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  1. Re:Good on Indiana Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots On Religious Grounds · · Score: 1

    If you don't think that a number of firefighters are secret pyromaniacs, you're terribly naive.

  2. Re:Good on Indiana Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots On Religious Grounds · · Score: 1

    That sounds reasonable in a common-sense way but just because a virus's population growth is suppressed by natural defenses doesn't mean it's not going to linger. That's why we do the science, and so far I haven't seen enough of that.

  3. Re:Good on Indiana Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots On Religious Grounds · · Score: 1

    You're the kind of dangerous pseudo-science zealot that the M.D. quoted at the end of the article was warning about.

  4. Re:Lithium ion battery on Boeing Dreamliner Catches Fire In Boston · · Score: 1

    Or using a Sony laptop.

  5. Re:Freakonomics? on America's Real Criminal Element: Lead · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And here I thought it was gun control. Now, if only we could ban those terrible long, pointy kitchen knives, no one will ever harm anyone again!

  6. Re:Standards on USB 3.0 Getting a Speed Boost To 10 Gbps · · Score: 1

    Half.com is your friend.

  7. Re:Just kick him out. on Dad Hires In-Game 'Assassins' To Get His Son To Stop Gaming · · Score: 1

    I couldn't imagine mooching off my parents until I was 37. That's no life. I'm glad he's finally become something; I would have thought that would be impossible at that point.

  8. Re:wrong-headed approach on Why "We The People" Should Use Random Sample Voting · · Score: 1

    Yeah, right. I'm still waiting for the President to answer ANY of the difficult ones that are a bit less frivolous... like deporting Piers Morgan, legalizing marijuana, and classifying the Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group.

  9. Re:Excellent; on Canada To Stop Producing Pennies In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Those are the copper pennies minted in 1982 and earlier. The zinc in the 1982 and later pennies is worth less than a cent, although the mint already pays slightly more for the planchet before it is even struck.

  10. Re:Wish the US would do this on Canada To Stop Producing Pennies In 2013 · · Score: 2

    I can't find any citation of this, but I'm pretty sure he didn't like how they looked. I don't think that disliking the appearance of our money makes one a "right-wing bastard" or a "prick". However, extrapolating all kinds of baby-eating hyperbole against your straw-man opponents does make you a prick.

  11. Re:Meanwhile, in the USA, Gasoline at 9/10s on Canada To Stop Producing Pennies In 2013 · · Score: 1

    This does raise the question: if a penny is so inconsequential, why are so many people concerned about being ripped off a few cents?

  12. Re:Can't wait on Elite Looks Set To Make a Comeback · · Score: 1

    The game I run is a VT-based knockoff of Elite that runs on VMS... and it's multiplayer. No graphics, though!

  13. Re:Price on 2012 Set Record For Most Expensive Gas In US · · Score: 1
  14. Re:TL;DR Version on An Ode To Skulpture · · Score: 1

    I only like the 3D menus, which resemble OS/2 2.x and 3.0.

  15. Re:Nope on 2012 Set Record For Most Expensive Gas In US · · Score: 1

    The devil is in the "etc."

  16. Re:Dear America, on 2012 Set Record For Most Expensive Gas In US · · Score: 1

    Palin resigned as Governor a long time ago... or do you mean to deport her? Here, I thought Canadians were tolerant of opposing views. I also thought you liked hunting, fishing, and drilling for oil too, so I guess you're one of the elitist ideologues who lets the underclass do the dirty work while you live in your ivory tower.

  17. Re:It's called inflation on 2012 Set Record For Most Expensive Gas In US · · Score: 1

    He learned this kind of tactic from the politicians, who use a price index that excludes food and energy from it even though these are two of the three things that everyone worries the most about (the third being housing).

  18. Re:About the same as 1980 in real terms on 2012 Set Record For Most Expensive Gas In US · · Score: 1

    It was $0.87 under Bush 41... in before the politics.

  19. Re:srsly America. on 2012 Set Record For Most Expensive Gas In US · · Score: 1

    Most people need to use more than a gallon of gasoline per day.

  20. Re:Price on 2012 Set Record For Most Expensive Gas In US · · Score: 1

    So if the government doesn't offer fair terms, we're supposed to just go along with them anyway, right? Let me know when the state or federal government wants to build a highway through your house and offers you $1 for the land.

  21. Re:Price on 2012 Set Record For Most Expensive Gas In US · · Score: 1

    Your attempt to shoehorn anti-American sentiment into this discussion seems rather pointless. The argument is against government price-fixing of commodities, not against "countries that don't do our bidding", whatever that is. I think Haiti's inability to have a stable government for more than a decade is problem #1.

  22. Re:Price on 2012 Set Record For Most Expensive Gas In US · · Score: 1

    Obama doesn't agree, being that he made a deal with a Brazilian company, Petrobras, rather than let an American company drill in the Gulf of Mexico. So who is right here?

  23. Re:Not all "blasphemy" is religious in nature... on EFF Looks At How Blasphemy Laws Have Stifled Speech in 2012 · · Score: 1

    I get my opinion from the fact that the state must assume all rights and divvy out to the people only those they see fit. In this way, at best the state treats its citizens like children who never mature and accept full responsibility for their lives. At worst, this single-party state is taken over by self-interested individuals who use it to enrich their own lives at the expense of the people.

  24. Re:Go, blasphemy, go on Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban For 3 Minutes, Finds More Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    If the Western world is destroyed, your counterfeit moon god will have had nothing to do with it.

  25. Re:Go, blasphemy, go on Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban For 3 Minutes, Finds More Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    It's hard to laugh when your lungs are filling with blood caused by AK-47 bullet wounds.