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  1. Re:seems kinda pointless on Cocaine Use Can Now Be Tested In Fingerprints Using Ambient Mass Spectrometry · · Score: 1

    The war on drugs is pointless. We went through this stupid shit with prohibition so why must we do it again?

  2. Re:All about tha Benjamins on Cocaine Use Can Now Be Tested In Fingerprints Using Ambient Mass Spectrometry · · Score: 0

    Drug use represents all kinds of potential problems. Usually you can figure someone with a cocaine addiction isn't going to be a good bet for a solid worker long term. Given other equally qualified potential employees I'd not consider hiring the druggy.

  3. Re:All about tha Benjamins on Cocaine Use Can Now Be Tested In Fingerprints Using Ambient Mass Spectrometry · · Score: 1

    Wrong. It's drug possession with intent to distribute that gets your stuff taken. Simply sweating microscopic amounts of chemicals doesn't qualify. Hell, unless you're out of jail on probation they can't do a fucking thing to you. It does qualify as a violation of probation in most instances.

  4. Re:Men's Rights morons on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 0

    I gotta tell you that if my wife ever kicked my ass I'd never fucking call the police. I'd slit my throat in shame.

  5. Re:Yeah, disappointing on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 1

    I do know one guy that had to go through a lot of legal hoopla to get custody of his child despite the fact his ex-wife's boyfriend was running a methlab out of her trailer. He did get custody though and she ended up having to pay child support although she is a few thousand dollars behind right now.

  6. Re:Yeah, disappointing on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Paying child support in two states for a child he has sole custody of? What the hell are you talking about? A college age kid his ex is beating the hell out of? What are you on?

  7. Re:Why Do We Carry On Pretending? on GCHQ Officials Given Immunity From Hacking Charges · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Perhaps it's all just preparation for global warming. Gotta have the mechanisms in place to control the population when things get desperate.

  8. Re:Why Do We Carry On Pretending? on GCHQ Officials Given Immunity From Hacking Charges · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No need to show papers when you're being tracked 24/7. As long as you behave you'll be able to retain a modicum of freedom and if you don't look you'll never notice the bars.

  9. Re:The UK, trying to beat China, NK at their own g on GCHQ Officials Given Immunity From Hacking Charges · · Score: 4, Funny

    But you understand don't you that they have to take away your rights and privacy in order to keep you safe. I'm sure you feel safe now, don't you?

  10. Re:Tell me again, why do I need Windows 10? on Microsoft Confirms It Won't Offer Free Windows 10 Upgrades To Pirates · · Score: 1

    Looks like you're good until 2020. Of course in a couple of years more and more stuff will require it. Some people still use XP in fact I have an old dell laptop that has XP installed. It's only function is to serve the programmer for my Ford as that software only runs on XP. I'd never dream of logging onto the internet with it. Never.

  11. Re:Too bad on Microsoft Confirms It Won't Offer Free Windows 10 Upgrades To Pirates · · Score: 1

    Just like they went without windows 3.1, windows 95, windows 98, windows ME (actually most of them skipped that abortion) windows XP, Vista, windows 7, windows 8?

  12. Re:Too bad on Microsoft Confirms It Won't Offer Free Windows 10 Upgrades To Pirates · · Score: 1

    Most people can barely use windows. You expect them to opt for an OS that has zero support from hardware manufacturers?

  13. Re:And now for a real question on Microsoft Confirms It Won't Offer Free Windows 10 Upgrades To Pirates · · Score: 2

    You're a consumer and they don't give a shit about you. They don't have to because you're going to keep using their software because you're their bitch. Pay up bitch.

  14. Re:Since when rewarding pirates is "good"? on Microsoft Confirms It Won't Offer Free Windows 10 Upgrades To Pirates · · Score: 1

    The fact is that piracy helps Microsoft. Those pirates were never going to be customers of Microsoft. They are looking for a free OS and the easiest solution is to pirate windows since that is drop dead easy and the defacto standard. If they could not pirate windows then they'd simply install Linux and use that. While there would no doubt be occasional hiccups those can be worked around. This would cause the Linux install base to swell which would mean that companies would start to market hardware as "Linux compatible" which would cause even more people to switch to free software and that could lead to Microsoft's downfall. This is what they fear most and it's why it is still drop dead easy to pirate windows. Whatever microsoft may be it isn't stupid. They lose no money and cock block competitors at the same time.

