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  1. Re:Alternate Headline: North Korea is in the UN on UN Names N. Korea Chair of Disarmament Committee · · Score: 1

    Essentially saying to another nation, if you try to build nukes you will get it, if you don't you get stuff. Let's contrast with Bush's stance: You try to make nukes, we'll snub you one minute and look the other way the next. You give up making nukes, we will invade you, kill you and kill your people. Which way is smarter?

  2. Re:Alternate Headline: North Korea is in the UN on UN Names N. Korea Chair of Disarmament Committee · · Score: 1

    Did you miss the part where Clinton threatened to bomb them if they didn't give in? That's not an option anymore. On the one hand you have a messy deal full of threats and bribes, on the other, NK gets the bomb. If you prefer the latter, you got it.

  3. Re:Are You Telling Me ... on Why SOE Decided To Cancel Star Wars Galaxies · · Score: 1

    I wonder if there will ever be an MMO that's interesting enough to be a real hobby. Even the pinnacle of MMO play today, the end game guild raid doesn't even come close except perhaps for those few in charge of organizing them.

  4. Re:Alternate Headline: North Korea is in the UN on UN Names N. Korea Chair of Disarmament Committee · · Score: 4, Interesting

    NK went ahead with bomb productions when George Bush stopped dealing with them, cause they's the bad guys and he's the good guys, I guess. They immediately broke the UN seals on their Plutonium stockpile and started refining them. When they'd tried something similar to Clinton, he threatened to bomb them if they didn't back down, and gave them lots of goodies when they did. Bush, typically, did nothing.

    If NKs stance towards disarmament should disqualify them, then shouldn't the US be disqualified if the Republicans gain power again? The Bush administration tried to set a policy of increased nuke capability and even floated a plan for decreased threshold for using them.

  5. Re:ICBM on Bizarre Expanding Light Halo Seen By Hawaii Webcam · · Score: 1

    And anyone who live near it ... but probably none of those are Americans.

  6. Re:It's only a matter of time on British NHS Patient Records Go To the Cloud · · Score: 1

    Every other country of any means has more efficient, far more affordable healthcare systems that produce better outcomes than the US, but maybe that's in spite of the fact that they're also government controlled.

  7. Re:But... on Fusion Thrusters For Space Travel · · Score: 1

    They allow RTGs into space.

  8. Re:Install on Synaptic Dropped From Ubuntu 11.10 · · Score: 1

    There're plenty of geeks with neither the time nor the inclination to become Linux hotshots, but have various reasons for wanting to run it.

  9. Re:AZ isn't anti-immigrant on LulzSec Posts First Secret Document Dump · · Score: 2

    Have you ever been arrested? Have you ever tried to ID yourself when you're in jail, and the jailers think you're someone else? Do people who aren't driving need to carry ID? Is it hard for illegal immigrants to get a driver license? Did the Spanish speaking communities that existed in Arizona before 1840 suddenly disappear? You are a disgrace to this great nation, and an embarrassment to anyone who's lived in it for more than 5 minutes.

  10. Re:AZ isn't anti-immigrant on LulzSec Posts First Secret Document Dump · · Score: 2

    I'm really curious. Legal immigrants, and citizens of Mexican descent sometimes don't have id on them, so what reasonable cause could there ever be?

  11. Re:Too Bad the Lady Gaga Parody Video is Creepy. on Weird Al Says "Twitter Saved My Album" · · Score: 1

    Weird Al's career started on the shark's downslope, he's got nothing to worry about.

  12. Re:Agile... please stop. on Book Review: The Clean Coder · · Score: 1

    It's funny you should write that since they are finding that over cleanliness is deadly.

  13. Re:Why aren't parents actually being parents? on Why Doesn't 'Google Kids' Exist? · · Score: 1

    I've never known a game to better acculturate a kid to violence than Pokemon.

  14. Re:Expectation on What Internet Searches Reveal About Human Desire · · Score: 1

    It's not so much the sex between men, though plenty of women like that, it's the romance. The gay romances written for women are about as close to real relationships as the straight romances are. Personally, I think it's just a fad, like vampire romances.

  15. Re:"lese majeste" on US Citizen Visiting Thailand Arrested For Blog Posting · · Score: 1

    Bullcrap. I'm not going to sit here and say the military has got no power, but that coup couldn't have happened without support from the king.

  16. Re:"lese majeste" on US Citizen Visiting Thailand Arrested For Blog Posting · · Score: 1

    If the kind felt strongly enough about this he'd already be free.

  17. Re:"lese majeste" on US Citizen Visiting Thailand Arrested For Blog Posting · · Score: 1

    I'll pile on a little more. How about the right not to be tortured? That's in the constitution.

  18. Expectation on What Internet Searches Reveal About Human Desire · · Score: 2

    From TFA:

    "The findings also indicated that straight men prefer heavier rather than thinner women, and that straight women, contrary to all expectations, enjoy reading about and watching romances between two men."

    All expectation? Anyone who's been around awhile knows this.

  19. Re:Penrose is a mystic on Does Quantum Theory Explain Consciousness? · · Score: 1

    Heck humans are just barely universal Turing machines. I'm not sure any other species can claim even that much.

  20. Re:What fallacy? on Does Quantum Theory Explain Consciousness? · · Score: 2

    Can free will be distinguished from randomness?

    A brain is extremely sensitive to tiny changes in input. If such changes are truly random then in no way are we like a glider. And what goes on in side a brain when a decision rests on a knife's edge?

  21. Re:No imagination... on "Space Archeology" Uncovers Lost Pyramids · · Score: 1

    Douchebags try to get laid is a plot.

  22. Re:goodbye-mr.-jones dept on "Space Archeology" Uncovers Lost Pyramids · · Score: 1

    The fridge scene is great. The Nazis run all over the world looking for a couple of ancient weapons of mass destruction out of legend, meanwhile the Americans are pumping them out on assembly lines.

    Lucas and Spielberg were poking fun at the Indy franchise. So what if Hitler had got the Ark of the Covenant? We'd just drop a nuke on it.

  23. Re:Definitely a serious problem on The Rise of Filter Bubbles · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This is only true in certain bubbles. I'm going to show my own bias here by noting that this problem is rampant in conservative circles where the polite thing to do is to nod your head when people say ridiculous things like "Obama hates white people" or "Obama is trying to destroy the country" or "Everyone thought Saddam had WMD". Most people are smart enough not to believe these things, but they nod anyway. It didn't used to be that way, but it's gotten pretty bad. I blame the rise of the mega churches run by sociopaths who actually teach that it's wrong to question certain notions and who'll tell you where you have to stand politically to be a good Christian.

  24. Re:I don't get it on Volunteer 'Cyber Scouts' Censor Web In Thailand · · Score: 1

    The people in Bangkok have no concept of what the rest of the country is like. Even the lowest house servant in Bangkok thinks folks from the countryside are hicks who's political opinions are worthless. Bangkok is only a third of the population. You are a minority.

  25. Re:are they? on Volunteer 'Cyber Scouts' Censor Web In Thailand · · Score: 1

    He has immense power precisely because people (in Bangkok anyways) love him. He could just come out and say "I don't think such and such laws are a good idea." or "I don't think it's right to censor" or "The military shouldn't depose elected officials" and these things would stop.