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  1. Re:About those "Less than 60 Americans" on CBS 60 Minutes: NSA Speaks Out On Snowden, Spying · · Score: 1

    Accidental Espionage Division

  2. Re:Makes Sense on Study: People Are Biased Against Creative Thinking · · Score: 1

    all mutations are successful. what you mean is they have no apparent utility in the current environmental context.

  3. Re: Officials say? on Officials Say HealthCare.gov Site Now Performing Well · · Score: 4, Funny

    that's one smart bloodworm.

  4. Re:Officials say? on Officials Say HealthCare.gov Site Now Performing Well · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And the same attitude led to an AIDS pandemic.

    "If you can't afford to buy health care, don't breed"

    I think you mean "don't be born".

  5. Re:Lie a little on Ask Slashdot: Are We Older Experts Being Retired Too Early? · · Score: 2

    Unless you're in India. Or China. Or former Soviet Block. They love it when you work remotely from there.

  6. Re:Lie a little on Ask Slashdot: Are We Older Experts Being Retired Too Early? · · Score: 1

    funny, I was thinking this was the problem: "absolutely kickass SQA and Hardware person, networking, you name it"

  7. Re:As a former teenager, I predict... on A Makerbot In Every Classroom · · Score: 1

    dildo gun bong.

  8. Re:Why reinvent the wheel? on A Math Test That's Rotten To the Common Core · · Score: 1

    "We need better discipline" at home

  9. Re:True on Bill Gates: Internet Will Not Save the World · · Score: 1

    all your grammar is belong to us

  10. Re:True on Bill Gates: Internet Will Not Save the World · · Score: 1

    "You don't have to be Internet connected to be a Microsoft customer."

    GFL with that, Windows 8 requires an email address before it completes the install.

  11. Re:An now introducing the Oxford Comma! on 'Pushback': Resisting the Life of Constant Connectivity · · Score: 1

    After spending decades with compilers that have no tolerance for ambiguity, I've often wondered if software developers have a higher preference for the Oxford comma.

  12. Re:Pushbackianism? on 'Pushback': Resisting the Life of Constant Connectivity · · Score: 1

    Hello citizen, your phone appears to be off. Let us fix that for you...

  13. Re:so lets get the real story on What Employee Lock-In Means At Facebook · · Score: 1

    " facebook employs far more people than just those 500 reviewers"

    curious turn of phrase.

  14. more quality analysis from Forrester... on Forrester Research Shows Steep Decline in Free Office Suite Stats · · Score: 1

    "Forrester's Office 2013 And Productivity Suite Alternatives surveyed 155 Forrester clients that use Microsoft Office,..."

    (emphasis so very much mine)

    breaking news, people who use Office, use Office!

    http://blogs.computerworld.com/desktop-apps/22995/microsoft-office-squashes-google-apps-open-source-alternatives

  15. Re:Two things I keep in mind on A Ray of Hope For Americans and Scientific Literacy? · · Score: 2

    True Scotsmen with Roving Goalposts

    I think you've got something there...

  16. Re:It's simple: on A Ray of Hope For Americans and Scientific Literacy? · · Score: 1

    "Today, however, the effective rates are highest in USA history"

    No, not even close. How such idiocy promulgates when so much accurate information is so readily available demonstrates appalling intellectual laziness.

  17. Re:It's simple: on A Ray of Hope For Americans and Scientific Literacy? · · Score: 1

    "I support a good part of the Tea Party platform because I can do math"

    Really, that's your opener?

  18. Re:Interesting Finding on A Ray of Hope For Americans and Scientific Literacy? · · Score: 1

    "and I happen to strongly agree with *some* of Tea Party's core values, mainly, a fiscally responsible, and socially less intrusive government, as well as personal independence and responsibility."

    You forgot the kittens and puppies. And ice cream! ICE CREAM!

  19. Re:News Flash: Partisan Caricature Found Incorrect on A Ray of Hope For Americans and Scientific Literacy? · · Score: 1

    "this current recession"

    you were saying something about remarkable ignorance?

  20. Re:Not surprising on A Ray of Hope For Americans and Scientific Literacy? · · Score: 1

    well, compassion implies a level of maturity which is not often hallmarked by using violence-infused, simplistic terms to make a nuanced point.

  21. Re:Medical professionals on A Ray of Hope For Americans and Scientific Literacy? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    simple test.

    just ask them to say the word, "Obama".

    listen to how they say it.

  22. Re:actual "platform" on A Ray of Hope For Americans and Scientific Literacy? · · Score: 1

    facts have been shown to have a liberal bias

  23. Re:actual "platform" on A Ray of Hope For Americans and Scientific Literacy? · · Score: 1

    I don't know, because maybe it's actually the free BushPhone program?

    http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/09/27/924011/the-truth-about-the-obama-phone/

    Having scientific knowledge in no way implies you aren't horribly ill-informed. If you want people to take you seriously, stop prepending 'Obama' to everything you dislike.

  24. Re:Yeah, right ... on Facebook Comment Prompts Arrests In Cyberbullying Suicide Case · · Score: 2

    I think you really mean "negotiates from weakness". Negotiating with your kids actually teaches them a great deal.

  25. Re:What kind of a critique is that? on A Peek At Apple's Planned $5B HQ · · Score: 1

    A means and a system of rounding the corners of a building...