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  1. Re:One good turn... on James Watson's Nobel Prize Medal Will Be Returned To Him · · Score: 1

    And if it's false, it's still not racist, just incorrect, unless it was done in bad faith.

  2. Re:Lucky Jim on James Watson's Nobel Prize Medal Will Be Returned To Him · · Score: 1

    Exactly. It should have been donated to a museum.

  3. Re:The first few comments are awfully pessimistic on Seeking Coders, Tech Titans Turn To K-12 Schools · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When wages goes down, there will be a lot more projects that will suddenly be feasible to implement.

    I guess that's why the low wages led to zero unemployment.

    Oh, wait...

  4. Re:"This problem of freeriders is something... on The Failed Economics of Our Software Commons · · Score: 1

    Any many people are materially worse off because of it.

    The point of the currency manipulation was to make it less obvious.

  5. Re:Adblock is doing something right on French Publishers Prepare Lawsuit Against Adblock Plus · · Score: 1

    Do you suppose if you watched the adverts that the advertisers would be willing to pay you your annual salary for your trouble?

  6. Re:The anti-French jokes are on you on French Publishers Prepare Lawsuit Against Adblock Plus · · Score: 1

    After September 11th, the French argued against going to war against the wrong targets. They were like the true friend trying to take the car keys away from a drunk, and getting themselves beat up in the process.

    Americans hate the French for being right when they were wrong, and they are still to vain to admit it.

  7. Re:Have the Germans threaten to invade on French Publishers Prepare Lawsuit Against Adblock Plus · · Score: 1

    You have forgotten what freedom is and why people fight for it.

  8. Because - technology! on Cultural Fault Lines Determine How New Words Spread On Twitter · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This sounds a lot like people assuming something will be completely different because it's "on the Internet". Twitter language is not like typical written language because its nature is really that of a transcribed form of spoken language, with spoken language style and vocabulary. It's not a totally new form of communication.

    Still, I applaud the linguists for going out and measuring it, because people's intuition about language can often be wrong,

  9. Re:Come on people, on Cisco Slaps Arista Networks With Suit For "Brazen" Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    there would be no learning cure for their products.

    I'm thinking that was maybe meant to be curve, but I haven't read the manual and maybe the cure is something someone would try to stop.

  10. Is there any part of this we didn't know well over two years ago?

  11. Re:What keeps me from liking Romney on Twitter Use By Romney and Obama In 2012 Highlight the Speed of Social Media · · Score: 1

    they also get their imaginary buddy's whims enshrined in laws.

    Those are their own whims; they merely lack the courage to admit it and pretend they come from someone/something else.

    Irrational and dishonest are two different things.

  12. Re:Imagine that! on Canadian Agency Drops Cases Rather Than Deal With New Requirements For ISP Info · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Individual rights are more about protecting all of society than they are about protecting individuals. In Canada and similar countries, getting a warrant is laughably easy. Choosing not to get a warrant must mean the case is embarrassingly weak. The requirement of warrants makes police work better because there's actually a minimum of work that has to happen.

  13. Re:There's a (sub)genre for that... on Overly Familiar Sci-Fi · · Score: 1

    the purpose, ultimately, is wish fulfillment and to try to push their own sociopolitical ideology, though it's not necessarily their authorial intent.

    I find the greatest weakness to be that the political agenda is precisely the intent and that the intent is painfully transparent.

  14. Re:you want change? on Overly Familiar Sci-Fi · · Score: 1

    What, because humans never get infections any more? That exact scenario might be less probable, but it's not beyond the comprehension of people today.

  15. Re:As far as I'm concerned, Pluto is still a plane on Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Ends Hibernation To Start Mission · · Score: 1

    That freeloader got what was coming to him.

  16. The Right Technology on Overly Familiar Sci-Fi · · Score: 1

    Cultures change in some ways but in other ways do not.

    The only thing that has truly significantly changed society into something less recognizable has been the technology of reliable birth control, which in many ways society is still trying to come to terms with.

  17. Re:Yeah, and... on Facebook Founder Presents Vision For The New Republic, Many Resign In Protest · · Score: 1

    It's newer than the original.

  18. Re:Wrong on Chinese Government Moves To Crack Down On Puns · · Score: 1

    If news anchors run out of everything else they're allowed to say, they're liable to resort to actual journalism.

    Hmmm.... Maybe the West should try that...

  19. Re: Well, Grass Mud Horse to them! on Chinese Government Moves To Crack Down On Puns · · Score: 1

    They care if everyone laughs at them, because it means no-one fears them. Individuals laughing can be dealt with, um, individually.

  20. Re:No on Should IT Professionals Be Exempt From Overtime Regulations? · · Score: 3, Informative

    So the whole tech industry business model is flawed ?

    Yes.

  21. Re:why would I write to that? on Microsoft Introduces .NET Core · · Score: 0

    Ever heard of stackexchange?

    No.

  22. Re:BUT... on Electric Eel Shocks Like a Taser · · Score: 3, Funny

    Headline: Taser patent invalidated because of prior art.

  23. Re:Anything sold to the police should be sold... on Every Weapon, Armored Truck, and Plane the Pentagon Gave To Local Police · · Score: 0

    The police are not civilians.

    They're also not military. And they're not clergy, in case you weren't sure about that one either.

  24. Re:We've already seen the alternative to regulatio on A Backhanded Defense of Las Vegas' Taxi Regulation · · Score: 1

    So, no convictions?

  25. Re:We've already seen the alternative to regulatio on A Backhanded Defense of Las Vegas' Taxi Regulation · · Score: 1

    Do Americans have history classes in school?

    History, propaganda, whatever...