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  1. Re:Nothing new on Texas Opens Fastest US Highway With 85 MPH Limit · · Score: 1

    And don't call me a pussy, just because I don't like the effort it takes to remove a ticket from my record.

    No, it's because you're so goddamn worried about your "record" in the first place, and not your freedoms.

  2. Re:Nothing new on Texas Opens Fastest US Highway With 85 MPH Limit · · Score: 1

    it is within Congress's spending authority to set reasonable restraints on actions to pressure states into action as long as it does not reach the level of coercion.

    LOL

  3. Re:Nothing new on Texas Opens Fastest US Highway With 85 MPH Limit · · Score: 1

    Life isn't perfectly safe. Get over it, coward.

  4. Re:There's nothing Darwin about it. on Texas Opens Fastest US Highway With 85 MPH Limit · · Score: 1

    It won't be until we get driverless cars everywhere that we'll ever see a big difference in the death toll anyway, but for now 75 is reasonable and proper with the vehicles and roads we have..

    You need to improve your driving skills. 100 MPH is NOT that fast. You're basically talking out of your ass. The Interstate Highway System was designed for 100+ MPH speeds....in the 1950s. Technology has advanced a long, long ways since then.

  5. Yeah that on Comments On Code Comments? · · Score: 1

    ^... which is utter stupidity. Only a wage slave would get the bright idea that loading themselves down with more and harder work is the way to profit. Never once does it enter into these clueless "programmers'" heads the idea of doing things correctly thus saving time and allow oneself to tackle bigger and harder problems, instead of always wading around in the muck picking up garbage. Fucking idiots. It's basically a reflection of our society as a whole, really. No big deal, it leaves the bigger, more challenging, and more interesting problems wide open for you and I to solve.

  6. He meant on Comments On Code Comments? · · Score: 1

    I don't think revision control has anything to do with it. It's a matter of taking the time to change the comments near a block of code when you change that block of code. Revision control neither helps nor hinders in this process.

    He meant revision control like the proper business process of developing software and the procedures used to properly make revisions, and the adherence to or lack thereof; not the actual software used to implement it (CVS, etc.)

  7. Examples? Thank you. on Comments On Code Comments? · · Score: 1

    I've only ever worked with one software engineer who, in my opinion, documented enough; I strive to match his standards in my own code but I know I don't always succeed.

    Could you provide examples of what you mean, for the rest of us to learn from? Thank you in advance.

  8. Re:What some people don't realise on Sir Tim Berners-Lee Accuses UK Government of "Draconian Internet Snooping" · · Score: 1

    So you're a 100% pacifist as far as war is concerned then.

    No dumbass. He's 100% smart, because he's not stupid enough to allow the State to drag him into yet another War On Some Group of People for Some Dumb Ass Reason That Won't Matter in 30 Years After We've Senselessly Blown Each Other To Kingdom Come.

    Grow a fucking brain.

  9. Re:Everyone is doing it on Sir Tim Berners-Lee Accuses UK Government of "Draconian Internet Snooping" · · Score: 2

    And you can go to prison if you smoke the wrong plant, or be sent to Gitmo if you say the wrong words loudly and forcefully enough or don't pay enough taxes. Yeah, you're totally free.

  10. Re:Everyone is doing it on Sir Tim Berners-Lee Accuses UK Government of "Draconian Internet Snooping" · · Score: 1

    More likely to make claim => higher premiums.

    I'll repeat his argument more slowly, so you can let it sink in:

    What if black people on the whole are found to be more likely to make a claim? Should we force black people at gunpoint to pay more for insurance? Because that's essentially what happens when you mandate something.

  11. Re:Everyone is doing it on Sir Tim Berners-Lee Accuses UK Government of "Draconian Internet Snooping" · · Score: 1

    The real question is why is she being forced at gunpoint to buy into an insurance racket? That's the crime here, not her desire to be free of it.

  12. Re:Who cares when Google is around? on Sir Tim Berners-Lee Accuses UK Government of "Draconian Internet Snooping" · · Score: 1

    GOOGLE ISN'T THE GOVERNMENT, YOU STUPID ASS.

    some random lower case text inserted here

    I still have to insert more though because... (imagine this:) IT'S LIKE YELLING (duh)

  13. Re:What about the 'junk' DNA? on Function of 80% of the Human Genome Charted · · Score: 1

    As PZ Myers asks, if the remaining 40% is all functional... why do onions need ten times as much as humans need,

    When you question them, this is all the "Junk DNA" proponents' arguments ever boil down to: "I don't understand it, therefore it's junk."

    and why can the fugu pufferfish thrive without any of it?

