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  1. Re:Typical Political FUD on Senator Warns of Email Tax This Fall · · Score: 1

    The cops don't protect anything. Nice squeeky clean brain you have there. Search for "supreme court police protect citizen" and read the SCOTUS decision which states so.

  2. Re:To all the cop haters! on Couple Who Catch Cop Speeding Could Face Charges · · Score: 1

    Look up the words 'supreme court police protect citizen' in your favorite search engine. You will find numerous links to a SCOTUS ruling which definitively states that police officers have absolutely positively no obligation whatsoever to protect anyone from anything. My problem is that they claim the right to kill me, but have no obligation to ever help me. So far as I am concerned anyone who fits that description is the lowest form of vermin.

    Then of course there's the fact that most of the people they 'protect' are actually corporations which slaughter people with their toxic effluvia and bribe our congresscritters who claim to represent us. The police are nothing more or less than a standing army of occupation whose purpose is to protect the wealthy from having to pay for their crimes.

  3. Re:Rights? on Pirate Radio Stations Challenge Feds · · Score: 1

    I would like to point out that spread spectrum technology has been available since the 50s and to a large extent renders interference and frequency allocation moot. This is a case of enforced scarcity since using current technology any number of moderately powered stations could transmit in any given area without interference. But if that were to be done it would cut into corporate profits.

  4. Re:Some questions don't get answered ever. on Linux Snobs, The Real Barriers to Entry · · Score: 1

    Real answer: Deploy it once to test. If it works go with it.

    Other real answer: Buy a premade/tested system.

    Real real answer: I'm at a loss as to why the compatablilty list is useless to you. It lists exact models of cards most times and says what linux driver to use for them. What other pieces of information do you want? You can get the cards from whatever vendor sells whatever particular model suits your needs. So far as promising support in the indefinite future I'd like to know what hardware vendor does that. If you buy the exact same model of card and use the same equipment otherwise as before, why would you expect any performance difference? You see the same model of card implies that you can use the same driver as always. I don't know why you expect different examples of the same model card to behave differently barring a hardware fault.

  5. Re:Paleoclimate & the Debate on A Stark Warning On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    This type of attitude is so assinine. When the place I live is under 5 feet of water I'm not going to give a rat's ass who I can blame for it. I'm going to be interested in fixing it or preventing it. If doing a certain action will mitigate this possibility in some way why not do it regardless of "who's fault" it is. What a stupid argument against doing anything.

  6. Re:What fucking garbage!!! on Pr0n's Effect On Society · · Score: 1

    You amuse me. Where did the parent post say he didn't enjoy the things he used to? The post that I read said he found more things that stimulated him. No comparison was made about relative stimulation by subject material with respect to time. It also amuses me that your post shows that you have severe problems handling sex. Your statement that spending some time getting off to porn makes your life empty in specific demonstrates this. In order for that statement to be true of an activity which takes up a tiny percentage of someone's life (1%? even less) that activity must be seen as so deleterious that it negates the other 99% and causes that life to be 'empty.' It is you who hides behind rationalizations. It is people like you who are the problem. Why don't you just die?

  7. Re:all that time leveling lost because of a keyboa on Banned From WoW For WINE & Programmable Keyboard · · Score: 1

    You obviosly haven't ever read the second life EULA. It says exactly the opposite. THEY own everything you produce. They also deny any responsibility if you run afoul with the law in any way.

  8. Re:brain research on Clinton, Lieberman Propose CDC Investigate Games · · Score: 1

    I can think of about 90 million reasons to not want the study done. The results will be so much horse shit. Violent crime has been declining steadily since 1993 according to the U.S. Govt.'s own statistics. http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/cv2.htm The entire issue is nothing more than a fabrication and a transparent attempt to garner votes. Fuck you Hillary Cunt. Foot your own campaign bills.

  9. Re:Useless to Argue on President Defends Global Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    People don't magically disappear, Dipshit. They move to a lower paying job or are underemployed. Your reference to unemplyment figures is less than meaningless.

    So far as being O.K. to buy a product from somewhere else, but not some software:

    a) All the Indian programmers I've ever worked with suck ass (compared to Ameican ones.) They haven't been programming since they were 10 years old or younger like some have in this country (and others) because they could only recently afford computers. When computers are common and they have comprable experience this may change.
    b) The jobs they do are what provide opportunities to get experiencee.
    c) We need a base of good programmers to do our shit we don't want to outsource and this reduces the number of them available by making the career unattractive.
    d) Production jobs aren't the basis of our economy anymore.

  10. Re:why not publish anonymously? on Judge Finds For Apple in ThinkSecret Case · · Score: 1

    I'm at least as credible as Fox News. The media jackals are 100% certain to lie.

  11. Re:stupid tsunami on A Countdown To Global Catastrophe? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Global warming states that the maxima of BOTH hot and cold will increase. Nice to see people are too ignorant to even know what the actual theory is.

  12. Re:Hahahahahah on LokiTorrent vs. MPAA · · Score: 1

    Ya, almost as funny as setting up an entire industry based upon IP "theft" (ie. Edison's patent on moving pictures) then persecuting others that try to do the same thing while screaming bloody murder. Oh, the injustice.

