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  1. Re:Brought about by the internet? on Germany Wants Facebook To Obey Its Rules About Holocaust Denial · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So censoring people who deny the Holocaust even happened is due to Germany's guilt, how. I can see how if Germany wanted to sweep the Holocaust under the rug and pretend it didn't happen was due to guilt, but in your mind censoring those who say it never happened is also due to guilt? Are you thinking they feel guilty about it and to make up for their guilt they want to prevent people who say it never happened from spreading the message? How is that hypocritical?

  2. Re: non violent punishment on French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability' · · Score: 1

    How do you go about determining how much damage something you didn't experience might have been? What was the damage of the thing you did experience?

  3. Re:From TFA: bit-exact or not? on Ten Dropbox Engineers Build BSD-licensed, Lossless 'Pied Piper' Compression Algorithm · · Score: 1

    So, if I understand correctly, what you're saying is a panel that doesn't know what the right answer is, is for cows?

  4. Re: cowtow on French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability' · · Score: 1

    But seriously, how much of an opportunity have people you know been given to demonstrate that they know when to kowtow to physical violence? I know I've never been given the opportunity.

    kowtow:act in an excessively subservient manner

    Also, standing between the attacker and attackee is not violent and isn't doing nothing either.

  5. Re: When The Lunatics Take Over The Asylum on French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability' · · Score: 1

    Giving something back that they would have had anyways had they not done what they did is a reward?

  6. Re: When The Lunatics Take Over The Asylum on French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability' · · Score: 1

    Well, if you've seen one person, you've seen them all.
    Are you not actually a train spotter?

  7. Re: When The Lunatics Take Over The Asylum on French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability' · · Score: 1

    I don't have a kid, but what happens when you smack the kid and he doesn't move anymore because you killed him?

  8. Re: double blind testing on French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability' · · Score: 1

    Could it be perhaps because nobody is subjected to double blind testing in order to determine whether or not they are disabled?

  9. Re: When The Lunatics Take Over The Asylum on French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you know that ADD / ADHD are just excuses for why isn't my parenting technique working, then you must know what parenting techniques work to eliminate the symptoms. Elucidate us.

    Also, in order for ADD/ADHD to not be real then the symptoms must not be real and no parenting technique will work any more than the drugs. Also the observed improvement attributed to the drugs must be fake too. So what is the true nature of the observed behavior if you are so certain it's not real?

  10. Re:When The Lunatics Take Over The Asylum on French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability' · · Score: 1

    While some of these people's disease may be in the realm of mental health, there could also be neurological disorders and who knows what. The symptoms may not be caused by what she says it is, but whether it is all psychosomatic, which may be the word you maybe should have used and not paranoia. Anyways we are not doctors or psychiatrists so it's not for us to diagnose. Anyways, this is a request to receive disability payments, and the nature of the disability is irrelevant to whether or not it's a disability that qualifies for disability payments.

  11. Re:I've had this as a plug-in. on Chrome To Freeze Flash Ads On Sight From September 1 · · Score: 1

    They have a switch under the gear icon in the video controls that is supposed to stop autoplay, but it doesn't work... which I went to the comments just to say.

  12. With QB64, solo programmers can do a lot more. on In Praise of the Solo Programmer · · Score: 1

    Sample Programs: http://www.qb64.net/forum/inde...
    Another place with programs: http://www.thejoyfulprogrammer...

  13. Re:Start me up on Windows 95 Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    I always thought they should have used Robben Ford's song, Start It Up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  14. Re: Lovely summary. on Hugos Refuse To Award Anyone Rather Than Submit To Fans' Votes · · Score: 1

    The entire statement is false, but the conclusion by itself is true.

