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  1. Re:Celebrating Mass Murderers on Cuban Video Game Recreates Revolutionary History · · Score: 2

    You should take advantage of our amazing free enterprise system and create a counter-game called "Free Market: Chile"

    I'm sure the thrilling scenes of political opponents being thrown from helicopters into the Pacific Ocean will take your breath away.

    All in the interests of defending freedom of course

    Show those Cubans what real freedom is all about

  2. Re:The Big Lie on Why Bad Directors Aren't Thrown Out · · Score: 1

    "I always wanted to be a millionaire. Never thought my ticket would be a house in Van Nuys"

    - Former co-worker

  3. Proves corporations are just like people on Why Bad Directors Aren't Thrown Out · · Score: 1

    People who go through a series of marriages and divorces to the same dysfunctional, destructive types of spouse, and wonder why things never change

  4. Re:Tell that to Uwe Boll. on Why Bad Directors Aren't Thrown Out · · Score: 1

    HP's stock price would soar - they would have a board member with management skill far above the existing board

  5. Re:Sadly true on Schneier: The Internet Is a Surveillance State · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because private corporations by definition can't intimidate people by force, since only people intimidated, beaten up or killed by the evil government lose their freedom.

    Being intimidated, beaten up or killed by private corporations doesn't restrict your freedom at all

    ref:
    Colorado Labor Wars
    Iron and Coal Police, a privatized law enforcement entity
    Henry Ford's Service Department - which didn't repari customers' cars but beat the crap out of union organizers

    Remember, if your are beaten or shot at by a government employee, it is evil tyranny. If you are beaten or shot at by a private security force, you are feeling the pains of FREEDOM.

    It is only bad if the government does it.

  6. Re:how cares about meteorites? on Residents Report Bright Streak Over Bay Area Friday Evening · · Score: 0

    Unlike Russia, California is a failed socialist state with high taxes and government regulations destroying any capability of supporting modern civilization.

    People there are lucky to afford to rub 2 sticks together to make a fire, much less afford a dashcam system on an automobile.

    Haven't you read Atlas Shrugged?

  7. Re:It is not 6 on Lab Rats Given "Sixth Sense" · · Score: 0

    You forgot 9) Irony

  8. Re:Non-story? on Over the Antarctic, the Smallest Ozone Hole In a Decade · · Score: 3, Funny

    Graphical representation of a hole?

    NO NO I will not post a link to GOATSE !!!

    Must resist temptation

  9. Re:And of course ... on Amazon Patents 'Maintaining Scarcity' of Goods · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Any form of private property is a government enforced monopoly

    The owner of the property has exclusive rights to it backup up by government

    Private property is the core of "free enterprise"

    The birth of industrial capitalism was formed by the "privatization" of traditional agricultural commons, impoverishing the peasant class and creating a cheap workforce for the factories of free enterprise.

    The privatization of innovation eliminates the intellectual commons in a similar way

  10. Re:Java sucks. on Oracle Responds To Java Security Critics With Massive 50 Flaw Patch Update · · Score: 1

    Microsoft actually responded to recommendations from a more powerful yet crueler entity than the Department of Homeland Security.

    Gartner.

  11. Re:Correct. on What Alfred Russel Wallace Really Thought About Darwin · · Score: 3, Funny

    We gained color as compensation for the missing days, under the Law of Conservation of Colors/Days:

    http://www.reoiv.com/images/random/dadbandwandcolour.jpg

    Little known fact that Wallace lived in a black and white world

  12. Re:How many reasons do you need to move to Texas? on Credit Card Swipe Fees Begin Sunday In USA · · Score: 2

    "No oppressive state income tax"

    No, just higher property taxes, which you must pay regardless of your income.

  13. Re:Just think... on China Set To Surpass US In R&D Spending In 10 Years · · Score: 1

    So we are destroying capitalism to be overtaken by the People's Republic of China, the largest nation run by a Communist Party? Where the Party in effect controls the economy and capital is an arm of the government?

    A country that destroyed capitalism in 1948 (if it ever had it)?

  14. Re:Really Quite Disgusting on Jury Decides Artist's Gory Images On Website Are Art · · Score: 1

    “If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.”

      Lenny Bruce

  15. Re:Easy on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 1

    or a breath test.

    Aroma of pizza would possibly indicate probable cause.

    Pizza and donuts would result in arrest.

  16. Re:Words are words, deeds are deeds. on China Blocks NYT Over Critical Article · · Score: 1

    I hope the dead who were tortured and killed during genocide encouraged by media propaganda haunt your nightmares.

    I think mass murder is a perfectly good standard. It worked at Nuremberg.

  17. Re:something going on here on China Blocks NYT Over Critical Article · · Score: 2
  18. Re:Words are words, deeds are deeds. on China Blocks NYT Over Critical Article · · Score: 1

    Really? And who gets to draw the line, you?

    The survivors of the resulting genocide have a valid claim here, as might those who conduct the war crimes trial in the aftermath of the genocide

  19. Has acer123 checked his microwave oven? on Ask Slashdot: Why Does Wireless Gear Degrade Over Time? · · Score: 1

    The problem may not be the wireless router deteriorating - it may be the other unlicensed devices deteriorating and leaking more RF.

    Replacing the 802.11 devices with more contemporary ones designed to cope with noise will help, but perhaps the problem isn't the original routers deteriorating - maybe the household microwave oven is leaking more

  20. The "Peoples' Republic of China" has free markets? on States Face Huge Task In Tracking Meningitis-Tainted Drugs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Only if your meaning of free is "free of independent trade unions", "free of civil tort damages", and "free of not-completely corrupted regulatory agencies"

    The conservative agenda in the US is freedom only in the sense that you have the freedom to do as you wish with your slaves

  21. Re:One good book on The History of Lying With Images · · Score: 1

    If I had mod points, I'd mod this post up

  22. I know this will get me modded down to hell on They Work Long Hours, But What About Results? · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Should be easy to identify the culprit on Linux Forcibly Installed On Congressman's Computer In Act of Terrorism · · Score: 1

    In this case, more a DVM that an MD

  24. Should be easy to identify the culprit on Linux Forcibly Installed On Congressman's Computer In Act of Terrorism · · Score: 4, Funny

    They left distinctive footprints walking across the yard in front of the office:

    Actual Forensic Photo From Evidence File

    Don't see shoes like that every day in New York

  25. Old news. on The Swiss Pirate Party Has Its First Mayor · · Score: 1

    "Talk Like a Pirate Day" was last week.