    Thrive....under what conditions? And what is your definition of "thrive"? Have you subjected the animal to every possible condition it could ever experience in life, to completely ensure that the DNA in question can never be triggered under any circumstances?

    Of course you haven't--because you haven't the foggiest clue how it all even works. "Junk DNA", like many other idiocies in the long history of science, is the legacy of morons.

  14. Re:A buck says on Did Sweden Pay Cambodia For the Pirate Bay Co-founder? · · Score: 1

    A hunter says, "Dude....that deer just SPOKE. Did you hear it, or am I crazy?!"

  15. Re:Can you spell Wikileaks? on Did Sweden Pay Cambodia For the Pirate Bay Co-founder? · · Score: 1

    I think you're horribly naive.

  16. Re:What kind of dumbass... on Did Sweden Pay Cambodia For the Pirate Bay Co-founder? · · Score: 1

    Are you retarded? This actually happened. Google motherfucker, do you use it?

  17. Re:No, you tell me. on Did Sweden Pay Cambodia For the Pirate Bay Co-founder? · · Score: 1

    To make people think, or a hundred other reasons. Next question.

  18. Re:Conspiracy or not on Did Sweden Pay Cambodia For the Pirate Bay Co-founder? · · Score: 1

    That's what I keep hearing. But so far the only "evidence" I've seen is hand-waving and vague statements about what the US might do or might be doing.

    What the fuck do you expect, that the conspirators would just come out in the open and say it? Don't worry, that day is coming soon: and you WON'T like it.

  19. Re:Conspiracy or not on Did Sweden Pay Cambodia For the Pirate Bay Co-founder? · · Score: 1

    Right. Once incident 11 years ago means that the entire nation of Sweden is the Central Repository of Evil.

    11 years ago? This Pirate Bay co-founder was just bought and paid for days ago.

  20. Re:Conspiracy or not on Did Sweden Pay Cambodia For the Pirate Bay Co-founder? · · Score: 1

    So most filers are a per dollar basis will be in the situation that $Gift $TaxSavings. There may be some corner cases where you are right on the cusp of a tax bracket and a large value for $Gift might push you down into the next lowest bracket. That might bring $Gift and $TaxSavings much closer together, it might even invert the relationship, but its still very unlikely to be significant source of savings.

    Which just goes to show you why most Americans are fucking idiots. They donate to charity for the bragging rights and tax benefits.....while being too stupid to realize that the tax "benefits" are essentially worthless. And patting themselves on the back the whole while for being "smart" with their money. LOL

  21. Re:Conspiracy or not on Did Sweden Pay Cambodia For the Pirate Bay Co-founder? · · Score: 1

    This is a joke, right? I see what you did there....serving as a caricature of the typically ignorant and brainwashed American, repeating the rote "lessons" he memorized in school. Very clever.

  22. Re:Remember George W. Bush's draft dodging? on Secret Service Investigating Romney Tax Hack Claim · · Score: 1

    Stupid? They are the ones becoming millionaires on your dime.

    Until they're all lined up against the wall, or in front of the guillotine.

  23. Re:Romney waived a red flag on Secret Service Investigating Romney Tax Hack Claim · · Score: 1

    What makes you say that?

  24. Re:One would hope on Secret Service Investigating Romney Tax Hack Claim · · Score: 1

    We are 16 trillion in debt thanks to the radical left and capitulation of the RINOs. The people want to see someone in charge who understands what a budget is.

    Is G.W. Bush still available? Maybe we can call him in to deal with these profligate liberal scum.

  25. Re:Don't worry, Romney... on Secret Service Investigating Romney Tax Hack Claim · · Score: 1

    He's not being taxed again on the principal. Ordinary citizens aren't taxed on whatever principal they hold in a bank account either. They're taxed on whatever they earn. There's no difference, except that most ordinary citizens don't have millions of dollars laying around in an account, they have to work for a wage, on which they pay a much higher tax rate. That's the whole darn point! Investors get off easy on the premise that they are theoretically going to invest more rather than spend their money, and that this is better for the economy overall. Whether that is actually the case is a matter of argument, but it doesn't change the fact that people earning a wage lose a substantially higher fraction of their earnings as tax than people living from an investment income. Is that fair? That's a matter of politics.

    No, it's simply a matter of not being a moron. These investments are available to everyone. Nobody "has" to work as a wage slave; they choose to do so.