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  1. Re:The obvious alternative: Stop murdering people. on Botched Executions Put Lethal Injections Under New Scrutiny · · Score: 1

    I do wonder if anyone is counting the assaults on inmates by prison staff and what would that number be....

  2. Re:Bring back the firing squad on Botched Executions Put Lethal Injections Under New Scrutiny · · Score: 1

    Someone still has to push a button and watch the grizzly outcome. Only a psychopath would enjoy that.

  3. Re:Stupid question on Botched Executions Put Lethal Injections Under New Scrutiny · · Score: 1

    There is a big difference between state-mandated murder and personal-choice suicide.

  4. Re:Use confiscated drugs on Botched Executions Put Lethal Injections Under New Scrutiny · · Score: 1

    According to the so-called halal meat scandal in UK, a quick bolt to stun and then cutting the throat is a very humane and painless method of killing animals for food...

    And that's what I call hypocrisy. Dead meat is dead meat. If you're happy killing for food, you shall not quibble on how since the end result is the same. The rest is justifying the means to an end,

    Same applies to death penalty. If one thinks some methods are inhumane, it stands to reason that all methods of killing is inhumane - the fact remains, you are killing a human for a cause you are trying to justify.

  5. Re:Human's a very good at not dying on Botched Executions Put Lethal Injections Under New Scrutiny · · Score: 2

    Having a death penalty leads to less crime? Europe vs. US proves that theory is bollocks.

  6. Re:Can't turn them off? on London Police To Wear Video Cameras In Pilot Project · · Score: 1

    Especially when they're taking bribes or doing illegal searches....

  7. Re:Translation on Microsoft Cheaper To Use Than Open Source Software, UK CIO Says · · Score: 1

    For fucks sake, who uses Sendmail thse days?!

  8. Re:Does this mean no more Gnome desktop? on The GNOME Foundation Is Running Out of Money · · Score: 1

    All we owe to them is crap software with reduced functionality. What they intended to replace, KDE with QT, is way better, functional and doesn't try to prevent me from doing things efficiently!

  9. Re:Interesting history and tech, but... on Bugatti 100P Rebuilt: The Plane That Could've Turned the Battle of Britain · · Score: 1

    America did not matter during the Battle of Britain, they were out of the equation. The BoB happened in the summer of 1940, it wasn't until December 1941 US of A joined the fight, even then they didn't join willingly.

  10. Re:Compulsory Caveat on Lumia Phones Leaking Private Data To Microsoft · · Score: 1

    And I'm sure no one is hoarding the naked selfies... At least, I can be sure, mine...

  11. Re:Well for once I agree with religious crazies on UAE Clerics' Fatwa Forbids Muslims From Traveling To Mars · · Score: 1

    Au contrarie, the reason Magellan and even Columbus had existed was because the Mediterranean had become a lake controlled by the Ottomans and their vassal Barbary pirates due to their usage of military science and technology better than the rest of the European powers. As a result all of North Africa and significant chunks of the Middle east and Caucuses were controlled by the same lot. That caused problems with trade and alternative routes to India and China had to be found.

    First was going around Africa. Then Columbus decided that it would be quicker with the help of the trade winds to cross the Atlantic and end up in India but alas, his luck ran out, eventually he ran aground on a brand new-to-Europeans continent on his way.

    Meanwhile Barbary pirates kept plundering all the way to Wales for many many decades.

  12. Re: Well for once I agree with religious crazies on UAE Clerics' Fatwa Forbids Muslims From Traveling To Mars · · Score: 1

    Have you ever attempted to calculate the tonnage of water, food & air you go through in a single year? Even at starving-Ethiophian-levels of energy & food usage?

  13. Re: Well for once I agree with religious crazies on UAE Clerics' Fatwa Forbids Muslims From Traveling To Mars · · Score: 1

    Bollocks. People die in Antarctica regularly with no one even thinking about it longer than the usual 24h news cycle. Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

    If the expectations are carefully managed, even such an endevour can deal with many deaths. The problem with the NASA is the zero-death cult. Instead if they accept these as fact, learn from mistakes and get on with the work like most of them would actually like to, things could have moved significantly faster. It's not a safe business and I expect to have the death rates significantly higher than dying sitting on the breakfast table reading a newspap^H^H^H^H^H^H^Htablet.

  14. Re:Untested? on Under Armour/Lockheed Suit Blamed For US Skating Performance · · Score: 1

    Blaming the suit is easy, blaming the national food, the Donut, is not.

  15. Re:Missed Opprutunity on Ohio Attempting To Stop Tesla From Selling Cars, Again · · Score: 1

    Money. Campaign donations. Future work when they retire.

    Simply, graft. That what it is.

  16. Can't see anything on Laser Headlights Promise More Intense, Controllable Beams · · Score: 1

    Brilliant. Really brilliant. I already can't look at BMWs and Audis with their extreme bright blinding lights, now I will be completely blinded with the tosser's lights.

  17. Re:National Taxpayer's Union? on Senator Makes NASA Complete $350 Million Testing Tower That It Will Never Use · · Score: 1

    And is that why SpaceX is not using and funding a new test center out of their pocket in the same base?

  18. Re:What was spent already? on Senator Makes NASA Complete $350 Million Testing Tower That It Will Never Use · · Score: 1

    But it won't be used by anyone else since it will not be fit for their rocket designs.

  19. Constellation was killed for three reasons: it got extremely delayed and costs went out of control and finally it wasn't going to work in any case.

    It was purely a flawed design. It should have never gotten off to the contract phase. It was from start to end a pork barrel scheme. Good riddance. For a fraction of Ares I would have and actually already had costed, SpaceX has built similar capacity rocket and is in the path of building similar capacity to Ares V. The whole SLS is yet an other prok barelling exercise. It will not work, it will cost too much and get cancelled eventually.

  20. Re: Pork-grubing from a medicaid obstructor! on Senator Makes NASA Complete $350 Million Testing Tower That It Will Never Use · · Score: 1

    Surely writing a letter to your Senator highlighting this issue will help.
    Let me see. Senator Roger Wicker.. Fuck, Republicant, I'm sorry, you're all fucked. I feel sorry for you.

  21. Re:"Classic?" Or Just Uniform on Ask Slashdot: Are Linux Desktop Users More Pragmatic Now Or Is It Inertia? · · Score: 2

    Actually it is more political than you imagine.
    KDE was not pure (L)GPL, it had dual licencing for money etc. It was the biggest FUD ever pulled successfully, even Microsoft failed to do something in this scale.

    All of this is now over 10y ago but that's what really created the GNOME project. And they won't be finished until all functionality of KDE is completely removed from your desktop, leaving you with a single mouse pointer, single mouse button and a single window, full screen.

  22. Re:Don't know about you guys... on Ask Slashdot: Are Linux Desktop Users More Pragmatic Now Or Is It Inertia? · · Score: 1

    Come on... KDE... It's not the old KDE 4.0.

  23. Re:Umm... on OneDrive Is Microsoft's Rebranded Name For SkyDrive · · Score: 2

    Bollocks. I've got Dropbox running on my linux boxen, where's the SkyDrive equivalent from Microsoft?

  24. Re:Tried playing this game on Celebrating Dungeons & Dragons' 40th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    Bollocks, nothing beat being a dwarf.
    Well, apart from the hairy sex. And not knowing if the other person in bed is the right sex until the undies were gone...
    Apart from that, yeah, dwarf priests do it with hammers!

  25. Re:3 year olds can't even read. on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 1

    When you're dead, you can't tell your end of the story. Then it's always the person who killed you makes the story and that's the story that will count during the court hearings.