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  1. Re:Not true. on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 1

    Nope. When we had federal speed limits, the limit was 55 EVERYWHERE.

  2. Re:Not true. on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because I'm sure that we don't have highway planners here in the USA. And I'm sure that proper planning requires a huge, overreaching monolithic government. It must be due to the republican form of government that when these older highways were designed that not every considering was made for safety and growth. Protip: local, state, AND federal government are responsible for roads here. It's not "private money".

  3. Re:bad advice on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that you can be on time for your appointment that's 100 miles away by leaving just five minutes early to account for knuckleheads driving fearfully. Please just admit you're wrong and cut your losses.

  4. Re:Not true. on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 1

    Weight transfer of their loads.

  5. Re:Not true. on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 1

    So you think overweight vehicles should all drive proportionally slower? Let's do that with tractor trailers going 30 MPH on an interstate. Let me know how you like it.

  6. Re:Not true. on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 1

    Slippery slope.

  7. Re:Not true. on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 1

    How is anyone supposed to see stoplights blocks away? Around a curve? Over a hill? In a complicated intersection with turn arrows? You're speaking nonsense that has nothing to do with traffic law or safety and just sounds like old wives' tales being handed down. You should be keeping your eyes on the conditions around you, not on stoplights 2/10 of a mile away.

  8. Re:Dammit, Texas! on Texas Bills Would Bar Warrantless Snooping On Phone Location · · Score: 1

    OK, then life begins when the child learns to speak. Anyone down with that?

  9. Re:Wrong on Texas Bills Would Bar Warrantless Snooping On Phone Location · · Score: 1

    Suddenly killing is OK as long as we save money.

  10. Re:Dammit, Texas! on Texas Bills Would Bar Warrantless Snooping On Phone Location · · Score: 1

    This post deserves 100 mod points.

  11. Re:Dammit, Texas! on Texas Bills Would Bar Warrantless Snooping On Phone Location · · Score: 1

    In New Jersey, they make women get ultrasounds on the pain of having her child kidnapped by DYFS. It's not to discourage abortions; it's just plain old progressive nonsense.

  12. Re:Rule #1 on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Flagged Channels For XBMC PVR? · · Score: 1

    I hope you weren't trying to respond to me, because what you have said makes absolutely no sense. Don't be encouraged by the slob who modded you "insightful". Protip: having a low UID doesn't mean you get to spout random prose and insults.

  13. Re:Rule #1 on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Flagged Channels For XBMC PVR? · · Score: 2

    I'm sure that, every time you go on vacation, it's exactly what you'd wanted to experience.

    I'm sure that, every time you go to the store, you're able to buy exactly what you wanted to buy.

    I'm sure that, every time you go to a movie or a play, it's exactly what you'd hoped it would be.

    And I'm sure that, every time you go to sleep, your dreams are totally awesome because of the hard psychoactive drugs you're on.

  14. Re:Well That Escalated Quickly on North Korea Threatens US With Preemptive Nuclear Strike · · Score: 1

    Implying that three-quarters of generals were dumb sons of bitches, and being offended by MacArthur's hat? Truman earned his terrible approval rating at the time. I don't understand the fawning Truman cult that later arose.

  15. Re:I have a Galaxy Note on Smartphone Screen Real Estate: How Big Is Big Enough? · · Score: 1

    My first cell phone was one of the early digital Nokia phones with the stubby antenna (5190?). Too chunky to put in a pocket, so I had to have the belt holster. Engineers worked long hours to bring us the original RAZR-- smaller than Captain Kirk's communicator-- and now we're back to clunky phones. I don't really want to go back to that. As it is, My LG E-970 is on the edge of being too big. We'll find out once I've had it a few more months whether its fate is to snap in half when I bend over to tie my shoelaces.

  16. Re:Enforced With Kinect on EU To Vote On Proposal That Could Ban All Online Pornography · · Score: 1

    Your fist still has one finger sticking up... oh.

  17. Re:This is not true on EU To Vote On Proposal That Could Ban All Online Pornography · · Score: 1

    So then advertising porn would be banned. Sounds like the slow march of censorship.

  18. Re:What of violence against men? on EU To Vote On Proposal That Could Ban All Online Pornography · · Score: 1

    Whatever you feel about circumcision, religious freedom is not "bullshit".

  19. Re:What word is translated "Pornography"? on EU To Vote On Proposal That Could Ban All Online Pornography · · Score: 1

    Because "feelings" are what we want to base legislation on. [insert old-fashioned chauvinist joke about women's emotions here]

  20. Re:Dammit, Texas! on Texas Bills Would Bar Warrantless Snooping On Phone Location · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe you should consider what freedom actually means instead of attaching labels to individual issues.

  21. Finally on Kinect Can Detect Clenched Fist · · Score: 1

    We can finally actually punch someone in the face over the internet!

  22. Re:Setting aside the porn thing for the moment... on EU To Vote On Proposal That Could Ban All Online Pornography · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Even if violence against women were the most important issue today, this resolution is lacking some sort of reference to actual SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE that pornography is the cause. For years, people have been blaming games, movies, and TV for everything with no actual reasoning behind it.

  23. Re:First step is to agree on a definition on EU To Vote On Proposal That Could Ban All Online Pornography · · Score: 1

    I thought that was because we were a bunch of prudish Puritans here.

  24. Re:This is not true on EU To Vote On Proposal That Could Ban All Online Pornography · · Score: 1

    The resolution says "pornography in the media". Yup, it's banning porn.

  25. Re:i think the 'porn' thing on EU To Vote On Proposal That Could Ban All Online Pornography · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Media is everything! TV, DVD, Blu-Ray, Internet, paper!

    I'm all for pornography/eroticism, but there's no need for that...

    Says who? Oh, you. And them. I'm sure that your personal opinion is not censorship.