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  1. Re:he says he kept the SIM card in his mouth? on Man Ordered At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone For Recording Cops · · Score: 1

    and it's unnecessary. you have to get to the card and mangle it. stomping the phone probably didn't even scratch it.

  2. Re:Ahhh crime. on Man Ordered At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone For Recording Cops · · Score: -1, Troll

    What do you have to hide that you fear that statement?

    It's against the law for the police to do what they did. You can't make it more against the law such that they won't do it. You would have to take away their physical ability to do it, and if you do that, then they're not police, they're girl scouts.

    Seriously, think before you go castrating the public's protective services just because you want to be a dick to a cop and not get punched. Because if you actually make it impossible for him to punch you, you also make it really easy for the crook he's unable to chase to punch you.

  3. Re:And Nothing of Value was Lost... on Lack of Technology Puts Star Wars Series On Hold · · Score: 1

    It sounds like the world is on track to be spared an atrocity here.

    Ever since they wrapped on Jedi, that's been possible.

  4. Sure sign of a man with zero imagination on Lack of Technology Puts Star Wars Series On Hold · · Score: 1

    We're finding out just how little his "vision" had to do with the success of the original trilogy.

    If he can't find a way to take this vast array of characters and make a compelling TV series, something thousands of production companies have done in the past, without some super-whizzy effect he's insisting on, then he's about as intelligent and artistic as a cantaloupe tossed from a roof on 53rd Street.

  5. Re:I guess I just won't buy stuff online anymore. on California Assembly Approves Internet Tax · · Score: 1

    You could tax the people, but tax rates on dividends are lower than on personal incomes. And a lot of money never leaves the corporation. And the money you pay the people gets deducted.

    The fact is, in California, personal taxes are 40% of revenue and sales taxes are 27% of revenue and corporate taxes are 10% of revenue.

    Meanwhile, your argument depends on what you call social services and military expenditures, because there are a lot of guys running around the state wearing uniforms and badges doing what many people would consider militaristic things to people the state has taken a dislike to...

  6. Re:Patents can be avoided and new servers created on Skype Protocol Has Been Reverse Engineered · · Score: 1

    Like...Vonage.

  7. Re:Prevent heart attacks? on Researcher Claims Magnets Can Affect Blood Viscosity · · Score: 1

    Heart attacks are transient. You only need to thin the blood to let it flow around a clot long enough for something else to dissolve the clot. Or just long enough for the clot to loosen and move somewhere other than the heart. Like the brain--wait, that's not good. Or deeper into the cardiac arteries--wait, that's not good either.

    So in 2 out of 3 cases, this is just going to make it worse.

  8. Re:Only for a few hours on Researcher Claims Magnets Can Affect Blood Viscosity · · Score: 1

    How long does an Aspirin pill last?

  9. Re: An MRI on Researcher Claims Magnets Can Affect Blood Viscosity · · Score: 1

    They changed the name because the word "Nuclear" scares people.

    And because the principle of NMR can be used without imaging anything.

    And probably to score a trademark.

  10. Re:I guess I just won't buy stuff online anymore. on California Assembly Approves Internet Tax · · Score: 1

    exactly where California blew its money

    corporate tax breaks

  11. Re:I guess I just won't buy stuff online anymore. on California Assembly Approves Internet Tax · · Score: 1

    There's a certain brand of fucktard who thinks we can just keep infinitely raising taxes to pay for more and more social spending, though.

    There's a certain brand of fucktard who thinks that's what we've been doing with the money.

  12. Re:I guess I just won't buy stuff online anymore. on California Assembly Approves Internet Tax · · Score: 1

    You are incorrect in your fundamental premise.

    Corporations would still exist. People would still band together and hew to agreements if not also sign contractual paper. People would still invest (lend) and be paid (profit).

    Adjudication of disputes would fall to the most powerful person in the corporation or war between corporations.

    If you didn't join a corporation you would end up a target of one and powerless to stop them from doing anything to you they wanted, so everyone would be in a corporation for protection.

