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  1. Re:Hypocrasy on A Look Back At Bombing the Van Allen Belts · · Score: 1

    But if a random country takes their iphone apart and randomly spreads the chemicals inside of it over the people around it, then you have a great reason why it's not wanted.

    I find it mind-boggling that in 2010, we are having a discussion on why Iran shouldn't have nuclear weapons... It's like wanting to put a pistol in a criminal's hands, while He's handcuffed NEXT to you.

  2. Re:Hypocrasy on A Look Back At Bombing the Van Allen Belts · · Score: 1

    Being anti-"us" is bad.
    us is everyone, and we don't want you to be anti-us.

  3. Re:Hypocrasy on A Look Back At Bombing the Van Allen Belts · · Score: 1

    You're are still explaining why the US are so dumb right ?

    Yeah the US is dumb hrhrhrhr
    Fucking retard, jesus.

  4. Re:Or the other way.... on A Look Back At Bombing the Van Allen Belts · · Score: 1

    That made no sense, whatsoever.

    echnologically?

  5. Re:Hypocrasy on A Look Back At Bombing the Van Allen Belts · · Score: 1

    Since the US doesn't have the political will to wage war on Iran, I guess we're going to have to find a way to accept them getting Nukes.

    Look at the history of the government(s) of Iran, and why America is a little timid to the idea of them having nuclear weapons.
    They're an unstable, volatile government that was put into place only a few decades ago through an uprising. Add the fact that they are a government controlled by religious ideology, along with being the arch-nemesis of Judaism, and it's a boiling kettle.

    Insert the fact that the current president has outwardly spoke about Israel's destruction, and you have a boiling kettle that's starting to quiet down... not because it's cooling down but water always quiets into a powerful roar when it's on full boil.

    I guess you can say that the world doesn't want a non-calculating madman with a nuclear missile to just run roughshod. America has the least to worry about, it's the landlocked countries within a 3,000 or so mile vicinity.

  6. Re:Dont tax, remove tax breaks. on Intel Co-Founder Calls For Tax On Offshored Labor · · Score: 1

    What you said is akin to saying that taxes should not be put on gasoline because we've been buying it at that price for so long, we're already used to it.

  7. Re:I hope this is true on Verizon iPhone Rumored For Early Next Year · · Score: 1

    It's not a matter of people switching from AT&T to Verizon. With Verizon, it mostly amounts to customer's switching phones like underwear. Well, non-geek underwear.

  8. Re:different systems on Verizon iPhone Rumored For Early Next Year · · Score: 1

    Dare I bring up that blackberry was and is on most if not all networks?

  9. Re:the empty set on Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? · · Score: 1

    Nothing screams (or bleats) "I'm a sheep" like getting a tatto in 2010.

    You could put that into a script and just go all day...

    Nothing screams (or bleats) "I'm a sheep" like buying a camry in 2010.
    Nothing screams (or bleats) "I'm a sheep" like buying life insurance in 2010.
    Nothing screams (or bleats) "I'm a sheep" like ordering Jenny Craig in 2010.
    Nothing screams (or bleats) "I'm a sheep" like watching Reality Television in 2010.
    Nothing screams (or bleats) "I'm a sheep" like getting an earring that's what you love in 2010.
    Nothing screams (or bleats) "I'm a sheep" like getting a finger ring that you love in 2010.

    It loses it's charm after a while, doesn't it? Oddly enough, it's what I heard when you said that.
    It's best to not act like you're Morpheus, helping people get out of the cage.

  10. Re:the empty set on Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? · · Score: 1

    He was talking about culture in general, not about tats themselves. Though that was the subject, he is right in some respects.
    Look at Iran and well, the middle east. Their treatment of women is/was a cultural issue, and is slowly being remedied. Killing/maiming a woman is never an alternative.

    A Bigot is by very definition a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own. If you want to create a blanket statement and use the powerful word bigot for such a small purpose, by very definition then by your thoughts the entire world is a bigot.

    Note: I love tats.

  11. Re:No. Tattoos look like trash. on Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? · · Score: 1

    Tats have been around hundreds of years, that's one huge fad.
    Now, the American culture has learned to accept/introduce them into mainstream society very recently. You are probably referring to that.

    It doesn't make you look stupid, bad tats in bad places make you look stupid.
    Just the same as a bad shirt, or bad hairdo makes you look stupid.
    You sound like the kind of guy I would scowl at and walk away, wow. Black culture in does not influence fashion, people do. There are a subset of people that follow pop fashion (what you call "black"), but you'll notice those individuals are containerized. If you look at the whole gammet, the following influence fashion: music (of all forms), sports (of all forms), popular movies, commercials, and even what's sold.

  12. Re:Before you do it on Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? · · Score: 1

    All demonstrate a certain weak-mindedness in a person that makes it difficult (but not impossible) for me to respect them.

