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  1. A Band on Stop Being Poor: U.S. Piracy Watch List Hits a New Low With 2012 Report · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're right, CDs are crappy. That's why I always bring a live band with me when I drive to and from work.

  2. Canada should be embarrassed on Stop Being Poor: U.S. Piracy Watch List Hits a New Low With 2012 Report · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Canada should be embarrassed. I mean, they have some of the best privacy laws of any country.

    On a related note, as an American, could I borrow some?

  3. Wow on Asian Call Center Workers Trained With US Tax Dollars · · Score: 1

    This sort of honesty is rare. For the reasons that you stated.

  4. She's part of the problem on What Book Publishers Should Learn From Harry Potter · · Score: 1

    It's clear that J.K. Rowling is part of the piracy problem.

  5. I hazard to guess that "ridiculous" means something different for you.

    As of right now: 1 Australian dollar = 1.0762 US dollars

  6. Botched? Really? on Russia Botches Another Rocket Launch · · Score: 2

    Couldn't the submitter couch the phrasing in something sympathetic. Yes, it's the Russian's 5th failed attempt, but rocket science is...rocket science. It's not easy.

    A lot of Russians put effort in trying to get it right. Why verbally piss on them like that?

    Disclosure, I'm American.

  7. Coming a US city near you! on Kazakhstan Disables the Internet , Telecomix Restores · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This is the wet dream of the MPAA/RIAA. SOPA is the next big step down this road.

    So, take a moment to write, call, or visit your representative to voice your opposition to censorship.

    If you think "Oh, it's just that country", you really need to think again.

  8. Niger on Google Donating $11.5M To Fight Modern Slavery · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Right now in Niger, 8% of the population are slaves. That's 1.8 million people.

    Let me reiterate, that's happening right now. Sub-Saharan Africa has the majority of the worlds slaves; and I'm not talking about indentured servants.

  9. Shot Permanently on UK Police Test 'Temporarily Blinding' LASER · · Score: 1

    Past the first person with eye problems (particularly photosensitive people) being blinded permanently....

    It could be worse, they could be permanently shot.

  10. Oh yeah, it's special alright on Is the Earth Special? · · Score: 1

    Judging by the people on it, it's special alright. I'm pretty sure it took the short bus to the Milky Way.

  11. Silencing Dissent on India Moves To Censor Social Media · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Silencing dissent... Yet another American "job" getting outsourced.

    I jest, but it's not like the US (where I was born and live) hasn't tried this sort of thing. The Internet kill switch, taking down sites without due process, and the need to filter the whole country.

    This sort of shit needs to stop. Which will only happen when the government is "for the people" again, and not "for the corporations."

  12. You're Doing It Wrong on Battlefield 3 Banned In Iran · · Score: 1

    How about telling me when they don't ban something?

  13. Girth on 15 Years In Jail For Clicking 'Like' · · Score: 5, Funny

    My girth assures me that I am, indeed, an America.

  14. Bullshit Laws! on 15 Years In Jail For Clicking 'Like' · · Score: 2

    As an America, it angers me to see some from a country not their own get arrest for a bullshit law that serves no legitimate purpose.

    Wait...are we talking about defamation of monarchy or copyrights?

  15. The Devil On His Throne on Windows OS Coming To the Mainframe · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Devil sits on his throne in Hell. On of his minions comes running in.

    "Sire! Sire! Microsoft has ported Windows to a mainframe!"

    The Devil favors him with a surprised look. "Is it that time already? The end of the mortal world?"

    The minion genuflects before him. "Yes! Yes! End of times, master!"

    The Devil rubs his chin. "Windows on a mainframe?"

    The minion nods emphatically.

    The Devil considers it for a few moments, "Well, I don't think I want it anymore."

  16. Bear Grylls on Drought-Stricken Texas Town Taps Urine For Water · · Score: 2

    If it's good enough for Bear, it's good enough for anyone.

    So...when do we start eating raw snakes?

  17. Funny on Mass Psychosis In the USA? · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's funny when you think about it. Some Americans take drugs to feel better about themselves, but non-Americans talk shit about Americans to make them feel better about themselves. Well, I guess the later is cheaper...

  18. It doesn't have on KDE 4.7 RC Is Here: GRUB2 Integration, KWin Mobile · · Score: 1

    The nice thing about Kubuntu is that it doesn't have Unity as the default window manager.

    I'm still on 10.10. When I upgrade, it's going to be to Xubuntu. If Conical continues to make poor decisions, I'll move to Mint (a distro based directly on Debian with ).

  19. No one seems to have watched the video on Is Sugar Toxic? · · Score: 1

    He never claims that people will gain more than they take in. He's talking about the negative effects of HFCS versus sucrose, not sucrose itself. Yet everyone is talking about it.

    Barely anyone reads the articles, I'm not surprised that virtually no one here bothered to watch the 90 minute video.

  20. China's Prisons on China Calls Out US On Internet Freedom · · Score: 0

    That's because China kills far more prisoners than the US does.

  21. Holy Smokes on Firefox 4 Beta 12 Released; Fixes Over 650 Bugs · · Score: 1

    I tried this on an alpha of Natty Narwhal. Everything happened so freakin' quick. From opening to loading the add-on tab (no longer a pop-up) to loading a page, everything happened so fast I might as well call it instantaneous. I'm really looking forward to using this when I upgrade to the non-alpha of Ubuntu 11.04.

  22. Cenozoic Park on Extinct Mammoth, Coming To a Zoo Near You · · Score: 1

    They're not going to sneak aboard a cargo ship without being noticed, and then go hide in the wild somewhere and reproduce like rabbits.

    Good grief, Hollywood execs are looking for plots anywhere they can find them. Now you've given them the plot to Cenozoic Park!

  23. Soft Porn on The Best Case Mods From 2010 · · Score: 1

    A bunch of cases that I'd kill for, and no way to buy any of them. That's like nerd soft porn. It's just a tease!

  24. Moron on North Korea Says War With South Would Go Nuclear · · Score: 1

    Yes, because one of the largest up and coming countries in the world are far too stupid to figure out what's going. Even more so since we'll have told them.

    So your idea that they'd just start a global world-ending war for no good reason makes you a moron.

  25. I must have missed... on NSS Labs Browser Report Says IE Is the Best, Google Disagrees · · Score: 1

    I must have missed the part where Net Applications is a shill for Mozilla, Google, and/or Apple.

    The credibility issue here is with a Microsoft. A company that has been shown, time and again, that they're not above tweaking the facts (lying) about their products and their competitors' products. That, and the fact that they paid for this supposed bit of research.