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  1. Re:Unmanned drones are not soldiers on US Troops To Leave Iraq By End of Year · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But how the hell could you possibly need 17,000 of them? That's either serious government bloat or... yup, lies.

  2. Joke's on them on Brothers Charged With Stealing Bridge · · Score: 1

    They sold what experts claim was $100,000 of materials for $5,000. They got ripped off! Arrest the scrap yard owner, too!

  3. Re:How do we work this on Jobs Wanted To Destroy Android · · Score: 0

    patents don't work

    Yes they do.

    So what is the solution here?

    Allowing only reasonable patent terms, as outlined in the US Constitution.

  4. Re:In other words, we should give up. on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    Yup... we never had any of those things before those departments existed. Wait... YES WE DID.

  5. Re:all the better to rebuild plantation economies on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    Not sure if trolling or really that stupid...

  6. Re:all the better to rebuild plantation economies on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    but always forget that moving takes quite a bit of money

    Only if you have lots of stuff. If you have lots of stuff but no money, I don't think that's a failure of the political system.

  7. Re:Ignorance is Strength on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    So Ron Paul's some kind of wacky fundamentalist, now? That's one heck of a leap.

  8. Re:I like his IRS plan! on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    We didn't have a Department of Energy when Standard Oil made its first few billion.

  9. Re:Mr Motti: on EU Debates Installing a Black Box On Your Computer · · Score: 1

    At least Jackson got rid of the Bank of the US. Woodrow Wilson created a new one that was a monster like never seen before. Oh, and he was a terrible racist who re-segregated the military, a liar who reneged on his reelection platform of continued noninvolvement in WWI, and imprisoned war protesters.

  10. Re:Mr Motti: on EU Debates Installing a Black Box On Your Computer · · Score: 1

    That's mean. Joe Biden doesn't always dribble on his own tie.

  11. Re:You think the housing collapse was bad on US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of saving? Parents should save, and teenagers should get jobs and save some more. And I never worked for minimum wage! Even my job cleaning up and working a cash register paid more than minimum.

  12. Re:lot of record breaking floods lately on Flooding Takes Major Hard Drive Plant Offline; Shortages Predicted · · Score: 1
    Here's the GP post, since the anti-truth mods killed it:

    Seeing hundreds of pictures of misplaced temperature monitors (by air conditioners, over asphalt, on rooftops) removed most of my confidence in that climate data.

    Isn't it better to get accurate data in the first place? And how do you know they're compensating? After all, there are rules in place for how to install these stations, and they aren't being followed. This would indicate that the people receiving the data don't know this, or they would either discard the data or have the problem corrected.

  13. Re:Time to invest in tulip bulbs... on Value of Bitcoin "Crashes" · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that productivity creates wealth? Try to explain that to the Occupiers.

  14. Re:Bitcoin on Value of Bitcoin "Crashes" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    On September 16, 1992, Black Wednesday, Soros's fund sold short more than $10 billion in pounds,[20] profiting from the UK government's reluctance to either raise its interest rates to levels comparable to those of other European Exchange Rate Mechanism countries or to float its currency.

    Finally, the UK withdrew from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, devaluing the pound, earning Soros an estimated $1.1 billion. He was dubbed "the man who broke the Bank of England".[25] In 1997, the UK Treasury estimated the cost of Black Wednesday at £3.4 billion.

  15. Re:lot of record breaking floods lately on Flooding Takes Major Hard Drive Plant Offline; Shortages Predicted · · Score: 0

    Seeing hundreds of pictures of misplaced temperature monitors (by air conditioners, over asphalt, on rooftops) removed most of my confidence in that climate data.

  16. Re:lot of record breaking floods lately on Flooding Takes Major Hard Drive Plant Offline; Shortages Predicted · · Score: 1

    So what you're telling us is that global warming causes more weather.

  17. Re:lot of record breaking floods lately on Flooding Takes Major Hard Drive Plant Offline; Shortages Predicted · · Score: 1

    There is a false vividness to every weather event now due to AGW sensationalism.

  18. Re:I know Murdoch is crooked... on Investors Campaign To Oust Murdochs From News Corp · · Score: 1

    Your post after removing irrelevant and biased content:

  19. Re:I know Murdoch is crooked... on Investors Campaign To Oust Murdochs From News Corp · · Score: 1

    Uhhh, see, it is clearly bad for the long-term benefits of their members that any media outlet continues to exert any influence at all on American politics.

    FTFY

  20. Re:But fear the nukes! NOT! on Iran Tried and Failed To Launch a Monkey Into Space · · Score: 1

    All that, and the craptastic government expects people to fend off attacks from bitey, poisonous monsters with knives and break-action shotguns.

  21. Re:Translate? on William Shatner Answers, in 826 Words · · Score: 2

    You're on the right track. People used to build kit computers in wooden boxes, or even just a small sheet of plywood. I'm sure he didn't mount any trucks on his computer, but it probably did look like a deck. Take a look at a pic of one of the assembled Apple I kits for an example.

  22. Re:Good idea, but too much trouble in the real wor on Ask Slashdot: Is Reverse DNS a Worthy Standard For Fighting Spam? · · Score: 1

    Besides, since when did every MTA stop following the SMTP RFC that says you MUST not discard the message until delivery has failed for over 72 hours? Even if your server was down over a weekend, you should still have 24 hours to get it back up without losing any mail.

  23. Re:A good start on Grooved Disk Spinner Cleans Up: $1M For Winner of Oil Recovery Challenge · · Score: 1

    How is this certain? There's no reason oil can't be broken down into safer substances; in fact, enzymes do this. And imagine one of these oil collection devices churning its way through YOUR environment: do you not think that might be a bit disruptive?

  24. Re:My thoughts on HP Rethinking Wisdom of Spinning Off PC Division · · Score: 1

    25 years ago, both Apple and HP laser printers used print engines made by Canon.

  25. Re:HBO "Superheroes" documentary on these guys on Real Life Super Hero Arrested · · Score: 2

    Yeah... this is probably why we don't have a superhero named "Small Claims Court-Man".