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  1. Re:You start by acknowledging Islam as a threat on Islamist Hackers Shut Down Egyptology Research Journal · · Score: 1

    If no religion is tolerable, then decrying intolerance is the height of irony.

  2. Re:Mortgage Calculations on You've Got 25 Years Until UNIX Time Overflows · · Score: -1, Troll

    Believe me, if the current administration had been in place when that had happened, they would have. Since they had Bush to blame (even though people like Dodd, Frank, and Rangel were the people in charge of oversight), it wasn't necessary. Evidence: blaming ATMS for unemployment.

  3. Legality on Ask Jörg Sprave About Building Dangerous Projectiles · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What legal issues have you encountered? If your authorities are anything like they are in the more "progressive" states of the USA, they consider anything that looks like a firearm or throws any solid object (or not so solid), via any means of propulsion, a dangerous weapon.

  4. Re:Or the reverse on New York Pistol Permit Owner List Leaked · · Score: 1

    I take it YOUR votes go against human life.

    Two can play that game.

  5. Re:Or the reverse on New York Pistol Permit Owner List Leaked · · Score: 1

    The 20th century British Empire was quite a different thing from the 18th century British Empire.

  6. Re:Or the reverse on New York Pistol Permit Owner List Leaked · · Score: 1

    The bible doesn't say to kill people who get abortions, so that fallacy doesn't apply here. I think it's reasonable to denote "Christians" as those who base their beliefs on the Bible; otherwise, anyone could be one.

  7. Re:Or the reverse on New York Pistol Permit Owner List Leaked · · Score: 1

    If I were buying a house, I would see high gun ownership in a neighborhood as a very bad sign, because it means that a large percentage of the people live in constant fear for their lives.

    Really? It's not possible that you have a large number of recreational shooters or hunters? One thing it very likely means is that there is a large percentage of law-abiding people, by definition-- since illegally purchased guns are hidden.

  8. Re:A European problem? on How Much Beef Is In Your Burger? · · Score: 1

    Just another piece of unbridled legislation.

  9. Re:McDonalds! on How Much Beef Is In Your Burger? · · Score: 1

    You're likely to have a better experience with a "100% Angus" not because it's from a black Angus, but because they have other quality standards associated with the mark (like marbling of the meat and physical characteristics of the animal).

  10. Re:McDonalds! on How Much Beef Is In Your Burger? · · Score: 1

    It is in the USA. Apparently, in the UK you're allowed to lie without consequence. Or I guess, the word "all" means "mostly".

  11. Re:Interesting Enigma on Cuba Turns On Submarine Internet Cable · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's funny; everyone says their health care is legendary, but no one has actually seen it. Oh yes, some foreigners have seen the facilities made available to them-- but these aren't the ones used by Cuban citizens.

    If Cuban health care is so great, why do humanitarian organizations and relatives have to send in medicines from the USA all the time?

  12. Re:Good on Cuba Turns On Submarine Internet Cable · · Score: 0

    Because they still haven't compensated the Americans whose property they stole through nationalization?

  13. Re:if the apple //e is 30 years old on 30 Years of the Apple Lisa and the Apple IIe · · Score: 1

    Oops... correction, you had to press RESET on the II+, the II went right into Integer BASIC, unless you had the Applesoft BASIC on a plug-in card I guess. We had it on diskette at my school.

  14. Re:if the apple //e is 30 years old on 30 Years of the Apple Lisa and the Apple IIe · · Score: 1

    I think the original Apple II also had Integer BASIC in ROM. You had to press RESET while the system was trying to boot DOS from the diskette. Of course, once the Plus came out everyone wanted Applesoft BASIC which you had to load from diskette or cassette.

  15. Re:The US is no better on NASA Releases Orbital Photos of Beijing's Air Pollution · · Score: 1
    EPA only protects life. "Pursuit of happiness" is the acquisition of property. Some people claim they're not "in it for the money," but they want recognition and a legacy-- which is property, too. The EPA summarily removes the rights of people to their own land on a regular basis; this is obviously not protection of property. The "pursuit of happiness" people like you think of is just liberty.

    I think liberty should always be subject to restrictions when it effects the life of others.

    The EPA now is mostly concerned with affecting the life of plant and animal species that are not even threatened (based on internationally accepted definitions), not other people.

  16. Re:The US is no better on NASA Releases Orbital Photos of Beijing's Air Pollution · · Score: 1

    You don't get to argue against some straw man version of me from the future.

  17. Re:hmm on Scientists Create New Gasoline Substitute Out of Plants · · Score: 1

    Too bad they're not free. We already GREATLY subsidize solar installations through tax breaks, and they're still so expensive that it takes 5-10 years for them to pay for themselves-- just in time to be overhauled.

  18. Re:potential for warmongering? on Scientists Create New Gasoline Substitute Out of Plants · · Score: 1

    Oil companies don't "own" the ocean floor that their rigs sit on, either.

  19. Re:potential for warmongering? on Scientists Create New Gasoline Substitute Out of Plants · · Score: 1

    Actually, Petrobras is the company that the Obama administration handed Gulf oil rights to. And he's a millionaire so, yes, you could say that "US millionaire politicians" are involved in the oil industry. BTW, no Bushes in politics right now.

  20. Re:The US is no better on NASA Releases Orbital Photos of Beijing's Air Pollution · · Score: 1

    In logic, this is similar to the "ad hominem tu quoque"-- "you too"-- fallacy.

  21. Re:The US is no better on NASA Releases Orbital Photos of Beijing's Air Pollution · · Score: 1

    Mostly tea party types. Considering that 8.6 billion is less than the cost of a single week of all Medicare benefits that those mostly tea party types collect

    [citation needed]
    Libertarian here who isn't collecting Medicare or any other entitlements, only ever collected a tiny fraction of the UC he paid into for decades, and actually sees the actions of the EPA against individual citizens as far more harmful that its cost.

  22. Re:The US is no better on NASA Releases Orbital Photos of Beijing's Air Pollution · · Score: 1

    FWIW, nearly every American state has its own EPA, and many of them were already in effect and making improvements before Nixon (yes, Republican Nixon) created the EPA. Most pollution tends to ignore state borders, though, so the existence of some federal agency is reasonable. But instead of acting as the arbiter between state EPAs, the EPA tends to override them and exerts an unconstitutional pressure directly on individual citizens.

  23. Re:Simple explanation on NASA Releases Orbital Photos of Beijing's Air Pollution · · Score: 1

    China is more dense because they literally force people to move to cities. They have a large land mass, even in comparison to their huge population. Therefore, the blame is still in the same place.

  24. Re:Public domain on Warner Bros Secures Commercial Control of Superman · · Score: 1

    I believe that Aspirin was forced into the public domain (everywhere but Germany) by post-WWI treaty.

  25. Re:do you read what you write? on The Problem With Internet Dating's Frictionless Market · · Score: 1

    You just flat-out live in a fantasy land, and I feel sorry for you. Roman_mir, whatever he calls himself, is borderline libertarian. You might as well swap "fascist" for "stinky poppy-head" for whatever relevance the term has when you use it. You're just attacking people you disagree with as "fascists", only because saying "Nazi" would Godwin everything you touch.