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  1. Re:Here I come. on Near-universal Mexican Healthcare Coverage Results From Science-informed Changes · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Mexico isn't demanding rights for mexicans immigrating to the US.

    The fucking US constitution demands rights for all people regardless of citizenship (everything but the right to vote).

    It is the mexican immigrants themselves asking for access to services that may or may not be offered under various state and local laws.

    Get your shit right.

  2. Re:Hype! on IEEE Seeks Consensus on Ethernet Transfer Speed Standard · · Score: 1

    Not everything can be done in the database, even sorting. I've had client requirements that a column by sorted by the 4th character unless the field only had a 2 character prefix instead of a 3 character prefix. and some values did not have a prefix at all, and it got worse from there.

    The arcane sql that would have been required for that would have been nearly impossible to deal with. The good news is that I was eventually given permission to tell the client to fuck off (though I had to be slightly nicer about it).

  3. Re:Do the cost benefit analysis on Ask Slashdot: Using a Sandbox To Deal With Spambots? · · Score: 2

    And that means that I will never ever use the forum. I do no business with paypal, at all, ever. They are a shady business with questionable ethics at best.

  4. Re:Yes, it has been done on Ask Slashdot: Using a Sandbox To Deal With Spambots? · · Score: 2

    -1 and up actually. I believe it goes over +5 even if it only displays +5, it seems to offer a buffer against people troll modding because they don't like what you have to say.

  5. Re:IN SOVIET AMERIKA on Cables Show US Seeks Assange · · Score: 2

    The existence of Cheney doesn't make Romney not a villain any more than the existence of Romney makes Obama not a villain.

  6. Re:And the VP has what power? on Paul Ryan's Record On Science and Government · · Score: 0

    Because he used extra legal power to influence the government. Remember that the fabricated WMD "evidence" used to justify the second gulf war did not come through the standard intelligence channels. It came through the office of the VP.

  7. Re:IN SOVIET AMERIKA on Cables Show US Seeks Assange · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Obama is not my hero. He just happens to be slightly less of a villain than Romney.

  8. Re:IN SOVIET AMERIKA on Cables Show US Seeks Assange · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yea, reporting excessive quantities of truth would be the opposite of fox news.

  9. Re:Does this also include on eBay Bans the Sale of Spells and Magic Items · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Holy water is a tangible item that can at least can delivered, even if its supposed quality can not be proven.

    A hex or prayer can not be shown to be delivered, leading to a higher rate of contested payments.

  10. Re:The "war" on religion on Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests · · Score: 1

    Everything you are complaining about is ignorance, fabrication or misrepresentation.

    Stop being an idiot and start seeking knowledge.

  11. Re:Recourse on Joyent Drops Lifetime Account Holders · · Score: 2

    Steam is cracked, if steam shuts down, I have methods of continuing to run most/all of my steam games if I put in a little effort.

  12. Re:Ancient societies had diff values. News at 11! on How Plagiarism Helped Win the American Revolution · · Score: 1

    Fixing society is a difficult problem that will take time. Until then, it is important to be armed so that you not powerless to resist those who want society to become more broken and will victimize you in order to do it.

    I'm not against ALL forms of gun regulation. Reasonable regulation targeted directly at making gun owners more responsible is acceptable. But bans? And arbitrary ignorance based reactionary bullshit? Nope.

    And on the plus side, even if society is fixed to the point where having a gun self defense isn't even a remote necessity, having a gun still isn't a bad thing. It isn't any more harmful to own a gun than it is to own a can of paint, even though I could drown puppies in that can of paint if I wanted to. It is what you do that matters, not what you have the potential to do.

  13. Re:The "war" on religion on Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests · · Score: 1

    The point is: The people demanding that creationism be taught in school would flip the fuck out of you also taught about zeus raping goats, cutting peoples hearts out on top of a pyramid, or transgendered hindu gods even though all of these things are equally absurd myths.

  14. Re:The "war" on religion on Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Some people WOULD have a problem with that. It is explicitly the agenda of some of these people to prevent children from learning how to think for themselves.

    http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2012/aug/11/gail-collins/gail-collins-says-texas-gop-platform-calls-schools/

  15. Re:The "war" on religion on Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Creationism would only have a place in a class that also taught about zeus impregnating goats, cutting out peoples hearts on top of a stepped pyramid for a good harvest and the blue skinned transgendered 8 armed gods.

