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  1. Re:Retailer on User Alleges LG TVs Phone Home With Your Viewing Habits · · Score: 1

    I'm astounded at your grasp of logic.

  2. Re:That's a shame on Skydiving Accident Leaves Security Guru Cedric 'Sid' Blancher Dead At 37 · · Score: 1

    I leave the jack in place under the car, along with the jackstands, if possible.

  3. Re:That's a shame on Skydiving Accident Leaves Security Guru Cedric 'Sid' Blancher Dead At 37 · · Score: 1

    I love that scurvy is the basis for your unbelief in God, when it really doesn't back up any more than your unbelief in creationism, at best.

  4. Re:Security 101 on Skydiving Accident Leaves Security Guru Cedric 'Sid' Blancher Dead At 37 · · Score: 1

    Chance of dying in a car accident, per 10,000 miles: 1 in 6,000.

    Chance of dying in a jump: 1 in 1,000,000.

    Source: http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/skydiving8.htm

  5. Re:Pretty easy to speculate... on MAVEN Ready To Launch Today · · Score: 1

    What explains why the most dense elements on Earth can be found on the internet?

  6. Re:I couldn't stop thinking about it. on Explorer Plans Hunt For Genghis Khan's Long-Lost Tomb · · Score: 1

    Wow... so the term "lab rat" is quite apt.

    Archaeologists are a bit more hands-on.

  7. Re:Synergies on Interview: Ask Limor Fried About Open-Source Hardware and Adafruit · · Score: 2

    What's the matter, got tired of filling in the blank with "Koch brothers" or "Halliburton"?

  8. Re:Sabotaged on Blue Light of Death Plagues PlayStation 4 · · Score: 1

    Fuckin' A.

  9. Re:attention kmart shoppers there is a bule light on Blue Light of Death Plagues PlayStation 4 · · Score: 1

    No, dirty contacts on the SNES/NES don't count, that was user error for not keeping it clean and it was a simple fix that every child knew about; just blow on it.

    My guess is that you didn't actually play an NES much. Blowing didn't do anything. The problem with those was the design of the contacts and the insertion method; the contacts themselves were getting too fatigued to make good contact, and the NES10 chip assumed the cart was unlicensed or pirated... which caused the power light to flash.

  10. Re:Pronunciation Lesson on Sen. Chuck Schumer Seeks To Extend Ban On 'Undetectable' 3D-Printed Guns · · Score: 1

    But they keep re-electing him. Who's the schmuck?

  11. Re:Liberty is the only thing in danger here. on Sen. Chuck Schumer Seeks To Extend Ban On 'Undetectable' 3D-Printed Guns · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Those are private property, and private property owners are free to allow or prohibit firearms.

    How long is that going to last when property owners aren't allowed to sell 16 ounce sodas or allow smoking?

  12. Re:I work at Sears on Sears To Convert Old Auto Centers Into National Chain of Data Centers · · Score: 1

    I don't see what's so difficult about running power and telecom to an EMPTY building. Dig up the empty parking lot.

    I assume they aren't going to do this with properties that are directly adjacent to an existing mall... or perhaps, they are going to remodel to recover space.

    You run your generators all the time? That kind of terrible power infrastructure would make me nervous.

    Datacenters are smack-dab in cities like Philadelphia. They don't have trouble maintaining security or keeping their generators or HVAC.

  13. Re:Forgive My Ignorance on Military Drone Lost Over Lake Ontario · · Score: 1

    They're not a militia, because they can be usurped by the federal government-- thus leaving a state insecure and unfree-- and the soldiers do not get to keep and bear their arms by their own responsibility.

  14. Re:Forgive My Ignorance on Military Drone Lost Over Lake Ontario · · Score: 1

    Actually, it serves to remind me that they're not militias, or the FEDERAL government would not be able to draft them as the militias answer FIRST to the states and the people.

  15. Re:Kind of the point on Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners · · Score: 1

    But answer to every question about US education is, "we need more money." It really is. That's why we have a problem with property taxes everywhere. Of course, then the other "answer" becomes, "let's fully federalize education," which isn't any more logical than, "let's fully de-federalize education" because it seems that the state and local-run systems worked fine until the feds told everyone how they had to be run but they still had to rely on property owners to pay for everything.

  16. Re:Socialism vs. Capitalism on Bill Gates's Plan To Improve Our World · · Score: 1

    You forgot to mention Somalia.

    Why don't you stop using straw men, you blustering fool?

  17. Re:I like his choice in where to focus on Bill Gates's Plan To Improve Our World · · Score: 1

    That article has no actual content. It mentions unnamed "public services" that "poor" (really, everyone) people have to pay for, when they (it's implied) in the past were a shared cost. Maybe the government should stop forcing people to accept these services?

  18. Re:I like his choice in where to focus on Bill Gates's Plan To Improve Our World · · Score: 1

    Your personal attacks don't constitute a rebuttal. You know nothing about me.

  19. Re:I like his choice in where to focus on Bill Gates's Plan To Improve Our World · · Score: 1, Interesting

    We'll ignore your claim that the ultra-rich pay fewer taxes than the poor.* But imagine that every rich person filled the gap with charitable contributions. Why do you care that they're paying fewer taxes, when they're getting the wealth to the people who need it more directly?

    * Indeed, in the USA, the poor not only avoid all federal and state income tax but they receive credits; this usually helps negate what little other taxes they pay.

  20. Re:Socialism vs. Capitalism on Bill Gates's Plan To Improve Our World · · Score: 2

    The argument can be made that capitalism widens the divide between rich and poor.

    Yeah, like he said in the summary. But you were rushing in too quickly with your "government solves everything, even though it's made up of the people we think are too greedy to handle their own money properly, much less other people's" ideology.

  21. Most of the problems listed have a REAL cause on Bill Gates's Plan To Improve Our World · · Score: 1

    Human beings.

  22. Re:Kind of the point on Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners · · Score: 1

    How many $500K+ cars do you see in your neighborhood? That's an exclusive club: Porsche 918, McLaren, Hennesey, Lamborghini, Maybach, Ferrari, Pagani, Koenigsegg, Aston Martin, Bugatti. That's about it.

  23. Re:Kind of the point on Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners · · Score: 1

    Umm... all of those except pensions are mandatory in the USA.

  24. Re:Kind of the point on Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners · · Score: 1

    It's funny but Canada and Sweden spend more on their education. They need to work on efficiency.

  25. Re:Kind of the point on Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners · · Score: 1

    That's not what we did, though. Instead, the government is ordering us to buy something from some of the most corrupt businesses known to man: insurance companies.

    Single-payer would have been better. And that means a lot coming from a libertarian.