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  1. One More Thing: on Overheated Voting Machine Cast Its Own Votes · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Move Voting Day to Saturday. The only reason it was on Tuesday was to allow for travel time and to avoid the often-strictly observed Sabbath of the still quite Puritan colonial USA. Make it a Saturday, and make all businesses except essential service and emergency personnel close on that day period, so the people can take their time to vote.

    There. That's the last one.

  2. OK Enough of this SHIT on Overheated Voting Machine Cast Its Own Votes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Paper and pen ballots.

    ONLY.

    And while we are at it, let's fix Voter Fraud with one simple tool: a freaking indelible inkwell at the desk where you pick up your ballot. That way, once you've picked up ONE ballot, you cast your ONE vote. People with purple fingers cannot pick up ballots.

    Then we can toss all of this disenfranchising "voter ID" crap on the ashpile too. Our elections will guarantee that each person votes just once and every fucking vote is counted. No swinging chads. No overheating vote-generating machines (oh, and does that story smell like ripe bullshit to me -- yes it does!)?

    Paper trail. Physically impossible to vote more than once..

    Done.

  3. Re:I was gonna write something... on Homeland Security: New Body Scanners Have Issues · · Score: 1

    What an abuse of language. What fucking Newspeak. What fucking doublethink.

    What a fucking awesome rant! Preach on, bro! My kingdom for a mod point.

  4. Re:new slogan on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    Type II is not an environmental condition EITHER. Some people get it, some do not. Some people can gain double their weight and not get it. Type II diabetics typically pack on pounds in the belly, and we typically start with hypogycemia (I passed out from it in my early '20's) which makes you hungry all the fucking time.

    Our shitty American diets reveal the propensity for type II, but they do not cause it.

  5. Re:Really? Was she that unprepared? on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    No one forced her to fly with the pump,

    Jesus. Let's just breathlessly fellate our Security State overlords. "Look at me! I'll gladly disrupt my medical treatments so that ignorant dumfucks can probe my body for vague threats."

    Of course, no one forces me to fly with my glasses on either, and i can do without them for short distances, but something you seem to be missing from your blame-the-victim asshole rant: SHE was just traveling. Is it now a huge deal to want to be treated with decency when you travel???

    Don't answer me. I don't know if I can handle watching you suck cock for another 500 words. Fucking disgusting.

  6. Re:Heartland: a policy advocacy group, not science on Heartland Institute Learning To Troll On Billboards · · Score: 1

    Whether this makes them "shills" is a value judgement.

    Uh, no that is the definition of "shill."

    shill [shil] â
      Example Sentences Origin
    shillâ â[shil] Show IPA Slang .
    noun
    1.
    a person who poses as a customer in order to decoy others into participating, as at a gambling house, auction, confidence game, etc.
    2.
    a person who publicizes or praises something or someone for reasons of self-interest, personal profit, or friendship or loyalty.

    3. See also Heartland Institute, cf.

  7. I think this is flat out a first amendment issue on Government Asks When It Can Shut Down Wireless Communications · · Score: 1

    The government wants to be able to squelch protests.

    I think the answer is NEVER.

  8. Re:new slogan on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 4, Informative

    FROM THE ARTICLE:

    She says she was told to go through it anyway. "When someone in a position of authority tells you it is - you think that its right. So, I said, Are you sure I can go through with the pump? It's not going to hurt the pump? And she said no, no you're fine."

    Are people just too fucking lazy to even read before they open their big mouths?

  9. Re:new slogan on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 0

    If the insulin pump is that easy to break, surely some blame lies there as well? ...

    We are talking about something that should be required to withstand basically a lot of punishment

    Including unknown radiation hazards? Are you deliberately obtuse, or do you just come by it naturally?

  10. Re:new slogan on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 4, Informative

    Also, she's getting more radiation on the plane itself than from anything on the ground.

    I guess completely ignoring the fact that she was passed through a scanner that emitted radiation escaped both you and the author of TFA.

    Or, perhaps you just don't give a fuck.

    I'm diabetic, and my wife is. The reason for an insulin pump is because self-monitored injections can no longer keep up with the endocrine system. This young girl is not using a pump for convenience, especially not one that costs $10k. She is using it because it is critical for her survival.

    Downplaying the risks, and the obvious unknown of these body scanners which fuck if anyone knows whether or how they really work, just makes you look like the most incredible god-damn asshole on the planet.

    Just thought I'd mention that. These body scanners are FUCKING SECURITY THEATER that are ADMITTED TO NOT WORK.

    Scanners gotta go. I do not fly anymore and I will not fly anymore until they are gone.

  11. Need to take those scanners back on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 2

    And jam them, every one of them, forcefully up Michael Chertoff's ASS.

  12. Re:This is exactly why... on Sony Put Video Service on Hold Due to Comcast Data Caps · · Score: 2

    Its obvious what happened but unfortunately, this form of bribery is also legal so long as it can't be proven.

    How much more proven do you need it to get?

  13. Re:monkeys throwing darts... on 1981 Paper's Predictions for Global Temperatures Spot-On · · Score: 1

    Ptolemaic system made accurate predictions,

    No, it really didn't. If you think a 20th century paper on climate change is analogous to the geocentric model for the solar system, you really don't understand one fucking thing about science. Ptolemy's model was notably unreliable, and accepted only because it fit the preconceptions of the time.

  14. Re:Yoda says.... on EA Defends Itself Against Thousands of Anti-Gay Letters · · Score: 1

    but I will say that there is enough difference to see "straight" in common scenarios and not the other way around. We grow up knowing that procreation requires a certain type of relationship.

    Well, I'm sorry to say that is just a poor excuse for bigotry.

