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  1. Re:The American Dream on 35% of American Adults Have Debt 'In Collections' · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Medical issues aside, being fat tends to be about consuming more energy than you burn.
    In a remarkably similar manner, being in debt is about spending more than you earn.
    It's cute that you people can take relatively simple problems with overarching patterns and obfuscate them with condescension on loan from Rachel Maddow.

  2. Re:SecuROM racket on Free Copy of the Sims 2 Contains SecuROM · · Score: 1

    Fart too white and nerdy.

  3. SecuROM racket on Free Copy of the Sims 2 Contains SecuROM · · Score: 5, Funny

    SecuROM racket
    Despite how you stack it
    Like a beard on a girl
    They just want to hack it
    Burma Shave

  4. They loves them some flying on How Bird Flocks Resemble Liquid Helium · · Score: 1

    . . .and it be showin' like a mother flocker!

  5. MOAR Laws != Answer on Enraged Verizon FiOS Customer Seemingly Demonstrates Netflix Throttling · · Score: 1

    What we need is more competition and communication of just how abusive companies are.
    If people have alternatives, then there is no reward for shenanigans.

  6. Re:Hmm Alternate ending... on Microsoft's CEO Says He Wants to Unify Windows · · Score: 1

    In the Land of Redmond where the chairs do fly.

  7. Re:What's the point? on Nano-Pixels Hold Potential For Screens Far Denser Than Today's Best · · Score: 1

    Unimaginative gits.

  8. Re:Not creepy on Seat Detects When You're Drowsy, Can Control Your Car · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and, after you check out of the hospital?
    Does the machine that goes 'ping' follow you around and stand by to neutralize you in traffic when that machine, inevitably, gets hacked?

  9. Re:What? on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 3, Insightful

    At the cost of anonymity for those who want to frequent such establishments without so much log file trail.
    And there are plenty of other use-cases for people wanting their name decoupled from their deeds.
    Not all of them are exactly bad, either.

  10. Re:What's the point? on Nano-Pixels Hold Potential For Screens Far Denser Than Today's Best · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I mean, really: Emacs looks great in character mode and 80 columns. Why all this other faffing about?

  11. Re:Betteridge answers on Slashdot Asks: Do You Want a Smart Watch? · · Score: 1

    ++no

  12. "Thank God!" on Another Dementia Test Oversold · · Score: 1, Flamebait
  13. Re: does it mean anything though? on FDA: We Can't Scale To Regulate Mobile Health Apps · · Score: 1, Troll

    One thing we know is that absence of regulation == total chaos.
    Just ask a bureaucrat.
    Furthermore, we know that people are stupid, and absolutely incapable of operating above caveman level without kindly bureaucrats.
    In summary, ensuring Total Regulation is a basic national security requirement.

  14. Re:How about on Study: Global Warming Solvable If Fossil Fuel Subsidies Given To Clean Energy · · Score: 1, Troll
    That deserves some sort of Chomsky Award for nearly meaning something, then breaking into a Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
    No, subsidies and taxes are not like a classical R-C control network; you're oversimplifying like a madman to equate them to a negative feedback loop, i.e., something that stabilizes. To the extent the analogy helps at all, taxes and subsidies are more of a positive loop, feeding corruption, destabilizing.

    doing ourselves through conscious collective action

    Would you recommend a wall of Pet Rocks, or a vast Ouija Board to implement this?

  15. Re: How about on Study: Global Warming Solvable If Fossil Fuel Subsidies Given To Clean Energy · · Score: 1, Troll

    You and I both know that's so backwards as to be hilariously ludicrous.

    True, true, and yet we re-elected it. #GoFigure

  16. You apparently don't understand how the personal- and corporate-dependency thingy is supposed to work in Progressive Utopia.

  17. Re:How about on Study: Global Warming Solvable If Fossil Fuel Subsidies Given To Clean Energy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    TFA is about one group of subsidy-seekers trying to relieve another set of subsidy seekers of ill-gotten gains, amiright?

  18. Re:It was nice on Google Reader: One Year Later · · Score: 1

    Feedly's social media integration is better. And I'm sure Google is getting all the deets it wants.

  19. Justin Deed on European Commission Spokesman: Google Removing Link Was "not a Good Judgement" · · Score: 3, Funny

    Justin Deed was a Streisand fan,
    Doo dah, doo dah,
    Saw her Effect and had a plan,
    Oh da doo dah day,
    Scrapin' screens all day
    Scrapin' screens all night
    Tried purge the whole Internet
    'Cause he won't too bright.

  20. Re:Always wondered what happened to Oscar on Goldman Sachs Demands Google Unsend One of Its E-mails · · Score: 1, Troll

    And that's just mixed in with his pocket lint!

  21. Always wondered what happened to Oscar on Goldman Sachs Demands Google Unsend One of Its E-mails · · Score: 1, Troll

    I always wondered what happened to Oscar Goldman after the Six Million Dollar Man wound down.

  22. Classic Shots on Grandmother Buys Old Building In Japan And Finds 55 Classic Arcade Cabinets · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Classic shots
    Of better times
    Before internet 'bots
    And facial hair crimes
    Burma Shave

  23. Re:Bitcoin's day has come. on California Legalizes Bitcoin · · Score: 5, Funny

    On a Linux desktop?

  24. I'm missing something on How Apple Can Take Its Headphones To the Next Level · · Score: 1

    How are headphones on a different level than your ears any sort of benefit? (Asking for an overly literal person.)

  25. Keb' Mo' with banjo picks on guitar is something on Secret of the Banjo's Unique Sound Discovered By Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist · · Score: 2

    live:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-ZFg5-oaS0
    the studio version is tighter:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKQWhsLbe9E
    can't decide which I prefer.