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  1. Re:"I Heard Your Giant's Drink Game is Broken?" on Teacher Suspended For Reading Ender's Game To Students · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I guess you don't like his writing style. I don't know that it's very prosaic but he does tell a great story. I remeber so many great authors I had to read in English lit. They had great style. Really wonderful writers. They couldn't tell a story for shit though. Theodore Dreiser? Really. What shit. Sylish shit is still shit. I think I read more polished turds in High School than I knew existed.

  2. Re:Gotta love the religious types on Teacher Suspended For Reading Ender's Game To Students · · Score: 0

    Funny thing is, if you actually read the Bible, God does not actually promise not to destroy the Earth. In Revelations in fact, the future demise of this planet is prophesised. It never fails to amaze me how many of these guys that go about spouting about God have never read the Bible.

  3. Re:"I Heard Your Giant's Drink Game is Broken?" on Teacher Suspended For Reading Ender's Game To Students · · Score: 1

    I prefer hours of people being blown up.

  4. Re:Fox news can legally lie, so can any news on This American Life Retracts Episode On Apple Factories In China · · Score: 0

    So the Simpsons is a FOX news show?

  5. Re:This American Lie on This American Life Retracts Episode On Apple Factories In China · · Score: 2

    MSNBC makes the old Soviet News service TASS look right wing. MSNBC is by far the most liberal of all American news broadcasters.

  6. Re:This American Lie on This American Life Retracts Episode On Apple Factories In China · · Score: -1

    Fox news was created to tap into the almost 50 percent of the American market that were fed up with the half-lies, twisted truths, glaring omissions and outright lies perpetrated by people like Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather. I admit they have an extremely heavy conservative bias but, if you watch the liberal news and then watch FOX you can usually figure the truth is somewhere in the middle. Nobody since the retirement of Walter Cronkite just reports the news anymore, they all spin it.

  7. Re:Fox news can legally lie, so can any news on This American Life Retracts Episode On Apple Factories In China · · Score: 4, Informative

    Idiot, that's not FOX news the cable channel but FOX channel 13 in Tampa Florida, a local TV station. You didn't read your own cite or else you're just spreading more lies.

  8. Re:Wrong tense in summary on This American Life Retracts Episode On Apple Factories In China · · Score: 1

    More like they heard what they wanted to hear.

  9. Re:This American Lie on This American Life Retracts Episode On Apple Factories In China · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes. He did exactly what he said that FOX News would have done. Ironic, not to mention hypocritical.

  10. Re:Ars Technica Lnk on FBI Tries To Force Google To Unlock User's Android Phone · · Score: 1

    Civil court differs much from criminal court. Evidence that wouldn't be allowed in criminal court is often allowed in civil. This is why so many times these slander cases go nowhere.

  11. Re:Ars Technica Lnk on FBI Tries To Force Google To Unlock User's Android Phone · · Score: 1

    He might be on the jury though. And just where is he wrong? He (the perp) is legally innocent until proven guilty "in a court of law" but he can be guilty in public opinion. After all, just because someone beats the rap in court it doesn't mean he didn't do the crime, just he wont be doing the time. O.J. Simpson for one example. Although O.J. kept at it until he finally got his ass in a sling.

  12. Re:Ars Technica Lnk on FBI Tries To Force Google To Unlock User's Android Phone · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Exactly! This is how law enforcement is supposed to act. They have a suspect, they provide reasons to a judge, get a warrant and Google opens the device. If you're involved in crime don't keep anything incriminating on your phone. I mean really, these are the kinds of assholes law enforcement should be locking up.

  13. Re:*clap* *clap* on Sony's Plan To Tighten Security and Fight Hacktivism · · Score: 1

    Actually Sony has decades of ill will built up going all the way back to betamax. They have such cool and brilliant engineering counterbalanced by a marketing department that abuses it's customers. Truly I think they hate their customers and wish their was some way to get their money without having to deal with them. The only other corporation that gives me this feeling is AT&T who's motto is "IF you grovel and kiss our feet we might, just might, let you spend your money here."

  14. Re:*clap* *clap* on Sony's Plan To Tighten Security and Fight Hacktivism · · Score: 2

    What they're saying is that their enemy is actually their customers. Well, in Sony's mind that would be consumers, not customers.

  15. Re:Once again on Online Learning Becomes Court-Ordered Community Service · · Score: 2

    I don't believe lack of education makes one more likely to commit crime, only more likely to get caught. Smart and educated criminals will get away with their crime far more often than those who are stupid and lack education.

  16. Janet Reno? Is that you?

  17. Re:In other news- on Man Barred From Being Alone With Daughter After Informing Police of Porn On PC · · Score: 1

    Damn. That's just so evil it is brilliant. If they aren't doing it yet I bet they soon will.

  18. Re:I've said it before... on Man Barred From Being Alone With Daughter After Informing Police of Porn On PC · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'd say never contact them no matter what. Better to die.

  19. Dumb on Man Barred From Being Alone With Daughter After Informing Police of Porn On PC · · Score: 5, Interesting

    People expect reason and common sense from the authorities are dumb. I remember a friend of mine reported his roomate for child porn and the police came and took ALL the computers in the place. His roomates and his. They tried their best to implicate him as well as his roomate in the illegal pictures but couldn't quite stretch it far enough so settled for keeping his computers. He never got them back and I guess they scared him so bad he was happy not to be in jail. He said he'd never call the police again if his life depended on it.

  20. Re:Hurrah for science! on Training an Immune System To Kill Cancer: a Universal Strategy · · Score: 1

    Sigh. Sure man, you are welcome to your opinion if it makes you feel superior. Maybe you'll enjoy this video of the former head of the Human Genome project.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ml0FqyFYfrU

  21. Re:Hurrah for science! on Training an Immune System To Kill Cancer: a Universal Strategy · · Score: 1

    Such utter nonsense. Many doctors and scientists are Christians and certainly most Christians partake of medical treatment on a routine basis.

  22. Re:Hurrah for science! on Training an Immune System To Kill Cancer: a Universal Strategy · · Score: 1

    While I agree that it's potentially dangerous I think that it's very promising. The fact that many people are condemned to certain and painful death without this kind of treatment makes pursuing this treatment critically important. Human trials on volunteers with no hope otherwise makes sense in this case.

  23. Re:Writing tools to configure cable modems on Man Convicted For Helping Thousands Steal Internet Access · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is slightly different in that he did provide customer support in cracking the network. Even so I wonder how this will do on appeal.

  24. Re:Nothing is worth jail time on Man Convicted For Helping Thousands Steal Internet Access · · Score: 2

    Generally the assumption is that they'll never be caught and thus never have to pay. If they knew for sure that it was going to cost many years out of their life I believe they might choose otherwise. It's some of that "It can't happen to me" kind of thinking that results in so many bad ends.

  25. Re:and the rest of the majority on Nearly Half of American Adults Are Smartphone Owners · · Score: 2

    I've noticed the vast majority of smartphone users simply browse facebook all day long. How smart does a phone need to be to do that?