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  1. Re: Support Right to Independence on Catalonia Declares Independence; Spain Approves Central Takeover Of Region (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Articles of Secession disagree with you. Maybe the original authors should have consulted you first?

  2. Re:Support Right to Independence on Catalonia Declares Independence; Spain Approves Central Takeover Of Region (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Are you a historically separate ethnic identity from your neighbors who has occupied your land longer than your government has existed? Then yes, I support you. (This means, of course, that I also support sovereignty for Native Americans and native Hawaiians.

  3. Re:I'm confused on Catalonia Declares Independence; Spain Approves Central Takeover Of Region (npr.org) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Catalexit?

  4. Re:nasty situation on Catalonia Declares Independence; Spain Approves Central Takeover Of Region (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    I agree with the rule of law argument, but the brutal repression of free expression served to invalidate the law and confirm the righteousness of independence. But that may be a distinctly american/puritan perspective.

    "An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law." - Dr. Martin Luther King

  5. "I have altered the details of our arrangement." on Verizon Will Stop Throttling Video On Unlimited Plans If You Pay An Extra $10 Per Month (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    "Pray I do not alter them further."

  6. Re:tl;dr version on "Maybe It's a Piece of Dust" (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    What? Glenlivet Nadura is amazing, IMHO.

  7. Re:tl;dr version on "Maybe It's a Piece of Dust" (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Tastes like swamp-water! Speyside or nothing.

  8. Re:Neuromancer on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Favorite William Gibson Novel? · · Score: 1

    Lucky! I'm 38, so I must live vicariously through my father's recollections. I yet hope that that down-tempo electronica will one day rediscover the joy of the mellotron.

  9. Re:Neuromancer on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Favorite William Gibson Novel? · · Score: 1

    I never thought I'd hear someone call Fripp "too conventional."

    But you also made me sad again that the original King Crimson line-up only made one album. :(

  10. Re:Not "fundamental" on Security Researcher Finds a Fundamental Flaw in iOS (krausefx.com) · · Score: 1

    Many apps pop up the Google Play app for authentication. There is 0% chance that it cannot be faked as well as an iOS authentication pop up.

  11. Re:Not "fundamental" on Security Researcher Finds a Fundamental Flaw in iOS (krausefx.com) · · Score: 2

    There's no equivalent to an iTunes account. If I'm asked for my Google Play account password I'm very wary.

    You said there was no equivalent, and then listed the equivalent.

  12. Re:Terrible headline on Security Researcher Finds a Fundamental Flaw in iOS (krausefx.com) · · Score: 2

    As if this couldn't be done on ANY platform.

  13. Re: bluetooth headphones on Google Is Latest Company To Ditch Headphone Jack In Its Newest Smartphones (cultofmac.com) · · Score: 1

    You can use Bluetooth after take off and landing and at crushing altitude.

    All three of those examples are on the ground, only.

  14. Re:Strong typing is like training wheels on Do Strongly Typed Languages Reduce Bugs? (acolyer.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    FUCK! I had hex-editor in my head and I fucked it up. Fuck me. I failed. And fuck you, too, for sinking to my level. We all fail together.

  15. Re:Strong typing is like training wheels on Do Strongly Typed Languages Reduce Bugs? (acolyer.org) · · Score: 2

    It's cute that you need a language altogether. When you're ready to be a real programmer, you can learn how to write all your own op-codes in assembler, like a grown-up developer.

  16. Only 266 people live there, so I don't imagine it's TOO diverse. But they have a cool hearse show every year.

  17. Re:Let's not forget "Memogate" 2004 on Meet the Font Detectives Who Ferret Out Fakery (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    When an allegation is made, you cannot be disappointed in people for asking for proof. Like, real proof; not fake memos or poorly-cited Wikipedia articles. If everyone was more skeptical and had a higher bar of what proof was, all this "fake news" bullshit on social media would be a complete non-issue.

  18. Re:Let's not forget "Memogate" 2004 on Meet the Font Detectives Who Ferret Out Fakery (wired.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Without the memo, there is no such "fact." That was the smoking gun. Everything else speculation.

  19. Re:I Wonder... on Meet the Font Detectives Who Ferret Out Fakery (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps... but the OP didn't ask when (or how, or why) it was created, he asked when it appeared. Presumably "appeared" would typically mean appeared to people with a typical range of perceptual ability.

    I don't think you picked up on this, but... I was joking.

  20. Re:Let's not forget "Memogate" 2004 on Meet the Font Detectives Who Ferret Out Fakery (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what the fucking news was calling it back then. Blame them.

  21. Re:I Wonder... on Meet the Font Detectives Who Ferret Out Fakery (wired.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't need Google. It appeared the day Lucifer and his angels rebelled against God. It was formed in the fires of hell, created to hold the damned for all eternity. It is first of the horsemen of the Apocalypse, to be followed by Papyrus, Bleeding Cowboy, and finally the anti-christ, the false messiah, Helvetica.

  22. Re:Let's not forget "Memogate" 2004 on Meet the Font Detectives Who Ferret Out Fakery (wired.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The "fake, but true" narrative. The memo was fabricated whole cloth. The guy admitted it was a fake.

  23. Let's not forget "Memogate" 2004 on Meet the Font Detectives Who Ferret Out Fakery (wired.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Credulously accepting Times New Roman in MS Word as a typewriter font is what got Dan Rather into trouble.

  24. You mean a FIREwall... am I right? Am I right? You get it? Just wondering: did we get rid of downvotes? I sure hope so.

  25. Re:The history of taxonomy (systematics)... on A Few Bad Scientists Are Threatening To Topple Taxonomy (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 2

    Splitters!!!! *spit*