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  1. Re:oblig tsa reference on Dutch Cold Case Murder Solved After 8000 People Gave Their DNA · · Score: 1

    Seriously though, I have no idea what you meant.

  2. Re:oblig tsa reference on Dutch Cold Case Murder Solved After 8000 People Gave Their DNA · · Score: 1

    So you're saying... babies are molested every time their diaper is changed?

  3. Re:Sounds improbable on Dutch Cold Case Murder Solved After 8000 People Gave Their DNA · · Score: 1

    1. The number of legal reasons a minor might use a lighter far outnumber the illegal reasons.
    2. Minors are not always with adults, nor should they be. Please do not use "child" to mean all minors. A 17 year old is quite different from a 2 year old, for example.
    3. There are already laws against minors smoking. There's no need for an additional law that doesn't even impact minors smoking (any minor that can illegally get cigarettes can easily light them).

    Real life example: When I was 15, I was in college and cooking for myself. One day I returned home to find the power was out. So, I could not cook dinner unless I lit the stove manually. I was out of matches. So I went to the store, only to discover I could not buy matches nor lighters.

  4. Re:Weev is not an online activist. on Jail Looms For Man Who Revealed AT&T Leaked iPad User E-Mails · · Score: 1

    What if we use a public bus instead of a car?

  5. Re:Follow the money on How RapidShare Plans To Avoid MegaUpload's Fate · · Score: 1

    Or an increase in sale of prepaid credit "gift" cards.

  6. Re:Sounds improbable on Dutch Cold Case Murder Solved After 8000 People Gave Their DNA · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they asked her family if it was her lighter. Or perhaps in that area lighters are not sold to minors (they aren't in my area, as ridiculous as that is)?

  7. Re:oblig tsa reference on Dutch Cold Case Murder Solved After 8000 People Gave Their DNA · · Score: 2

    IMO it's only molestation if the person doing the act enjoys it sexually. Otherwise you could say parents "molest" their babies every time they change a diaper.

  8. Re:Statistically acurate... on Indian School Textbook Says Meat-Eaters Lie and Commit Sex Crimes · · Score: 1

    That would be gender-selective, not sex-selective, and not a sex crime in the least bit.

  9. Re:Can't make money? on Hostess To Close; No More Twinkies · · Score: 1

    Do the Twinkie ingredients specify what kind of shortening is used? It could be lard.

  10. Re:Hostess go the way of Kodak? on Hostess To Close; No More Twinkies · · Score: 2

    We're not focused on healthier eating; we're focused on what marketing makes us THINK is healthier eating.

    Example: McDonalds got rid of the supersize and added salads, it's totally healthier now. Don't go actually looking at the nutritional facts of those salads, it's salad so it has to be good for you right? Do you want extra dressing with that? Pair it with a Diet Coke and you're practically Richard Simmons!

  11. Re:GO UNIONS! on Hostess To Close; No More Twinkies · · Score: 1

    In order to shift production down and cut costs, you must either fire some workers or pay everyone less. I think the only way you can fire union workers is if they breach contract. So, Hostess attempted to cut costs by paying everyone less. The workers did not agree to this and so striked.

  12. Re:Xbox Live on Skype Disables Password Resets After Huge Security Hole Discovered · · Score: 1

    Well i would imagine the guy is freaking out and messaging him asking for his account back. But if not he could google the Gamertag, the guy probably posted it on a forum or something which will allow for finding some form of contact.

  13. Re:Xbox Live on Skype Disables Password Resets After Huge Security Hole Discovered · · Score: 1

    At the very least offer it back in exchange for another copy of the game.

  14. Re:That's not my computer... on Parents Not Liable For Their Son's Illegal Music Sharing, Says German Court · · Score: 1

    MoThe actual definition of children is a person that has not yet begun puberty, and most other countries use it in that way. Very few 13 year olds would fall into that category in first world countries.