    The model for this is all of human history.

    The only thing that would not exist is someone constitutionally impartial about it. And while it seems right now that our government is not impartial (because it isn't), the Constitution still is, and we can make the government return to it, because the Constitution demands that those in government relenquish power to us, the voters, every 2-6 years.

    The best use of your vote is to vote against the candidate with the tightest ties to corporate interests; the one who not only promises but has a record of beating corporations back into their cages to allow people to be free of fear of corporations.

  13. Re:Enforceability? on Apple Nixes iPad Giveaways · · Score: 1

    They only "won" the first suit on contingency that they made the distinction clear and never got into the music business. So the second suit was for breaching the result of the first as well as for stepping on the music company's trademark.

  14. Re:I guess I just won't buy stuff online anymore. on California Assembly Approves Internet Tax · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you don't want to be a statist, move to Somalia.

  15. Re:I guess I just won't buy stuff online anymore. on California Assembly Approves Internet Tax · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They're not wrong.

    When you say you don't like taxes you say you think corporate America can provide everything you need cheaper.

    Ever really think about that possibility?

  16. Re:unheard of on Taking a Look At High-End Programmer Salaries · · Score: 1

    This whole article is about anecdotes. The guy sorted by salary and then went looking at the ones at the top.

    Everything else everyone's discussing is noise in the bulk of the distribution.

  17. Re:Sometimes it's a numbers game on Why We Have So Much "Duh" Science · · Score: 1

    The reason for that is that the tobacco execs are funding the people investigating them, so the people investigating them never drop the Perjury bomb.

  18. Re:The world is round on Why We Have So Much "Duh" Science · · Score: 1

    no it's not (p<0.05)

  19. Re:Am I really supposed to care? on DC Reboots Universe · · Score: 1

    Try the paper version of Watchmen.

    The story's pretty close to the movie, but there's visual and verbal structure in the book that you couldn't do in a movie without making it an "Art Film" that nobody'd ever watch twice or recommend once.

    And you can still do more in a comic book than you can in a movie. And you can engage visual systems that a novel can't. The fact that 99% of funnybooks don't bother, choosing instead to stick to bombast in their plotlines, doesn't really change that, since 99% of books and movies leave their artistic merit in the diaper pail, too.

  20. Re:Ignoring the real impact. on DC Reboots Universe · · Score: 1

    Purchased?

    2032 comic book dispenser: Please insert your nano-USB brain-jack in the receptacle to receive your free download of Thor #3337 and 14 minutes of University of California Football Presented by Coca-Cola Genetic Tonic prerequisite presentations.

    2032 comic book user: Free?

  21. Re:Why is NATO Involved? on NATO Report Threatens To 'Persecute' Anonymous · · Score: 1

    Anonymous stood up a DDoS network that any of them can use for any reason. Say, as a screen for stealing credit cards.

  22. Re:Am I really supposed to care? on DC Reboots Universe · · Score: 1

    So now you know how people feel about the current DC lineup and why they're doing this.

  23. Re:Ignoring the real impact. on DC Reboots Universe · · Score: 1

    Uh-huh.

    2032 comic-store guy: Anyone want to buy a mint copy of Justice Leage #1?

    2032 sentient robot: In digital?

    2032 comic-store guy: For you, sure.

    2032 comic-store sentient robot: Okay. 0.05% of original list price.

    2032 comic-store guy: C'mon, yer bustin' my balls here. 0.1%. Take it or leave it.

  24. Re:The Fox guarding the Henhouse on DC Reboots Universe · · Score: 1

    Give it another 10 years, and you'll be coming back, carrying all those dusty boxes of stuff that's appreciatd 100-1000%.

  25. Re:Confusing title on DC Reboots Universe · · Score: 1

    Personally, I think the universe could do with a reboot, and if anyone has the power, it's supposed to be them.

    It's only arrogant if they insisted on being able to do it from their iPhones.