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  1. Re:Democracy is 51% telling the other 49% what to on Scientists Say People Aren't Smart Enough For Democracy To Flourish · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think true liberty is when all 3 are herbivores.

    It's thinking like that that gets people stuffed in trains and herded off to camps. (Or stuffed on boats and herded off to distant continents)

  2. Re:The sheer greed of these men know no bounds. on Canadian Music Industry Wants Subscriber Disclosure Without Court Oversight · · Score: 1

    Celine Dion? And that bitch Anne Murray too? Blame Canada indeed...

  3. Re:You used to be cool, Canada on Canadian Music Industry Wants Subscriber Disclosure Without Court Oversight · · Score: 1

    The citizenry cannot escape blame for Harper any more than an American can escape blame for Bush (and his wars of choice).

  4. Re:Dupe!! on Rob Malda (CmdrTaco) Joins the Washington Post · · Score: 1

    So when Slashdot dupes this story, the Post will have a dupe to link to!

    I put a dupe in your dupe so you can...

    Ugh. I can't. I just hate that meme.

  5. Re:Today's dose of fearmongering... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 2

    Yeah, a country run by a theocracy that has announced it wants to annihilate one of its neighbors and is busy getting nuclear weapons, what could possibly go wrong?

    Wait, are we talking about Israel or the US?

  6. Re:Great, what we really needed on The Vortex Gun Coming Soon To a Protest Near You · · Score: 2

    In addition to speaking without prior restraint, the first amendment also guarantees the right to peaceable assembly. The cops should have just shrugged and walked away. In fact, they never should have made the request in the first place, provided that those assembled were not belligerent. NOTE: saying things you disagree with =/= belligerency.

  7. Re:History too on Math Textbooks a Textbook Example of Bad Textbooks · · Score: 1

    For USians. Netflix elsewhere seems to be missing the show...

    They've decided to ignore the pig ignorant who use disparaging terms like 'USians'.

    Seriously, it ain't Netflix, it's the content creators. Point your bitching in the correct direction.

  8. Re:Why create the wheel? on Why Did It Take So Long To Invent the Wheel? · · Score: 2

    All these replies with various theories, and nobody has mentioned that without agriculture, there is no beer.

  9. Re:The Worlds Most Valuable Company on How Steve Jobs Patent-Trolled Bill Gates · · Score: 2

    Modded down by fanbois, modded up by?

    ...fandroids. Kinda the flip side of the coin.

  10. Re:Worst thing possible. on In Theory And Practice, Why Internet-Based Voting Is a Bad Idea · · Score: 1

    This is for WOW GOLD. Imagine what it will be like if it is for THE FATE OF NATIONS.

    I'm not sure. It seems there are plenty people more concerned with their WOW gold than the fate of their nation and of nations.

    Unless you mean the nation of naked dancing blood elves that is....

    FTFY.

  11. Re:Achievement: Eggs Benedict on Leaked Assassin's Creed 3 Screenshots Show American Revolution · · Score: 2

    Note: for those of us up in Canada, Arnold should be considered a patriot - since he stayed loyal to the King :P

    I guess the bootheel of a monarch tastes better with enough maple syrup?

  12. Re:Anorexic spouse - this is only part of it on Government Should Ban Skinny Models To Curb Anorexia, Say Researchers · · Score: 1

    My wife had no control of her life in her childhood. She could control her appearance. She became anorexic to give fulfill her need for a sense of control in her life.

    Banning the ads would help reduce the draw of that manifestation of the need for control.

    No offense, but being in that messed-up of a home environment and additionally that messed-up in terms of a need of control would manifest in some other way if anorexia were off the table.

    No shit. OP is going to join the ranks of the bitter ex-husbands club sooner than he thinks.

  13. Re:Miranda warning on Cook County Judge Says Law Banning Recording Police Is Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    The cops don't have to read it to you in order to detain you. Or arrest you. But they do have to read it prior to questioning you. The government attempted to say "it's on TV, everyone knows it, so we don't have to say it." SCOTUS said "BS."

