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  1. Re:Really! on Google Patents Staple of '70s Mainframe Computing · · Score: 1

    I think OpenVMS has had file expiration dates since V2 at least... whenever the ODS-2 file system was created.

  2. Re:Red states, Blue states on Researchers Analyze Twitter To Find Happiest Parts of the United States · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would find it interesting if that were actually the case. You think that New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Ohio are Republican-controlled states? And Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, and Florida are Democrat-controlled states? That's enough to take the words "general" out of it.

  3. I amazed many more Americans don't live in Hawaii.

    Yeah, I wonder.

    I realize there are many reasons people live where they do - Family and friend connections, employment, intertia... But man, if it was easy for me to move to Hawaii

    Well, those are several good reasons.

  4. Re:Like...Do I Have to Shout It? on Bill Gates Says Windows Phone Strategy Was Inadequate · · Score: 1

    The KING has no clothes!

    Thanks for that mental image.

  5. Re:So what the article is saying... on Is "Left" Vs. "Right" Hard-coded Into Your Brain? · · Score: 1

    The majority of Republicans voted for both 1960s civil rights acts.

  6. Re:So what the article is saying... on Is "Left" Vs. "Right" Hard-coded Into Your Brain? · · Score: 1

    To the left, the most important aspect of debates is being able to use the straw man argument.

  7. Re:So what the article is saying... on Is "Left" Vs. "Right" Hard-coded Into Your Brain? · · Score: 1

    The rifle is the left's toaster.

  8. Re:So what the article is saying... on Is "Left" Vs. "Right" Hard-coded Into Your Brain? · · Score: 1

    It allows entrenched elites to stay entrenched

    Let's toss out the labels again, and point out that if you continue to accomplish things you aren't an "entrenched elite". If you don't accomplish things, then by definition you are not meritorious because there is no accomplishment to which to attach merit.

  9. Re:So what the article is saying... on Is "Left" Vs. "Right" Hard-coded Into Your Brain? · · Score: 1

    It sounds like you know actual liberals... before progressives like FDR started calling themselves liberals. It sounds like you also know the problem with labels, when they can be co-opted for devious means.

  10. Re:So what the article is saying... on Is "Left" Vs. "Right" Hard-coded Into Your Brain? · · Score: 2

    Then please explain leftist policies that mandate seat belts, helmets, "gun free zones", and anti-"hate speech" laws. Sounds like a lot of fear.

  11. Re:So what the article is saying... on Is "Left" Vs. "Right" Hard-coded Into Your Brain? · · Score: 2

    They were hiding the Obama administration, but they were mostly flushed out by 2011. Now they're hiding in PACs.

  12. Re:Idiot on Is "Left" Vs. "Right" Hard-coded Into Your Brain? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Too much freedom for hate speech in Germany led to the Nazi party coming into power (and then abolishing nearly all freedom).

    Anyone who says "too much freedom" causes evil is part of the problem. Try cracking a history book. The Nazi party came to power because Germany had social and economic problems and the people decided to let the government "fix" it.

  13. Re:Fixed it on Is "Left" Vs. "Right" Hard-coded Into Your Brain? · · Score: 1

    Can we agree that any politician who supports "social justice" is a socialist by definition? If you use government to adjust perceived inequalities of social status in a particular class, that's socialism. If you only use government to make sure everyone is treated the same, regardless of race, sex, or religion, that's not socialism.

  14. Re:Fixed it on Is "Left" Vs. "Right" Hard-coded Into Your Brain? · · Score: 1

    I don't see how any of those could be accomplished with a limited government. See, the left only knows how to attack the straw man Republican. When actually faced with a classical liberal, they are struck dumb (in both senses of the word).

  15. Re:So what the article is saying... on Is "Left" Vs. "Right" Hard-coded Into Your Brain? · · Score: 1

    You sound like that gun control advocate who posted on here years ago that people don't need guns because, "whatever happened to putting up your dukes?" I was stunned that this individual thinks the physically disabled and elderly are going to win in physical battles with bad guys.

    There's nothing like ignorance of the world to foster bravado and conceit.

  16. Re:I doubt it on The End Is Near for GameStop · · Score: 1

    I don't see the step where you loaded the chipset drivers. That's why your wireless devices weren't properly recognized, and why your video wasn't working. Safe Mode shouldn't load your display driver, so I suspect something else is wrong. Try using the VGA input on your monitor.

  17. Re:Gamers tend to be... on The End Is Near for GameStop · · Score: 1

    Smith is conflicted because he knows that rent-seeking, like usury, is the most profitable but is also immoral. That doesn't mean that capitalism is invalid and the market must be heavily regulated, because absolutely moral behavior cannot be enforced. Immoral behavior must be punished in the market: by competitors who take advantage of the greedy, and consumers who avoid immoral businesses.

  18. Re:Gamers are not idiots ... on The End Is Near for GameStop · · Score: 1

    It's not.

  19. Re:Kissability? on Ancient Teeth Bacteria Record Disease Evolution · · Score: 1

    Uhh... no. I've shopped in the whole foods store and trust me, bacteria still grow in the sweaty pits of the vegetarian folks.

  20. Re:Kissability? on Ancient Teeth Bacteria Record Disease Evolution · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't kiss a cave woman, basically because of the mustache.

  21. Re:Anyone else feel small in the presence of natur on New Whale Species Unearthed In California Highway Dig · · Score: -1

    And thanks to you for escalating the pointless belligerence.

  22. Re:Anyone else feel small in the presence of natur on New Whale Species Unearthed In California Highway Dig · · Score: -1

    Thanks for shoehorning your ignorant anti-religious rant into the discussion.

  23. Re:Anyone else feel small in the presence of natur on New Whale Species Unearthed In California Highway Dig · · Score: 1

    Your comment makes little sense, whether you believe human beings sprang out of nature (and thus are a subset of "Nature"), or were created by a deity.

  24. Re:Y R Peeple So Stupid? on Are Plastic Bag Bans Making People Sick? · · Score: 1

    It seems that the problem with those is that they need to be disassembled to be cleaned properly, and the screw used to hold the top together uses a Torx head that most people don't have a driver for.

  25. Re:What about paper bags? on Are Plastic Bag Bans Making People Sick? · · Score: 1

    The logic goes like this: bag carousels are bad 'cuz Walmart.