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  1. Political Speeches? on Speech-Jamming Gun Silences From 30 Meters · · Score: 1

    This seems like a great tool to make a debate opponent screw up.

  2. Human-influenced global warming is fake and Ron Paul is immediately president. Take THAT, Fartbongolibs.

  3. Re:Legitimacy? on Canada's Conservatives Misled Voters With Massive Robocall Operation · · Score: 2

    Most of the people I know that voted for them did so only because the "liberals deserve no votes" and "Voting for the NDP or Greens? HAHAHAHAHA" rather than because they actually like or agree with the Conservatives in any way. Spite, really.

  4. Legitimacy? on Canada's Conservatives Misled Voters With Massive Robocall Operation · · Score: 1

    They're the Corporate-Regressive party, our own home-grown copy of American neoliberal parties like the GOP. No real Canadian actually thinks they are legitimate.

  5. The Conservatives! on Against Online Surveillance? You Must Be 'For' Child Porn, Says Legislator · · Score: 1

    Quickly becoming a far naughtier version if the aristocrats for the cognitively impaired.

  6. Re:The power to tax is the power to destroy. on Oklahoma Politician Wants To Tax Violent Video Games · · Score: 1

    Nah, you misunderstand. Their goal was to reward any militia that manages to kill a bear (or Australian) with the right to parade around with the severed limbs of their quarry. Common misconception.

  7. Stephen Harper reportedly upset on Web Developer Sentenced To Death In Iran · · Score: 0

    that he did not think of doing this first.

  8. You think they give a shit? on Anonymous Takes Down DOJ, RIAA, MPA and Universal Music · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Websites mean little compared to winning ideological battles.

  9. Re:This seems perilous to me... on Are Programmers Ruining the Design of eBooks? · · Score: 1

    You forgot Zombie Dennis Ritchie and his argumentative/impotent horse, Steve.

  10. Fine. on Google Merges Google+ Into Search · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Google used to be good. Really really good. In a sea of paid-priority listing search engines that returned mostly crap, and the same crap at that, they were a shining diamond.

    But for quite some time, their results have been getting far worse, the search has gotten LESS flexible (and more "I know what you want to search for, NOT you, the user") and they've become that which they were supposed to be better than. That even MSN/Live/MS/Bing can return better results and actually listens to my syntax far better than Google is a travesty.

    So they can take their final self-administered nail in their coffin and bugger off.

  11. Quick Question on Court Rules Website Immune From Suit For Defamatory Posting · · Score: 1

    Is there a write-up/rip off report on the site...for RipOffReports?

  12. Re:Responsibility for content can change on Court Rules Website Immune From Suit For Defamatory Posting · · Score: 1

    But what about when it is effectively entirely anonymously?
    Not everyone leaves a trail or has obvious heuristic ticks in their writing style that can be used to deduce facts/

  13. Basically... on Court Rules Website Immune From Suit For Defamatory Posting · · Score: 1

    Basically, it's like being set on fire by some crazy person, and then (after removing your flaming clothes) getting arrested for public indecency.
    While you may be innocent of any wrongdoing, your sex offender status is still permanent and well-known.

    Which makes it the Right Thing To Do.

  14. Re:How to Expand the Usefulness of Theaters on Ebert: I'll Tell You Why Movie Revenue Is Dropping · · Score: 1

    #3 would kill the mass majority of your income, which would be teens who spend all of their weekly paychecks at the mall/cinema.

  15. Re:Kids on Ebert: I'll Tell You Why Movie Revenue Is Dropping · · Score: 1

    They could just make an isolated section for children to have to use.

  16. Re:Also on Ebert: I'll Tell You Why Movie Revenue Is Dropping · · Score: 1

    3D made absolutely no difference in Avatar for me. It was a neat gimmick, but had no effect on the story or emotions conveyed - because it was nothing more than a cheap effect with no bearing on the film itself.

  17. Re:Also on Ebert: I'll Tell You Why Movie Revenue Is Dropping · · Score: 1

    Except you still have to pay more, and the colors are extremely dimmed and washed out, made even worse when post-production 3D was applied with horrifyingly darkening techniques.

  18. Re:Also on Ebert: I'll Tell You Why Movie Revenue Is Dropping · · Score: 1

    He was using it in a different way, though. Stealing was used positively.

  19. Uh...no. on Ebert: I'll Tell You Why Movie Revenue Is Dropping · · Score: 1

    If there's one thing they care about, it's money.
    And quite frankly, "original" movies don't sell as well as shit blockbusters like Transformers. Nowhere near as well, and nowhere near as profitable.

    At that, the making of movies themselves is a business in and of itself; countless changes made to satisfy wildly divergent interests on every film, to the point where not one script would ever get through these days without drastic changes.

  20. Re:Customer service on World's Worst PR Guy Gives His Side · · Score: 1

    This is taking into account that almost all service reps have very little power to do anything, right?

  21. Re:Arrogance. on No IPv6 Doomsday In 2012 · · Score: 1

    The United States is the main concern for, well, Americans, obviously.

  22. All Except for on HTC Unlocks Bootloader For All of Its Devices · · Score: 1

    The Nexus One. They sort of want people to forget that they made the poor thing.

  23. Re:In other words, we hate updating software on HTC Unlocks Bootloader For All of Its Devices · · Score: 2

    Actually, they did abandon it. The day before they said (officially) that the N1 wouldn't be getting the update, was one in which they STILL touted the "If it supports X, it will be able to use ICS" and "of COURSE the Nexus One will be getting the update!" line.

    And then there's the whole redirection with HTC (go to him! No, go to him!) regarding customer support, even with actual Android issues.

  24. Re:Microsoft updates before Google and Oracle? on Microsoft Issuing Unusual Out-of-Band Security Update · · Score: 1

    Hence why I said almost. I was not suggesting removing the feature or anything.

  25. Re:Garbage on IT Managers Are Aloof Says Psychologist and Your Co-Workers · · Score: 1

    This is, what, the fifth one this week?
    Amazing.