  14. Re:Everyone's missing the point of the Volt. on Chevy Volt Meets High Resistance, GM Suspends Sales · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but at least you can buy the Volt, unlike the lease only EV1.

  15. Re:Ghost of the Ev1 on Chevy Volt Meets High Resistance, GM Suspends Sales · · Score: 1

    You are referring to Who Killed the Electric Car. No idea if it's available on netflix.

    Upthread, someone else mentioned the EV1. And also mentioned that EV1 owners (leasers) moved on to Prius and other vehicles, refusing to return to GM because GM are a bunch of duplicitous assholes.

    One problem with plugins is that they are only useful if you own a house or somewhere you can plug in the damned things. Many apartment and condo dwellers are in more urban environments. With the shorter commutes, they would be ideal plugin owners, if only they could plug in.

  16. Re:Japan and Europe is where the industry is on Chevy Volt Meets High Resistance, GM Suspends Sales · · Score: 1

    WTF does GM make that costs six figures? I call shenanigans.

  17. Re:Right tool for the job on Asus Transformer Drops Quad-core In Favor of Dual-core · · Score: 1

    Sperg is a perjorative term for someone with Assburger's syndrome, generally of the 'internet diagnosed' variety. As far as that other shit? I don't care. All I care is how well the iPad 3 gets the job done.

  18. Re:Right tool for the job on Asus Transformer Drops Quad-core In Favor of Dual-core · · Score: 1

    somebody please help me understand this - who cares what's under the hood?

    Every sperg who comes out in an article discussing Apple's A5 or A4 seems to bring up crap like this rather than focusing on the user experience.

  19. Re:Which localization? on Apple Threatens To Pull Siri Clone From App Store · · Score: 1

    Fragmentation or polymorphism?

  20. Re:Reminds me of scams of the past on Master Engineer: Apple's "Mastered For iTunes" No Better Than AAC-Encoded Music · · Score: 1

    Read up:
    http://images.apple.com/itunes/mastered-for-itunes/docs/mastered_for_itunes.pdf

    You sound like an idiot to people who understand the issue.

    I only halfway understand the issue, and he sounds like an idiot to me, FWIW.

  21. Re:Will this kill Twilight? on Paypal Forces E-Book Publisher To Censor Erotic Content · · Score: 1

    He's saying that despite 'living' for 100 years, Edward has the maturity and thought processes of a teen.

  22. Re:Apple not pulling Evi app, working with develop on Apple Threatens To Pull Siri Clone From App Store · · Score: 1

    Anyway it seems that Apple may have reconsidered their position on this, which is probably a good thing for the small guys.

    Or maybe the news reports were incorrect? Or maybe the commenters engaged in knee jerk reactions due to an irrational hatred that is in some yin-yang cosmic balance with the reality distortion field?

  23. Re:Which localization? on Apple Threatens To Pull Siri Clone From App Store · · Score: 2

    yes, but you are not a hard coded program, you are the current top of the line adaptive learning system.

    Given a major pleasure center is so close to a waste disposal area, I'd still say his engineer needs to work on a better model for v2.0.

  24. Re:Godwin'd right out the gate on Spanish Company Tests 'Right To Be Forgotten' Against Google · · Score: 2

    Next up: Germany uses the "right to be forgotten" on all events between 1939 and 1945.

    Why not, the Japanese do.

  25. Re:In a country that drinks wine like water? on France's Bold Drunk-Driving Legislation - Every Car To Carry a Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    Wow, pointing out that the BAC standard in most of the world is lower than the US is flaimbait now? I hate how Slashdot moderation has turned into "-1 I disagree with you" over the last few years.

    That part isn't flamebait, but "you need to get out more" arguably is. (I would argue 'no', but it could easily be interpreted that way.)