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  1. Re:Driving patterns on NYPD Anti-Terrorism Cameras Used For Much More · · Score: 1

    The difference is that TPTB are following everyone else just as much as they are following me. *You* however are only following *me*, and therefore *I* am being targetted. THAT warrants a restraining order.

  2. Re:Hypotheticals... on What If America Had Beaten the Soviets Into Space? · · Score: 1

    Here is a better hypothetical. Assume Germany never attacked Russia. Lets say they signed a non-aggression treaty

    They did, din't they? Pretty sure they did ...

  3. Re:My grandpa could have passed this; I don't need on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    Bisection also makes a fun hobby: Try to come up with problems that can only be solved quickly by bisection.

    Which dog ate the TV remote?

  4. Re:Not impossible on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    Oh, I know history, well enough to get by. I can tell you about every war from the Peloponnesian to Kosovo; I know the major political figures from Akhenaten to Bismark; I can give a rough outline of the past 14 billion years, hitting everything from the Paleozoic to the Postmodernist movement.

    Ah, but do you know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin", and can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin, when such affairs as sorties and surprises you're more wary at and know precisely what is meant by "commissariat"?

  5. Re:re Maybe on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    Learning both of those languages effectively embiggens your English vocabulary.

    FTFY

  6. Re:Latin is critical to the web today ... on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    Now write it out a hundred times. And if it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.

  7. Re:What do you expect, it's the Daily Mail on Old Media Says Google Will Destroy Film & Music · · Score: 1

    It's all explained here

  8. Re:trololololo on Old Media Says Google Will Destroy Film & Music · · Score: 1

    One does not necessarily follow from the other, as seen in the example.

    I agree that driving under the influence of anything that significantly degrades your reaction time is a bad thing. I do not agree that having an open scotch bottle is an offence.

  9. Re:trololololo on Old Media Says Google Will Destroy Film & Music · · Score: 1

    If it removes the shit, I'm not too bothered about print on my ass. Who's going to see it? It'll get washed off when I get home anyway.

  10. Re:trololololo on Old Media Says Google Will Destroy Film & Music · · Score: 1

    Does anyone else see this statute as being backass crazy?

  11. Re:Four missiles is enough on What If America Had Beaten the Soviets Into Space? · · Score: 1

    They were airbursts - little fallout but mass blast devastation.

  12. Re:winning the war on tourism on Appeals Court Affirms Warrantless Computer Searches · · Score: 1

    You took what I said and believed I made gross assumptions. So that really only leaves you making an ass out of yourself.

    Huh? Wut? I called you on your assumption that you know all about my political life, which you obviously do not. How does that leave me making an ass of myself? If anyone's an ass it's you for assuming you know about my political life, and for assuming that my belief is "I can't do anything".

    Are you trying to build a career out of making the wrong assumptions?

  13. Re:They can't consider it. on Tennessee Bill Helps Teachers Challenge Evolution · · Score: 1

    Excellent, thanks.

  14. Re:winning the war on tourism on Appeals Court Affirms Warrantless Computer Searches · · Score: 1

    So hard, so bitter. Maybe you could have been actively involved in politics, and we wouldn't be facing an election.

    I stopped taking anything you said at face value when you made gross misassumptions about my political activities. Though thanks for imparting upon me the power to have stopped a vote of no confidence.

  15. Re:you know what the problem is? on Appeals Court Affirms Warrantless Computer Searches · · Score: 1

    Oh, but I am. And I agree about the feel more human. Oddly, I've never felt more human since I moved to Canada from the UK. It's not perfect, but I feel I have more of a say and that the politicians are less slimy. Alas, that is changing too though :(

  16. Re:winning the war on tourism on Appeals Court Affirms Warrantless Computer Searches · · Score: 1

    Harpertroll is trolling

  17. Re:"Suspicion-less searches" comes in handy on Appeals Court Affirms Warrantless Computer Searches · · Score: 2
  18. Re:Science and Religion on Tennessee Bill Helps Teachers Challenge Evolution · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean hope, rather than faith?

    Maybe because I'm a Jays fan I can't see how someone can be confident that their team will do well, rather than just hope that they do.

  19. Re:In school on Tennessee Bill Helps Teachers Challenge Evolution · · Score: 1

    I really want my child to learn about atheism.

    Atheism is the default state, but if you really want to teach atheism, it takes 5 seconds:

    "There is no god"

    Tada! Anything else is science, not atheism.

  20. Re:They can't consider it. on Tennessee Bill Helps Teachers Challenge Evolution · · Score: 1

    The Bible says that the world is flat and that the Sun orbits the Earth.

    Do you have any links that back that up please? I'm asking because I want to refer to such writings in future :)

  21. Re:The first thing could come up with? on Tennessee Bill Helps Teachers Challenge Evolution · · Score: 1

    And selectively quoting from the Bill;

    "help students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered in the course being taught," namely, "biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning."

    partner preference, abortion, unsafe health conditions, or stem cells?

    Nope, they're not 'protected' subjects in this bill. Only if you want to teach creationism or anti-global warming propaganda can the school not fire you for teaching it.

    By swapping out "including, but not limited to," for "namely" you've made it seem like those specific items are protected - when they are not.

  22. Re:Obama Brought back Jobs and Growth on Obama Administration Wants Your Old Email · · Score: 1

    Instead, they fake service records, lie about it on television, even after getting caught,

    This totally makes me think of GWB.

  23. Re:Fuck you slashdot on Using Prime Numbers to Generate Backgrounds · · Score: 1

    He's not the only one. Using Chrome, I have not been able to check the "AC" box this week.

  24. Re:Science does require faith on Is Science Just a Matter of Faith? · · Score: 1

    In which case, religious doubt is ALWAYS unfounded, else the religion falls. Faith in a miracle where scientific evidence is totally against you seems to be a central point of many religions.

    Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

  25. Re:Why DDOS? on Anonymous Launches Attack On Sony · · Score: 1

    And stop watching movies by MGM or Columbia, and never use software that accesses Gracenote ...