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  1. Re:So, Was Aaron Swartz RIght, After All? on White House Tells Agencies To Increase Access to Fed-Funded Research · · Score: 1

    Because, clearly, they don't want their little Black Projects becoming known.

  2. Re:It's about money, as usual on Carmakers Oppose Opening Up 5GHZ Spectrum Space For Unlicensed Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised that they aren't pulling out the "Interference" card.

  3. Re:That's funny.... on Are Plastic Bag Bans Making People Sick? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Those things are about as dishwasher friendly as a cat with a scratching post. My question is why aren't they using paper bags? Those things are far better than any reusable bag I've ever had. On the plus side, they're multipurpose as well as 100/% recyclable.

  4. Re:R-Arkansas on Congress Takes Up Online Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    Just like the Music Industry, it seems that brick and mortar stores wish to stick to the old ways of how things are done. Can't we just have a nice balance of both on and offline retail? Apparently not seeing as how most Americans see in Black and White instead of All Grey like I do. Sales tax won't kill the economy, but it's certainly not going to help it from sieving money.

  5. More Flame Wars on Over the Antarctic, the Smallest Ozone Hole In a Decade · · Score: 0

    No, this will re-kindle the fire that both sides of the coin have been at for the last 30 years or so. Watch as more "research" is done to prove/disprove that conservation is having an impact on the earth in general. The oil companies will take credit that their efforts are showing effect so we shouldn't stop using gas while actual climatologists fight tooth and nail to get the years' research grant money.

  6. Re:Good! on Egyptian Court Wants To Block YouTube For a Month · · Score: 1

    Can we include Warhammer 40K?

  7. Re:Let the Crapware Games begin on Next-Gen Console Wars Will Soon Begin In Earnest · · Score: 1

    I just think it's time they got shelved.

  8. Let the Crapware Games begin on Next-Gen Console Wars Will Soon Begin In Earnest · · Score: 5, Funny

    Starting the launch with Mario Sequel 58, Zelda Remake number 14, Halo 5, and who can forget Final Fantasy XIV - II: Offline Edition?

  9. Re:Butthurt on Man Fired For His Online Customer Service Game · · Score: 3, Funny

    "The truth?...You can't handle the TRUTH!"

  10. Why... on The Biggest Financial Fraud of All Time · · Score: 1

    does this make me think of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

  11. Re:"Cyber 9/11" on Officials Warn: Cyber War On the US Has Begun · · Score: 1

    Fire Sale! I loved that movie.

  12. Re:Our IQ tests are ineffective on Press, Bloggers Fall For iPhone Cup Holder 'Joke' · · Score: 1

    Yes, I've learned that lesson ^ | Freelance writer. Can't get attention even if I advertise everywhere.

  13. Our IQ tests are ineffective on Press, Bloggers Fall For iPhone Cup Holder 'Joke' · · Score: 1

    Clearly, technology does not make us smarter.

  14. Re:here we go on Lego Accused of Racism With Star Wars Set · · Score: 1

    And me without any mod points.

  15. Re:here we go on Lego Accused of Racism With Star Wars Set · · Score: 0

    Iraq, Iran, India, Cuba, China, South Korea.

  16. Re:A strange game.... on North Korea Announces 3rd Nuclear Test, Anti-US Aims · · Score: 1

    So this cold war is getting a little warm. I can't say that I blame them for thinking the US as an Axis of Evil member because we are, at this point in the Afghan War, are invading those poor countries who we recklessly bombed to get at one man and a rag-tag group of extremists. That's like killing a fly with a flame thrower.

  17. Re:As intended. on Recession, Tech Kill Middle-Class Jobs · · Score: 1

    Corporatism?

  18. Re:As intended. on Recession, Tech Kill Middle-Class Jobs · · Score: 1

    Feudalism? More like Aristocracy. Feudalism would be if honor was still a necessary quality. Also, without middle class, you don't have the main workers that sustains a feudal empire (While not necessarily middle-class, I'd like to think of merchants and scholar fitting in this section).

  19. Couch Potato on Robot Serves Up 360 Hamburgers Per Hour · · Score: 3, Interesting

    With no more entry level positions, maybe we can finally take over the world by using our free time to build death rays.

  20. Complete the Circle on France Proposes a Tax On Personal Information Collection · · Score: 1

    While I'm wholeheartedly against paying for information on myself, I do, however, believe that the country needs to make money somehow. In high school, when I lost my ID, I paid $20 for a new one. I lost it again and paid another $20. Every time I lose my library card, they added a dollar to the next time it would cost me. Does it bother me? No, not at all because I'm giving back into the system.

    So, when information becomes free, who gets to eat? You take money away from your country which pays for the farms for the food, you take money away from people who have made things like video games and music. Eventually, it comes back to bite us in the ass because the Circle of Economy somehow became a line with no end, heading downwards ever so slowly. So, maybe it's time we start closing these circles, possibly fixing the economy in several places.

    France, just make the taxes reasonable and I'm sure it'd work out fine.

  21. Re:Correct Horse Battery Staple on Bad Grammar Make Bestest Password, Research Say · · Score: 1

    Except that was all about choosing random dictionary words and a favorite number. In this case it's like taking my password "password' and spelling it "pahsweerd"

  22. Board Meeting at MSFT HQ on Microsoft Going Its Own Way On Audio/Video Specification · · Score: 1, Funny

    "We think their standard is crap, so let's make our own"

    "But, how will it work?"

    "Lots of security holes. compatible with IE only, and make damn well sure that they can't remove it from the OS."

    Great job, Microsoft, add another junk program that takes up our precious CPU.

  23. Re:Privacy Advice: Get a FB account on Facebook's Graph Search Is a Privacy Test For Internet Users · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Trust me, they can use anything against you when ti comes to mudslinging.

  24. Re:Hmm on Facebook's Graph Search Is a Privacy Test For Internet Users · · Score: 1

    Welcome to Martyrdom. My name is Jetra and I'm one of few that don't use Facebook anymore.

  25. Re:DHS covering an awful lot these days ... on DHS Steps In As Regulator for Medical Device Security · · Score: 1

    Isn't the Ministry of Truth about keeping the wizarding world and the muggles separate? I could be wrong, it's been a while.

    I vote we rename them the Bloc from Pendragon: The Quillon Games.