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  1. Re:Watch Sunshine! on Earth and Moon From an Alien's Perspective · · Score: 1

    What really kicks up the awe is just how loud sunlight is when you get close...

    That was the stupidest movie since Red Planet.

  2. Re:How many years for the morals? on You, Too, Could Be Batman In 10 To 12 Years · · Score: 1

    He was in a position to determine right and wrong. That takes a lot longer to learn and not everyone is capable of such a task.

    So vigilantism is moral and some people are born irrecoverably amoral. Right...

    It's a good thing kids these days are getting their ethical training from Grand Theft Auto rather than comic books. "Might makes right" is a lot healthier than the categorical "good" and "evil", with its holier-than-thou monsters dishing out selective justice.

  3. Re:Surprised? on Cuba Getting Internet Upstream Via Venezuela · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In Cuba, there is basically no real freedom of expression or any respectable level of political organization that doesn't toe the government line.

    So, it's just like China and Saudi Arabia, countries on which we are so dependent our economy would fail if we ever decided to embargo them.

  4. Here come the cheating EULA-breaking whiners... on Blizzard Wins Major Lawsuit Against Bot Developers · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "The net effect? If you buy a game, you transfer rights to the game developer that they can sue you for."

    Hahah, moron. I guess you'd better not play games anymore.

  5. Re:Jumping to conclusions on Language May Have Evolved Earlier Than Supposed · · Score: 1

    Frankly, I find the idea of a hominid that speaks offensive!

  6. That was far too polite on Linguistic Problems of GPL Advocacy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Every person who complains about the GPL is a fscking moron.

    Listen, you dumbasses, no one puts a gun to your head forces you to use it. If you don't like the license, don't use the code. Live in your little BSD ghetto and let the GNU'tards live in theirs. Stop the stupid "it's not really free" whining, because it's dishonest semantic bullshit, you know it is so, and yet you keep repeating it ad nauseam anyway. You just want to take without giving back, and it pisses you off that there are legal means to stop you.

  7. Re:A foreign language is a waste of your time. on Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer? · · Score: 1

    Basically anyone you're going to run into in Engineering is going to know English better than you're going to know whatever it is you take for a few semesters in college.

    That's not necessarily true in Asian countries, and even marginal fluency in a language allows you to live where it is spoken and not be utterly helpless outside of the workplace.

  8. Re:False article summary on Congress Tries To Strip Power From Anti-Wiretap Judge · · Score: 4, Informative

    the article summary (and title of the summary) bear little, if any, resemblance to the "fine" article

    *ahem* The headline of TFA: "Analysis: NSA Spying Judge Defends Rule of Law, Congress Set to Strip His Power"

  9. Re:Government should not be involved at all on Where To Draw the Line With Embryo Selection? · · Score: 1

    I love you fundie freaks. For all that talk about murdering a cluster of mindless cells, over and over you emphasize that what you really have a problem with that by aborting the fetus, the woman is escaping the consequences of her sin.

  10. Re:Hope on The Fight To End Aging Gains Legitimacy, Funding · · Score: 1

    If not everyone deserves immortality, then no one does, and those who believe they deserve it will have it taken from them.

  11. Re:NOOOOO! on The Fight To End Aging Gains Legitimacy, Funding · · Score: 1

    Dictators need to die so that their country can evolve. Death is freedom.

    Violence is an elegant solution to many problems, particularly this one.

  12. Re:de mortuis nil nisi bonum but ... on George Carlin Dead of Heart Failure · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Carlin's classic material tended to rant about things he hated, with the implication that he - and those who agree with him - are superior.

    Only the insecure feel the need to apologize for other people's inadequacies.

  13. Re:Except there's not much delicious about it. on Georgia's New State Health Plan Is Google · · Score: 1

    What do you expect would happen when the biggest mall in the Southeast opens 10 miles down the highway?

    Do you believe that non-white people make land cheap, or is it that non-white people live on the land no one else wants to buy?

    Anyway, I laugh at the white flight. Those peons were OTP to begin with, and they're even more OTP now. Enjoy the commute.

  14. Re:14th Most Obese in Country on Georgia's New State Health Plan Is Google · · Score: 4, Informative

    Oh, please. Gwinnett rejected it too, and "crime" was the primary excuse. Because, you know, criminals would commute from Atlanta and haul their phat booty back on the trains. It had nothing to do with the race of those most likely to need rail service into the city. Oh no, not that at all.

    The delicious irony of it all is that Gwinnett is now the most ethnically diverse region of the state due to immigration, and had to start funding its own bus service just like Cobb.

  15. Re:Death Coil on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    lolnohatelikelibralhate. Even when they were right all along, they're still stupid for caring.

  16. Re:in other news on Road Rage Linked To Automobile Bumper Stickers · · Score: 1
  17. Re:RoughlyDrafted on Apple's SproutCore, OSS Javascript-Based Web Apps · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Eh, sockpuppets, minions, same difference. You're all one collective hive mind anyway. :-P

  18. Re:Roughly Drafted==Spam on Apple's SproutCore, OSS Javascript-Based Web Apps · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There is credible evidence that he created over sixty accounts to promote his blog.

