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  1. Encryption on Germany Scores First: Ends Verizon Contract Over NSA Concerns · · Score: 1

    Have I missed something here? Are the German authorities really sending sensitive information over the internet unencrypted? It's just not that hard to set up VPNs

  2. Re:Yes they do on How the FCC Plans To Save the Internet By Destroying It · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's not even just a European model. Canada has had universal healthcare in some provinces as long as England has. You'd think that the US look just over the border and see how it's working for Canada, and realize it's not as bad as they think it is.

  3. Re:Why do people listen to her? on Jenny McCarthy: "I Am Not Anti-Vaccine'" · · Score: 1

    Because Americans love a conspiracy?

  4. Re:no surprise on Mass. Legislature Strikes Back: Upskirt Photos Now Officially a Misdemeanor · · Score: 1

    Key word - consent. You could always not consent to be scanned - but that would result in you not getting on your plane.

  5. Re:Professionally fitted??WTF on Face Masks Provide Chinese With False Hope Against Pollution · · Score: 1

    It's really easy to tell if it's a good seal. Put the mask on, and put your hands over the inlets for the cartridges. If you can breath in, it's not a good fit. Pretty simple. No "professional" required.

  6. Re:Popular misconception re: face masks in influen on Face Masks Provide Chinese With False Hope Against Pollution · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, try telling stupid people that. It's much easier to tell people to wear masks to protect themselves than to protect other people. People are such selfish f***s.

  7. Re: Translation: Piss off, Peasants on White House Responds To Net Neutrality Petition · · Score: 1

    His point is that it's not 100s of executive orders every day, which is what the OP was saying. It's funny how Republicans and Tea Baggers claim Obama is a dictator but when their guy was in office, they were strangely quiet.

  8. Re:Translation: Piss off, Peasants on White House Responds To Net Neutrality Petition · · Score: 4, Informative

    *sigh* 2 minutes of Googling demonstrates that average hasn't actually changed much: https://www.federalregister.go... 2013 - 21 2012 - 38 2011 - 33 2010 - 35 2009 - 39 Super majority or not, he signed more in the first two years than he did in the second two.

  9. Re:Translation: Piss off, Peasants on White House Responds To Net Neutrality Petition · · Score: 5, Informative

    I call BS. On average Obama signs only 38 executive orders per YEAR. On average only one more than Bush, and 10 less than Reagan https://www.politicususa.com/2014/02/16/myth-busted-analysis-reveals-president-obama-behaving-dictator.html

  10. Re:Rand Paul is the only honest politician left. on Rand Paul Files Suit Against Obama Over NSA's Collection of Metadata · · Score: 1

    I'll stick with Bernie Sanders myself.

  11. Re:All or nothing on US Justice Blocks Implementation of ACA Contraceptive Mandate · · Score: 1

    Or you could assume that your money is going to fund heart transplants and cancer treatment. Money is fungible after all.

  12. Re:Insurance and contraception on US Justice Blocks Implementation of ACA Contraceptive Mandate · · Score: 1

    Also, are you saying that people who take heart medication because they have a heart condition shouldn't be covered? Who are you to decide what should and shouldn't be covered?

  13. Re:Insurance and contraception on US Justice Blocks Implementation of ACA Contraceptive Mandate · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that sex leads to kids 100% of the time?

  14. Re:Insurance and contraception on US Justice Blocks Implementation of ACA Contraceptive Mandate · · Score: 1

    Couple of things to note: 1) The contraceptive pill doesn't *just* stop women from getting pregnant. Many women take it as it makes their periods less painful and shorter. Ergo the pill has a multi-faceted purpose. 2) If you (and I don't just mean the OP) believe that men shouldn't help cover the pill because it's not their responsibility, then they should stop having sex with women who aren't on the pill. There's a reason why women take men to court to help pay for the children those men helped to create. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.

  15. Re:This is the problem with religious people. on US Justice Blocks Implementation of ACA Contraceptive Mandate · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I want to seem them prove they risk going to hell. Once they can prove that hell exists, then they can prove that paying for contraception (whether they use it or not) risks eternal damnation. Extra ordinary claims require extra ordinary evidence.

  16. Re:All or nothing on US Justice Blocks Implementation of ACA Contraceptive Mandate · · Score: 1

    I find most wars unethical - yet I have to pay for them.

  17. Re:Fuck religion. on US Justice Blocks Implementation of ACA Contraceptive Mandate · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's lucky then that churches don't pay taxes, or they'd have to fund the wars the rest of us have to pay for - whether we agree with them or not.

  18. Re:In between. on Australia's National Broadband Network Downgraded · · Score: 1

    It also sounds like someone in government can't write a contract that specifically forbid IBM from subcontracting the whole thing!

  19. Re:good for them! on Munich Open Source Switch 'Completed Successfully' · · Score: 1

    +1

  20. Re:Crappy voice software on Smart Cars: Too Distracting? · · Score: 1

    Siri only seems to work when I'm using my bluetooth headset, possibly because it has better noise cancellation. She still gets it wrong though, so for numbers I call often I've created "fake" entries in my contacts list. I often call my wife on my way home from a job, so I tell Siri to call "ICE" which happens to be an acronym - In Case of Emergency.

  21. Re:Better you look the road on Smart Cars: Too Distracting? · · Score: 1

    Thing is, it doesn't take an enormous amount of intelligence to drive. Otherwise we'd have PhD grads driving trucks.

  22. Re:Nokia? on EU Warns Nokia Not To Become a Patent Troll · · Score: 1

    You can still buy dumb phones, but they are so commoditized now you can pretty much only pick them up in a super market, between the toilet paper isle and cleaning products.

  23. Indeed. This is to an extent already happening. Look at the state of employment in America today. Thousands (?millions?) of people are vilified every day by working people for being lazy and not pulling up their boot straps.

  24. Re:No, they don't work on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    For the long term, I would agree. But some people need to get rid of the weight fast, for example if they are to have elective surgery in the near future. Drugs like these (assuming they work) help get the weight down which would then make surgery safer. Long term though the patient needs to increase their exercise and watch what they eat. Plain and simple.

  25. So you won't need to waste time on FB on Google Wants To Write Your Social Media Responses For You · · Score: 2

    Because Google will do it for you?