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  1. Re:Threatening plurality? on James Murdoch Criticizes BBC For Providing "Free News" · · Score: 1

    And then there's John Stossel over at ABC who admitted his corporate overlords routinely censor his pro-small government stories...

    Maybe because Stossel, that self-promoting turd, shouldn't be doing advocacy pieces and should be doing, oh I don't know, some journalism perhaps?

  2. Re:Backwards on Emergency Government Control of the Internet? · · Score: 1

    3% == Americans who *want* health insurance but are not covered. 86% == Number happy with what they've got (TIME Aug 10)

    Actually, it's 86% of the Americans that have health insurance who are "happy with what they've got".

    Another interesting stat in that poll is that the same percentage of people who are happy with their employer-provided insurance, 88%, are happy with their government-provided healthcare. Don't forget to put that one in your signature.

  3. Re:Backwards on Emergency Government Control of the Internet? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have" Gerald Ford

    Fixed that for you.

  4. Re:School doesn't work like you think. on Bug Means High School Students' Schedule Errors May Last Days · · Score: 1

    Because the software will get tired if you run it more than once during the summer?

  5. Re:Happened in Dallas ISD too on Bug Means High School Students' Schedule Errors May Last Days · · Score: 1

    When a congresscritter openly mocks the people he allegedly represents, suggesting they are too stupid to be anything but a problem to be managed, things have gone very wrong somewhere.

    Oh, please. Vote the critter out of office; problem solved. What's that? You want to make sure the critter is voted out? Then work for the critter's opposition; problem solved. What's that? You don't like any of the opposition, either? Run for office; problem solved.

    If something is very wrong then all it will take to fix it is some good old-fashioned hard work, yes?

  6. Re:Referendum on New York MTA Asserts Copyright Over Schedule · · Score: 1

    +1 Sad but true

  7. Re:What about the expected after hours... on Working Off the Clock, How Much Is Too Much? · · Score: 1

    At my employer many of the IT staff are expected to work "on the weekends" with no additional compensation.

    Know why? Because you let it happen.

  8. Re:In other news... on Twitter Offline Due To DDoS · · Score: 1

    For a determined workplace slacker, those sites are merely the means, not the end. Or so I've heard.

  9. Re:Parent is insightful, not funny on Twitter Offline Due To DDoS · · Score: 1

    I think I saw that same comment on Facebook, except they were talking about Slashdot instead of Twitter.

  10. Whither the B-1? on 30,000-Lb. Bomb On Fast Track For Deployment · · Score: 1

    ...it is designed to be carried aboard B-2 and B-52 bombers...

    Do we use the B-1 for anything?

  11. Re:They ignored the "weight of evidence" on UK's FSA Finds No Health Benefits To Organic Food · · Score: 1

    In other words, he's made a judgment based entirely on emotion and utterly lacking in scientific support.

    Sorry to feed the troll but did you actually read what you responded to?

    I have a cousin who works in an abattoir and he's gone right off eating beef that's been raised in feedlots due to what he sees when he cuts them

    He made a judgement based on what he observed. Emotion had nothing to do with it.

  12. Act On It on How To Vet Clever Ideas Without Giving Them Away? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Got an idea for a better mousetrap? Build it and see if it really is better. Talk is cheap and action speaks louder than words.

  13. Re:The author has been dead for 60 years! on Amazon Pulls Purchased E-Book Copies of 1984 and Animal Farm · · Score: 1

    Wow. It's really amazing how you know absolutely nothing of what you're writing about.

  14. Re:Florida requires it?! on Wells Fargo Bank Sues Itself · · Score: 1

    Since they have 80/20 double mortgage, they have to sue themselves.

    Which would be fine except that, as defendants, they are denying their own (plaintiff's) claims. That's the idiocy part.

  15. Re:Campaign promises? on DOJ Report On NSA Wiretaps Finally Released · · Score: 1

    Promising something to get elected and failing to carry out that promise afterward can reasonably be considered a form of fraud.

    Only if one is a simpleton.

  16. Re:Ah yes on DOJ Report On NSA Wiretaps Finally Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It doesn't matter whether you were malicious or merely erred, you were still at fault and should be held accountable for your actions.

  17. Re:Being an asshole makes people angry, film at 11 on Researcher Trolls MMO, Surprised When Players Hate Him · · Score: -1, Troll

    s/researcher/black man/
    s/natives/whites/

    Just another way of looking at it.

  18. Re:the blackout was a good idea on Wikipedia Censored To Protect Captive Reporter · · Score: 4, Informative

    At the risk of invoking Godwin's law, perhaps the most blatant example would be the bombing of Coventry.

    Good example...except that it did not happen.

  19. Who? on Panasonic Begins To Lock Out 3d-Party Camera Batteries · · Score: 2, Funny

    Panasonic makes cameras?

  20. Re:If it were only in the leading edge on Hitler's Stealth Fighter · · Score: 1

    As one might imagine, they are aware of this.

  21. Re:maybe on Apple Finally Patches Java Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Here is the sad truth, Both the Linux/BSD communities and Microsoft take security more seriously than Apple.

    You claim that, despite no Mac OS X viruses in the wild ever? I don't think "security" means what you think it means.

  22. Re:So we should blame you? on 20th Anniversary of the Dawn of Dot-Com · · Score: 3, Funny

    So in other words, we should ultimately blame you for the commercialization and spamming of the internet?

    Wrong guy.

  23. Re:just doing their job on Cancer Patient Held At Airport For Missing Fingerprints · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When was the last time a real terrorist was found in a border check?

    Nine years ago.

  24. Re:I know it's unfashionable... on Creating a New Yorker Cover On the iPhone · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm not trolling here, but why does it seem like the buzz is often about apple products then? I don't see much about people creating art with their blackberry or their palm.

    The art was created by a third-party app. Apple did not write Brushes but they made it possible for a developer to not just create it but easily put it in the hands of customers. So, it's not strictly an article about Apple products.

  25. Re:"Making of" as a new genre on Creating a New Yorker Cover On the iPhone · · Score: 1

    This has been done forever. Fractal Design Painter would not only...

    On a phone?