation on Crunching the Numbers on a Hydrogen Economy · · Score: 1

    Also, corn is much less efficient at converting solar energy to ethanol, so the US would be relying on imported sugar or ethanol anyway.

    Corn is a bad choice for making ethanol. The only reason we do it now is we have some much corn we can't figure out what to do with it all.

    A much better choice (and much better than importing sugar) would be to convert some corn production to sweet sorghum. You get 2 to 3 times the ethanol yield and it's a crop not unfamiliar to American farmers. Let me stress however, we do not want or need a monocrop soloution.