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  1. Re:Accuracy on U.S. Kids Don't Understand First Amendment · · Score: 1

    And 4N people aren't because Saddam is out of power. Ergo, the US saved 4N lives by invading. Therfore, by your own criteria you must now support the US invasion.

    Of course, since your position has nothing to do with reason, and everything to do with hatred for Republicans and George Bush, you'll find some other example of cognitive dissonance to embrace and keep your hatred alive and well-fed.

  2. Re:Accuracy on U.S. Kids Don't Understand First Amendment · · Score: 1

    No, more than 50,000 people have died as a result of Sadaam playing his bluff.

    I'm sure the Iraqi also mourn their dead. But they also dance in the streets, giving people like you their ink-dyed finger of freedom.

    So, tell me. Would you walk to a polling place shouting "We are not afraid!" or would you whine because you had to stand in line for four hours in Ohio?

    John Stuart Mill's described people like you.

    "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

    Iraqi soldiers and police stood side by side with American forces and helped 8 million people across that nation go to the polls for the first time in 50 years. Terrorist thugs tried to stop it by sending children with Downs Syndrome into polling places with bombs strapped to their bodies, and pathetic, miserable shrivelled up people like you wrap themselves in the rotting rags of warped moral self-importance and say that America is the villain.

    Disgusting.

  3. Re:No one said Iraq was involved in 9/11 (off-topi on U.S. Kids Don't Understand First Amendment · · Score: 1

    Not too worried about it. China's a two-bit communist thug dictatorship. The only thing that will save them from following North Korea into the ash pit of history is to adopt capitalism. Capitalism leads to a prosperous middle class. A prosperous middle class leads to the desire for political freedom. Good-bye Communists.

    Then, if China follows the European route, they'll socialize themselves into whining irrelevance. If they follow the U.S. route, they'll become firm and fast friends in freedom. Either way, China won't be making military threats thirty years from now.

  4. Re:Accuracy on U.S. Kids Don't Understand First Amendment · · Score: 1

    Which just proves that Saddam was playing a bluff, because he certainly made it look like he was stockpiling WMD post 1991. We called his bluff and now he's rotting in a prison cell. Cry me a river.

  5. Re:No one said Iraq was involved in 9/11 (off-topi on U.S. Kids Don't Understand First Amendment · · Score: 1
    Or rather a message was sent that the United States will attack whom ever it wants, when ever it wants. So, you (the foreign power) had better not cross us (The United States), or we will find your links to terrorism and hit you with a preemptive strike.

    Works for me.

  6. Funniest line in the article on Mac mini to PC Hack · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The heat sink was too large for the case...

    I'll bet that thing sounded like a wind tunnel when you turned it on.

  7. Re:Dumbest. Editor. Evar. on Carbon Dating & The Shroud of Turin · · Score: 2, Insightful
    . This is covered by the first amendment.

    The public education system strikes again. The first amendment was designed to prevent the restriction of criticism of government. The idea that it preserves rudeness, mockery, and shouting fire in a crowded theater is simply wrong.

  8. Re:It always amazes me on When Is There a Good Time to "Switch" to Apple? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    how many people decide to ask Slashdot these tpyes of questions, rather than do any research themselves.

    Isn't it interesting that research no longer seems to include asking experts.

  9. Re:Wait and see on Apple Website Points to PowerBook G5 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So, of course, it's therefore McDonald's fault that some idiot spilled really hot coffee on her lap and got burns.. Life is so nice when everything that happens to you is sombody else's fault. You never have to grow up, and people come and tell you how to extort money for only a small percentage in fees.

    And, of course, soon we'll live in a utopia where all drinks must be lukewarm, all hard surfaces must be cushioned, and your state nanny must walk everywhere with her hand on your arm, just to keep you safe.

  10. Re:Form factor had nothing to do with it for me... on Will Mac mini Lead the Charge to Smaller Desktops? · · Score: 1

    And absolutely none of what you posted invalidates the parent's oriignal qualifier of "Not many."

  11. Re:Form factor had nothing to do with it for me... on Will Mac mini Lead the Charge to Smaller Desktops? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Let me introduce you to a word you need to teach your children.

    No.

    Works wonders, especially when reinforced with a smack on the back of the hand.