  15. Re:Since when rewarding pirates is "good"? on Microsoft Confirms It Won't Offer Free Windows 10 Upgrades To Pirates · · Score: 2

    More apt example would be the Medical Professionals would prefer that rapists use condoms to prevent the spread of diseases.

  16. Re:Greedy Corporation on Microsoft Confirms It Won't Offer Free Windows 10 Upgrades To Pirates · · Score: 1

    Most people like being someone's bitch. Having someone tell them what to do and how to do it and when. These people would always be miserable on Linux. Even the most microsoftish of Linux distros give people too many choices.

  17. Re: Mac/Linux support removed... mildly surprised on Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted · · Score: 1

    I don't have a problem with DRM that doesn't get in the way. DRM that makes the product unusable is mostly what we've seen before.

  18. Re:The two things that have led me to oppose the D on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Gets Death Penalty In Boston Marathon Bombing · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've always felt that the death penalty is far preferable to a life in a cage. To me the cruelest thing they could do is stick him in a cell with a 300 pound faggot named Bubba and let them play house for the rest of his miserable life.

  19. Re:Now if only the rest of the country would follo on California Senate Approves School Vaccine Bill · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Strange that I got modded offtopic for speaking about vaccinations in a reply to a post about vaccinations. Just to be clear. No one, and I mean no one in the medical field says that vaccinations are totally safe. They say that there are risks but that the risks of not getting vaccinated are greater. I don't see why steps to minimize any risks are so unacceptable. I for one see no reason to cluster so many shots in one group when there is really no added risk by spreading them out. Hammering a small toddler with so much medication at one time seems unnecessary. I know a lot of the people here consider themselves experts on every fucking thing and feel that any time someone questions their greater knowledge they must react viciously.

  20. Re:They've invested billions on House Votes To End Spy Agencies' Bulk Collection of Phone Data · · Score: 1

    Well the current crop is so incompetent that they can't do anything so difficult as applying for a warrant. That's too hard for them. If they knew their ass from a hole in the ground the World Trade Center towers would still be standing.

  21. Re:Now if only the rest of the country would follo on California Senate Approves School Vaccine Bill · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There are some legitimate concerns about child vaccination. That said, the odds are with vaccination. Better to risk the possible problems than the certain ones. I don't know about the autism claims but I do know that getting 6 shots in one day can be a problem. I don't understand why some of these vaccinations can't be spread out a little more. When I went through the shot line in basic training I got a massive series of shots and I was sick myself at a healthy 6' 174 pounds and 20 years of age. I know it's got to be rough on the kids. One of the guys in my unit ran a 105 degree temperature and had to go to the clinic. A little common sense and spread those shots out and it ought to go a lot easier. Not getting them though puts public health at risk.

  22. Re:Impressive... on World's Rudest Robot Set To Simulate the Fury of Call Center Customers · · Score: 1

    Excellent point.

  23. Re:Impressive... on World's Rudest Robot Set To Simulate the Fury of Call Center Customers · · Score: 1

    I generally just drop shitty companies. It's worked great for me so far. I am fortunate that my internet provider is actually very good. A little pricey but I'll take that over cheap and shitty. If they sucked I'd have a hard time replacing them. Everyone else though is very expendable.

  24. Re:"Citizens united" was a coup on House Votes To End Spy Agencies' Bulk Collection of Phone Data · · Score: 3, Insightful

    388 to 88. That's pretty much a consensus that crosses party lines. I'd say it's a dead program.

  25. Re:They've invested billions on House Votes To End Spy Agencies' Bulk Collection of Phone Data · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is no requirement to mothball it. They can still use it but only in accordance with the US Constitution. They have to get a warrant. Novel idea that, probably never catch on.