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  1. Re:elderly are a large portion of it on The Digital Differences In Americans · · Score: 1

    Logan's Run is such a panacea, really. Not only would it increase internet adoption, but imagine the other statistical benefits: It'd raise our percentage of college graduates, increase the average physical fitness of both men and women, improve our per-capita GDP, and even decrease cancer rates.

    Damn you for taking my trolling post and converting it into a reasonable argument!

    You did make a very modest proposal.

  2. Re:Also known as on FCC Wants To Fine Google $25K For WiFi Investigation · · Score: 1

    Kudos to Google for dragging their feet.

    All the feds ever wanted was to use the wifi "hack" as an excuse for a data grab without the inconvenience of a search warrant.

    Maybe you can help me: is the tinfoil hat more effective with the shiny side in or out?

  3. Re:No, you don't know if I was "running a stop sig on The Laws of Physics Trump Traffic Laws · · Score: 1

    Because I knew accurately what my momentum was.

    Liar. Just by observing it, you have altered it. Unless your car is made of some bizarre substance that changes its mass in reference to the velocity change you initiated by looking at the speedometer and trying to figure out where you are at the same time.

  4. Re:With all due respect... on Banned From Kickstarter For Being Cyberstalked · · Score: 2

    Genetic predisposition with social environment having major effect? Thanks, you've just helped me understand my former wife and former mother in law.

  5. Re:With all due respect... on Banned From Kickstarter For Being Cyberstalked · · Score: 1

    I'm starting to think it's bogus too. Someone stalked for that long would have better sense I'd hope.

    She seems to be a narcissist or suffering from some collection of cluster B issues. Until treated, it's unlikely she'll develop any sense.

  6. Re:Hansen Must Go on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    I don't know. That chick in Hanson was pretty cute.

  7. Re:Few Surprises on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    If you didn't notice the glaring differences on even a casual visit, I suspect your multitasking ability is subpar.

  8. Re:Few Surprises on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    I did start there - but as I followed links, I left the site without noticing it.

    The completely different page layout, iconography, masthead, etc. didn't give it away?

  9. Re:This seems a bit one-sided... on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    So if I encounter a group of strangers, I should run a credit check on them rather than make a quick judgement based on the percentages?

  10. Re:Few to admit it, but a lot of parents teach thi on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    The white preachers wouldn't need to jump into the fray because the black volunteer would have been arrested.

    Maybe that happens because "snitches are bitches" is not a value most white people instill in their children.

  11. Re:Few to admit it, but a lot of parents teach thi on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    Wow, you really are a racial supremacist. How sad, as I thought my genetic heritage had suffered enough at the hands of supremacists. I guess not everyone can learn the lessons of history, even when Northern Ireland is so close at hand.

    It seems he thought it was "no true Irishman", not "no true Scotsman".

  12. Re:Few to admit it, but a lot of parents teach thi on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    No, I'm Irish like all of my kind, quick to anger and quicker to forgive, a man who will give you his last scrap of food and tell you a joke while doing so, a bad enemy but a stout and loyal friend, who takes every man as he comes regardless of colour or creed.

    So if you can say that about your culture, why can't someone say that Africans are criminals, Hispanics are lazy, Indians smell, Chinese are shiftless, etc?

    Stereotypes are ok if they are positive? Only white Americans can be offensive?

    You do the same thing Derbyshire did. You do the same thing African Americans do when they call each other 'nigger' (or 'nigga').

    All are offensive, or all are not. But stop trying to play it both ways.

  13. Re:Few to admit it, but a lot of parents teach thi on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    Actually, read about how marihuana prohibition started. It was often claimed that it was the drug that caused the negro to rape white women.

  14. Re:Instead of all this new crap, why not FIX YUR B on Chrome OS Introduces Aura Window Manager · · Score: 1

    Not exactly. 'Tom' is an acronym (backronym?).

  15. Re:Maryland? Now moving.... on Maryland Bans Employers From Asking For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    Oh, well, good: My employer's just moved across the river.

    Problem is, it was across the Anacostia, which puts you in an even worse shithole than MD.

  16. Re:The japanese on FBI Says American Universities Infiltrated by Spies · · Score: 1

    Except this is more pertinent to capitalism with its artificial scarcity and planned obsolescence. Look at the crapitalist US of A - gathering rain water is a crime in some places.

    Fortunately, I live in MD, where they have just decided to tax us for rain.

  17. Re:Yeah...right, "de Bleauchamp". on Ask Slashdot: Is a Home Drone Feasible? · · Score: 1

    We had all the time in the world.

  18. Re:It's all relative on NOAA Study: Radiation From Fukushima Very Dilluted, Seafood Safe · · Score: 1

    And hey, compared to all the fecal matter you're eating with your seafood, a little cesium is nothing.

    What does Red Lobster have to do with this story?

  19. Re:How to beat the system? on Bill Introduced To Ban Sale of MA15+ Games To Anyone Under 18 in SA · · Score: 1

    Who does the classification, the government or a group like the MPAA or ESRB? Are the guidelines for either games or movies clear and easily discernible or is it a case where the reviewers "know a MA15+ when they see it"?

  20. Re:How to beat the system? on Bill Introduced To Ban Sale of MA15+ Games To Anyone Under 18 in SA · · Score: 1

    War Games probably.

    AU$80 for tic tac toe (crosses and naughts)? No wonder Austrailian gamers are pissed.

  21. Re:did anyone read what he did? on GNU/Linux Running On An 8-Bit Processor · · Score: 1

    Jesus. Why don't you break out the tape measure too.

    I think in his case, he might use a micrometer.

  22. Re:75 MHz 286 on GNU/Linux Running On An 8-Bit Processor · · Score: 1

    486 came in a DX model which ran at 33/66Mhz. The 1st Pentiums came in at 60Mhz. The only 286 i remember was a Unisys 8 or 10Mhz. I'm just sayin.

    FTFY

  23. Re:Next: Emulate the 8-bit processor in Minecraft on GNU/Linux Running On An 8-Bit Processor · · Score: 1

    Boot time: 17 days

    17 days?! Hey man, I don't wanna rain on your parade, but we're not gonna last seventeen *hours!* Those things are gonna come in here just like they did before. And they're gonna come in here...

    Sorry. Just having a flashback to my time in the service.

  24. Re:FTFY on Federal Judge Rules P2P Users Aren't In a Conspiracy · · Score: 0

    Oh noes! I have offended someone on teh intarwebs!

    Lighten up, Francis.

  25. Re:demi on Ashton Kutcher To Play Steve Jobs In Upcoming Film · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The idiot. I would've stayed with Demi. WAY hotter than most chicks her age.

    But nowhere near as hot as the younger chicks Kutcher is capable of getting.