  12. Re:Form factor had nothing to do with it for me... on Will Mac mini Lead the Charge to Smaller Desktops? · · Score: 1
    The radeon 9200 chip they have is ok for playing basic mpg's or tetris but that's about it.

    If you want any kind of credibility, stop posting crap like this. The 9200 chip will struggle on brand new high-end games if you want to run them at 1280x1024 resolution, but to say it's only good for playing mpegs and Tetris? Please.

  13. Re:Form factor had nothing to do with it for me... on Will Mac mini Lead the Charge to Smaller Desktops? · · Score: 1

    iDVD 5 allows you to save to a disc image. You can then burn that image to any DVD burner.

    Next objection?

  14. Re:Not quite right on All Games Banned From MO Prisons · · Score: 1

    Perhaps because the government doesn't determine guilt, but rather a jury of fellow citizens.

  15. Re:Not quite right on All Games Banned From MO Prisons · · Score: 1
    but we can always release someone sentenced to life with no parole.

    I'm the families of the victims of Ted Bundy would agree with you.

  16. Re:Any Immediate Application? on Bubble Fusion Results Replicated · · Score: 1

    Neutrons have no electrical charge. They can't ionize anything. They can, however, create nuclear isotopes, many of which will be unstable and radioactive.

    Having said that, it's actually not hard to imagine how energy can be extracted from this. The fusion will also produce heat. Your fuel is water, which, interestingly enough, is also the same substance used to turn steam turbines. Start your reaction, let the fuel get to superheated steam level, run it through a heat exchanger, and presto, electrical energy.

    The nice thing about that is the neutrons releaed in the reaction are absorbed by the water to form more Deuterium or Tritium, which can continue to be used in the process.

  17. Re:Cheap unlimited Energy for everyone! on Bubble Fusion Results Replicated · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because of course, we all know that oil companies only want to make money off of selling oil, not other forms of energy, which is why when you see oil companies investing in wind, solar and fuel cell technologies, it is just your imagination.

  18. Re:Money is bad on Big Money Comes Out for the Inauguration · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    I am still shocked myself that Bush could win a second term after it was obvious that he had lied to the American public to start a war so damaging to our interest.

    Translation: I am shocked that the majority of Americans disagreed with me that Bush (insert moral rant).

    Have you ever considered the possibility that the typical American is actually the smart one, and you are stupid?

  19. Money and Power on Volcanic Warming Eyed in 'Great Dying' · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There's no grant money or political power to be gained in saying dinosaurs died from a meteor strike.

    However, if you can say they all died from global warming and...oh, NO!!! the evil Americans are doing the same thing to the planet right NOW!!! Well,then, you can get some money and influence.

  20. Re:Cappuccino on PC Competition for the Mac mini? · · Score: 1

    Um, yes it does. The cost of development on that OS has to come from somewhere, you know. Most of it is subsidized into the price of the hardware.

  21. Re:Hey! My Mom Can Build One! on PC Competition for the Mac mini? · · Score: 1

    Out of one side of their mouth the Mac mini critics scream that the video included on it is substandard.

    On the other side of their mouth they cry that they can get a cheaper system with an integrated video and shared RAM is better.

    It is amazing how similar these arguments are to those used by religious apologists.

  22. Re:I for one on BBC on Global Dimming · · Score: 1

    Earth nature is an amazingly balanced and complex thing

    Not supported by the evidence. If nature were so amazingly balanced, the planet would be a wasteland by now. Too many natural changes have occured in the past that would have wiped out all life on the planet.

    The conclusion warranted by the actual evidence is that the biosphere is extremely robust and adaptive.

  23. Re:safest place on earth? on BBC on Global Dimming · · Score: 1

    No, they just all commit mass suicide when the radioactive fallout arrives from the northern hemisphere nuclear wars.

  24. Re:Not Politically Correct on Apple Releases Mac Mini · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, PC means an IBM compatible computer. Aramaic is a dead language. So is Latin. English is not. The meaning of the word has changed. Get over it.

  25. Re:The ends on U.S. Officially Gives Up On WMD Search In Iraq · · Score: 1

    19 of them were in America on 9/11. I think there's a reason they aren't now, and that reason is Iraq.