  16. Re:Ancient societies had diff values. News at 11! on How Plagiarism Helped Win the American Revolution · · Score: 1

    They had a different definition for the word "people", that isn't the same as them not wanting equality for people.

    Just because they had some serious flaws doesn't mean everything they did was crap.

  17. Re:Just one gun? on How Plagiarism Helped Win the American Revolution · · Score: 1

    Being armed provides a literal equalization of power.

    Each of those rapists could individually overpower the chearleader and take what they want with little risk to themselves.

    If she is armed, then the risk they face by attacking increases dramatically.

    Even if they are all armed, the risk each attacker faces will remain high, they don't get what they want by shooting first or returning fire.

  18. Re:Ancient societies had diff values. News at 11! on How Plagiarism Helped Win the American Revolution · · Score: 1

    Indeed, the right to bear arms is just about the only issue on which I agree with the "conservatives".

    The right to own and use arms for sporting and self defense is a natural right and does not carry an undue risk to public safety when done responsibly.

    And quite frankly, I really do not understand why more liberals and progressives don't embrace the right to bear arms.

  19. Re:Or pay for... on BitTorrent Tries To Appease Users By Making Torrent Ads Optional · · Score: 1

    I've also torrented libreoffice,

    and my ratio for the last few releases of eclipse is over 200/1

  20. Re:I'm Spike Lee on Independent Labs To Verify High-Profile Research Papers · · Score: 1

    You really are not worth replying to you anonymous coward. But I will inform you anyway.

    Yes. Obama really is conservative.

    The "American" definition of conservative is not conservative. It is a radical regressive movement attempting to overturn the liberties that we have fought and died for since the American and French revolutions. It is attempting to return to a dark age where a select class of gentry wields absolute authority and power through economic, political and superstitious means. In the past, this was done through the concept of the divine right of kings and through the threat of supernatural punishment/reward by various religious institutions. Now they use a perversion of the free market ideal instead of the divine right of kings to wield power through corporate proxies.

    Obama is conservative. He is attempting to maintain the status quot and protect the institutions are currently in place. If you have actually read the wealth of nations by Adam Smith you would see that he makes very strong warnings about the inherent problems with his abstract model that require regulation to manage. So yes, Obama is a capitalist. However, he also plays authoritarian games and transfers wealth from the people to select interests through corporate tax breaks, grants and other programs. It is welfare for corporations, which only servers to enrich the wealthy.

    He is not progressive, or liberal. And neither progressive, liberal or even socialist indicate Marxism at all.

    I am not the ignorant one here. Anyone calling Obama a marxist is either stupid or ignorant.

  21. Re:I'm Spike Lee on Independent Labs To Verify High-Profile Research Papers · · Score: 1

    Obama isn't a marxist. He isn't even a socialist.

      He is a moderately conservative pro corporate welfare capitalist.

  22. Re:A good reason to go independent on Is Your Neighbor a Democrat? There's an App For That · · Score: 1

    I am a radical left wing socialist, and I am a gun owner. I will never support any "solution" that involves banning guns, because it is an empty and ineffective gesture that does not address or prevent the issue at all. The solution to preventing those mass killings is to address the failure of the healthcare system that allows those peoples mental illness to go unidentified or untreated.

    The second amendment and the right to bear arms is not a right wing position. The right are rushing headlong into oppression of liberal ideology and social justice. As a last line of defense against tyranny, the left need the right to bear arms far more than the right does.

  23. Re:language != logic on Forget 6-Minute Abs: Learn To Code In a Day · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why don't I?

    Because I am not allowed to.

    Time spent forming proofs is not something clients want to actually pay for.

    So if I am caught "wasting time on silly maths", I could get in trouble.

  24. Re:language != logic on Forget 6-Minute Abs: Learn To Code In a Day · · Score: 3, Funny

    The answer to that question is: Lets find out.

  25. Re:History on Why Apple Is Suing Every Android Manufacturer In Sight · · Score: 1

    Samsung epic 4g.

    It has a 5 row physical keyboard.

    absolute UI superiority.