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  1. Re:My eyes, they burn! on AP Suspends DoD Over Altered US Army Photo · · Score: 1

    I'm with you, "Reality Master". Admittedly, I'm a very non-visual person, but reading the replies to your post talking about how it was the most blatantly obvious Photoshop job they'd ever seen in a hundred years... my mind just kinda emptied in awe. Honestly, I think these people must be superhumans.

  2. Re:Khm... on Resurrecting the Mighty Mammoth, Cheaply · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Cinnabananamammoth FTW.

  3. Re:Why just the mammoth? on Resurrecting the Mighty Mammoth, Cheaply · · Score: 1

    I'm confused. Are you actually insinuating that environmentalists are motived by a desire to control people?

  4. Re:Frankenstein on Resurrecting the Mighty Mammoth, Cheaply · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Haven't we, like, evolved to eat Mammoth? I'll bet they're pretty tasty.

  5. Re:Yes. on Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots? · · Score: 1

    Yes, felling. Just because they spend all their time playing Zorkl, it doesn't mean they're bad employees.

  6. Re:Yes. on Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you put a lot of effort into it, pay for a lawyer, get what you deserved in the first place plus the cost of filing a lawsuit plus getting fired for any reason they can think of, you might be able to get a "fair" deal. For yourself.

    This is what unions are for. Don't let Slashdot's libertarianism lead you to oppose your own interests, or the interests of your felling employees.

  7. Re:ok. I'm one... on Why Developers Are Switching To Macs · · Score: 1

    You could probably kill a man if you hit them over the head with that huge block of text.

  8. Re:In other news... on Obama Launches Change.gov · · Score: 1

    Who knows what we'll be saying about him 4 years from now? A 1 year "Freedom membership" costs a mear $14.95 .

    Coming Soon . . .

    Another benefit to registered members with be a monthly subscription to Joe's blog, where he can share the latest on the fight for preserving Americas freedoms.

  9. Re:Goodbye QWERTY! on "Minority Report"-Like Control For PC · · Score: 2

    Which is exactly what the visionaries who keep developing this useless but pretty junk keep telling themselves.

  10. Re:Amarok: The undisputed champion on iTunes On OS X Finally Has Competition · · Score: 1

    How is Amarok the undisputed champion when it reportedly it can't handle massive playlists?

    You're new to Linux, aren't you?

  11. Re:That juicy t-bone steak on Frozen Mice Cloned · · Score: 1

    That neither makes any sense (I didn't click the link) nor has anything to do with my point. I never tried to defend the rightness or attack the wrongness of veganism.

  12. Re:First thing I thought about... on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the guy who called America "The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World Today" would be appalled by the "chickens coming home to roost" comment.

  13. Re:Democrats and Republicans represent the same id on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    The Democrats will still pass legislation that favours big businesses, just a different group of businesses.

    If you look at campaign donations, that's not really true. I don't think that's it. What makes the difference between the two parties is the way in which they serve businesses. Republicans cut taxes on businesses and the rich, Democrats try to stabilize the economy and are the ones who take the role of keeping the masses content with medicare, civil rights bills, etc.. They both have their purpose, perhaps none more important than the shared purpose of keeping people voting for one against the other.

  14. Re:I'll Tell You What It Means on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    Obama is not a normal Dem, he is a moderate in many way

    I think that is being a normal Dem. Find me a liberal Democrat who votes where his mouth is. There's Denice Kucinich. There's probably a few others. The Democratic party is NOT liberal, it's just good at getting liberals to vote for them.

  15. Re:Brilliant! on Frozen Mice Cloned · · Score: 1

    Your point you (made ironically) is completely right. We absolutely should never do this because it was a disaster in a movie.

  16. Re:That juicy t-bone steak on Frozen Mice Cloned · · Score: 1

    I think it's you who refuses to understand that vegans have ethical concerns about killing or exploiting living things. Of course they know that humans are omnivores. You seem to be taking the typical Slashdot "they disagree with me therefore they must be idiots" attitude.

  17. Re:Quick! Whats the... on A Linux-Based "Breath Test" For Porn On PCs · · Score: 1

    Actually, human skin is pretty much all the same hue, it just has different saturation levels. If you convert each image to HSV from RGB, you can just look at the hue component and people all pretty much look the same.

    Wait... What part of that explanation did I understand?

  18. Re:Not exactly true on How We Used To Vote · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Honestly, I don't feel it's fair to make anyone subject to the decisions of a legal system based on the voting system, if they can't affect that process.

    Felons are disproportionately impoverished. It's the same reason there used to be a poll tax, although by very different means.

  19. Re:Well "Works With Linux" is a feature to me on Asus To Phase Out Sub-10" Eee PCs · · Score: 1

    Slashdot seriously needs a -1, Mean-Spirited Jerk moderation.

  20. Re:Well "Works With Linux" is a feature to me on Asus To Phase Out Sub-10" Eee PCs · · Score: 1

    Most of us don't have an all-knowing geek to call on for free, on-site, support.

    Or they have one who has a "No, I will NOT fix your computer" T-shirt.

  21. Re:Linux: 4096 on Windows 7 To Be 256-Core Aware · · Score: 1

    You should have tried clicking on the links first.

  22. Re:"Reader"? on How To Supplement Election Coverage? · · Score: 1

    Come to think of it, calling that person "he" was also presumptuous.

  23. "Reader"? on How To Supplement Election Coverage? · · Score: 2, Funny

    This reader might find some guidance in what to focus on, when, in a video[...]

    Isn't it a bit presumptions to assume that, just because he posts on Slashdot, he's actually a reader?

  24. Re:Nasa Suess on Space Litter To Hit Earth Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    she was walking all alone
    down the street in the alley
    her name was sally
    I never touched her
    she never saw it
    when she was hit by space junk
    in new york miami beach
    heavy metal fell in cuba
    angola saudi arabia
    on xmas eve said norad
    a soviet sputnik hit africa
    india venezuela (in texas
    kansas)
    it's falling fast peru too
    it keeps coming
    and now i'm mad about space junk
    i'm all burned out about
    spacejunk
    oooh walk & talk about space junk
    it smashed my baby's head
    and now my sally's dead

  25. Re:special access... on Finnish E-Voting System Loses 2% of Votes · · Score: 1

    In Cuba, they count the votes in public and have school children go as to act as monitors. I think it's a brilliant was of doing it.