    Fuck these bitches, I'll never buy another CD or movie for the rest of my life. Every time I watch a "pirated" (arrr, Matey!) movie I get a warm feeling inside knowing the people I hate are getting exactly what they dished out to others in the past and so richly deserve in the present.

  13. economic warfare on Interview with MPAA Chief Dan Glickman · · Score: 1

    I have yet to see anyone mention my reason for copyright infringement: To cut off their air supply. I want these people out of business. They've bribed our so called leaders and now it's time to make them pay.

  14. Re:security? on American Passports to Have RFID Chips · · Score: 1

    The right of free travel most definitely means you can leave the USA when you want.

  15. Re:Would you stop it about the H1Bs? on U.S. Programmers An Endangered Species? · · Score: 1

    You're dead wrong. I've personally watched a company only interview H1b visa holders. They were obviously just out of school. Just because someone wrote some words on a piece of paper doesn't mean that people will do what the words say.

  16. Re:example as to Why the Green Party fails. on Green Party Candidate David Cobb Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Uh, we're Americans because our country is the only one with America in it's name. I don't think that word means what you think it means.

  17. Re:you mean... on Iceland and USA Feel the Copyright Industry's Wrath · · Score: 1

    Nothing Hitler did in Nazi Germany was against the law. Laws are simply rules people make up. In this instance the media companies are bribing the U.S. Gov. to pass them. I've pledged to never buy a CD or DVD from any alphabet soup named entity (RIAA, MPAA) in order to deprive them of revenue. If our system worked, I would try to get the laws changed, but it doesn't so I'm cutting off their air supply instead. Laws aren't handed down from some deity, they're just a bunch of made up rules, which in this case apply to things that have little if any physical existance.

  18. spread spectrum on Microbroadcasting Summer Camp · · Score: 1

    We have had spread spectrum technology since the 50s. AFAIK this makes it feasable to have many stations in the same area without major interference. It will never be used for this because the last things the business clowns want is for there to be a free market.

  19. Re:Why PC only? on iPod Mini Hits The 'Sweet Spot'? · · Score: 1

    PC=personal computer. Why do Mac people never seem to understand this?

  20. Re:except the parent was lying on FBI Raids Arizona School District Over Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    The monied businesses are writing the laws in the US today. I want the RIAA MPAA etc. gone. I could care less about violating a bunch of self serving corporately sponsored laws. I am a musician and a programmer. I feel not even slightly threatened by copyright infringement. To be blunt, if all the IP owners in the world never invented or produced anything ever again I would still have entire lifetimes worth of really good music etc. to enjoy. These asshats are stealing our cultural heritage. Fuck them and anyone who supports them.

  21. Re:Wear the yellow star on Search and Seizure at the Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    Police are under no obligation whatsoever to protect the citizens of the United States.

    http://www.mcrkba.org/w19.html

  22. Re:Cheers on Chandra Sees Black Hole Rip Star Apart · · Score: 1

    Your assertion #2 is wrong "information cannot travel faster than the speed of light".
    If you create a particle and anti-particle such that they are quantumly entangled and separate them to an arbitrary distance you will see that if you induce a change of spin on 1 it is reflected in the other with 0 time delay.

  23. Factors I've not seen mentioned on A Thoughtful Look at Indian Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    The first is the population growth in SE asia. In essence we are paying for this regions overpopulation. They can't find adequate jobs there because of it so they come here.

    Asymetric employment laws. I have never tried, but it is my understanding I would not be allowed to go to India and do the same thing they are allowed to do here.

    The savings and H1B laws are a farce. I have personnaly witnessed a company only interviewing cheap H1B applicants for a position they are required by law to allow citizens a shot at. In one example of a site search progam my time estimate (I had done it 5 times before) was 1/8 of theirs, so even if I am 8 times more expensive there are no savings.

  24. Re:Sneaking in on a good thing. on Forbes Sympathizes with Poor, Abused Fax.com · · Score: 1

    Talk about legal illiteracy.
    They took away the right to litigate except for 1 loophole that is completely useless and that somehow makes it all right?

  25. Re:in australia I hear they have mandatory voting on Hardly Anyone Cares About Computer Voting Problems · · Score: 1

    I am tired of this 'if you don't vote you have no right to complain' government propaganda bullshit. Being presented with a set of equally unacceptable alternatives is equivalent of having no choice since there is no 'winning' answer. Example: In the former soviet union you could vote, but there was only 1 party. So, really what did your vote accomplish? In the States we have a whole 2 parties, whoohoo that's so different than 1 (the others don't count until they win an election.) The logical extension of this argument is that there is no excuse for revolution in any country that has voting since the assertion is that you could vote in someone that would run the country better. The problem with this argument is that you don't get to be the CEO of a corporation or the President of the U.S. unless those with money and power are reasonably certain you won't make any real waves or really change anything. If I could vote 'no confidence' and get our elected officials thrown out of office or force the parties to come up with a different candidate I would vote evey time. All you are really doing by voting is selecting the better liar. Read my lips, politicians are lying asshole scumbags.