  15. Re:It seems most do not on Ask Slashdot: Maintaining Continuity In Your Creative Works? · · Score: 1

    Doctor Who's continuity situation can be explained away by the fact that when the Doctor, the Daleks and sometimes other Time Lords, and who knows who else travels in time and starts doing things this causes ripples throughout time.
    http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/P...
    Sarah suggests they should just leave in the TARDIS, because they know that the world did not end in 1911. The Doctor demonstrates otherwise by moving the TARDIS forward in time to 1980. There, the TARDIS doors open onto a blasted wilderness, with thunder, rain and lightning hammering down on to ash fields.

  16. Re:WoW! really its taken this long to figure that on Gamers Are Fans of Games, Not Genres · · Score: 1

    I suspect you may mean justified text.
    https://www.bing.com/search?q=...

  17. Re:Deserve on Movie Studio Sues Individual Popcorn Time Users For Infringement · · Score: 1

    I'm a little confused about your distinction between real and unreal. The fact that a book of fiction exists is real, it's contents as far as we know didn't happen to real people. Laws don't happen to people, they are just tools that people create in order to get something they want done to happen or something they don't want done to stop. As long as you can figure out situations in which a law won't be enforced, you are okay most of the time in breaking it, and if you find enough like-minded people you may have a chance of getting the law removed, replaced, or rewritten, so that what you are doing isn't illegal. That's how most laws get overturned, by enough people breaking the law and finding like minded people, That goes for alcohol, marijuana laws and sexuality laws and probably more that aren't in the spotlight at the moment.

    You can't cast a vote for none of the above, and until you can do that it's a waste of time to vote, if you don't believe in or trust both candidates.

    I was saying that even if my statement about things being rigged by limiting the selection process to only Republicans can vote for which Republican candidate appears on the final ballot and only Democrats can vote for Democrats on the ballot, and is rigged by not being the best way to vote to determine which candidate best reflects the will of the people as illustrated by my link around "voting methods" above isn't true, that still doesn't mean you can logically deduce representative elections of people results in fairness.

  18. Re:4/5 in favor on Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System · · Score: 1

    Funny, I thought the only way to get experience to go independent was to actually go independent.

  19. Re:4/5 in favor on Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System · · Score: 1

    You act as if money is the only feedback loop. Have you ever tried submitting feedback, by I don't know, actually using words?

  20. Re:4/5 in favor on Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how much it will take for customers to cover costs, but a bank might think the risk worthwhile to lend the money at first.

  21. Re:Semantic URLs on Regionally Encoded Toner Cartridges 'to Serve Customers Better' · · Score: 1

    Nowadays for some reason, the popular search engines don't know about semantic URLs. I keep having to delete the cruft of the URLs before posting them.

  22. Re:Taxes on Stopping Universities From Hoarding Money · · Score: 1

    I tried looking at that page, and ran into a few files that I thought might fit the bill at first but was quickly obvious they did not, but I then thought that the ones under Tax Generated, might work, but it stops at 10,000,000, which is probably a higher percentage than the 10% highest income, and it's adjusted gross income(I've got this notion that if it's adjusted that might make it net?) not gross income. Then I noticed the percentages along the top, which i have no idea what that means or how it effects the numbers below them.

  23. Re:Done to _gouge_ the customer better on Regionally Encoded Toner Cartridges 'to Serve Customers Better' · · Score: 1

    Lemme see how many printer companies I can name:
    Xerox
    Lexmark
    Brother
    Canon
    HP
    Without doing an internet search of it right now, there's 5.

    I prefer Brother for their separate ink cartridges for each color so you don't end up throwing ink away just because you ran out of one color.

  24. Re: forget it! on Now Google Must Censor Search Results About "Right To Be Forgotten" Removals · · Score: 1

    Well whatever it was, it must have used its right to be forgotten so you forgot it.

  25. Re:Biff and Skippy on Stopping Universities From Hoarding Money · · Score: 1

    I finally looked at http://www.irs.gov/uac/Facts-%... and some of the pages it links to, and can find no information that readily converts to taxes paid by various tax brackets as a percentage of income.