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  1. Re: wait what on New York Governor Bars Sex Offenders From Playing Pokemon Go (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
    Easy! Once I've told you that, you can actually read the Federalist Papers with that in mind and it should check out. http://www.gutenberg.org/cache...

    The plan offered to our deliberations affects too many particular interests, innovates upon too many local institutions, not to involve in its discussion a variety of objects foreign to its merits, and of views, passions and prejudices little favorable to the discovery of truth.

    Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a certain class of men in every State to resist all changes which may hazard a diminution of the power, emolument, and consequence of the offices they hold under the State establishments; and the perverted ambition of another class of men, who will either hope to aggrandize themselves by the confusions of their country, or will flatter themselves with fairer prospects of elevation from the subdivision of the empire into several partial confederacies than from its union under one government.

    Just what do you think that means?

  2. Re:Mars on Apple Replaces The Pistol Emoji With A Water Gun (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the world governments are built around the philosophy of Hobbes, a religious nut who thought that man had better give up everything to the state and clergy.

  3. Re: comcast wants you to buy HBO with cable tv an on Cable Companies Urge Judges To Kill 'Net Neutrality' Rules · · Score: 1

    No, you need to stop trying to make your definition a thing. Don't think that your tiny corner of the world speaks for the rest of it. Though in actuality neither one of us knows how prevalent your usage is. I'm just making a strongly worded message to nip this thing in the bud. But when I typed define bandwidth, I got the definition I copy and pasted and something about brainpower and not yours, so it couldn't have gotten that far.

  4. Re:Silicon Valley Companies are Liberal, more at 5 on Apple Replaces The Pistol Emoji With A Water Gun (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Then you'll be glad to know you're so unhip, it's a wonder your bum doesn't fall off.

    Been wanting to use that somewhere in this thread since I read the first post in it.

  5. Re: No more pokemon Go in the US on New York Governor Bars Sex Offenders From Playing Pokemon Go (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    People don't go back to look at every thread. I want to have discussions with people who are actually logged in and actually check that somebody replied to their posts.

  6. Re: comcast wants you to buy HBO with cable tv an on Cable Companies Urge Judges To Kill 'Net Neutrality' Rules · · Score: 1

    the range of frequencies within a given band, in particular that used for transmitting a signal.

  7. Re:Ban the game entirely on New York Governor Bars Sex Offenders From Playing Pokemon Go (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm just waiting for medicine to make sitting on your rear end a healthy activity. The day they find out yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life. https://www.youtube.com/result...

  8. Re:No more pokemon Go in the US on New York Governor Bars Sex Offenders From Playing Pokemon Go (theverge.com) · · Score: -1

    This country's government was actually based on the concepts of Hobbes who believed that the state should have absolute power, in part because he believed that a right relationship with God was impossible without strict obedience to church and state government. People keep recommending to me to read the Federalist Papers and act like they understand them and I haven't made it all the way through, but if you don't understand that a big part of the first two papers is the author playing the age old confidence game of telling the reader that only he knows what's best for them and anyone else is in it for themselves, then you don't understand the Federalist Papers. Then some of it is telling the people you have little faith in them making the "right decision".

  9. Re:wait what on New York Governor Bars Sex Offenders From Playing Pokemon Go (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Stuff like that happens because this country was actually based on the concepts of Hobbes who believed that the state should have absolute power. The founders justified their revolution based on a variation of Hobbes done by Locke, but they still believed in the basic principle. People keep recommending to me to read the Federalist Papers and act like they understand them and I haven't made it all the way through, but if you don't understand that a big part of the first two papers is the author playing the age old confidence game of telling the reader that only he knows what's best for them and anyone else is in it for themselves, then you don't understand the Federalist Papers.

  10. Re:Probably Can't Do That on New York Governor Bars Sex Offenders From Playing Pokemon Go (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    This country was actually based on the concepts of Hobbes who believed that the state should have absolute power. People keep recommending to me to read the Federalist Papers and act like they understand them and I haven't made it all the way through, but if you don't understand that a big part of the first two papers is the author playing the age old confidence game of telling the reader that only he knows what's best for them and anyone else is in it for themselves, then you don't understand the Federalist Papers.

