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  1. Re:SI vs. US customary? on Israeli Firm Makes Kilomile Claims For Electric Car Battery Tech · · Score: 1

    You know how some people measure distances in time? He measures it in the cost of the gas.

  2. Re:Who cares how they got their hands on it? on Massive Data Leak Reveals How the Ultra Rich Hide Their Wealth · · Score: 1

    Eat the rich.

    You mean "kill the golden goose".

  3. Re:Hypocrisy on Massive Data Leak Reveals How the Ultra Rich Hide Their Wealth · · Score: 0

    How much of the people's wealth must be stolen before it equals a human life? All 100%? The founders placed "property" on a pedestal with both "life" and "liberty", not below it. A life of serfdom is no life at all.

  4. Re:Hypocrisy on Massive Data Leak Reveals How the Ultra Rich Hide Their Wealth · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Tax evasion is a crime, it is literally retaining wealth illegally.

    FTFY. It's still a crime, but let's not be Obamas and Warrens, claiming that the government owns everything and you only have wealth because they let you.

  5. Re:Hypocrisy on Massive Data Leak Reveals How the Ultra Rich Hide Their Wealth · · Score: 1

    Nice straw man you have there. No one's defending tax evaders except other tax evaders. BTW, those soldiers CHOSE to put their lives on the line. If you'd like the rich to choose to not be successful so they don't work hard only to fill YOUR pockets, I don't think the outcome will be very positive for the economy.

  6. Re:Translation ... on Massive Data Leak Reveals How the Ultra Rich Hide Their Wealth · · Score: 1

    I guess you're conveniently ignoring tax CREDITS like HoH and EIC (free money), welfare, and Medicaid. Those sound like "breaks" to me. If you're working a simple low-paying job, of course there are few breaks. You're poor, with no spare income for investments, no credit for large loans, etc. What do you expect us to do, give you deductions for expenses you don't have? You're already paying 0 taxes, or getting more money BACK than you paid in.

  7. Re:Translation ... on Massive Data Leak Reveals How the Ultra Rich Hide Their Wealth · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you pay over $30K in federal taxes a year, the current ruling party says you are "rich" and not paying your "fair share".

  8. Re:Agents do have some latitude on TSA Log Shows Passengers Say the Darndest Things · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not sure if he would have been so lucky had we been at a larger airport.

    Why? Are we supposed to show obeisance to the stormtroopers of our overlords?

  9. Butthurt? on TSA Log Shows Passengers Say the Darndest Things · · Score: 1

    One was merely insensitive: the passenger asked a flight attendant if she'd ever been hijacked. Is causing butthurt a federal crime now?

  10. Re:Startgate Project on How to Get Conjurer James Randi to Give You $1 Million (Video) · · Score: 1

    I don't have a dog in this fight, but tell me: how do his wacky biological beliefs have anything to do with his alleged psychic abilities?

  11. Re:Cargo class on Samoa Air Rolling Out "Pay As You Weigh" Fares · · Score: 1

    I'm going to refer to "coach" as "steerage" from now on. Thanks for the amusing idea.

  12. Re:Fuel costs money on Samoa Air Rolling Out "Pay As You Weigh" Fares · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I hate to tell you, but many POLICE DEPARTMENTS are now forced to take women who don't meet the physical requirements... because they're women. As if somehow that matters when someone's life is on the line.

  13. Re:Collateralized vs Non-Collateralized Loans on Let Them Eat Teslas · · Score: 2

    Ever heard of scholarships? Colleges still want the best students. There's no problem the government created that it won't claim it can solve. The high price of education is primarily due to government-backed loans providing unlimited income to colleges.

  14. Re:Collateralized vs Non-Collateralized Loans on Let Them Eat Teslas · · Score: 1

    To the American Left, the current socialist system is "the free market". Therefore, any problems with the current education system-- even in public schools and state colleges-- is due to "capitalism", and therefore we should adopt the Cuban system.

  15. Re:Collateralized vs Non-Collateralized Loans on Let Them Eat Teslas · · Score: 1

    Well, we need to outlaw teacher unions then, too, because there's a profit motive for them in the weight of the collective bargaining agreement.

  16. Re:The Answer To This Nonsense... on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    Thanks, Mr. Bloomberg.

  17. Re:TRS-80 all the way, baby! on Radio Shack TRS-80 Vs. Commodore 64: Battle of the Titans · · Score: 1

    Wrong. The 1541 was slow because the hardware shift register code in the 6522 was buggy. Therefore, all I/O was done in software. This was written hastily, so it was easy for third parties to write optimized code (thus the proliferation of fastload carts).

  18. Re:Nooooooo! Just shut up and buy a dinosaur saddl on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Explain That Humans Didn't Ride Dinosaurs? · · Score: 1

    Everyone here who assumes this is a religious issue has a reading comprehension problem. It has actually occurred that the footprints of modern humans were found in the same strata as dinosaurs. This can happen for various geological reasons, and making invalid conclusions can happen for no religious reasons whatsoever. We're not even addressing the various previously-believed extinct species that were later found to still exist, and thus coexisted with humans without the great enlightened western world knowing about them (although "primitives" often did). Instead of gleefully racing to be the next to ridicule the supposed ignorant fundamentalist, make sure you aren't the ignoramus in the room.

  19. Hah! on Radio Shack TRS-80 Vs. Commodore 64: Battle of the Titans · · Score: 5, Funny

    And to think all my friends and family said that conversational Klingon course I took was a colossal wast of time!

  20. Re:Humility? on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    Well, he is now. But before, "espousing" the canonical beliefs of the church instead of your own sounds closer to humility than arrogance.

  21. Re:If this is true... on Declassified LBJ Tapes Accuse Richard Nixon of Treason · · Score: 1

    Your narrow-minded focus on one group keeps you bind to all the evils of the world.

  22. Re:Boy... for someone claiming uncertainty... on Jedi May Be Allowed To Perform Marriage Ceremonies In Scotland · · Score: 1

    Vainglorious elitism is immoral.

  23. Re:I think it's disrespectful on Jedi May Be Allowed To Perform Marriage Ceremonies In Scotland · · Score: 1

    By your standard, the sciences are "made up". I disagree on both counts.

  24. Re:It's just a contract on Jedi May Be Allowed To Perform Marriage Ceremonies In Scotland · · Score: 1

    Funny, but your answer isn't accepted by the LGBT crowd.

  25. Re:It's just a contract on Jedi May Be Allowed To Perform Marriage Ceremonies In Scotland · · Score: 1

    Why do religions keep insisting that they are somehow empowered to decide who can get married and how?

    Feel like answering the original question?

    What business does the state have regulating marriage per se?