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  1. Re:Exactly on Netflix CEO Says Blocking Proxy Services Is Maturation of Internet TV (mobilesyrup.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Did you bother reading the article? Netflix has bought the rights to display certain content in the USA. Other companies have bought the rights for other locations. If Netflix wants to buy world-wide rights, they probably can, but they will pay a LOT more $$$ for it, and they will pass that cost along to you, the consumer.

  2. Re:We've always been at war with... on Surprise Nuclear Strike? Here's How We'll Figure Out Who Did It (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    How many nukes in US cities do you think terrorist would have to set off before the USA would quietly start pulling back? 1? 2? 5? Where would the USA counterattack?

    Are you starting to get it?

  3. Re:diversion? on US Says North Korean Submarine Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    what about the grassy knoll?

  4. Yeah, right, *I'm* the racist.

  5. Yeah, let's blame the Jews, it's worked for thousands of years, why not now?

  6. Re:We've always been at war with... on Surprise Nuclear Strike? Here's How We'll Figure Out Who Did It (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    Right... because terrorists who are happy to fly planes into buildings and kill thousands wouldn't consider setting off a small nuke in a major US city and killing hundreds of thousands.

  7. Re:And by that he means on Ted Cruz Proposes Reviving SDI To Counter N. Korean Nuclear Threat (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    so you'd just as soon live in NK as the USA? Wow, those blinders are on TIGHT!

  8. Re:sounds horrible on Airbus Patents Adjustable Seats, In-Seat Storage For Aircarft (consumerist.com) · · Score: 2

    Same here... my legs are in agony if they can't extend under the seat in front of me. 6 hours with my legs doubled up would probably be considered torture. Why not just give me an injection, knock me out, and stuff me in the cargo hold?

  9. Ah, the old "there's no difference" argument. Well, here's the difference: the last 7 years people have been working on how to get universal health care, instead of trying to define exactly how much it's ok to torture people.

    No politician is going to rain magic unicorns on the land, but who is elected does make a difference.

  10. Re:NASA is headed in the wrong direction on Russia's Moon And Mars Exploration Ambitions Hobbled By A Lack Of Money (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    so the guys who fought against Assad were... USA? Huh? Try thinking once in a while.

  11. Re:NASA is headed in the wrong direction on Russia's Moon And Mars Exploration Ambitions Hobbled By A Lack Of Money (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Uh... no rebels to train? Seems like half of Syria was lost to Assad before the USA ever got involved. Who was fighting then, unicorns?

  12. I wish I had points to mod you up as you deserve.

  13. Re:Win 7 does at least some of it too on Windows 10 Forced Update Resets Default Apps To Microsoft Products (theinquirer.net) · · Score: 1

    Damn I loved Eudora. At some point in the process of going from computer to computer I lost it, but that was a seriously nice email client. Sadly for a while I ended up on Thunderbird, which is a stinking pile that makes Windows Live Mail look like manna from heaven.

  14. Re:Is it time for a class action? on Windows 10 Forced Update Resets Default Apps To Microsoft Products (theinquirer.net) · · Score: 1

    Except those people were already using MS apps. Next.

  15. Re:Is it time for a class action? on Windows 10 Forced Update Resets Default Apps To Microsoft Products (theinquirer.net) · · Score: 1

    Oh c'mon, I like a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, but do you SERIOUSLY think MS could reset everyone's apps to the MS apps and NO ONE would notice??? The people affected are the ones who go to the trouble to use a different app. This is going to cause MS a fair bit of grief and pain, and zero benefit.

  16. Re:What should happen but won't on US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah... like checking if someone is a terrorist or lunatic before handing them a gun is such an extreme liberal position. By the way, the 2nd amendment isn't about private citizens being able to fend off the guvmint revinoors, it's about maintaining a "well regulated" militia.

  17. Re: Hoax on US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Damn, where's my tinfoil.

  18. While we're remembering, let's remember that the use of nuclear weapons ended a war started by Germany and Japan that had killed tens of millions, and the use of those weapons probably saved Japanese lives.

  19. Re:Irrelevant, inflammatory. on The Sexual Misconduct Case That Has Rocked Anthropology (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    um... you have heard the Serial case, right? Adnan Syed will be shocked to hear he wasn't convicted, after all, he's been in jail 15 years.

  20. Re:Irrelevant, inflammatory. on The Sexual Misconduct Case That Has Rocked Anthropology (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    so the guy gets a pass because he didn't actually commit forcible rape? Times have changed since the 17th century, my friend.

  21. Re:Irrelevant, inflammatory. on The Sexual Misconduct Case That Has Rocked Anthropology (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    So over a period of years a bunch of different people tell essentially the same stories of a pattern of behavior, and you just... sweep it under the rug? Yeah, that sounds like "justice" to me.

  22. Re:Irrelevant, inflammatory. on The Sexual Misconduct Case That Has Rocked Anthropology (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Just what "proof" do you expect to find? A bunch of people over a period of time tell roughly the same story WITHOUT collaborating. It's not like the guy is going to molest them in front of a camera. Guys have been convicted of murder on less.

  23. Re:Irrelevant, inflammatory. on The Sexual Misconduct Case That Has Rocked Anthropology (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Because, yeah, lots of different women telling pretty much the same story is a "he said, she said' kind of thing.

  24. Re:Irrelevant, inflammatory. on The Sexual Misconduct Case That Has Rocked Anthropology (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Did you bother reading the article? Hint: when your supervisor who is extremely powerful and can ruin your life does this kind of thing to you, you think twice before blowing the whistle.

  25. Re:"sexual misconduct"? on The Sexual Misconduct Case That Has Rocked Anthropology (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    Yep... there is a difference between "you look nice today" and sticking your hand up a woman's dress. Apparently some people here don't get that.