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  1. Re:Slashdot on Outsourcing Information Security · · Score: 1

    His grandfather sold war bonds for the Nazi party. They've just moderized their systems to be a little less crazy about it. Instead of supporting the most profit in war, they create war to profit from it.

    Iraq isn't a "war for oil" its a multilevel marketing stratgey for oil services contracts, reconstruction crouption, and military industrial spending.

  2. Re:Liars on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When you're dealing with a religous son of a bitch, get it in writing. His word ain't worth shit, not with the good lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.

    -W. S. Burroughs.

  3. Re:Liars on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 1

    Christian governments are as frank today, as open and above-board, in discussing projects for raiding each other's clothes-lines as ever they were before the Golden Rule came smiling into this inhospitable world and couldn't get a night's lodging anywhere.

    -Mark Twain

  4. Re:Slashdot on Outsourcing Information Security · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "No, Bush jr. isn't like Hitler; he's more like that clown, Mussolini.
    That's why I call him 'Il Douche'

    Bush is a lot like Mussolini in that Mussolini wanted fascism to be the combination of state and corporation. Bush's espoused ideology is communitarianism which when analyzed using semiotics is shown to be highly similar to fascism. Not totalitarianism, fascism.

  5. Re:Socio/psycho on Australian Counter Strike Shooters · · Score: 1

    I got my BS in psych.

    A Sociopath cannot or does not see a difference between right or wrong so has no limits on his or her actions.

    A Psychopath is psychotic which means that they cannot tell what reality is.

    So the Psychopath might kill because he thinks that they are brain sucking zombies etc. where the sociopath kills because he just couldn't give less of a shit for anything let alone human life. E.g. He got in my way so I whacked him. Sociopath would make great Mafia killers, clean methodical smart realistic just utterly uncaring. Psychopaths are just fractured from reality. Not that these terms mean anything anymore the DSM calls them something else now.

  6. Re:Online version on Australian Counter Strike Shooters · · Score: 1

    Good tests ask the same question in as many ways as possible. Real precision comes from comparing the subtlety of the answers to the same question.

  7. Re:Mirror on FCC's Powell vs. Howard Stern on KGO-AM · · Score: 1

    "The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable."

    -Finley Peter Dunne

  8. Re:Dial back the bias a little bit on Gizmodo Declares Blu-Ray Winner · · Score: 0

    If you take enough OxyContin...

    everything everything
    is is
    in in
    stereo stereo.

  9. Re:I sure hope there's another... on System Shock 2 Retrospect...and Possible Followup? · · Score: 1

    I always thought of it as a Sci-Fi outgrowth of Ultima Underworld.

  10. Re:Bush != Conservative on Crawford Newspaper Endorses Kerry · · Score: 1

    Actually the Middle Easterners are mad at us because their is no difference between church an state in the Koran. Why they are mad at us and fighting us in Iraq is because it is the civic and religious duty of every Muslim to rise up against any invading power in any Islamic state, because get this... THERE IS ONLY ONE ISLAMIC STATE. It's like one big Switzerland (according to the Koran, not the House of Saud, the Iranian Mullas etc.) Everyone is armed and required to fight off any invading power.

    If Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Armitage, or Powell had read the Koran first we might have been better off right now.

    p.s. Read "Rise of the Vulcans" by James Mann to find out how the Vulcan neo-cons who got us into this mess based their ideas of Bill the Cat's old girlfriend. Ack Thrrrrppt!

  11. Boot Time? on iRiver H320 (Almost) Hits The Market · · Score: 1

    When I was shopping for a iPod or iPod killer I looked at Google Groups and found a distressing comment about iRiver's boo times. One post said that when it had 40 Gigs on it it took 11 minutes to boot.

    11 Minutes to Boot. Can someone please comment on this. In the end just the fear of a boot time like that scared me off.

  12. Re:eMate on Note Taking Devices for Students? · · Score: 1

    ~30.00 on eBay right now.

  13. Re:couldn't make a first post on Linus Torvalds Moving to the Silicon Forest · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fuck off. We hate it when people move here.

  14. Re:Only here, apparently. on California Senate Passes Preemptive Strike Against Gmail · · Score: 1

    Your wrong. Becasue of the alternate minimum tax the middle class is spending a lot more money on taxes then before the Bush Tax cut.

