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  1. Won't get far on Apple Sued For Dividing Final Season of Breaking Bad Into Two On iTunes · · Score: 1

    I doubt any plaintiff could have any sort of standing without having already signed several mandatory arbitration clauses.

  2. Re:No paper requirement, no bending requirement on GameFly Scores In Longstanding DVD Mailing Complaint · · Score: 2

    Sorry, but no. There is no requirement for letter-class mail to be paper nor be bendable.

    http://pe.usps.gov/text/dmm300/101.htm#1039555

  3. Re:What I've said all along on Genetic Convergent Evolution: Stunning Gene Similarities Among Diverse Animals · · Score: 1

    Isn't it a genetically proven fact that all human women share the same mother?

    nuclear DNA studies indicate that the size of the ancient human population never dropped below tens of thousands. Other women living during Eve's time have descendants alive today

    Does any of that mean we don't all share a common female ancestor?

    A false dilemma may take the form: If a proposition has not been disproven, then it cannot be considered false and must therefore be considered true.

  4. Re:Ridiculous on GameFly Scores In Longstanding DVD Mailing Complaint · · Score: 1

    "Nothing else" means "no special handling." Sorting equipment for letter-class mail expects paper, which unlike DVDs can be curved and bent with no ill results.

  5. Re:Reclassify as a competitive product? on GameFly Scores In Longstanding DVD Mailing Complaint · · Score: 1

    "Competitive." You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

    It means they can comply with the order without overcoming the financial/regulatory inertia involved in juggling funds earmarked for "market dominant" services. Otherwise the USPS will have to provide special services now with money they won't be able to touch for at least a year.

  6. Re:What I've said all along on Genetic Convergent Evolution: Stunning Gene Similarities Among Diverse Animals · · Score: 0
  7. Re:Finish this sentence to find their target marke on Surface Pro 2 and Surface 2: Now With New Kickstand! · · Score: 2

    I want a _Surface_Table_ because _I_need_a_neat_keyboard_on_a_tablet_.

    I want a _Surface_Table_ because _I_need_USB_Port_.

    Except I got an ASUS Transformer with both of those for half the price.

  8. Re:What I've said all along on Genetic Convergent Evolution: Stunning Gene Similarities Among Diverse Animals · · Score: 1

    Mitochondrial Eve is not a fixed individual, had a mother, was not the only woman of her time

  9. Re:Al-Qaeda keeps losing recruits to Google on Leaked Documents Detail Al-Qaeda's Efforts To Fight Back Against Drones · · Score: 3, Funny

    72 geeky virgins.

    Wahabism frowns upon homosexuality.

  10. Re:What I've said all along on Genetic Convergent Evolution: Stunning Gene Similarities Among Diverse Animals · · Score: 4, Informative
  11. Re:There's both a glut AND a shortage on The STEM Crisis Is a Myth · · Score: 1

    We do have a shortage of good applicants.

    For the pay that you're offering.

  12. Re:Accountability on EFF Wins Release of Secret Court Opinion: NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Every other court can escalate to the exception.

    Emphasis mine:

    In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.

  13. Re:The USA was founded on Anonymous Comments on Huffington: Trolls Uglier Than Ever, So We're Cutting Off Anonymous Commenting · · Score: 1

    The AC to Whom You reply did not equate Ms. Huffington with government.

    He equated Huffington with "the British." Before ~1775, "the British" were the government, hence the revolutionary pamphlets to begin with.

    Plus, the Owners of said press at the time of the revolution did not find specifying the identities of the Pamphleteers so important as to require attribution.

    The publishers almost certainly had personal knowledge of the authors, though. At this point, HuffPo doesn't even have that much.

    Even if They had, the fact remains One cannot fully critique and/or criticize policy/Politicians if the Owners of the press require "true names".

    Then use a press other than HuffPo's, or buy your own.

  14. Re:Accountability on EFF Wins Release of Secret Court Opinion: NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    So they got a court opinion that said it was unconstitutional, yet they just ignored it.

