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  1. Re:Ironical justice on USAF Almost Nuked North Carolina In 1961 – Declassified Document · · Score: 0

    The bomb could've been dropped on Japanese forces to begin with, instead of on civilians, but the US leadership decided that dropping it on cityscape to maximize the effect and satisfy their curiosity of exactly how destructive it was. If that's not bloodthirsty I don't know what is.

  2. Re:Ironical justice on USAF Almost Nuked North Carolina In 1961 – Declassified Document · · Score: 0

    What about the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki then, what did they do to deserve getting killed? And hence the irony of it... All I'm saying is that the only people who should have nukes dropped on them are the people who build them.

  3. Re:Ironical justice on USAF Almost Nuked North Carolina In 1961 – Declassified Document · · Score: 0
    So if it was justified to kill innocent people in Japan, you're also implying that it would've been further justified to kill innocent people in the USA?

    You deserve to be shot.

    You too deserve to be shot, for treason. Your family too, even if they're innocent I'm sure it can be justified somehow.

    The only people who should be incinerated by nuclear bombs are the people who build them.

  4. Ironical justice on USAF Almost Nuked North Carolina In 1961 – Declassified Document · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It would've been some ironical justice for what was done to innocent children and women in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I think all U.S nuclear weapons should on completion have been pointed straight upwards and fired immediately. It would've been the most appropriate use.

  5. I used to be ignorant on Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    and assumed that stardust simply assembled itself to form us. After lots of thinking and reasoning, intelligent design is the only thing that makes sense to me, and there are interesting observations on our psychology, and that of the rest of the animals, that to me support this. But I can't attribute it to some deity or god in any traditional sense, I don't believe in these kinds of supernaturals.

  6. Re:That's great on Firefox 24 Arrives: WebRTC Support and NFC Sharing On Android · · Score: 1

    It would be nice if you'd report your case to Mozilla and help them figure out what the problem is. Why? Because so few people have these issues, except a few very loud ones who refuse to do anything to fix them, pretending that it's always Mozilla's fault.

    My case is like everyone else's case, normal usage; look through the thread, many people mention the enormous memory usage of FF.

    Even when Firefox uses possibly the least amount of RAM of the major browsers while doing anything remotely useful.

    I don't think so. Chrome has now been running for a few hours, and with pages open it's still only at 110 MB memory usage. FF uses twice as much immediately after having been started up.

    But of course, not everyone will have the best user experience, it's just that the few who have these problems are universally unwilling to help Mozilla find out why. It's just "Mozilla's fault" and "nothing else matters... unless it means me having to do something".

    Everyone has these problems. The browser isn't broken nor does it behave oddly. It's just enormously resource hungry, and I think it's a consequence of the design process and how the software has grown and been built. I don't know what meaningful information I can provide to Mozilla that they don't already have.

  7. That's great on Firefox 24 Arrives: WebRTC Support and NFC Sharing On Android · · Score: 1

    But what about the flagrant memory usage? Before posting this I closed all windows and noted that Firefox was eating 1015 MB of RAM (and 36 threads, hopefully idle) to just sit there and do NOT ONE GOD DAMNED THING AT ALL.

  8. Amiga on Toronto Family Bans All Technology In Their Home Made After 1986 · · Score: 1

    Phew. It means they can still use the original Amiga 1000 from 1985.

  9. Worry about USA instead on Satellite Images Suggest N. Korea Has Restarted Small Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 2, Informative

    So what. The USA has over 100 reactors running, and have more nuclear weapons than any other country, and is the only country to have used nuclear weapons (on children, women and other civilians) so don't worry about North Korea having a little reactor, worry about USA instead.

  10. PR effort on Google's Encryption Plan To Stifle NSA's Dragnet Will Raise the Stakes · · Score: 1

    This must be a PR effort. How can the NSA order Google and others to let them in and have the data they want, but then just let Google go ahead and freeze them out again? It makes no sense.

