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  1. Re:I don't understand on China Arrests Thousands In Internet Porn Crackdown · · Score: 2, Funny
  2. Re:What's this 'we' thing ? on Did the US Take the Back Seat In Science In 2009? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Then why are we speaking American?

  3. Re:China is not a Left Wing or Communist State. on China Arrests Thousands In Internet Porn Crackdown · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that China has more gender parity than the porn-ridden West thanks to its stance on porn or are you saying China has less gender parity than the porn-ridden West?

    Are you aware of any nations where gender parity is close to even AND porn is illegal?

  4. Re:China is not a Left Wing or Communist State. on China Arrests Thousands In Internet Porn Crackdown · · Score: 1

    So female politicians leading a country isn't empowerment of women? What pray tell is empowerment of women then?

  5. Re:Impropriety on Man Tracked Down and Arrested Via WoW · · Score: 1

    Usually if someone is found to be suicidal, believably so, the court sticks them in a mental health institution, not jail. It is in the mental health institutions that they can find help.

    I am not aware of any jurisdiction that puts a suicidal person into criminal incarceration instead of a mental health facility.

  6. Re:I'm ever so thankful on China Arrests Thousands In Internet Porn Crackdown · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gay porn exists dude. I don't know what to tell you.

  7. Re:China is not a Left Wing or Communist State. on China Arrests Thousands In Internet Porn Crackdown · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The basic reason that the Chinese do not allow porn is that they believe that it demeans women. This goes back to the revolution, in which women were eager to participate to get some basic equality with men.

    How's that working out for the women in China? Here in the West where porn is legal (for the most part), we have Germany with a female prime minister. Great Britain had a female PM also. The US has had multiple female VP candidates. We have numerous female in cabinet positions. A woman currently is the leader of the House of Representatives. Another is running DHS badly. Another woman heads the state department. That's the public sector. In the private sector we've had countless female CEO that I'm not going to bother listing all of them.

    Are there any signs women are equal with more men because China does not allow porn? I'm not terribly familiar with the internal governing of China or who runs their corporations. I'm amazed I even know where China is on the map.

  8. Re:I don't understand on China Arrests Thousands In Internet Porn Crackdown · · Score: 1

    Let me help you out with that.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNARJPNz2CA

  9. I'm ever so thankful on China Arrests Thousands In Internet Porn Crackdown · · Score: 4, Insightful

    God bless the USA.

  10. Re:Why do you eschew choice? on Apple Fails To Deliver On Windows 7 Boot Camp Promise · · Score: 1

    You don't need a script to get a keyboard shortcut to lock the screen.

    http://www.macworld.com/article/49080/2006/01/lockscreen.html

    It's the first result when you Google for "keyboard shortcut to lock screen mac".

  11. Re:Why bother? on Apple Fails To Deliver On Windows 7 Boot Camp Promise · · Score: 4, Informative

    PC World's fastest Windows laptop in 2007 was a MacBook Pro

  12. Re:Umm... on Apple Fails To Deliver On Windows 7 Boot Camp Promise · · Score: 1

    Higher quality drivers for video, touchpad (on laptops) support, Eye Sight etc. That's really what Bootcamp offers are the drivers that lets you get full mileage out of the Mac hardware in the context of Windows.

  13. Re:Why bother? on Apple Fails To Deliver On Windows 7 Boot Camp Promise · · Score: 1

    Really good support. Like crazy good support.

  14. Re:Yeah, it was a while ago. on TSA Nominee's Snooping Raises Privacy Concerns · · Score: 2

    And he was under a lot of stress.

    Are you saying that being the head of the TSA, being responsible for the safety of millions of flyers, will be less stressful?

  15. This will probably be bad on TSA Nominee's Snooping Raises Privacy Concerns · · Score: 0

    A couple worrying things. He made an error due to great personal turmoil. That's fact.

    Is he saying that he won't make the same error again because the safety of Americans would not cause a great personal turmoil? Would my safety be more casual for him? That's not a selling point to have him appointed, personally.

    If he worried about my safety as he would for his son, would cause a great personal turmoil? If so, what other errors in judgement will be the result?

  16. Re:Oh, look! on TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So let's look at a couple hypothetical situations and you tell me if the actors involved are innocent.

    Scenario 1: Big Country is waging war on Little Country. Big Countrians are paying taxes so that Big Country's military can afford munitions to use in said war. In said war some civilians are killed on both sides. Are Big Countrians innocent? They do pay money so said war is possible.

    Scenario 2: Small Country has a few camps that are used by some people to wage war against Big Country. The people in those camps aren't militarily involved with Small Country but the government of Small Country allows them to be there. One of the camps is located by Small Town. Small Town has commerce with one of the camps. They supply food, basic materials for training (hey you think paper targets are free?), and other minor issues. Are the people of Small Town innocent? They provide some degree of support that makes the operation of the camp possible.

    In my experience, there's one dude who I could call innocent in the current hostilities of his time: Henry David Thoreau. He all refused to pay taxes (not one penny) for the war of his time and promptly went to jail. He didn't think the war was a good idea and didn't want to do anything with it so he didn't do anything with it.

  17. Re:Is this a new gimmick from Ryanair? on TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe it's time to face the fact that the terrorist have won instead of pretending that the issue is unresolved.

  18. Re:Oh, look! on TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How do you determine someone is innocent? Innocent of what?

  19. Re:As the parent of a 1 year old. I say good luck on TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight · · Score: 1

    the dickheads that allow the politicians to be elected.

    That'd be the voters.

  20. Re:Should read on Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight · · Score: 1

    Why do you hate bacon goodness?

  21. Re:Jobs is happy with it? on Jobs Finally "Happy" With Unannounced Apple Tablet · · Score: 1

    I didn't just orgasm. I lost consciousness.

  22. Re:Because any state of affairs on AT&T Wins Gizmodo 3G Bandwidth Test · · Score: 1

    Same reason we prefer the poor to starve and the sick to have no medical care.

    How else are we going to fight poverty?

  23. Re:What about sustained transfers? on AT&T Wins Gizmodo 3G Bandwidth Test · · Score: 1

    I get 150KB/s downloads out in Manassas in Virginia with AT&T 3G. Sustained. It's actually better than the cable service that when I need to download anything of significant size (Ubuntu, iPhone SDK, etc.), I break out the 3G. The free cable service with the HOA is only 50KB/sec by comparison. It sucks but hey it's free.

  24. Re:As long as he knows how to ... on When Developers Work Late, Should the Manager Stay? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Most people misunderstand the concept Brooks wrote about. His point wasn't that you never add new resource but that you shouldn't add resource late to a project that is running late. If your project planning says that having 2 more people would be helpful then by all means hire those resources at the beginning of the project.

  25. Re:Non-conformist on Firefox 3.5 Now the Most Popular Browser Worldwide · · Score: 1

    May I suggest Safari?