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  1. Re:Obviously. on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    I know, it's like nobody can make up their damn minds what's good for you, what's bad for you, how about, if we lived well on it 100, 150, 200 years ago it's prolly still damn fine today?

  2. Re:My opinion on the matter. on Choose Your Side On the Linux Divide · · Score: 1

    "Second System Effect".

  3. Re:My opinion on the matter. on Choose Your Side On the Linux Divide · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "What's broken exactly?" - PRECISELY.

    You got a bunch of "upstarts" who don't know, or don't care, about Linux's roots and want to turn it into something it just never was meant to be, something other than, well, a *x. And I'll fight that derailment like a tiger if need be.

  4. Re:Easy, India or China on Scientists Baffled By Unknown Source of Ozone-Depleting Chemical · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I can think of a certain group of American Republicans who would do exactly that...

  5. Re:Unconstitutinal on Rightscorp's New Plan: Hijack Browsers Until Infingers Pay Up · · Score: 1

    You'd be surprised. I bet a LOT of judges would in fact be that stupid.

  6. Re:Meanwhile ... on Snowden Granted 3 More Years of Russian Residency · · Score: 1

    AFAICT, Snowden didn't reveal anything that wasn't plain as the noses on our faces already.

    -uso.

  7. Re:It's common on Comcast Confessions · · Score: 1

    That's the trick, isn't it? Put an old lady on the line so you won't have the heart to fight back.

    -uso.

  8. Re:Trademark issues on DC Entertainment Won't Allow Superman Logo On Murdered Child's Memorial Statue · · Score: 1

    Why not the pentagon without the S?

    -uso.

  9. Re:Embrace the irony? on Lessig's Mayday PAC Scrambling To Cross Crowd Funding Finish Line · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I'm Caucasian. :P

  10. Re:He wants to oppress the poor corporations! on Lessig's Mayday PAC Scrambling To Cross Crowd Funding Finish Line · · Score: 1

    Raided? I think they've been here from the beginning.

  11. Re:Embrace the irony? on Lessig's Mayday PAC Scrambling To Cross Crowd Funding Finish Line · · Score: 1

    Grassroots campaigns? You mean Koch Industries-driven corporate astroturf?

    By the way, I receive SSI disability (because as a result of diagnosed mental issues I am unemployable, and I have effectively no family); furthermore I am under the LGBT umbrella - the Tea Party types have been very vocal in saying that they consider my type to be a waste of oxygen, and wouldn't want my support even if I were willing to give it to them.

  12. Re: Embrace the irony? on Lessig's Mayday PAC Scrambling To Cross Crowd Funding Finish Line · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know what they CLAIM to represent, and I know what they represent in their words and deeds.

    Most of the ones who I've heard open their mouths are blatant christofascists, historical revisionists, racists, sexists, etc. My assessment that they want to turn us into a "Christian Saudi Arabia" is based on their words and deeds (listen to their talking points, there's a lot of Christian nation, Seven Mountains Mandate and the like talk).

  13. Re:Embrace the irony? on Lessig's Mayday PAC Scrambling To Cross Crowd Funding Finish Line · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The Tea Party? You mean the religiots bent on turning our country into Saudi Arabia with crosses? No thank you.

  14. Re:Laugh-worthy on Former NSA Chief Warned Against Selling NSA Secrets · · Score: 1

    Some employers try, with non-compete clauses.

  15. Re:on behalf of america on EU's Top Court May Define Obesity As a Disability · · Score: 1

    A little bit doesn't hurt (I like Italian dressing but hate every other kind), but too much and you've basically buried your salad in oil, wrecking the whole point.

    When I order a sub at SubWay, I used to order it with oil and vinegar as dressing. Lately, I kept the vinegar but dropped the oil.

  16. Re:on behalf of america on EU's Top Court May Define Obesity As a Disability · · Score: 1

    Oh, and of course, coming from a situation of scarcity, they would not accept "I've had enough" while there was still food on the plate... So from a young age we're raised on the wrong idea of how big a meal should be and taught to ignore the signals our bodies tell us when we've had enough. Now we're no longer capable of recognising those signals, assuming our bodies still bother sending them at all. We're the ones who have to measure and track to compensate for that broken feedback loop.

    Absolutely agree with you here, having had a lot of that "happy plate" stuff shoved down my throat (and more literally than you'd think, too). It's hell just to cut my meal size in half, because I'm so used to "eat until sated".

    Now, back on topic: no, it should absolutely *not* be considered a disability. If you're genuinely overweight or obese due to medical conditions, those medical conditions are your disability, not your obesity.

    Agree here too.

  17. FP? on The Government Can No Longer Track Your Cell Phone Without a Warrant · · Score: 5, Informative

    Doesn't mean they won't keep doing it anyway.

  18. Re:Paltry on Bug In DOS-Based Voting Machines Disrupts Belgian Election · · Score: 1

    We've always used MECHANICAL voting machines here.

  19. Re:Fixed costs & whining on Fiat Chrysler CEO: Please Don't Buy Our Electric Car · · Score: 1

    Well, Fiats are kind-of infamous for being cheap junk, aren't they?

  20. Whatever works. on Game of Thrones Author George R R Martin Writes with WordStar on DOS · · Score: 1

    I'd be one to use WordPerfect 5, because of its bare minimum UI in edit mode.

  21. Re:Why do people listen to her? on Jenny McCarthy: "I Am Not Anti-Vaccine'" · · Score: 1

    Most likely, that disgraced quack Andrew Wakefield.

  22. Here's hoping. on The GNOME Foundation Is Running Out of Money · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe GNOME will dry up and wither away, and most likely MATE will survive - because MATE is the GNOME people want.

  23. Re:Why are they posting old source code? on Microsoft Posts Source Code For MS-DOS and Word For Windows · · Score: 1

    MASM, probably, but every MASM I've tried - 1.1, 3.0, 4.0, 4.1, 5.1 - chokes and dies on it. Let me know if you get 'em to roll - I'd like to create some custom bins and take 'em for a spin. xD

    -uso.

  24. Re:New UI? on Firefox 29 Beta Arrives With UI Overhaul And CSS3 Variables · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's why I use Seamonkey, they don't change the UI willy-nilly, but it's Firefox under the hood.

  25. People need to realize... on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People need to realize that Andrew Wakefield, the father of the anti-vax movement as we know it today, was discredited and disgraced for the shoddiness of his so-called "research".

    Oh yeah, and he had a vested interest in kids not getting MMR vax - I think he had ownership of a patent on a different rubella-only vaccine. Herp derp.