    The only way to guarantee your privacy is to use open source end-to-end encryption software on open operating systems. All closed systems with physical ties to the U.S will eventually be compromised by NSA and other gov branches.

  11. Noise and Smoke on How Car Dealership Lobbyists Successfully Banned Tesla Motors From Texas · · Score: 1

    Some backwards people just want to make a lot of noise and blow smoke.

  12. Careless statements on Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm wondering how clever it is for Linus to make statements like "So if you see any, send them my love, and possibly puncture the brake-lines on their car and put a little surprise in their coffee, ok?"

    With stories of kids getting arrested and sent to jail for saying things like "I'm going to kill someone. Nah just kidding." he may be setting himself up for this. I can imagine U.S gov wanting to take that opportunity, with him being so prominent and open source operating systems possibly proving to be the only guaranteed escape from NSA eavesdropping.

  13. MySpace facelift on Silicon Beach Startups Spawn From the Ashes of MySpace · · Score: 2

    Don't know about any ashes... MySpace has gotten a very nice facelift recently. It's certainly looking interesting and attractive.

  14. Ridiculous on Unboxing Boston Dynamics' DARPA-Ready Atlas Robot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Intense music with powerful electric guitars set to 1 minute of video of a machine wiggling about a bit while strung up to high-power cables and solid steel scaffolding. It is so pretentious and unimpressive that it can only pass as pure comedy. Boston Dynamics is a black hole for funding.

  15. The U.S word is no good on US Intercepts Iranian Order For Attack On US Embassy In Iraq · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's like they think we're suddenly going to believe them. Turn off the bullshit- and propaganda-machines, no one is listening.

  16. Which is it? on Epic: A Privacy-Focused Web Browser · · Score: 1

    Is it based on Chrome or Chromium? Is that not an important distinction to make?

  17. The only way on NSA Foils Much Internet Encryption · · Score: 1

    In the end, the only way to make sure no one is looking at your private conversation and data is to use end-to-end encryption in open source software on open source operating systems. Your data must be encrypted before it even reaches your hard drive or Internet stack, and you must know that there are no foreign programs running on your computer. You no longer have any guarantee of privacy on Windows and Mac OS X.

  18. Lowest performance per price on Intel Launches Core I7-4960X Flagship CPU · · Score: 2

    This CPU very low, if not the lowest performance per price of current models, so in one category it is the worst possible buy you can make; it is incredibly over-priced.

  19. "America may be the land of the free" on The Legal Purgatory at the US Border: Detained, Searched, and Interrogated · · Score: 1

    Wat.

  20. GTFO of the Middle East. on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 1

    That's all.

  21. Disappeared on Former Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer Auctioning a Prototype "Spy Rock" · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking this guy is setting himself up for 50 years behind bars, or getting "disappeared", for pursuing this.

  22. Violation on Bradley Manning Sentenced To 35 Years · · Score: 1

    What a violation of his rights. Reveal the crimes and murders committed by government, and you get sent to jail.

  23. The verdict is in on UK Government Destroys Guardian's Snowden Drives · · Score: 1

    And you are guilty of committing an act of journalism. This is where things are heading.

  24. I will do it myself on Google To Encrypt Cloud Storage Data By Default · · Score: 1

    I will encrypt my data myself, that is the only way I can keep it private. But hey, thanks for the free storage. Maybe you'll manage to trick someone else with this?

  25. Counter-weight on Russia Today: Vladimir Putin's Weapon In 'The War of Images' · · Score: 1

    I find RT to be a counter-weight to the massive loads of propaganda bullshit pouring from U.S news channels and other outlets. It's not until you get news and reports from all countries and the whole political spectrum that you can start to piece together the big picture.

    If you watch U.S outlets and nothing else, then you get the skewed idea that the world is filled with terrorists and that the U.S alone champions peace and democracy for a better and balanced world. Which is quite the opposite of what they're doing.