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  1. Re:Late since we're moving away from the rule of l on Attorney Jim Hazard is Working to Open-Source Law (Video) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    oh no, we're moving toward the rule of "police state and corporate fascist" law. Certain types of laws will be very strictly enforced, for the majority of people.

  2. glad I have flashblock but on Attorney Jim Hazard is Working to Open-Source Law (Video) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    how did an inline image for the flash link get through the slashdot submission process? hell, anything with any kind of multimedia should be blocked, only a simple link with text between tags should be allowed.

    gah! that was awful. let's keep the format clean.

  3. Re:normal people can probably do it too on Psychopathic Criminals Have "Empathy Switch" · · Score: 1

    many of my relatives are in agriculture; have been to slaughterhouses and meat packing plants and of course even seen farm animals killed in the back yard for dinner. Besides I've gone hunting myself, and for example shot, gutted and chopped up Bambi's long-eyelashed mother (protip: Doe meat tastes better)

    I still love steak, bacon, poultry, sausages, etc.

  4. Re:bull on After a User Dies, Apple Warns Against Counterfeit Chargers · · Score: 1

    also capacitors in there....but 5 volts can't push 1 amp through you. Voltage sufficient to push 18 milliamps or more through the chest can kill, but you'll need more than five volts

  5. Re:I have a non-apple charger for my MacBook... on After a User Dies, Apple Warns Against Counterfeit Chargers · · Score: 2

    pfft, I'm not spending the 3 - 10 times markup for a brand name charger. there are plenty of asian companies that make serviceable chargers for major laptops, cell phones, etc. that cost $2 to $20. I've saved hundreds of dollars and the things have been working fine for two or more years.

  6. Re:3, 2, 1... on After a User Dies, Apple Warns Against Counterfeit Chargers · · Score: 1

    no, it's Microsoft trying to get back market share. /me adjusts tinfoil jockstrap protecting the all-important little head

  7. Re:So where are the fanboys now? on Fukushima Decontamination Cost Estimated $50bn, With Questionable Effectiveness · · Score: 1

    well, you still need to keep some facts straight.

    the roofs and upper walls ("blow-out panels" ) had nothing to do with containment.

    Containment in that kind of plant was by containment vessels, that's what was breached.

    Yes, we need to get away from gen I and II reactor designs that are from the 50s.

    However, note that total deaths was zero. The quaint containment system mostly contained things.

  8. horrible waste of money on Norwegian Town Using Sun-Tracking Mirrors To Light Up Dark Winter Days · · Score: 1

    that money could have bought dozens of street lamps and paid the electric bill for years

  9. normal people can probably do it too on Psychopathic Criminals Have "Empathy Switch" · · Score: 5, Interesting

    kind and good normal people have been known to turn it off under certain conditions, too fight or defend against that which they believe "evil"

    maybe studying that reaction could help with the psychopath problem

  10. Re:Better plots? on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 1

    yes, I'm thinking of all history since civilization recorded things Hey, did you know the ancient egyptians invented bowling?

  11. Re:Still illegal under NZ Constitution on New Zealand Government About To Legalize Spying On NZ Citizens · · Score: 1

    I believe that event has come and gone in many english speaking countries, For example, President Obama has agreed to and continues the practice of revoking the right to breath of Americans labeled as "terrorists" with neither due process nor oversight

  12. Re:Google Trends vs Debian "popcon" on The Last GUADEC? · · Score: 1

    Were Debian a desktop distribution, those stats might have some meaning. It is a wonderful server distro, but only a Poindexter among Nerds would use it as a desktop. Meanwhile, derived distros with much higher membership don't even include the trainwreck in motion that is GNOME3

  13. Re:But now people in the US try to avoid it on US Gained a Decade of Flynn-Effect IQ Points After Adding Iodine To Salt · · Score: 1

    so they use sea salt instead, what's the problem?

  14. Re:One flaw with that argument... on Drilling Might Be Getting a Bad Rap For Indonesia's Ongoing "Mud Volcano" · · Score: 1

    Indonesia is the land of mud volcanoes

    the mud did NOT come up the borehole they made

    may as well blame any nearby lightening strikes on the drilling

  15. Re:No, somehow - I smell bullshit on Congress Voting On Amendment to Defund NSA Domestic Spying Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    just as there are two types of people, those who read the comment to which I was replying, and those like you who do not and spout irrelevant viewpoints

  16. Re:No, somehow - I smell bullshit on Congress Voting On Amendment to Defund NSA Domestic Spying Tomorrow · · Score: 3, Insightful

    why defund the NSA, the NSA actually has a legimate mission which of course has nothing to do with spying on U.S. citizens. The job it is supposed to be doing is securing the communications of the U.S. government

  17. Re:So Republicans existed five million years ago? on Global Warming 5 Million Years Ago In Antarctic Drastically Raised Sea Levels · · Score: 2

    It mainly was due to the carbon emissions of the Giant Ground Sloth's V-8 SUVs and homes. More precisely, not the vehicles and dwellings themselves but owning to their furriness the sloths would always crank up the AC to absurd cooling levels thus burning obscene amounts of fossil fuels, The global warming and the Sloth's thermostats thus played out a vicious cycle of positive feedback.

  18. after the second slashdot dupe of this event comes out, then it will no longer be "new" around here.

    "powerful windows 8", that's a pretty funny phrase. Anything that doesn't run a true operating system can't be powerful.

  19. Re:Still illegal under NZ Constitution on New Zealand Government About To Legalize Spying On NZ Citizens · · Score: 0

    that definition is just blather and babbling; since Parliament can and has made laws ot violate and take away those supposed "laws and principles". the UK has no constitution, the citizens have no rights.

  20. Re:In Roman Russia, joke make you on Poll Shows That 75% Prefer Printed Books To eBooks · · Score: 1

    no, banking cartel thug is highest paid profession. that may have been true but unrecorded in Roman times too

  21. Re:Our culture on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 1

    but the movies are an export of the worst parts of US. culture, so it indeed blamable on our culture

  22. Re:Still illegal under NZ Constitution on New Zealand Government About To Legalize Spying On NZ Citizens · · Score: 3, Informative

    sad news for you, the UK does not have a constitution; anything that Parliament makes law goes

  23. Re:Better plots? on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Would be nice if our culture just became weary of entertainment cartel offerings, and people could once again take up more productive pastimes: making things, group outings and sports, exercise, hobbies...anything besides sitting on butts and watching brain numbing nonsense (yes, I'm as guilty as anyone)

  24. Re:fuck old people on Rise of the Warrior Cop: How America's Police Forces Became Militarized · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So you made up these points of view by older people in the world between your ears. Make sure your geriatric 40+ straw men get plenty of straw fiber. Meanwhile, in the real world, those of us over 40 are very concerned about our decline into a fascist police state.

  25. Whacko Fringe View on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 3, Informative

    Mainstream and accepted view is that vitamin supplements in proper dosage are a good insurance for health. AMA, AAP, etc.

    There are always studies supporting an opposing view of anything and everything.