  15. I don't know which is worse... on Vegetative State Man 'Talks' By Brain Scan · · Score: 1

    the fact that so many people are kept alive like this and live for years unable to do anything; or the fact that many of the people like this that were allowed to die may have wanted to go on and wait for a breakthrough, that they may have been aware that they were dying...

  16. Re:Xbox Live on Skype Disables Password Resets After Huge Security Hole Discovered · · Score: 1

    Uh, you do know you could just change the email associated with the account ( https://commerce.microsoft.com/PaymentHub/Profile ) for the guy, then give him that account and set up a new one with your email address, right?

  17. Re:No - Move Forward Instead on Is It Time To Commit To Ongoing Payphone Availability? · · Score: 1

    Sometimes those people are right, though. Like the people that said "We don't need swords, we have guns now." (Yes the bullets can run out, but by then the people still using swords are dead.)

  18. Re:No - Move Forward Instead on Is It Time To Commit To Ongoing Payphone Availability? · · Score: 1

    Because they aren't talking about contacting emergency personnel. They want to call Grandma and tell her they're okay. Because that's a life or death situation, don't you know. If Grandma worries too much her heart will give out!

  19. Re:No - Move Forward Instead on Is It Time To Commit To Ongoing Payphone Availability? · · Score: 1

    Buggy whips are not a valid backup, but buggies that use buggy whips ARE.

  20. Re:Common emergency problem on Is It Time To Commit To Ongoing Payphone Availability? · · Score: 1

    (Though really, we end up fully paying for their iphones with our taxes anyway)

  21. Re:Common emergency problem on Is It Time To Commit To Ongoing Payphone Availability? · · Score: 1

    We are already giving part of our taxes toward phones for people that can't afford them. We're paying for up to half of their landline bills, and completely for their cellphones. Most don't want that, because through those programs they can't get the latest iphone.

  22. Re:Common emergency problem on Is It Time To Commit To Ongoing Payphone Availability? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There's no reason to use payphones for that. How about a phone that only calls the police/ambulance/fire truck, ala what use to be on police boxes? Once my car broke down completely on a remote highway during a cross-country trip, in the middle of the night. Fortunately I had a cellphone, but I didn't know anyone anywhere near there, I didn't know how to find a tow truck, I didn't know anything. So I called 911 and they said a police car was already on the way. How they saw me there, I have no idea; I hadn't seen anyone else on the highway. But the police got there and then they looked at the situation, and called the appropriate people, and drove me to a motel. If you break down, but you are near Uncle Bob's house, if you can get to an "emergency phone," explain the situation and ask them to call Uncle Bob, they will call Uncle Bob for you. If Uncle Bob can't help and you're just calling to tell him you're okay, you didn't really need to do that. So obviously these emergency boxes would have to come with a campaign for appropriate use, but payphones needed that already (the payphone is not a urinal, etc.)

  23. Re:Disasters not a reason to keep payphones on Is It Time To Commit To Ongoing Payphone Availability? · · Score: 1

    Well if that is the case 1. How will a phone help you anyway? 2. It wouldn't take a disaster to fuck you over.

  24. Re:How can a tweet infringe copyright? on Twitter Starts Withholding Rather Than Deleting Copyright-Infringing Tweets · · Score: 1

    So you assume. There are plenty of anti-piracy idiots that post copyright-violating links in the hopes that it will be noticed and therefore removed from the internet. Just as someone may tell the cops someone is making meth on 5th street because they don't want a meth lab in their neighborhood.

    Either way, the point is the same. The person is just telling you that there is something illegal. Whither or not you choose to break the law with that information is up to you, not the person that told you. Holding the person that posted the link accountable in any way is just shooting the messenger. And Twitter should not be held responsible for monitoring the messengers.

  25. Re:Disasters not a reason to keep payphones on Is It Time To Commit To Ongoing Payphone Availability? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's why the dinosaurs went extinct. When whatever happened happened, those that were okay didn't have a way to call their relatives, so they died too.