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  1. Re: Terrorists? on California Lawmaker Wants 3-D Printers To Be Regulated · · Score: 1

    I wish the guy in Missouri would run for President. It should make for great entertainment.

  2. Re:Terrorists? on California Lawmaker Wants 3-D Printers To Be Regulated · · Score: 1

    They are all scary.

  3. Re:Gun control however... on California Lawmaker Wants 3-D Printers To Be Regulated · · Score: 3, Informative

    I finally figured out what was causing it after the second one. The good thing is that eventually, if you don't kill your children in a fit of rage, you might get grand children. I find that Grand Children are much better than children. When they aren't fun anymore you can take them back to their parents. I like to fill them up on candy first right before I take them back.

  4. Re:Gun control however... on California Lawmaker Wants 3-D Printers To Be Regulated · · Score: 2

    Don't forget that the "right" people will still be able to own weapons. One famous "anti-gun" columnist who frequently wrote about the need to ban guns shot a teenager who was swimming in his pool. He thought no one should own guns except of course for elite liberals such as himself. A common attitude.

    http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1876&dat=19880615&id=Bz4sAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cc4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6879,6595637

  5. Re:Gun control however... on California Lawmaker Wants 3-D Printers To Be Regulated · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Guns are equalizers. A 9mm pistol makes a 5 foot tall 100 pound woman the equal of a 6 foot 2 inch 190 pound man. This assumes of course that she is competent with it. He may kill her but trying to rape her is a dicey proposition. Given the banning of guns in the US I have no doubt that violence will explode. Crime in the US is different than Australia. I've heard conflicting things about crime in Australia since the ban although it is certain that gun deaths have decreased. I guess getting stabbed gives you a higher chance of survival than being shot. I admit that guns are more efficient.

  6. Re:Not trutly bias, not punitive. More like profil on IRS Admits Targeting Conservative Groups During 2012 Election · · Score: 1

    I don't have Mitt Romney's accountants. Between Fed, State, Sales, and 3 or 4 dozen miscellaneous hidden taxes I pay over half. Most people have no idea how much tax they pay. Every gallon of gas has tax added. Tires have excise tax. The list goes on and on and on. It's fucking ridiculous. Every damn thing I buy has 8 cents sales per dollar. That's 8 percent right there. Then there is Property tax. But the Feds tax the biggest single bite. My phone bill has a tax on it, they call it a fee, so that Indians on reservations can have internet. It's only about 50 cents per month but shit there is so much of that kind of crap. I wondered what the hell that fee was and it took 2 hours on the phone to actually find out. That's not a fee, that is a tax renamed to hide it from you. Seriously I know we have to have taxes to fund infrastructure and provide for services and such but all the slimy crap they hide in this bill and that adds up to a lot of money for a lot of bullshit.

  7. Re:Not trutly bias, not punitive. More like profil on IRS Admits Targeting Conservative Groups During 2012 Election · · Score: 1

    I know it is a waste of time but....the Tea Party isn't so much anti-tax as saying Taxed Enough Already. That's it. I don't mind paying taxes, well.....not so much, but I just want some kind of limit on it. Every time I turn around someone wants more. I say how much is enough and they just holler MORE, MORE, MORE. And that is the problem. Fucking enough already. I pay over half my income in taxes and that is more than enough. It's time to cut someone's handouts.

  8. Re:WHAT on WD Explains Its Windows-Only Software-Based SSHD Tech · · Score: 1

    That's good unless your operating system is inaccessible.

  9. Re:Windows Phone equals RIM at rest on Microsoft's Most Profitable Mobile Operating System: Android · · Score: 1

    Hell my Dad can hardly use a flip phone. I can't imagine him with any kind of smartphone. I know my wife's droid has a picture of a phone on it. Push that and it brings up a keypad. Lot's of people can't even do that.

  10. Re:Windows Phone equals RIM at rest on Microsoft's Most Profitable Mobile Operating System: Android · · Score: 1

    I've seen them too. Everyone carries them, just like everyone carried the Zune. Some people even bought the Zune. I knew one guy that had one and loved it. Just one. I'm sure other people bought them too though.

  11. Re:Windows Phone equals RIM at rest on Microsoft's Most Profitable Mobile Operating System: Android · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I knew a guy that bought an AMC Pacer. He loved it.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1975_AMC_Pacer_base_model_frontleftside.jpg

  12. Re:Fourth Amendment on US DOJ Say They Don't Need Warrants For E-Mail, Chats · · Score: 1

    No he actually was trying to explain a lie he had told and he made the statement "Well that depends on what your defintion of the word is is." My favorite politician. He could go through a car wash in a convertible and someone else would get wet.

