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  1. Re:Silly Rabbit.... on State Dept. IT Staff Told To Keep Quiet About Clinton's Server (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The mother of all equivocations ...

    Palin's personal email got hacked! The world could see all her emails ... and there were no accusations of her doing government business with her personal email. None!

    Getting hacked is not a crime. Keeping classified material in your closet is a crime, and in Hillary's case the data was hacked.

  2. This is the same established literature that advocated in favor of legalizing pedophilia?

    Glad to see they care about the children.

  3. Re:"our sense of humanity." put in perspective on American Scientists Working On Creating Chimeras: Half-Human, Half-Animal Embryos (ibtimes.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Are you suggesting wild animals treat each other with more civility than the way humans treat other humans?

    Worms are not capable of discovering the greatness a human being has the potential of finding.

    To your point there have been days I have preferred the company of snakes and boars over the bloviation of hypocrites, but I choose to believe anyone can outdo both if they so choose.

    I think Nietchze would agree with me on that.

    And, in the same vein, I think your aspirations to find clarity for yourself and others (to the extent that this describes your intent) is excellent -although (and I say this as a vote of confidence in you) I think you can do better.

  4. ppl already live like animals on American Scientists Working On Creating Chimeras: Half-Human, Half-Animal Embryos (ibtimes.com.au) · · Score: 1

    People behaving like animals turn people into animals

  5. Re:Our roads and bridges are crumbling. on Netflix and Amazon Could Face Content Quotas In Europe (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I'm afraid the plan could include the government we deserve ...

  6. Re:Safe? on Researchers Generate Electricity Using Seawater and Sunlight · · Score: 1

    Also, how much of a problem is transporting oil today?

    Incidents are more the exception than the rule.

  7. implies EU content is bad on Netflix and Amazon Could Face Content Quotas In Europe (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If Europe is going to FORCE businesses to carry their content, they are implying people don't want to watch European content on their own.

    Even if that is mostly false, that is the message they are sending.

    If people wanted to watch European content, why would the governments force businesses to carry it? Wouldn't people pay money to watch it? Why would Netflix turn away people's money to watch European content if they were pushing for it?

    The problem with quotas is they imply people wouldn't normally prefer whatever is being pushed.

  8. Re:Meanwhile in the USA... on China Fakes 488 Million Social Media Posts a Year To Deceive Its Citizens (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Exhibit A: Robert Siegel ... paid by US taxpayers to advocate for The Party on NPR's All Things Considered.

    Exhibit B: The National Endowment for the Arts ... paid for by US taxpayers to advocate for electing Barack Obama.

    Exhibit C: The entire NPR network for sacking DEMOCRAT anchors who were not liberal enough (Juan Williams).

    Seriously ... give federal revenues a haircut. Waste, waste, corruption, and more waste.

  9. watch out for experts bearing gifts on Genetically Modified Crops Are Safe, Report Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm an advocate for GM (corn is not a naturally occurring species as a stark example), but I shut my ears when something gets labeled as having come from "the experts".

  10. I keep hearing over and over again about how communities are better than individuals, multilateralism is better than unilateralism, open source is better than proprietary, or whatever, and then I see entities like wikipedia which epitomize the "mob mentality" where the most involved are contemplating suicide.

    Somewhere Rey is camping in a little hut where she doesn't need to be told by a cackle of editors how to spend her time or whether her life is important.

    Look guys, if you want to avoid the road to suicide (and by suicide I include the majority of people on slashdot who are searching for technology as another way to check out from life) you're going to have to do something radical. Like Jesus Christ radical.

    The world and its desires are passing away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever. 1 John 2:17

  11. what? on Hackers' Website Breached by Hacker (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there NO HONOR AMONG THIEVES ??

    I thought hackers were MODEL CITIZENS!

  12. hacking with political hacks on Anonymous Begins Teaching Hacktivism on IRC (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    hard to respect those who use technology to silence the voices of others

  13. the pirates got their name pirated !!

  14. Sounds like you're saying that when a black person is in one party they are representational of a non-discriminatory body of collectively-minded people, but in the other party they are just a token.

    That could be true, but if you're going to make that claim you can't say, 'We're not racist because we have a guy with ethnicity X'. By your own criteria this is inconclusive .. unless your preference is simply to be biased against the other party.

    >> "There is no such thing as reverse racism"

    So you are on board with 33% of democrats saying they use race as a factor in deciding who to vote for?

    That sounds racist to me, and, worse yet, highly superficial.

