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  1. Freedom FROM regulation is not a liberal idea. on SF Evictions Surging From Crackdown On Airbnb Rentals · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, it's an area the conservatives win on. Regulation is good. But so is democracy. So is allowing a myriad of solutions to a problem. If I want someone unlicensed and unregulated to babysit|hotel|taxi|massage|fuck me, I should be able to do that. By no means does that mean that no regulatory system should exist. Stupid fucking Americans turning everything into false dichotomies. It's possible for everyone to be able to do what they want, and for no one to be a dick. But neither conservative nor liberal will let that be 100% of the time.

  2. Re:Stupid on To Reduce the Health Risk of Barbecuing Meat, Just Add Beer · · Score: 1

    If i were to go to every BBQ on the planet and make a helpful suggestion, the suggestion of beer would be far more helpful than blueberries, as most BBQs won't have blueberries on hand. Your pedanticism is so unnecessary as to be harmful.

  3. Re:In other news ... on Minnesota Teen Wins Settlement After School Takes Facebook Password · · Score: 1

    ...apparently people are still leaving useless comments.

  4. Re:It looks like people are going to line up on Electric 'Thinking Cap' Controls Learning Speed · · Score: 1

    Thank you for verifying your prejudice against most of the human population.

  5. Re:It looks like people are going to line up on Electric 'Thinking Cap' Controls Learning Speed · · Score: 1

    If you think peoples' alcohol decisions are based on their desire to learn more slowly, then you must be a teetotaler who doesn't drink because you don't get it.

  6. Re:You evidently don't have any idea what you're s on Java 8 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    Were java's promises different in 2001 than 2014? No. It only takes one counterexample to execute a tautology.

  7. Re:You evidently don't have any idea what you're s on Java 8 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    B.S. ... I downloaded Slime Volleyball and set it up on my own webserver. 1 java upgrade later, it wouldn't work right. Explain. (This was 2001.)

  8. Re:Interesting... on Mt. Gox Knew It Was Selling Phantom Bitcoin 2 Weeks Before Collapse · · Score: 1

    Exchanges screwing over people has little to do with if a currency is a good investment.

  9. Re:Interesting... on Mt. Gox Knew It Was Selling Phantom Bitcoin 2 Weeks Before Collapse · · Score: 1

    Exchange has nothing to do with currency.

  10. Re:Dumb logic on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 1

    The vaccine courts have admitted vaccines can make existing autism already dormant active. So in the case of a person that would happen to, they'd be better of with the measles. Instead of denying this, we should research this further.

  11. Re:One would hope on US Intelligence Officials To Monitor Federal Employees With Security Clearances · · Score: 1

    Hard to say when you live in an area that's been traditionally rich in IT jobs, then suddenly the only things available all require clearances. Guess I should sell my house and move away from my family because govt has gobbled up so much work that it's hard to find work here without a clearance.

  12. Re:That would be so freakishly illegal ... on Vast Surveillance Network Powered By Repo Men · · Score: 1

    Explain the many newspaper photos of the public. Do you think the newspaper actually got model releases for those? You are wrong. Model releases apply in private, not in public.

  13. Re:That would be so freakishly illegal ... on Vast Surveillance Network Powered By Repo Men · · Score: 1
    By that logic, I shouldn't be able to sell a picture taken in public because it has peoples' faces in them.

    Sorry, no one gets to control the flow of information they themselves introduced to the public. Sorry, that's not how things can or should or do work.

  14. Re:That would be so freakishly illegal ... on Vast Surveillance Network Powered By Repo Men · · Score: 1

    What? Any developed country lets me observe what is in public and report on it. That's basically what journalism is, activity-wise.

  15. Re:Why get mad? on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 1

    And that's why there are no secret cellphone recordings of anything. Ever.

  16. Re:Malice? I think not. on Study Shows Agent Orange Still Taints Aging C-123s · · Score: 1

    Being an apologist for people who hurt members of your tribe is so counter to you and your tribe's best interest that I now think you a fool.

  17. Re:I want to utilize my 3-D tv for PC gaming! on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing? · · Score: 1

    Thank you very much for being the only person on slashdot to answer my question... I'll check it out... :)

  18. Re: Translation: Piss off, Peasants on White House Responds To Net Neutrality Petition · · Score: 1

    You gave no reasons or evidence for your side of stating "X is Y", so why should I?

  19. Re: Translation: Piss off, Peasants on White House Responds To Net Neutrality Petition · · Score: 1

    i call bs

  20. I want to utilize my 3-D tv for PC gaming! on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing? · · Score: 1
    I have a 3-D tv. I have no need for 3-D support at the computer level. The TV will automatically combine side-by-side or over-under images into a 3-D image.

    I spent many hours looking for games that would support this. I ended up getting zero games that do this. I found middleware that would fake out directx drivers and add 3-D support where it's not natively enabled, but it was a challenge to find a game that used the right drives and, y'know, worked.

    So are there any games that do this? Bonus if I can play with my wife - I'll get her a 3-D monitor if we find one.

  21. Re:website seems sketchy on Does Crime Leave a Genetic Trace? · · Score: 2

    Isn't your judging a scientific article by the typesetting of the site that presents it a bias?

  22. Re:Basic Income on Star Trek Economics · · Score: 1

    Because you wouldn't have it without customers. You basically just made an argument to not tax anyone who produces anything of value. Fail.

  23. Re:I agree with the claimed motives... on Rand Paul Files Suit Against Obama Over NSA's Collection of Metadata · · Score: 2
    You did not address what I said. Why is a 3rd party vote automatically equivalent as vote republican? Why is it not equivalent as voting democrat? And how did you decide this?

    Furthermore, describe the mechanism whereby a vote is wasted. When you vote democrat or republican, does your vote somehow become more than 1 vote? How is its value increased? You are making exactly the same difference either way. A difference of one vote.

    Although honestly, if you're just voting for the same 2 parties that have fucked us over our whole lives, it's really making a negligible difference.

  24. Re:I agree with the claimed motives... on Rand Paul Files Suit Against Obama Over NSA's Collection of Metadata · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Your 3rd party logic is fucked up. I could just as fallaciously claim a vote for a third party is as good as a vote for the democrats. Also, a world occupied by people like you would never have a rival 3rd party, because of your own catch-22 requirement for voting for one. Great job. You're part of the problem without realizing it. At least you're not evil. Peace.

  25. Re:Wasn't this a movie with Emelio Estevez? on Fire Destroys Iron Mountain Data Warehouse, Argentina's Bank Records Lost · · Score: 1

    You mean, except the banks mentioned in this article.