  15. Re:Good Timing! on MIT Institute's Gloomy Prediction: 'Global Economic Collapse' By 2030 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Not to put too fine a point on it but if you actually believe that a magical sky fairy is going to come along and rapture you up into eternal bliss, that is pretty fucking nutty all by itself.

    We don't have to add the destruction of the world on top of it to decide that it's already the thinking of a deluded, confused mind. That most denizens of the planet are deluded and confused by these fairy tales is just part of our shared problem.

    I submit that if we don't put the religion animal down in the next century the human race won't survive past it. Religion is the #1 killer of human beings, planet-wide.

  16. Re:TMNT: Mostly Sucks on Michael Bay To Remake TMNT As Aliens · · Score: 1

    but Armageddon, seriously?

    Armageddon was the essence of every shitty, bad-ass action movie ever made distilled into a package that was no fun whatsoever. The characters were fucking CARDBOARD. Every place the characters went fucking EXPLODED. I hated every second of that movie and will bitterly resent being required to watch it every again.

  17. Re:Bottom line: never cooperate with the authoriti on Man Barred From Being Alone With Daughter After Informing Police of Porn On PC · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You realize that, if they do investigate you, cooperating can make your life far more pleasant, right?

    Obviously not, in this case. In this case, he wasn't being investigated, and now, he won't have the defense of a real investigation. Just a smear on his name for the rest of his life.

    Since we never know when this kind of bullshit will hit us, it's safer to not cooperate, and to avoid the authorities at all costs. Certainly I won't be reporting any crimes I happen to see . . . I'll just keep my mouth shut so I don't get dinged with guilt by association.

    That is what the result of this ham-fistedness will be. Promise.

  18. Re:Posession is illegal on Man Barred From Being Alone With Daughter After Informing Police of Porn On PC · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Posession of child porn is illegal. It doesn't matter how you got it, having it is illegal.

    So what we're saying here is, if you happen to come across it, just delete it and keep your mouth shut.

    Don't try to alert authorities to the source of the illegal material. In fact, don't talk to the authorities at all. Let them do their jobs in ignorance . . . because obviously that's what they deserve.

    Then, when they ask why nobody is reporting on crimes, we can reply "because then you fuckers ruin our lives!!"

  19. Re:Not smart Enough? on Scientists Say People Aren't Smart Enough For Democracy To Flourish · · Score: -1, Troll

    I have to take issue with the "getting elected by dead people." The only voter fraud we know for sure is happening is being engaged in by Republican asshats with an axe to grind (in other words, James O'Keefe, protoge of the recently-dropped-dead newsvandal Breitbart).

    You let us know when you find evidence of voter fraud that exceeds double-digit numbers. Anywhere.

  20. Re:Bad summary: the airline, not the government on Damaged US Passport Chip Strands Travelers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The federal government requiring Catholics to pay for their employees healthcare that they've already offered and that said employee has paid premiums towards

    I fixed that fucking dishonest piece of shit lie for you.

  21. Re:Let's see.... on Heartland Institute Document Leaker Comes Forward, Maintains Documents Are Real · · Score: 5, Funny

    The government has MORE reason to lie about the moon landings than the people claiming they're fake.

    Thank you for identifying yourself as completely incapable of rational discussion on this issue.

  22. Re:what does waiting have to do with anything? on Heartland Institute Threatens To Sue Anyone Who Comments On Leaked Documents · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, the real evidence that this is all genuine stuff is how freaked-out and panicked this philistine think-tank is over the public revelation of their dishonest agenda.

    Fuck them.

  23. Re:hiring lawyers on RIAA Wants To Scrap Anti-Piracy OPEN Act · · Score: 2

    Uh, I'm kind of opposed to destroying Hollywood. I like movies

    Other people can make movies. Especially after Lobbyist Dodd's temper tantrum earlier about SOPA and PIPA, Hollywood can go fuck themselves in the face with a rake. Forever.

  24. Re:Foxconn suicides on In Xhengzhou, Thousands Vie For Foxconn Jobs · · Score: 1

    When there is negative correlation between working at Foxconn and suicide rates it is safe to assume that working there actually makes Chinese people less suicidal

    #1, that figure appears to have been rectally-retrieved. Meaning I don't buy it at all. Official statistics from China in any capacity are going to likely be flawed due to the strong desire of the Chinese government to save face.

    But again, it just is not a ringing endorsement of this race to the bottom that "well, our workers don't kill themselves THAT often!"

    Fuck me, is this what we're reduced to?

    "Be glad you're a cog in my machine, boy!" "Thank God you have a job!" "At least you didn't kill yourself on the street."

    This is fucking BULLSHIT. These inhumane working conditions which ANY IDIOT CAN TELL are insufferable on all levels, are being presented to us as the limbo bar we all have to match.

    I'M NOT GOING TO FUCKING ENVY PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN A COMPANY DORMITORY AND KILL THEMSELVES TO ESCAPE. That's the bottom line I am attempting to draw here. Fuck, shit, fuck fuck fuck.

    WHY are people so eager to SWALLOW that wealthy cock and just DRINK IN whatever those fuckwads want to SHOOT DOWN YOUR THROAT?

  25. Re:Sounds completely logical on Oklahoma Politician Wants To Tax Violent Video Games · · Score: 1

    The authority is on the side of the bullies, so just let them walk all over you, or you will be punished.

    You chose the wrong venue. I got rid of my grade-school bully when my entire family showed up at the dirt bike hill area that I was hanging around at when I was attacked for like the 10th time. My friend went to get help, and my family, and neighbors, all showed up and that was the fucking end of that.

    I got rid of another one when he challenged me to meet him out front and fight. I stood out there and waited for his loser ass. He never showed, and he never hassled me again.