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  1. Re:One also wonders on Mathematician Predicts Wave of Violence In 2020 · · Score: 0

    You can't pick and choose. Baby Jeebus says the old Testament rules are valid.

    Just like you can't pick various sections of Leviticus (homophobia) and ignore the others (Any person who curseth his father or mother must be killed (20:9), "and the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you. You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you." (11:7,8), "Don't wear clothes made of more than one fabric" (shit, there goes my wardrobe, and that's 19:19 by the way)...

    Of course, you can attempt the "No true Scotsman" line...

  2. Re:F-22 - without a doubt the world's best fighter on Air Force Claims To Have Solved Fatal F-22 Oxygen Riddle · · Score: 1

    With less than 500kg air to ground capability, F-22 in that role is useless. Good old flying brick F-4 could carry 8.5 tons of it.

    The only reason the capability exists is to lie to the politicians and the public.

  3. Re:F-22 - without a doubt the world's best fighter on Air Force Claims To Have Solved Fatal F-22 Oxygen Riddle · · Score: 1

    No one wants to buy F-22. Hell, we don't even want Eurofighter but still buy it because of politics.

  4. Re:the problem's not the labels or the customers.. on IFPI Won't Share Pirate Bay Damages With Musicians · · Score: 1

    That has always been the case. Singer-songwriters have been the exception in the music industry, not the rule.

  5. Re:the problem's not the labels or the customers.. on IFPI Won't Share Pirate Bay Damages With Musicians · · Score: 1

    With autotune these days you can get a frog sing like a opera singer... No talent needed. Looks good? Check. Accepts orders w/o a big deal? Check. Will work for peanuts? Check. Okay, one more sucker ready for the pop-music meat grinder!

  6. Re:But the real question is... on Koch Bros Study Finds Global Warming Is Real And Man-Made · · Score: 1

    It has already started with "More CO2 is good, it is plant food" propaganda.

  7. Re:No MBAs on Microsoft's Lost Decade · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ah the rosy spectacles of the past. When Bill ran it, everything was not great. They almost completely missed the Internet revolution because Bill Gates never understood it. Also Bill's reign got them investigated and found guilty of corporate shenanigans. He didn't leave because he wanted to, he left because he was the most hated guy in the industry.

  8. Re:Terrible article on Microsoft's Lost Decade · · Score: 2

    The only thing about Windows 7 that can be counted as success is, it is not Vista.

  9. Re:In other news on Two More HIV Patients Now Virus-Free Thanks To Bone Marrow Transplant · · Score: 1

    Of course since US has eradicated the drug users by locking up all of them, infection by needle sharing is not worth mentioning... I guess, at least that's what these stats mean?

  10. Re:Willing to bet.. on 12 Dead, 50 Injured at The Dark Knight Rises Showing In Colorado · · Score: 1

    What kind of sane person who wants to kill people goes and tries his chances in a dark movie theater? All the sane killers apply to be in Blackwater/Xe/PR rename of the month...

  11. Re:And you wonder why we have hate-based politics on 12 Dead, 50 Injured at The Dark Knight Rises Showing In Colorado · · Score: 1

    I never thought KKK were following MLK's ideals...

  12. Re:Simple really on Gooseberry Launches Android-based Raspberry Pi Rival · · Score: 1

    It reminds me of the Eee 701 (I got one of those too, the price of being an early adopter). In a years time Microsoft poisoned the market, you couldn't get a decent netbook w/o Windows on it, the price crept up and up to the (then) 14" laptop prices and finally the tablets arrived...

    On the other hand, if this leads to the human-embedded devices, I'm all for it. I'm worried about a Microsoft-poisoned market of these.

  13. Re:So, unless it's cheap, what is the point? on Gooseberry Launches Android-based Raspberry Pi Rival · · Score: 1

    For £25, who cares, I'll get the C model when it comes out and continue to use the one I have now for what I use it, decoding ham radio signals.
    It's cheaper than a movie night out for two, cheaper than a single train ticket to London, w/o the return. For the fun, it's worth it.