  13. Re:Win modem on WD Explains Its Windows-Only Software-Based SSHD Tech · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Too often it means it wont work with windows either. My brother-in-law lost all his peripherals when he upgraded from Windows ME to Windows XP. He had to buy a new printer, scanner and modem. He said he didn't mind though as at least he could run the computer for more than 30 minutes without a blue screen. I remember how happy he was that it would run for several days without a reboot and that he could actually turn it off without pulling the plug. I've got a car programmer that has to have XP. I keep an old laptop that has as it's only purpose to run that programmer. Imagine when you upgrade your windows software and the driver for this drive no longer works.

  14. Re:WHAT on WD Explains Its Windows-Only Software-Based SSHD Tech · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Even if I ran windows I can't see having a driver for my hard drive. It should just work no matter what OS I am running. Sad and stupid. That's okay though as for me I don't think the hybrid is the way to go. SSD for the OS and external platter type for storage. Like most compromises this seems like the worst of both worlds.

  15. Re:So? Public schools are garbage. on Sleep Deprivation Lowers School Achievement In Children · · Score: 1

    It would be nice if they actually knew them well enough to hate them.

  16. Re:So? Public schools are garbage. on Sleep Deprivation Lowers School Achievement In Children · · Score: 1

    Stereotype. Heh. Whatever dude. It's an average, you do know about averaging things don't you? Simple math you can do at home with pencil and paper. On average Asian immigrants do better in school. Not a stereotype just a fact. Exceptions abound no doubt, it's just on average you know. I personally think it is because they seem to be more likely to have a home environment that encourages this to happen but I readily admit that is just conjecture on my part and I have no facts to back it up. As for the rest, the destruction of the American family unit is a post WWII phenomenon. The last couple of decades it has been a runaway train.

  17. Re:Second Amendment on US DOJ Say They Don't Need Warrants For E-Mail, Chats · · Score: 1

    It looked like a typical manhunt. I've seen officers actually put on their lights and speed and run redlights ignoring traffic laws and endangering the public during incidents like this. Imagine that. They've even been known to put up roadblocks and demand peoples driver licenses and insurance forms. They've even gone so far as to ask people if they've been drinking and check them for their alcohol level. It is called public safety. Maybe they abused it in Watertown but it doesn't seem the residents think so. If I don't feel my rights have been violated then I guess they haven't been.

  18. Re:Saw this on the Web today on US DOJ Say They Don't Need Warrants For E-Mail, Chats · · Score: 1

    As much as I like to poke fun at liberals that's really not true. Most liberals hated Stalin for what he did to their cause. What he did was not socialism or even communism but totalitarian despotism of the worst sort. Truly he was little different from Hitler who he was friends with until eventually his buddy stabbed him in the back. Mao and Stalin did more damage to socialism than anyone else.

  19. Re:Fourth Amendment on US DOJ Say They Don't Need Warrants For E-Mail, Chats · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That is the solution to the entire Constitution. Just redefine all the words in it. Define reasonable as whatever the government wants and you are good to go. Hell, Clinton redefined the word "is." Gotta love it.

  20. Re:Land of the free on US DOJ Say They Don't Need Warrants For E-Mail, Chats · · Score: 2

    It's not difficult to use but it is more effort than it's worth. The fact is that most e-mail is innocuous BS that is important only to the people communicating. I genuinely don't care enough to bother and if Big Brother wants to read all my boring correspondence he can have at it. I can't really understand anyone being so stupid as to do anything incriminating in writing anyway. What's up with that? Who is out there that is under the illusion that their correspondence is actually private?

  21. Re:So? Public schools are garbage. on Sleep Deprivation Lowers School Achievement In Children · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The beauty of it is that they will grow up to have kids of their own and will do an even sorrier job of raising them than their parents did with them. It's like watching water flow down a drain. Thank God for immigration. Without it the US would be doomed. In particular the oriental immigrants seem to do well due no doubt to actually having a solid family oriented culture. Here in the US most kids seemed to be raised by electronic devices.

  22. Re:So what? on China's Allwinner Outsold Intel, Qualcomm In Tablet Processors In 2012 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Samsung is manufacturing those in Texas. Technically that is in the US although the residents there seem to think differently.

    As of August 2012,[18] the A5 is manufactured at Samsung's Austin, Texas factory. Samsung invested $3.6 billion in a facility in Austin to produce chips such as processors, and nearly all of that wing's output is dedicated to Apple components.[19] Samsung has invested a further $4.2 billion at the Austin facility in order to transition to a 28 nm fabrication process by the second half of 2013

  23. Re:40cm? Bad math in summary on Mars One Has 78,000 Applicants · · Score: 1

    I think you are right. Someone missed a decimal place. Does not inspire confidence in an interplanetary mission.

  24. Re:312 km coast to coast on Mars One Has 78,000 Applicants · · Score: 1

    What is that, 20 miles? Must be an island.

  25. Re:Third-party nominations? on Mars One Has 78,000 Applicants · · Score: 0

    Ooooh! I like that. I must remember it for future use.