  15. Not as much has changed as you might think.

    Planned Parenthood was originated to reduce the black population. To this day leadership at Planned Parenthood have been documented trying to cooperate with reducing the number of black people.

    Tell Robert Byrd about the change in party affiliation. A grand kleage in the KKK was the longest serving senator in US history and a democrat.

    I can also point to MLK's granddaughter, a Republican. Herman Cain, Ben Carson, were getting the highest poll numbers for periods of time ... how does that happen in a racist party?

    33% of democrat primary voters in 2008 listed race as a distinguishing factor in their voting, and you're going to tell me there is not such thing as reverse racism?

    Sounds like a confession to me.

  16. better? on Linux Is the Largest Software Development Project On the Planet: Greg K-H (cio.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    question assumptions pairing quality with quantity

  17. What ??

    Hirohito was the ceremonial ruler of Japan after WWII. That meant he had a title but no job.

    More importantly, you would rather keep a ruler who was taking over the world in power long enough for him to rearm and remobilize?

    I'm surprised you would take the German offer of surrender seriously after they stomped on the non-aggression pact and promised they only wanted Austria ... then Poland, etc.

  18. Re:Just the news shows on Fox are rated fair on Senate GOP Launches Inquiry Into Facebook's News Curation (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of Democrats on Fox News also.

    Heraldo, Juan Williams, Kristen Powers to name a few. Roger Ailes is known to be a democrat.

    By contrast MSNBC only has Morning Joe who only makes headlines for criticizing Republicans. Same thing with David Brooks at the NY Times.

  19. Re:I'm far older than most of you on /. on Billionaire Tech Investor Peter Thiel To Back Trump As GOP Presidential Candidate (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, ac, we're just helping people out, you know?

    Coercive language helps shame people into having correct political views.

    Once everyone in the country believes the same thing we can get past these inefficient debates and let the media spoon feed us these opinions that we don't have to chew for ourselves.

    Choices are an antiquated artifact from a bygone era to protect against corruption, but we are totally corruption free these days.

  20. Re:The racists are now circling the wagons... on Billionaire Tech Investor Peter Thiel To Back Trump As GOP Presidential Candidate (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you saying Hillary is a racist and that's why the FBI is going after her?

  21. You know it was the democrats who authored the Trail of Tears and removal of the Indians in general, right?

    To this day, the only Indian tribes that are not mired in utter poverty are the ones who got off government assistance. By the way this is the same government assistance that is imposed by the democrats.

    Along with shoving slavery down the throats of everyone in the South, Democrats will always be able to point to how "consequential" they were.

    Glad to the gun loving Republican woman replacing the architect of Indian suffering on the $20 bill.

    The problem is not a lack of diplomacy. The problem is democrats.

  22. Re:perhaps more of a political choice on Scientists Grow Two-Week-Old Human Embryos In Lab For The First Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    There is something in the Bible that pertains to "neighbor".

    Do you believe your neighbors are okay to murder?

  23. Re:That's an easy one on Scientists Grow Two-Week-Old Human Embryos In Lab For The First Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The clinical parameters you propose negate the possibility of understanding or detecting agency. In purely empirical experiments you are trying to isolate out the agency of individuals. Remember, David Hume claimed the "self" does not exist -because he was investigating as an (especially skeptical) empiricist.

    The are a few behavioral traits humans exhibit that have no analog in the animal kingdom. As Twain said, man is the only animal that blushes. There are more formally defined traits too like learned helplessness, etc.

    I get really scared about people coming out in lab coats and saying, 'This demographic is not really human or a person really, but we should extend civil rights to soy beans'. I get scared because I'm thinking of the people who will start listening to that. And it sounds like you are!

    Think of all the fraud committed by researchers in the last 10 years. The East Anglia Institute. All the cold fusion claims. The global warming claims of the IPCCC that have been walked back. The hockey stick chart. People trust scientists less now than they ever have.

  24. Re:That's an easy one on Scientists Grow Two-Week-Old Human Embryos In Lab For The First Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you one of those people performing partial birth abortions and selling the body parts?

    If not, sounds like you're giving them the green light.

    You know a "partial birth abortion" involves vaccuuming the baby's brains out, right?

    And is against federal law?

  25. Re:perhaps more of a political choice on Scientists Grow Two-Week-Old Human Embryos In Lab For The First Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Those "embryos" are babies.

    So even if you don't believe the Bible ... are you committed to accepting the murder of babies?

    And if so are you a chair of philosophy at an Ivy league school? I hear that is a career advantage in that field.