    Be sure to tell me you were the anonymous coward on slashdot that said that, when we do meet. I want the ability to walk away, and discard you. You pigeon-hole and generalize, which is a weak-mindedness in a person that makes it difficult (*but* not impossible) for me to respect them.

  13. Re:Before you do it on Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? · · Score: 1

    Wow.. you think so much that you've escaped thinking and have reached thinking about thinking....

  14. Re:Before you do it on Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? · · Score: 1

    Which is precisely what will happen if your mom forces you to get it removed and then bills you for the procedure by taking it out of your allowance for the next 10 years.

    8 year old kids go out and get tattoos?

  15. Re:This should be a new product for ThinkGeek on Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? · · Score: 1

    Fake Tattoo sleeves as seen on The Big Bang Theory.

    No geek with an ounce of dignity would associate themselves with The Big Bang Theory.
    Also, there are at least two versions of fake tattoos, already. Temporary rub-on tats, and henna tats.
    Want to make a statement at your next interview? Do a henna sleeve.
    It'll impress them ;)

  16. Re:No it isn't on Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? · · Score: 1

    No, tattoos do not fall under color, since that's ethnicity-based.
    An employer can be readily forward about it and state that they don't feel the customer-relations atmosphere warrants visible tattoos.
    You might not like it, but that's how it is. I'm also not saying it's "right", but that's how it is.

    Also, not many religions state that you need to have publicly visible tattoos. If you're religion does (say, your Maori, which is more a cultural phenomena), then most employers will make the exception. That being said, it's in the employer's hands, and so were the tattoo choices.

    Yes, I have tattoos, and no they aren't visible without my shirt coming off.

  17. Re:FFmpeg? on VP8 Codec Coming To FFmpeg · · Score: 1

    As an Opera user, I am outraged!

    Are Opera users anti-Final Fantasy?

  18. Re:"journalism" on Supreme Court Throws Out Bilski Patent · · Score: 0, Troll

    No, reading an article that talks about something vague, and doesn't give a hint on what it is.

    If I wanted to google it, I would have googled it instead of reading the article, almighty oracle.

  19. Re:"journalism" on Supreme Court Throws Out Bilski Patent · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The link didn't work.
    So why not stop wasting finger movements and actually say what the Bilski patent is, instead of attempting to sound all knowing.

  20. Re:Who uses ICQ? /sarcasm on US Fears Loss of ICQ Honeypot · · Score: 1

    No, it's funny, you just don't get the joke.
    The joke comes from historical activities with instant messenging applications and the fight that was in effect in the late 90's, early 2000's. The fact is that once ICQ was purchased by AOL, quite a bit of technological shifts occurred, and people bounced between messenging protocols.

    So, that's where the joke is from.

    Now that we're past the geopolitical base of it, let's settle the fuck down and realize you're hysteria is becoming non-amusing.

  21. Re:hmmm on US Fears Loss of ICQ Honeypot · · Score: 1

    You sound like a Michael Jackson impersonator, using the word ignorant so obtusely :)

    It's hilarious.

    In America, people couldn't care less what the "cool" thing is in Japan, China, or Singapore. In America, people care what the people they will communicate with will use.
    *fluffs your hair* You're cute, so young and rebelliously pseudo-confrontational. Misaligned, but that's a given.

    By the way, if a person wants to know the capital of a foreign country, there will be documentation about it. People don't just randomly pick a place and say "OH! This is the capital!" Besides, Amsterdam is a city, you dimwit.

  22. Re:Do people still use ICQ? on US Fears Loss of ICQ Honeypot · · Score: 1

    Some people I know are still on Yahoo! Messenger and Windows (Live) Messenger, but none of them ever uses ICQ or AIM.

    Your phrasing is a little backwards, since your wording insinuates that Yahoo Messenger and Windows (Live) Messenger were the old thing and people use other things now.

    In general, at least in the US, most people cycle through Yahoo Messenger, MSN, and AIM.
    There are others that are used by more computer-literate (or exploratory) individuals such as Google chat, Jabber, and the occasional straggler on facebook/myspace.

  23. Re:Texas on High Depreciation May Slow Electric Car Acceptance · · Score: 1

    How many mall parking lots do you park in? Or Target?

  24. Re:Texas on High Depreciation May Slow Electric Car Acceptance · · Score: 1

    Parking enclosures/structures are still "outside" so to speak as they are not typically climate controlled (unless you're some movie star burning your money in profligate yet flashy ways.) So while your vehicle may not be baking under the sun in such a structure it'll still be pretty hot.
    Air temperature is not the incubating factor, it's direct sun contact. The metal heats, and conducts the heat. If it's just air, you're fine.

  25. Re:People are just now realizing this? on High Depreciation May Slow Electric Car Acceptance · · Score: 1

    It's a 2004, that's 6 years....
    I would hope nothing has gone wrong with it, yet... wow... even a chevy is able to last 6 years...