  11. Re: comcast wants you to buy HBO with cable tv a on Cable Companies Urge Judges To Kill 'Net Neutrality' Rules · · Score: 1

    That's just it, I've never seen a cap on my wired connection. I try to find my contract. but Comcast isn't good at providing it. The agreements are done over the phone. Speed tests usually show the full speed though.

  12. Re: comcast wants you to buy HBO with cable tv an on Cable Companies Urge Judges To Kill 'Net Neutrality' Rules · · Score: 1

    You have a poor definition of unlimited and I don't understand why you think it makes sense to define wired capacity in terms of "bandwidth" I pay for 25 Mbps, downstream. That's bits not bandwidth. I haven't seen any other limiations on our downstream capacity in our contract, so I should be able to run that at capacity if requests made over upstream permit it

  13. Re: They should be fined for acting like babies on Cable Companies Urge Judges To Kill 'Net Neutrality' Rules · · Score: 2

    And I would say that the only way to achieve a just ends is through just means.

  14. Re: Microsoft not an OS company on Microsoft Brings ChakraCore to Linux and OS X (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's also a flaw in Hobbes's logic regarding governments and unfortunately a lot of people worship Hobbes.

  15. Re: In theory and in reality on Uber Doesn't Decrease Drunk Driving, Finds New Study (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    In theory this article and the study is about people who would have used cabs before, but the reality that is being put forward is that they are about those people being the only drunk people to use Uber.

  16. Re: Rules for thee, not for me on Getty Sued For $1 Billion For Selling Publicly Donated Photos (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    Financial stake is not the only stake.

  17. Re: The Theater Experience on James Cameron: Theater Experience Key To Containing Piracy (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft bought Rare, so it might be Xbox Tooie and bundled with Banjo Kazooie Tooie HD

  18. Re: MCU oversaturation, mutant lives don't matter on James Cameron: Theater Experience Key To Containing Piracy (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's a reformed supervillian movie. That's completely different!

  19. Re: "Register your crimes! It's the law!" on New York DA Wants Apple, Google To Roll Back Encryption (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 2

    They should read Thoreau's Civil Disobedience, while they are at it.

  20. Re: Anything for work on Ask Slashdot: When Do You Include 'Unnecessary' Code? (sas.com) · · Score: 1

    Even though an auto-disposed object can auto-dispose I figure that manually disposing it should cause the auto-dispose not to happen and knowing when something is going to happen is usually a good thing. I know languages with automatic garbage collection have instructions to manually garbage collect and doing so can be a good thing.

  21. Re: Candidate not for sale on 145 Tech Leaders Say 'Trump Would Be A Disaster For Innovation' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Ruling Supreme Court justices are stupid? Well, close enough. But the whole of the ruling class, Trump included are stupid and malicious. They pass laws to set us at odds with each other, because a divided people is an easily manipulated people.

  22. Re: Uhh... on Comcast To Offer Pay-As-You-Go TV, Broadband Service (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you figure? Just what do you think the ambiguity is?

  23. Re: as someone who is suffering from this... on Issa Bill Would Kill A Big H-1B Loophole (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a fuss about the United States' debt, but Asian nations must be racking up much more debt as they are subsidizing all of our purchases. The real problem with nations' debt if there is one is that it increases the money supply. Nations don't really run out of credit until their currency is so devalued no one will lend to them, and Asian nations are doing it the most.

  24. Re: as someone who is suffering from this... on Issa Bill Would Kill A Big H-1B Loophole (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That's your only hope? My position is that we need to can world rulers, stop treating ruling and leadership as synonyms and restore the public domain, among other things. All the "little problems" are merely symptoms of the one big systemic one.

  25. Nobody said anything like anybody forces other countries to accept American foreign aid,or those countries entitled to it. The previous two comments made sense. Yours did not.