  14. Obviously none of you listen to international news on The Fate of Newspapers: Farm It, Milk It, Or Feed It · · Score: 2

    The reason Murdoch is separating his newspapers from his TV empire is the scandal in UK where his newspapers got caught with their pants down bribing police, hacking into people's voice mails and outright corruption at the highest levels of the Government. He's now being investigated in US because of some of these practices. It has nothing to do with the success of the newspapers. With this scandal, his TV empire has caught some attention over here and he's already been blocked from taking over an other network.

  15. Re: worth! on What Is an Astronaut's Life Worth? · · Score: 1

    Why? Spain had a balanced budget. It was their banks that required rescuing because they had lent too much to the construction bubble in Spain.

  16. Re: worth! on What Is an Astronaut's Life Worth? · · Score: 1

    All of those Royalist income maths ignore the transport and the cost of the policing which is immense. Every time the Idiot Prince takes a train ride, it costs us tens of thousands of pounds per hour.

  17. Re:wayland is a bad choice on Ubuntu Still Aims For Wayland in Quantal Quetzal · · Score: 1

    Go on... Tell me, how is it any better than seamless integration of a single app using a method which worked 25 years ago and still functions perfectly? Here, $dayjob is spent on doing SSH tunnels for X and then running some X11 apps. $hobbytime spent on doing more or less the same with the home server & the laptop. VNC or NX are workarounds for high latency low bandwidth networks.

  18. Re:Ubuntu to developers: "pound sand" on Ubuntu Still Aims For Wayland in Quantal Quetzal · · Score: 1

    I don't know, using the good old TWM all I had to do was click on the screen and then select xterm and that was that. I could also browse through the options but never had the urge to drag my trackball around the desk to get to the top (or the bottom) left (or right) corner and it always worked fine. Try it one day, you might like it.

  19. Re:Ubuntu to developers: "pound sand" on Ubuntu Still Aims For Wayland in Quantal Quetzal · · Score: 1

    and Fedora is different in which way... I have two words. Gnome 3.

  20. Re:Ubuntu to developers: "pound sand" on Ubuntu Still Aims For Wayland in Quantal Quetzal · · Score: 0

    But Ubuntu is for home users, how many home users are running remote desktops?

    How many home users are using the command line? Why don't we rip that out too?

    Don't give the bloody idiots any ideas! They might act on it!

  21. Re:World Pride 2012 on Google Launches International Campaign For Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 2

    It means they're not ashamed of what sex they are. That's an important thing when you are being oppressed by others and the law.

  22. Re:Why not get government out of marriage? on Google Launches International Campaign For Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    Why shouldn't a loving pair, whatever sex they might be, raise a kid with loving care and happiness? What's wrong with having two dads or two mums? Or even a single one for the divorced or widow?

    Oh, I see. the kid might grow to be an open minded person with no pre-programmed hate to a certain section of the society. Is that so bad?

    There are certain things that matter before you die. The right of access and decision at hospitals when a loved one is sick or injured is a significant one. Without marriage or a legal partnership, the hospital and the rest of the family can legally exclude you from decisions and access.

    This is more than just having sex. This is about happiness. It matters.

  23. Re:Marriage =/= legal union. on Google Launches International Campaign For Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    Cohabitation has its own problems in law, especially regarding property rights and children.

  24. Re:Marriage =/= legal union. on Google Launches International Campaign For Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: -1, Troll

    Not really. For hundreds of years the marriage ceremonies did not take in the church but outside of it. In old England all that took to be married was two adults deciding they are married. You need to brush up with the reality a bit.

    Christianity of Today, esp. the Catholic church, say the marriage is religious. It isn't. It has nothing to do with it. According to the made-up stories, good old Jeebus specifically told his followers to leave their wives and husbands behind - of all things, he was a good marriage breaker.

  25. Re:Why not start at home? on Google Launches International Campaign For Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    They don't have to remember, nearly all of the Jews are gone, their lands and wealth taken over by Poles... Why would you even remember such a thing? An interesting BBC From Our Correspondent edition had a correspondent going back to his family's old town where the Synagogue has been destroyed, no jews left and the Jewish cemetery nearly completely destroyed with all headstones smashed. No one wants to talk about it. No surprise.

    On top of all, they're a good Catholic state which had a recent Pope and they're definitely infallible. A Pope says so!