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  1. Re:The real issue: U.S. government corruption. on The Legal Purgatory at the US Border: Detained, Searched, and Interrogated · · Score: 1

    But the whole point of this article is that at the border you're in a Constitution-free zone.

  2. Re:The real issue: U.S. government corruption. on The Legal Purgatory at the US Border: Detained, Searched, and Interrogated · · Score: 1
  3. Re:iCloud Keychain on Inside OS X Mavericks · · Score: 1

    They haven't got the physical strength to lift 256 bits of encryption so they have to use 128 bit.

  4. Re:Ars on Inside OS X Mavericks · · Score: 1

    Have they put back all the stuff that Snow Leopard had yet? Things like Spaces and the menu bar display for it, Save As that isn't broken, RSS, etc etc?

  5. Re:If by "looking good", you mean "looking like iO on Inside OS X Mavericks · · Score: 1

    They actually registered Lynx and Cougar as trademarks.

  6. Re:If by "looking good", you mean "looking like iO on Inside OS X Mavericks · · Score: 1

    Because cant is a word that means something totally different from can't. It means a kind of argot used to obfuscate meaning except within a defined group (for example, thieves cant to keep the police in the dark). So your sig actually means:

    "What good is a police state if I write at length online in an impassioned, obfuscated way that those outside my identified group can't understand".

    Which I'm pretty sure isn't your intention.

  7. Re:OS X Upgrade Fear on Inside OS X Mavericks · · Score: 1

    Yes, but I don't like Lion. I don't use icloud, I don't have an iphone, and I don't want ios on my Mac.

  8. Re:OS X Upgrade Fear on Inside OS X Mavericks · · Score: 1

    Well as I said in an earlier thread, I'm still using Snow Leopard myself. 2009 Mini here so I suspect it'll be on SL until it dies.

  9. Re:OS X Upgrade Fear on Inside OS X Mavericks · · Score: 1

    From what I've heard, Mountain Lion is a worthwhile upgrade to Lion.

  10. Re:If by "looking good", you mean "looking like iO on Inside OS X Mavericks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's why I'm still on Snow Leopard. Sigh.

  11. Ars on Inside OS X Mavericks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'll wait for the Ars Technica review.

  12. Re:Of course it doesn't. on Scottish Academic: Mining the Moon For Helium 3 Is Evil · · Score: 1

    Now that's a good troll.

  13. This is the end of Western civilisation as we know it.

  14. Re:Of course it doesn't. on Scottish Academic: Mining the Moon For Helium 3 Is Evil · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What idiots modded this troll?

  15. Re:Magsails? on New System Propels Satellites Without Propellants · · Score: 2

    Or mainsails. 1500 kN, baby!

  16. Correction on The World's First CPU Liquid Cooler Using Nanofluids · · Score: 2

    Correction: "An anonymous Zalman PR flack writes:"

  17. Re:Need to watch documentaries on Why Weather Control Conspiracy Theories Are Scientifically Ludicrous · · Score: 1

    Only in warm fuzzy feelings from replies like this.

  18. Re:Need to watch documentaries on Why Weather Control Conspiracy Theories Are Scientifically Ludicrous · · Score: 1

    Those documentaries are a complete load of bollocks - http://contrailscience.com/what-in-the-world-are-they-spraying/ . Incidentally, your website rates about 9.5/10 on the crank-o-meter - how much of it do you actually believe and how much is just there for the ad revenue?

  19. Re:Oh, the ole "Poison the Well" gag! on Why Weather Control Conspiracy Theories Are Scientifically Ludicrous · · Score: 1
  20. Re:I'm not saying these conspiracies are true on Why Weather Control Conspiracy Theories Are Scientifically Ludicrous · · Score: 1

    There have actually been photographs of government planes filled with tanks whose purpose has gone unexplained.

    Those are ballast tanks, you idiot.

    The "you idiot" part is because the first Google result for "chemtrails tanks" is a well documented piece pointing this out including photographs and citations.

  21. Re:As someone who aspires to be a critical thinker on Why Weather Control Conspiracy Theories Are Scientifically Ludicrous · · Score: 1

    I am more put off by people who mock and lampoon those with differing belief systems, than I am by those with whom I simply disagree.

    While I can sympathise with that viewpoint, how do you suggest dealing with the people who are completely immune to evidence and logic? You know, the kind of people who actually believe things like fake moon landing theories?

  22. Re:Not weather mod. Mind mod. on Why Weather Control Conspiracy Theories Are Scientifically Ludicrous · · Score: 1

    Here we go folks, we've got a winner in the lunacy stakes!

  23. Re:Skeptics have it too easy on Why Weather Control Conspiracy Theories Are Scientifically Ludicrous · · Score: 1

    So what unit did you fight in during the Second World War, or was 28 too old to be drafted? https://plus.google.com/photos/107393796095434664991/albums/5235534135256807809?banner=pwa

  24. Re:Feeling snubbed on Why Weather Control Conspiracy Theories Are Scientifically Ludicrous · · Score: 1

    Silvio? Is that you?

  25. Re:I want a vinegar spray on Why Weather Control Conspiracy Theories Are Scientifically Ludicrous · · Score: 1

    Woolies in Australia has plenty too. We have half a dozen around for cat-squirting purposes (with water, not vinegar).