    With one exception, a federal court can only do what Congress empowers it to do. If Congress doesn't give their secret court any teeth, that's the end of it.

  15. Re:The USA was founded on Anonymous Comments on Huffington: Trolls Uglier Than Ever, So We're Cutting Off Anonymous Commenting · · Score: 2

    First and foremost, Ariana Huffington is not the government. Otherwise there'd be a lot more sideboob in Congress...

    Beyond that, those anonymous pamphleteers you mentioned got their works published because the owners of the printing presses consented to the publishing of the specific tracts in question; Whether or not they printed a particular piece by a particular person was wholly by their own prerogative. Here, Huffington owns the printing-press equivalent, and has decided to limit the use of her resources just a bit more narrowly than "Anybody can come along and post GNAA spam."

    Then as now, freedom of the press belongs to those who own one.

  16. Re:Illegal collections on The College-Loan Scandal · · Score: 1

    When a collector breaks the law, seek legal representation.

    And pay the lawyer with the money you don't have to give to the debt collectors? Law school costs money too, after all.

    That's some catch there...

  17. Re:Tyranny of the majority on Egyptian Security Forces Storm Pro-Morsi Camps Leaving Nearly 100 Dead · · Score: 1

    You're conflating "Muslims" with "Islamists."

  18. Re:quit drinking on The Science of 12-Step Programs · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "No True Scotsman" involves moving goalposts. Alcohol abuse is a well-documented, well-defined medical condition; the only "goalpost-moving" here is movement from the OP's self-diagnosis.

    Or are you honestly trying to defend all the first-hand accounts of users of homeopathy, chiropractic, faith healing and the like?

  19. "Seeing" on Obama on Surveillance: "We Can and Must Be More Transparent" · · Score: 1

    "What you're not seeing is people actually abusing these programs."

    Four months ago we didn't see this NSA datamining to begin with. Just because we don't "see" it doesn't mean it isn't actually happening.

    Going on prime time TV and constantly repeating "Trust me on this" isn't going to get him very far. After all, why are these (supposed) changes so needful now and not four months ago? If we were to take Obama and the intelligence committees at their words, the only thing that has changed in these programs in the past four months is that we know about them, so why are these "changes" necessary now?

  20. Global Warming on Bill Gates Promotes Vaccine Projects, Swipes At Google · · Score: 1

    Money spent to combat malaria must be worlds better for improving the human condition than money spent to support Senator Inhofe.

  21. Re:That's Just Silly on Bill Gates Promotes Vaccine Projects, Swipes At Google · · Score: 1

    Corporations are people too, my friend.

  22. Re:What's with... on TV Show Piracy Soars After CBS Blackout · · Score: 4, Informative

    Most of these shows can be watched legitimately at cbs.com, but CBS is currently blocking anybody with a TimeWarner Cable IP address.

  23. Re:Congress considers Snowdon to be a whistleblowe on Snowden Gave 15,000 Documents to Glenn Greenwald; Obama Cancels Russia Summit · · Score: 1

    The votes failed, and Congress (or at least the folks on the intelligence committees) knew about these programs the entire time.

    It's not White House versus Congress or Republican versus Democrat. Everyone's on the same page except the voters, and everyone wants Snowden waterboarded to the fullest extent of the unpublished law.

  24. Re:Japanese Military on Japan Unveils Largest Warship Since WW2 · · Score: 1

    Leaning on the U.S. forever is not sustainable.

    Perhaps, but right now it's the best way of preventing a second Sino-Japanese War. China trusts the US military much more than they do a Japanese military, and US abandonment of the region would trigger an arms race (conventional and otherwise) that would make Indian-Pakistani relations look warm and fuzzy.

  25. Re:It's about time on US IT Worker Files Hiring Lawsuit Against Infosys, Class Action Proposed · · Score: 1

    It's not just about money, it's also about control and convenience for management.

    Oh, you can get that kind of "control and convenience" from American workers too, just not at the offered price.

    So ultimately it is about the money.