    Read "Perfectly Legal" by David Cay Johnston (the tax reporter for the New York Times. He was also interviewed on NPR by Terri (shudders) Gross on Fresssssshhhhh Aiiir....

    The "rich" cut off is 500,000 a year.

  15. Re:Only here, apparently. on California Senate Passes Preemptive Strike Against Gmail · · Score: 1

    The funniest part is that if you look at a graph of the states that votes for him, the ones in the center, they take in more money on average form the federal government then they pay in taxes. So the people who are bitching about welfare and government waste are the worset offenders. The graph was in the Atlantic Monthly "Where Federal Tax Dollars go" March 2004 p.48 The study was done by the Tax Foundation.

    So these assholes vote for a tax cut then get a nice fat farm bill. It's great steal money from the coastal liberals to fund and imaginary past.

  16. Re:Only here, apparently. on California Senate Passes Preemptive Strike Against Gmail · · Score: 0, Troll

    Its Funny becasue Bush is the worst tax and spend liberal in history. I like to call him a "steal and spend liberal."

  17. Re:Documentary? on Cannes' Palme d'Or goes to Michael Moore · · Score: 1

    Look at the Hannity Colmes show. It pits a rapid conservative blow hard against a quite reserved modderate republican, yep fair and balanced. Mmmm hmmm.

  18. Re:Documentary? on Cannes' Palme d'Or goes to Michael Moore · · Score: 1

    In fact if you read some Chompsky on media crit his point is that old U.S. News sources were biased but openly so. You just need to roll your own news coverage, read the American Spectator and the Mother Jones and etc. The idea that you can get fair and balanced reporting from one outlet is crazy.

  19. Re:500?? 500???????!!!? on AgroWaste Oil Plant Starts Production · · Score: 1

    We could always install them over a period of ten years right? The point was that it's still a small percentage of the tax cut esp. when it could be used to reduce waste, reduce fossil fuels, and keep the current infrastructure for hydrocarbons. I like gas in my car and I don't like fecal material in water or ruminants in my ruminants.

  20. Re:Yeah, and they were right to bring it up! on Schizophrenia Experiences and Suggestions? · · Score: 1

    *see comments below, but ECT is used because it works on a very small population where no other treatment works. It is not used for punishment for Schizophrenics al la "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" but as a last resort for suicidally depressed patient who do not respond to drugs. In short it is used because it is reliable and the harm can be minimized with general anesthesia and muscle relaxants.

    Also remember it's easy to criticize psychology but also remember the human brain is the most complex system observed in the universe. Far more complex than the gravitational interactions of all the stars and galaxies. When you can do better at predicting and treating human behavior walk up the ramp and get your Ph.D.

  21. Re:Just Remember... on Schizophrenia Experiences and Suggestions? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It is not a "magical high-voltage cureall" by any stretch of the imagination. It is a last ditched defense when all other treatments have failed and only used to prevent someone from killing themselves. Many cures are worse than the disease but "general feeling of dizziness, disorientation, and haziness" are better then death at your own hand due to a chemical imbalance. It is also on the verge of being replaved by transcranial magnetic induction, a far more percises treatment. Remeber ECT is like unpluging the power supply or casuing a cold short on the BIOS, its not a cure all it an "oh my god were're totally fucked and nothign else is going to work approach."

  22. Re:New RFC? on AgroWaste Oil Plant Starts Production · · Score: 1

    John Ashcroft annoints himself with crisco for major events. Mhhhhhh crispy pseudo-Christians.

  23. Re:500?? 500???????!!!? on AgroWaste Oil Plant Starts Production · · Score: 1

    That's still a tiny % of the 1.3 Trillion dollar tax cut Bush pushed through.

  24. Re:Just Remember... on Schizophrenia Experiences and Suggestions? · · Score: 2, Informative

    The sucess rate for so called "talking cures" is ~30% the sucess rate for drugs is ~60%. Also "talking cures can take years to reach that sucess rate, most drugs take weeks. Also "talking cures" are billed at $100 per hour, drugs, even expense ones are far far cheaper. So it simple price performance, drugs work better, faster and cheaper. It pisses people off that an issue of the mind alone. What really pisses people off though is that electroshock therapy is the best last defense against suicidal depression.

  25. Re:New RFC? on AgroWaste Oil Plant Starts Production · · Score: 1

    It gets into the ground through shellfish creating calcium carbonate, settling to the sea floor and being subducted back under the crust.