    And really, Windows fanboys? Didn't anyone ever tell you that professing a belief in such things is an Apple zealot shibboleth?

  19. Thank goodness for Android on Apple Cracks Down On iPhone Unlockers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While carriers might still be able to lock Android phones, there will undoubtedly be unlocked phones available, since there is no monopoly on the platform.

    Apple + AT&T = single point of failure

    Think about how absurd it would be if, in the old days, you had to buy your computer from the phone company because it had a modem?

  20. Re:Conservative Freedom on TSA Bans Flight If You Refuse To Show ID · · Score: 2, Insightful

    d) the right to get income from the investment of that property

    No, you delusional freeper, you are not entitled to income. It is not the government's job to prop up your investments.

  21. Re:The more serious issue on EBay Pressured To Block Sales of Ivory Products · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ebay's own list of prohibited and restricted items:

    * Adult Material (see Mature Audiences)
    * Alcohol (see also Wine)
    * Animals and Wildlife Products - examples include live animals, mounted specimens, and ivory
    * Art
    * Artifacts - examples include Native American crafts, cave formations, and grave-related items
    * Catalytic Converters and Test Pipes
    * Cell Phone (Wireless) Service Contracts
    * Charity or Fundraising Listings
    * Clothing, Used
    * Coins
    * Contracts
    * Cosmetics, Used
    * Counterfeit Currency and Stamps
    * Credit Cards
    * Drugs & Drug Paraphernalia
    * Drugs, Describing Drugs or Drug-like Substances
    * Electronics Equipment - examples include cable TV de-scramblers, radar scanners, and traffic signal control devices
    * Electronic Surveillance Equipment - examples include wiretapping devices, and telephone bugging devices
    * Embargoed Goods and Prohibited Countries - examples include items from Cuba
    * Event Tickets
    * Firearms, Weapons and Knives - examples include pepper spray, replicas and stun guns
    * Food
    * Gift Cards
    * Government and Transit Documents
    * Government and Transit Uniforms
    * Government IDs and Licenses
    * Hazardous, Restricted, and Perishable Items - examples include batteries, fireworks, and Freon
    * Human Parts and Remains
    * Importation of Goods into the United States - examples include CDs that were intended only for distribution in a certain country
    * International Trading
    * Items Encouraging Illegal Activity - examples include an eBook describing how to create methamphetamine
    * Lockpicking Devices
    * Lottery Tickets
    * Mailing Lists and Personal Information
    * Manufacturers' Coupons
    * Mature Audiences
    * Medical Devices - examples include contact lenses, pacemakers, and surgical instruments
    * Multi-level Marketing, Pyramid and Matrix Programs
    * Offensive Material - examples include ethnically or racially offensive material and Nazi memorabilia
    * Pesticides
    * Plants (see Weeds and Seeds)
    * Police-Related Items
    * Political Memorabilia
    * Postage Meters
    * Prescription Drugs
    * Prohibited Services
    * Real Estate
    * Recalled Items
    * Slot Machines
    * Stamps
    * Stocks and Other Securities
    * Stolen Property and Property with Removed Serial Numbers
    * Surveillance Equipment
    * Teacher's Edition Textbooks

  22. Don't worry, it's just jobs Americans don't want on H-1B Foes Challenge Bush Administration In Court · · Score: 1

    If they really cared about filling jobs, they'd ease the restrictions on immigration. But you'll never see that, because then workers would no longer be beholden to the sponsoring corporation. They could shop the market and earn the market rate.

    And besides, why is "Homeland Security" making economic decisions, anyway? Are foreign students suddenly less a "threat"? What changed?

    Nah. If you want a free trade Republican to show his true colors, just ask him, why should money and goods cross borders freely, but not people?

  23. Thank goodness that is settled on UK Prosecutors Say 'Cult' Acceptable · · Score: 1

    But has replacing an 'S' with a dollar sign ever been tested in court? It is a powerfully clever insult, but that makes it all the more likely to be noticed. I am afraid of taking on both Microsoft and Scientology united.

  24. Look, the fanboy persecution complex! on Line Forms At Apple's Always-Open Manhattan Cube · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No, you are submissive, dogmatic, and base much of your identity on a brand for consumer products. You are the shame of Mac users.

    Has anyone else noticed the similarity between Apple fanboys and Republican freepers?

    Think about it:

    Criticism of the (product or company | party or policy) is seen as personal attack.
    Criticism of the fearless leader is seen as a personal attack.
    Both groups consider themselves tiny voices of truth being attacked by a horde who constantly censors them.
    Both groups employ talking points which are repeated ad nauseam with little variation.

    Of course, the result of this mentally is that people enjoy baiting them.

  25. Now there's your imaginary property on The Case for Lunar Property Rights · · Score: 1

    Why is Glenn Reynolds rattling on about some ridiculous liberal myth? And look at that picture, is he really trying to subvert the Defense of Marriage Act?