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  1. Re:What word is translated "Pornography"? on EU To Vote On Proposal That Could Ban All Online Pornography · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Does it matter? It's censorship. Why do we think any intrusion on people's private lives is OK?

  2. Re:That's not a drone on Drone Comes Within 200 Feet of Airliner Over New York · · Score: 1

    Of course, the 10th amendment insists that the _federal_ government doesn't have the right to ban anything unless it crosses state lines, but we know that FDR and his handpicked Supreme Court dismantled that.

  3. Re:The cynic in me... on Drone Comes Within 200 Feet of Airliner Over New York · · Score: 0

    In case anyone thinks this kind of "false flag" is above our federal government, consider "Fast and Furious", and what its possible purpose could be if it clearly wasn't to track down and eliminate drug runners.

  4. Environmentalists? on Best Buy Follows Yahoo in Banning Remote Work · · Score: 2

    Where are the environmentalists who should be protesting the increase in the use of resources, especially petroleum products, that will be required when all these employees return to an office? Especially when many of them took the job under the betrayed promise that they would not have to often commute to an office that was perhaps an hour or more away?

  5. Re:Moving to Linux or a Mac is not an option on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Set Up a Parent's PC? · · Score: 2

    Boy, is your nick appropriate.

  6. Re:When talking to a prosecutor in the US. on The Accidental Betrayal of Aaron Swartz · · Score: 1

    When talking to a prosecutor anywhere

    FTFY

  7. Re:Nuclear Bias on Japan Plans to Restart Most of Their Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that won't alarm the anti-fracking crowd.

  8. Re:Infinite human stupidity on State Rep. Says Biking Is Not Earth Friendly Because Breathing Produces CO2 · · Score: 1

    It took Waters' handlers two days to correct that. 750,000, which sounds nothing like 1.7 million, was the first number they came up with. The second number was 170,000. I'm not convinced that they have anything like real statistics backing up this claim. They have not provided any credible source for these numbers. I don't want to poison the well, but Waters is famous for spouting this kind of nonsense, and the constituents who keep reelecting such an incompetent buffoon are doing themselves a disservice. BTW, the Obama administration's most optimistic numbers for January indicated 157,000 new jobs-- so losing 170,000 is one month lost even in our stagnant economy.

  9. Re:That's not DRM on DRM Chair Self-Destructs After 8 Uses · · Score: 1

    Frankly, that sounds more like incompetence. Who would run out to buy another Pontiac if the last one rusted out? Engineers are not infallible. Either there was a flaw in the original design or a last minute change, perhaps in the wheel well, resulted in a conflict.

  10. Re:That's not DRM on DRM Chair Self-Destructs After 8 Uses · · Score: 1

    It would be kinda cool to run behind the thing and let it loose near the line so you can watch it skid and flip over.

  11. Re:Schrodinger would be happy on Physicists Discover a Way Around Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Shows you have never lived with cats. Put out an empty box and it be full of cats within ten minutes.

  12. Re:No on Can Valve's 'Bossless' Company Model Work Elsewhere? · · Score: 1

    You're just echoing what neomarxists like Van Jones are: there is no scarcity, there is "plenty of money out there", and the "rich" need to pay their "fair share".

  13. Re:Survival of the fittest on New Research Sheds Light On the Evolution of Dogs · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't recommend eating an urban pigeon.

  14. Re:Credit where it's due on New Research Sheds Light On the Evolution of Dogs · · Score: 1

    My husky/malamute mix was also a good mole hunter.

  15. Re:Credit where it's due on New Research Sheds Light On the Evolution of Dogs · · Score: 1

    You're lucky if that's all they do to the furniture.

  16. Re:primate dolts on New Research Sheds Light On the Evolution of Dogs · · Score: 1

    That raises the question: is is possible for Slashdot moderators to mod up stupid posts while they are in a vegetative state?

  17. No, actually, I don't see why getting bicyclists to pony up is contingent on getting drivers to pony up when you haven't provided the "real costs" you're talking about. Until you do, you're just like those who wish to raise taxes ad infinitium on the rich because you never believe they are paying their "fair share".

  18. Re:Broken signal on State Rep. Says Biking Is Not Earth Friendly Because Breathing Produces CO2 · · Score: 1

    I'd get off and walk the bike across if there's no "no pedestrians" sign. You don't have to have a crosswalk to cross. Or, you could get one of the emergency vehicle strobes that makes the signal change :-P

  19. Re:CO2 isn't the only biking benefit on State Rep. Says Biking Is Not Earth Friendly Because Breathing Produces CO2 · · Score: 1

    If you believe that, you're obviously not one of the smart ones.

  20. Re:Simple solution on State Rep. Says Biking Is Not Earth Friendly Because Breathing Produces CO2 · · Score: 1

    I know this is mostly facetious, but I want to make sure you realize that the car puts out actual toxins like sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide. We're just talking about carbon dioxide here. It's apples and oranges. You might as well have a test where the guy can choose whether to be run over by the bike or the car.

  21. Re:Infinite human stupidity on State Rep. Says Biking Is Not Earth Friendly Because Breathing Produces CO2 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Does the House have a minimum stupidity requirement?

    FTFY. Remember, we've got Maxine Waters saying 170 million jobs will be lost due to the sequester, when we don't even have that many Americans in the work force right now. Stupidity is standard equipment for the politician. If you keep pointing at one party, you'll let the other one off the hook.

  22. Re: freecycle on Ask Slashdot: Projects For a Heap of Tech Junk? · · Score: 1

    OHHHH yes. And even better, they complain about YOU, saying YOU didn't put it out when YOU should be complaining about them being a no-show. Somehow these deadbeats are buddies with the people running the group, because they invariably stay on while YOU get kicked off. Even better are the THIEVES, who steal anything else they find near where you left the free item. It's not worth it; the scumbags have killed Freecycle.

  23. Re:wall of monitors. on Ask Slashdot: Projects For a Heap of Tech Junk? · · Score: 1

    Talk about a waste of resources. I'd bus in a bunch of environmentalists to protest your vainglorious "art project".

  24. Re:Obvious business opportunity on Ask Slashdot: Projects For a Heap of Tech Junk? · · Score: 1

    Lead and cadmium don't evaporate.

  25. Re:Recycle it on Ask Slashdot: Projects For a Heap of Tech Junk? · · Score: 1

    Reuse is more efficient, Captain Planet.