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  1. Punishment is overrated. It should be used ti correct bad behavior, not mitigate harm.

  2. Re:Hyperloop is safer as a function of its speed on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If a Hyperloop Train Failed? · · Score: 1

    Finally an educated answer to the question. Speeds are only relative after all. Car crashes were less survivable without crumple zones. It all depends on the nature of the collision.

  3. Mesh network on Americans Plan Massive 'Net Neutrality' Protest Next Week (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What we really need is to set our devices to operate in mesh network mode. Where is Google and Apple in this?

  4. I like QuickC

  5. Re:Average Joe? or Linux Admins? on 'Bashware' Attacks Exploit Windows 10's Subsystem for Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's an optional component like IIS.

  6. Re: Really? on Can The Pirate Bay Replace Ads With A Bitcoin Miner? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really a penalty. Just gets people where they want to go in the next dimension.

  7. Re: Poor thought process on More Millennials Would Give Up Voting Than Texting (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Get paid under the table.

  8. Re: Poor thought process on More Millennials Would Give Up Voting Than Texting (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    No, you can't, Again illusion.

  9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    GLaDOS: You look ugly in that jumpsuit. That's not my opinion; it's right here on your fact sheet. They said on everyone else it looked fine, but on you, it looked hideous. But still what does an old engineer know about fashion? Oh, wait, it's a she. Still, what does she know about - oh, wait. She has a medical degree. In fashion. From France.

  10. Re:They can try on Can The Pirate Bay Replace Ads With A Bitcoin Miner? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I do, though I wish they'd keep the ads on the same webpage as the content like most other websites I frequent.

  11. Re:Great idea on Can The Pirate Bay Replace Ads With A Bitcoin Miner? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Information wants to be available at any price. In addition to getting it for free, both you and I are willing to pay for it. That's one reason Copyright is so horrible.

  12. Re: Hypocrisy at its best on Can The Pirate Bay Replace Ads With A Bitcoin Miner? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Join The Pirate-Ninja-Zombie Party on Facebook and Steam! https://www.facebook.com/group...

  13. Re: Poor thought process on More Millennials Would Give Up Voting Than Texting (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't actually vote away your freedoms. You can only vote in the illusion that someone can keep you from them.

  14. Re: Poor thought process on More Millennials Would Give Up Voting Than Texting (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Then the able-bodied but believed mentally-unstable but actually got treatment goes all attacky on them. Do you really think no one who sympathizes with them wouldn't be in the military?

  15. Re:Really? on Can The Pirate Bay Replace Ads With A Bitcoin Miner? (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Nothing derers a person from doing what they really want to do. Some people just have a death wish.

  16. Re:what about 2-3 years in jail/prsion to wipe the on More Millennials Would Give Up Voting Than Texting (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Jail is just another place to live. I am sick and have been largely confined to medical facilities for the past few months.

  17. Re:Texting has a positive impact on their lives on More Millennials Would Give Up Voting Than Texting (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    The Pirate-Ninja-Zombie Party has a few members on Facebook and steam and many of us are supporting the Bernster for 2020.

  18. Re: Poor thought process on More Millennials Would Give Up Voting Than Texting (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    How does their debt cripple them?

  19. Re: Poor thought process on More Millennials Would Give Up Voting Than Texting (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Because giving up the vote is an irreversible process? Hint: It's not.

  20. Re:Poor thought process on More Millennials Would Give Up Voting Than Texting (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Because texting actually works? You seem to think the government grants rights rather than is supposed to protect them.

  21. Yeah, tiny violin playing my heart bleeds for thee. He's a big boy, he can take it.

  22. You ran the same risk with the old guy as you do with the new guy.

  23. He did do whatever he wanted. That's the problem. He effectively killed himself on GitHub.

  24. A black person at a game, not all black people at everything.

  25. Why not. Who is it really harming?